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Congress Must Seize Moment Biden Has Given It to Fix Immigration | RealClearPolitics
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Congress Must Seize Moment Biden Has Given It to Fix Immigration
Biden's proposed legislation to reform the immigration system gives Congress a golden opportunity to seek compromises, and to act. It must do so.
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| 2021-01-22T00:00:00 |
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"Congress Must Seize Moment Biden Has Given It to Fix Immigration",
"Congress Must Seize Moment Biden Has Given It to Fix Immigration | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-29T00:07:12 | null | 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
The Emergency of Government by Democrats | RealClearPolitics
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The Emergency of Government by Democrats
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During the Cold War, a U.S. Air Force Starfighter radioed to an airport in England asking for permission to land. Starfighters were difficult to fly, and many crashed. Air traffic control told the pilot he was using a frequency reserved for emergencies and should switch to a different one, to which the pilot responded with the laconic bluntness of his caste, "Listen, pal, when you've got a Starfighter strapped to your a--, that's an emergency."
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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Grim December Jobs Report Shows Shutdowns Must End | RealClearPolitics
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Grim December Jobs Report Shows Shutdowns Must End
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Over the past year, the U.S. national debt has increased by nearly $4 trillion, largely thanks to trillions of dollars in COVID relief and bailouts for a host of industries that were crippled by the lockdowns.
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| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-24T20:48:14 | null | 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
The unlikely coalition that first sent 29-year-old Joe Biden to the Senate in 1972 included an army of first-time voters many of them under 21 years of...
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Can Biden Lead Another Youth Movement?
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The unlikely coalition that first sent 29-year-old Joe Biden to the Senate in 1972 included an army of first-time voters – many of them under 21 years of age. With a polarizing Nixon White House, historic racial protests following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and a seemingly endless war in Vietnam, Biden added his voice to America’s unruly discussions on war, addiction, the environment, prison reform, ethics, and equality. Even before winning his first election, he made a priority of shaking up the old guard, insisting on the inclusion of youth at every level of politics. It’s a key reason he won.
In the months preceding ratification of the 26th Amendment (giving 18-year-olds the right to vote) Biden -- only 28 himself and the youngest member of Delaware's 1971 Democratic Party Renewal Commission – helped revamp the state’s Democratic Party. He did this by demanding youth inclusion. "We must identify issues of interest to young people -- poverty, racism, the draft, pollution -- and develop legislative programs,” he said. “We must integrate youth into the party organization at all levels.”
That fateful right-to-vote ratification for 18-year-olds arrived July 1, 1971 -- two weeks after my 18th birthday. I was a teenage volunteer charged with the logistics of implementing youth education and volunteerism for the '72 Biden campaign and son of state party Chairman Henry Topel, who helped usher him onto the national stage.
Nationally, Democrats expressed hopes that a surge in support from 18-to-21-year-olds would give the party a huge boost. But the military draft that had sent so many young Americans to Vietnam ended that year and President Nixon all but co-opted the 26th Amendment: The upshot was that Nixon won by a landslide in 1972 as young Americans voted very much the way their parents had. One of the few exceptions was in Delaware, where Joe Biden upset a Republican incumbent by 3,162 votes. It was clear to us that young people had made the difference.
I was there to see that with passion and heart, Joe Biden brought a new vitality into nearly every high school and community college in the state, educating teens on the power of their voices and the influence within their reach. He sent thousands of young people home armed with literature and information, inspired to begin discussions around the family dinner table about issues ranging from prison reform and pollution to ending the war in Vietnam.
What made young people trust Joe Biden? It was a combination of attributes. It wasn't merely his age, appearance or position on the issues, but rather an authentic, alert, attentive and empathetic presence. By listening and speaking candidly from his heart, he inspired a new generation, moving them to action in numbers that would not only shift the local balance of power but forever alter political campaign strategies.
Fast-forward to 2021. The concerns of Millennials and Generation Zers, according to the Pew Research Center and recent polling, are closely aligned on a host of issues ranging from climate change and gun violence to social justice. While some voiced concern that Biden's campaign stances on key issues concerning today’s younger demographic was too moderate, his prescience in keeping a distance from Bernie Sanders' more progressive, youth-appeasing positions was borne out by the election returns – in both the primaries and the general election.
Biden's policies on immigration reform, global warming, and student debt reduction proved attractive to young voters, who were alienated by the Trump administration. As the year wore on, the closer young voters looked at Joe Biden’s record – from his 2012 support of gay marriage to his backing of the decriminalization of marijuana at the federal level – the more they found to like.
Now, with Cabinet nominations that strive to reflect America's diversity, Biden's relatability to youth is more likely than ever to translate into lasting support. A defining moment of the 2020 campaign was the image of an open-hearted Joe Biden focused on 13-year-old Brayden Harrington, sharing how he, too, overcame stuttering as a boy and the techniques he continues to use in order to do so.
Can Biden lead another youth movement? Absolutely. If anything, behind his vision -- weathered by a lifetime of experience, love and loss -- lies a great authenticity, one that transcends age and generations, bridging the divide and bringing us truly together.
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Biden & Dem Congress Must Take Unprecedented Action | RealClearPolitics
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Biden & Dem Congress Must Take Unprecedented Action
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In this moment of unprecedented crises, Congress and the Biden administration must respond through unprecedented action
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The Human Toll of NYC's Restaurant-Unemployment Crisis | RealClearPolitics
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The Human Toll of NYC's Restaurant-Unemployment Crisis
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The Human Toll of NYC's Restaurant-Unemployment Crisis
I felt like my life was in total stasis.
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| 2021-01-27T00:00:00 |
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Why the Trump Impeachment Trial Is Crucial | RealClearPolitics
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Why the Trump Impeachment Trial Is Crucial
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Why the Trump Impeachment Trial Is Crucial
Frida Ghitis writes that Donald Trump's impeachment trial will help establish the record of fact for when willingness to face the truth arrives.
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| 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
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Rigged All Around: The Truth About 2020 Election | RealClearPolitics
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Rigged All Around: The Truth About 2020 Election
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If you have a number of children, as I do, you might be familiar with something like the following scene: A child is caught red-handed doing something he shouldn’t, say, stealing a cookie from the cookie jar. When confronted, he immediately begins to deny guilt and deflect blame.
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| 2021-01-30T00:00:00 |
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Inside the GOP's Week From Hell | RealClearPolitics
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28 Times Media and Dems Excused Liberal Violence | RealClearPolitics
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28 Times Media and Dems Excused Liberal Violence
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After excusing and ignoring riots from leftists, Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn riots now that the turmoil has shifted.
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| 2021-01-09T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-11T23:28:13 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
Anyone Shocked by Capitol Riots Ignored Warning Signs | RealClearPolitics
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Anyone Shocked by Capitol Riots Ignored Warning Signs
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Anyone Shocked by Capitol Riots Ignored Warning Signs
Do surprised pundits and politicians not recall militias storming the Michigan capitol last year? Or neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville?
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It is the job of the film critic to sniff at new movies. And so, it was expected that reviewers would drag
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The Movie You Want Versus the Movie You Have
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It is the job of the film critic to sniff at new movies. And so, it was expected that reviewers would drag "Wonder Woman 1984" onto the operating table.
With other movies at other times, I might welcome their take on cinematography, character development and narrative drive. But with the fun pretty much wrung out of our current existence, I'm fine with a piece of distraction brimming with heroics and uncomplicated villainy.
Most critics, it seemed, wanted this tale based on the comic-book Amazon to be a different movie. That's like complaining that a bowl of ice cream doesn't contain enough vitamin D. Vitamin D is not on ice cream's to-do list.
The reviewer for NPR did concede that "WW84" was "fun," if "labored." He also worried how its "climactic all-CGI fight scene ... devolved into visual incoherence."
He made three references to "CGI," as if everyone knows exactly what that means. Professor Google explained that it stands for "computer-generated imagery," of course, which I learned involves the use of algorithms to generate fractals.
The movie opens on Paradise Island, a mythical home to an all-female race of fierce warriors. "In Amazonia," Hippolyta tells Princess Diana, her daughter and the future Wonder Woman, "women ruled and all was well." (That line was in the comic-book version.)
The movie then whisks Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) to Washington, D.C., where she disguises herself as an archeologist at the Smithsonian Institution. She reunites with her true love, U.S. Army Capt. Steve Trevor. He died in the first film but is back in a different body. He disappears again. And so on and so forth.
I did enjoy watching Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) change from a frumpy archeologist to a foxy chick and then to the she-monster Cheetah. The Hollywood Reporter found this transformation "too abrupt to be convincing." (I'm not sure how to make a female academic's change into a horrendous cat-monster more convincing.)
The New York Times concludes the movie doesn't make the case for bringing back Wonder Woman beyond the "obvious commercial imperatives." Imagine that -- Hollywood producing a movie just to make money.
The Times critic also seemed surprised that Wonder Woman's big new battle took place at a plain old 1980s shopping mall. You wouldn't expect that setting in such a classy movie.
The one interesting regret about "WW84" came from New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. She noted that the movie neglected Wonder Woman's origins as a descendant of feminists, suffragists and birth control advocates.
Her comic book creator was William Moulton Marston, who, as a Harvard student in 1911, fought for women's right to vote. Back then, Harvard wouldn't even let a woman speak there.
The Atlanta Constitution determined women's right to vote "a subject for legitimate debate." And The Times editorialized that it was OK for Harvard to bring in a woman speaker as long as "the curriculum of Harvard does not include woman suffrage."
Talk about freaky. There's more in Lepore's fascinating book, "The Secret History of Wonder Woman."
The latest Wonder Woman fights the criminal elements but not deniers of women's rights. Her all-purpose Lasso of Truth ties up crooks, rescues children and stops bullets. She does work her powers to rough up physical harassers of women, but that's as far into the weeds of MeToo as she goes.
Best to keep it simple. See the movie for the superhero action. Read Lepore's book for the feminist backstory.
And ignore the critics. Vulture panned the movie as an "empty spectacle," but it's an empty spectacle the way ice cream is empty calories.
Americans are tired, sick and hurting. Who would deny us ice cream now?
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States Can Still Reject Dems' Lunatic Critical Race Theory | RealClearPolitics
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President Biden has reinstituted the pernicious philosophy at the federal level, but governors and local legislators can still fight it off.
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"States Can Still Reject Dems' Lunatic Critical Race Theory",
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Big Tech Is Right to Crack Down on Republican Disinformation | RealClearPolitics
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Big Tech Is Right to Crack Down on Republican Disinformation
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is rightfully being criticized for claiming that the US Capitol riots were "largely organized" on other social media platforms "that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency." Despite her attempts to deflect blame, Facebook as well as other social media companies played a crucial role in fueling the mob that stormed the Capitol building.
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"Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is rightfully being criticized for claiming that the US Capitol riots were \"largely organized\" on other social media platforms \"that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency.\" Despite her attempts to deflect blame, Facebook as well as other social media companies played a crucial role in fueling the mob that stormed the Capitol building.",
"Big Tech Is Right to Crack Down on Republican Disinformation",
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Hey, Twitter, Are You Sure About This? | RealClearPolitics
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Hey, Twitter, Are You Sure About This?
Trump's ban from the platform is the latest battle in a 50-year war over media filters.
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Trump: A Wrecking Ball With Remarkable Accomplishments | RealClearPolitics
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President Trump entered office in 2017 as a political wrecking ball. He leaves the presidency Wednesday as an even bigger wrecking ball. In between, he was a wrecking ball with accomplishments.
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Last week, President Biden began his term in office with an inauguration speech emphasizing the need for unity in our politics. It was an appropriate note for...
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Rubio to Biden: Let's Get $2K Payments Done Now
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Last week, President Biden began his term in office with an inauguration speech emphasizing the need for unity in our politics. It was an appropriate note for the address.
Biden now has a golden opportunity to deliver on that promise: calling on the House and Senate to pass an increase in economic impact payments to Americans struggling due to the pandemic from $600 to $2,000.
Doing so would provide immediate help to homeowners, parents, and other Americans struggling to make rent or pay their bills as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage our economy. These Americans do not have the luxury of time as lawmakers in Washington cynically weigh down common-sense legislation with a wish list of left-wing priorities.
Democrats in the House and Senate are already divided on the best path forward because they recognize a huge, unwieldy bill is unlikely to pass quickly. Any bill packed with controversial left-wing provisions will lack the bipartisan support President Biden hopes to achieve. Nonetheless, some Democrats have discussed the potential of using a procedural move called “reconciliation” to pass a bill with zero Republican support.
Even then, this stunt would delay relief for months, leaving millions of struggling Americans without additional assistance as their politicians scheme and divide. As a result, some House Democrats have floated the idea of a slimmed-down version that would focus on increasing direct payments and ensuring the Biden administration has the funds necessary to distribute the COVID-19 vaccines.
That is an approach I support, and one I am confident many of my Republican colleagues would as well.
President Biden has the power to urge Democrats to move ahead with this more straightforward approach. It’s the right thing to do. Millions of working families in our nation are in urgent need of additional relief, which is why I supported the effort in December. Now, we have another shot.
I know all too well the consequences of politicians exploiting popular, critical legislation as leverage to secure passage for policies that cannot pass on their own. We saw it earlier in the pandemic, when Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked additional funding for small businesses via the Paycheck Protection Program for months on end. We cannot allow direct payments to the American people in this extraordinary time to become bogged down in Washington’s political games.
I share many of my colleagues’ concerns about the effects that such massive additional spending may have down the line. But we also cannot ignore the fact that millions of working families across the nation are still in desperate need of a lifeline. If we fail to throw one now, we risk closing the door on opportunity -- economic and beyond -- for many more generations of Americans.
I am not prepared to allow that American Dream to wither away. I am sure that President Biden would say the same, which is why he should seize this moment of unity by pushing congressional Democrats to move forward immediately with a targeted relief bill. At a time when Americans desperately need it, we must recognize the positive message it would send to our nation if our parties came together to expand our relief payments to $2,000 with a straightforward, bipartisan bill. Let’s get it done, Mr. President.
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Anna Wintour Gives In to Twitter Mob | RealClearPolitics
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Anna Wintour no longer edits Vogue. Twitter does. After the wokerati had a collective grand mal seizure upon seeing Vogue's Kamala Harris cover last week, Vogue announced on Tuesday it would replac…
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What Comes After Parler | RealClearPolitics
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The app that stoked the insurrection is gone, but something else is destined to replace it.
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How Could Trump 'Incite' a Pre-Planned Attack? | RealClearPolitics
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President Trump was impeached yesterday by a mostly party-line vote. Ten House Republicans did cross the picket line to back the Democratic Party's unhealthy fetish with impeaching this president.
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Sen. Ron Johnson and NBC News host Chuck Todd argued Sunday about Jonhson's plan to join other Republican senators in challenging certification of the Electoral College votes in some states where the president still alleges voter fraud took place.
"We are not acting to thwart the democratic process — we are acting to protect it," Johnson said.
"The fact of the matter is we have an unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this election result as legitimate," the Wisconsin Republican said on "Meet the Press."
"the fact of the matter is we have an unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this election result as legitimate," he said.
"As long as somebody is going to be objecting to this and we’re going to take a vote, let’s propose a solution in terms of transparency, investigation, with a commission."
"You made an allegation there was widespread fraud, you have failed to offer specific evidence of that widespread fraud, but you’re demanding an investigation on the grounds that there are allegations of widespread fraud. So essentially you’re the arsonist here. President Trump is the arsonist here," NBC's Chuck Todd told Johnson. "Because you didn’t have the guts to tell the truth that this election was fair!"
"Senator, all right, I’ve had enough," Todd said.
"I’ve had enough of this, too," Johnson said
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Sen. Ron Johnson and NBC News host Chuck Todd argued Sunday about Jonhson's plan to join other Republican senators in challenging certification of the Electoral College votes in some states where the president still alleges voter fraud took place."We are not acting to thwart the democratic process — we are acting to protect it," Johnson said."The fact of the matter is we have an unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this election result as legitimate," the Wisconsin Republican said on "Meet the Press.""the fact of the matter is we have an unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this election result as legitimate," he said."As long as somebody is going to be objecting to this and we’re going to take a vote, let’s propose a solution in terms of transparency, investigation, with a commission.""You made an allegation there was widespread fraud, you have failed to offer specific evidence of that widespread fraud, but you’re demanding an investigation on the grounds that there are allegations of widespread fraud. So essentially you’re the arsonist here. President Trump is the arsonist here," NBC's Chuck Todd told Johnson. "Because you didn’t have the guts to tell the truth that this election was fair!""Senator, all right, I’ve had enough," Todd said."I’ve had enough of this, too," Johnson said
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"Ron Johnson: We Are Not Acting To Thwart Democracy, But To Protect It",
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How the U.S. Could Lose to China | RealClearPolitics
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Unions Smear Parents Who Opt Out of Public Schools | RealClearPolitics
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Unions Smear Parents Who Opt Out of Public Schools
, before leaving it for the summer (Erin Bormett/The Argus Leade
Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools.
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Joe Bidens new administration faces a murderers row of hard decisions on everything from controlling the Southern border to dealing with Iran. But one...
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Joe Biden’s new administration faces a murderers’ row of hard decisions on everything from controlling the Southern border to dealing with Iran. But one choice dominates all of them: Does Biden intend to govern from the center-left or to make more far-reaching concessions to his party’s progressive wing?
Biden’s nominations and early executive orders suggest he wants to govern from the center-left, but his “sweet spot” will be much more progressive than President Obama’s because the Democratic Party has kept moving steadily left.
How will President Biden resolve tensions between his party’s left wing and its establishment-corporate center? His first day in office showed one way. He will signal his virtue to progressives on hot-button issues like Keystone XL pipeline, the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the Paris climate accord. He won’t build another new mile of border barrier. He wants a higher minimum wage. Those gestures are meant to please party activists without, he hopes, costing too much with average voters. Best of all, they don’t require any pesky, time-consuming procedures, like passing actual laws or ratifying treaties. They will be implemented by presidential orders and bureaucratic regulations
More broadly, President Biden will use EOs, bureaucratic regulations, and sub-Cabinet appointments to placate his party’s vital interest groups in education (teachers unions), criminal justice, race relations, immigration, and the environment. Important as those policies are, Biden has no intention of meeting the far-reaching socialist demands of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Just how far Biden intends to go, just how big a price he is willing to pay will become clear when his energy regulations begin cutting into jobs and his policies on immigration and law-and-order lead to more crime, especially in poor communities.
We can already see tension rising among Democrats over COVID regulations, which have devastated state and local revenues because they crush local businesses and the tax revenues they generate. How do you pay public-sector unions if taxes aren’t flowing into municipal coffers in Chicago and New York City? The only growth businesses there are U-Haul trailers. Biden can delay a national reckoning by printing more money, but, even there, he faces fiscal and political constraints.
The more moderate Biden’s policies are, the more pushback he will face from progressives. Still, the president and his supporters think they can prevail for three reasons. First, he defeated the far-left’s banner candidate in the primaries, beginning with South Carolina, after Democratic voters were finally faced with the stark choice between Biden and Bernie. Democratic voters and party leaders feared Sanders would not only lose the White House, he would sink down-ballot candidates. Second, even with Biden atop the ticket, Democratic senators and representatives are well aware they nearly lost their races because progressive demands were so prominent. Their Republican opponents ran against socialism, against AOC and her Squad, against defunding the police, and against rioters in Portland, Minneapolis, Kenosha, and Seattle. Democrats who squeaked through those elections hold the party’s left-wing radicals directly responsible for their tough races – and for the fate of losing moderate Democrats who are no longer in their ranks. They have no reason to bow to those radicals’ demands now. Finally, progressives lack any realistic options beyond fighting for influence within the Biden administration. Yes, they can threaten primary races in Deep Blue states and districts. But only there. They are toxic in purple districts, and party professionals know it. The more trouble these progressives create, the more likely Democrats are to lose the House and Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024.
This political reality and the party’s thin margins on Capitol Hill will inform Biden’s next big choice. Will he urge Chuck Schumer to strike a power-sharing deal with Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell so the administration can move legislation through a 50-50 Senate? Without that deal, Republicans will block major bills with the filibuster. (And Biden has made clear he does not support “nuking” the filibuster, as many of his fellow party members advocate doing.)
