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One day before President Bidens inauguration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the determination that Chinas treatment of Muslim Uighurs and other...
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Uighur Advocates: Will Biden Actions Match Words on 'Genocide'?
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One day before President Biden’s inauguration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the determination that China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs and other minority groups in the country’s western Xinjiang region should be officially recognized as attempted genocide.
Although the designation was at least two years in the making, it was in part a direct response to new information documented by the Associated Press and humanitarian groups last summer. The AP investigation, based on state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees and a former detention camp instructor, found that the Chinese government has been using forced sterilization, abortions, and forced birth control to reduce its Muslim population -- even as it encouraged the country’s Han majority to have more children.
Some religious freedom experts believe that Pompeo, who has led the international charge against China over its persecution and internment of Uighurs, was intentionally trying to tie the incoming Biden administration’s hands regarding its China policy.
But if the new administration feels boxed in by the move, it isn’t showing it – at least not yet.
Human rights activists, who are closely watching for signs that Biden will maintain the Trump administration’s commitment to curbing religious persecution around the world, are impressed with early messaging from his top foreign policy officials. The true test, they add, will be how these early words translate into policy.
New Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whom the Senate confirmed Tuesday, testified last week that President Trump was “right in taking a tougher approach to China,” although Blinken said he disagreed with many of the ways Trump went about it. When it comes to Pompeo’s classification of China’s treatment of the Uighurs as “genocide,” however, the incoming chief diplomat didn’t hesitate. In his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Blinken said that he and Pompeo are “very much in agreement” over the designation. “That would be my judgment as well,” he added.
President Biden has lambasted the Trump administration for leaving it with a COVID vaccine “mess” and the pandemic’s related job losses and evictions crises, but when it comes to China’s human rights abuses, the new commander-in-chief has closed ranks with his predecessor.
Late last week, the White House issued its strongest statement of unity with Trump policy to date after China slapped sanctions on 28 former administration officials, including Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, who Beijing said “gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs” and “seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden-Harris administration views China’s sanctions as an “unproductive and cynical” attempt to play one administration against the other and urged all Americans to condemn it.
“President Biden looks forward to working with leaders in both parties to position America to out-compete China,” she said.
Regarding the systemic persecutions of China’s Uighur population, Blinken was echoing his boss’s previously stated position. Back in August, Biden took an unequivocal stance.
“The unspeakable oppression that Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have suffered at the hands of China’s authoritarian government is genocide, and Joe Biden stands against it in the strongest terms,” his campaign said in a statement.
Blinken took it further last week, saying he would look for ways to follow up on the previous administration’s genocide determination, including the possible step of banning exports to China of any goods -- such as surveillance equipment -- the government can use against the Uighurs, along with imports from China of any goods made with forced Uighur labor.
The issue of imports is especially sensitive because forced Uighur labor has been linked to popular U.S. clothing brands such as Nike and Calvin Klein, and Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency last fall barred the importation of certain apparel and cotton products produced in the Xinjiang region.
Nina Shea, the director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign-policy think tank, is encouraged that the new administration has readily agreed with Pompeo on the genocide determination. Shea also dismissed media depictions of the designation as Pompeo’s “parting shot” at Biden. Instead, she described it as the culmination of two years of disturbing information leaking out of China about its repression, internment and abuse of Uighurs.
“The United States is leading on this in the world,” Shea said, because no other government has confronted China by calling the forced sterilization and other forms of persecution by its rightful name.
“Genocide is really the destruction of a people -- in whole or in part -- through specific acts,” she told RealClearPolitics. “We tend to think of the Holocaust as being mass killings. But the whole point of the genocide laws since WWII and the Nazi period was to prevent mass killings.”
The sophisticated Chinese government wants to try to hide its atrocities so there aren’t any international trade repercussions, Shea added. “So Beijing is pursuing the more medically sophisticated method of suppressing or stopping births,” she said.
A former special adviser for religious minorities in the Obama and Trump administrations said Blinken’s decision to back up Pompeo “sends a strong signal to Beijing of the importance of human rights, regardless of administration.”
“For these statements to matter, accountability must follow,” said the former State Department official, who requested anonymity to speak freely about the sensitive genocide determination. The Biden administration, the source said, should find “targeted” ways to hold the Chinese government accountable by continuing to impose Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions on Chinese officials involved in detaining and abusing Uighurs.
“Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 reminds us of the need to do more to stop genocides from happening again,” the former official said. “The start of the Biden administration presents a unique opportunity to establish a policy of consequences when mass atrocities occur.”
Advocates within the Uighur community are encouraged by both the outgoing and incoming administrations’ strong statements but argue that far more actions are needed to educate the U.S. public about products they purchase made from Uighur slave labor and to prevent Americans dollars from supporting it.
Lou Ann Sabatier of the 21 Wilberforce Initiative, a human rights organization dedicated to defending people of faith internationally, called the genocide determination a “wake-up call to the world” that should be backed up by further efforts to document the abuses and hold the Chinese government accountable.
In an essay for the Washington Post, Rushan Abbas, the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, detailed the detention of her sister, a medical doctor from the Xinjiang region, more than two years ago. “China seized my sister. Biden must fight for her and all enslaved Uighurs,” she wrote.
The Chinese government sentenced Abbas’ sister to 20 years in prison on “terrorism” charges in what the rights advocate describes as a “sham trial.” Abbas believes her sister has been pressed into forced labor as part of the Chinese prison system and is likely producing goods that U.S. customers are purchasing and consuming.
“What is even more shocking than the Chinese government’s disregard for human rights and international law is that global companies are knowingly complicit in this genocide,” she wrote. “The normalization of slavery in the modern world is happening, and we consumers are enabling it.”
Most Americans remain “oblivious” to the fact that 20% of the world’s cotton products comes from the Xinjiang region, she asserted.
“Modern-day slavery is woven into cotton T-shirts, pillowcases and sneaker laces,” Abbas said. “…Seventy five years ago, Siemens, BMW and Volkswagen profited from the exploitation of Jewish labor in Nazi Germany. ‘Never again’ seems to be happening all over again.”
Abbas is calling on the Biden administration to fully enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which Congress passed nearly unanimously last summer. The law imposes sanctions on entities and individuals involved in the human rights abuses and requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to submit a classified report to Congress on the scope and scale of the detention and forced labor of Muslim minority groups in China. She also urged the administration to prioritize Section 307 of the Tariff Act, which prohibits the importation of goods made with forced labor.
“I believe strongly that President Biden and his team have a firm commitment to holding the Chinese regime accountable, along with the businesses that knowingly choose to be complicit in these crimes against humanity,” Abbas wrote. “The international community is watching, China is watching, and it is no overstatement that the future of our democratic world and freedom is at stake.”
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The AP investigation, based on state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees and a former detention camp instructor, found that the Chinese government has been using forced sterilization, abortions, and forced birth control to reduce its Muslim population -- even as it encouraged the country’s Han majority to have more children.\nSome religious freedom experts believe that Pompeo, who has led the international charge against China over its persecution and internment of Uighurs, was intentionally trying to tie the incoming Biden administration’s hands regarding its China policy.\nBut if the new administration feels boxed in by the move, it isn’t showing it – at least not yet.\nHuman rights activists, who are closely watching for signs that Biden will maintain the Trump administration’s commitment to curbing religious persecution around the world, are impressed with early messaging from his top foreign policy officials. The true test, they add, will be how these early words translate into policy.\nNew Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whom the Senate confirmed Tuesday, testified last week that President Trump was “right in taking a tougher approach to China,” although Blinken said he disagreed with many of the ways Trump went about it. When it comes to Pompeo’s classification of China’s treatment of the Uighurs as “genocide,” however, the incoming chief diplomat didn’t hesitate. In his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Blinken said that he and Pompeo are “very much in agreement” over the designation. “That would be my judgment as well,” he added.\nPresident Biden has lambasted the Trump administration for leaving it with a COVID vaccine “mess” and the pandemic’s related job losses and evictions crises, but when it comes to China’s human rights abuses, the new commander-in-chief has closed ranks with his predecessor.\nLate last week, the White House issued its strongest statement of unity with Trump policy to date after China slapped sanctions on 28 former administration officials, including Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, who Beijing said “gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs” and “seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations.”\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden-Harris administration views China’s sanctions as an “unproductive and cynical” attempt to play one administration against the other and urged all Americans to condemn it.\n“President Biden looks forward to working with leaders in both parties to position America to out-compete China,” she said.\nRegarding the systemic persecutions of China’s Uighur population, Blinken was echoing his boss’s previously stated position. Back in August, Biden took an unequivocal stance.\n“The unspeakable oppression that Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have suffered at the hands of China’s authoritarian government is genocide, and Joe Biden stands against it in the strongest terms,” his campaign said in a statement.\nBlinken took it further last week, saying he would look for ways to follow up on the previous administration’s genocide determination, including the possible step of banning exports to China of any goods -- such as surveillance equipment -- the government can use against the Uighurs, along with imports from China of any goods made with forced Uighur labor.\nThe issue of imports is especially sensitive because forced Uighur labor has been linked to popular U.S. clothing brands such as Nike and Calvin Klein, and Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency last fall barred the importation of certain apparel and cotton products produced in the Xinjiang region.\nNina Shea, the director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign-policy think tank, is encouraged that the new administration has readily agreed with Pompeo on the genocide determination. Shea also dismissed media depictions of the designation as Pompeo’s “parting shot” at Biden. Instead, she described it as the culmination of two years of disturbing information leaking out of China about its repression, internment and abuse of Uighurs.\n“The United States is leading on this in the world,” Shea said, because no other government has confronted China by calling the forced sterilization and other forms of persecution by its rightful name.\n“Genocide is really the destruction of a people -- in whole or in part -- through specific acts,” she told RealClearPolitics. “We tend to think of the Holocaust as being mass killings. But the whole point of the genocide laws since WWII and the Nazi period was to prevent mass killings.”\nThe sophisticated Chinese government wants to try to hide its atrocities so there aren’t any international trade repercussions, Shea added. “So Beijing is pursuing the more medically sophisticated method of suppressing or stopping births,” she said.\nA former special adviser for religious minorities in the Obama and Trump administrations said Blinken’s decision to back up Pompeo “sends a strong signal to Beijing of the importance of human rights, regardless of administration.”\n“For these statements to matter, accountability must follow,” said the former State Department official, who requested anonymity to speak freely about the sensitive genocide determination. The Biden administration, the source said, should find “targeted” ways to hold the Chinese government accountable by continuing to impose Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions on Chinese officials involved in detaining and abusing Uighurs.\n“Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 reminds us of the need to do more to stop genocides from happening again,” the former official said. “The start of the Biden administration presents a unique opportunity to establish a policy of consequences when mass atrocities occur.”\nAdvocates within the Uighur community are encouraged by both the outgoing and incoming administrations’ strong statements but argue that far more actions are needed to educate the U.S. public about products they purchase made from Uighur slave labor and to prevent Americans dollars from supporting it.\nLou Ann Sabatier of the 21 Wilberforce Initiative, a human rights organization dedicated to defending people of faith internationally, called the genocide determination a “wake-up call to the world” that should be backed up by further efforts to document the abuses and hold the Chinese government accountable.\nIn an essay for the Washington Post, Rushan Abbas, the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, detailed the detention of her sister, a medical doctor from the Xinjiang region, more than two years ago. “China seized my sister. Biden must fight for her and all enslaved Uighurs,” she wrote.\nThe Chinese government sentenced Abbas’ sister to 20 years in prison on “terrorism” charges in what the rights advocate describes as a “sham trial.” Abbas believes her sister has been pressed into forced labor as part of the Chinese prison system and is likely producing goods that U.S. customers are purchasing and consuming.\n“What is even more shocking than the Chinese government’s disregard for human rights and international law is that global companies are knowingly complicit in this genocide,” she wrote. “The normalization of slavery in the modern world is happening, and we consumers are enabling it.”\nMost Americans remain “oblivious” to the fact that 20% of the world’s cotton products comes from the Xinjiang region, she asserted.\n“Modern-day slavery is woven into cotton T-shirts, pillowcases and sneaker laces,” Abbas said. “…Seventy five years ago, Siemens, BMW and Volkswagen profited from the exploitation of Jewish labor in Nazi Germany. ‘Never again’ seems to be happening all over again.”\nAbbas is calling on the Biden administration to fully enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which Congress passed nearly unanimously last summer. The law imposes sanctions on entities and individuals involved in the human rights abuses and requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to submit a classified report to Congress on the scope and scale of the detention and forced labor of Muslim minority groups in China. She also urged the administration to prioritize Section 307 of the Tariff Act, which prohibits the importation of goods made with forced labor.\n“I believe strongly that President Biden and his team have a firm commitment to holding the Chinese regime accountable, along with the businesses that knowingly choose to be complicit in these crimes against humanity,” Abbas wrote. “The international community is watching, China is watching, and it is no overstatement that the future of our democratic world and freedom is at stake.”",
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Don't Let Dems Exploit Covid to Enact Liberal Policies | RealClearPolitics
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Don't Let Dems Exploit Covid to Enact Liberal Policies
President Joe Biden is looking for a big government take-over of the U.S. economy.
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Biden Relief Plan Is a Trojan Horse for Liberal Agenda | RealClearPolitics
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President-elect Joe Biden just unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Democrats insist it is targeted to respond to the crisis and only full of “commonsense” measures and much-needed emergency spending.
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The central question we should consider as The Old Order returns is whether what we are seeing in our country is happening because it is strong or weak.
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New Study: Lockdowns Didn’t Stop Spread Of Covid After All | RealClearPolitics
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As always, approach all stories that headline the word “study” with some caution. Newsweek’s report on a new study from Stanford published this week in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation should carry the same caveat — one study does not a scientific foundation make. However, the findings in this study of the impact of lockdowns on COVID-19 transmission do seem to fit our own observations, especially in the pandemic’s second and third waves:
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As our nation observes one of the most sacred and solemn traditions in our republic, the peaceful transition of power, on so many minds is the question:...
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As our nation observes one of the most sacred and solemn traditions in our republic, the peaceful transition of power, on so many minds is the question: What’s ahead for the Republican Party?
I, like millions of Americans of all political stripes, was horrified by what took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. I was equally horrified by the misinformation and false rhetoric that allowed it to happen in the first place. Make no mistake, the president’s rhetoric directly contributed to the violence against our nation’s greatest symbol of democracy. It must continually be denounced by Republicans and Democrats.
But what about the last four years? What about the America First agenda that led to not only the most vibrant but also the most inclusive economy in modern history? Under the Trump administration, we saw record low unemployment for virtually every group including black Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, and individuals with and without a college degree.
