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Who the hell wants to be a GOP speaker anyway?

15 Oct 2023

On Wednesday, House Republicans gave themselves a half-victory when they nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise to be speaker. This came after a standoff between Scalise, the number two in the...

The race for House speaker can hardly be called a race

12 Oct 2023

The battle for Kevin McCarthy to save his speakership is over. The battle for the House Republican conference — and indeed, the entire House of Representatives — is about to...

Matt Gaetz has thrown the House into chaos

03 Oct 2023

At the beginning of the new Congress, newly-elected representative Cory Mills (R-FL) handed his fellow Republicans inert grenades. It was an apt welcoming gift since House speaker Kevin McCarthy effectively...

Schumer and McCarthy caved and rewarded bad behaviour

22 Sep 2023

Economics often teaches about the concept of “moral hazard,” wherein no guard against risk exists, thereby encouraging one party to continue to engage in risky behaviour. The idea gained prominence...

Republican party at war over Ukraine funding

20 Sep 2023

The fight amongst Republicans about how to keep the government open has many facets, but perhaps one of the most fraught ones includes whether to include support for Ukraine. And...

Democrats are annoyed with GOP’s impeachment inquiry

15 Sep 2023

Wisconsin Sen Tammy Baldwin should be the exact type of Democrat worried about being on a ticket with President Joe Biden next year. While she won re-election in 2018 by...

As always, McCarthy is trying to please multiple masters

30 Aug 2023

During his 15-round duel with the most right-wing factions of his conference to become speaker, Kevin McCarthy received a life raft from former president Donald Trump. Images of Rep Marjorie...

Why Arizona is set to have the Senate race in the country

10 Aug 2023

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden paid a visit to Arizona to tout not only the Inflation Reduction Act, but also announce his designation of the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand...

Red flags in Biden’s re-election prospects against Trump

02 Aug 2023

Former president Donald Trump is all but guaranteed to once again assume the mantle of the Republican standard bearer in the 2024 presidential primary. On the other side of the...

The GOP primary is decided, we’re just pretending it isn’t

01 Aug 2023

The GOP primary is already decided. We’re just pretending it isn’t Trump is running as an incumbent. Nobody poses a credible challenge to him in the GOP primary. Stop pretending...

Eric Garcia

Eric Garcia is the Washington bureau chief and senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent.

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