… With the benefit of hindsight, impeaching President Clinton was a disaster for the Republicans. Mr. Clinton’s job approval was at a record 73 percent the month he was impeached, Democrat’s defied the odds and picked up seats in the midterm elections and Mr. Gingrich returned to the private sector. […] Read more »
This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s first impeachment rodeo
… Earlier this month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who remembers 1998 and the price Republicans paid for impeachment, made her position clear: “I’m not for impeachment. … Unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And […] Read more »
Why Trump will likely lose the government shutdown
President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House. AP Photo/Alex Brandon John A. Tures, Lagrange College One of the biggest myths about government shutdowns is that presidents usually win. This may explain why President Donald Trump threatened to continue the shutdown for months, even years. However, a […] Read more »
George H.W. Bush was the accidental catalyst that built the new Republican Party
The statement in the name of then-President George H.W. Bush was posted quietly in the White House pressroom on the morning of June 26, 1990, but there was nothing innocuous about its contents. It was a political thunderclap, the beginning of the remaking of the Republican Party and part of […] Read more »
Poll Hub: The Red and the Blue
In this special edition of Poll Hub, MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki joins the round table! Kornacki offers insight into his soon-to-be released book, The Red and the Blue: The 1990’s and the Birth of Political Tribalism. Kornacki regales the listener with powerful stories of some of the era’s most recognizable players […] Read more »
The next House speaker should prepare to be unpopular. Just ask Paul Ryan.
We don’t yet know who will replace retiring Paul Ryan as House speaker or when. What we can say, though, is that whoever wants the job should be prepared to see his or her popularity tank. The American public has a tendency to turn on whomever is elected to the […] Read more »