These achievements were a direct result of the pro-growth, America First agenda championed by the administration along with Republicans in Congress. Prior to the pandemic, these policies brought about 7 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, 3% GDP growth, and record stock market gains. These historic achievements were a direct result of a deregulatory agenda, pro-growth tax policies, and prioritizing American investment. It was a conservative economic vision, and it wasn’t a fluke.
What about the foreign policy achievements of the Trump administration? These included rebuilding a depleted military, eradicating the ISIS caliphate, brokering historic Middle East peace agreements, restoring deterrence with Iran, holding China accountable, and finally getting NATO allies to contribute more to our collective defense.
This was all a direct result of a foreign policy approach of dealing with the world as it actually is, not as we hope it would be. The administration’s foreign policy unapologetically put America first and in doing so put our allies in the best position to succeed and our adversaries on notice that we meant business.
The America First agenda grew long-sought-after coalitions of Republican voters, including record turnout among Hispanics and blacks. The Republican Party cannot afford to lose these gains. But imagine what we could do if we continue smart economic opportunity policies and emphasize inclusive, inspiring leadership?
Republicans lost support among suburban women and college-educated white men, and seniors. But on a policy basis, those constituencies shouldn’t be hard for Republicans to win back. We are the party of safe communities, of health care choice for families, of school choice, of paid family leave -- an effort championed by Ivanka Trump -- and of economic mobility for all people. Imagine if the party of Lincoln goes back to being the party that stands by minorities -- that fights for them and unequivocally denounces bigotry in all its forms.
After the siege on the Capitol, there is an effort among influential wings of the GOP to erase all that is Trump. That would be a terrible mistake. I would implore those who want to rebuild the party to not throw the good policy out with the bad rhetoric and bad leadership.
At the same time, Republicans must come to grips with the fact that we’ve lost the moral high ground as a party. We’ve allowed our better angels to be replaced with convenient demons for electoral victories. We’ve allowed destructive moral equivocation on issues that should be easy to unequivocally denounce. We allowed the public to be misled into believing the democratic election was stolen. Some even gave a subtle wink and a nod to dangerous conspiracy theories like those propagated by QAnon. We regain the moral high ground by first and foremost embracing the truth.
Any future Republican presidential candidate should be vetted as thoroughly for character and integrity as they are for their policies views. The party of Lincoln and Reagan must remember: The president should be the moral conscience of the country, and embody the high character of our nation. We must take lessons from Trump but restore the days of Reagan, when character was king.
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"As our nation observes one of the most sacred and solemn traditions in our republic, the peaceful transition of power, on so many minds is the question: What’s ahead for the Republican Party?\nI, like millions of Americans of all political stripes, was horrified by what took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. I was equally horrified by the misinformation and false rhetoric that allowed it to happen in the first place. Make no mistake, the president’s rhetoric directly contributed to the violence against our nation’s greatest symbol of democracy. It must continually be denounced by Republicans and Democrats.\nBut what about the last four years? What about the America First agenda that led to not only the most vibrant but also the most inclusive economy in modern history? Under the Trump administration, we saw record low unemployment for virtually every group including black Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, and individuals with and without a college degree.\nThese achievements were a direct result of the pro-growth, America First agenda championed by the administration along with Republicans in Congress. Prior to the pandemic, these policies brought about 7 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, 3% GDP growth, and record stock market gains. These historic achievements were a direct result of a deregulatory agenda, pro-growth tax policies, and prioritizing American investment. It was a conservative economic vision, and it wasn’t a fluke.\nWhat about the foreign policy achievements of the Trump administration? These included rebuilding a depleted military, eradicating the ISIS caliphate, brokering historic Middle East peace agreements, restoring deterrence with Iran, holding China accountable, and finally getting NATO allies to contribute more to our collective defense.\nThis was all a direct result of a foreign policy approach of dealing with the world as it actually is, not as we hope it would be. The administration’s foreign policy unapologetically put America first and in doing so put our allies in the best position to succeed and our adversaries on notice that we meant business.\nThe America First agenda grew long-sought-after coalitions of Republican voters, including record turnout among Hispanics and blacks. The Republican Party cannot afford to lose these gains. But imagine what we could do if we continue smart economic opportunity policies and emphasize inclusive, inspiring leadership?\nRepublicans lost support among suburban women and college-educated white men, and seniors. But on a policy basis, those constituencies shouldn’t be hard for Republicans to win back. We are the party of safe communities, of health care choice for families, of school choice, of paid family leave -- an effort championed by Ivanka Trump -- and of economic mobility for all people. Imagine if the party of Lincoln goes back to being the party that stands by minorities -- that fights for them and unequivocally denounces bigotry in all its forms.\nAfter the siege on the Capitol, there is an effort among influential wings of the GOP to erase all that is Trump. That would be a terrible mistake. I would implore those who want to rebuild the party to not throw the good policy out with the bad rhetoric and bad leadership.\nAt the same time, Republicans must come to grips with the fact that we’ve lost the moral high ground as a party. We’ve allowed our better angels to be replaced with convenient demons for electoral victories. We’ve allowed destructive moral equivocation on issues that should be easy to unequivocally denounce. We allowed the public to be misled into believing the democratic election was stolen. Some even gave a subtle wink and a nod to dangerous conspiracy theories like those propagated by QAnon. We regain the moral high ground by first and foremost embracing the truth.\nAny future Republican presidential candidate should be vetted as thoroughly for character and integrity as they are for their policies views. The party of Lincoln and Reagan must remember: The president should be the moral conscience of the country, and embody the high character of our nation. We must take lessons from Trump but restore the days of Reagan, when character was king.",
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President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be
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President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be "wild."
And so Wednesday was, but it was also disastrous for the party and the movement Trump has led for the last five years.
Wednesday, the defeats of Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Georgia's runoff elections were confirmed. This translates into the GOP losing the Senate for the next two years.
Chuck Schumer now replaces Mitch McConnell as majority leader.
And the new 50-50 split will put Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the president of the Senate on Jan. 20, in position to cast the deciding vote on every major issue where the two parties are evenly divided.
Wednesday, there also came the acceptance by both houses of Congress of Joe Biden's 306-232 electoral vote victory over Trump. The last potential hurdle to Biden's inauguration as 46th president of the United States has been removed.
But the worst of the day's events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.
Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed.
All this was seen on national television from midafternoon through nightfall. The East and West fronts of the Capitol were occupied for hours by pro-Trump protesters, whom the president, his son Don Jr., and Rudy Giuliani had stirred up in the hours before the march down the mall.
What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic. And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency. He will be demonized as no one else in our history since Richard Nixon or Joe McCarthy.
Yet, just two months ago, Trump rolled up the highest vote total ever by an incumbent president, 74 million. And, according to four major polls, his approval remains where it has been for four years, between 40 and 50%.
What took place Wednesday was a disgrace and a debacle. But it was not, as some have wildly contended, comparable to 9/11 or to the British burning of the Capitol in 1814 during the War of 1812. That is malicious hyperbole, establishment propaganda.
On Sept. 11, 2001, more than 3,000 Americans died horribly when Manhattan's World Trade Center twin towers came crashing down and the Pentagon was hit by a hijacked airliner. And there have been far more serious events in the lifetimes of many of us than this four-hour occupation of the Capitol.
In May 1970, after Nixon ordered an invasion of Cambodia to clean out Communist sanctuaries, National Guard troops, in panic, shot and killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio.
Hundreds of campuses exploded; hundreds of universities shut down for the semester. Scores of thousands of demonstrators poured into D.C. Buses, end-to-end, circled the White House. U.S. troops were moved into the basement of the Executive Office Building.
Today, there is absurd media talk of removing the president through impeachment or invocation of the 25th Amendment.
If the House votes impeachment, is the Senate going to hold a trial in 12 days to put Pence in the Oval Office? As for removing Trump through the 25th Amendment, this would require a declaration by Vice President Pence and half of the Cabinet that Trump is unfit to finish out a term that ends in two weeks. Not going to happen.
But undeniably, the events of Wednesday are going to split the Republican Party. And what does the future of that party now look like?
After Trump leaves the presidency, he will not be coming back. The opposition to him inside the GOP would prevent his nomination or would defect to prevent his reelection were he nominated again.
Yet, the size and strength of Trump's movement is such that no Republican candidate he declares persona non grata could win the nomination and the presidency.
Trump's supporters are today being smeared and castigated by the same media who lionized the BLM and antifa "peaceful protesters" who spent their summer rioting, looting, burning and pillaging Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Portland, Kenosha, Louisville and scores of other cities.
The Trumpists have been demonized before. They are used to this. And whatever their sins, disloyalty and ingratitude to the man they put in the presidency is not one of them.
Wednesday was a bad day for America, but it was not the Reichstag fire.
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"President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be \"wild.\"\nAnd so Wednesday was, but it was also disastrous for the party and the movement Trump has led for the last five years.\nWednesday, the defeats of Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Georgia's runoff elections were confirmed. This translates into the GOP losing the Senate for the next two years.\nChuck Schumer now replaces Mitch McConnell as majority leader.\nAnd the new 50-50 split will put Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the president of the Senate on Jan. 20, in position to cast the deciding vote on every major issue where the two parties are evenly divided.\nWednesday, there also came the acceptance by both houses of Congress of Joe Biden's 306-232 electoral vote victory over Trump. The last potential hurdle to Biden's inauguration as 46th president of the United States has been removed.\nBut the worst of the day's events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.\nMembers of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed.\nAll this was seen on national television from midafternoon through nightfall. The East and West fronts of the Capitol were occupied for hours by pro-Trump protesters, whom the president, his son Don Jr., and Rudy Giuliani had stirred up in the hours before the march down the mall.\nWhat Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic. And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency. He will be demonized as no one else in our history since Richard Nixon or Joe McCarthy.\nYet, just two months ago, Trump rolled up the highest vote total ever by an incumbent president, 74 million. And, according to four major polls, his approval remains where it has been for four years, between 40 and 50%.\nWhat took place Wednesday was a disgrace and a debacle. But it was not, as some have wildly contended, comparable to 9/11 or to the British burning of the Capitol in 1814 during the War of 1812. That is malicious hyperbole, establishment propaganda.\nOn Sept. 11, 2001, more than 3,000 Americans died horribly when Manhattan's World Trade Center twin towers came crashing down and the Pentagon was hit by a hijacked airliner. And there have been far more serious events in the lifetimes of many of us than this four-hour occupation of the Capitol.\nIn May 1970, after Nixon ordered an invasion of Cambodia to clean out Communist sanctuaries, National Guard troops, in panic, shot and killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio.\nHundreds of campuses exploded; hundreds of universities shut down for the semester. Scores of thousands of demonstrators poured into D.C. Buses, end-to-end, circled the White House. U.S. troops were moved into the basement of the Executive Office Building.\nToday, there is absurd media talk of removing the president through impeachment or invocation of the 25th Amendment.\nIf the House votes impeachment, is the Senate going to hold a trial in 12 days to put Pence in the Oval Office? As for removing Trump through the 25th Amendment, this would require a declaration by Vice President Pence and half of the Cabinet that Trump is unfit to finish out a term that ends in two weeks. Not going to happen.\nBut undeniably, the events of Wednesday are going to split the Republican Party. And what does the future of that party now look like?\nAfter Trump leaves the presidency, he will not be coming back. The opposition to him inside the GOP would prevent his nomination or would defect to prevent his reelection were he nominated again.\nYet, the size and strength of Trump's movement is such that no Republican candidate he declares persona non grata could win the nomination and the presidency.\nTrump's supporters are today being smeared and castigated by the same media who lionized the BLM and antifa \"peaceful protesters\" who spent their summer rioting, looting, burning and pillaging Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Portland, Kenosha, Louisville and scores of other cities.\nThe Trumpists have been demonized before. They are used to this. And whatever their sins, disloyalty and ingratitude to the man they put in the presidency is not one of them.\nWednesday was a bad day for America, but it was not the Reichstag fire.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
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Republican Women in the House Could Change Everything | RealClearPolitics
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When the 117th Congress is sworn in, the number of GOP women in the House will more than double - an increase that carries particular significance for women, for a post-Trump Republican Party and for the country, says Swanee Hunt.
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Fork in the Road: Where Will the GOP Turn? | RealClearPolitics
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Fork in the Road: Where Will the GOP Turn?
This week's Sunday Magazine explores the new path for Republicans after the Capitol insurrection and losses in Georgia.
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Ezra Klein's Playbook for the Democratic Party | RealClearPolitics
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For the first time in a decade, Democrats have won the Presidency and both houses of Congress, giving them a greater ability to pass Joe Biden’s agenda, which includes economic relief measures and legislation tackling climate change and immigration. Many in the Party want to embark on major structural changes, such as abolishing the Senate filibuster and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. But, because the Democrats control only fifty Senate seats, moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin of West Virginia hold outsized power, and have already spoken with skepticism about some of their party’s more ambitious plans.
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"For the first time in a decade, Democrats have won the Presidency and both houses of Congress, giving them a greater ability to pass Joe Biden’s agenda, which includes economic relief measures and legislation tackling climate change and immigration. Many in the Party want to embark on major structural changes, such as abolishing the Senate filibuster and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. But, because the Democrats control only fifty Senate seats, moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin of West Virginia hold outsized power, and have already spoken with skepticism about some of their party’s more ambitious plans.",
"Ezra Klein's Playbook for the Democratic Party",
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The Great Free-Speech Reversal | RealClearPolitics
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The Great Free-Speech Reversal
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There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what President Donald Trump described in 2020 as the “bedrock” American right to freedom of speech. Until very recently, this was an argument made almost exclusively by those on the left.
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"There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what President Donald Trump described in 2020 as the “bedrock” American right to freedom of speech. Until very recently, this was an argument made almost exclusively by those on the left.",
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Biden's America: One Nation or Us Versus Them?
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"We have met the enemy and he is us," said Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment.
Rereading President Joe Biden's inaugural address, Pogo's remark comes to mind.
Biden began on a lofty, hopeful and familiar note:
"This is a great nation. We are a good people."
He ended in the same vein: "So, with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith. Driven by conviction. And, devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts."
Within the address itself, however, Biden recited what he believes to be the historic crimes of the nation and the sins of the soul that torment a considerable portion of our population.
Among the afflictions from which America suffers, said Biden, are "political extremism, white supremacy" and "domestic terrorism."
How do we overcome these evils?
Said Biden, "Unity is the path."