Schumer and Biden know they don’t have the 60 votes needed to overcome filibusters. Actually, they can’t even command a simple majority if one Democrat objects. That’s a real problem. If the legislation is too progressive, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin won’t go along. If it is too centrist, the objections will come from the likes of Sanders, Warren, Jeff Merkley, and Ed Markey.
How can Joe Biden, himself a creature of the Senate, overcome these obstacles? Two ways. First, like all modern presidents, he will govern like a monarch, issuing orders, modifying legislation with signing statements, and directing his bureaucracies to promulgate rules. Such is our democracy that we are seldom governed by detailed laws, duly passed by our elected representatives. We are governed by presidential fiat and bureaucratic diktat. This fundamental constitutional transformation took off in the mid-1960s when Lyndon Johnson passed the Great Society programs. Since then, only Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump have tried to resist Washington’s growing power and, within it, the growing power of the executive branch and federal agencies.
Second, if Biden actually needs to pass laws, then he and Schumer must build a workable majority on the Senate floor and in committees. Unless they kill the filibuster rule, building that majority requires Republican cooperation. McConnell will offer it only if he wins major concessions about power-sharing.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her hands full controlling her diminished Democratic majority. Pelosi can’t afford to lose many liberals, progressives, pragmatists, or the dwindling number of moderates in her caucus if she expects to pass legislation on strict party-line votes. That’s where any Senate compromise will bite in the House. Senate Democrats and Republicans will agree only on centrist legislation, which is bound to frustrate progressives, as well as conservative Republicans, on Capitol Hill and across the country. When those compromise bills make it over to the House, progressives in Pelosi’s caucus will object. If they refuse to approve the bill, Pelosi cannot pass it with only Democratic votes. She will need support from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the more moderate members of his caucus.
Pelosi has never needed Republican help before, and her eagerness to impeach Donald Trump a second time indicates she is not seeking it now. On Thursday, she said she had no intention of giving Trump a “get out of jail free” card. On Friday, she said she will transmit the House’s Article of Impeachment to the Senate on Monday.
Although the impeachment trial will delay the new administration’s agenda, it does not pose any real dilemmas for Biden. The president’s really hard choices are deciding how progressive his agenda will be, how much he needs new laws to effect it, and how much bipartisan support he needs to move forward.
Everything turns on how far left Biden will go to appease party activists, especially on policies that lack broad popular support. Of course, he will “virtue signal” with executive orders and some appointments, especially those dealing with the environment, labor, education, and civil rights. All involve key Democratic constituencies. But those constituencies alone are not enough to win national elections. Figuring out how to build a broader coalition without alienating party progressives is most far-reaching dilemma facing President Biden and his new administration.
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"Joe Biden’s new administration faces a murderers’ row of hard decisions on everything from controlling the Southern border to dealing with Iran. But one choice dominates all of them: Does Biden intend to govern from the center-left or to make more far-reaching concessions to his party’s progressive wing?\nBiden’s nominations and early executive orders suggest he wants to govern from the center-left, but his “sweet spot” will be much more progressive than President Obama’s because the Democratic Party has kept moving steadily left.\nHow will President Biden resolve tensions between his party’s left wing and its establishment-corporate center? His first day in office showed one way. He will signal his virtue to progressives on hot-button issues like Keystone XL pipeline, the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the Paris climate accord. He won’t build another new mile of border barrier. He wants a higher minimum wage. Those gestures are meant to please party activists without, he hopes, costing too much with average voters. Best of all, they don’t require any pesky, time-consuming procedures, like passing actual laws or ratifying treaties. They will be implemented by presidential orders and bureaucratic regulations\nMore broadly, President Biden will use EOs, bureaucratic regulations, and sub-Cabinet appointments to placate his party’s vital interest groups in education (teachers unions), criminal justice, race relations, immigration, and the environment. Important as those policies are, Biden has no intention of meeting the far-reaching socialist demands of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\nJust how far Biden intends to go, just how big a price he is willing to pay will become clear when his energy regulations begin cutting into jobs and his policies on immigration and law-and-order lead to more crime, especially in poor communities.\nWe can already see tension rising among Democrats over COVID regulations, which have devastated state and local revenues because they crush local businesses and the tax revenues they generate. How do you pay public-sector unions if taxes aren’t flowing into municipal coffers in Chicago and New York City? The only growth businesses there are U-Haul trailers. Biden can delay a national reckoning by printing more money, but, even there, he faces fiscal and political constraints.\nThe more moderate Biden’s policies are, the more pushback he will face from progressives. Still, the president and his supporters think they can prevail for three reasons. First, he defeated the far-left’s banner candidate in the primaries, beginning with South Carolina, after Democratic voters were finally faced with the stark choice between Biden and Bernie. Democratic voters and party leaders feared Sanders would not only lose the White House, he would sink down-ballot candidates. Second, even with Biden atop the ticket, Democratic senators and representatives are well aware they nearly lost their races because progressive demands were so prominent. Their Republican opponents ran against socialism, against AOC and her Squad, against defunding the police, and against rioters in Portland, Minneapolis, Kenosha, and Seattle. Democrats who squeaked through those elections hold the party’s left-wing radicals directly responsible for their tough races – and for the fate of losing moderate Democrats who are no longer in their ranks. They have no reason to bow to those radicals’ demands now. Finally, progressives lack any realistic options beyond fighting for influence within the Biden administration. Yes, they can threaten primary races in Deep Blue states and districts. But only there. They are toxic in purple districts, and party professionals know it. The more trouble these progressives create, the more likely Democrats are to lose the House and Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024.\nThis political reality and the party’s thin margins on Capitol Hill will inform Biden’s next big choice. Will he urge Chuck Schumer to strike a power-sharing deal with Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell so the administration can move legislation through a 50-50 Senate? Without that deal, Republicans will block major bills with the filibuster. (And Biden has made clear he does not support “nuking” the filibuster, as many of his fellow party members advocate doing.)\nSchumer and Biden know they don’t have the 60 votes needed to overcome filibusters. Actually, they can’t even command a simple majority if one Democrat objects. That’s a real problem. If the legislation is too progressive, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin won’t go along. If it is too centrist, the objections will come from the likes of Sanders, Warren, Jeff Merkley, and Ed Markey.\nHow can Joe Biden, himself a creature of the Senate, overcome these obstacles? Two ways. First, like all modern presidents, he will govern like a monarch, issuing orders, modifying legislation with signing statements, and directing his bureaucracies to promulgate rules. Such is our democracy that we are seldom governed by detailed laws, duly passed by our elected representatives. We are governed by presidential fiat and bureaucratic diktat. This fundamental constitutional transformation took off in the mid-1960s when Lyndon Johnson passed the Great Society programs. Since then, only Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump have tried to resist Washington’s growing power and, within it, the growing power of the executive branch and federal agencies.\nSecond, if Biden actually needs to pass laws, then he and Schumer must build a workable majority on the Senate floor and in committees. Unless they kill the filibuster rule, building that majority requires Republican cooperation. McConnell will offer it only if he wins major concessions about power-sharing.\nMeanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her hands full controlling her diminished Democratic majority. Pelosi can’t afford to lose many liberals, progressives, pragmatists, or the dwindling number of moderates in her caucus if she expects to pass legislation on strict party-line votes. That’s where any Senate compromise will bite in the House. Senate Democrats and Republicans will agree only on centrist legislation, which is bound to frustrate progressives, as well as conservative Republicans, on Capitol Hill and across the country. When those compromise bills make it over to the House, progressives in Pelosi’s caucus will object. If they refuse to approve the bill, Pelosi cannot pass it with only Democratic votes. She will need support from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the more moderate members of his caucus.\nPelosi has never needed Republican help before, and her eagerness to impeach Donald Trump a second time indicates she is not seeking it now. On Thursday, she said she had no intention of giving Trump a “get out of jail free” card. On Friday, she said she will transmit the House’s Article of Impeachment to the Senate on Monday.\nAlthough the impeachment trial will delay the new administration’s agenda, it does not pose any real dilemmas for Biden. The president’s really hard choices are deciding how progressive his agenda will be, how much he needs new laws to effect it, and how much bipartisan support he needs to move forward.\nEverything turns on how far left Biden will go to appease party activists, especially on policies that lack broad popular support. Of course, he will “virtue signal” with executive orders and some appointments, especially those dealing with the environment, labor, education, and civil rights. All involve key Democratic constituencies. But those constituencies alone are not enough to win national elections. Figuring out how to build a broader coalition without alienating party progressives is most far-reaching dilemma facing President Biden and his new administration.",
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So, the Proud Boys now judge Donald Trump
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So, the Proud Boys now judge Donald Trump "a total failure" and "extraordinarily weak." The members of the far-right group understood at last that when the former president denounced them for doing what he incited them to do, they looked ridiculous.
How to save face? They couldn't concede that posting pictures of themselves engaged in a murderous assault on the U.S. Capitol was supremely stupid. No, it was that Trump was too cowardly to join them. But thinking that he would was also supremely stupid.
After winding the mob up with insane ranting about a "stolen election," Trump urged it to march to the Capitol to stop the counting of votes. "You'll never take back our country with weakness," he said. "And I'll be there with you."
Of course, he wasn't there with them. It was some strange Neverland these Lost Boys came from. How else explain their expecting Trump to expose himself to the swarm, much less risk injury in a violent encounter?
While the boys were vandalizing, looting and threatening to hang elected officials, according to The Washington Post, Trump serenely watched the rampage on White House TVs. At a certain point, though, it dawned on the president that the unfolding horror was not in his interests. He conferred with advisers and lawyers to ensure he wouldn't take the rap for it.
Thus, at 2:38 p.m. Eastern time, after a Capitol Police officer had already been killed, he tweeted, "Stay peaceful!" He then issued a video in which he told the herd to go home.
A day later, he condemned the blockheads for their "heinous attack" and said he was "outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem." And to think that some of the Proud Boys actually expected a presidential pardon for their crimes.
The main objective here is not to point out the treachery of Trump. It's not even to question the right wing's willingness to believe that Trump hadn't lost. With all those conspiracy theories infesting their media -- and weeks of getting pounded by a charismatic speaker's lies -- one could envision their swallowing the nonsense that dark forces had denied victory to he whom they called "Emperor Trump."
The Proud Boys' grasp on reality was never all it could be, but still. The group had it together enough to closely follow Trump's 86 unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results. It should have been easier to note Trump's long history of covering his rear end and employing an army of lawyers to countersue those he had betrayed. But somehow, the Lost Boys thought they'd be an exception.
And so, they portrayed the double-cross as an unexpected abuse of what they imagined as their honor. They hit back -- or so they thought. "The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump" is how a New York Times headline characterized their criticism.
With all due respect to the headline writer, the people being mocked are the right-wing rioters facing criminal charges after being turned in by their children, ex-wives and (former) employers. Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago, smelling the sweet chlorine from his swimming pool and playing golf.
The insurrectionists now have their own lawyers. Despite the "heinous" nature of their acts, some of the legal advisers have taken the tack of portraying their clients as naive nitwits.
The lawyer representing the "QAnon Shaman" says the would-be actor regrets what he did but was duped by Trump. And he refers to his client in clownish terms -- as "the guy with the horns and the fur, the meditation and organic food."
The Proud Boys are now saying in online posts that the group should drop politics and abandon both parties. They may be on to something, finally.
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Yesterday, when TD Ameritrade became the first exchange to impose "unprecedented" restrictions on GME trading, we predicted what would happen next: "expect many more exchanges to follow suit, because hedge funds clearly need to be protected when faced with the retail daytrading mob."
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When Sen. Josh Hawley announced he would raise an objection during the Electoral College count certification on Wednesday, the Missouri Republican justified it...
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When Sen. Josh Hawley announced he would raise an objection during the Electoral College count certification on Wednesday, the Missouri Republican justified it in part by noting Democrats had lodged similar protests. “Following both the 2004 and 2016 elections, Democrats in Congress objected during the certification of electoral votes in order to raise concerns about election integrity,” he said. “They were praised by Democratic leadership and the media when they did. And they were entitled to do so. But now those of us concerned about the integrity of this election are entitled to do the same.”
Is Hawley correct in comparing what he is about to do with what Democrats did following previous elections? To answer that question, let’s take a closer look at what happened in the past.
Hawley left out two other instances of Democratic objections to the Electoral College count. The first came after the 1968 presidential election. Rep. James O’Hara of Michigan and Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine (that year’s losing vice presidential candidate) formally challenged the count from North Carolina.
A “faithless elector” in North Carolina voted for third-party candidate George Wallace instead of Richard Nixon, who narrowly carried the state. Faithless electors had been cropping up since the 1948 election (all supporting segregationist politicians) and O’Hara and Muskie worried eventually one would undemocratically tip the election, so they wanted to stop the practice. Unlike other examples of Electoral College count interruptions, these objectors weren’t calling into question the outcome or the integrity of the election. (Their objection garnered significant support in both chambers, but was nevertheless defeated 228-170 in the House and 58-33 in the Senate.)
A more relevant example followed the razor-thin, legally disputed 2000 election. Many Democrats were outraged that the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount. Claiming that thousands of Florida voters were disenfranchised, a group of House Democrats interrupted the Electoral College certification count 20 times. But since the Electoral Count Act requires a House member and a senator to object before the two congressional chambers can debate and vote on an objection -- and no senator objected -- the complaints were ruled out of order.
Returning to the examples Hawley cited, in 2004 another presidential election was close enough that one state could have changed the outcome. This time, it was Ohio. Frustrated Democrats highlighted media reports about problems with Ohio’s election system, including long wait times at the polls and 92,000 ballots that didn’t register votes. Some also raised questions about the 133,000 voters removed (legally) from the rolls by the Republican secretary of state. The margin of victory wasn’t close enough to easily argue that the possible impact of these factors tipped the election, but some corners of the left had been drawn to conspiracy theories. And when the Electoral College count certification occurred, Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) lodged the second formal objection in history.
Then when 2016’s election was marred by reports of Russian interference, seven House Democrats tried to object to the Electoral College count. But as with the 2000 count, they could not get a single senator to join them, so the complaints were ruled out of order.
These examples may seem parallel to what is happening among Republicans now. As Hawley notes, the objections from 2000, 2004 and 2016 were intended to “raise concerns about election integrity,” even though the objectors knew they would not be able to change the election outcome. But the similarities end there.
Hawley’s claim that past Democratic objectors “were praised by Democratic leadership and the media” leaves a lot out. In his statement, he notes now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered supportive words to the 2004 objectors, such as, “The Members of Congress who have brought this challenge are speaking up for their aggrieved constituents, many of whom may have been disenfranchised in this process. This is their only opportunity to have this debate while the country is listening, and it is appropriate to do so.” But he doesn’t cite any 2016 examples, nor any examples of media praise in any year.
Hawley also does not mention that when the 2004 challenge was voted on by the House and Senate, it lost by huge margins: 267-31 in the former and 74-1 in the latter (Boxer being the lone vote to accept her own objection). Moreover, Pelosi, along with most Democrats, joined the majority and voted to accept the Electoral College result, showing her praise had its limits.
Another major difference is that in 2000, 2004 and 2016, the losing candidate had already given a concession speech. (Although Hillary Clinton continues to dwell on Russian shenanigans in 2016, calling the election “not on the level,” she nevertheless conceded shortly after her defeat was clear.) In 2000, the person ruling the complaints from House members as out of order was the Democrat who lost the election, Al Gore, who as vice president of the nation and president of the Senate was presiding over the joint session of Congress. In 2016, it was sitting Vice President Joe Biden enforcing the rules and accepting the outcome.
This year, the incumbent president along with Vice President Mike Pence have refused to concede and have cast baseless doubt on the election’s integrity. Trump has been calling the election fraudulent ever since the polls closed, and on Saturday Pence’s office issued a statement saying he “shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election” and “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections … on January 6th.”
Even after Democrats felt wronged by the Supreme Court in 2000, Senate Democrats and House Democratic leadership sought to preserve trust in our democratic institutions. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt counseled his caucus not to raise objections, and Sen. Pat Leahy (Vt.) said, “As much as I disagree with the court's decision, I uphold it as the law of the land and won't object.” Though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly trying to dissuade his colleagues from objecting, several are planning to do so anyway. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy still hasn’t acknowledged Biden won, and there are reports that a majority of House Republicans will participate in the Electoral College challenge.
Finally, the attempt by Hawley and others to cast the objection as an honorable protest to “raise concerns about election integrity” falls flat considering the election has been repeatedly litigated in courts by the Trump campaign. Those efforts have universally been rejected by both Democratic- and Republican-appointed judges, up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats, in contrast, had some evidence of irregularities in 2000, 2004 and 2016, evidence that was at least partially validated in the months after the Electoral College certification.
In 2000, two vote-by-vote reviews of Florida’s ballots conducted by media consortiums found that, as the Associated Press put it, “George W. Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome – by the barest of margins – had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.” (Gore’s legal recount strategy focused on “undervotes,” ballots for which vote machines didn’t register a vote for any candidate, but overlooked “overvotes,” ballots that had markings for Gore and another candidate.) A congressional Democratic review of the 2004 election in Ohio concluded, “There is no evidence from our survey that John Kerry won the state of Ohio,” but it still documented weaknesses in the system that warranted reforms. The Mueller report found that “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” Republicans have nothing of the sort to cite today.
Case in point: Hawley has claimed Pennsylvania’s new law allowing for expansive mail voting violated its state constitution, and on Saturday he said legal challenges were thrown out by the state Supreme Court without considering the merits. What Hawley doesn’t mention is the case was thrown out because it was filed after the election, since if the plaintiffs really had a problem with the new mail-voting law they would have challenged it before votes were cast, not waited to see who won first.
In other words, while Democrats in the past expressed concerns of voters being disenfranchised, the Republican lawsuits seek to disenfranchise by throwing votes out.
Having said all that, those Democrats who sought to disrupt the Electoral College certification should not be lauded for their extreme tactics. For all the concern of the past four years over “normalizing” Trump’s destructive behavior, these few Democrats have effectively normalized the Electoral College certification protest. Hawley and others can and will say they are just doing what Democrats did, and in the simplest sense, they will be correct.
What will likely transpire on Wednesday will be corrosive for our democracy. Dozens of Republicans, egged on by a lame-duck president, will egregiously fan the flames of doubt among their supporters about the integrity of our institutions, without basis in fact. They may well have done so without Democrats doing it first, but they can more easily play the “everybody does it” card because Democrats did do it first.
Even though most Democrats did not take part, and even though the Democrats who did had far more legitimate concerns than Republicans do today, the fact remains that past Electoral College protests should not have been normalized. The benefits were nil, and the costs high.
