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Post by aj2hall on Feb 24, 2024 14:16:30 GMT
n my view, the key CPAC story isn’t that right-wing influencer Jack Posebiec said, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”
The story is how many Republican lawmakers are absolutely silent about it.
May I suggest the media ask every Congressional member who speaks at CPAC, and every Republican presidential candidate for that matter, the following three questions:
1) Do you reject Jack Posebiec’s comments?
2) Do you support democracy?
3) Do you respect the separation of church and state?
And don't stop asking until you get answers.
I believe journalists have a duty to uncover just how deep the threat to American democracy runs.
It’s the answers that should frighten us. Never the questions.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 24, 2024 14:17:51 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 24, 2024 14:50:26 GMT
That dude just seems so slimy and smarmy to me. Just ugh. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 24, 2024 15:06:20 GMT
I love how Republicans like Nancy Mace, Mike Rogers and others are scrambling to show they support IVF. But many of them voted for bills that would establish personhood at conception or voted against a bill to protect IVF. Or they voted for conservative judges who will rule for personhood at conception.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 16:04:20 GMT
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 24, 2024 16:11:31 GMT
Chances SHOULD be great. But republicans have gerrymandered and suppressed the votes so much in some places that it might be difficult for a democrat to get elected. Hopefully we have a very large voter turnout to counteract the damage. Democrats always do better when there’s a large turnout. This is absolutely my concern, as well as that the House leadership has suggested they may not accept election results. |
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Post by lesley on Feb 24, 2024 16:46:59 GMT
DS and I were discussing this family a couple of days ago. I bet they now wish they had just taken their chances with the gays. 🙄 |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 25, 2024 12:48:06 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 25, 2024 23:32:55 GMT
Too bad there are not more Republicans like this - ones who care more about what is best for the country (like the border bill) vs what is best for the Republican Party and Trump?
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 26, 2024 1:37:12 GMT
www.axios.com/2024/02/23/impeachment-biden-gop-republicans-voteBetween the lines: Nehls argued that Republicans should embrace impeachment as a 2024 campaign weapon for former President Trump.
"You know what Joe Biden's going to do ... [he'll say], 'Well Donald Trump you've been impeached twice,'" he said. "But Donald Trump could look back at him and say, 'Well, Joe, you've been impeached also.'"
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 27, 2024 4:15:21 GMT
Republicans really are incapable of actually governing. For the extreme wing of their party, dysfunction is the point. They're actually discussing rescinding the invitation for President Biden to deliver the State of the Union. www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/26/congress/perry-biden-sotu-border-cancel-00143329Former Freedom Caucus chair floats House GOP nixing State of the Union invite over Biden border policies
"We need to use every single point of leverage," Scott Perry said.
Conservative Rep. Scott Perry suggested that House Republicans rescind President Joe Biden's State of the Union invitation for March 7 over immigration and border policies.
"We need to use every single point of leverage," Perry said on Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria." "He comes at the invitation of Congress, and Republicans are in control of the House. There’s no reason that we need to invite him to get more propaganda."
Perry, the former head of the House Freedom Caucus, claimed allowing Biden to deliver the address would merely allow the president to "actually blame the American people for the crisis he’s caused.”
Biden plans to visit the southern border on Thursday, as congressional Republicans have stalled a bipartisan compromise on border security.
Speaker Mike Johnson invited Biden in January to deliver the annual address to Congress, selecting a date in March relatively late in the normal calendar now situated near a looming potential government shutdown. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 27, 2024 14:46:59 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 28, 2024 11:50:32 GMT
Kind of long, but a really great summary about the appropriation bills and aid for Ukraine. Regrettably, I don’t have a lot of confidence in Mike Johnson heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-27-2024The House of Representatives will be back in session tomorrow after the February 19 Presidents Day holiday. It is facing a number of crucial issues, but the ongoing problem of the radicalism of the MAGA Republicans has ground—and, apparently, continues to grind—legislation to a halt.