But how can good Americans unite with white supremacists and domestic terrorists? Ought we not separate ourselves and do battle with them? And who exactly are they?
Surely, among the enemy is the mob that invaded and trashed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But what of the hundreds of thousands who came out for Trump rallies? What of the 75 million who voted for Donald Trump?
Are all the deplorables outside the company of the saved? Are they, as Hillary Clinton once said of them, "irredeemable"?
"Today, we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause," said Biden, "the cause of democracy."
The clear implication here is that a victory for Trump on Nov. 3, would have been a defeat for democracy. How unifying is that?
"Today, on this January day," said Biden, "my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I ask every American to join me in this cause."
He then enumerated the characteristics of our enemy: "Anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, violence and lawlessness."
Yet, on inauguration night, antifa mobs attacked the Democratic Party headquarters in Portland and torched American flags in Seattle, the same kind of left-wing mobs that gave us a long hot summer of rioting, looting and arson after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd.
Has Biden ever condemned by name these mobs the way he did the mob that invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6?
Biden went on to describe U.S. history as he sees it, as a long Manichaean struggle for the soul of America.
"The forces that divide us are deep and they are real. ... Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the other harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart."
But if our history has been an endless struggle against racism, nativism and demagoguery, and today's struggle is against rampant anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, violence and lawlessness, as well as "white supremacists and domestic terrorists," how can we credibly call ourselves a "great nation" and "good people"?
While Biden identifies the demonic character of the enemy, he does not name them. Who are they? How can we defeat them if the president will not identify them? And if they are evil and we are good, then why should we unite with them rather than ostracize and crush them?
In Joe's depiction: "We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace only bitterness and fury."
But is "fury" not a legitimate attribute of those fighting the hateful enemies Biden describes?
"Today in this time and place, let's start afresh. All of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again. Hear one another. See one another. Show respect for one another."
This call to unity is followed by another call, to "reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured."
After this, Biden went off on a tear against mendacity.
"Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit."
All our leaders have a duty and responsibility "to defend the truth and defeat the lies."
But who are the liars? And if we are to do battle against the liars, why did Biden declare a minute later: "We must end this uncivil war."
It was said of Warren Harding's inaugural address that it was "an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea."
Joe Biden's inaugural was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads.
Good luck, Mr. President. You will need it, and so will we.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Democrats' sudden concern over violence by Trump supporters comes after months of ignoring their own supporters' far worse transgressions.
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Raffensperger Shows Courage by Rebuffing Trump | RealClearPolitics
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Rumors of Trump's Political Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated | RealClearPolitics
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Rumors of Trump's Political Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Outrage is a funny thing. We care deeply — until some of us don't.
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America Is Doomed If Democrats Don't Pass This Bill | RealClearPolitics
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H.R. 1 is a comprehensive reform bill for our democracy designed to fix many of the most corrupting features of the system.
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Republicans Must Not Cave to Left-Wing Forces | RealClearPolitics
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After all the chaos and upheaval of the last week, it's important to remember that we still need to move forward and fight for America's future — and for our freedom. But where do we go from here?
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Biden's Executive Order Unlevels Playing Field For Girls | RealClearPolitics
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Mere hours after stressing the need for unity, President Biden sparked a new civil war with an executive order letting transgender women compete in women's sports. On social media, #BidenErasedWo…
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The deadly riot at our nations Capitol stands as a monument to the power of words. When misused, words can confuse, divide, incite, and even kill. But...
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Economic Recovery Hinges on Republicans Boosting Vaccine
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The deadly riot at our nation’s Capitol stands as a monument to the power of words. When misused, words can confuse, divide, incite, and even kill. But history has taught us words also have the power to inform, inspire, unite, and protect.
Since rioters breached the Capitol doors on Jan. 6, more than 40,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Yet the toll of this unfathomable pandemic is being overshadowed by the fallout from another presidential impeachment and the threat of more violence as our nation prepares for President-elect Biden’s inauguration. With every second we waste on political rancor and acrimony, the virus tightens its death grip on our nation’s health, security and long-term prosperity.
Republicans have a historic opportunity to help turn the tide of this pandemic. The first crucial step is to acknowledge that the science is settled: masks and vaccines save lives. America’s recovery hinges on these two vital public health measures, which continue to be dangerously undermined. And while the national conversation has focused, rightfully so, on building vaccine confidence among hard-hit minority communities, there are two other groups we must not overlook: young Republicans and rural Americans.
According to a poll we conducted in late December, Republicans are 20% less likely to get a vaccine than Democrats. To be precise, roughly one-third of Republicans age 18-49 (32%) and Americans living in rural or farming communities (36%) say they will “definitely not” get vaccinated. Their concerns are fueled by those intent on misleading and manipulating the public’s views of the vaccine. And as the pace of vaccine distribution is set to quicken after the inauguration, this is a critical time for all political leaders to speak up on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines. Silence is complicit and allows misinformation to further distance us from what we all want: an end to this pandemic and a return to normal. In particular, because of the greater concern among their base, Republican leaders on the local, state and federal level have an essential public health responsibility to encourage vaccine acceptance for everyone, everywhere. Their leadership can help build the vaccine confidence needed to protect the lives of millions of Americans and accelerate our economic recovery.
It starts by choosing the right words, and here’s what works:
The end game is a return to normal. Yes, that means spending less time talking about health and saving lives. Most Americans, especially Republicans, are eager for “a return to normal.” Though this message doesn’t work with everyone, it’s what motivates young Republicans the most.
“It’s the economy, stupid.” James Carville was right in 1992 and he would be right today. For those most concerned about the vaccine, they are motivated to get vaccinated as soon as possible to get the economy moving and get people back to work. They recognize that a consequence of not taking the vaccine would mean more restrictions and more damage to the economy.
Keep Uncle Sam out of it. Participating in something truly historic, changing the course of history or helping to unite the country are among the least effective messages. Avoid words like “national duty” (favored by Biden) and focus on the fact that taking the vaccine will keep people and their families safe and healthy on an individual and personal level.
Give everyone the space to make a choice. To most Americans, it’s not about the betterment of society. Telling people that getting the vaccine is “the right thing to do” simply doesn’t work. Don’t lecture people. They want the facts, and they want to know the vaccine will keep their family safe.
Address safety concerns head on. The greatest concerns for Americans are the potential long-term side effects, and to a slightly lesser degree, short-term side effects. We need to emphasize that the likelihood of experiencing a severe side effect is less than 0.5%; mild side effects are normal signs that their body is building protection; and most side effects should go away in a few days.
Don’t label. Using the term “vaccine hesitant” can come across as judgmental. We need to validate those feelings, normalize concerns, and open a dialogue where questions can be answered, and misinformation corrected. It’s important to say, “I hear you” and “I understand your concerns,” rather than arguing, debating, and furthering our polarization.
As vaccine distribution begins to extend beyond health care workers and our oldest citizens, conversations will shift to personal choice. Now is the critical window when many Americans are deciding if they will take the vaccine. And as we witnessed in the aftermath of the riot, words only spoken after the devastation come too late. If we get this right, we can make sure our rural communities bounce back just as quickly as our cities. We can bring manufacturing back to full capacity. We can bring our children back to the classroom.
Just as words incited unprecedented violence at our nation’s Capitol, words can make a meaningful, measurable difference in ending the most significant public health crisis of the past 100 years. But only if our Republican leaders speak up now and choose their words wisely.
Frank I. Luntz, PhD, is national pollster and communication analyst.
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America’s recovery hinges on these two vital public health measures, which continue to be dangerously undermined. And while the national conversation has focused, rightfully so, on building vaccine confidence among hard-hit minority communities, there are two other groups we must not overlook: young Republicans and rural Americans.\nAccording to a poll we conducted in late December, Republicans are 20% less likely to get a vaccine than Democrats. To be precise, roughly one-third of Republicans age 18-49 (32%) and Americans living in rural or farming communities (36%) say they will “definitely not” get vaccinated. Their concerns are fueled by those intent on misleading and manipulating the public’s views of the vaccine. And as the pace of vaccine distribution is set to quicken after the inauguration, this is a critical time for all political leaders to speak up on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines. Silence is complicit and allows misinformation to further distance us from what we all want: an end to this pandemic and a return to normal. In particular, because of the greater concern among their base, Republican leaders on the local, state and federal level have an essential public health responsibility to encourage vaccine acceptance for everyone, everywhere. Their leadership can help build the vaccine confidence needed to protect the lives of millions of Americans and accelerate our economic recovery.\nIt starts by choosing the right words, and here’s what works:\nThe end game is a return to normal. Yes, that means spending less time talking about health and saving lives. Most Americans, especially Republicans, are eager for “a return to normal.” Though this message doesn’t work with everyone, it’s what motivates young Republicans the most.\n“It’s the economy, stupid.” James Carville was right in 1992 and he would be right today. For those most concerned about the vaccine, they are motivated to get vaccinated as soon as possible to get the economy moving and get people back to work. They recognize that a consequence of not taking the vaccine would mean more restrictions and more damage to the economy.\nKeep Uncle Sam out of it. Participating in something truly historic, changing the course of history or helping to unite the country are among the least effective messages. Avoid words like “national duty” (favored by Biden) and focus on the fact that taking the vaccine will keep people and their families safe and healthy on an individual and personal level.\nGive everyone the space to make a choice. To most Americans, it’s not about the betterment of society. Telling people that getting the vaccine is “the right thing to do” simply doesn’t work. Don’t lecture people. They want the facts, and they want to know the vaccine will keep their family safe.\nAddress safety concerns head on. The greatest concerns for Americans are the potential long-term side effects, and to a slightly lesser degree, short-term side effects. We need to emphasize that the likelihood of experiencing a severe side effect is less than 0.5%; mild side effects are normal signs that their body is building protection; and most side effects should go away in a few days.\nDon’t label. Using the term “vaccine hesitant” can come across as judgmental. We need to validate those feelings, normalize concerns, and open a dialogue where questions can be answered, and misinformation corrected. It’s important to say, “I hear you” and “I understand your concerns,” rather than arguing, debating, and furthering our polarization.\nAs vaccine distribution begins to extend beyond health care workers and our oldest citizens, conversations will shift to personal choice. Now is the critical window when many Americans are deciding if they will take the vaccine. And as we witnessed in the aftermath of the riot, words only spoken after the devastation come too late. If we get this right, we can make sure our rural communities bounce back just as quickly as our cities. We can bring manufacturing back to full capacity. We can bring our children back to the classroom.\nJust as words incited unprecedented violence at our nation’s Capitol, words can make a meaningful, measurable difference in ending the most significant public health crisis of the past 100 years. But only if our Republican leaders speak up now and choose their words wisely.\nFrank I. Luntz, PhD, is national pollster and communication analyst.",
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Two days after President Bidens inauguration, on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the White House released a boilerplate statement on abortion rights....
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Two days after President Biden’s inauguration, on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the White House released a boilerplate statement on abortion rights. Mostly overlooked, because it was expected, the brief press release was an unmistakable mile marker in the transition from a Republican administration that fancied itself the most anti-abortion in history and a Democratic replacement that could become the most pro-abortion yet.
Biden quickly reversed the so-called Mexico City policy, barring U.S. tax dollars from funding nongovernment organizations that provide abortions overseas. He also signaled his opposition to the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding policy that prohibits federal funding of abortion.
But at a moment when individual states are moving to limit abortion accessibility, will Biden go further? Does he support an abortion rights law modeled after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a statute empowering the Department of Justice to root out abortion restrictions the way the department rooted out Jim Crow?
Vice President Kamala Harris proposed just such an approach as a presidential primary season candidate, and while White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki didn’t have an update on that policy last week, she told RealClearPolitics, “Obviously, her policies are the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.”
Symone Sanders, chief spokesperson and a senior adviser to Harris, said the same: “The Vice President’s policies are the policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and the statements today speak and accurately reflect those policies.”
The Jan. 22 statement reads: “In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack. We are deeply committed to making sure everyone has access to care – including reproductive health care – regardless of income, race, ZIP code, health insurance status, or immigration status.”
According to three separate Biden-Harris officials, that commitment now includes support for a legislative approach more far-reaching than anything put forward by the last two Democratic administrations – including the one in which Biden served as vice president.
By proposing legislation modeled after the Voting Rights Act while on the campaign trail, Harris married civil rights and abortion rights. The California candidate described her approach this way:
“We are living through an all-out assault being waged on women’s health and reproductive rights. From Alabama to Ohio, and Missouri to Georgia, the goal of Republican politicians is clear: Overturn Roe v. Wade and end safe and legal abortion in America. States have mandated that women submit to invasive ultrasounds, passed laws requiring survivors of sexual assault to carry their rapist’s child to term, and placed onerous and medically unnecessary restrictions on health clinics. These restrictions do nothing to make people healthier or safer. Their sole purpose is limiting access to abortion.”
The proposal was seen at the time as a creative solution to what liberals view as a persistent problem.
“This is undoubtedly a bold, creative plan to employ Congress’s expressed constitutional powers to prevent states from thwarting women’s right to an abortion,” David Gans, director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center, told the Washington Post. “Obviously, there are differences between the Jim Crow South and voting rights in the 1960s and abortion, but they’re both situations where we’re seeing a number of states targeting a constitutional right and flouting it in a number of different ways. There’s differences, but there’s also similarities.”
Such a bill would also be dead on arrival in Congress. The Senate is deadlocked 50-50, and Republicans are already signaling to the new White House that even repealing the Hyde Amendment is a step too far. “It is a creative way to try to protect abortion rights from restrictive state laws,” Richard Hasen told RCP, but the law professor at the University of California-Irvine added, “I do not believe it has any realistic path of being enacted into law at the present time.”
Still, support for this kind of legislation, even without an immediate future, sent a signal to groups on both sides of the abortion issue. A spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice America told RCP that her organization and the White House “share a commitment to reproductive freedom that includes not only rolling back the extreme anti-choice policies of the Trump era, but also taking meaningful steps to advance reproductive freedom and safeguard access to abortion in the face of unyielding attacks.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told RCP that she “was not surprised” by the remarks from the White House because Biden and Harris “are the most pro-abortion team yet.”
“While religious rhetoric was thrown about, there was never concrete evidence of daylight between the two during the campaign,” she added. “His conversion to abortion absolutism was complete long before he received the nomination. It was of course required.”
Anti-abortion advocates enjoyed something of a boom time during the Trump administration. But like Republicans, they are now out of power at the federal level and place their hopes in a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. They still see opportunities for reform at the state level where the GOP controls a majority of legislatures across the country.