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Edmund Muskie of Maine (that year’s losing vice presidential candidate) formally challenged the count from North Carolina.\nA “faithless elector” in North Carolina voted for third-party candidate George Wallace instead of Richard Nixon, who narrowly carried the state. Faithless electors had been cropping up since the 1948 election (all supporting segregationist politicians) and O’Hara and Muskie worried eventually one would undemocratically tip the election, so they wanted to stop the practice. Unlike other examples of Electoral College count interruptions, these objectors weren’t calling into question the outcome or the integrity of the election. (Their objection garnered significant support in both chambers, but was nevertheless defeated 228-170 in the House and 58-33 in the Senate.)\nA more relevant example followed the razor-thin, legally disputed 2000 election. Many Democrats were outraged that the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount. Claiming that thousands of Florida voters were disenfranchised, a group of House Democrats interrupted the Electoral College certification count 20 times. But since the Electoral Count Act requires a House member and a senator to object before the two congressional chambers can debate and vote on an objection -- and no senator objected -- the complaints were ruled out of order.\nReturning to the examples Hawley cited, in 2004 another presidential election was close enough that one state could have changed the outcome. This time, it was Ohio. Frustrated Democrats highlighted media reports about problems with Ohio’s election system, including long wait times at the polls and 92,000 ballots that didn’t register votes. Some also raised questions about the 133,000 voters removed (legally) from the rolls by the Republican secretary of state. The margin of victory wasn’t close enough to easily argue that the possible impact of these factors tipped the election, but some corners of the left had been drawn to conspiracy theories. And when the Electoral College count certification occurred, Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) lodged the second formal objection in history.\nThen when 2016’s election was marred by reports of Russian interference, seven House Democrats tried to object to the Electoral College count. But as with the 2000 count, they could not get a single senator to join them, so the complaints were ruled out of order.\nThese examples may seem parallel to what is happening among Republicans now. As Hawley notes, the objections from 2000, 2004 and 2016 were intended to “raise concerns about election integrity,” even though the objectors knew they would not be able to change the election outcome. But the similarities end there.\nHawley’s claim that past Democratic objectors “were praised by Democratic leadership and the media” leaves a lot out. In his statement, he notes now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered supportive words to the 2004 objectors, such as, “The Members of Congress who have brought this challenge are speaking up for their aggrieved constituents, many of whom may have been disenfranchised in this process. This is their only opportunity to have this debate while the country is listening, and it is appropriate to do so.” But he doesn’t cite any 2016 examples, nor any examples of media praise in any year.\nHawley also does not mention that when the 2004 challenge was voted on by the House and Senate, it lost by huge margins: 267-31 in the former and 74-1 in the latter (Boxer being the lone vote to accept her own objection). Moreover, Pelosi, along with most Democrats, joined the majority and voted to accept the Electoral College result, showing her praise had its limits.\nAnother major difference is that in 2000, 2004 and 2016, the losing candidate had already given a concession speech. (Although Hillary Clinton continues to dwell on Russian shenanigans in 2016, calling the election “not on the level,” she nevertheless conceded shortly after her defeat was clear.) In 2000, the person ruling the complaints from House members as out of order was the Democrat who lost the election, Al Gore, who as vice president of the nation and president of the Senate was presiding over the joint session of Congress. In 2016, it was sitting Vice President Joe Biden enforcing the rules and accepting the outcome.\nThis year, the incumbent president along with Vice President Mike Pence have refused to concede and have cast baseless doubt on the election’s integrity. Trump has been calling the election fraudulent ever since the polls closed, and on Saturday Pence’s office issued a statement saying he “shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election” and “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections … on January 6th.”\nEven after Democrats felt wronged by the Supreme Court in 2000, Senate Democrats and House Democratic leadership sought to preserve trust in our democratic institutions. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt counseled his caucus not to raise objections, and Sen. Pat Leahy (Vt.) said, “As much as I disagree with the court's decision, I uphold it as the law of the land and won't object.” Though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly trying to dissuade his colleagues from objecting, several are planning to do so anyway. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy still hasn’t acknowledged Biden won, and there are reports that a majority of House Republicans will participate in the Electoral College challenge.\nFinally, the attempt by Hawley and others to cast the objection as an honorable protest to “raise concerns about election integrity” falls flat considering the election has been repeatedly litigated in courts by the Trump campaign. Those efforts have universally been rejected by both Democratic- and Republican-appointed judges, up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats, in contrast, had some evidence of irregularities in 2000, 2004 and 2016, evidence that was at least partially validated in the months after the Electoral College certification.\nIn 2000, two vote-by-vote reviews of Florida’s ballots conducted by media consortiums found that, as the Associated Press put it, “George W. Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome – by the barest of margins – had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.” (Gore’s legal recount strategy focused on “undervotes,” ballots for which vote machines didn’t register a vote for any candidate, but overlooked “overvotes,” ballots that had markings for Gore and another candidate.) A congressional Democratic review of the 2004 election in Ohio concluded, “There is no evidence from our survey that John Kerry won the state of Ohio,” but it still documented weaknesses in the system that warranted reforms. The Mueller report found that “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” Republicans have nothing of the sort to cite today.\nCase in point: Hawley has claimed Pennsylvania’s new law allowing for expansive mail voting violated its state constitution, and on Saturday he said legal challenges were thrown out by the state Supreme Court without considering the merits. What Hawley doesn’t mention is the case was thrown out because it was filed after the election, since if the plaintiffs really had a problem with the new mail-voting law they would have challenged it before votes were cast, not waited to see who won first.\nIn other words, while Democrats in the past expressed concerns of voters being disenfranchised, the Republican lawsuits seek to disenfranchise by throwing votes out.\nHaving said all that, those Democrats who sought to disrupt the Electoral College certification should not be lauded for their extreme tactics. For all the concern of the past four years over “normalizing” Trump’s destructive behavior, these few Democrats have effectively normalized the Electoral College certification protest. Hawley and others can and will say they are just doing what Democrats did, and in the simplest sense, they will be correct.\nWhat will likely transpire on Wednesday will be corrosive for our democracy. Dozens of Republicans, egged on by a lame-duck president, will egregiously fan the flames of doubt among their supporters about the integrity of our institutions, without basis in fact. They may well have done so without Democrats doing it first, but they can more easily play the “everybody does it” card because Democrats did do it first.\nEven though most Democrats did not take part, and even though the Democrats who did had far more legitimate concerns than Republicans do today, the fact remains that past Electoral College protests should not have been normalized. 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As Donald Trump's Republican Party descends into madness, dragged down by the president's lies, threats and possible mental illness, it's become hard to imagine democracy-loving conservatives continuing to live in the same house. They're in a marriage that can't be saved.
The framework for a new party is already up, thanks to the seasoned Republican operatives behind the never-Trump movement. They can establish a safe space for the likes of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, among others. And their tribe will increase.
The new bloc could call itself the Lincoln Party or the Elephant Party or even the New Republican Party. Meanwhile, its leaders could reassure conservatives that a divorce from the Trump cult would not necessarily lead to splitting their votes. On the contrary.
First off, the Trump wing isn't conservative. It's radical right. There's nothing conservative about a personality cult willing to grovel before an authoritarian thug. Stalin was a communist.
Moreover, America's conservative institutions have already turned against Trump. All 10 living former defense secretaries, including two who served under Trump -- Jim Mattis and Mark Esper -- have joined to warn against overturning the election results. And don't even think, they said, about using the military to keep Trump in office.
Almost 200 top business executives, many of them heavy donors to the Republican Party, issued a letter urging Congress to certify Joe Biden's win and cooperate in the transition to the new administration.
A new center-right party could attract some of the former Republicans who've turned independent in recent years. Last year, for the first time, more Americans were registered as independent than Republican. Many of them could conceivably join a traditional party more resembling the one they left.
The spectacle of Trump enforcers menacing good Republicans cannot have enhanced party membership. Trump scraped the bottom when he delivered a Mafia-style threat of criminal action against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger if he didn't throw the state's election results his way. (That creep show certainly could have enhanced the Democrats' vote counts in the U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia.)
And what about moderate Democrats? They're known to split tickets. All six New England states have become reliably blue in national elections, yet three of them have very popular Republican governors. Same story in Maryland. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, for one, probably wouldn't mind a different party ID.
The point is that many Democrats are happy to cross party lines on the state and local level if the candidates are pragmatic and socially liberal. A new centrist party could attract Democrats aggravated by their party's woke left fringe. It would have to come to terms with guaranteed health coverage and addressing the climate crisis, but center-right parties in Europe went there long ago.
True conservatives must know that any dream of taking back the Republican Party as the Trump clown car leaves town is futile. That's because it's not one car but nearly the entire showroom. Over 100 Republican congressmen participated in the outrageous effort to ignore the Electoral College results. And 87 percent of self-identified Republicans approve of Trump, according to the latest Gallup poll. There's not much there to take back.
They should also realize that being called a RINO -- Republican in Name Only -- has lost its sting. The shine is truly off the Republican label.
And so, leave the banners and the old Republican letterhead behind and start anew. America needs a center-right party to rein in Democratic excesses. Now and forever, pro-democracy Republicans need to work with Democrats to ensure the survival of the republic.
And their survival requires that they get out of that house.
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Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump:
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Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump: "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them -- specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter -- we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence."
Trump gave a long, raucous speech, in which he claimed election fraud, in front of supporters an hour before a mob stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6. This horrific siege took place during a joint session of Congress. After the violent disruption, former Vice President Joe Biden was officially certified the winner.
Trump said: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country."
Democrats' intend to impeach Trump again because of his pre-Capitol building siege speech.
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, a Democrat, wrote: "Like others, I condemned those remarks as he gave them, calling them reckless and wrong. I also opposed the challenges to electoral votes in Congress. But his address does not meet the definition for incitement under the criminal code. It would be viewed as protected speech by the Supreme Court." Similarly, Democrat and professor Alan Dershowitz wrote: "Nothing the president said constituted unprotected 'incitement,' as narrowly defined by the Supreme Court over nearly a century of decisions. His volatile words plainly fell on the side of political 'advocacy,' which is protected speech."
How far does Twitter intend to take its policy designed to discourage "risk of further incitement of violence"?
For four years, Hillary Clinton, the failed 2016 presidential candidate, has called the 2016 election "stolen" while frequently describing Trump's election as "illegitimate," only the result of Russian interference. "I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used," said Clinton in 2019, "from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories -- he knows that -- there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did."
Similarly, in 2019, former President Jimmy Carter said: "There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf."
Indeed, according to an August 2018 Gallup poll: "Democrats widely believe Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign and that it changed the outcome of the election [78% say this], presumably by helping Trump defeat Hillary Clinton." Never mind that Jeh Johnson, Barack Obama's former secretary of Homeland Security, said in his June 2017 testimony before a congressional committee: "To my current knowledge, the Russian government did not through any cyber intrusion alter ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results." Yet, Hillary faces no ban from Twitter, despite promoting a dangerous, divisive 2016 election narrative not supported by the intelligence community.
In 2012, then Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., stood on the floor of the Senate and knowingly, falsely accused Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, of not paying taxes. Reid later, out of office, bragged that he knowingly told this "rich don't pay taxes" lie to damage Romney's candidacy. It worked.
Reid remains active on Twitter.
Ron Fournier, the former Washington, D.C., Associated Press bureau chief, in 2015, publicly said President "George W. Bush lied us into war in Iraq." True, the bipartisan Robb-Silberman commission found the intel leading up to the Iraq war "dead wrong." But co-chair Laurence Silberman said: "It is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam." Fournier remains active on Twitter.
For four years, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter referred to President Donald Trump as illegitimately elected. Risk of violence, Twitter? Reid likely altered the outcome of the 2012 election with his Senate lie about Romney and his taxes. Risk of violence, Twitter? And "reporters" like Fournier insisted that former President George W. Bush sent men and women to face death and injury over a "lie." Risk of violence, Twitter?
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"Twitter explained why it decided to permanently ban President Donald Trump: \"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them -- specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter -- we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.\"\nTrump gave a long, raucous speech, in which he claimed election fraud, in front of supporters an hour before a mob stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6. This horrific siege took place during a joint session of Congress. After the violent disruption, former Vice President Joe Biden was officially certified the winner.\nTrump said: \"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country.\"\nDemocrats' intend to impeach Trump again because of his pre-Capitol building siege speech.\nGeorge Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, a Democrat, wrote: \"Like others, I condemned those remarks as he gave them, calling them reckless and wrong. I also opposed the challenges to electoral votes in Congress. But his address does not meet the definition for incitement under the criminal code. It would be viewed as protected speech by the Supreme Court.\" Similarly, Democrat and professor Alan Dershowitz wrote: \"Nothing the president said constituted unprotected 'incitement,' as narrowly defined by the Supreme Court over nearly a century of decisions. His volatile words plainly fell on the side of political 'advocacy,' which is protected speech.\"\nHow far does Twitter intend to take its policy designed to discourage \"risk of further incitement of violence\"?\nFor four years, Hillary Clinton, the failed 2016 presidential candidate, has called the 2016 election \"stolen\" while frequently describing Trump's election as \"illegitimate,\" only the result of Russian interference. \"I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used,\" said Clinton in 2019, \"from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories -- he knows that -- there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.\"\nSimilarly, in 2019, former President Jimmy Carter said: \"There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.\"\nIndeed, according to an August 2018 Gallup poll: \"Democrats widely believe Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign and that it changed the outcome of the election [78% say this], presumably by helping Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.\" Never mind that Jeh Johnson, Barack Obama's former secretary of Homeland Security, said in his June 2017 testimony before a congressional committee: \"To my current knowledge, the Russian government did not through any cyber intrusion alter ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results.\" Yet, Hillary faces no ban from Twitter, despite promoting a dangerous, divisive 2016 election narrative not supported by the intelligence community.\nIn 2012, then Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., stood on the floor of the Senate and knowingly, falsely accused Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, of not paying taxes. Reid later, out of office, bragged that he knowingly told this \"rich don't pay taxes\" lie to damage Romney's candidacy. It worked.\nReid remains active on Twitter.\nRon Fournier, the former Washington, D.C., Associated Press bureau chief, in 2015, publicly said President \"George W. Bush lied us into war in Iraq.\" True, the bipartisan Robb-Silberman commission found the intel leading up to the Iraq war \"dead wrong.\" But co-chair Laurence Silberman said: \"It is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.\" Fournier remains active on Twitter.\nFor four years, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter referred to President Donald Trump as illegitimately elected. Risk of violence, Twitter? Reid likely altered the outcome of the 2012 election with his Senate lie about Romney and his taxes. Risk of violence, Twitter? And \"reporters\" like Fournier insisted that former President George W. Bush sent men and women to face death and injury over a \"lie.\" Risk of violence, Twitter?\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 LAURENCE A. ELDER\nDISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM",
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On Sunday, Jan. 17, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Jane Pauley of CBS News
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On Sunday, Jan. 17, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Jane Pauley of CBS News "Sunday Morning." Pauley treated Harris to a full-on journalistic massage. At no point was Harris asked a tough question; at no point was Harris treated as anything other than an idol worthy of worship. Perhaps the most awkward manifestation of this sycophancy came when Harris -- an extraordinarily and transparently manipulative and mechanical politician -- spouted a canned speech about relentlessness. "I was raised to not hear no -- let me be clear about it," said Harris. "I eat no for breakfast!"
This prompted a spasm of ecstasy from Pauley, who immediately reflected Harris' bizarrely inappropriate laughter with an enormous grin of her own.
It will be four long years.
For four years, the media complained that outgoing President Donald Trump treated them as an enemy. They self-servingly claimed that they were actually the protectors of democracy and individual rights. It took all of one month after Trump's inauguration for The Washington Post to add the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to its masthead. By October 2017, CNN began running ads explaining that it was all about "Facts First."
Trump, for his part, attacked the media whether they deserved it or not: Every disparaging headline, true or not, became "fake news." That was unjustified and wrong, obviously. But the media's lack of credibility wasn't solely attributable to Trump. It resulted from their own journalistic malfeasance for years on end during former President Barack Obama's administration -- "his only scandal was wearing a tan suit!" -- followed by their aggressive repetition of even the most thinly sourced scandal regarding Trump.
And now we'll return to the gaslighting of the Obama era, when members of the Obama team could openly admit to lying to the media, only to receive obsequious praise in return. Already, media outlets are praising the newfound veracity of Biden's press team -- despite the fact that Jen Psaki, Biden's choice for White House press secretary, was accused of openly and explicitly lying to the media in 2016. Media members are even admitting that the vacation has begun: CNN's Jim Acosta -- and, ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta -- admitted that he'd be covering Biden differently, explaining, "If being at the White House is not an experience that might merit hazard pay ... then perhaps it is going to be approached differently."
Of course, Acosta never needed hazard pay. He was too busy declaring himself a hero and preening for the cameras while pulling down a lucrative book contract. But now that the Biden administration is a reality, our media can go back to sleep.
And so, the controversies of the day will turn to the trite. The big question won't be governmental oversight but media self-policing: Last week, the media were consumed with the vital question of whether Vogue magazine's cover of Harris is respectful enough, given that it shows her wearing her trademark Converse sneakers. Other major controversies to come will include just how cute Joe Biden's dog is and whether the racial diversity of his Cabinet is merely important or super important. Meanwhile, the same media outlets that act as stenographers for the Democratic Party will insist that other outlets meet with social media censorship. After all, American needs unity! And that unity can only be provided by the same people who have wrecked all pretense of institutional objectivity in the pursuit of partisan outcomes.
People will continue to seek information from alternative sources, of course. But that will only provoke the media to seek new methods of repressing those alternatives. As it turns out, the commitment of many in our media isn't to truth or facts. It's to monopolistic control.
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Many of President Donald Trump’s crooked schemes are so ill-thought that even his intimates cannot take them seriously.
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Democrats spent much of the last four years debating exactly how they lost to a fairly unpopular and flawed candidate like Donald Trump in 2016 and what changes they needed to make to avoid another defeat. They debated if they needed to be more liberal or more conservative on policy; if they should be principally focused on the Sun Belt or the Rust Belt, on voters of color, white voters with college degrees or white voters without degrees; if they needed to nominate more white men as candidates or more women and people of color; if they had to talk about race less or economics more.
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No To Policing the World | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War, when there was an antithetical global adversary in the Soviet Union
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No More Excuses: Dems Need to Take Sweeping Action | RealClearPolitics
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On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden's administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic...
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On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden's administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice -- unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday show lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack -- ventured into the White House press room to preview Biden's "equity" initiative.
With one possible exception, the specific policies announced were less important than the word "equity," invoked 19 times by Rice and nine by Biden. Ending federal private prison contracts, and strengthening relations with and combating "xenophobia" against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, are small potatoes as federal policies.
Not so, perhaps, with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing initiative, started under former President Barack Obama, repealed under former President Donald Trump and now due for spirited revival. The idea is for the feds to reverse local zoning laws and plant low-income housing in suburbs deemed insufficiently diverse.
Actually, racial discrimination in housing has been reduced since the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act, to the point that in metropolitan areas from Washington to Atlanta to Los Angeles, most blacks now live in suburbs, not in the central cities to which they were tightly confined in postwar America.
But for Rice and Biden, "equity" requires not equality of opportunity but equality of results. That's one of the fundamental tenets of critical race theory training banned by outgoing Trumpites and reinstated by Biden on day one.
A lower-than-population percentage of blacks in any desirable category, explains critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, must be the result of "systemic racism" (a term Rice used twice and Biden six times Tuesday). If you don't agree, you're guilty of "white fragility" and you must be a "white supremacist."
As Andrew Sullivan trenchantly observes, "to achieve 'equity' you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal."
This is exactly contrary to the central thrust of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It could easily be judged, in particular cases, to violate the 14th Amendment. Individuals discriminated against might have standing to go to court.
And there will surely be many such individuals. Rice made clear that the policies mentioned Tuesday are just a start. "Every agency," she said, with no suggestion of exceptions, "will place equity at the core of their public engagement, their policy design, and program delivery to ensure that government resources are reaching Americans of color and all marginalized communities -- rural, urban, disabled, LGBTQ+, religious minorities, and so many others."
That's a lot of preferred categories, but one suspects that, as in George Orwell's "Animal Farm," some preferred groups will be more preferred than others. What we're being promised is racial quotas and preferences in every conceivable program, in every possible corner of American life.
It may be objected that the United States is already well on its way to such a state of affairs. Racial quotas and preferences are firmly, almost fanatically, ensconced in higher education, at least in admissions to programs, if not in numbers of graduates. Corporate America's human resources departments, Kendi's most eager clients, revel in imposing racial quotas and enforcing "equity" orthodoxy.
Even so, something still sticks in the craws of most Americans about treating some people differently from others on account of race or ethnic identity. "You don't get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity," Sullivan writes.
Proof of this came from the unlikely precincts of California last Nov. 3. Democratic politicians under the influence of critical race theory asked voters to vote yes on Proposition 16 to overturn the 1996 Proposition 209 referendum barring state government, including universities, from discriminating on the basis of race.
Some $20 million, with corporate elites happily kicking in, was spent to pass this Proposition 16, versus only $1 million to uphold Proposition 209. Yet Prop 16 -- and the legalization of racial quotas and preferences -- was rejected by California voters 57% to 43%.
That's an even wider margin than the 55% to 45% by which 209 won in 1996, even though California has become far more Democratic since then: Bill Clinton carried the state by 13 points, Joe Biden by 29.
That suggests that the Biden and corporate elite project to create a United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences is in conflict with a strong underlying current of American opinion that favors equal rights under law.
