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Donald Trump and the GOP crisis of conscience: “I will support my party’s...
By Robert Mann Imagine you’re a Republican member of Congress from a Southern state, someone like Sen. Bill Cassidy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise or Rep. Garret Graves. You know Donald Trump’s...
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Let them hear your voices: How to contact your Louisiana U.S. senators &...
By Robert Mann As I write in my Times-Picayune | NOLA.com column this week, “preventing a racist plutocrat from reversing years of hard-won social and economic progress — or, worse, bumbling us into a...
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Indivisible: Protecting progressivism in the Trump era
By Robert Mann During almost 20 years working in the U.S. Senate, I learned how simple acts — a phone call, a letter, a face-to-face conversation — can influence a member of Congress. When I worked in...
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Louisiana’s cowering GOP krewe in Washington
By Robert Mann If the Republican members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation created a new D.C. Mardi Gras organization, we could call it the Krewe of Deilos. This ancient Greek word for fear and...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy passes the Jimmy Kimmel test
By Robert Mann I don’t know if congressional Republicans are wise enough to take his advice on health care, but if they wish to remain in power, they might listen to Louisiana’s senior senator, Bill...
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Senate health care bill is a risky vote for Sen. Bill Cassidy, GOP
By Robert Mann You need not be a politician with the superior political intuition of Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton to understand how dangerous the Republican health care bill is to the future of that...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy betrays sick kids, fails the ‘Jimmy Kimmel test’
By Robert Mann I was a sucker. Like the parents of sick children I’ve seen on TV in recent weeks, I had faith in U.S. Sen. Billy Cassidy’s goodwill when he told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel he would...
View ArticleRepublicans worry about debt and deficits only when a Democrat is in the...
By Robert Mann Have you noticed Republicans say they hate deficits? Have you heard their passionate rhetoric about the evils of the national debt? Maybe, like me, you thought when Republicans finally...
View ArticleThe Good, Bad and Ugly in Louisiana Politics, 2017
By Robert Mann “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” — Jonathan Swift It was a year that shame forgot. Sure, that might describe most years in Louisiana...
View ArticleWhy Louisiana’s GOP congressional delegation won’t condemn the Racist in Chief
By Robert Mann Perhaps you have noticed not one Republican member of Louisiana’s congressional delegation condemned Donald Trump for his racist remarks about immigrants. I know, Trump’s vulgar slur...
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