A majority of Americans, 53%, describe themselves as pro-choice as the Biden era begins, according to new polling by Marist and the Knights of Columbus. At the same time, nearly six-in-10 Americans, 58%, oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortion and 70% oppose abortion of unborn children because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.
In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi Noem introduced a bill just recently that would ban abortion based on such a diagnosis. Republican legislators are moving to ratchet up restrictions in other states. In Kansas, the House voted to overturn a state Supreme Court decision that declared access to abortion “a fundamental right,” while Montana Republicans are advancing legislation to ban abortion in most cases after 20 weeks of gestation.
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Does he support an abortion rights law modeled after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a statute empowering the Department of Justice to root out abortion restrictions the way the department rooted out Jim Crow?\nVice President Kamala Harris proposed just such an approach as a presidential primary season candidate, and while White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki didn’t have an update on that policy last week, she told RealClearPolitics, “Obviously, her policies are the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.”\nSymone Sanders, chief spokesperson and a senior adviser to Harris, said the same: “The Vice President’s policies are the policies of the Biden-Harris Administration and the statements today speak and accurately reflect those policies.”\nThe Jan. 22 statement reads: “In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack. We are deeply committed to making sure everyone has access to care – including reproductive health care – regardless of income, race, ZIP code, health insurance status, or immigration status.”\nAccording to three separate Biden-Harris officials, that commitment now includes support for a legislative approach more far-reaching than anything put forward by the last two Democratic administrations – including the one in which Biden served as vice president.\nBy proposing legislation modeled after the Voting Rights Act while on the campaign trail, Harris married civil rights and abortion rights. The California candidate described her approach this way:\n“We are living through an all-out assault being waged on women’s health and reproductive rights. From Alabama to Ohio, and Missouri to Georgia, the goal of Republican politicians is clear: Overturn Roe v. Wade and end safe and legal abortion in America. States have mandated that women submit to invasive ultrasounds, passed laws requiring survivors of sexual assault to carry their rapist’s child to term, and placed onerous and medically unnecessary restrictions on health clinics. These restrictions do nothing to make people healthier or safer. Their sole purpose is limiting access to abortion.”\nThe proposal was seen at the time as a creative solution to what liberals view as a persistent problem.\n“This is undoubtedly a bold, creative plan to employ Congress’s expressed constitutional powers to prevent states from thwarting women’s right to an abortion,” David Gans, director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights and Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center, told the Washington Post. “Obviously, there are differences between the Jim Crow South and voting rights in the 1960s and abortion, but they’re both situations where we’re seeing a number of states targeting a constitutional right and flouting it in a number of different ways. There’s differences, but there’s also similarities.”\nSuch a bill would also be dead on arrival in Congress. The Senate is deadlocked 50-50, and Republicans are already signaling to the new White House that even repealing the Hyde Amendment is a step too far. “It is a creative way to try to protect abortion rights from restrictive state laws,” Richard Hasen told RCP, but the law professor at the University of California-Irvine added, “I do not believe it has any realistic path of being enacted into law at the present time.”\nStill, support for this kind of legislation, even without an immediate future, sent a signal to groups on both sides of the abortion issue. A spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice America told RCP that her organization and the White House “share a commitment to reproductive freedom that includes not only rolling back the extreme anti-choice policies of the Trump era, but also taking meaningful steps to advance reproductive freedom and safeguard access to abortion in the face of unyielding attacks.”\nMarjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told RCP that she “was not surprised” by the remarks from the White House because Biden and Harris “are the most pro-abortion team yet.”\n“While religious rhetoric was thrown about, there was never concrete evidence of daylight between the two during the campaign,” she added. “His conversion to abortion absolutism was complete long before he received the nomination. It was of course required.”\nAnti-abortion advocates enjoyed something of a boom time during the Trump administration. But like Republicans, they are now out of power at the federal level and place their hopes in a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. They still see opportunities for reform at the state level where the GOP controls a majority of legislatures across the country.\nA majority of Americans, 53%, describe themselves as pro-choice as the Biden era begins, according to new polling by Marist and the Knights of Columbus. At the same time, nearly six-in-10 Americans, 58%, oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortion and 70% oppose abortion of unborn children because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.\nIn South Dakota, Gov. Kristi Noem introduced a bill just recently that would ban abortion based on such a diagnosis. Republican legislators are moving to ratchet up restrictions in other states. In Kansas, the House voted to overturn a state Supreme Court decision that declared access to abortion “a fundamental right,” while Montana Republicans are advancing legislation to ban abortion in most cases after 20 weeks of gestation.",
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The Senate is tied, and without some formal arrangement the Democrats will find it very hard to run.
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| 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
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[
"The Senate is tied, and without some formal arrangement the Democrats will find it very hard to run.",
"Senate Democrats Will Struggle to Move Their Agenda",
"Senate Democrats Will Struggle to Move Their Agenda | RealClearPolitics"
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Parler Reveals Alarming Trajectory of Political Violence | RealClearPolitics
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Parler Reveals Alarming Trajectory of Political Violence
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The Biden administration needs a game plan to deal with what will be a rolling and escalating threat from platform migration.
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| 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
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[
"The Biden administration needs a game plan to deal with what will be a rolling and escalating threat from platform migration.",
"Parler Reveals Alarming Trajectory of Political Violence",
"Parler Reveals Alarming Trajectory of Political Violence | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-18T05:29:47 | null | 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
AOC's Ministry of Truth | RealClearPolitics
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AOC's Ministry of Truth
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Critics say the only solution is to break up the Facebooks and Amazons and other giants currently dominating the landscape, but will the new administration really seek to do that?
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| 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
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[
"Critics say the only solution is to break up the Facebooks and Amazons and other giants currently dominating the landscape, but will the new administration really seek to do that?",
"AOC's Ministry of Truth",
"AOC's Ministry of Truth | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-25T04:35:50 | null | 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
U.S. Energy Capital Becoming a Ghost Town. What Do We Owe It? | RealClearPolitics
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U.S. Energy Capital Becoming a Ghost Town. What Do We Owe It?
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This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly: Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size of suburbs.
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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[
"This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly: Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size of suburbs.",
"U.S. Energy Capital Becoming a Ghost Town. What Do We Owe It?",
"U.S. Energy Capital Becoming a Ghost Town. What Do We Owe It? | RealClearPolitics"
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Kmele Foster, the host of "The Fifth Column" podcast, made viral comments about Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."
"A life lost to Covid," he said. "Is a life that matters. And we can focus on the people who are vulnerable, without making this about race."
In response to an argument that Latinos are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID, he explained: "The important point is it isn't fundamentally about race. You can't un-Hispanic' them. There may be different issues in their communities. It could be that they live in homes with more people. It could be that they live in more urban centers. If that's the case, the policy you're tailoring is for people in urban centers, not Latinos."
KMELE FOSTER: The focus on "racial equity" rather than on "outcomes" is something that is rather new. But seems to have taken the country by storm.
BILL MAHER: Equity meaning as opposed to equality? Can you give a practical example of that?
MKELE FOSTER: COVID, which we were just talking about. We know that the most vulnerable population when it comes to Covid are older people; if I take people over the age of 55, that's 80% of the deaths. There have been actual conversations about prioritizing people on the basis of their race, because Covid is said to disproportionally impact black people relative to white people.
It is a ridiculous proposition, but it's a proposition that has found its way in the mouths of governors -- here in California, the pages of The New York Times, we're actively talking about this kind of ridiculous --
We actually know, when we look at the global impact of Covid, in the United States, again, 80% of the people who are dying are older; around 18% of the people dying are black.
A life lost to Covid, is a life that matters. And we can focus on the people who are vulnerable, without making this about race. Making this about race actually only obscures the actual issue.
PETER HAMBY, GUEST: If you can separate race from economic insecurity, sure. Right? Hispanics are hospitalized at 3-4 times the rate of white people for a variety of reasons. They're essential workers, they're riding the bus.
KMELE FOSTER: The important point is it isn't fundamentally about race. You can't un-Hispanic' them. There may be different issues in their communities. It could be that they live in homes with more people. It could be that they live in more urban centers.
If that's the case, the policy you're tailoring is for people in urban centers, not Latinos.
This is a confusion of categories that is actually distracting us from forging good policy. What you get is great soundbites; you don't actually fix problems.
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Kmele Foster: The Destructive Result of Focusing on Equity vs. Equality
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KMELE FOSTER: The focus on "racial equity" rather than on "outcomes" is something that is rather new. But seems to have taken the country by storm.
BILL MAHER: Equity meaning as opposed to equality? Can you give a practical example of that?
MKELE FOSTER: COVID, which we were just talking about. We know that the most vulnerable population when it comes to Covid are older people; if I take people over the age of 55, that’s 80% of the deaths. There have been actual conversations about prioritizing people on the basis of their race, because Covid is said to disproportionally impact black people relative to white people.
It is a ridiculous proposition, but it’s a proposition that has found its way in the mouths of governors -- here in California, the pages of The New York Times, we’re actively talking about this kind of ridiculous --
We actually know, when we look at the global impact of Covid, in the United States, again, 80% of the people who are dying are older; around 18% of the people dying are black.
A life lost to Covid, is a life that matters. And we can focus on the people who are vulnerable, without making this about race. Making this about race actually only obscures the actual issue.
PETER HAMBY, GUEST: If you can separate race from economic insecurity, sure. Right? Hispanics are hospitalized at 3-4 times the rate of white people for a variety of reasons. They're essential workers, they're riding the bus.
KMELE FOSTER: The important point is it isn't fundamentally about race. You can't un-Hispanic' them. There may be different issues in their communities. It could be that they live in homes with more people. It could be that they live in more urban centers.
If that’s the case, the policy you’re tailoring is for people in urban centers, not Latinos.
This is a confusion of categories that is actually distracting us from forging good policy. What you get is great soundbites; you don’t actually fix problems.
Kmele Foster, the host of "The Fifth Column" podcast, made viral comments about race issues and the COVID-19 crisis Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher.""A life lost to COVID," he said. "Is a life that matters. And we can focus on the people who are vulnerable without making this about race."In response to an argument that Latinos are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID, he explained: "The important point is it isn't fundamentally about race. You can't un-Hispanic' them. There may be different issues in their communities. It could be that they live in homes with more people. It could be that they live in more urban centers. If that’s the case, the policy you’re tailoring is for people in urban centers, not Latinos."
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election | RealClearPolitics
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Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election
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Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election
What was the point of putting together a majority in the Senate if they aren't going to wield it?
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| 2021-01-27T00:00:00 |
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"Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election\nWhat was the point of putting together a majority in the Senate if they aren't going to wield it?",
"Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election",
"Democrats Should Act Like They Won the Election | RealClearPolitics"
] |
[] | 2021-01-03T07:12:39 | null | 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally | RealClearPolitics
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How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally
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How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally
Arizona's largest county is fighting a subpoena from the Legislature seeking election records.
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| 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
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"How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally\nArizona's largest county is fighting a subpoena from the Legislature seeking election records.",
"How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally",
"How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-04T19:56:37 | null | 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
Team Cuomo's Latest Nursing-Home Hypocrisy | RealClearPolitics
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Team Cuomo's Latest Nursing-Home Hypocrisy
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How rich: The state is fining nursing homes for missing deadlines to report data — by as little as a minute — while it has withheld its own figures on nursing-home COVID deaths for months. As …
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| 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
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[
"How rich: The state is fining nursing homes for missing deadlines to report data — by as little as a minute — while it has withheld its own figures on nursing-home COVID deaths for months. As …",
"Team Cuomo's Latest Nursing-Home Hypocrisy",
"Team Cuomo's Latest Nursing-Home Hypocrisy | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-17T16:18:51 | null | 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency | RealClearPolitics
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The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency
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The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency
One hundred years from now, a fair-minded assessment of Trump's presidency will recognize his abundant domestic and international accomplishments.
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| 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
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"The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency\nOne hundred years from now, a fair-minded assessment of Trump's presidency will recognize his abundant domestic and international accomplishments.",
"The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency",
"The Abundant Policy Victories of the Trump Presidency | RealClearPolitics"
] |
[] | 2021-01-20T18:37:58 | null | 2021-01-20T00:00:00 |
Biden Looks Ahead to a New American Dawn | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Looks Ahead to a New American Dawn
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On a cold and cloudless Tuesday afternoon, through the dusk of the last day of a dark chapter in American history, Joseph R. Biden Jr, spent his final few hours as President-in-waiting pointing towards the light.
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| 2021-01-20T00:00:00 |
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[
"On a cold and cloudless Tuesday afternoon, through the dusk of the last day of a dark chapter in American history, Joseph R. Biden Jr, spent his final few hours as President-in-waiting pointing towards the light.",
"Biden Looks Ahead to a New American Dawn",
"Biden Looks Ahead to a New American Dawn | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-06T05:40:32 | null | 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind | RealClearPolitics
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How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind
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How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind
President-elect Joe Biden can accumulate enough political capital and power in Congress to move mountains after the midterm elections in 2022.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/05/how_biden_can_repair_the_rocky_road_trump_left_behind_532748.html
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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[
"How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind\nPresident-elect Joe Biden can accumulate enough political capital and power in Congress to move mountains after the midterm elections in 2022.",
"How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind",
"How Biden Can Repair the Rocky Road Trump Left Behind | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-14T12:43:59 | null | 2021-01-14T00:00:00 |
Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along | RealClearPolitics
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Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along
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Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along
What a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishm…
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| 2021-01-14T00:00:00 |
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"Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along\nWhat a difference a week makes. On Wednesday, we discovered that House Democrats actually support police. They are against mob violence. They believe in law and order. They believe in harsh punishm…",
"Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along",
"Conservatives Have Known Riots Are Bad All Along | RealClearPolitics"
] |
[] | 2021-01-18T18:23:45 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
MLK's Inspiring Message to a Nation Plagued by Violence | RealClearPolitics
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MLK's Inspiring Message to a Nation Plagued by Violence
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Surely, the violence at the U.S. Capitol would have broken his heart, as would the partisan witch hunts that seem to multiply daily.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/18/mlks_inspiring_message_to_a_nation_plagued_by_violence_533725.html
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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[
"Surely, the violence at the U.S. Capitol would have broken his heart, as would the partisan witch hunts that seem to multiply daily.",
"MLK's Inspiring Message to a Nation Plagued by Violence",
"MLK's Inspiring Message to a Nation Plagued by Violence | RealClearPolitics"
] |
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[] | 2021-01-24T20:48:04 | null | 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
The Hidden Cost of America's Forever War | RealClearPolitics
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The Hidden Cost of America's Forever War
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Both the Trump and Obama administrations relied heavily on highly trained Special Forces units to keep Afghanistan from collapse. The strategy has kept recent episodes of the 21-year Afghan War out of the public eye, but it is failing to stabilize the country and is straining the United States military’s elite troops, who serve back-to-back combat tours without an end in sight and disproportionately give their lives in service of a war the public knows almost nothing about.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/24/the_hidden_cost_of_americas_forever_war_534186.html
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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[
"Both the Trump and Obama administrations relied heavily on highly trained Special Forces units to keep Afghanistan from collapse. The strategy has kept recent episodes of the 21-year Afghan War out of the public eye, but it is failing to stabilize the country and is straining the United States military’s elite troops, who serve back-to-back combat tours without an end in sight and disproportionately give their lives in service of a war the public knows almost nothing about.",
"The Hidden Cost of America's Forever War",
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Fox News Tries to Right the Ship | RealClearPolitics
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As ratings tank amid hostile coverage of former President Donald Trump, Fox News is purging its newsroom in an attempt to salvage the network’s fading brand. Political editor Chris Stirewalt, a NeverTrumper, and several digital editors were fired Tuesday; on Election Night, Stirewalt defended the network’s decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden, a move that infuriated the president and Fox News viewers. (The outcome of Arizona’s election wasn’t finalized until late November.)