The farm bill, which establishes the main agricultural and food policies of the government—agricultural subsidies and food benefits, among other things—and which needs to be reauthorized every five years, expired in September 2023. While Congress extended the 2018 bill as a stopgap until September 2024, the new bill should be passed.
The farm bill has more breathing room than the appropriations bills to fund the government in fiscal year 2024 (which started on October 1, 2023). Four of the continuing resolutions Congress passed to keep the government running will expire on March 1; the other eight will expire on March 8. Operating on a continuing resolution that maintains 2023 levels of spending means the government cannot shift to the new priorities Congress agreed to in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with leaders from the Pentagon and the Senate, warns that the lack of appropriations measures is compromising national defense.
On an even tighter timeline is the national security supplemental bill to aid Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Ukraine is running out of ammunition, and its war effort is faltering. Every day that passes without the matériel only the U.S. can provide hurts the Ukrainians’ cause.
All of these measures are stalled because extremist MAGA Republicans in the House are insisting their demands be included in them. Negotiators have been trying to hash out the farm bill for months, and today Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said she would rather continue to extend the 2018 law than bow to the House Republicans’ demands for cuts to food assistance programs and funding for climate change.
Appropriations bills are generally passed “clean,” that is, without the inclusion of unrelated controversial elements. But House Republicans are insisting the appropriations bills include their own demands for much deeper cuts than House leadership agreed to, as well as riders about abortion; gun policy; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; LGBTQ+ rights; and so on. Those are nonstarters for Democrats.
As for the national security supplemental measure, lawmakers agree on a bipartisan basis that Ukraine’s successful defense against Russia’s invasion is crucial to U.S. national security. The Senate passed the bill on a strong bipartisan vote of 70 to 29, and if brought to the floor of the House, it would be expected to pass there, too.
But House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refuses to bring it to the floor. When President Joe Biden first asked for the aid in October, Republicans insisted they could not see their way to protecting our national security overseas without addressing it on the southern border. A bipartisan group of senators spent four months hashing out a border provision for the bill—House Republicans declined to participate—only to have House Republicans scuttle the measure when former president Trump told them to. The Senate promptly passed a bill that didn’t have the border component. Rather than take it up, the House recessed.
Today, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with congressional leaders and urged them to pass the appropriations bills and the national security supplemental. But Biden, Harris, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) all agree on the need to pass these measures immediately. The holdout is House speaker Johnson.
After the meeting, Schumer said the meeting on Ukraine was “one of the most intense” scenes he had ever seen in the Oval Office. "We said to the speaker, 'Get it done.' I told him this is one of the moments—I said I've been around here a long time. It's maybe four or five times that history is looking over your shoulder, and if you don't do the right thing, whatever the immediate politics are, you will regret it. I told him two years from now and every year after that, because really, it's in his hands."
For his part, Johnson said that “the House is actively pursuing and investigating all the various options” on the supplemental bill, “but again, the first priority of the country is our border and making sure it’s secure.”
Johnson appears to be working for Trump, who is strongly opposed to aid for Ukraine and likely intends to use immigration as a campaign issue.
But Trump is a poor choice to give control over United States security. Yesterday, Special Counsel Jack Smith responded to Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges against him associated with his stealing and hiding classified documents on the grounds that he was being treated differently than President Biden, who had also had classified documents in his possession but was not criminally charged.
Smith noted that while there have been many government officials who have accidentally or willfully kept classified documents, and even some who briefly resisted attempts to recover them, Trump’s behavior was unique. “He intentionally took possession of a vast trove of some of the nation’s most sensitive documents…and stored them in unsecured locations at his heavily trafficked social club.” Then, when the government tried to recover the documents, Trump “delayed, obfuscated, and dissembled,” finally handing over only “a fraction” of those in his possession. No one, Smith wrote, “has engaged in a remotely similar suite of willful and deceitful criminal conduct and not been prosecuted.”
Perhaps to distract from Smith’s filing, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chair James Comer (R-KY) and House Committee on the Judiciary chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) today subpoenaed information from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of documents. Hur’s report exonerated the president and showed such contrast between Trump's behavior and Biden's full cooperation with officials that Smith used material from it in his filing.
