by Jim Heath | Sep 7, 2018 | 2018, Democrats, Headlines, Republicans
Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. At least that’s what they say privately. Sixty days until the election and it is becoming clear that House Democrats intend to unleash an avalanche of hearings, subpoenas, and investigations on the Trump...
by Jim Heath | Sep 4, 2018 | 2020, Headlines, McCain, Republicans
He spent years in John McCain’s shadow in the U.S. senate, and now he returns to Washington as McCain’s replacement. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will appoint Jon Kyl, 76, who served three terms alongside McCain and became the Senate minority whip before...
by Jim Heath | Sep 1, 2018 | Headlines, Republicans, Trump
A Pennsylvania GOP county official has resigned, just a day after it was revealed that she repeatedly called NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem “baboons.” Carla Maloney, secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, made the comments in...
by Jim Heath | Aug 30, 2018 | 2018, Headlines, Republicans, Trump
As the body of the late Sen. John McCain arrived in Washington, D.C. to lie in state, President Trump took to the road to deliver remarks at a campaign rally in Indiana, carried live on Fox News. Trump, without mentioning McCain, immediately went on the attack against...
by Jim Heath | Aug 28, 2018 | Conventions, Headlines, McCain, Republicans
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) rejected a bid from Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, to manage the 2008 Republican National Convention because of concerns over Manafort’s association with Russian oligarchs. The Atlantic reported that...
by Jim Heath | Aug 25, 2018 | Book Excerpts, History, Interviews, McCain, Republicans
A Decade Ago, In An America Far, Far Away…. It was January, 2006, a full two years before the primary when Senator John McCain’s press secretary called and asked if we wanted to have the first television interview in South Carolina since he lost the GOP primary...