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"Fox News Tries to Right the Ship",
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Trump Is Over? Not So Fast | RealClearPolitics
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In the aftermath of the storming of the US Capitol by insurrections egged on by President Donald Trump, some influential Republicans predicted that the end had come for the billionaire businessman -- that he had reached a sort of
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This Is Not What a Constitutional Republic Looks Like | RealClearPolitics
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This Is Not What a Constitutional Republic Looks Like
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It's Already Shocking to Remember Trump Was President | RealClearPolitics
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Over the past four years, many Americans forgot how it felt to have a president who preached and practiced basic decency. Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday changed that. We’re hearing a normal president say normal things. And as we hear them, the perversity of Donald Trump’s behavior stands out more clearly. By traditional standards, Biden’s inaugural address was unremarkable. But when you compare it to the twisted farewell speeches Trump delivered on Tuesday and Wednesday, it’s shocking to remember that for four years, Trump was the president of the United States.
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The Teachers' Unions' Ransom Demand | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Is Off to a Weak Start on Foreign Policy | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Is Off to a Weak Start on Foreign Policy
The intial actions by the new administration are not encouraging.
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Democrats Owe Their Senate Control to Black Voters | RealClearPolitics
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Manchin of the Moment | RealClearPolitics
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Joe Manchin will be able to decide the fate of legislation. He may even be able to determine the course of the Biden administration
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What if the Capitol Rioters Had Been Democrats? | RealClearPolitics
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Isn't it remarkable how well order can be maintained when a clear desire to have it so is manifested? President Biden’s inauguration went off without even a hint of the violence seen a week earlier, when zealous but misguided Trump supporters broke into the Capitol in what has been widely but erroneously, often hysterically, described as an “insurrection.”
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ATLANTA (AP) Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgias two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his states history and...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach.
A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It was a stinging rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump, who made one of his final trips in office to Georgia to rally his loyal base behind Loeffler and the Republican running for the other seat, David Perdue.
Warnock said Wednesday he hadn’t yet heard from Loeffler but told CBS “This Morning” “I’m hearing from the people of Georgia. People are feeling a sense of hope this morning.”
He noted that he grew up in public housing as one of 12 children and was his family’s first college graduate. “That I am serving in the United States Senate in a few days pushes against the grain of so many expectations but this is America and I want some young person who’s watching this to know anything’s possible.”
“Georgia is in such an incredible place when you think of the arc of our history,” Warnock told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He added: “This is the reversal of the old southern strategy that sought to divide people.”
The focus now shifts to the second race between Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff. The candidates were locked in a tight race and it was too early to call a winner. Under Georgia law, a trailing candidate may request a recount when the margin of an election is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage points.
If Ossoff wins, Democrats will have complete control of Congress, strengthening President-elect Joe Biden’s standing as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20.
Warnock’s victory is a symbol of a striking shift in Georgia’s politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South. It follows Biden’s victory in November, when he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992.
Warnock, 51, acknowledged his improbable victory in a message to supporters early Wednesday, citing his family’s experience with poverty. His mother, he said, used to pick “somebody else’s cotton” as a teenager.
“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “Tonight, we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.”
The Associated Press declared Warnock the winner after an analysis of outstanding votes showed there was no way for Loeffler to catch up to his lead. Warnock’s edge is likely to grow as more ballots are counted, many of which were in Democratic-leaning areas.
Loeffler refused to concede in a brief message to supporters shortly after midnight.
“We’ve got some work to do here. This is a game of inches. We’re going to win this election,” insisted Loeffler, a 50-year-old former businesswoman who was appointed to the Senate less than a year ago by the state’s governor.
Loeffler, who remains a Georgia senator until the results of Tuesday’s election are finalized, said she would return to Washington on Wednesday morning to join a small group of senators planning to challenge Congress’ vote to certify Biden’s victory.
“We are going to keep fighting for you,” Loeffler said, “This is about protecting the American dream.”
Georgia’s other runoff election pitted Perdue, a 71-year-old former business executive who held his Senate seat until his term expired on Sunday, against Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist. At just 33 years old, Ossoff would be the Senate’s youngest member.
Trump’s false claims of voter fraud cast a dark shadow over the runoff elections, which were held only because no candidate hit the 50% threshold in the general election. He attacked the state’s election chief on the eve of the election and raised the prospect that some votes might not be counted even as votes were being cast Tuesday afternoon.
Republican state officials on the ground reported no significant problems.
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 unusually high stakes transformed Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds for the final days of Trump’s presidency — and likely beyond.
Both contests tested whether the political coalition that fueled Biden’s November victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new electoral landscape. To win in Tuesday’s elections — and in the future — Democrats needed strong African American support.
Drawing on his popularity with Black voters, among other groups, Biden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast in November.
Trump’s claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, while meritless, resonated with Republican voters in Georgia. About 7 in 10 agreed with his false assertion that Biden was not the legitimately elected president, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,600 voters in the runoff elections.
Election officials across the country, including the Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, as well as Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed that there was no widespread fraud in the November election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, where three Trump-nominated justices preside.
Even with Trump’s claims, voters in both parties were drawn to the polls because of the high stakes. AP VoteCast found that 6 in 10 Georgia voters say Senate party control was the most important factor in their vote.
Even before Tuesday, Georgia had shattered its turnout record for a runoff with more than 3 million votes by mail or during in-person advance voting in December. Including Tuesday’s vote, more people ultimately cast ballots in the runoffs than voted in Georgia’s 2016 presidential election.
In Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, 37-year-old Kari Callaghan said she voted “all Democrat” on Tuesday, an experience that was new for her.
“I’ve always been Republican, but I’ve been pretty disgusted by Trump and just the way the Republicans are working,” she said. “I feel like for the Republican candidates to still stand there with Trump and campaign with Trump feels pretty rotten. This isn’t the conservative values that I grew up with.”
But 56-year-old Will James said he voted “straight GOP.”
He said he was concerned by the Republican candidates’ recent support of Trump’s challenges of the presidential election results in Georgia, “but it didn’t really change the reasons I voted.”
Peoples reported from New York. Bynum reported from Savannah, Ga. Associated Press writers Haleluya Hadero, Angie Wang, Sophia Tulp, Ben Nadler and Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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People are feeling a sense of hope this morning.”\nHe noted that he grew up in public housing as one of 12 children and was his family’s first college graduate. “That I am serving in the United States Senate in a few days pushes against the grain of so many expectations but this is America and I want some young person who’s watching this to know anything’s possible.”\n“Georgia is in such an incredible place when you think of the arc of our history,” Warnock told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He added: “This is the reversal of the old southern strategy that sought to divide people.”\nThe focus now shifts to the second race between Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff. The candidates were locked in a tight race and it was too early to call a winner. Under Georgia law, a trailing candidate may request a recount when the margin of an election is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage points.\nIf Ossoff wins, Democrats will have complete control of Congress, strengthening President-elect Joe Biden’s standing as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20.\nWarnock’s victory is a symbol of a striking shift in Georgia’s politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South. It follows Biden’s victory in November, when he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992.\nWarnock, 51, acknowledged his improbable victory in a message to supporters early Wednesday, citing his family’s experience with poverty. His mother, he said, used to pick “somebody else’s cotton” as a teenager.\n“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “Tonight, we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.”\nThe Associated Press declared Warnock the winner after an analysis of outstanding votes showed there was no way for Loeffler to catch up to his lead. Warnock’s edge is likely to grow as more ballots are counted, many of which were in Democratic-leaning areas.\nLoeffler refused to concede in a brief message to supporters shortly after midnight.\n“We’ve got some work to do here. This is a game of inches. We’re going to win this election,” insisted Loeffler, a 50-year-old former businesswoman who was appointed to the Senate less than a year ago by the state’s governor.\nLoeffler, who remains a Georgia senator until the results of Tuesday’s election are finalized, said she would return to Washington on Wednesday morning to join a small group of senators planning to challenge Congress’ vote to certify Biden’s victory.\n“We are going to keep fighting for you,” Loeffler said, “This is about protecting the American dream.”\nGeorgia’s other runoff election pitted Perdue, a 71-year-old former business executive who held his Senate seat until his term expired on Sunday, against Ossoff, a former congressional aide and journalist. At just 33 years old, Ossoff would be the Senate’s youngest member.\nTrump’s false claims of voter fraud cast a dark shadow over the runoff elections, which were held only because no candidate hit the 50% threshold in the general election. He attacked the state’s election chief on the eve of the election and raised the prospect that some votes might not be counted even as votes were being cast Tuesday afternoon.\nRepublican state officials on the ground reported no significant problems.\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 unusually high stakes transformed Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds for the final days of Trump’s presidency — and likely beyond.\nBoth contests tested whether the political coalition that fueled Biden’s November victory was an anti-Trump anomaly or part of a new electoral landscape. To win in Tuesday’s elections — and in the future — Democrats needed strong African American support.\nDrawing on his popularity with Black voters, among other groups, Biden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast in November.\nTrump’s claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, while meritless, resonated with Republican voters in Georgia. About 7 in 10 agreed with his false assertion that Biden was not the legitimately elected president, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,600 voters in the runoff elections.\nElection officials across the country, including the Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, as well as Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed that there was no widespread fraud in the November election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, where three Trump-nominated justices preside.\nEven with Trump’s claims, voters in both parties were drawn to the polls because of the high stakes. AP VoteCast found that 6 in 10 Georgia voters say Senate party control was the most important factor in their vote.\nEven before Tuesday, Georgia had shattered its turnout record for a runoff with more than 3 million votes by mail or during in-person advance voting in December. Including Tuesday’s vote, more people ultimately cast ballots in the runoffs than voted in Georgia’s 2016 presidential election.\nIn Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, 37-year-old Kari Callaghan said she voted “all Democrat” on Tuesday, an experience that was new for her.\n“I’ve always been Republican, but I’ve been pretty disgusted by Trump and just the way the Republicans are working,” she said. “I feel like for the Republican candidates to still stand there with Trump and campaign with Trump feels pretty rotten. This isn’t the conservative values that I grew up with.”\nBut 56-year-old Will James said he voted “straight GOP.”\nHe said he was concerned by the Republican candidates’ recent support of Trump’s challenges of the presidential election results in Georgia, “but it didn’t really change the reasons I voted.”\nPeoples reported from New York. Bynum reported from Savannah, Ga. 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The fog of the Trump wars is lifting, the road from COVID-19 rising before us, the outlines of the 21st-century American system emerging. Like the bankruptcy in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the change has happened ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ The age of the democratic republic is over, the age of the American oligarchy beginning.
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"The fog of the Trump wars is lifting, the road from COVID-19 rising before us, the outlines of the 21st-century American system emerging. Like the bankruptcy in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the change has happened ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ The age of the democratic republic is over, the age of the American oligarchy beginning.",
"Oligarchy in America",
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Biden's Words of Division | RealClearPolitics
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Cloaked in an appeal to unity, President Biden's inaugural speech hit all the expected themes of racial resentment and blame.
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Democrats Have No Excuses Any More | RealClearPolitics
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| 2021-01-13T00:00:00 |
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The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders | RealClearPolitics
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The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders
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The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders
Within minutes of Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, virtually every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at the president.
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| 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
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"The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders\nWithin minutes of Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, virtually every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at the president.",
"The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders",
"The GOP Must Look After Its Voters, Not Its Leaders | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-11T15:16:44 | null | 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again
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Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again
Despite all the outrage sparked by last week's riot, the President has grounds for believing that he won't receive any immediate punishment for openly inciting an insurrection.
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| 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
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"Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again\nDespite all the outrage sparked by last week's riot, the President has grounds for believing that he won't receive any immediate punishment for openly inciting an insurrection.",
"Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again",
"Trump Can't Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again | RealClearPolitics"
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The Pentagon Must Learn to Do More With Less | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's United States of Racial Quotas & Preferences | RealClearPolitics
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On Tuesday, six days into the Biden 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 lies about Benghazi, ventured into the White House…
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"Biden's United States of Racial Quotas & Preferences",
"Biden's United States of Racial Quotas & Preferences | RealClearPolitics"
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They Enjoy Demeaning Us | RealClearPolitics
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MAGA Patriots Must Win the GOP Civil War | RealClearPolitics
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MAGA Patriots Must Win the GOP Civil War
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The grassroots need destroy RINOs in primary contests, support Republicans in general elections, and make sure establishment traitors cannot escape the specter of Trump for generations to come.
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"MAGA Patriots Must Win the GOP Civil War",
"MAGA Patriots Must Win the GOP Civil War | RealClearPolitics"
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The Heartbeat of America Is Sexism, Racism, Homophobia | RealClearPolitics
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The Heartbeat of America Is Sexism, Racism, Homophobia
When have Americans been willing to admit who we are?
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"The Heartbeat of America Is Sexism, Racism, Homophobia\nWhen have Americans been willing to admit who we are?",
"The Heartbeat of America Is Sexism, Racism, Homophobia",
"The Heartbeat of America Is Sexism, Racism, Homophobia | RealClearPolitics"
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Can Twitter Survive Banning Donald Trump? | RealClearPolitics
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Can Twitter Survive Banning Donald Trump?
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The social media platform and its rivals are right to banish the president, but it makes Twitter’s future decidedly more complicated.
