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School Closings Are Causing Serious Damage | RealClearPolitics
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School Closings Are Causing Serious Damage
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Abundant evidence makes clear that in-person learning poses little health risk—and that keeping children home is doing serious damage to them, their parents, and the economy.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/29/school_closings_are_causing_serious_damage_534654.html
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| 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
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"Abundant evidence makes clear that in-person learning poses little health risk—and that keeping children home is doing serious damage to them, their parents, and the economy.",
"School Closings Are Causing Serious Damage",
"School Closings Are Causing Serious Damage | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-17T16:19:02 | null | 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction | RealClearPolitics
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The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction
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The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction
Officials have shut down major portions of downtown Washington DC nearly a week ahead of Biden's inauguration
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/17/the_pre-inauguration_lockdown_of_dc_is_an_overreaction_533689.html
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| 2021-01-17T00:00:00 |
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"The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction\nOfficials have shut down major portions of downtown Washington DC nearly a week ahead of Biden's inauguration",
"The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction",
"The Pre-Inauguration Lockdown of DC Is an Overreaction | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-08T13:33:16 | null | 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
Inside the Lonely End of the Trump Presidency | RealClearPolitics
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Inside the Lonely End of the Trump Presidency
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Trump has lost the support of allies on Capitol Hill and the loyalty of many of the people working for him inside the White House
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/08/inside_the_lonely_end_of_the_trump_presidency_532967.html
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| 2021-01-08T00:00:00 |
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"Trump has lost the support of allies on Capitol Hill and the loyalty of many of the people working for him inside the White House",
"Inside the Lonely End of the Trump Presidency",
"Inside the Lonely End of the Trump Presidency | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-27T22:42:41 | null | 2021-01-27T00:00:00 |
GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street | RealClearPolitics
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GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street
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The power dynamics are shifting on Wall Street. Individual investors are winning big—at least for now—and relishing it.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/27/gamestop_mania_reveals_power_shift_on_wall_street_534542.html
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| 2021-01-27T00:00:00 |
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"The power dynamics are shifting on Wall Street. Individual investors are winning big—at least for now—and relishing it.",
"GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street",
"GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-18T18:24:05 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny | RealClearPolitics
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The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny
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The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny
After a near-fatal poisoning, Russia's top dissident steps back into the bear's den.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/18/the_extraordinary_courage_of_aleksei_navalny_533719.html
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny",
"The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-03T07:12:14 | null | 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
Fauci's 'Noble Lies' Catch Up to Him | RealClearPolitics
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Fauci's 'Noble Lies' Catch Up to Him
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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people have been told to trust the experts. But what happens when those experts knowingly lie to the public?
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/02/faucis_noble_lies_catch_up_to_him_532507.html
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| 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
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"Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people have been told to trust the experts. But what happens when those experts knowingly lie to the public?",
"Fauci's 'Noble Lies' Catch Up to Him",
"Fauci's 'Noble Lies' Catch Up to Him | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-18T18:24:16 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
The Second Civil War Began on January 6 | RealClearPolitics
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The Second Civil War Began on January 6
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The Second Civil War Began on January 6
American exceptionalism died on January 6th, when the Second Civil War began. African Americans were not surprised.
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"The Second Civil War Began on January 6\nAmerican exceptionalism died on January 6th, when the Second Civil War began. African Americans were not surprised.",
"The Second Civil War Began on January 6",
"The Second Civil War Began on January 6 | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-10T16:50:42 | null | 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
The Impending Divorce of Trump and the GOP | RealClearPolitics
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The Impending Divorce of Trump and the GOP
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It remains to be seen whether Trump will enjoy an afterlife as the leader of an independent party in 2024, or remain on the periphery of politics.
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| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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"It remains to be seen whether Trump will enjoy an afterlife as the leader of an independent party in 2024, or remain on the periphery of politics.",
"The Impending Divorce of Trump and the GOP",
"The Impending Divorce of Trump and the GOP | RealClearPolitics"
] |
[] | 2021-01-12T18:43:17 | null | 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted | RealClearPolitics
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Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted
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| 2021-01-12T00:00:00 |
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[] | 2021-01-06T05:40:48 | null | 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
Nihilism Is Destroying Our Democracy | RealClearPolitics
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Nihilism Is Destroying Our Democracy
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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"Nihilism Is Destroying Our Democracy",
"Nihilism Is Destroying Our Democracy | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-25T20:47:52 | null | 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
Forget Unity, America Needs Biden & Dems to Get Results | RealClearPolitics
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Forget Unity, America Needs Biden & Dems to Get Results
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It's time to give Biden's 81 million voters a chance to be heard and Biden a chance to carry out the plans he ran on, even if he has to play hardball.
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| 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
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"Forget Unity, America Needs Biden & Dems to Get Results",
"Forget Unity, America Needs Biden & Dems to Get Results | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-22T06:51:51 | null | 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History | RealClearPolitics
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The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History
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The 1776 Commission - dissolved in one of President Biden's first acts in office - is more than the detritus left by the Trump administration, says historian Nicole Hemmer. It marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down any meaningful conversation about racism -- a commitment that Trump's exit from office on its own won't relegate to the fringe.