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"On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden's administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice -- unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday show lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack -- ventured into the White House press room to preview Biden's \"equity\" initiative.\nWith one possible exception, the specific policies announced were less important than the word \"equity,\" invoked 19 times by Rice and nine by Biden. Ending federal private prison contracts, and strengthening relations with and combating \"xenophobia\" against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, are small potatoes as federal policies.\nNot so, perhaps, with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing initiative, started under former President Barack Obama, repealed under former President Donald Trump and now due for spirited revival. The idea is for the feds to reverse local zoning laws and plant low-income housing in suburbs deemed insufficiently diverse.\nActually, racial discrimination in housing has been reduced since the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act, to the point that in metropolitan areas from Washington to Atlanta to Los Angeles, most blacks now live in suburbs, not in the central cities to which they were tightly confined in postwar America.\nBut for Rice and Biden, \"equity\" requires not equality of opportunity but equality of results. That's one of the fundamental tenets of critical race theory training banned by outgoing Trumpites and reinstated by Biden on day one.\nA lower-than-population percentage of blacks in any desirable category, explains critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, must be the result of \"systemic racism\" (a term Rice used twice and Biden six times Tuesday). If you don't agree, you're guilty of \"white fragility\" and you must be a \"white supremacist.\"\nAs Andrew Sullivan trenchantly observes, \"to achieve 'equity' you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal.\"\nThis is exactly contrary to the central thrust of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It could easily be judged, in particular cases, to violate the 14th Amendment. Individuals discriminated against might have standing to go to court.\nAnd there will surely be many such individuals. Rice made clear that the policies mentioned Tuesday are just a start. \"Every agency,\" she said, with no suggestion of exceptions, \"will place equity at the core of their public engagement, their policy design, and program delivery to ensure that government resources are reaching Americans of color and all marginalized communities -- rural, urban, disabled, LGBTQ+, religious minorities, and so many others.\"\nThat's a lot of preferred categories, but one suspects that, as in George Orwell's \"Animal Farm,\" some preferred groups will be more preferred than others. What we're being promised is racial quotas and preferences in every conceivable program, in every possible corner of American life.\nIt may be objected that the United States is already well on its way to such a state of affairs. Racial quotas and preferences are firmly, almost fanatically, ensconced in higher education, at least in admissions to programs, if not in numbers of graduates. Corporate America's human resources departments, Kendi's most eager clients, revel in imposing racial quotas and enforcing \"equity\" orthodoxy.\nEven so, something still sticks in the craws of most Americans about treating some people differently from others on account of race or ethnic identity. \"You don't get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity,\" Sullivan writes.\nProof of this came from the unlikely precincts of California last Nov. 3. Democratic politicians under the influence of critical race theory asked voters to vote yes on Proposition 16 to overturn the 1996 Proposition 209 referendum barring state government, including universities, from discriminating on the basis of race.\nSome $20 million, with corporate elites happily kicking in, was spent to pass this Proposition 16, versus only $1 million to uphold Proposition 209. Yet Prop 16 -- and the legalization of racial quotas and preferences -- was rejected by California voters 57% to 43%.\nThat's an even wider margin than the 55% to 45% by which 209 won in 1996, even though California has become far more Democratic since then: Bill Clinton carried the state by 13 points, Joe Biden by 29.\nThat suggests that the Biden and corporate elite project to create a United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences is in conflict with a strong underlying current of American opinion that favors equal rights under law.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
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The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming | RealClearPolitics
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The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
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Left Moves Quickly to Consolidate Power | RealClearPolitics
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Hang on. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s wild scary ride for all of 2021.
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That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.
The death of a Capitol cop has enabled...
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That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.
The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left -- which spent the summer after George Floyd's death trashing "racist cops" and shouting, "Defund the Police!" -- to posture as fighting allies of the men in blue.
Liberals who implored us to understand the grievances of the rioters, looters and arsonists last summer have become sudden converts to the church of law and order.
Elites who had condoned the smashing of statues and monuments to Columbus, Washington, Jefferson and Jackson as a needed cleansing of our hateful history have declared themselves sickened that Trumpists would desecrate the temple of democracy.
Had it been antifa or BLM that carried out the invasion, not one statue would have been left standing in Statuary Hall, and we would have been instructed that it was slaves who had, after all, built the Capitol building.
The media is airing endless footage of the mob marauding inside the Capitol. Purpose: to plant indelibly in the public mind the fiction that this was the deliberate work of Donald Trump and his people, and our elites are the real adversaries of violent protest.
Indeed, to protect the nation from rightist uprisings in state capitals, this weekend saw the widespread deployment of the National Guard.
Sunday was to be the day the murderous violence of the right would manifest itself.
What happened? As The Washington Post reported Monday:
"Authorities in cities from coast to coast mobilized a military-style defense of state capitol complexes on Sunday, rolling out Humvees, concertina wire and thousands of National Guard troops clad in battlefield helmets to defend against a possible onslaught of rioters whipped up by the baseless claims of the American president.
"The assault never came. Despite warnings from the FBI and boasts from armed, far-right extremist groups, security forces in every instance outnumbered scattered groups of demonstrators, and there were no reports of violence."
In anticipation of Wednesday's inauguration, 25,000 National Guard have been deployed in and around D.C. to defend against right-wing mobs or would-be assassins. Three or four times as many troops are here in D.C. as there are U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined.
Now, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And better too much security than not enough. But even given the Jan. 6 outrage, to arm our capital city as though Stonewall Jackson's Confederates were going to march up Manassas Road and capture Abe Lincoln after the Union defeat at Bull Run seems a bit excessive.
Yet, Wednesday is a historic day. Trump will be gone from the White House and national power and responsibility will pass to the Democratic Party.
Democrats take over the House, Senate and White House. Virtually all major media will be in their camp. They will be welcomed in a city that has never elected a Republican mayor and has no Republicans on the city council, a city that voted for Joe Biden 18-1 over Trump. The 30,000 registered Republicans in D.C. are outnumbered 12-1 by Democrats.
The government bureaucracies here are as deeply Democratic as the "deep state" that bedeviled Trump for four years. Biden's Cabinet is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever; the majority of its members are women and people of color. Obama administration holdovers dominate the national security team.
Most of America's major cities -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis -- are run by liberal Democrats, and, coincidentally, all experienced surges in shootings and killings in 2020.
While the figures on the criminal perpetrators are rarely reported, it appears that not a great many of the violent and lethal crimes were the work of rogue cops or white supremacists in MAGA hats.
Other problems Trump failed to solve -- the pandemic now killing 3,000 to 4,000 Americans a day, the failure to get vaccines into the arms of millions of more Americans -- are now Joe's problems.
Calling Trump names will no longer cut it.
Now, Democrats must decide whether to proceed with the impeachment trial of Trump for inciting a riot that began on the Capitol steps as he was speaking a mile away, a riot planned long before the rally on the Mall.
Now, Democrats can choose whether they will forego extracting their pound of flesh as the first order of business in the Senate and let Nancy Pelosi sit a while on her impeachment resolution.
Now, Democrats have it all. If they wish, they can abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, make D.C. and Puerto Rico states, forgive all student debt, and vote for slavery reparations.
One reads that a caravan of thousands is forming up in Honduras to pass through Guatemala in the hope of reaching and crossing the U.S. border when Biden becomes president.
That, too, is Joe's party's problem now.
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Despite warnings from the FBI and boasts from armed, far-right extremist groups, security forces in every instance outnumbered scattered groups of demonstrators, and there were no reports of violence.\"\nIn anticipation of Wednesday's inauguration, 25,000 National Guard have been deployed in and around D.C. to defend against right-wing mobs or would-be assassins. Three or four times as many troops are here in D.C. as there are U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined.\nNow, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And better too much security than not enough. But even given the Jan. 6 outrage, to arm our capital city as though Stonewall Jackson's Confederates were going to march up Manassas Road and capture Abe Lincoln after the Union defeat at Bull Run seems a bit excessive.\nYet, Wednesday is a historic day. Trump will be gone from the White House and national power and responsibility will pass to the Democratic Party.\nDemocrats take over the House, Senate and White House. Virtually all major media will be in their camp. They will be welcomed in a city that has never elected a Republican mayor and has no Republicans on the city council, a city that voted for Joe Biden 18-1 over Trump. The 30,000 registered Republicans in D.C. are outnumbered 12-1 by Democrats.\nThe government bureaucracies here are as deeply Democratic as the \"deep state\" that bedeviled Trump for four years. Biden's Cabinet is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever; the majority of its members are women and people of color. Obama administration holdovers dominate the national security team.\nMost of America's major cities -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis -- are run by liberal Democrats, and, coincidentally, all experienced surges in shootings and killings in 2020.\nWhile the figures on the criminal perpetrators are rarely reported, it appears that not a great many of the violent and lethal crimes were the work of rogue cops or white supremacists in MAGA hats.\nOther problems Trump failed to solve -- the pandemic now killing 3,000 to 4,000 Americans a day, the failure to get vaccines into the arms of millions of more Americans -- are now Joe's problems.\nCalling Trump names will no longer cut it.\nNow, Democrats must decide whether to proceed with the impeachment trial of Trump for inciting a riot that began on the Capitol steps as he was speaking a mile away, a riot planned long before the rally on the Mall.\nNow, Democrats can choose whether they will forego extracting their pound of flesh as the first order of business in the Senate and let Nancy Pelosi sit a while on her impeachment resolution.\nNow, Democrats have it all. 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When Trump's Gone, Will Fascism Live On? | RealClearPolitics
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When Trump's Gone, Will Fascism Live On?
American democracy has demonstrated—barely—that it’s possible to oust a fascist leader. But it’s harder to oust a fascist populace when fascism lives on in the hearts of too many people.
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Biden Can Take Global Lead on Climate Risk Disclosure | RealClearPolitics
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Joe Biden's Big Tech Takeover | RealClearPolitics
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Good morning, its Friday, January 22, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Today, I will offer three,...
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Good morning, it’s Friday, January 22, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Today, I will offer three, all from the same man: United Farm Workers founder César Chávez. It is not a random choice. As of Wednesday, President Biden’s first day on the job, a bust of the great UFW leader is on display in the Oval Office.
First, though, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s lineup includes Martin Guri (City Journal), Ezra Klein (New York Times), Amanda Marcotte (Salon), and Julie Kelly (American Greatness). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors:
* * *
Biden’s Immigration Plans Face a Warming Public Reception. Brendan Helm and Craig Kafura cite poll findings that suggest the new president’s proposals could come to fruition.
Women Must Be Central to Biden’s Economic Repairs. At RealClearPolicy, Hollie Heikkinen and Patricia McKay argue that women have taken a disproportionate brunt of the damage inflicted by the pandemic.
Why Jan. 6’s Impact Will Equate to 9/11, JFK Assassination. Myra Adams draws parallels between the assault on the Capitol and two other cataclysmic postwar tragedies.
Say No to Credit Card Fee Price Controls. At RealClearMarkets, Eric Grover writes that making the payments industry a public utility would put a damper on innovation and consumer value.
Nuclear Policy and False Narratives. At RealClearDefense, Franklin C. Miller warns the new administration to carefully scrutinize progressives’ rationale for disarmament.
The 1776 Commission Report Reinvigorates the American Mind. At RealClear’s American Civics portal, Mike Sabo reviews a document that gives a detailed account of the principles our country was founded upon.
Dems Spell “Unity” C-A-N-C-E-L. J. Peder Zane urges Joe Biden to make good on his pledge to unify Americans by calling out progressives eager to smother viewpoints that differ with liberal orthodoxy.
If Men Were Angels. At RealClearWire, Colleen Sheehan says that free communication between citizens is the key to recovering national unity.
* * *
United Farm Workers union leader and founder César Estrada Chávez, whom I was honored to march with as a boy and break bread with as an adult, was born in 1927, two years before Martin Luther King Jr. Chavez was inspired by the Rev. King, and he adapted the language and philosophy of nonviolent resistance to the labor movement. Although the two never met in person, King admired Chávez and told him so in two telegrams. The first was sent in 1966, the year Chávez led the UFW on its famous march from Delano to Sacramento. The second arrived about a month before King’s assassination. “I am deeply moved by your courage in fasting as your personal sacrifice for justice through non-violence,” King wrote. “Your past and present commitment is eloquent testimony to the constructive power of non-violent action and the destructive impotence of violent reprisal.”
In that spirit, I offer three observations from César Chávez himself, courtesy of the UFW archives:
-- Violence just hurts those who are already hurt. … Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.”
-- “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
-- “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him. … The people who give you their food give you their heart.”
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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World Exhales as Madness of the Trump Era Ends | RealClearPolitics
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The Trouble With Alienating Middle America | RealClearPolitics
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Four Must-Read Books on Trump's Middle East Policies | RealClearPolitics
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WASHINGTON (AP) In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines through executive orders Wednesday.
The orders awaiting his signature target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. They also intend to conserve 30 percent of the country’s lands and ocean waters in the next 10 years and move to an all-electric federal vehicle fleet.
Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050, speeding what is already a market-driven growth of solar and wind energy and lessening the country’s dependence on oil and gas. The ambitious plan is aimed at slowing human-caused global warming that is magnifying extreme weather events such as deadly wildfires in the West and drenching rains and hurricanes in the East. But the rapid pace of change needed to stave off global warming also carries political risk for the president and Democrats overall.
“The stakes on climate change just simply couldn’t be any higher than they are right now. It is existential,” said former Secretary of State John Kerry, who is Biden’s envoy on climate change.
“Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry said at a White House briefing, referring to the global agreement on climate change that calls for voluntary emissions cutbacks by the United States and nearly 190 other countries.
In a change from previous administrations of both parties, Biden also is directing agencies to focus help and investment on the low-income and minority communities that live closest to polluting refineries and other hazards, and the oil- and coal-patch towns that face job losses as the U.S. moves to sharply increase its reliance on wind, solar and other other energy sources that do not emit climate-warming greenhouse gases.
The orders are aimed at “revitalizing the U.S. energy sector, conserving our natural resources and leveraging them to help drive our nation toward a clean energy future,″ the White House said in a statement before Biden signed the orders.
Still, Kerry and other other officials emphasized that the orders are also aimed at “creating well-paying jobs ... and delivering justice for communities who have been subjected to environmental harm.″
Republicans immediately criticized the plan as a job killer.
“Pie-in-the-sky government mandates and directives that restrict our mining, oil, and gas industries adversely impact our energy security and independence,″ Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“At a time when millions are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing Americans need is big government destroying jobs, while costing the economy billions of dollars,″ she said.
Biden also is elevating climate change to a national security priority. The conservation plan would set aside millions of acres for recreation, wildlife and climate efforts by 2030 as part of Biden’s campaign pledge for a $2 trillion program to slow global warming.
President Donald Trump, who ridiculed the science of climate change, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris global climate accord, opened more public lands to coal, gas and oil production and weakened regulation on fossil fuel emissions. Experts say these emissions are heating the Earth’s climate dangerously and worsening floods, droughts and other natural disasters.
Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb called the executive orders an “excellent start” for the week-old Biden administration.
“If this Day 7 momentum is representative of this administration’s 4-year term, there is every reason to believe that we might achieve carbon neutrality sooner than 2050,” even as key roadblocks lie ahead, Cobb said.
Biden and his supporters say the investment in cleaner energy national will net millions of jobs. But that probably will take years to happen, and the orders will face intense opposition from oil and gas and power plant industries, as well as from many Republican — and Democratic — lawmakers.
Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas drillers in Western states, said the executive order is intended to delay drilling on federal lands to the point where it is no longer viable. Her group pledged a legal challenge.
“The environmental left is leading the agenda at the White House when it comes to energy and environment issues,″ she said. She noted that the freeze would be felt most acutely in states such as Wyoming, North Dakota, Texas and Louisiana — all won by Trump.
A 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters was announced last week.
Biden is seeking to double energy production from offshore wind after the Trump administration slowed permit review of some giant offshore wind turbine projects.
Significantly, he is directing agencies to eliminate spending that acts as subsidies for fossil fuel industries.
“The fossil fuel industry has inflicted tremendous damage on the planet. The administration’s review, if done correctly, will show that filthy fracking and drilling must end for good, everywhere,″ said Kierán Suckling, executive director at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has pushed for the drilling pause.
Oil industry groups slammed the move, saying Biden had already eliminated thousands of oil and gas jobs by killing the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office.
“Do not be fooled, this is a ban″ on drilling, said Dan Naatz of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. ”The Biden administration’s plan to obliterate the jobs of American oil and gas explorers and producers has been on clear display.″
A 60-day suspension order at the Interior Department did not limit existing oil and gas operations under valid leases, meaning activity would not come to a sudden halt on the millions of acres of lands in the West and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico where much drilling is concentrated. The freeze also is unlikely to affect existing leases. Its effect could be further blunted by companies that stockpiled enough drilling permits in Trump’s final months to allow them to keep pumping oil and gas for years.
The pause in onshore drilling is limited to federal lands and does not affect drilling on private lands, which is largely regulated by states.
It would exempt tribal lands, mainly in the West, that are used for energy production. The Interior Department will continue to consult with tribes on both renewable and conventional energy resources, “in conformance with the U.S. government’s trust responsibilities,″ the White House said.
Biden also will direct all U.S. agencies to use science and evidence-based decision-making in federal rule-making and announce a U.S.-hosted climate leaders summit on Earth Day, April 22.
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The ambitious plan is aimed at slowing human-caused global warming that is magnifying extreme weather events such as deadly wildfires in the West and drenching rains and hurricanes in the East. But the rapid pace of change needed to stave off global warming also carries political risk for the president and Democrats overall.\n“The stakes on climate change just simply couldn’t be any higher than they are right now. It is existential,” said former Secretary of State John Kerry, who is Biden’s envoy on climate change.\n“Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry said at a White House briefing, referring to the global agreement on climate change that calls for voluntary emissions cutbacks by the United States and nearly 190 other countries.\nIn a change from previous administrations of both parties, Biden also is directing agencies to focus help and investment on the low-income and minority communities that live closest to polluting refineries and other hazards, and the oil- and coal-patch towns that face job losses as the U.S. moves to sharply increase its reliance on wind, solar and other other energy sources that do not emit climate-warming greenhouse gases.\nThe orders are aimed at “revitalizing the U.S. energy sector, conserving our natural resources and leveraging them to help drive our nation toward a clean energy future,″ the White House said in a statement before Biden signed the orders.\nStill, Kerry and other other officials emphasized that the orders are also aimed at “creating well-paying jobs ... and delivering justice for communities who have been subjected to environmental harm.″\nRepublicans immediately criticized the plan as a job killer.\n“Pie-in-the-sky government mandates and directives that restrict our mining, oil, and gas industries adversely impact our energy security and independence,″ Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.\n“At a time when millions are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing Americans need is big government destroying jobs, while costing the economy billions of dollars,″ she said.\nBiden also is elevating climate change to a national security priority. The conservation plan would set aside millions of acres for recreation, wildlife and climate efforts by 2030 as part of Biden’s campaign pledge for a $2 trillion program to slow global warming.\nPresident Donald Trump, who ridiculed the science of climate change, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris global climate accord, opened more public lands to coal, gas and oil production and weakened regulation on fossil fuel emissions. Experts say these emissions are heating the Earth’s climate dangerously and worsening floods, droughts and other natural disasters.\nGeorgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb called the executive orders an “excellent start” for the week-old Biden administration.\n“If this Day 7 momentum is representative of this administration’s 4-year term, there is every reason to believe that we might achieve carbon neutrality sooner than 2050,” even as key roadblocks lie ahead, Cobb said.\nBiden and his supporters say the investment in cleaner energy national will net millions of jobs. But that probably will take years to happen, and the orders will face intense opposition from oil and gas and power plant industries, as well as from many Republican — and Democratic — lawmakers.\nKathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas drillers in Western states, said the executive order is intended to delay drilling on federal lands to the point where it is no longer viable. Her group pledged a legal challenge.\n“The environmental left is leading the agenda at the White House when it comes to energy and environment issues,″ she said. She noted that the freeze would be felt most acutely in states such as Wyoming, North Dakota, Texas and Louisiana — all won by Trump.\nA 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters was announced last week.\nBiden is seeking to double energy production from offshore wind after the Trump administration slowed permit review of some giant offshore wind turbine projects.\nSignificantly, he is directing agencies to eliminate spending that acts as subsidies for fossil fuel industries.\n“The fossil fuel industry has inflicted tremendous damage on the planet. The administration’s review, if done correctly, will show that filthy fracking and drilling must end for good, everywhere,″ said Kierán Suckling, executive director at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has pushed for the drilling pause.\nOil industry groups slammed the move, saying Biden had already eliminated thousands of oil and gas jobs by killing the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office.\n“Do not be fooled, this is a ban″ on drilling, said Dan Naatz of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. ”The Biden administration’s plan to obliterate the jobs of American oil and gas explorers and producers has been on clear display.″\nA 60-day suspension order at the Interior Department did not limit existing oil and gas operations under valid leases, meaning activity would not come to a sudden halt on the millions of acres of lands in the West and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico where much drilling is concentrated. The freeze also is unlikely to affect existing leases. Its effect could be further blunted by companies that stockpiled enough drilling permits in Trump’s final months to allow them to keep pumping oil and gas for years.\nThe pause in onshore drilling is limited to federal lands and does not affect drilling on private lands, which is largely regulated by states.\nIt would exempt tribal lands, mainly in the West, that are used for energy production. The Interior Department will continue to consult with tribes on both renewable and conventional energy resources, “in conformance with the U.S. government’s trust responsibilities,″ the White House said.\nBiden also will direct all U.S. agencies to use science and evidence-based decision-making in federal rule-making and announce a U.S.-hosted climate leaders summit on Earth Day, April 22.",
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Republicans threw everything they had at holding the line in the Georgia Senate runoffs, but it wasn’t enough. The traditional political lines in the once ruby red state have shifted with the cities and suburbs now controlling political outcomes – and in this fateful year, they appear poised to hand President-elect Joe Biden the power to advance his agenda in Washington without Republican roadblocks.