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"The social media platform and its rivals are right to banish the president, but it makes Twitter’s future decidedly more complicated.",
"Can Twitter Survive Banning Donald Trump?",
"Can Twitter Survive Banning Donald Trump? | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden's Environmental Policies Will Destroy Economy | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Environmental Policies Will Destroy Economy
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President Biden has sent a clear message: pursuing radical environmental policies matters more to him than helping poor and working-class families.
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"Biden's Environmental Policies Will Destroy Economy",
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Only One Thing Americans Hate More Than a Sore Loser | RealClearPolitics
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Only One Thing Americans Hate More Than a Sore Loser
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Only One Thing Americans Hate More Than a Sore Loser
In Homer’s epic Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles finally kills his hated archenemy, the often trash-talking Trojan warrior, Hector.
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"Only One Thing Americans Hate More Than a Sore Loser",
"Only One Thing Americans Hate More Than a Sore Loser | RealClearPolitics"
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The Coming Assault on Religious Freedom | RealClearPolitics
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The Coming Assault on Religious Freedom
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The secularism that Biden represents still views Christianity as meddlesome and seeks to encroach upon religious freedom.
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After 4 Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands | RealClearPolitics
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After 4 Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands
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After 4 Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands
Trump's critics repeatedly warned that he would destroy the republic. Their claims failed to materialize.
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| 2021-01-06T00:00:00 |
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"After 4 Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands\nTrump's critics repeatedly warned that he would destroy the republic. Their claims failed to materialize.",
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Good morning, its Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The drought that left Southern California a tinderbox and its residents wary of wildfires has given way to steady...
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Hyde Amendment; Rubio's Plea; Net Metering
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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The drought that left Southern California a tinderbox and its residents wary of wildfires has given way to steady rainfall and worries of flash floods. Meanwhile, the waves of weather systems from the Pacific have covered the Mountain West in snow and prompted winter storm warnings in Chicago, forecasts of snow showers this evening in Boston, along with icy rain today in New York City and Washington, D.C.
But no matter where Americans live or what the weather -- and whether they voted for Donald Trump or Joe Biden -- everyone is asking themselves the same questions: Where are the promised coronavirus vaccines? Why is this taking so damn long? Here is one attempt to address those questions, although the answers are not satisfactory.
With that, I’d first direct you to our front page, which aggregates, as it does each day, an array of columns and stories spanning the political spectrum. This morning’s lineup includes Rahm Emanuel (Politico), John Tierney (City Journal), Frida Ghitis (CNN), and Gabrielle Birenbaum (Vox). We also offer a complement of original material from RCP’s reporters and contributors, including the following:
* * *
House GOP Draws Red Line on Federally Funded Abortion. Phil Wegmann reports on Republicans’ letter to the leaders of both chambers stating their continued support for the Hyde Amendment, which Democrats have targeted.
Rubio to Biden: Let’s Get $2K Payments Done Now. The Florida senator tells the president that a targeted relief bill would be supported by Republicans who object to unrelated add-ons and get help to needy Americans quickly.
Biden Must Resist the Left’s Environmental Overreach. At RealClearEnergy, Karen Fann warns against unintended consequences of “net metering” policies advocated by progressives.
The Economic Lesson of Tom Brady’s 10th Super Bowl. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny writes that the quarterback’s success story teaches that inequality, whether real or perceived, can spur greatness.
Getting Antitrust Right Without Suffocating Tech Progress. Also at RCM, James Edwards lays out principles that should guide the new administration and Congress.
New Year, Same Disincentives to Work. At RealClearPolicy, Tarren Bragdon explains why the new $300 boost to unemployment benefits threatens to derail the economic comeback.
Basic Science Is Why We’ll Defeat COVID-19. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy describes the role government can and should play during ordinary times to set the stage for combating unforeseen scientific challenges.
These Men Made History, Then Retired to Farms. At RealClearHistory, Francis Sempa spotlights a geographical triangle in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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Mitch McConnell's Betrayal Hurts the Nation | RealClearPolitics
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Et tu, Mitch McConnell? Just when Washington has a chance to turn the page, fresh signs emerged Tuesday that the past is not yet past. It is almost certain now that the Senate will hold an impeachment trial of President Trump next week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director.
A former ambassador to...
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Biden Chooses Veteran Diplomat Burns as CIA Director
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director.
A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns, 64, had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents. He rose through the ranks of the diplomatic corps to become deputy secretary of state before retiring in 2014 to run the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.
Amid tumult in the State Department after President Donald Trump took office in 2017, Burns held his tongue until last year when he began writing highly critical pieces of the Trump administration’s policies in Foreign Affairs and other publications. Burns has been a staunch advocate of rebuilding and restructuring the foreign service, positions Biden has aligned himself with.
“Bill Burns is an exemplary diplomat with decades of experience on the world stage keeping our people and our country safe and secure,” Biden said in a statement Monday. “He shares my profound belief that intelligence must be apolitical and that the dedicated intelligence professionals serving our nation deserve our gratitude and respect. Ambassador Burns will bring the knowledge, judgment, and perspective we need to prevent and confront threats before they can reach our shores. The American people will sleep soundly with him as our next CIA director.”
Burns was said to have been a candidate to be Biden’s secretary of state. Biden chose Anthony Blinken instead.
If confirmed by the Senate, Burns would succeed Gina Haspel. As the first female CIA director, Haspel guided the agency under Trump, who has frequently disparaged the assessments of U.S. spy agencies, especially about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to help his campaign.
The president has placed quote marks around the word intelligence in his tweets, implying that he doesn’t agree with the term, and has fired several career intelligence professionals in favor of loyalists, including some with little to no experience in the field.
Burns has received three Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the highest civilian honors from the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community. He has doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.
Burns, a graduate of La Salle University in Philadelphia with advanced degrees from Oxford University, joined the foreign service in 1982 and before being named ambassador to Russia in 2005, served as a top aide to former Secretaries of State William Christopher and Madeleine Albright as well as director of the State Department’s policy planning office.
Burns was a close adviser and confidante to Christopher, Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry before his retirement.
In his 2019 book “The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal,” Burns called for a revamp of American diplomacy, while recalling his days in the field, including helping to spearhead the early stages of the Obama administration’s outreach to Iran in 2013.
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Biden Orders Cover-Up of Differences Between the Sexes | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Orders Cover-Up of Differences Between the Sexes
This executive order combined with Supreme Court precedent amounts to imposing a national sexual orientation and gender identity law on the entire country.
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Dems Are Spooked by Efforts to Examine Election Fraud | RealClearPolitics
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Big Tech, social media, and the press used the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 as a pretext to purge their platforms of conservative figures and Republican officials, most notably President Donald Trump. Amazon, Apple, and Google conspired to deplatform Parler, regarded as a conservative, or free-speech, alternative to Twitter.
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The Lockdown Jobs Slump | RealClearPolitics
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Why I Am Joining the Jan. 6 DC March for Trump | RealClearPolitics
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On Nov. 4, 2020, I suddenly saw with my own eyes the depth and breadth of the political corruption myself and others had tried to prevent for so many years.
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How Biden Can Unite Trump Voters and Progressives | RealClearPolitics
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On Nov. 6, 1968, Richard Nixon declared victory in a narrow win over then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, with a margin of less than 1 percent and little more than 500,000 votes out of 85 million cast. The nation seemed irreparably divided — ideologically, culturally, generationally.
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Trump Is Over? Not So Fast | RealClearPolitics
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In the aftermath of the storming of the US Capitol by insurrections egged on by President Donald Trump, some influential Republicans predicted that the end had come for the billionaire businessman -- that he had reached a sort of "point of no return" with Republican politics.
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The vast majority of abortions take place today among Millennials and Gen Z, whose interests many claim to speak for, from Planned Parenthood to politicians...
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The vast majority of abortions take place today among Millennials and Gen Z, whose interests many claim to speak for, from Planned Parenthood to politicians to celebrities. As this year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade takes place with a downscaled memorial (in line with the COVID times) against the backdrop of an aggressive pro-abortion agenda from the Biden administration, our organization -- made up of more than 1,250 student pro-life groups in all 50 states -- thought it timely to ask these generations about their views on the abortion issues in the headlines.
Far from being knee-jerk in their acceptance of the status quo, Millennial and Gen Z voters expressed support for limits on abortion and taxpayer funding of it. They also said reversing Roe was acceptable, and voting on abortion policy was strongly embraced, according to the poll commissioned this month by Students for Life of America’s Institute for Pro-Life Advancement.
Almost seven out of 10 Millennials and Gen Zers want to vote on abortion-related policy, something that Roe v. Wade took away from Americans when the Supreme Court set abortion policy for the whole of the United States in 1973. In fact, fewer than two out of 10 want unlimited abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason at all and sometimes with taxpayer funding, which Roe allows.
Millennials and Gen Zers wanted abortion limits, with more than seven out of 10 expressing support for less abortion, and almost six out of 10 specifically opposed to Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton when they learn that the latter allows for abortion up to birth, an increase of six percentage points from the 2019 poll (from 51% to 57%.)
Asked directly about reversing Roe to return the issue of abortion to the states, more Millennials and Gen Zers supported doing so than opposed it, by a margin of 44% in favor to 36% opposed with 18% unsure.
Educating these generations on Roe pays off. The number of respondents opposing Roe and Doe nearly doubled after learning more about what the law allows. This number is extraordinary considering Planned Parenthood claims that Roe is popular, with 77% of the American people opposed to reversing it.
When it comes to taxpayer funding, Millennials and Gen Zers also had their doubts about this. These taxpayers do not want their money used to pay for abortions, whether in the U.S. (48%) or worldwide (53%). In both circumstances, those who oppose taxpayer funded abortion outnumber those who want it.
This should concern the Biden administration as it prepares to end the Mexico City policy that prevents U.S. taxpayer aid dollars paying for worldwide abortion, and also to strip away the Hyde Amendment, which limits federally funded abortion to cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is in danger. By a margin off 45% to 38%, Millennials and Gen Zers supported Hyde, saying that taxpayer funding for abortion should be limited to the traditional exceptions.
Millennials and Gen Zers also showed compassion for the viewpoint of pro-life Americans. Almost five in 10 do not support forcing all Americans, regardless of their beliefs, to pay for abortions and more than six in 10 believe schools should protect students’ free speech rights.
One controversial piece of legislation commonly introduced in statehouses got Millennials and Gen Z support – “Heartbeat” bills. The polling question: “Whether on a battlefield or in an emergency room, the detection of a human heartbeat gives medical professionals confirmation of life to provide critical care. The human fetal heart begins to beat 21 days after conception, at 3 weeks gestation. Knowing this, do you support or oppose abortion being banned after a heartbeat is detected?” Almost HALF supported banning abortion after a heartbeat is detected, by 47% to 38%.
Regarding “No Test” abortions and online distribution of dangerous chemical abortion pills, Millennials and Gen Zers supported in-person purchase by a margin of 55% to 23% (to prevent abusive people and partners from anonymously getting pills that they then slip to pregnant mothers without their consent). More supported a pre-chemical abortion screening exam that would cite the risks of infection, loss of fertility and complications from ectopic pregnancy. Almost half supported requiring a follow-up exam after a chemical abortion to prevent infection and death. And, good news for pro-life legislators, these voters said they would support those who fought for these health and safety standards – 52% in favor compared to 25% against.
Despite what you may hear, the facts prove that Millennials and Gen Zers are not looking for an extreme abortion agenda over the next four years. Instead, like many Americans, they express a more nuanced point of view that should be taken into account by those who will be facing these voters in two years.
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Attention readers: The following column was co-authored with the Daily Caller editorial board.
Patriots enlist and defend their country. They work hard, do...
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Attention readers: The following column was co-authored with the Daily Caller editorial board.
Patriots enlist and defend their country. They work hard, do their best, raise good families. They help their neighbors. They perform civic duties. They grit their teeth and pay their taxes. Then they show up and vote. They compete, they win or lose, but they do both with grace. These are some of the things patriots do.
Patriots do not storm their own Capitol over a lost election. They do not bum-rush members of Congress. They do not assault strangers. They do not push and shove police officers and trash federal buildings. These are things criminals do, and criminals of any political stripe deserve one thing: the rule of law.
While Congress convened Jan. 6, 2021, to certify the electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden -- an act that has been performed, for the most part throughout history, peacefully and without incident -- the city outside swelled as tens of thousands of protestors whipped themselves into a #stopthesteal frenzy. Eventually, many of them descended on the Capitol building, hellbent on disrupting the American constitutional process.
As this summer's political protests escalated into rioting and lawlessness, many of us pointed out how unacceptable that was for any reason. This situation is no different. Every single one of the people who stormed that building and participated in that rank, un-American lawlessness should be in jail. There are prodigious photos and video evidence. Law enforcement officials should find them and prosecute them, all of them, no exceptions.
The reason why is simple: The peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of Western democracy. It is the cornerstone of everything we love. It is apple pie. It's lining up and shaking hands when the clock hits zero. We have ways to resolve political disputes, including election disputes. What happened in Washington is not on the list. If we want to end the cycle of political violence -- and it has become a cycle -- now is the time to set the precedent.
The left excused this summer's rioting as "mostly peaceful." The same could be said of the events in Washington. It's irrelevant. "Mostly" is not the standard to which we should aspire. Political violence is wrong. Period. This was true in 2016 when the #NotMyPresident rioters disrupted the Trump inaugural, and it's true today. Rule of law is an essential element of our peaceful transition of power. The people who stormed that building do not represent the vast majority of America.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It's Our Turn | RealClearPolitics
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Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It's Our Turn
Trump invited the American people to fight back. We can argue over whether he was a carnival clown, but it was wildly successful.
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"Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It's Our Turn\nTrump invited the American people to fight back. We can argue over whether he was a carnival clown, but it was wildly successful.",
"Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It's Our Turn",
"Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It's Our Turn | RealClearPolitics"
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Did Coronavirus Come From a Lab? 10 Key Takeaways | RealClearPolitics
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Did Coronavirus Come From a Lab? 10 Key Takeaways
Public health experts have assured the public the COVID-19 pandemic didn't originate from a lab. A new investigative essay casts those assertions in doubt.
