Texas Senator Cruz took to social media Friday to lambast longtime foe Boehner The Swamp is unhappy. I wear with pride his drunken, bloviated scorn. Please don t cry, Cruz tweeted
Cruz was responding to a clip from a CBS News interview with Boehner
In the interview, airing Sunday, Boehner says he doesn t like to beat anyone up but makes an exception for that jerk Cruz
Boehner also takes aim at Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan saying he never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart and calling both men political terrorists
Former House Speaker Boehner, also a Republican, is releasing his memoir On The House: A Washington Memoir Tuesday
By K. Healan Gaston
“Whatever we once were,” then senator Barack Obama declared in 2006, “we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.” The statement was both descriptive and aspirational. Because the United States has many varieties of Christianity and many religious minorities, Obama argued, democracy demands that “the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.” Democracy itself unites Americans of all faiths and those of no faith.
Obama’s invocation of both religious diversity and democracy resonated with many Americans, but it also met with pushback. During the 2008 campaign, John McCain gingerly but repeatedly described the United States as a “Christian nation.” In the years that followed, conservative Christians sought a political savior who would preserve freedoms they insisted were
HHS warns it will strip California of funding over state s abortion coverage mandate
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HHS warns it will strip California of funding over state s abortion coverage mandate
HHS warns it will strip California of funding over state s abortion coverage mandate
Alex Azar, secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, speaking at the Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. | Ron Walters
The Trump administration warned California that it will revoke federal funding on grounds that it is violating federal law by requiring all health insurance plans in the state to cover abortion, a regulation that also impacts church healthcare plans.