In a repeat performance of the presidential election results in the Peach State, the substantial leads of Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler evaporated in the middle of the night as votes from Atlanta and its suburbs poured in. At 2 a.m. media outlets began declaring Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock the winner over Loeffler, as his fellow Democrat, Jon Ossoff, began building a lead over Perdue. That lead reached more than 17,000 votes by morning and is expected to grow throughout Wednesday.
The impact of twin Democratic wins, if both hold, is devastating to Senate Republicans and their ability to serve as a check on both Biden’s agenda and his ability to assemble a team of Cabinet picks and top-level officials throughout the federal government. Biden had waited to choose his attorney general until after the Georgia runoffs as he calibrates who can most easily win confirmation in the upper chamber. Now he can have far greater latitude in selecting his nominee for the nation’s top law enforcement official and many other positions in the new administration. The Democratic wins help smooth the way for two controversial nominees in particular: Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general who was tapped to become Health and Human Services secretary, and Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal Center for American Progress, named to helm the Office of Management and Budget.
Flipping control of the Senate also ushers in a new era in Washington and a changing of the leadership guard. The Democratic wins in Georgia will deliver unified Democratic control in Washington for the first time in a decade and give Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York control over the chamber’s schedule and priorities. Schumer will be the first Jewish Senate majority leader while Warnock will be the first black Democratic senator from the South and Ossoff the first Jewish senator representing Georgia. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will turn 79 next month and may have little desire to continue leading his conference with a return to the minority.
“Buckle up!” Schumer tweeted triumphantly Wednesday morning.
Biden put a positive spin on full Democratic control of Washington while campaigning for Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia on Monday.
“By electing Jon and the reverend, you can break the gridlock in Washington and this nation,” he said. “With their votes in the Senate, we’ll be able to make the progress we need to make on jobs and health care and justice and the environment and so many other things.”
If Ossoff maintains his lead, Schumer and his Democratic caucus can now put a number of their longtime legislative priorities to a vote, including a minimum wage increase, universal background checks for gun ownership, Obamacare expansions and the lifting of Trump-era restrictions on illegal immigrants. Because Senate rules now only require a simple majority when approving the appointment of judges, Biden also can begin to reverse the gains Trump and McConnell made in filling out the federal bench with conservatives.
During the Senate campaign, Perdue and Loeffler cast themselves as the last line of defense against a far-left socialist Democratic agenda. They predicted that the opposition party would try to pack the Supreme Court and grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico while stripping away Second Amendment rights.
But some Democrats cautioned that with the very slim new majority, centrists like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia would have increased power to block sweeping liberal goals, especially around energy and climate policy. Manchin vehemently opposes ending the filibuster, the Senate process that requires a 60-vote threshold to pass most legislation, and will likely block efforts to eliminate it. Manchin also has a long history of working across the aisle with GOP moderates such as Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah. When it became clear that Warnock would win and Ossoff would likely prevail early Wednesday, Manchin’s name began trending on Twitter.
Republican recriminations began before sunrise, with most blaming President Trump and his constant focus on election fraud allegations over the last two months amid spiking COVID cases and deaths, and more broadly, his chaotic four-year takeover of the Republican Party.
“Suburbs, my friends, the suburbs. I feel like a one trick pony but here we are again,” tweeted Josh Holmes, McConnell’s former chief of staff and a GOP consultant. “We went from talking about jobs and the economy to Q-anon election conspiracies in 4 short years and – as it turns out – they were listening!”
Even before any definitive results were in, Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and a Republican, said if either GOP senator loses, the blame “falls squarely on the shoulders of President Trump.”
Markets don’t like one-party control of Washington and showed signs Monday of unease about a possible Democratic takeover with a sharp sell-off that managed to mostly correct itself Tuesday with hopes of a bigger COVID relief package in play.
The prospect of full Democratic control has supply-side Republicans bracing for economic hits as they fret over Senate Democrats’ ability to use a 50-vote threshold allowed in the budget process to push through tax increases. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the leader of the progressive wing of the party who successfully pushed mainstream Democrats to the left in recent years, is in line to become chairman of the Budget Committee.
David McIntosh, the president of the conservative Club for Growth, predicted that repeal of the Trump tax cuts and additional tax increases will become Democrats “No. 1 agenda item” along with green-energy regulations that curtail U.S. energy production and exports.
“I think it will basically mean that we’re going to be stuck with the COVID economy” over the long term, McIntosh told RealClearPolitics, noting that the stock market should remain “exuberant” with more stimulus packages expected under Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, but jobs and corporate earnings could trail off as tax increases become law.
In the short term, Democrats will likely move to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for most families, up from the $600 checks Congress passed before its Christmas break. McConnell opposed the larger number, refusing to allow a clean vote on the proposal after Trump’s last-minute push, which put Loeffler and Perdue in a tough spot as they rushed to support the higher payments after voting for the lower ones.
“Joe Biden & the entire Dem Party were incredibly clear of the stakes here, starting with the $2,000. Checks and massive economic relief policies that put money and resources in the hands of the people,” Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, tweeted Wednesday morning. “They are going to have to deliver that, starting with the checks on day one.”
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That lead reached more than 17,000 votes by morning and is expected to grow throughout Wednesday.\nThe impact of twin Democratic wins, if both hold, is devastating to Senate Republicans and their ability to serve as a check on both Biden’s agenda and his ability to assemble a team of Cabinet picks and top-level officials throughout the federal government. Biden had waited to choose his attorney general until after the Georgia runoffs as he calibrates who can most easily win confirmation in the upper chamber. Now he can have far greater latitude in selecting his nominee for the nation’s top law enforcement official and many other positions in the new administration. The Democratic wins help smooth the way for two controversial nominees in particular: Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general who was tapped to become Health and Human Services secretary, and Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal Center for American Progress, named to helm the Office of Management and Budget.\nFlipping control of the Senate also ushers in a new era in Washington and a changing of the leadership guard. The Democratic wins in Georgia will deliver unified Democratic control in Washington for the first time in a decade and give Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York control over the chamber’s schedule and priorities. Schumer will be the first Jewish Senate majority leader while Warnock will be the first black Democratic senator from the South and Ossoff the first Jewish senator representing Georgia. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will turn 79 next month and may have little desire to continue leading his conference with a return to the minority.\n“Buckle up!” Schumer tweeted triumphantly Wednesday morning.\nBiden put a positive spin on full Democratic control of Washington while campaigning for Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia on Monday.\n“By electing Jon and the reverend, you can break the gridlock in Washington and this nation,” he said. “With their votes in the Senate, we’ll be able to make the progress we need to make on jobs and health care and justice and the environment and so many other things.”\nIf Ossoff maintains his lead, Schumer and his Democratic caucus can now put a number of their longtime legislative priorities to a vote, including a minimum wage increase, universal background checks for gun ownership, Obamacare expansions and the lifting of Trump-era restrictions on illegal immigrants. Because Senate rules now only require a simple majority when approving the appointment of judges, Biden also can begin to reverse the gains Trump and McConnell made in filling out the federal bench with conservatives.\nDuring the Senate campaign, Perdue and Loeffler cast themselves as the last line of defense against a far-left socialist Democratic agenda. They predicted that the opposition party would try to pack the Supreme Court and grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico while stripping away Second Amendment rights.\nBut some Democrats cautioned that with the very slim new majority, centrists like Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia would have increased power to block sweeping liberal goals, especially around energy and climate policy. Manchin vehemently opposes ending the filibuster, the Senate process that requires a 60-vote threshold to pass most legislation, and will likely block efforts to eliminate it. Manchin also has a long history of working across the aisle with GOP moderates such as Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah. When it became clear that Warnock would win and Ossoff would likely prevail early Wednesday, Manchin’s name began trending on Twitter.\nRepublican recriminations began before sunrise, with most blaming President Trump and his constant focus on election fraud allegations over the last two months amid spiking COVID cases and deaths, and more broadly, his chaotic four-year takeover of the Republican Party.\n“Suburbs, my friends, the suburbs. I feel like a one trick pony but here we are again,” tweeted Josh Holmes, McConnell’s former chief of staff and a GOP consultant. “We went from talking about jobs and the economy to Q-anon election conspiracies in 4 short years and – as it turns out – they were listening!”\nEven before any definitive results were in, Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and a Republican, said if either GOP senator loses, the blame “falls squarely on the shoulders of President Trump.”\nMarkets don’t like one-party control of Washington and showed signs Monday of unease about a possible Democratic takeover with a sharp sell-off that managed to mostly correct itself Tuesday with hopes of a bigger COVID relief package in play.\nThe prospect of full Democratic control has supply-side Republicans bracing for economic hits as they fret over Senate Democrats’ ability to use a 50-vote threshold allowed in the budget process to push through tax increases. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the leader of the progressive wing of the party who successfully pushed mainstream Democrats to the left in recent years, is in line to become chairman of the Budget Committee.\nDavid McIntosh, the president of the conservative Club for Growth, predicted that repeal of the Trump tax cuts and additional tax increases will become Democrats “No. 1 agenda item” along with green-energy regulations that curtail U.S. energy production and exports.\n“I think it will basically mean that we’re going to be stuck with the COVID economy” over the long term, McIntosh told RealClearPolitics, noting that the stock market should remain “exuberant” with more stimulus packages expected under Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, but jobs and corporate earnings could trail off as tax increases become law.\nIn the short term, Democrats will likely move to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for most families, up from the $600 checks Congress passed before its Christmas break. McConnell opposed the larger number, refusing to allow a clean vote on the proposal after Trump’s last-minute push, which put Loeffler and Perdue in a tough spot as they rushed to support the higher payments after voting for the lower ones.\n“Joe Biden & the entire Dem Party were incredibly clear of the stakes here, starting with the $2,000. Checks and massive economic relief policies that put money and resources in the hands of the people,” Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, tweeted Wednesday morning. “They are going to have to deliver that, starting with the checks on day one.”",
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President Biden either doesn't understand the damage he is doing to our communities or he doesn't care.
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If you are not a member of the ruling oligarchy, you can buy a stock only when it benefits the ruling oligarchy, but not when the oligarch shorted the stock and will lose money. In that case, you can only sell. They, the esteemed members of the system, on the other hand, can do what they want at any point to win the rigged game.
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A Democratic Agenda for Impossibly Hard Times
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Democrats will focus immediate attention on vaccine distribution, economic relief, immigration, restorative justice and addressing Trump's executive orders.
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Fox News Faces an Uphill Battle to Win Back Conservatives | RealClearPolitics
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Media Have Openly Embraced Advocacy Over Journalism | RealClearPolitics
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Media Have Openly Embraced Advocacy Over Journalism
The New York Times and other elite media outlets have openly embraced advocacy over reporting.
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There's No Argument Against Impeaching Trump Again | RealClearPolitics
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President Donald Trump is cruising toward history as the first president to be impeached twice. And no matter what you may hear about “unity” or “fanning the flames” from his somehow still loyal party members, there is no principled argument against impeaching Trump again; there’s only self-serving reluctance to accept the truth.
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What Should Be Done About Anti-Competitive Google? | RealClearPolitics
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Ignoring Concerns of Republican Voters Will Destroy U.S. | RealClearPolitics
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We are now almost one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first hit these shores. Why are the politicians' making the same policy mistakes today that...
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Coronavirus for Dummies
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We are now almost one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first hit these shores. Why are the politicians' making the same policy mistakes today that they made nine months ago? The 300,000+ deaths are an act of nature, but the virus's death and despair have been compounded by acts of man -- i.e., foolish politicians.
Haven't we learned anything about how to combat this virus without slamming shut our economy? Yes. And so, in the hopes that these errors of government are corrected, I present some well-established truths about how to keep us safe from the virus:
No. 1: Yes, COVID-19 is a very dangerous disease for those over the age of 70 and for those who are severely overweight or with preexisting health issues. For young and healthy people, the risks remain miniscule.
No. 2: Lockdowns have had very limited efficacy in reducing death rates from the virus. I recently examined the correlation between the stringency of business lockdowns in states and their corresponding death rates. The relationship is slightly positive. In other words, strict lockdowns have NOT been a smart strategy to stop the spread of the disease. Sequestering the elderly and the infirm is a much more effective strategy -- something New York, New Jersey and Michigan failed to do.
No. 3: The factor most associated with death rates from the virus is the population density of an area. Pandemics are primarily urban diseases. If you want to minimize your health risks, get out of the big cities like Chicago or New York.
No. 4: The only statistically significant impact of lockdowns is SEVERE and potentially long-term damage to the local and state businesses and workers. Another way to put this is lockdowns do not flatten the curve of the virus, but they do flatten the economy and put millions of Americans in long unemployment lines.
No. 5: Almost all of the severe lockdowns are in blue states with Democratic governors, and these are the states with very high unemployment rates. Here are the unemployment rates in blue states with severe lockdowns: New Jersey 10%, Nevada 10.1%, New York 8.4%, Connecticut 8.4%, and California 8.2%. These blue-state unemployment rates are almost twice as high as the rates in states that have minimal or no lockdowns: Nebraska 3.1%, South Dakota 3.5%, Iowa 3.6%, Utah 4.3%, and Alabama 4.4%.
No. 6: The blue states of America, led by Democratic governors and mayors, have tragically turned a health crisis into an economic crisis.
My New Year's wish is that Democratic governors stop the misery of soup lines and unemployment lines and small-business bankruptcies and open up their stores, restaurants, shopping centers and schools -- now.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Trump's Tumultuous Years Have Yielded Many Positive Results | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Failed to Erase Obama's Legacy | RealClearPolitics
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How GA Made Senate History: Dems Did Everything Right | RealClearPolitics
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Cleaning Up From Biden's Last Bout of Leadership | RealClearPolitics
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Cleaning Up From Biden's Last Bout of Leadership
Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria: the greatest hits of American Empire. When Joe Biden speaks of American leadership, perhaps he should look there first.
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5 Examples of Media Sycophancy for Biden in First Week | RealClearPolitics
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5 Examples of Media Sycophancy for Biden in First Week
The overall theme of the media's inauguration coverage centered on the premise that President Biden is in essence the second coming of George Washington.
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California Should Fire Gov. Newsom | RealClearPolitics
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Amid some of the most restrictive lockdowns in the entire nation, California is suffering an explosion of coronavirus cases. Los Angeles County records a new coronavirus death every eight minutes, but a new case every six seconds, a mathematical combination that means the worst is yet to come.
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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have spilled barrels of ink over mistakes by the federal government. We've heard endlessly about the...
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How Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans
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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have spilled barrels of ink over mistakes by the federal government. We've heard endlessly about the failure to quickly ramp up testing, the confusion over mask-wearing and the debates over proper lockdown policy. But when the history of this time is written, the fundamental mistake made by the United States government won't be rhetorical excesses by the president or conflicting public health advice. It will be the same mistake the government always makes: trusting the bureaucracy.
We now know that the miraculous Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 had been designed by Jan. 13, 2020. That was just two days after the sequencing of the virus had been made public. As David Wallace-Wells writes for New York magazine, "the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. ... By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial." Meanwhile, for six weeks, Dr. Anthony Fauci assured Americans that there was little to worry about with COVID-19.
Fast-forward to the end of 2020. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died. Tens of thousands of Americans continue to die every week. The Food and Drug Administration has still not cleared the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which costs a fraction of the other vaccines (about $4 per dose, as opposed to $15 to $25 per dose for Moderna's vaccine or $20 per dose for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine). The FDA approval process cost us critical months, with thousands of Americans dying each day. As Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University told me this week, "Safety is their eternal excuse. They are entirely a broken federal bureaucracy ... Why did we not have a combined Phase I-Phase II clinical trial for these vaccines?"
This is an excellent question, of course. Phase I trials involve small numbers of participants, who are then monitored. Phase II trials involve larger numbers. Huge numbers of Americans would have volunteered for a combined Phase I-Phase II trial. And even after we knew the vaccines were effective, the FDA delayed. Data was collected by late October that suggested Phase II/III trials had been successful. The FDA quickly requested more results, which it did not receive until November. It then took until Dec. 11 for the FDA to issue emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine. The Moderna vaccine wasn't cleared until Dec. 18, nearly a year after it had first been produced.
The disgrace continues. The government continues to hold back secondary doses of the vaccine, despite the fact that the first doses provide a significant effect. As Makary says, "We're in a war. The first dose gives immunity that may be as high as 80 to 90 percent protection, and we can probably give half the dose, as Dr. Moncef Slaoui suggested ... We can quadruple our supply overnight."
Meanwhile, states continue to be confused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on how to tranche out the vaccines. It took until nine days after the FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for the CDC to release its recommendations. Those recommendations were still complex and confusing and often rife with self-defeating standards -- even though it was perfectly obvious from the start that the solution ought to be based on age.
Americans have relied on the government -- a government supposedly comprised of well-meaning experts -- to get us through a pandemic. The government not only failed with conflicting information and incoherent lockdown policy but also actively obstructed the chief mechanism for ending the pandemic thanks to bureaucratic bloat. If Americans' takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic is that centralized government is the all-purpose solution, they're taking precisely the lesson most likely to end in mass death in the future.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Inside the 36-Year Biden & McConnell Relationship | RealClearPolitics
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The two 78-year-old deal-makers have been parties to the collapse of Capitol culture. Now they'll need to make Washington work again.
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| 2021-01-22T00:00:00 |
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"Inside the 36-Year Biden & McConnell Relationship",
"Inside the 36-Year Biden & McConnell Relationship | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-11T23:28:53 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
U.S. Can't 'Move Forward' Until Trump Faces Consequences | RealClearPolitics
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U.S. Can't 'Move Forward' Until Trump Faces Consequences
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U.S. Can't 'Move Forward' Until Trump Faces Consequences
He must be held accountable for his actions, or things will get much worse
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| 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
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"U.S. Can't 'Move Forward' Until Trump Faces Consequences",
"U.S. Can't 'Move Forward' Until Trump Faces Consequences | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-18T05:30:03 | null | 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
Biden to Start With Executive Actions, Aggressive Legislation | RealClearPolitics
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Biden to Start With Executive Actions, Aggressive Legislation
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In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his first 10 days on top of a big stimulus plan and an expansive immigration bill.
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| 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
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"In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his first 10 days on top of a big stimulus plan and an expansive immigration bill.",
"Biden to Start With Executive Actions, Aggressive Legislation",
"Biden to Start With Executive Actions, Aggressive Legislation | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-08T17:09:15 | null | 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy | RealClearPolitics
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A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy
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Yesterday's insurrectionist riot, incited by the President, was an outrage and a heartbreak for the millions of us who love this country and revere American democracy.
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| 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
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"Yesterday's insurrectionist riot, incited by the President, was an outrage and a heartbreak for the millions of us who love this country and revere American democracy.",
"A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy",
"A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-11T15:16:54 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
We Will Not Be Lectured To By the Violent, Anti-American Left | RealClearPolitics
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We Will Not Be Lectured To By the Violent, Anti-American Left
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Americans are expected to be aghast at the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6. A vicious mob of revolutionary Trump supporters, we are told, swarmed the nation’s capital and, in an act of insurrection, unlawfully entered the hallowed halls of Congress. Unlike the “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” that were reported over the summer, the media have been quick to claim that this was not a “mostly peaceful” protest (despite the protestors being, by any estimation, mostly peaceful), but the entire event is being categorized as a bona fide riot that had been fueled by Donald Trump’s irresponsible and untruthful rhetoric.