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| 2021-01-07T00:00:00 |
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"Did Coronavirus Come From a Lab? 10 Key Takeaways\nPublic health experts have assured the public the COVID-19 pandemic didn't originate from a lab. A new investigative essay casts those assertions in doubt.",
"Did Coronavirus Come From a Lab? 10 Key Takeaways",
"Did Coronavirus Come From a Lab? 10 Key Takeaways | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-19T06:16:10 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
If You Can Get a Covid Vaccine, Do It Now | RealClearPolitics
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If You Can Get a Covid Vaccine, Do It Now
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"If You Can Get a Covid Vaccine, Do It Now",
"If You Can Get a Covid Vaccine, Do It Now | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-29T12:36:21 | null | 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
Suck It, Wall Street | RealClearPolitics
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| 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
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"Suck It, Wall Street",
"Suck It, Wall Street | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-24T20:47:34 | null | 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
Finally, a Priority: Immigration Reform | RealClearPolitics
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Finally, a Priority: Immigration Reform
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Biden sends an early signal that it's time to provide a sensible path to citizenship.
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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"Biden sends an early signal that it's time to provide a sensible path to citizenship.",
"Finally, a Priority: Immigration Reform",
"Finally, a Priority: Immigration Reform | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-29T12:35:15 | null | 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
Report Exposes Andrew Cuomo's Despicable Dishonesty | RealClearPolitics
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Report Exposes Andrew Cuomo's Despicable Dishonesty
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The truth will out. What media reports and grieving family members have been telling us for months has now been confirmed by a fellow Democratic politician: The Cuomo administration sent thousand…
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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"The truth will out. What media reports and grieving family members have been telling us for months has now been confirmed by a fellow Democratic politician: The Cuomo administration sent thousand…",
"Report Exposes Andrew Cuomo's Despicable Dishonesty",
"Report Exposes Andrew Cuomo's Despicable Dishonesty | RealClearPolitics"
] |
[] | 2021-01-21T14:28:02 | null | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency
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Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency
He left office with more real achievements than any chief executive of recent memory.
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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"Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency\nHe left office with more real achievements than any chief executive of recent memory.",
"Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency",
"Trump's Top-10 Triumphs: Last Look at a Remarkable Presidency | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-15T16:50:24 | null | 2021-01-15T00:00:00 |
U.S. Mustn't Follow Weimar Germany and Ancient Rome | RealClearPolitics
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U.S. Mustn't Follow Weimar Germany and Ancient Rome
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In its moment of crisis, the American republic can find warnings but also inspiration in the past.
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| 2021-01-15T00:00:00 |
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"In its moment of crisis, the American republic can find warnings but also inspiration in the past.",
"U.S. Mustn't Follow Weimar Germany and Ancient Rome",
"U.S. Mustn't Follow Weimar Germany and Ancient Rome | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-08T13:32:31 | null | 2021-01-07T00:00:00 |
A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy | RealClearPolitics
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"A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy",
"A Make-or-Break Moment for American Democracy | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-10T16:50:52 | null | 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
Trump Should Be Removed From Office Immediately | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Should Be Removed From Office Immediately
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A swift impeachment is imperative but from Rudy Giuliani and Don Jr to Fox News and Twitter, the president did not act alone
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| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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"A swift impeachment is imperative but from Rudy Giuliani and Don Jr to Fox News and Twitter, the president did not act alone",
"Trump Should Be Removed From Office Immediately",
"Trump Should Be Removed From Office Immediately | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-14T12:43:49 | null | 2021-01-13T00:00:00 |
What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish | RealClearPolitics
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What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish
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What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish
Biden's majority is fragile. But it could also be incredibly powerful.
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| 2021-01-13T00:00:00 |
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"What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish\nBiden's majority is fragile. But it could also be incredibly powerful.",
"What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish",
"What Biden and a Democratic Senate Can Accomplish | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-16T19:05:31 | null | 2021-01-16T00:00:00 |
What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends | RealClearPolitics
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What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends
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What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends
More than reality TV, the Trump presidency resembled an antihero drama. Here's what we might expect next.
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| 2021-01-16T00:00:00 |
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"What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends\nMore than reality TV, the Trump presidency resembled an antihero drama. Here's what we might expect next.",
"What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends",
"What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden Should Go Big, Fast and Simple | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Should Go Big, Fast and Simple
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1932, the nation was facing concentric crises: the immediate, house-on-fire disaster of rolling bank closures; the broader economic depression; and, beyond that, deeply entrenched problems that the depression had highlighted, including elderly poverty. Roosevelt’s first 100 days addressed the first two crises with historic directness. He reopened the banks and directly employed thousands of Americans through measures such as the Civilian Conservation Corps. Then, near the end of his first term, he signed the Social Security Act, which has reduced senior poverty and become one of the most popular federal programs in the United States.
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| 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
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"When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1932, the nation was facing concentric crises: the immediate, house-on-fire disaster of rolling bank closures; the broader economic depression; and, beyond that, deeply entrenched problems that the depression had highlighted, including elderly poverty. Roosevelt’s first 100 days addressed the first two crises with historic directness. He reopened the banks and directly employed thousands of Americans through measures such as the Civilian Conservation Corps. Then, near the end of his first term, he signed the Social Security Act, which has reduced senior poverty and become one of the most popular federal programs in the United States.",
"Biden Should Go Big, Fast and Simple",
"Biden Should Go Big, Fast and Simple | RealClearPolitics"
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Dems Were for Occupying Capitols Before They Were Against It | RealClearPolitics
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Dems Were for Occupying Capitols Before They Were Against It
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“Thousands of protesters rushed to the … Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors.” That is how one newspaper described the storming of the Capitol — not the one in Washington last week, but the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., a decade ago.
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| 2021-01-19T00:00:00 |
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"“Thousands of protesters rushed to the … Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors.” That is how one newspaper described the storming of the Capitol — not the one in Washington last week, but the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., a decade ago.",
"Dems Were for Occupying Capitols Before They Were Against It",
"Dems Were for Occupying Capitols Before They Were Against It | RealClearPolitics"
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The Tragic Rise of Andrew Cuomo Amid COVID-19 | RealClearPolitics
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The Tragic Rise of Andrew Cuomo Amid COVID-19
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I believe the deaths of thousands of seniors who have died from COVID in New York could've been prevented.
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| 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
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"I believe the deaths of thousands of seniors who have died from COVID in New York could've been prevented.",
"The Tragic Rise of Andrew Cuomo Amid COVID-19",
"The Tragic Rise of Andrew Cuomo Amid COVID-19 | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-22T06:51:56 | null | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
Trump Leaves Behind Diminished GOP | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Leaves Behind Diminished GOP
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Three of the big power centers that drove the GOP's last successful midterm campaign are no longer the same forces in party politics now.
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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"Three of the big power centers that drove the GOP's last successful midterm campaign are no longer the same forces in party politics now.",
"Trump Leaves Behind Diminished GOP",
"Trump Leaves Behind Diminished GOP | RealClearPolitics"
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A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State | RealClearPolitics
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A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State
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Democrats need to see beyond an electoral map to acknowledge the folks pushing for liberal ideas even in the reddest of areas.
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| 2021-01-03T00:00:00 |
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"Democrats need to see beyond an electoral map to acknowledge the folks pushing for liberal ideas even in the reddest of areas.",
"A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State",
"A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State | RealClearPolitics"
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It’s the Pro-Lockdown Lobby That Is Spreading Fake News | RealClearPolitics
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It’s the Pro-Lockdown Lobby That Is Spreading Fake News
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| 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
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"It’s the Pro-Lockdown Lobby That Is Spreading Fake News",
"It’s the Pro-Lockdown Lobby That Is Spreading Fake News | RealClearPolitics"
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How to Restore Faith in the Constitution | RealClearPolitics
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How to Restore Faith in the Constitution
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There must be a clear confirmation or denial of a stolen election in 2020, and the American people must demand accountability if not before a Biden inauguration, then in 2022 and 2024.
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| 2021-01-19T00:00:00 |
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"There must be a clear confirmation or denial of a stolen election in 2020, and the American people must demand accountability if not before a Biden inauguration, then in 2022 and 2024.",
"How to Restore Faith in the Constitution",
"How to Restore Faith in the Constitution | RealClearPolitics"
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The economy was bad, and the White House planned to go big. On the day the mammoth $800 billion Recovery Act became law, however, the new president took care...
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2009 Redux? Biden Cites 'Urgent' Need for His $1.9T Stimulus
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The economy was bad, and the White House planned to go big. On the day the mammoth $800 billion Recovery Act became law, however, the new president took care to stress how his administration would keep a close eye on every dollar going out the door. This task of providing oversight, Barack Obama announced at the bill’s 2009 signing ceremony, would go to Joe Biden.
“To you, he's Mr. Vice President,” Obama quipped to a room that included more than one skeptical Republican lawmaker. “But around the White House, we call him the sheriff.”
In a few days, the country will call him Mr. President. A decade later, Biden confronts a deeper economic crisis, this one brought on by a global pandemic, and the incoming executive has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package meant to buoy families and communities and small businesses as his administration pushes to step up distribution of the coronavirus vaccines.
All that old sheriff has to do now is get Congress to come together -- in the middle of another bitter impeachment fight. But in announcing the initiative Thursday evening, Biden didn’t mention the partisan battle currently consuming Capitol Hill. Instead, he emphasized in a prime-time speech that the dark winter he warned about during the campaign had arrived. COVID cases are spiking across the country. The economy is faltering. The nation, the president-elect argued, simply can’t afford not to act.
Yes, it will be expensive. Perhaps remembering the fights over the 2009 stimulus, Biden didn’t shy away from that fact. With interest rates low, he said it was a great time to borrow even though it guarantees adding more to the ever-growing national debt. Just a few minutes into his remarks, he said that “deficit spending” wasn’t just in order. It was “more urgent than ever” to make “smart fiscal investments.”
“The return on these investments -- in jobs, in racial equity -- will prevent long-term economic damage and the benefits will far surpass the costs,” Biden argued before adding that top economists had concluded that spending more now to spur the economy would ensure “our debt situation will be more stable, not less stable, if we seize this moment with vision and purpose.”
The Biden administration brands that vision as “the American Rescue Plan,” and its trillions in proposed spending fall roughly into three categories.
Fighting the Virus
First, the president-elect requested $400 billion in additional funding to address the health crisis. According to his plans, the money would be spent rushing the vaccine into the arms of Americans at community vaccination sites nationwide, scaling up testing and tracing to track and contain the disease, and investing in the infrastructure and supplies needed to reopen schools safely.
Once made safe for students and staff, Biden wants the majority of American students from kindergarten through eighth grade back in the classroom in his first 100 days. He also promised to lay out a vaccination plan “to correct course and meet our goal of 100 million shots by the end of our first 100 days.”
Reinforcing Families
Second, Biden requested $1 trillion in family relief. The biggest item in this spending bucket: a $1,400 per-person check (a payment to be added on top of the $600 already agreed to by lawmakers). He wants housing assistance and nutrition assistance, more money for subsidized child care, an extension of unemployment insurance through September, and a $3,000 tax credit for every child under 17 years old. What’s more, the incoming president wants a $15 minimum wage: “No one working 40 hours a week should still be below the poverty line.”
Aid for Cities, States, and Small Businesses
Finally, the president-elect will ask Congress for an additional $440 billion to provide relief for small businesses and to shore up struggling state and city and tribal governments.
Biden proposes no less than $15 billion in direct grants as well as $175 billion in government-backed lending for small businesses. He promised that the focus would be on “Main Street,” with particular emphasis on ensuring that “minority-owned small businesses and women-owned small businesses finally having equal access to the resources they need to reopen and rebuild.”
He also promised emergency funding for essential workers like municipal firefighters and police, warning that “the people putting their lives at risk are the very people now at risk of losing their jobs.”
Biden offered a broad sketch of the rescue package in his 25-minute address while his team passed a long a 17-page fact sheet to fill in more of the details. It will be up to Congress to put flesh on these legislative bones. While Democrats hold the Senate after their twin victories in Georgia, their grasp is tenuous. The chamber splits 50-50, meaning that Vice President-elect Harris would cast tie-breaking votes. But power-sharing will still be a fact of life in the chamber and the incoming president didn’t offer details about how the ambitious agenda would become more than an aspiration. Biden wasn’t short on soaring rhetoric, however.
“We didn't get into all this overnight. We won't get out of it overnight, and we can't do it as a separated and divided nation,” he said. “The only way we can do it is to come together.”
This, along with the outlined spending, was enough to have congressional Democrats cheering.
“House and Senate Democrats express gratitude toward and look forward to working with the President-elect on the rescue plan,” Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi said in a press release. The pair heralded the spending as “the right approach” and a sign that Democrats “have a partner at the White House that understands the need to take swift action to address the needs of struggling communities.” Even the party’s most prominent progressives were impressed with the dollar amount. Democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders, Biden’s 2020 campaign rival, released a statement calling the plan “much needed” and pledged to work with his colleagues in Congress to get it passed.
Republicans were predictably unimpressed. Rep. Kevin Brady, the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee, said Biden had “launched yet another economic blind buffalo that does nothing to save Main Street.” The Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House, tweeted that the stimulus checks alone in the plan “cost as much as the inflation adjusted cost of World War I.”
This sudden rediscovery of the dangers of too large a national debt harked back to the Obama days when the GOP prided itself on being the party of fiscal responsibility. Congressional Republicans regularly warned then that the Democrat in the White House was a profligate spender mortgaging the future of generations to come. It’s an old conservative chestnut that Republicans only seem to remember when Democrats occupy the Oval Office: Under President Trump, the debt ballooned by $7.8 trillion.
Familiar with those old arguments, Biden moved to head them off Thursday evening. “I know what I just described will not come cheaply,” he said. “But failing to do so will cost us dearly -- the consensus among leading economists is we simply cannot afford not to do it.” This won’t be his only spending plan either. He promised that this $1.9 trillion initiative is an opening bid to Congress with more spending to come later.
As the first legislative priority of his administration, the plan will test the new president’s deal-making acumen. Biden seems comfortable in the role. He didn’t balk at debt and deficits the last time he was in the White House. He hasn’t gotten skittish in the last four years either, as he heralded the first multi-billion-dollar spending package he managed. “We will be responsible with taxpayer dollars, ensuring accountability that reduces waste, fraud, or abuse,” he promised, “like we did with the Recovery Act during the Obama-Biden administration.”
