Author: Stephanie Moffat

At Least 80 Health Care Protesters Arrested By Capitol Police On Monday, Capitol Police arrested at least 80 people who were protesting the Senate GOP’s health care bill. Protestors were arrested for obstructing, crowding or incommoding. Authorities said that officers arrested 21 people in the House office buildings and 59 in the Senate office buildings. According to CNN, the demonstrators marched through the Capitol to protest against the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. Capitol police now threatening to arrest protestors chanting in front of @JeffFlake's office. Flake is MIA pic.twitter.com/DQMxnJ0yiT — Megan Janetsky (@meganjanetsky) July 10, 2017 “Sens. Ted...

Democrats Increasing Party Resources to Rebuild Party Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez told The Washington Post that the Democratic Party is starting to rebuild. The Democrats are pouring their resources into grassroots efforts. Perez said the party is launching a State Partnership Program to rebuild local parties. “For too long, we poured our resources into races at the top of the ticket instead of organizing at the grass roots and building a deep bench of talent,” Perez said. “This unprecedented investment in our state parties is the first major step in our effort to get back to basics...

Trump Outsourcing Afghanistan Strategy To Business Friends The New York Times reported that Trump administration has recruited businessmen to figure out what the White House should do in Afghanistan. The two businessmen have previously profited from military contracting. Erik Prince is a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide and Stephen Feinberg is a billionaire financier who owns the giant military contractor DynCorp International. Prince is also the same man who set up a secret backchannel meeting for Trump and Putin. And during the transition, Prince was quietly being snuck into Trump Tower through the back in order...

Chris Christie’s Approval Rating Just Hit A New Low After Beach-Gate It looks like Chris Christie’s beach-gate scandal just got worse. According to a new poll, Christie’s already rock bottom approval numbers just got even lower. Christie faced an immense backlash after photos revealed he and his family enjoyed New Jersey state beach that were closed to the public because of a government shutdown. On Monday, a new Monmouth University poll found that just 15 percent of New Jersey adults think Christie is doing a good job as governor, matching numbers reported by Quinnipiac University last month. And massive...

Jake Tapper Just Took Down Trump Jr And Associates In Brutal 3 Min Segment (Video) CNN’s Jake Tapper isn’t playing games. [watch the video below] Tapper on Monday blasted Donald Trump Jr. and other members of Donald Trump’s campaign after Trump Jr admitted to taking a meeting with a Russian lawyer with extensive ties to the Kremlin after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Tapper said that Trump Jr.’s acknowledgment that he took the meeting after being “promised damaging information about Clinton” is “something of a reversal” from his original claim that the meeting was about a Russian...