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| 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
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"Americans are expected to be aghast at the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6. A vicious mob of revolutionary Trump supporters, we are told, swarmed the nation’s capital and, in an act of insurrection, unlawfully entered the hallowed halls of Congress. Unlike the “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” that were reported over the summer, the media have been quick to claim that this was not a “mostly peaceful” protest (despite the protestors being, by any estimation, mostly peaceful), but the entire event is being categorized as a bona fide riot that had been fueled by Donald Trump’s irresponsible and untruthful rhetoric.",
"We Will Not Be Lectured To By the Violent, Anti-American Left",
"We Will Not Be Lectured To By the Violent, Anti-American Left | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-25T20:49:03 | null | 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
Trump Must Be Prosecuted for Crimes | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Must Be Prosecuted for Crimes
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Letting him off before we know the full extent of his crimes would be elite impunity at its worst
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"Trump Must Be Prosecuted for Crimes",
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[] | 2021-01-13T00:10:01 | null | 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
Sonia Sotomayor: Liberal Bully | RealClearPolitics
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Sonia Sotomayor: Liberal Bully
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| 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-25T20:47:27 | null | 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
Biden's Battle for the Soul of America Has Begun | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Battle for the Soul of America Has Begun
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Joe Biden identified six crises facing the country, but the challenges are deeper and broader. A good place to start would be to respond to the public's deep need for a sense of connection, of purpose, of meaning in their lives.
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| 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
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"Biden's Battle for the Soul of America Has Begun",
"Biden's Battle for the Soul of America Has Begun | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-19T06:16:20 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
Now Biden Has to Match Trump's Economic Record | RealClearPolitics
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Now Biden Has to Match Trump's Economic Record
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Now Biden Has to Match Trump's Economic Record
President Biden faces a tough challenge: The COVID-19 recession permanently downsized whole swaths of the economy.
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"Now Biden Has to Match Trump's Economic Record",
"Now Biden Has to Match Trump's Economic Record | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-12T18:43:32 | null | 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
Impeach Trump Again | RealClearPolitics
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Impeach Trump Again
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It is a dark day for the nation when the president's behavior forces Congress to hold him accountable.
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| 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
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"Impeach Trump Again",
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[] | 2021-01-29T12:36:01 | null | 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
GameStop Stock Shenanigans Lay the Wall Street Casino Bare | RealClearPolitics
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GameStop Stock Shenanigans Lay the Wall Street Casino Bare
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Regulators largely stood back and watched the bizarre rise of stocks in companies with uncertain futures, apparently driven by small investors determined to stick it to hedge funds betting on the companies to fail.
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| 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
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"Regulators largely stood back and watched the bizarre rise of stocks in companies with uncertain futures, apparently driven by small investors determined to stick it to hedge funds betting on the companies to fail.",
"GameStop Stock Shenanigans Lay the Wall Street Casino Bare",
"GameStop Stock Shenanigans Lay the Wall Street Casino Bare | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-07T13:23:04 | null | 2021-01-07T00:00:00 |
Preventing 'Trump 2024' | RealClearPolitics
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Preventing 'Trump 2024'
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Republicans and Democrats shouldn't agree on everything, but they should be operating from a shared reality. Only then can they devise policies in good faith, find broadly beneficial compromises, and protect US democracy from would-be authoritarians eager to exploit Americans' cognitive divide.
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| 2021-01-07T00:00:00 |
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"Preventing 'Trump 2024'",
"Preventing 'Trump 2024' | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-05T20:31:39 | null | 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
What makes the special election vote in Georgia historic is not just the specific issues or the specific candidates for the Senate who are on the ballot. As a...
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A Vote at the Crossroads
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What makes the special election vote in Georgia historic is not just the specific issues or the specific candidates for the Senate who are on the ballot. As a nation, we are at a crossroads in the history of America. And if we take the wrong road, we may never get back again.
If Georgia voters send two Democrats to the closely divided U.S. Senate, that will give the Democrats control of both houses of Congress, as well as the White House.
Senate Democrats' leader, Senator Charles Schumer, has already announced what he has in store, if the Democrats get a majority in the Senate. So has President-elect Joe Biden. And it goes way beyond specific policies. It includes institutional changes that can be permanent, and almost guarantee one-party rule in this country, as far out as the eye can see.
If more than 10 million people who are in this country illegally are given the right to vote -- and most of those votes are almost certain to go to Democrats -- that is a major new political reality that will be with us for generations.
In a democracy, a majority of the voters can change the government. But, by giving millions of illegal immigrants a vote, the government can create enough voters to get a majority. That is the opposite of democracy.
More important, it is irreversible. Nor is that the only irreversible institutional change the Democrats have on their agenda.
The Democrats' agenda, if they get a majority in the Senate, includes turning a city -- Washington -- into a state, with two Senators. It is no coincidence that Washington voters have been voting overwhelmingly for Democrats for decades. If the city of Washington gets the same power in the Senate as the state of Georgia or Texas, that is another major institutional change that is irreversible.
Among the groups likely to be hurt most by Democrats' dominance of both houses of Congress and the White House is the black population that has been the most loyal to the Democrats for many generations.
In some fields, loyalty brings rewards. But, in politics, any group whose votes can be taken for granted by one party may not have their interests taken seriously by either party. One party doesn't have to work for their vote and the other party sees little chance of getting it.
There is no more vital interest of black Americans than the education of black children. The whole future of the race depends on the quality of that education, more than on any other single factor.
In many public schools in low-income minority neighborhoods, most of the students cannot pass tests in mathematics or English. In some ghetto schools, nobody passed either test.
But data from New York and Washington show that most of the students in charter schools in these very same neighborhoods pass these tests -- often at a rate several times that in the local public schools.
You can get the data for New York City from the Internet web site of the New York State Education Department. Parents and others who care about the education of black children should check out how they do in regular public schools compared to how they do in charter schools.
When charter schools succeed where traditional public schools fail, that is welcome news to everyone to whom black education matters. But it is bad news to failing public school bureaucrats and to teachers unions, since charter schools attract students from unionized public schools.
There are more than 50,000 public school students on waiting lists to get into charter schools, in New York City alone. The education establishment is using every dirty trick in the book to keep those students from actually transferring into charter schools.
It is the same story in other cities across the country.
Another tactic is that, instead of trying to bring the other schools up to the charter school level, many politicians -- seeking teachers union support -- have been imposing laws and policies to bring charter schools down to the other schools' levels.
These politicians are almost all Democrats. President-elect Biden has already assured teachers unions that there will be no more federal money for charter schools. The Trump administration gave more than $9 million to a charter school network in New York's ghettos. Do not look for that to happen in a Biden administration.
Georgia voters have a lot of responsibility, not just for Georgia but for America, and not just for now but for future generations.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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What's at Top of Biden's To-Do List? Opening the Borders | RealClearPolitics
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Thursday was Joe Biden's first day in office. You can tell a lot about what people are about on their first day in any job, so and crushing our country's last remaining independent economic sector.
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The Trump Era Isn't Over | RealClearPolitics
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The Trump Era Isn't Over
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Could the Republican party mandarins, gathering once again in a mythical 'smoke-filled room', rig the 2024 primaries to stop Trump?
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| 2021-01-15T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-24T20:48:19 | null | 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
On Jan. 20, right on schedule and without interruption, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Yet all is...
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Reclaiming Common Ground: Racism, Kendi & the Capitol Riot
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On Jan. 20, right on schedule and without interruption, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Yet all is not well. That 25,000 National Guard members had been summoned to Washington to stand watch over the city’s streets and provide security for the inauguration testified to the distrust and anger roiling the nation.
On Jan. 6, peaceful protests in Washington, D.C., against the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election deteriorated into a violent riot, which culminated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol. The short-lived uprising stained Donald Trump’s presidency, inflamed the partisan anger raging for years through the nation, and deepened doubts at home and abroad about the stability of democracy in America. A judicious assessment -- of where we stand, how we got here, and of the principles that must guide the renewal of the great American experiment in ordered liberty -- is a paramount priority.
The storming of the Capitol deserves harsh censure. Those who committed crimes should be prosecuted. Yes, it’s true, as Trump’s defenders maintain, that at the rally preceding the riot the president said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” But it’s also the case that in much of the speech he revved up the crowd with reckless disregard for the impact of his vehement, rabble-rousing rhetoric. A week later, with no Democrats opposed or abstaining and with the backing of 10 Republicans, the House voted to impeach him.
Even as it is unequivocally condemned, the appalling January lawlessness must be perceived accurately -- neither sweeping its multilayered harms under the rug nor extravagantly casting aspersions and assigning guilt. The same goes for the violent riots of last spring and summer in cities from coast to coast. Also beginning in peaceful protests -- over the killing of George Floyd -- they spawned attacks on government buildings and widespread looting and burning of business districts resulting in more than a billion dollars of damage. It was the most costly civic unrest in American history.
In the first week of January, many on the left and the right promptly rose to the occasion.
In immediate response to the violence, President-elect Joe Biden stated, “Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America. Do not represent who we are.” Other Democrats joined him. “This is not the America I know and love,” declared U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence from Michigan. Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: “This is a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation.”
Republicans were by and large in agreement. “This is not who we are,” tweeted Rep. Nancy Mace from South Carolina, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said much the same. “We’re the United States of America. We disagree on a lot of things, and we have a lot of spirited debate … but we talk it out, and we honor each other -- even in our disagreement,” proclaimed Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma. “And while we disagree on things -- and disagree strongly at times -- we do not encourage what happened today. Ever.” Former President George W. Bush said, “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic -- not our democratic republic.”
In a bipartisan and bicameral statement, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Mark Warner, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, and Dick Durbin joined Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins, as well as Collins’ Maine colleague, Independent Angus King, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (a New Jersey Democrat) and Rep. Tom Reed (a Republican from New York), in affirming, “The behavior we witnessed in the U.S. Capitol is entirely un-American.”
Squarely confronting the breakdown of public order and the violation of our nation’s non-negotiable commitment to the peaceful transfer of power, these public officials and former presidents from both major parties summoned Americans to our fundamental principles and finest traditions. Consistent with the appeal from left and right to what is best in America, law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 eventually restored order in the Capitol. Congress, presided over by Vice President Mike Pence, proceeded with its constitutionally assigned responsibility to count the electoral votes and certify Joe Biden’s victory. The rule of law and constitutional government prevailed over mob rule.
In “Denial Is the Heartbeat of America,” which appeared in The Atlantic five days after the Capitol Hill riots, Ibram X. Kendi argues that the civil and unifying statements from members of Congress and former presidents reflect the determination, as old as the country, to deny “the history of American tyranny.” For Kendi, director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and best-selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” the assault on the Capitol was not a departure from American society and government but a representative instance of the country’s history of “carnage.” The bipartisan condemnations of the riots, according to Kendi, represent a bipartisan effort to conceal the nation’s systemic injustice.
There is no doubting the temptation to deny political reality in order to accumulate power and advance partisan agendas. Indeed, Kendi’s critique succumbs to it.
First, by insisting on a purely literal reading of the swift condemnations of the Capitol riot, Kendi denies the well-understood meaning of the utterances he purports to debunk. Those who said after the riots that “‘This is not who we are,’” he argues, are “in complete denial that the rioters are part of America.” The professor writes as if the members of Congress and former presidents were ignorant of, or sought to suppress, the record in the United States of incitement against, and violence targeting of, government. Kendi’s flamboyant recitation in his article of low points in American history does not prove his point, because the Democrats and Republicans whom he accuses of engaging in denial were not asserting that “antidemocratic politics are not part of American politics.” Rather, they were insisting -- and most who read or heard their words understood them to be insisting -- that antidemocratic politics violate America’s defining dedication to liberty under law.
Second, Kendi denies Americans’ readiness to confront their moral flaws as individuals and as a nation. “What’s also part of America is denying all of what is part of America,” he writes. The most egregious form of denial, he maintains, “is the regular structural denial that racial inequity is caused by racist policy.” Contrary to Kendi, however, racism in America -- with a focus on its allegedly systemic character and the supposed implicit bias that sustains it -- may well be the favorite and single-most-discussed subject in the country’s universities, media outlets, corporate boardrooms and human resources offices, and federal bureaucracies. One could reasonably wonder whether any country anywhere today -- or for that matter that has ever existed on the planet -- has more energetically engaged in self-examination and self-criticism of, and self-flagellation for, its sins, real and imagined, than has the United States of America.
Third, Kendi denies the significance of America’s founding principles. For decades, historians have been documenting and cataloguing -- and teachers have been featuring in the curriculum -- the nation’s transgressions, betrayals, and defilements of those principles, beginning with the protection the Constitution gave to slavery. Kendi goes further. “Sexism, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism,” he argues, should be viewed “as systemic and pervasive.” Accordingly, we must recognize that the attack on the U.S. Capitol is “precisely who we are” (italics in the original). By insisting that those transgressions, betrayals, and defilements of America’s principles are defining features of American institutions and the American spirit, Kendi obscures the primacy of the nation’s founding principles in correcting American injustices. A reasonably comparative and historical inquiry, however, would show that America is not distinguished from other peoples and nations by racism and other forms of bigotry -- which abound around the world -- but rather by the remarkable progress our constitutional regime has made in fulfilling for a large and diverse nation the Declaration of Independence’s promise to secure the rights inherent in all persons.
Kendi is not wrong to be outraged by racism or to shine the light on injustice in America, but his extravagant accusations undercut the common ground on which Americans of diverse persuasions can join together in defense of individual freedom and human equality.
The judicious assessment that is crucial to national renewal at this difficult moment must counter the interests and forces that fuel polarization. We can do this by recovering an understanding of the principles of freedom on which America was founded, and of the nation’s historic achievements -- and failures and setbacks -- in building a tolerant, prosperous, and pluralistic society.
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"On Jan. 20, right on schedule and without interruption, Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Yet all is not well. That 25,000 National Guard members had been summoned to Washington to stand watch over the city’s streets and provide security for the inauguration testified to the distrust and anger roiling the nation.\nOn Jan. 6, peaceful protests in Washington, D.C., against the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election deteriorated into a violent riot, which culminated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol. The short-lived uprising stained Donald Trump’s presidency, inflamed the partisan anger raging for years through the nation, and deepened doubts at home and abroad about the stability of democracy in America. A judicious assessment -- of where we stand, how we got here, and of the principles that must guide the renewal of the great American experiment in ordered liberty -- is a paramount priority.\nThe storming of the Capitol deserves harsh censure. Those who committed crimes should be prosecuted. Yes, it’s true, as Trump’s defenders maintain, that at the rally preceding the riot the president said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” But it’s also the case that in much of the speech he revved up the crowd with reckless disregard for the impact of his vehement, rabble-rousing rhetoric. A week later, with no Democrats opposed or abstaining and with the backing of 10 Republicans, the House voted to impeach him.\nEven as it is unequivocally condemned, the appalling January lawlessness must be perceived accurately -- neither sweeping its multilayered harms under the rug nor extravagantly casting aspersions and assigning guilt. The same goes for the violent riots of last spring and summer in cities from coast to coast. Also beginning in peaceful protests -- over the killing of George Floyd -- they spawned attacks on government buildings and widespread looting and burning of business districts resulting in more than a billion dollars of damage. It was the most costly civic unrest in American history.\nIn the first week of January, many on the left and the right promptly rose to the occasion.\nIn immediate response to the violence, President-elect Joe Biden stated, “Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America. Do not represent who we are.” Other Democrats joined him. “This is not the America I know and love,” declared U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence from Michigan. Former President Jimmy Carter agreed: “This is a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation.”\nRepublicans were by and large in agreement. “This is not who we are,” tweeted Rep. Nancy Mace from South Carolina, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said much the same. “We’re the United States of America. We disagree on a lot of things, and we have a lot of spirited debate … but we talk it out, and we honor each other -- even in our disagreement,” proclaimed Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma. “And while we disagree on things -- and disagree strongly at times -- we do not encourage what happened today. Ever.” Former President George W. Bush said, “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic -- not our democratic republic.”\nIn a bipartisan and bicameral statement, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Mark Warner, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, and Dick Durbin joined Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins, as well as Collins’ Maine colleague, Independent Angus King, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (a New Jersey Democrat) and Rep. Tom Reed (a Republican from New York), in affirming, “The behavior we witnessed in the U.S. Capitol is entirely un-American.”\nSquarely confronting the breakdown of public order and the violation of our nation’s non-negotiable commitment to the peaceful transfer of power, these public officials and former presidents from both major parties summoned Americans to our fundamental principles and finest traditions. Consistent with the appeal from left and right to what is best in America, law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 eventually restored order in the Capitol. Congress, presided over by Vice President Mike Pence, proceeded with its constitutionally assigned responsibility to count the electoral votes and certify Joe Biden’s victory. The rule of law and constitutional government prevailed over mob rule.\nIn “Denial Is the Heartbeat of America,” which appeared in The Atlantic five days after the Capitol Hill riots, Ibram X. Kendi argues that the civil and unifying statements from members of Congress and former presidents reflect the determination, as old as the country, to deny “the history of American tyranny.” For Kendi, director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and best-selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” the assault on the Capitol was not a departure from American society and government but a representative instance of the country’s history of “carnage.” The bipartisan condemnations of the riots, according to Kendi, represent a bipartisan effort to conceal the nation’s systemic injustice.\nThere is no doubting the temptation to deny political reality in order to accumulate power and advance partisan agendas. Indeed, Kendi’s critique succumbs to it.\nFirst, by insisting on a purely literal reading of the swift condemnations of the Capitol riot, Kendi denies the well-understood meaning of the utterances he purports to debunk. Those who said after the riots that “‘This is not who we are,’” he argues, are “in complete denial that the rioters are part of America.” The professor writes as if the members of Congress and former presidents were ignorant of, or sought to suppress, the record in the United States of incitement against, and violence targeting of, government. Kendi’s flamboyant recitation in his article of low points in American history does not prove his point, because the Democrats and Republicans whom he accuses of engaging in denial were not asserting that “antidemocratic politics are not part of American politics.” Rather, they were insisting -- and most who read or heard their words understood them to be insisting -- that antidemocratic politics violate America’s defining dedication to liberty under law.\nSecond, Kendi denies Americans’ readiness to confront their moral flaws as individuals and as a nation. “What’s also part of America is denying all of what is part of America,” he writes. The most egregious form of denial, he maintains, “is the regular structural denial that racial inequity is caused by racist policy.” Contrary to Kendi, however, racism in America -- with a focus on its allegedly systemic character and the supposed implicit bias that sustains it -- may well be the favorite and single-most-discussed subject in the country’s universities, media outlets, corporate boardrooms and human resources offices, and federal bureaucracies. One could reasonably wonder whether any country anywhere today -- or for that matter that has ever existed on the planet -- has more energetically engaged in self-examination and self-criticism of, and self-flagellation for, its sins, real and imagined, than has the United States of America.\nThird, Kendi denies the significance of America’s founding principles. For decades, historians have been documenting and cataloguing -- and teachers have been featuring in the curriculum -- the nation’s transgressions, betrayals, and defilements of those principles, beginning with the protection the Constitution gave to slavery. Kendi goes further. “Sexism, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism,” he argues, should be viewed “as systemic and pervasive.” Accordingly, we must recognize that the attack on the U.S. Capitol is “precisely who we are” (italics in the original). By insisting that those transgressions, betrayals, and defilements of America’s principles are defining features of American institutions and the American spirit, Kendi obscures the primacy of the nation’s founding principles in correcting American injustices. A reasonably comparative and historical inquiry, however, would show that America is not distinguished from other peoples and nations by racism and other forms of bigotry -- which abound around the world -- but rather by the remarkable progress our constitutional regime has made in fulfilling for a large and diverse nation the Declaration of Independence’s promise to secure the rights inherent in all persons.\nKendi is not wrong to be outraged by racism or to shine the light on injustice in America, but his extravagant accusations undercut the common ground on which Americans of diverse persuasions can join together in defense of individual freedom and human equality.\nThe judicious assessment that is crucial to national renewal at this difficult moment must counter the interests and forces that fuel polarization. We can do this by recovering an understanding of the principles of freedom on which America was founded, and of the nation’s historic achievements -- and failures and setbacks -- in building a tolerant, prosperous, and pluralistic society.",
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ATLANTA (AP) Georgia voters are set to decide the balance of power in Congress in a pair of high-stakes Senate runoff elections that will help determine...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters are set to decide the balance of power in Congress in a pair of high-stakes Senate runoff elections that will help determine President-elect Joe Biden’s capacity to enact what may be the most progressive governing agenda in generations.
