Partisan Posturing News Today

Welcome back. after weeks of back and forth, the senate negotiations on russian sanctions has never been less clear. senator bob menendez blasted republicans for releasing their own version of a sanctioning bill yesterday calling it, quote, partisan posturing. in a rare show of bipartisanship a joint statement came from leaders schumer, mcconnell and a slew of ranking members claiming sol darely with ukraine. russia must be made to pay a severe price. were prepared to fully support the immediate...

The final report of that bogus arizona audit by cyber ninjas finding more votes for joe biden in maricopa county than first reported. while that should be embarrassing for the gop and for trump, they are ramping up fraudits elsewhere. republican leaders in four states now pushing similar election reviews, even in texas where trump beat joe biden. but its only made possible if your state leaders allow it. heres how arizonas secretary of state put it last hour. >> i think its important to remind f...

Leaders of the state of arizona who are clearly running the state by conspiracy theory. and this kind of partisan activity, this partisan posturing is keeping us from dealing with real issues. arizonans are simply tired of this. they are -- we have real problems and issues that need to be dealt with. and our leaders are failing us on that. thats why i am running for governor, because we have work to do and i want to get the job done. and folks can jane me in that at katiehobbs.org. anyone lookin...

Your state leaders allow it. heres how arizonas secretary of state put it last hour. >> i think its important to remind folks that this entire exercise was enabled by elected leaders of the state of arizona who are clearly running the state by conspiracy theory. and this kind of partisan activity, this partisan posturing is keeping us from dealing with real issues. arizonans are simply tired of this. >> i said it once and ill say it again. if youre watching what the gop is doing and it doesnt ma...

And you cant do anything against the team, and the teams leader is donald trump. if you do something against donald trump, you are going to get primeered. its unfortunately a profile and cowardice that wouldnt stand up for the constitution in your country and you put your party first. we have seen a few profiles encourag encouraged, but very little. and thats part of the reason. the other part of the reason, and this is that a lot of republicans who are not supporting impeachment, they dont alwa...

Concurrences or dissents on his decade on the circuit, has met with 72 senate tours and so far in person. he is making a pitch that he is a mainstream jurist. >> the m.o. for republican nominees in the supreme court has been to sabotage their nominees. that is not going to happen with gorsuch. he is so beloved. the hit that they tried to pull out on him, he had a wealthy quiet he served well. he engaged an ethics question in an ethics course. it is sad to watch. when you see people saying they w...

Concurrences or dissents on his decade on the circuit, has met with 72 senate tours and so far in person. he is making a pitch that he is a mainstream jurist. >> the m.o. for republican nominees in the supreme court has been to sabotage their nominees. that is not going to happen with gorsuch. he is so beloved. the hit that they tried to pull out on him, he had a wealthy quiet he served well. he engaged an ethics question in an ethics course. it is sad to watch. when you see people saying they w...

Show me your evidence that youre a u.s. citizen? i was never asked that when i registered. nor was the other 11 million people in volusia -- in the state of florida. so why all of a sudden are we having to ask for evidence that you are a u.s. citizen? it just doesnt make sense and i just felt so humbled by listening to the other supervisors. >> before i let you go, i just want to ask if maybe you can -- if you think there is an answer to that question, that you just raised at the very end there....

State of florida. so why all of a sudden are we having to ask for evidence that you are a u.s. citizen? it just doesnt make sense and i just felt so humbled by listening to the other supervisors. >> before i let you go, i just want to ask if maybe you can -- if you think there is an answer to that question, that you just raised at the very end there. why is this happening? why are they doing this? why with this the timing, with the kind of pressure that theyre putting on you and the technocratic...

I had a look at the votes over the last decade on this subject. i picked on the two senators from iowa just because they make a good example. you have a republican senator from iowa, charles grassley, and the democratic senator, tom harkin. what you find is over the last ten years when a republican president asked for the debt ceiling to be increased, the republican senator, charles grassley, says yes. and tom harkin, the democrat, says no. but then when the role is reversed, when a democratic p...