If enough senators in the minority party follow the lead of their next likely leader, the minority may be where they stay.
Ari Rabin-Havt
Ari Rabin-Havt hosts the SiriusXM Progress morning show, The Agenda, Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. - 9 a.m. ET. He is the author of The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned A Network Into a Propaganda Machine and The Benghazi Hoax. Rabin-Havt has served as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, former Vice President Al Gore, and other Democratic politicians.
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Did JPMorgan Try to Bribe Dem Power-Brokers? (Depends What Your Definition of ‘Bribe’ Is)
They’ve got a problem with Elizabeth Warren. And they want party leaders to do something about it.
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Trey Gowdy’s Bad Benghazi Hand
He can’t bring himself to fold and toss his cards into the muck.
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Under Pressure From the Right, Gowdy Renews Benghazi Shenanigans
Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the Benghazi Select Committee, says the Republicans are keeping information from them and limiting access to witnesses.
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How Bernie Sanders, In New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very, Very Unhappy
The iconoclast from Vermont plans to use his place as opposition leader on the Senate Budget Committee in a whole new way.
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House Intel Committee Finds No Benghazi Scandal; Will Boehner Ignore Its Findings?
House Speaker John Boehner faces a choice: Either he can accept the findings of a responsible, Republican committee chair, or cynically allow a kangaroo court to proceed.
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Why Did Bowe Bergdahl Walk Away?
The former prisoner of war may be no hero, but his walking into the night armed with only a knife raises questions about his state of mind.
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UPDATED: Dangerous Amendment Amounting to Declaration of War Put Forward
Fox News furnished the pictures, and it looks like Representative Duncan Hunter wants to furnish the war.
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Why Grayson Would Make Perfect Opponent to Gowdy on Benghazi Committee
Many progressives have argued for a Democratic boycott of the House Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi, but that would be a colossal error.
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Time for Democrats to Stop Celebrating Andrew Jackson
Democrats have rightly condemned the racist name of Washington, D.C.’s NFL team. So why do they continue to name their fundraising dinners after the president who presided over the genocide of Native Americans?