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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"The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History",
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[] | 2021-01-03T07:12:49 | null | 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
The 8 Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined the Trump Era | RealClearPolitics
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The 8 Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined the Trump Era
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The 8 Pieces of Pop Culture That Defined the Trump Era
Just as our politics fractured over the past four years, so did our culture. Here, a look back.
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| 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
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What Miami Can Give Techies That San Francisco Can't | RealClearPolitics
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What Miami Can Give Techies That San Francisco Can't
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade | RealClearPolitics
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The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade
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The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade
Will they get rid of the filibuster if it means passing their voting-rights and election-reform agenda?
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| 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
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What Josh Hawley Is Teaching Democrats | RealClearPolitics
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What Josh Hawley Is Teaching Democrats
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Cheney Becomes Never-Trump Hero, Pays Big Price Back Home | RealClearPolitics
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Cheney Becomes Never-Trump Hero, Pays Big Price Back Home
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Never-Trump Republicans crowned a new hero last week with the emergence of Rep. Liz Cheney, the party's No. 3 leader in the House, who accused President Trump of the biggest betrayal in White House history and voted for his impeachment.
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| 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
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"Cheney Becomes Never-Trump Hero, Pays Big Price Back Home | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden's Hope and a Prayer | RealClearPolitics
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Biden's Hope and a Prayer
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David Axelrod writes that Joe Biden's decision to invite the four top congressional leaders, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, to join him at a church service before Wednesday's Inauguration is noteworthy and revealing.
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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"David Axelrod writes that Joe Biden's decision to invite the four top congressional leaders, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, to join him at a church service before Wednesday's Inauguration is noteworthy and revealing.",
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Good morning, its Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 -- Election Day 2.0 in Georgia. Jan. 5 is also an eventful date in Americas cultural, economic, and political...
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GOP Blind Spots; Pink Georgia; Foreign Policy Reset
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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 -- Election Day 2.0 in Georgia. Jan. 5 is also an eventful date in America’s cultural, economic, and political history. Harry Truman delivered his “Fair Deal” speech on this date in 1949; House Speaker Tip O’Neill died on Jan. 5, 1994. If you’re from New Jersey and like rock music, you can point to the Jan. 5, 1973, release of Bruce Springsteen’s debut album. If San Francisco is your hometown (as it is mine), you may recall that exactly 40 years earlier construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Like Donald Trump’s “big beautiful wall,” the span across San Francisco Bay was delayed by political differences, environmental concerns, litigation, and funding issues. Unlike the unattractive structure along the U.S.-Mexico border, however, the Golden Gate truly is a splendid sight. Moreover, the purpose of that iconic suspension bridge isn’t to separate people, but to unite them. The final hurdle to building it -- financing -- was cleared when San Francisco-based Bank of America purchased $35 million in bonds as a way of helping the Depression-saddled economy of Northern California.
“San Francisco needs the bridge,” chief engineer Joseph Strauss told Bank of America’s founder and CEO, A.P. Giannini. “We will take the bonds,” Giannini replied.
Once upon a time, capitalists often weighed civic considerations when contemplating the bottom line. They figured they could do well by doing good. On this date in 1914, Henry Ford unveiled a profit-sharing plan for Ford Motor Co. employees, along with a minimum wage of $5 a day, which represented a significant bump in pay. “Even the boy who sweeps up the floors will get that much,” enthused the New York Times.
“It is our belief that social justice begins at home,” explained Ford general manager (and future Detroit mayor and U.S. senator) James Couzens. “We want those who have helped us to produce this great institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity.”
Pretty basic, isn’t it? It’s a standard we might want to apply to today’s oligarchs as well. I’ll leave you with that thought and direct now 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 Christina Cauterucci (Slate); Deroy Murdoch (American Spectator); Timothy O’Brien (Bloomberg News); Ella Nilsen (Vox), and Matt Taibbi (Substack). We also offer original material from RCP’s reporters and contributors, including the following:
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Even Republicans Defying Trump Won’t Level With Voters. A.B. Stoddard faults GOP lawmakers who have turned a blind eye to the president’s prevarications.
A Pink Georgia, Not a Blue One. At RealClearPolicy, Jack Rowing argues that down-ballot results from November offer a better look at trends in the state than the presidential outcome.
The Reaffirmation of U.S. Foreign Policy. At RealClearWorld, Ronald Tiersky welcomes the reset sure to come under the new administration.
Two Pleas for a Post-Trump Academic Life. At RealClearEducation, Peter Minowitz lays out a template for constructive discussion of hot-button issues.
Biden, Taxes and Growth. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny explains that capital availability is a direct consequence of reduced taxation on those with the most capital to provide to innovative entrepreneurs.
Rx for a Bearish Market Forecast: Stay Cool. Also at RCM, Ken Fisher advises level-headedness when the long bull market runs out of steam.
Biden's Eco-Friendly Goals Mean Greater Dependence on China. At RealClearEnergy, Daniel Turner outlines the supply-chain realities that underpin the thinking of the president-elect and his Cabinet nominees.