Comer and Jordan are likely also eager to find new material against Biden after the man who provided the key evidence in their impeachment attempt turned out to be working with Russian intelligence agents and was recently indicted for lying and creating a false record.
Since this year is a leap year, Congress has three days to pass the first four of the appropriations measures or to find another workaround before March 1, when parts of the government shut down. As Schumer said, those measures, along with the national security supplemental bill, are now in Speaker Johnson’s hands. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 28, 2024 18:50:58 GMT
I hate Mitch McConnell with a passion for stacking the court among other thins. However, McCarthy & Johnson have shown us that there is always someone worse waiting in the wings. Imagine Rubio, Cruz, or Rand Paul as speaker.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 28, 2024 23:31:58 GMT
Sadly, this is the current state of the house Republicans under Johnson's leadership (or lack of)
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Post by Merge on Feb 29, 2024 14:24:07 GMT
I don’t know how Republicans think they’re going to win hearts and minds when they routinely block constituents on social media. 😂 (I’m also blocked by Texas GOP chair Matt Rinaldi.)  |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 29, 2024 15:34:57 GMT
That's not cool that he's blocking you. I'm not a fan of John Cornyn, but this was an amusing response.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 29, 2024 15:38:47 GMT
This inaction is beyond incompetent and dysfunction, the failure to act is intentional and motivated by politics. They are not working in the best interest of Americans, they're working in the best interest of themselves, kissing Donald Trump's ring and clinging to power.
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 29, 2024 15:51:45 GMT
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Post by Merge on Feb 29, 2024 18:11:02 GMT
That's not cool that he's blocking you. I'm not a fan of John Cornyn, but this was an amusing response. That's actually how I found out Paxton had blocked me ... I saw Cornyn's tweet, which was pretty funny, and then saw that the owner of the account he was replying to "limited who can view their posts," blah blah. Point of pride, TBH. I have no idea what I posted that set him (or his social media manager) off, but as a taxpaying resident of Texas, our elected leaders really should not be able to block me. I also know I'm far from the only Texan he's blocked. |
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Post by Gem Girl on Feb 29, 2024 23:24:23 GMT
Whatever you did that ticked him off, I'm proud of you for it. Just wish we knew, so we could do more of it. He's an evil wad of slime. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 8, 2024 22:07:33 GMT
This completes Trump's takeover of the Republican Party. We no longer have a Republican Party. We have a Trump/ MAGA party. They're already claiming the 2024 election will be rigged/ stolen. Unless Trump wins of course. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/politics/rnc-trump-whatley.htmlTrump’s Man at the R.N.C. Will Face Pressure to Satisfy His Election Lies The former president believes his pick to lead the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, is more in sync with his views about voter fraud than Ronna McDaniel, whom he succeeded on Friday. After the 2020 election, one story out of North Carolina had a powerful effect on Donald J. Trump.
A proactive Republican, the story went, had worked behind the scenes to stop Democrats from stealing the election in the state and helped secure Mr. Trump’s victory there.
That Republican was Michael Whatley, the chairman of the North Carolina G.O.P. He had pushed the state party to recruit what he described as thousands of poll observers and hundreds of volunteer lawyers as part of an election-protection program. Mr. Trump called Mr. Whatley after the election, and Mr. Whatley boasted to him about that program’s success.
“That’s great,” Mr. Trump replied, as Mr. Whatley recounted the conversation in a speech to North Carolina Republicans last year. “Why the hell didn’t they do that in Arizona and Georgia?”
Mr. Whatley, who became the Republican National Committee’s general counsel last year, is now poised for a far bigger and more consequential role: Mr. Trump handpicked him to succeed Ronna McDaniel as the committee’s chair, and he was unanimously voted into the position on Friday after she stepped down.
Mr. Trump’s selection of Mr. Whatley sums up the former president’s vision for the new R.N.C. He wants it to share his obsession with the false idea that President Biden and Democrats stole the 2020 election from him and are working to do it again in 2024. Mr. Trump believes Mr. Whatley is more in sync with his views about voter fraud than Ms. McDaniel, and he has insisted that Mr. Whatley will stop Democrats from “cheating” in November, according to two people who have spoken to Mr. Trump and who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.