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A decade later, Biden confronts a deeper economic crisis, this one brought on by a global pandemic, and the incoming executive has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package meant to buoy families and communities and small businesses as his administration pushes to step up distribution of the coronavirus vaccines.\nAll that old sheriff has to do now is get Congress to come together -- in the middle of another bitter impeachment fight. But in announcing the initiative Thursday evening, Biden didn’t mention the partisan battle currently consuming Capitol Hill. Instead, he emphasized in a prime-time speech that the dark winter he warned about during the campaign had arrived. COVID cases are spiking across the country. The economy is faltering. The nation, the president-elect argued, simply can’t afford not to act.\nYes, it will be expensive. Perhaps remembering the fights over the 2009 stimulus, Biden didn’t shy away from that fact. With interest rates low, he said it was a great time to borrow even though it guarantees adding more to the ever-growing national debt. Just a few minutes into his remarks, he said that “deficit spending” wasn’t just in order. It was “more urgent than ever” to make “smart fiscal investments.”\n“The return on these investments -- in jobs, in racial equity -- will prevent long-term economic damage and the benefits will far surpass the costs,” Biden argued before adding that top economists had concluded that spending more now to spur the economy would ensure “our debt situation will be more stable, not less stable, if we seize this moment with vision and purpose.”\nThe Biden administration brands that vision as “the American Rescue Plan,” and its trillions in proposed spending fall roughly into three categories.\nFighting the Virus\nFirst, the president-elect requested $400 billion in additional funding to address the health crisis. According to his plans, the money would be spent rushing the vaccine into the arms of Americans at community vaccination sites nationwide, scaling up testing and tracing to track and contain the disease, and investing in the infrastructure and supplies needed to reopen schools safely.\nOnce made safe for students and staff, Biden wants the majority of American students from kindergarten through eighth grade back in the classroom in his first 100 days. He also promised to lay out a vaccination plan “to correct course and meet our goal of 100 million shots by the end of our first 100 days.”\nReinforcing Families\nSecond, Biden requested $1 trillion in family relief. The biggest item in this spending bucket: a $1,400 per-person check (a payment to be added on top of the $600 already agreed to by lawmakers). He wants housing assistance and nutrition assistance, more money for subsidized child care, an extension of unemployment insurance through September, and a $3,000 tax credit for every child under 17 years old. What’s more, the incoming president wants a $15 minimum wage: “No one working 40 hours a week should still be below the poverty line.”\nAid for Cities, States, and Small Businesses\nFinally, the president-elect will ask Congress for an additional $440 billion to provide relief for small businesses and to shore up struggling state and city and tribal governments.\nBiden proposes no less than $15 billion in direct grants as well as $175 billion in government-backed lending for small businesses. He promised that the focus would be on “Main Street,” with particular emphasis on ensuring that “minority-owned small businesses and women-owned small businesses finally having equal access to the resources they need to reopen and rebuild.”\nHe also promised emergency funding for essential workers like municipal firefighters and police, warning that “the people putting their lives at risk are the very people now at risk of losing their jobs.”\nBiden offered a broad sketch of the rescue package in his 25-minute address while his team passed a long a 17-page fact sheet to fill in more of the details. It will be up to Congress to put flesh on these legislative bones. While Democrats hold the Senate after their twin victories in Georgia, their grasp is tenuous. The chamber splits 50-50, meaning that Vice President-elect Harris would cast tie-breaking votes. But power-sharing will still be a fact of life in the chamber and the incoming president didn’t offer details about how the ambitious agenda would become more than an aspiration. Biden wasn’t short on soaring rhetoric, however.\n“We didn't get into all this overnight. We won't get out of it overnight, and we can't do it as a separated and divided nation,” he said. “The only way we can do it is to come together.”\nThis, along with the outlined spending, was enough to have congressional Democrats cheering.\n“House and Senate Democrats express gratitude toward and look forward to working with the President-elect on the rescue plan,” Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi said in a press release. The pair heralded the spending as “the right approach” and a sign that Democrats “have a partner at the White House that understands the need to take swift action to address the needs of struggling communities.” Even the party’s most prominent progressives were impressed with the dollar amount. Democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders, Biden’s 2020 campaign rival, released a statement calling the plan “much needed” and pledged to work with his colleagues in Congress to get it passed.\nRepublicans were predictably unimpressed. Rep. Kevin Brady, the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee, said Biden had “launched yet another economic blind buffalo that does nothing to save Main Street.” The Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House, tweeted that the stimulus checks alone in the plan “cost as much as the inflation adjusted cost of World War I.”\nThis sudden rediscovery of the dangers of too large a national debt harked back to the Obama days when the GOP prided itself on being the party of fiscal responsibility. Congressional Republicans regularly warned then that the Democrat in the White House was a profligate spender mortgaging the future of generations to come. It’s an old conservative chestnut that Republicans only seem to remember when Democrats occupy the Oval Office: Under President Trump, the debt ballooned by $7.8 trillion.\nFamiliar with those old arguments, Biden moved to head them off Thursday evening. “I know what I just described will not come cheaply,” he said. “But failing to do so will cost us dearly -- the consensus among leading economists is we simply cannot afford not to do it.” This won’t be his only spending plan either. He promised that this $1.9 trillion initiative is an opening bid to Congress with more spending to come later.\nAs the first legislative priority of his administration, the plan will test the new president’s deal-making acumen. Biden seems comfortable in the role. He didn’t balk at debt and deficits the last time he was in the White House. He hasn’t gotten skittish in the last four years either, as he heralded the first multi-billion-dollar spending package he managed. “We will be responsible with taxpayer dollars, ensuring accountability that reduces waste, fraud, or abuse,” he promised, “like we did with the Recovery Act during the Obama-Biden administration.”",
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On this date in...
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Good morning, it’s Jan. 4, 2021, the first Monday in a year most of us hope will be better and safer than the one we just left behind.
On this date in American political history, Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House (2007), former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota (1999), Congress convened under GOP control for the first time since Dwight Eisenhower’s first term (1995), and Lyndon Johnson outlined the “Great Society” in a speech to Congress (1965).
Pelosi was given the speaker’s gavel again yesterday, this time to lead the 117th Congress, although the 2020 elections left her with a smaller Democratic Party majority. “As we are sworn in today, we accept a responsibility as daunting and demanding as any that previous generations of leadership have faced,” Pelosi noted in a sentiment no one would contest. “We begin the new Congress during a time of extraordinary difficulty.”
As for control of the even more closely divided U.S. Senate, that is still up in the air. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to 32 newly elected senators, but the identity of two final candidates is what the country is waiting to learn, perhaps as early as tomorrow night. I don’t know how long it will take to count the votes in Georgia’s two Senate races, or if the losing candidates will even accept the results, but today all eyes are on the Peach State.
I’d now direct you to our front page, which aggregates, as it does each day, an array of columns and stories spanning the political spectrum. This morning’s lineup includes offerings by Tom Nichols (The Atlantic); Zephyr Teachout (Foreign Affairs magazine); Robin Wright (The New Yorker); and Byron York (Washington Examiner), as well as a Sunday video clip of Sen. Ron Johnson on “Meet the Press.” We also offer a complement of original material from RCP’s reporters and contributors, including the following:
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Georgia Tests Theory That Trump Stance on Election Harms the GOP. RCP political writer Susan Crabtree has this scene-setter on Tuesday’s runoff.
Danger of Normalizing Electoral College Protests. RCP columnist Bill Scher examines Josh Hawley’s claim that Democrats started this.
Our Electoral Crisis: The Call of Conscience on Jan. 6. Frank Miele weighs in on Republican objections to the certification of electors from states where fraud has been alleged.
Inauguration Day Symbolizes America’s Enduring Constitution. Charles Lipson explains why Donald Trump’s attendance at Joe Biden’s swearing-in on Jan. 20 is so important.
Bullying in the Name of Social Justice: A Sign of the Times. J. Peder Zane considers the case of a high school student punished for a years-old Instagram post, and a major news outlet’s examination of it.
COVID-19 Showcases the Supplement Scam. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy assails how marketers have taken advantage of consumer eagerness for protection against the coronavirus.
Religious Freedom Drives Catholic Latino Vote. At RealClearReligion, Nora Kenney explores the uptick in Hispanic support for Donald Trump in November.
* * *
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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Free speech is gone in America. The president has been silenced. What happened to our beloved country? Where did we go off the rails?
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Good morning, its Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Todays comes from Oprah...
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Good morning, it’s Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Today’s comes from Oprah Winfrey, a woman I have never met, but have long admired from afar. Today is Oprah’s 67th birthday.
First, 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 Matt Taibbi (Substack), Michelle Goldberg (New York Times), and Merrill Matthews (The Hill). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors:
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National Guard’s D.C. Deployment Raises Superspreader Concerns. Susan Crabtree has the story.
Bill Hagerty Builds a Post-Trump Enclave in the Senate. Phil Wegmann reports on the Tennessee Republican’s hiring of Trump administration staffers -- a group that’s found it hard to find work with the 45th president out of office.
Flawed Thinking Behind Biden’s Gun Control Bill. John R. Lott Jr. argues that holding gun makers and sellers liable for misuse of weapons they sell is like being able to sue computer manufacturers for hackers’ crimes.
Dismiss GameStop Populist Hype. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny rejects the narrative about a shift of power away from hedge funds and back to the little guy.
Don’t Fall for Iran Regime’s Nuclear Blackmail. At RealClearEnergy, Alireza Jafarzadeh warns that Tehran has increased its region-destabilizing activities with the intention of coercing rapid concessions from the U.S.
What Biden Must Learn About Community. Lee Trepanier continues RealClearPolicy’s The American Project by considering what the likely growth of the administrative state under a Democratic president will mean for civic associations.
It’s Our National Duty to Fight for the Unborn. Also at RCPolicy, Rep. Chip Roy writes that opposition to abortion is rooted in our country’s founding principles.
Teaching the Moral Foundations of Capitalism, One Student at a Time. At RealClearWire, Mike Sabo highlights the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism.
* * *
Oprah Winfrey -- television star, best-selling author, entrepreneur, billionaire, international philanthropist, global brand -- has much to be thankful for in life. But here’s the thing: Who should she thank? Yes, she lives in a consistently great country (no matter what Donald Trump or his detractors say), a country of opportunity. And yes, she is a woman who sees the hand of God in human affairs.
Also, she has undeniable natural talents -- and is a born optimist. But she was also born into blinding poverty, abused as a child, and was never gifted with an inheritance or handout. She is a Horatio Alger story come to life. So what made it all possible? What is her greatest gift? My guess is that her frequently professed concern for others is genuine. I think her empathy is palpable and people want to be in its presence.
In 2017, after a madman murdered 60 people and wounded hundreds from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, Oprah was interviewed on “Entertainment Tonight.” Here is part of what she had to say:
“There’s not a day that goes by where I'm not putting on my shoes, or brushing my teeth, where I just think about the ordinariness of people who just went to a concert, or the ordinariness of the day from people from 9/11, who were just doing an ordinary thing, and then you never get home. … So, I would say that these days of crisis and tragedy are to remind us all to be present in the ordinariness of our lives, that actually turns out to be extraordinary when the person you love doesn't come home at night.
“This is to make us all more awakened about our own life, and the fact that it shows up this way is a horror. But, as I heard someone say, seeing people coming together, helping each other -- whether it’s this crisis we're in or what we saw weeks ago in, in Houston, in Florida, and now in Puerto Rico -- it shows the humanity of us all. So, it's an opportunity to show the best of ourselves, when the worst shows up.”
Today, as we confront constant new setbacks in our fight against COVID-19, her wisdom is as fitting now as it was then. And it’s our quote of the week.
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
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"Good morning, it’s Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Today’s comes from Oprah Winfrey, a woman I have never met, but have long admired from afar. Today is Oprah’s 67th birthday.\nFirst, 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 Matt Taibbi (Substack), Michelle Goldberg (New York Times), and Merrill Matthews (The Hill). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors:\n* * *\nNational Guard’s D.C. Deployment Raises Superspreader Concerns. Susan Crabtree has the story.\nBill Hagerty Builds a Post-Trump Enclave in the Senate. Phil Wegmann reports on the Tennessee Republican’s hiring of Trump administration staffers -- a group that’s found it hard to find work with the 45th president out of office.\nFlawed Thinking Behind Biden’s Gun Control Bill. John R. Lott Jr. argues that holding gun makers and sellers liable for misuse of weapons they sell is like being able to sue computer manufacturers for hackers’ crimes.\nDismiss GameStop Populist Hype. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny rejects the narrative about a shift of power away from hedge funds and back to the little guy.\nDon’t Fall for Iran Regime’s Nuclear Blackmail. At RealClearEnergy, Alireza Jafarzadeh warns that Tehran has increased its region-destabilizing activities with the intention of coercing rapid concessions from the U.S.\nWhat Biden Must Learn About Community. Lee Trepanier continues RealClearPolicy’s The American Project by considering what the likely growth of the administrative state under a Democratic president will mean for civic associations.\nIt’s Our National Duty to Fight for the Unborn. Also at RCPolicy, Rep. Chip Roy writes that opposition to abortion is rooted in our country’s founding principles.\nTeaching the Moral Foundations of Capitalism, One Student at a Time. At RealClearWire, Mike Sabo highlights the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism.\n* * *\nOprah Winfrey -- television star, best-selling author, entrepreneur, billionaire, international philanthropist, global brand -- has much to be thankful for in life. But here’s the thing: Who should she thank? Yes, she lives in a consistently great country (no matter what Donald Trump or his detractors say), a country of opportunity. And yes, she is a woman who sees the hand of God in human affairs.\nAlso, she has undeniable natural talents -- and is a born optimist. But she was also born into blinding poverty, abused as a child, and was never gifted with an inheritance or handout. She is a Horatio Alger story come to life. So what made it all possible? What is her greatest gift? My guess is that her frequently professed concern for others is genuine. I think her empathy is palpable and people want to be in its presence.\nIn 2017, after a madman murdered 60 people and wounded hundreds from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, Oprah was interviewed on “Entertainment Tonight.” Here is part of what she had to say:\n“There’s not a day that goes by where I'm not putting on my shoes, or brushing my teeth, where I just think about the ordinariness of people who just went to a concert, or the ordinariness of the day from people from 9/11, who were just doing an ordinary thing, and then you never get home. … So, I would say that these days of crisis and tragedy are to remind us all to be present in the ordinariness of our lives, that actually turns out to be extraordinary when the person you love doesn't come home at night.\n“This is to make us all more awakened about our own life, and the fact that it shows up this way is a horror. But, as I heard someone say, seeing people coming together, helping each other -- whether it’s this crisis we're in or what we saw weeks ago in, in Houston, in Florida, and now in Puerto Rico -- it shows the humanity of us all. So, it's an opportunity to show the best of ourselves, when the worst shows up.”\nToday, as we confront constant new setbacks in our fight against COVID-19, her wisdom is as fitting now as it was then. And it’s our quote of the week.\nCarl M. Cannon\nWashington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics\n@CarlCannon (Twitter)\[email protected]",
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