(If it is not obvious, the quote in the title attributed to Lee is parody.) The Jan. 6 Select Committee’s first public hearing places in higher-definition Utah Senator Mike Lee’s secretive efforts to overturn the election and keep Trump in power. The Select Committee’s presentation this week outlined in stark…

Last week I posted The GOP Killing Fields. The GOP continues advancing its shameful brand of American exceptionalism — at the end of a barrel. From a political and policy perspective, the GOP is complicit as a willing accomplice to mass murder and its rise in the United States. Since…

Polling numbers show that Americans across the spectrum support sensible gun reform in overwhelming numbers. Yet, the gun lobby is a significant source of campaign financing for those who willingly prostrate themselves. Republicans, who care more about maintaining power than preventing the mass murder of children, know they must earn…

The perilousness of living while Black in the United States These people did not have to die: “Celestine Chaney, 65, cancer survivor, churchgoer, bingo player; Roberta Drury, 32, beloved daughter and sister who moved home to help her brother fighting cancer; Andre Mackniel, 53, who stopped at Tops to buy his 3-year-old son a birthday cake; Katherine ‘Kat’ Massey, 72…

The Jan. 6 Select Committee is gearing up for public hearings next month which, according to Representative Jamie Raskin, will “blow the roof off the House.” On May 12, 2022, the Committee served five House members with subpoenas, but only after extending written invitations to cooperate and appear voluntarily. The…

Both the words and idea of a moral red line appear never to have imprinted in the mind of Mitch McConnell. Last month Axios’s Jonathan Swan, a gifted journalist and questioner, attempted to pin down the Senate Minority Leader on whether he has a moral red line and, if so…

“I would take 50 Mitt Romneys in the Republican caucus offering up infuriatingly out-of-touch takes on things like student debt forgiveness over the crop of people we currently have.” Chris Hayes, April 28, 2022. While I disagree with many of his policy positions, one of Utah’s United States senators appears…

Imagine how intoxicating the power must be. Imagine the sense of self-importance. Imagine the immeasurable hubris. Imagine a willingness to forfeit all principle, all integrity. Imagine working 14-hour days behind a false public persona to override the political will of the majority. Imagine being Mike Lee. While this week’s Marjorie…

The text exchanges between Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows give other events greater meaning and place them in context. Senator Lee should be investigated for conspiracies to defraud the United States and obstruct an official proceeding. (He won’t be.) You may recall that one…