But the story that stuck with Mr. Trump — that his victory in North Carolina had hinged on Mr. Whatley’s election-watchdog work — was just that: a story, based only loosely on reality.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 9, 2024 17:16:53 GMT
Long, but a great perspective on the role of women, women’s rights and the Republican Party. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2024Last night, Republicans and Democrats offered very different visions of the roles and rights of women in American society.
In the State of the Union address, President Joe Biden thanked Vice President Kamala Harris “for being an incredible leader defending reproductive freedom and so much more.” Biden condemned “state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need,” and he called out Republicans “promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom.”
Biden quoted back to the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court, sitting in front of him in the chamber, their words when in June 2022 they overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion.
The justices wrote: “Women are not without electoral or political power.”
Biden responded: “You’re about to realize just how much you were right about that.” “Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women. But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023. And we’ll win again in 2024.” Biden promised to restore Roe v. Wade if Americans elect a Congress that supports the right to choose.
Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) gave the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address. Sitting in a kitchen rather than in a setting that reflected her position in one of the nation’s highest elected offices, Britt conspicuously wore a necklace with a cross and spoke in a breathy, childlike voice as she wavered between smiles and the suggestion she was on the verge of tears.
“What the hell am I watching right now?” an unnamed Trump advisor asked Nikki McCann Ramirez and Asawin Suebsaeng of Rolling Stone.
Britt’s performance was the logical outcome of right-wing demonization of women’s rights advocates since the 1960s. That popular demonization began soon after women calling for “liberation” from the strict gender roles of the post–World War II years protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The protesters tossed items related to women’s roles as homemakers and sex symbols—bras, girdles, pots and pans, and Playboy magazines—into a trash can. That act so horrified traditionalists that a journalist likened the women to young men burning their draft cards, starting the myth that the protesting women had burned their bras.
Two years later, with his popularity dropping before the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon wooed Catholic Democrats by abandoning his support for abortion rights. The following March, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, declaring that “[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex,” and sent it off to the states for ratification.
Advocates of traditional gender roles used abortion as a proxy to attack women’s rights in general. Railing against the Equal Rights Amendment in her first statement on abortion in 1972, activist Phyllis Schlafly did not mention fetuses, but instead attacked “women’s lib”—the women’s liberation movement—which she claimed was “a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society.”
The Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, including women in the ranks of marginalized Americans whose civil rights were protected by the federal government. Since the 1950s, opponents of such federal protection for Black and Brown Americans had tied such federal action to communism because it meant the government used tax dollars for the benefit of specific groups. In their minds, this amounted to a redistribution of wealth from hardworking taxpayers to undeserving special interests.
The cultural backlash to the idea of women’s equality strengthened. In 1974 the television show Little House on the Prairie, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, began its nine-year run. It portrayed western women as wives and mothers cared for by menfolk, complementing the image of the cowboy individualist championed by the antigovernment right wing.
As historian Peggy O’Donnell noted in Jezebel in 2019, prairie dresses, with their image of “traditional” femininity and motherhood, the female version of cowboy clothing, became fashionable, even as the era’s popular televangelists railed against feminists.
Constantly evoking the image of the western cowboy, Ronald Reagan won the White House. Four years later, sociologist Kristin Luker discovered that "pro-life" activists believed that selfish “pro-choice” women were denigrating the roles of wife and mother and were demanding rights they didn’t need or deserve.
Increasingly, Republicans portrayed women who demanded equality as a special interest made up of feminist scolds who wanted federal support they did not deserve. In 1984, when Democratic presidential candidate Walter “Fritz” Mondale tapped the very well qualified Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, opponents circulated fake campaign buttons backing “Fritz and Tits,” and even 60 percent of Democrats thought Ferraro was there only because Mondale was under pressure from women's groups who wanted special legislation.
Powerful women either fell out of public view or were pilloried for intruding on a man’s world as those opposing women’s equality portrayed women either as wives and mothers, who looked to their husbands for financial security and safety, or as sex objects available for men’s pleasure.
