MOMocrats

Bill Barr decided to release his redacted version of the Mueller report on Thursday, as many Americans were busy with holiday preparations. We've had five days to digest the 448-page document and the avalanche of commentary on it, and one thing is certain: there is a difference between "exonerated" and the nuanced reasoning of Robert Mueller. The report documents a stunning number o...

We're not gonna lie: It's been a depressing week for the Democrats. The president's men have circled the wagons to protect him, even as Trump rages on that the nation's laws keep him from being just as cruel and draconian as he wants. Between a purge at Homeland Security, stonewalling by William Barr, and Steve Mnuchin's outright refusal to comply with a legal demand for T...

Was anyone surprised this week when the New York Times and other news media reported that members of the Mueller team are frustrated with that "not a summary" Attorney General William Barr released just 48 hours after receiving the 400-page report? MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills weren't either. They discuss the end of the administration's outrageo...

It's been a week since Robert Mueller turned in his report - and only five days since AG Barr submitted a puzzling four-page memo that told us little but the fact that Mueller could not establish evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign in Russia. This was enough for the White House to embark on a victory lap declaring full exoneration - despite the memo's declaration t...

The judge in Paul Manafort's Virginia trial for financial crimes sentenced him last night to 47 months in prison - substantially less time than the sentencing guidelines that could have held him behind bars for up to 24 years. Judge Ellis also proclaimed that Manafort (who spent years defrauding the government and representing foreign dictators) led an "otherwise blameless life." MO...

The dizzying pace of the Trump news cycle hit a crescendo this week, culminating in the explosive public House Oversight Committee hearing with Michael Cohen and the stunning sight of the president walking away from his Kim Jong Un summit without making a deal. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills will discuss the revelations that came out this week, plus the rock star status of th...

The president held forth in the Rose Garden today to announce that he signed the bipartisan bill that funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year... and that he was declaring a "national emergency" that would enable him to raid funds already allocated to national defense for his stupid wall. While affected parties put together the inevitable lawsuits, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Wor...

Just before the start of the podcast, the president announced the end of the shutdown - which the MOMocrats applaud (Just too bad so many people suffered for 35 days to get Trump NOTHING). On top of that the news of Roger Stone's arrest this morning has given Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills something to crow about, as the Mueller probe takes down another criminal in Trump&...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are like most of the electorate: They're tired of a shutdown and "crisis on the border" that are entirely the making of Donald Trump, with help from cronies like Mitch McConnell (who could END the shutdown by allowing a vote on the bill to fund the government) and Lindsey Graham (who is now openly urging Trump to go full...

(NOTE: Today's MOMochat is NSFW, in the spirit of Rep. Rashida Tlaib's remarks about impeachment.)Yesterday's historic start of the 116th Congress made MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills a little teary, as Nancy Pelosi (aka NDP) took her oath surrounded by children who came to watch the historic proceedings. And then they got down to business, passing bill...

The MOMocrats are still reeling from all the tumult of the last few days: a stock market tumble and indication of a slowing economy, a president's rash foreign policy decisions and the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, the president's about-turn on a budget deal which may lead to a government shutdown... and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's latest health crisis. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza...

The MOMOcrats look back at a week that was even more active than usual: From the sentencing memo to Michael Flynn to the three year sentence of Michael Cohen... to Nancy Pelosi's triumphant walk from the White House (and that fabulous burnt orange coat) - Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have an opinion. Other topics they discussed this week included the mystery of the miss...

With the midterms safely over, Robert Mueller's investigation is back in the spotlight. Last week's heavily redacted sentencing memo suggesting little to no jail time for Michael Flynn did reveal the stunning news that Trump's former national security advisor has been interviewed by investigators a whopping 19 times. Today may give us additional insights as Mueller meets a deadline...

If it seems like the Mueller investigation went dark for the midterm elections, this week was downright lit. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss all the latest developments in this week's political podcast from the progressive point of view: the withdrawal of Paul Manafort's plea deal and the purported dangling of pardons, Michael Cohen's surprise p...

Yes, the MOMocrats were appalled at the president's behavior in France last weekend, when he skipped the ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the World War I Armistice (which was the reason he went to France in the first place). They were angry at the White House's decision to yank Jim Acosta's press pass. And they are shaking their heads at the media's preferred n...

Democrats haunted by the ghosts of 2016 were afraid to express too much optimism about the expected "Blue Wave" of yesterday's midterm election... and early last night, as some of the Democrats' most talented candidates came so very close to winning but did not manage to cross the finish line, many expressed dismay that the "wave" was barely a "ripple." But...

We interrupt this midterm election - the most important of the MOMocrats' lifetimes - to talk about the prolonged terrorist attack the nation endured this week, as bombs were mailed to just about everyone in the top tier of the Democratic party, including two former presidents and a vice president. The current occupant of the White House and his followers seemed to think that the whole thing...

This week ends much the way the last one did, with the Senate on the verge of affirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The limited FBI investigation that Judiciary Committee Democrats fought so hard for turned out to be severely limited, to just nine witnesses that did not include Dr. Blasey Ford or Judge Kavanaugh. The agents were also restricted from asking questions about Kavanaugh'...

The MOMocrats started the day planning to talk about this week's extraordinary Judiciary Committee hearing of Dr. Christine Blasy Ford and Brett Kavanaugh - and they were expecting that the latter's Supreme Court nomination would go forward. That did happen - but what Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills did not expect at the start of this week's political podcast fro...

All week long, the pundits were remarking at how "restrained" the president has been in the wake of allegations by Professor Ford against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Until today, when the president stuck his middle finger in all those pundits' eyes. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the week's developments in the Kavanaugh hearings from t...

"Every week, we say it's been crazy. And every week, it gets crazier," says MOMocrat Donna Schwartz Mills. And this week, Karoli and Aliza Worthington agree that it was especially crazy, and it begins at the White House, where the president is reported to be in a volcanic mood after the release of excerpts from Bob Woodward's upcoming new book, "Fear," chronicling a y...

With Labor Day upon us, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are focused on the upcoming midterm elections - and they have a lot to say about the candidates in some of the races around the country, including Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O'Rourke (who is totally cooler than Ted Cruz, as proven by Texas GOP tweets this past week). The MOMocrats also discuss th...

This week marked a turning point in the Mueller investigation: Almost simultaneously, the jury in the Manafort case turned in guilty verdicts on eight counts - and Michael Cohen turned himself in and pleaded guilty to another eight. This prompted the president to call Cohen a "rat" and a "flipper" -- but as the week wore on, more Trump associates signed immunity deals with the...

It was learned this week that the military parade the president wants so very badly was going to cost the government a whopping $80 million more than first estimated, bringing the cost up to $90 million - and the military said that the parade was going to be postponed until next year. This morning, the president tweeted that he was cancelling it entirely, and he blamed the District of Columbia for...

The last 18 months of Trumpian dystopia have been brutal on the United States and the world, and with the White House panicking as the midterm elections approach and the Russia investigation closes in, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills think it's going to get worse. So they're going to go all "Drunk History" on the situation this week, by imbibing a...