Republicans are unified against Biden’s plans for health care, environmental protection and civil rights, but some fear that outgoing President Donald Trump’s brazen attempts to undermine the integrity of the nation’s voting systems may discourage voters in Georgia.
At a rally in northwest Georgia on the eve of Tuesday’s runoffs, Trump repeatedly declared that the November elections were plagued by fraud that Republican officials, including his former attorney general and Georgia’s elections chief, say did not occur.
The president called Georgia’s Republican secretary of state “crazy” and vowed to help defeat him in two years. At the same time, Trump encouraged his supporters to show up in force for Georgia’s Tuesday contests.
“You’ve got to swarm it tomorrow,” Trump told thousands of cheering supporters, downplaying the threat of fraud.
Democrats must win both of the state’s Senate elections to gain the Senate majority. In that scenario, the Senate would be equally divided 50-50 with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaker for Democrats.
Democrats already secured a narrow House majority and the White House during November’s general election.
Even a closely divided Democratic Senate likely won’t guarantee Biden everything he wants, given Senate rules that require 60 votes to move most major legislation. But if Democrats lose even one of Tuesday’s contests, Biden would have little shot for swift up-or-down votes on his most ambitious plans to expand government-backed health care coverage, strengthen the middle class, address racial inequality and combat climate change. A Republican-controlled Senate also would create a rougher path for Biden’s Cabinet picks and judicial nominees.
“Georgia, the whole nation is looking to you. The power is literally in your hands,” Biden charged at his own rally in Atlanta earlier Monday. “One state can chart the course, not just for the next four years, but for the next generation.”
Georgia’s January elections, necessary because no Senate candidates received a majority of the general-election votes, have been unique for many reasons, not least because the contenders essentially ran as teams, even campaigning together sometimes.
One contest features Democrat Raphael Warnock, who serves as the senior pastor of the Atlanta church where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. grew up and preached. The 51-year-old Black man was raised in public housing and spent most of his adult life preaching in Baptist churches.
Warnock is facing Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a 50-year-old former businesswoman who was appointed to the Senate less than a year ago by the state’s Republican governor. She is only the second woman to represent Georgia in the Senate, although race has emerged as a campaign focus far more than gender. Loeffler and her allies have seized on some snippets of Warnock’s sermons at the historic Black church to cast him as extreme. Dozens of religious and civil rights leaders have pushed back.
The other election pits 71-year-old former business executive David Perdue, who held the Senate seat until his term officially expired on Sunday, against Democrat Jon Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist. At just 33 years old, Ossoff would be the Senate’s youngest member if elected. The fresh-faced Democrat first rose to national prominence in 2017 when he launched an unsuccessful House special election bid.
Despite fears among some Republicans that Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud could depress turnout, the two GOP candidates have pledged fealty to the president. Perdue on Tuesday said that Trump would “of course” deserve the credit if the Republicans won.
“What the president said last night is, even if you are upset about all of that, you’ve got to stand up with us and fight,” Perdue told “Fox & Friends.” “We’ll look back on this day if we don’t vote and really rue the day that we turned the keys to the kingdom over to the Democrats.”
Democrats have hammered Perdue and Loeffler, each among the Senate’s wealthiest members, for conspicuously timed personal stock trades after members of Congress received information about the public health and economic threats of COVID-19 as Trump and Republicans downplayed the pandemic. None of the trades has been found to violate the law or Senate ethics, but Warnock and Ossoff have used the moves to cast the Republicans as self-interested and out of touch.
Perdue and Loeffler have answered by lambasting the Democratic slate as certain to to usher in a leftward lunge in national policy. Neither Warnock nor Ossoff is a socialist, as Republicans allege. They do, however, support Biden’s agenda.
This week’s elections mark the formal finale to the turbulent 2020 election season more than two months after the rest of the nation finished voting. The stakes have drawn nearly $500 million in campaign spending to a once solidly Republican state that now finds itself as the nation’s premier battleground.
“It’s really about whether an agenda that moves the nation forward can be forged without significant compromise,” said Martin Luther King III, the son of the civil rights icon and a Georgia native, who predicted “razor thin” margins on Tuesday. “There are a lot of things that are in the balance.”
The results also will help demonstrate whether the sweeping political coalition that fueled Biden’s victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new landscape.
Biden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast in November.
Democratic success will likely depend on driving a huge turnout of African Americans, young voters, college-educated voters and women, all groups that helped Biden become the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1992 to win Georgia. Republicans, meanwhile, have been focused on energizing their own base of white men and voters beyond the core of metro Atlanta.
More than 3 million Georgians voted before Tuesday.
The runoff elections come as Trump continues his unprecedented campaign to undermine election results across various states he lost. In a recording of a private phone call made public on Sunday, the president told Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to give him an outright victory in the state, even after repeated recounts, failed court challenges, and state certification.
Campaigning in Georgia on Monday hours before Trump’s visit, Vice President Mike Pence said he has concerns about “voting irregularities.” He has also repeatedly described Georgia Republicans as “the last line of defense” against a Democratic takeover in Washington, an implicit acknowledgement that the Trump has indeed lost the election.
Congress is scheduled to vote to certify Biden’s victory on Wednesday. In another affirmation of Trump’s hold on his fellow Republicans, Loeffler took the stage at Trump’s rally and vowed to join the small but growing number of Republicans protesting the count on the Senate floor.
“Look, this president fought for us,” she said. “We’re fighting for him.”
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"ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters are set to decide the balance of power in Congress in a pair of high-stakes Senate runoff elections that will help determine President-elect Joe Biden’s capacity to enact what may be the most progressive governing agenda in generations.\nRepublicans are unified against Biden’s plans for health care, environmental protection and civil rights, but some fear that outgoing President Donald Trump’s brazen attempts to undermine the integrity of the nation’s voting systems may discourage voters in Georgia.\nAt a rally in northwest Georgia on the eve of Tuesday’s runoffs, Trump repeatedly declared that the November elections were plagued by fraud that Republican officials, including his former attorney general and Georgia’s elections chief, say did not occur.\nThe president called Georgia’s Republican secretary of state “crazy” and vowed to help defeat him in two years. At the same time, Trump encouraged his supporters to show up in force for Georgia’s Tuesday contests.\n“You’ve got to swarm it tomorrow,” Trump told thousands of cheering supporters, downplaying the threat of fraud.\nDemocrats must win both of the state’s Senate elections to gain the Senate majority. In that scenario, the Senate would be equally divided 50-50 with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaker for Democrats.\nDemocrats already secured a narrow House majority and the White House during November’s general election.\nEven a closely divided Democratic Senate likely won’t guarantee Biden everything he wants, given Senate rules that require 60 votes to move most major legislation. But if Democrats lose even one of Tuesday’s contests, Biden would have little shot for swift up-or-down votes on his most ambitious plans to expand government-backed health care coverage, strengthen the middle class, address racial inequality and combat climate change. A Republican-controlled Senate also would create a rougher path for Biden’s Cabinet picks and judicial nominees.\n“Georgia, the whole nation is looking to you. The power is literally in your hands,” Biden charged at his own rally in Atlanta earlier Monday. “One state can chart the course, not just for the next four years, but for the next generation.”\nGeorgia’s January elections, necessary because no Senate candidates received a majority of the general-election votes, have been unique for many reasons, not least because the contenders essentially ran as teams, even campaigning together sometimes.\nOne contest features Democrat Raphael Warnock, who serves as the senior pastor of the Atlanta church where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. grew up and preached. The 51-year-old Black man was raised in public housing and spent most of his adult life preaching in Baptist churches.\nWarnock is facing Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a 50-year-old former businesswoman who was appointed to the Senate less than a year ago by the state’s Republican governor. She is only the second woman to represent Georgia in the Senate, although race has emerged as a campaign focus far more than gender. Loeffler and her allies have seized on some snippets of Warnock’s sermons at the historic Black church to cast him as extreme. Dozens of religious and civil rights leaders have pushed back.\nThe other election pits 71-year-old former business executive David Perdue, who held the Senate seat until his term officially expired on Sunday, against Democrat Jon Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist. At just 33 years old, Ossoff would be the Senate’s youngest member if elected. The fresh-faced Democrat first rose to national prominence in 2017 when he launched an unsuccessful House special election bid.\nDespite fears among some Republicans that Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud could depress turnout, the two GOP candidates have pledged fealty to the president. Perdue on Tuesday said that Trump would “of course” deserve the credit if the Republicans won.\n“What the president said last night is, even if you are upset about all of that, you’ve got to stand up with us and fight,” Perdue told “Fox & Friends.” “We’ll look back on this day if we don’t vote and really rue the day that we turned the keys to the kingdom over to the Democrats.”\nDemocrats have hammered Perdue and Loeffler, each among the Senate’s wealthiest members, for conspicuously timed personal stock trades after members of Congress received information about the public health and economic threats of COVID-19 as Trump and Republicans downplayed the pandemic. None of the trades has been found to violate the law or Senate ethics, but Warnock and Ossoff have used the moves to cast the Republicans as self-interested and out of touch.\nPerdue and Loeffler have answered by lambasting the Democratic slate as certain to to usher in a leftward lunge in national policy. Neither Warnock nor Ossoff is a socialist, as Republicans allege. They do, however, support Biden’s agenda.\nThis week’s elections mark the formal finale to the turbulent 2020 election season more than two months after the rest of the nation finished voting. The stakes have drawn nearly $500 million in campaign spending to a once solidly Republican state that now finds itself as the nation’s premier battleground.\n“It’s really about whether an agenda that moves the nation forward can be forged without significant compromise,” said Martin Luther King III, the son of the civil rights icon and a Georgia native, who predicted “razor thin” margins on Tuesday. “There are a lot of things that are in the balance.”\nThe results also will help demonstrate whether the sweeping political coalition that fueled Biden’s victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new landscape.\nBiden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast in November.\nDemocratic success will likely depend on driving a huge turnout of African Americans, young voters, college-educated voters and women, all groups that helped Biden become the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1992 to win Georgia. Republicans, meanwhile, have been focused on energizing their own base of white men and voters beyond the core of metro Atlanta.\nMore than 3 million Georgians voted before Tuesday.\nThe runoff elections come as Trump continues his unprecedented campaign to undermine election results across various states he lost. In a recording of a private phone call made public on Sunday, the president told Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to give him an outright victory in the state, even after repeated recounts, failed court challenges, and state certification.\nCampaigning in Georgia on Monday hours before Trump’s visit, Vice President Mike Pence said he has concerns about “voting irregularities.” He has also repeatedly described Georgia Republicans as “the last line of defense” against a Democratic takeover in Washington, an implicit acknowledgement that the Trump has indeed lost the election.\nCongress is scheduled to vote to certify Biden’s victory on Wednesday. In another affirmation of Trump’s hold on his fellow Republicans, Loeffler took the stage at Trump’s rally and vowed to join the small but growing number of Republicans protesting the count on the Senate floor.\n“Look, this president fought for us,” she said. “We’re fighting for him.”",
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If there was any doubt about the urgency of President Joe Biden's mission to tackle racial inequality, it was erased in the searing moment an insurrectionist rioter brazenly paraded the Confederate flag through the US Capitol.
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"Biden Aims To Tackle Another American Crisis: Race",
"Biden Aims To Tackle Another American Crisis: Race | RealClearPolitics"
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Madness Storms Capitol: It's Time for the Center to Stand Strong | RealClearPolitics
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The mob that stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon handed a huge gift to the very forces it claims to oppose. And while the roots of this madness were many, with some blame across the spectru…
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"Madness Storms Capitol: It's Time for the Center to Stand Strong | RealClearPolitics"
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Where Does Trump Go From Here? | RealClearPolitics
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Where Does Trump Go From Here?
President Trump's political funeral has been celebrated often before, and that bell has still not tolled. The idea that Washington, D.C., will return to the status quo ante is nonsense.
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"Where Does Trump Go From Here?",
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Democracy Trumps Trump: Confirm Electoral College Votes | RealClearPolitics
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Our View: Republicans planning to object to electoral votes from states where Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden threaten America's constitutional process
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"Democracy Trumps Trump: Confirm Electoral College Votes",
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The Dreaded Triumph of Socialism Looks Dangerously Real | RealClearPolitics
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Expect more government shutdowns, higher taxes, more open borders — all issues on which the Democrats are to the left of the American public
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"The Dreaded Triumph of Socialism Looks Dangerously Real",
"The Dreaded Triumph of Socialism Looks Dangerously Real | RealClearPolitics"
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I was 10 when my fifth grade classmates and I trudged through the snow to my house next to the school. My house was convenient for classes to watch historic...
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I was 10 when my fifth grade classmates and I trudged through the snow to my house next to the school. My house was convenient for classes to watch historic moments. It was before classrooms had televisions or smart boards or Internet streaming. And one year later, in that same knotty-pine-paneled basement rec room we watched in wonder and excitement as a voice counted down and John Glenn was launched into space.
But on this particular day, a cold January day, we watched, sitting on the floor. We fidgeted as 10-year-olds do. And a man a thousand miles away approached the podium. I remember noticing that many men on that platform wore top hats, which seemed very odd and old-fashioned. But this young man wore no hat. He spoke to us from out of that small black-and-white television before us: “And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you…”
Then, as the president sat down, a very old man walked to the podium. We did not know who he was. He had the most wonderful craggy face, the whitest shock of hair. He was hatless, too. But in that brilliant sunlight, the old man could not see clearly, could not make out the words of the poem on the white paper before him. On the spur of the moment, to rescue it and himself, Robert Frost recited from memory another of his poems the young president had told him he loved, speaking of America:
“Such as she was, such as she would become, has become, and what she will become.”
Last week, on another brilliant, cold January day, exactly 60 years later, I watched a man for whom I had worked for 26 years step forward and become the oldest president ever to deliver an inaugural address. I can’t describe the feeling – I was perhaps as much in wonder as I had been as a 10-year-old listening to the young John F. Kennedy. “We must end this uncivil war,” said Joseph R. Biden. “We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.”
A good friend, someone I admire a lot, shared with me “word clouds” he had created of inaugural addresses. In a “word cloud,” the words that are spoken most move forward as the largest in a cluster of words. It tells us in important ways what words were the most important to the speaker.
And I loved when my friend told me that the word President Biden used the most often in his inaugural address was a word of one syllable -- just three letters: “all.” Of course it was. Because Joe Biden will give his all. I know that. And he will care, night and day, to make of us the best we all can be.
Then my friend told me something that stopped me cold. He said, “Joe, guess what word Abraham Lincoln spoke the most often in his first inaugural address, on the day he faced the crisis of a country torn apart? The word was ‘all.’ He used the word ‘all’ the most.”
And why does that not surprise us? Then, last week we also watched and listened as the youngest poet ever to be chosen rose to recite an inaugural poem. Amanda Gorman, 22 years old.
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn't always justice
And yet the dawn is ours
In the days afterward, we search, dig, sift, trying to uncover words or a phrase to explain or justify the emotions we felt. It’s natural. But also futile. It reminds me of what Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton’s inaugural poet, once said: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
That is what I will never forget. How that young man, hatless in the cold, made me feel. How President Biden, whose courage I admire so much, made me feel. And how the boldness in the words and delivery of that remarkable young woman made me feel.
Looking back, if there is something Joe Biden has taught me, it’s this: It is always about family. And in Joe Biden’s world that means two things: There is nothing more important than family; and to Joe Biden, family includes every human being he encounters. All of us.
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Doctors are warning that as the virus becomes more infectious, even a trip to the supermarket with a mask is risky. Vaccine supply is not the problem.... The problem is that state and local authorities are bungling vaccine distribution.
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Democratic victories in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia have reopened a pathway for federal aid to states and local governments. These elections...
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Democratic victories in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia have reopened a pathway for federal aid to states and local governments. These elections produced a 50-50 tie in the upper chamber, which Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be able to break in favor of the Democrats.
“This has increased the likelihood that Congress will pass legislation providing federal assistance,” said Erlinda Doherty, director of the budgets and revenue committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
This bright prospect for the states comes against the backdrop of the impeachment of Donald Trump in the final days of his presidency. Democrats accuse Trump of inciting supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the electoral victory of President-elect Joseph Biden. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died.
Mounting Job Losses
Two days after this mob action, the Labor Department reported that employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, capping the worst year of U.S. job losses since World War II. In all, more than 9 million jobs were lost during 2020, including 1.4 million in state and local government.
This loss of government jobs reflected budgets that have been hollowed out by a precipitous decline in sales taxes and other revenues because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike the federal government, most states and cities are required to balance their budgets.
State general fund spending in fiscal 2020 is projected to decline $10.2 billion after nine consecutive years of budget growth, with greater declines expected in fiscal 2021, said Kathryn White of the National Association of State Budget Officers. This is the first state budget decline since the Great Recession of December 2007 to June 2009.
“Weakening revenue projections resulting from the COVID-19 recession led states to reduce general fund spending by 1.1 percent compared to fiscal 2020 and by 5.5 percent compared to governors’ budgets proposed before the pandemic,” NASBO said in its annual report on state finances.
The National League of Cities estimates the pandemic will cost municipalities $360 billion in lost revenue between 2020 and 2022. The National Association of Counties estimates a $202 billion budget impact during the same time period.
Because of the revenue gaps, these organizations joined with the NCSL and the National Governors Association in attempts to win congressional approval of up to $500 billion in federal aid to states, cities, counties and tribal governments.
The Democratic-controlled House in 2020 twice passed bills that included such aid, but the Republican-controlled Senate rejected them. Even after the state and local request for federal aid was whittled down to $160 billion in December, it remained anathema to Republican senators. Because of GOP opposition, state aid was dropped from the bipartisan $900 billion stimulus bill approved last month by Congress.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), noting that his state had borrowed billions of dollars in anticipation of an expected $20 billion decrease in state revenue, called this decision “unfathomable.” His criticism was echoed by the governors of New York and Connecticut and the mayors of New Orleans, San Francisco and other cities.
While Limited, Current Aid Package Will Help
Though states did not get the direct budget aid they were seeking, Congress did not completely abandon them. The $900 billion stimulus bill includes $7 billion in grants to states for testing and tracing COVID-19 infections plus $3.42 billion for vaccine development and distribution.
The legislation also includes $1 billion for technology modernization and fraud prevention in state unemployment systems. The latter provision is of particular importance to California, where the state unemployment system has been riddled with massive fraud and incompetence.
States and cities will also benefit from billions included in the stimulus bill to help education funding, public transit, broadband and rental assistance. The Fitch Ratings service said these provisions will help stabilize state and local budgets even without direct aid to state and local governments.
“However, the new bill’s ability to stem recent economic declines and related effects on tax revenues is not assured and depends upon increased business and consumer confidence, which is influenced by vaccination rates,” the Fitch report said.
This month consumer confidence has been jolted by the slow pace of vaccinations amid a surge of the coronavirus and by the Labor Department’s jobs report. This report “pretty much” ruled out the V-shape recovery Trump had predicted, wrote New York Times senior economics reporter Neil Irwin.
The leisure and hospitality sector, already reeling, was particularly hard hit, losing 498,000 jobs in December as governors responded to the surging pandemic with widespread shutdowns. As Irwin observed: “Consider what that number represents: countless restaurants, hotels, and performance stages and arenas shuttered; and hundreds of thousands of people back on the jobless rolls and unsure when they’ll be able to resume work.”
These shutdowns further reduced sales tax revenues, which account for nearly a fourth of state income.
Biden Pitches Massive New Aid Package
Help could be on the way from the incoming administration. Biden responded to the Labor Department report by saying that “there was a dire, dire need to act now.” To that end, on Thursday he proposed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that would include $350 billion in aid to state, local and territorial governments. The package, which would need congressional approval, would also include $1,400 checks to many Americans as well as boosting unemployment benefits by $400 per week.
Biden has been making similar promises since he was elected, but his chances of keeping them improved notably when the Democrats won the Senate runoffs in Georgia. The outcome should enable Biden to win confirmation of his cabinet and other appointments. But on a day-to-day basis, a tied Senate is not the same as one in which a party has clear control, wrote Richard Cohen, chief author of the Almanac of American Politics. Cohen pointed out that vice presidents have other duties than presiding over the chamber, and Biden has said he will make extensive use of Harris.