By 1988, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had begun to demonize women’s rights advocates as “feminazis” for whom “the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur.” After the 1993 siege of the headquarters of a religious cult near Waco, Texas, that left 76 people dead and inspired the rise of right-wing militias to resist the federal government, Limbaugh emphasized that the attorney general who ordered the operation was the first female attorney general: Janet Reno.
Such rhetoric turned out Republican voters, especially the white evangelical base, and after it launched in 1996, the Fox News Channel (FNC) reinforced the idea that individualist men should be running society. Most FNC personalities were older men; the network’s female personalities were young, beautiful, and deferential. (FNC chair and chief executive officer Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after accounts emerged of alleged sexual harassment.)
By 2016 the competing ideologies concerning the role of women in American society were encapsulated by the contest between Donald Trump and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton was highly educated and extremely well qualified. She advocated protecting the rights of women and minorities and warned that Trump would pack the Supreme Court with extremists who would undermine abortion rights. She provided detailed policy papers.
Trump, in turn, bragged of sexual assault and called for Clinton to be arrested: “Lock her up!” became the call and response at his rallies. Ending access to abortion had become the rallying cry for the evangelicals who supported Trump, and he promised to end those rights, even flirting with the idea of criminal punishments for women seeking abortions. Far from being disqualifying, Trump’s denigration of women embodied the sort of traditional gender roles fundamentalists embraced.
Once in office, Trump nominated and the Republican-dominated Senate confirmed three radical Supreme Court justices who in June 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, taking away the recognition of a constitutional right Americans had enjoyed for almost 50 years.
When Britt delivered the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union from a kitchen, wearing a cross and using a submissive speaking style, she represented the outcome of the longstanding opposition to women’s equal rights in the United States.
The Democrats’ position last night was a sharp contrast. Biden stood in front of the nation’s first female vice president as he denounced the Republican assault on women’s rights. He warned the country: “America cannot go back.”
Perfect timing for today’s celebration of International Women’s Day.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 9, 2024 17:41:11 GMT
That dude just seems so slimy and smarmy to me. Just ugh. And he looks like the father from Davey & Goliath the stop action cartoon |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 9, 2024 19:33:23 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/08/biden-feisty-state-of-the-union-address/Opinion Mike Johnson asked for ‘decorum.’ Republicans ignored him. By Dana Milbank The day before President Biden delivered his State of the Union address, House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a closed-door meeting with his Republican caucus, urged his colleagues to observe “decorum” and not to act like hooligans during the speech.
He might as well have asked them not to breathe.
Just minutes into the president’s address, as Biden was talking about the Trump administration’s failures during the covid pandemic, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) bellowed from the back of the chamber: “Lies!”
When Biden spoke about forcing the wealthiest Americans to “pay your fair share in taxes,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), wearing a red Make America Great Again baseball cap autographed on the bill by Donald Trump, shouted out: “Tell Hunter to pay his taxes!”
And when Biden spoke about the bipartisan border security legislation that Republicans killed at Trump’s behest, the Republican side erupted in boos, jeers and screaming at the commander in chief.
The GOP lawmakers’ invited guests in the gallery joined in the general abuse of the president. Biden mentioned crime — and a man started screaming about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden spoke about the more than 30,000 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza — and another heckler shouted: “Says who?”
Adding to the Republicans’ tawdry treatment of this once solemn ritual of democracy, George Santos, the New York congressman expelled in December, could be seen cavorting on the floor (where he still has privileges, despite his ouster), wearing a glittery shirt and shoes, receiving well wishes from his former GOP colleagues. And Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Tex.) served as a human billboard throughout the speech, standing in the chamber wearing a T-shirt that showed Trump’s mug shot with the message “Never Surrender.”
Many others in the House majority took Johnson’s call for “decorum” to the other extreme. They were so determined not to react to Biden that they refused to applaud even the most anodyne, patriotic sentiments.
“Let’s remember who we are. We are the United States of America!” Biden cried.
