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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Monday said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should be booted from his role as leader, doubling down on his push to oust the nine-year Democratic leader. When asked who should take over, Moulton said, “It should not be Chuck Schumer,” during a Monday night debate against incumbent Sen. Ed…
At this point 20 years ago, there was a Republican president working alongside a Republican-led Congress, though things were not going especially well for the GOP, despite its power.
There was a failing and unpopular war underway in the Middle East, the White House was investing too much political capital in a doomed and unnecessary legislative priority, the GOP-led House and Senate had little to show for their majorities, and polls showed Democrats in a good position ahead of the Republican president’s second and final midterm election cycle.
Sound familiar?
But making matters worse for the GOP was the astonishing number of Republican lawmakers who were caught up in ugly scandals in 2006. Names like Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney and Mark Foley became nationally notorious for a reason — and in the 2006 midterms, the party lost its majority, due at least in part to the backlash to the party’s “culture of corruption.”
Two decades later, the names are different, but the circumstances are eerily familiar. There’s another failing and unpopular war underway in the Middle East, but the war is with Iran, not Iraq. The White House is against investing too much political capital in a doomed and unnecessary legislative priority, but now it’s a voter-suppression package instead of Social Security privatization. The GOP-led House and Senate still have little to show for their majorities, and polls again show Democrats in a good position ahead of a Republican president’s second and final midterm election cycle.
As for Republican lawmakers caught up in scandals, DeLay, Cunningham, Ney and Foley have been replaced by a different set of characters:
I’m mindful of the fact that two House Democrats, Eric Swalwell of California and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida, have also been forced to resign in the face of scandals during this Congress, but that doesn’t negate the familiarity of circumstances in which the GOP finds itself.
As for whether the outcomes in 2026 mirror the massive Democratic gains in 2006, we’ll find out in 91 days.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, and federal law enforcement officials will give remarks Tuesday morning from Philadelphia on what they call a “significant” healthcare fraud takedown. The Trump administration earlier this year threatened to withhold Medicaid money from all 50 states if they do not show that they…
Possible cyber intrusions targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least a dozen states, multiple sources told ABC News.
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Whole Foods did not violate federal labor law by prohibiting its employees from wearing apparel that said “Black Lives Matter,” handing Amazon’s grocery chain a victory in the yearslong dispute over workplace dress codes. In a 2-1 decision issued Friday, the Republican-led board found that employees who…
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Former congressmen Joe Cunningham and JD Hayworth are urging Congress to codify the Most Favored Nation drug pricing policy into law via the Global Fairness in Drug Pricing Act to ensure Americans do not pay more for prescriptions than patients in comparable countries.