The last time there was a tied Senate — a five-month period in 2001 — Vice President Dick Cheney was called upon to break only two ties as moderate senators of both parties worked together to bridge differences.
If such cooperation occurs again in this more polarized era, a 50-50 Senate could be “perfectly tailored” for Biden, who served 36 years in the chamber and has promised a bipartisan approach, Cohen wrote in the Cook Political Report.
There are already tentative signs of such cooperation. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) played key roles in jump-starting the negotiations that led to the $900 billion stimulus bill last month. Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said on “60 Minutes” that he anticipates such cooperation in the coming Congress, mentioning himself, Collins and Manchin among senators who would try to find common ground.
Biden has promised increased federal spending on health and education programs and massive efforts to combat climate change and racial and social inequality. He has also pledged an economic development plan driven by federal investment.
What Would This Mean for States?
Biden’s vision, if enacted, is likely to provide states with more funding but it would also bring additional federal oversight, according to Deloitte, a consultancy.
The Deloitte report said Biden has proposed that federal transportation block grants to states be made contingent on plans for inclusionary zoning and that other federal funding be linked to state and local progress toward various environmental goals.
States and cities will appreciate the federal funding more than the oversight that will accompany it. But with coffers laid bare by the pandemic and business lockdowns, they will welcome whatever federal funding they can get.
This article first appeared in the State Net Capitol Journal.
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"Democratic victories in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia have reopened a pathway for federal aid to states and local governments. These elections produced a 50-50 tie in the upper chamber, which Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be able to break in favor of the Democrats.\n“This has increased the likelihood that Congress will pass legislation providing federal assistance,” said Erlinda Doherty, director of the budgets and revenue committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures.\nThis bright prospect for the states comes against the backdrop of the impeachment of Donald Trump in the final days of his presidency. Democrats accuse Trump of inciting supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the electoral victory of President-elect Joseph Biden. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died.\nMounting Job Losses\nTwo days after this mob action, the Labor Department reported that employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, capping the worst year of U.S. job losses since World War II. In all, more than 9 million jobs were lost during 2020, including 1.4 million in state and local government.\nThis loss of government jobs reflected budgets that have been hollowed out by a precipitous decline in sales taxes and other revenues because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike the federal government, most states and cities are required to balance their budgets.\nState general fund spending in fiscal 2020 is projected to decline $10.2 billion after nine consecutive years of budget growth, with greater declines expected in fiscal 2021, said Kathryn White of the National Association of State Budget Officers. This is the first state budget decline since the Great Recession of December 2007 to June 2009.\n“Weakening revenue projections resulting from the COVID-19 recession led states to reduce general fund spending by 1.1 percent compared to fiscal 2020 and by 5.5 percent compared to governors’ budgets proposed before the pandemic,” NASBO said in its annual report on state finances.\nThe National League of Cities estimates the pandemic will cost municipalities $360 billion in lost revenue between 2020 and 2022. The National Association of Counties estimates a $202 billion budget impact during the same time period.\nBecause of the revenue gaps, these organizations joined with the NCSL and the National Governors Association in attempts to win congressional approval of up to $500 billion in federal aid to states, cities, counties and tribal governments.\nThe Democratic-controlled House in 2020 twice passed bills that included such aid, but the Republican-controlled Senate rejected them. Even after the state and local request for federal aid was whittled down to $160 billion in December, it remained anathema to Republican senators. Because of GOP opposition, state aid was dropped from the bipartisan $900 billion stimulus bill approved last month by Congress.\nNew Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), noting that his state had borrowed billions of dollars in anticipation of an expected $20 billion decrease in state revenue, called this decision “unfathomable.” His criticism was echoed by the governors of New York and Connecticut and the mayors of New Orleans, San Francisco and other cities.\nWhile Limited, Current Aid Package Will Help\nThough states did not get the direct budget aid they were seeking, Congress did not completely abandon them. The $900 billion stimulus bill includes $7 billion in grants to states for testing and tracing COVID-19 infections plus $3.42 billion for vaccine development and distribution.\nThe legislation also includes $1 billion for technology modernization and fraud prevention in state unemployment systems. The latter provision is of particular importance to California, where the state unemployment system has been riddled with massive fraud and incompetence.\nStates and cities will also benefit from billions included in the stimulus bill to help education funding, public transit, broadband and rental assistance. The Fitch Ratings service said these provisions will help stabilize state and local budgets even without direct aid to state and local governments.\n“However, the new bill’s ability to stem recent economic declines and related effects on tax revenues is not assured and depends upon increased business and consumer confidence, which is influenced by vaccination rates,” the Fitch report said.\nThis month consumer confidence has been jolted by the slow pace of vaccinations amid a surge of the coronavirus and by the Labor Department’s jobs report. This report “pretty much” ruled out the V-shape recovery Trump had predicted, wrote New York Times senior economics reporter Neil Irwin.\nThe leisure and hospitality sector, already reeling, was particularly hard hit, losing 498,000 jobs in December as governors responded to the surging pandemic with widespread shutdowns. As Irwin observed: “Consider what that number represents: countless restaurants, hotels, and performance stages and arenas shuttered; and hundreds of thousands of people back on the jobless rolls and unsure when they’ll be able to resume work.”\nThese shutdowns further reduced sales tax revenues, which account for nearly a fourth of state income.\nBiden Pitches Massive New Aid Package\nHelp could be on the way from the incoming administration. Biden responded to the Labor Department report by saying that “there was a dire, dire need to act now.” To that end, on Thursday he proposed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that would include $350 billion in aid to state, local and territorial governments. The package, which would need congressional approval, would also include $1,400 checks to many Americans as well as boosting unemployment benefits by $400 per week.\nBiden has been making similar promises since he was elected, but his chances of keeping them improved notably when the Democrats won the Senate runoffs in Georgia. The outcome should enable Biden to win confirmation of his cabinet and other appointments. But on a day-to-day basis, a tied Senate is not the same as one in which a party has clear control, wrote Richard Cohen, chief author of the Almanac of American Politics. Cohen pointed out that vice presidents have other duties than presiding over the chamber, and Biden has said he will make extensive use of Harris.\nThe last time there was a tied Senate — a five-month period in 2001 — Vice President Dick Cheney was called upon to break only two ties as moderate senators of both parties worked together to bridge differences.\nIf such cooperation occurs again in this more polarized era, a 50-50 Senate could be “perfectly tailored” for Biden, who served 36 years in the chamber and has promised a bipartisan approach, Cohen wrote in the Cook Political Report.\nThere are already tentative signs of such cooperation. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) played key roles in jump-starting the negotiations that led to the $900 billion stimulus bill last month. Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said on “60 Minutes” that he anticipates such cooperation in the coming Congress, mentioning himself, Collins and Manchin among senators who would try to find common ground.\nBiden has promised increased federal spending on health and education programs and massive efforts to combat climate change and racial and social inequality. He has also pledged an economic development plan driven by federal investment.\nWhat Would This Mean for States?\nBiden’s vision, if enacted, is likely to provide states with more funding but it would also bring additional federal oversight, according to Deloitte, a consultancy.\nThe Deloitte report said Biden has proposed that federal transportation block grants to states be made contingent on plans for inclusionary zoning and that other federal funding be linked to state and local progress toward various environmental goals.\nStates and cities will appreciate the federal funding more than the oversight that will accompany it. But with coffers laid bare by the pandemic and business lockdowns, they will welcome whatever federal funding they can get.\nThis article first appeared in the State Net Capitol Journal.",
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Why Jan. 6's Impact Will Equate to 9/11, JFK Assassination
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A “benefit” to being an aging baby boomer is a historical perspective on catastrophic postwar tragedies that changed everything. By “everything,” I mean events that so dramatically altered the course of history in one 24-hour period that the “day after” ushered in a new era.
I would argue the following three dates/events fall into that horrific category:
Nov. 22, 1963: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Sept. 11, 2001: The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Jan. 6, 2021: The U.S. Capitol attack.
The latter is still raw and smoldering. There is much footage and evidence waiting to be reviewed. Many facts, villains, perpetrators, and collaborators are to be determined, with more arrests sure to come. Figuratively, tidal waves continue to crash on the shores of the Potomac from this political tsunami — an insurrection incited by former President Trump against a co-equal branch of government and his loyal vice president. Have we met the enemy, and he is “us,” chanting “USA, USA”?
The Capitol remains a fortress and a crime scene. Hence, it is too early for grand conclusions about precisely how Jan. 6 will alter and impact U.S. history, except to say that it will. As points of comparison, let’s revisit JFK’s death and Sept.11, 2001.
JFK Assassination
On the day John Kennedy was shot, I was a third-grader in Needham, Mass., a suburb of his Boston hometown. Seared into my memory is watching a classroom television when Walter Cronkite announced, “President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time.”
Two days later, another mind-branded memory took root. Watched live by most Americans, alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot by Jack Ruby.
Years ago, veteran CBS journalist Bob Schieffer famously wrote that the JFK killing was “when America lost its innocence.” He explained, “As the entire nation watched in horror and shock as the events of that weekend unfolded on television in real-time — the FIRST time that had ever happened — our national confidence was shaken to the core.”
While JFK’s untimely death gripped the nation in unified mourning, newly sworn-in President Lyndon Johnson vowed to continue Kennedy’s visions for a better and more equal America. JFK’s passing, coupled with Johnson’s political savvy as a former Senate majority leader, resulted in numerous groundbreaking legislative achievements and social programs under the “Great Society” umbrella. The first was the landmark Civil Rights Act, signed on July 2, 1964. Now-familiar programs such as Medicare and Medicaid became law the following year.
Although Kennedy’s violent death negatively impacted Americans of all ages, few were more affected than the first wave of baby boomers, then in their teens. Less than three months later, a performance phenomenon united and infused the nation’s youth with new hope and turned the tide of their mourning. The Beatles made their U.S. debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Feb. 9, 1964. They were watched by 45.3% of households — 73 million Americans. The “Fab Four’s” music helped spark the period of cultural/social changes and political upheaval we now speak of simply as “the sixties.” But the first domino fell with the violence of Nov. 22, 1963.
Sept. 11, 2001
On a sunny September morning 38 years later, “everything” changed again.
Four commercial airliners loaded with fuel for their east to west journeys across the U.S. were hijacked and turned into suicide missiles by 19 Islamic terrorists. The attacks targeting America’s most iconic financial, military, and government buildings took nearly 3,000 lives and launched the “Global War on Terror.”
Although Congress had not “officially” declared war, enabling legislation granted President George W. Bush all the authority and resources needed to conduct operations abroad and at home. Most notable was the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), signed on Sept. 18, 2001, and soon followed by the Patriot Act on Oct. 26. The attacks also facilitated a massive government reorganization that, for starters, birthed the Department of Homeland Security. Moreover, significant flaws in the nation’s vast web of intelligence agencies, which had led to a failure to “connect the dots” and share information, were exposed.
Collectively, Americans had never been more unified in their patriotism and outrage. Meanwhile, however, amid the fear of more attacks was apprehension about lost privacy and personal data collection.
All Americans were impacted by tighter security measures, especially on planes and in airports. Furthermore, thousands of young men and women were motivated to join the military and fight back. What now are called “endless wars” began first in Afghanistan, followed by Iraq.
As with JFK’s assassination, most of us will always remember where we were upon hearing the catastrophic news of Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, American life forever changed as we were all infused with an awareness of terrorist threats embodied in the popular, actionable slogan “See something, say something.”
Jan. 6, 2021
This was the first time the Capitol had been attacked since the War of 1812.
Though facts and fallout from Jan. 6 are still unfolding, over time that date will equate to 9/11 with its potential for long-term political consequences, policy changes, legislative action, and national vulnerability.
To best frame the discussion, what follows are questions that eventually will be answered – some within weeks, others in months. Still others will take considerably longer.
--How will we label Jan. 6, 2021? Will it be known as the Capitol Hill Siege? Will it be “officially” remembered each year with solemnity?
--Did the attack prove that our democracy is fragile or strong? Remember, later that evening Congress reconvened and certified the Electoral College results for Joe Biden’s victory. The following Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump. This Wednesday, Biden’s inauguration went smoothly, though the Capitol was turned into an armed fortress. Three consecutive Wednesdays in January that a fiction writer could never have imagined.
--When will the Capitol building and grounds get back to normal levels of security? Or will there forever be a “new normal”?
--What was the root cause of the attack? Increasing white nationalism that turned into domestic terrorism? Overzealous mobs egged on by Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was “stolen” and could be overturned on Jan. 6?
--Will there be any long-term impact on the Republican Party? What happens to the ambitious careers of two Jan. 6 “ringleaders,” Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley?
--Will Trump be convicted in the Senate for inciting an insurrection? If not, does that “weaken” the Constitution’s impeachment clause?
--How will Jan. 6 impact Trump’s “brand” in the short term? What about his legacy?
--In the future, will the losing party be more apt to challenge presidential elections?
--How will the Jan. 6 events impact Joe Biden’s presidency in the first 100 days when a Senate trial is likely to be convened?
--How was the Capital so easily breached on Jan. 6? Did the mob have inside help?
--How many Capitol attackers will be convicted?
--Will there be fallout for Christians considering the appalling footage of Capitol attackers praying in the name of Jesus in the House chamber?
--How will Jan. 6 impact the ongoing debate about free speech and the power of tech giants to de-platform social media accounts?
--Will there be a congressionally authorized “January 6 Commission” similar to the 9/11 Commission? Will it have separate Republican and Democrat conclusions?
--Given the haste of Trump’s second impeachment, will that tool be used more frequently by the opposing party against future presidents?
So many questions, so many complicated answers (where any can be discerned).
The passing of time will clarify the issues and concerns unleashed by the Capitol attack. That understanding will then translate into steps sure to shape our national identity and impact political discourse well into the 21st century. As with 11/22/63 and 9/11/01, 1/6/21 will echo long in our lives.
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"A “benefit” to being an aging baby boomer is a historical perspective on catastrophic postwar tragedies that changed everything. By “everything,” I mean events that so dramatically altered the course of history in one 24-hour period that the “day after” ushered in a new era.\nI would argue the following three dates/events fall into that horrific category:\nNov. 22, 1963: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.\nSept. 11, 2001: The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.\nJan. 6, 2021: The U.S. Capitol attack.\nThe latter is still raw and smoldering. There is much footage and evidence waiting to be reviewed. Many facts, villains, perpetrators, and collaborators are to be determined, with more arrests sure to come. Figuratively, tidal waves continue to crash on the shores of the Potomac from this political tsunami — an insurrection incited by former President Trump against a co-equal branch of government and his loyal vice president. Have we met the enemy, and he is “us,” chanting “USA, USA”?\nThe Capitol remains a fortress and a crime scene. Hence, it is too early for grand conclusions about precisely how Jan. 6 will alter and impact U.S. history, except to say that it will. As points of comparison, let’s revisit JFK’s death and Sept.11, 2001.\nJFK Assassination\nOn the day John Kennedy was shot, I was a third-grader in Needham, Mass., a suburb of his Boston hometown. Seared into my memory is watching a classroom television when Walter Cronkite announced, “President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time.”\nTwo days later, another mind-branded memory took root. Watched live by most Americans, alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot by Jack Ruby.\nYears ago, veteran CBS journalist Bob Schieffer famously wrote that the JFK killing was “when America lost its innocence.” He explained, “As the entire nation watched in horror and shock as the events of that weekend unfolded on television in real-time — the FIRST time that had ever happened — our national confidence was shaken to the core.”\nWhile JFK’s untimely death gripped the nation in unified mourning, newly sworn-in President Lyndon Johnson vowed to continue Kennedy’s visions for a better and more equal America. JFK’s passing, coupled with Johnson’s political savvy as a former Senate majority leader, resulted in numerous groundbreaking legislative achievements and social programs under the “Great Society” umbrella. The first was the landmark Civil Rights Act, signed on July 2, 1964. Now-familiar programs such as Medicare and Medicaid became law the following year.\nAlthough Kennedy’s violent death negatively impacted Americans of all ages, few were more affected than the first wave of baby boomers, then in their teens. Less than three months later, a performance phenomenon united and infused the nation’s youth with new hope and turned the tide of their mourning. The Beatles made their U.S. debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Feb. 9, 1964. They were watched by 45.3% of households — 73 million Americans. The “Fab Four’s” music helped spark the period of cultural/social changes and political upheaval we now speak of simply as “the sixties.” But the first domino fell with the violence of Nov. 22, 1963.\nSept. 11, 2001\nOn a sunny September morning 38 years later, “everything” changed again.\nFour commercial airliners loaded with fuel for their east to west journeys across the U.S. were hijacked and turned into suicide missiles by 19 Islamic terrorists. The attacks targeting America’s most iconic financial, military, and government buildings took nearly 3,000 lives and launched the “Global War on Terror.”\nAlthough Congress had not “officially” declared war, enabling legislation granted President George W. Bush all the authority and resources needed to conduct operations abroad and at home. Most notable was the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), signed on Sept. 18, 2001, and soon followed by the Patriot Act on Oct. 26. The attacks also facilitated a massive government reorganization that, for starters, birthed the Department of Homeland Security. Moreover, significant flaws in the nation’s vast web of intelligence agencies, which had led to a failure to “connect the dots” and share information, were exposed.\nCollectively, Americans had never been more unified in their patriotism and outrage. Meanwhile, however, amid the fear of more attacks was apprehension about lost privacy and personal data collection.\nAll Americans were impacted by tighter security measures, especially on planes and in airports. Furthermore, thousands of young men and women were motivated to join the military and fight back. What now are called “endless wars” began first in Afghanistan, followed by Iraq.\nAs with JFK’s assassination, most of us will always remember where we were upon hearing the catastrophic news of Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, American life forever changed as we were all infused with an awareness of terrorist threats embodied in the popular, actionable slogan “See something, say something.”\nJan. 6, 2021\nThis was the first time the Capitol had been attacked since the War of 1812.\nThough facts and fallout from Jan. 6 are still unfolding, over time that date will equate to 9/11 with its potential for long-term political consequences, policy changes, legislative action, and national vulnerability.\nTo best frame the discussion, what follows are questions that eventually will be answered – some within weeks, others in months. Still others will take considerably longer.\n--How will we label Jan. 6, 2021? Will it be known as the Capitol Hill Siege? Will it be “officially” remembered each year with solemnity?\n--Did the attack prove that our democracy is fragile or strong? Remember, later that evening Congress reconvened and certified the Electoral College results for Joe Biden’s victory. The following Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump. This Wednesday, Biden’s inauguration went smoothly, though the Capitol was turned into an armed fortress. Three consecutive Wednesdays in January that a fiction writer could never have imagined.\n--When will the Capitol building and grounds get back to normal levels of security? Or will there forever be a “new normal”?\n--What was the root cause of the attack? Increasing white nationalism that turned into domestic terrorism? Overzealous mobs egged on by Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was “stolen” and could be overturned on Jan. 6?\n--Will there be any long-term impact on the Republican Party? What happens to the ambitious careers of two Jan. 6 “ringleaders,” Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley?\n--Will Trump be convicted in the Senate for inciting an insurrection? If not, does that “weaken” the Constitution’s impeachment clause?\n--How will Jan. 6 impact Trump’s “brand” in the short term? What about his legacy?\n--In the future, will the losing party be more apt to challenge presidential elections?\n--How will the Jan. 6 events impact Joe Biden’s presidency in the first 100 days when a Senate trial is likely to be convened?\n--How was the Capital so easily breached on Jan. 6? Did the mob have inside help?\n--How many Capitol attackers will be convicted?\n--Will there be fallout for Christians considering the appalling footage of Capitol attackers praying in the name of Jesus in the House chamber?\n--How will Jan. 6 impact the ongoing debate about free speech and the power of tech giants to de-platform social media accounts?\n--Will there be a congressionally authorized “January 6 Commission” similar to the 9/11 Commission? Will it have separate Republican and Democrat conclusions?\n--Given the haste of Trump’s second impeachment, will that tool be used more frequently by the opposing party against future presidents?\nSo many questions, so many complicated answers (where any can be discerned).\nThe passing of time will clarify the issues and concerns unleashed by the Capitol attack. That understanding will then translate into steps sure to shape our national identity and impact political discourse well into the 21st century. As with 11/22/63 and 9/11/01, 1/6/21 will echo long in our lives.",
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