On the Republican side: crickets.
He called for federal funds to go only for “American products ... built by American workers, creating good-paying American jobs.”
Again, Republicans sat on their hands.
“We all come from somewhere, but we’re all Americans,” Biden offered.
Even this produced almost no applause from Republican lawmakers.
Johnson, in his seat behind Biden, didn’t heed his own instructions. The Louisiana Republican rolled his eyes at Biden, shaking his head, contorting his face into pained
expressions and shrinking into his chair.
Many of his rank-and-file Republicans skipped the address entirely or left in the middle: There were 21 empty seats on the Republican side at the start, and 37 at the end, even though several Democrats took over the empty seats on the GOP side. Biden’s opponents exaggerated their boredom, slouching, scrolling their phones and showing their screens to each other. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) yawned. Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) yawned. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) yawned. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) yawned.
If Biden’s opponents were hoping that the address would show him to be tired and feeble, the result was nearly the opposite. Biden was feisty and energetic, often shouting as he took the fight to Trump and the Republicans. He plunged right into his speech without waiting for the customary introduction from Johnson. By contrast, his critics — some somnolent, the others cranky — looked as though they needed a nap.
Biden had his usual stumbles over words, but those expecting the senile old man of Republican fantasies instead saw a guy who couldn’t wait to mix it up with his foes. He made a surprised, delighted look when he spied Greene waiting for him on the center aisle as he walked in, and he kept the pin she gave him with the name of a young woman allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant.
He scolded Republicans for rejecting “the toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen,” and though his opponents jeered Biden’s claims about the bill, the man who negotiated the reforms, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) could be seen in the audience saying “That’s true.”
That’s when Greene began shouting at Biden to say the name of Laken Riley, the woman who had been killed — and Biden did, angering progressives when he said she had been killed by “an illegal.”
“To her parents, I say, my heart goes out to you,” he said, holding up Greene’s button. “Having lost children myself, I understand.”
Biden went after his “predecessor” no fewer than 13 times, starting with a brutal contrast between Ronald Reagan telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” and Trump’s recent suggestion that he would tell Vladimir Putin’s regime to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO members who don’t contribute sufficiently to the alliance.
The president attacked Trump, congressional Republicans or both, for seeking “to bury the truth about Jan. 6,” 2021, for pursuing an abortion ban, for demonizing immigrants as “poison in the blood of our country.” He ridiculed those who opposed the infrastructure bill, saying, “If any of you don’t want that money in your district, just let me know.”
It was a ferocious, and partisan, address. The combative Biden lifted the spirits of Democrats in the chamber, who repeatedly erupted in cheers of “Four more years!” And for Republicans who had apparently believed their own nonsense about Biden’s “dementia,” it caught them off guard.
Biden lingered in the chamber for half an hour after the speech, basking in the adoration of Democratic lawmakers until after 11 p.m. His critics had cleared out long ago. It was past their bedtimes.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 16:33:57 GMT
Jr is an idiot, but he's right about the Republican Party. We no longer have a Republican Party. We have a Trump/ MAGA party. The moderates and traditionalists have been fighting MAGA but they lost and have been pushed out.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 10, 2024 21:03:39 GMT
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Post by Gem Girl on Mar 10, 2024 22:59:35 GMT
Jr is an idiot, but he's right about the Republican Party. We no longer have a Republican Party. We have a Trump/ MAGA party. The moderates and traditionalists have been fighting MAGA but they lost and have been pushed out. Then they should relinquish all indications of the R party and develop their own. They shouldn't get to use elephants, or call themselves Republican (MAGAt works.). Something has to be left for conservatives who don't kiss T-rump's ring to salvage into a functioning party so we still have 2 after TFG is imprisoned. |
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Post by librarylady on Mar 11, 2024 23:38:56 GMT
DS and I were discussing this family a couple of days ago. I bet they now wish they had just taken their chances with the gays. 🙄 I am surprised that she said the locals did not speak English. My experience in Russian was that all the people we encountered were fluent in English...even the 12 year olds. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 12, 2024 2:01:16 GMT
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