US presidents should be judged on their accomplishments

I was a dopey sophomore in high school at the time, but even I could see there was something between the president and this aging sex symbol. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower supposedly had girlfriends, John Kennedy had affairs, Bill Clinton had Monica Lewinsky and others, Jimmy Carter had lust in his heart, Barack Obama smoked and Donald Trump had a porn star before he was president.

Steyera s talk of impeaching Trump not appealing to Dems

In this March 16, 2018, file photo, political activist Tom Steyer speaks during an event in Cincinnati. Steyer is spending millions of his own money on a campaign arguing to remove President Donald Trump from office, but the effort isn't necessarily reflected across the rest of the Democratic Party and the progressive left.

Hot potato: Dems shy from Steyer’s talk of impeaching Trump

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Hot potato: Dems shy from Steyer’s talk of impeaching Trump Source: AP

Tom Steyer is on a multimillion-dollar mission to impeach Donald Trump, but Democrats whose campaigns the California billionaire is helping bankroll aren't keen to follow his lead. Steyer, whose appeals you may have seen on TV, is spending $40 million on his "Need To Impeach" roadshow, with advertising and town halls around the country.

Trump’s Effort to Purge Disloyal Civil Servants May Already Be Underway

Has the State Department been subjected to an ideological purge under the auspices of President Donald Trump? Inquiring House Democrats want to know. In a letter sent to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on Thursday, Representatives Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel, the ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees, are demanding an explanation after receiving "disturbing new documents" from a whistle-blower indicating that senior political appointees at State worked to push out or demote career diplomats deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump and his agenda, with the assistance of right-wing activists and White House officials.

Some supporters fear Trump will lose hard edge in State of Union speech

When President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address today, his most fervent supporters are anxious that he will squander the most high-profile moment of his presidency with a soft speech that bends more to the predilections of the political establishment in Washington and less to the populist army that sent him there to drain the swamp. Trump has always veered between ideological extremes in his speeches: He railed against "American carnage" in his inaugural address last year, then gave a speech to a joint session of Congress a few weeks later that seemed restrained and conventional compared with the chaotic first weeks of his tenure.

You Had One Job

It is remarkable that the January 20-22 government shutdown was greeted with a collective shrug from the public. Compared to Newt Gingrich's epic 1995-96 tussle with Bill Clinton and Ted Cruz's showdown with Barack Obama in October 2013, this one barely registered on the national radar.

Gingrich says Trump is playing shutdown to his advantage

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday said President Trump and the Republicans have "played" the government shutdown to their advantage. Gingrich, a Georgia Republican, said the Democrats erred in opposing a spending bill to keep the government open with their demand to protect the Obama-era program that shields young immigrants brought to the United States by their parents from deportation.

Government shutdown may be first since 2013, but isn’t unheard of

The government has partially shut down three times in the past quarter-century - and far more often in decades past. Shutdowns have led to furloughs of several hundred thousand federal employees, required many government activities to be stopped or curtailed, and affected wide swaths of the economy.

Trump’s vulgarity: Overt racism or a president who says what many think?13 minutes ago

In this Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. One barnyard epithet, and the leader of the free world was now definitively a racist or, alternatively, was back in the good graces of those who had worried he was wavering in his nationalism.

Trump’s vulgarity: Overt racism or was he saying what many think?

In this Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Trump used profane language Thursday, Jan. 11, as he questioned why the U.S. should permit immigrants from certain countries, according to three people briefed on the conversation.

it’s War: Trump’s feud with Steve Bannon is about to upend the political atmosphere

War broke out between President Donald Trump and his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon after disparaging comments Bannon made about his former boss came to light. But three days were all that was needed for the outbreak of the first major US political war of the new year.