Jonathan Boucher

HAHAHAHA SO IT WAS ALL BULLSHIT

SCOOP: Ben Wikler is making moves on a 2028 Senate run, according to people who have directly spoken to him about timing and taking potential positions on his team. One source said his book tour was a dry run for a statewide campaign. me & @abedelman nbcnews.com/politics/2028-…

Former President Barack Obama endorses Josh Turek (D) for Iowa Senate — CNN

@PpollingNumbers Larry David

Which political outsider would make a solid president? Top 4 replies will go in a poll

Since I worked on this speech, I'll just point out that this part was left out of the clip: "We must allow undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows and step on a path toward full participation in our society. In fact, I will not support any bill that does not provide this earned path to citizenship for the undocumented population--not just for humanitarian reasons; not just because these people, having broken the law, did so for the best of motives, to try and provide a better life for their children and their grandchildren; but also because this is the only practical way we can get a handle on the population that is within our borders right now." If Republicans would now like to support the immigration proposals that Obama and other Dems advocated back in 2006, we could actually get something done.

@glennbeck That’s literally not what’s happening lol

Trump outmaneuvered the best thinkers at the Pentagon. They told him that starting this conflict with Iran would send oil skyrocketing to $150 to $350 a barrel, which would collapse the global economy. Their advice? Keep kicking the can down the road like every administration before him. Trump’s response? "Watch me." Instead of following their traditional playbook, he fought it differently, outmaneuvered the regime, and kept the Strait of Hormuz open, defying every expert prediction. He proved the establishment dead wrong on keeping the choke point open... but why didn't he do this during his last term? What did Trump 47 see that 45, and everyone else in Washington, was blind to?

Jon Ossoff unloads on Mike Collins: "Collins is known, even among Georgia Republicans, as a man of low integrity and poor character. Ossoff also said Collins is "hiding" and refusing to answer questions about his alleged ties to white supremacists and his neo-Nazi propagandist son-in-law.

Sen. Jon Ossoff says that when Dems win in November: “We won't just restore checks and balances for the next two years. We will rebuke him so decisively that no president will dare try this kind of brazen corruption and abuse again for centuries.”

@mattvanswol You’re so close to figuring it out

I'm confused. The USA has the most powerful military on Earth. We've bombed the HELL out of Iran for 4 months. Trump says their Air Force, Navy, and nearly all of their missile capabilities are destroyed. ...so how is Iran still capable of hitting US bases right now???

The declassified documents Trump just released tonight to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged” actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.

Incredible stuff here--John Solomon, the right-wing journalist Trump hired to manufacture this voter fraud hysteria--acknowledges that NO VOTES WERE CHANGED by a foreign power in 2020, 2022, or 2024

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

Jon Ossoff: Here's what's going to happen tonight. The world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his six year old grievances about the 2020 election.

@GuntherEagleman you guys are terrified of @ossoff and you should be

John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are illegitimate Senators. Both need to be replaced.

Said it before and i'll say it again. @ossoff 2028 or bust!

OMGGGGG -- Clayton is reduced to sitting in silence instead of acknowledging Joe Biden won the 2020 election OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you OSSOFF: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: I'm not gonna get into that with you OSSOFF: You're not being honest or forthright CLAYTON: ...

14 YEARS AGO TODAY -- The Barack Obama campaign releases the TV ad "Firms" featuring a clip of Mitt Romney singing "America The Beautiful" at The Villages in Florida

I’m sorry…WHAT?

@Republicans who is the president? who just refused to sign the bi-partisan housing bill?

Just when people thought rent in New York City couldn't get any higher, Zohran Mamdani proved that everything can get more expensive under socialism. Great job on that rent freeze, mayor 👏

@StephenM It’s so weird to make someone’s death about Trump.

At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.” I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter. As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey. When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room. Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir. He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events. Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection. Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty. The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people. There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time. He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last. More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones. We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain. Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten. Godspeed, my friend.