A Century Ago, Churchill Began “A World Crisis.” At RealClearHistory, Francis Sempa revisits the great British leader’s seminal tome on WWI.
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Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Trump in the White House.
Lawmakers were resolved to complete the Electoral College tally in a display to the country, and the world, of the nation’s enduring commitment to uphold the will of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power. They pushed through the night with tensions high and the nation’s capital on alert.
Before dawn Thursday, lawmakers finished their work, confirming Biden won the election.
Vice President Mike Pence, presiding over the joint session, announced the tally, 306-232.
Trump, who had repeatedly refused to concede the election, said in a statement immediately after the vote that there will be a smooth transition of power on Inauguration Day.
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted to Twitter by an aide.
The Capitol was under siege Wednesday, as the nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and don gas masks while police futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol, and Washington’s mayor instituted an evening curfew in an attempt to contain the violence.
The rioters were egged on by Trump, who has spent weeks falsely attacking the integrity of the election and had urged his supporters to descend on Washington to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s victory. Some Republican lawmakers were in the midst of raising objections to the results on his behalf when the proceedings were abruptly halted by the mob.
Together, the protests and the GOP election objections amounted to an almost unthinkable challenge to American democracy and exposed the depths of the divisions that have coursed through the country during Trump’s four years in office. Though the efforts to block Biden from being sworn in on Jan. 20 were sure to fail, the support Trump has received for his efforts to overturn the election results have badly strained the nation’s democratic guardrails.
Congress reconvened in the evening, with lawmakers decrying the protests that defaced the Capitol and vowing to finish confirming the Electoral College vote for Biden’s election, even if it took all night.
Pence reopened the Senate and directly addressed the demonstrators: “You did not win.”
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the “failed insurrection” underscored lawmakers’ duty to finish the count. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress would show the world “what America is made of” with the outcome.
The president gave his supporters a boost into action Wednesday morning at a rally outside the White House, where he urged them to march to the Capitol. He spent much of the afternoon in his private dining room off the Oval Office watching scenes of the violence on television. At the urging of his staff, he reluctantly issued a pair of tweets and a taped video telling his supporters it was time to “go home in peace” — yet he still said he backed their cause.
Hours later, Twitter for the first time time locked Trump’s account, demanded that he remove tweets excusing violence and threatened “permanent suspension.”
A somber President-elect Biden, two weeks away from being inaugurated, said American democracy was “under unprecedented assault, ” a sentiment echoed by many in Congress, including some Republicans. Former President George W. Bush said he watched the events in “disbelief and dismay.”
The domed Capitol building has for centuries been the scene of protests and occasional violence. But Wednesday’s events were particularly astounding both because they unfolded at least initially with the implicit blessing of the president and because of the underlying goal of overturning the results of a free and fair presidential election.
Tensions were already running high when lawmakers gathered early Wednesday afternoon for the constitutionally mandated counting of the Electoral College results, in which Biden defeated Trump, 306-232. Despite pleas from McConnell, more than 150 GOP lawmakers planned to support objections to some of the results, though lacking evidence of fraud or wrongdoing in the election.
Trump spent the lead-up to the proceedings publicly hectoring Pence, who had a largely ceremonial role, to aid the effort to throw out the results. He tweeted, “Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
But Pence, in a statement shortly before presiding, defied Trump, saying he could not claim “unilateral authority” to reject the electoral votes that make Biden president.
In the aftermath of the siege, several Republicans announced they would drop their objections to the election, including Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who lost her bid for reelection Tuesday.
Earlier, protesters had fought past police and breached the building, shouting and waving Trump and American flags as they marched through the halls, many without masks during the COVID-19 crisis. Lawmakers were told to duck under their seats for cover and put on gas masks after tear gas was used in the Capitol Rotunda. Some House lawmakers tweeted they were sheltering in place in their offices.
Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., told reporters he was in the House chamber when rioters began storming it. Security officers “made us all get down, you could see that they were fending off some sort of assault.”
He said they had a piece of furniture up against the door. “And they had guns pulled,” Peters said. Glass panes to a House door were shattered.
The woman who was killed was part of a crowd that was breaking down the doors to a barricaded room where armed officers stood on the other side, police said. She was shot in the chest by Capitol Police and taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. City police said three other people died from medical emergencies during the long protest on and around the Capitol grounds.
Staff members grabbed boxes of Electoral College votes as the evacuation took place. Otherwise, said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the ballots likely would have been destroyed by the protesters.
The mob’s storming of Congress prompted outrage, mostly from Democrats but from Republicans as well, as lawmakers accused Trump of fomenting the violence with his relentless falsehoods about election fraud.
“Count me out,” said Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “Enough is enough.”
Several suggested that Trump be prosecuted for a crime or even removed under the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which seemed unlikely two weeks from when his term expires.
“I think Donald Trump probably should be brought up on treason for something like this,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., told reporters. “This is how a coup is started. And this is how democracy dies.”
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., who has at times clashed with Trump, issued a statement saying: “Lies have consequences. This violence was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking division.”
Despite Trump’s repeated claims of voter fraud, election officials and his own former attorney general have said there were no problems on a scale that would change the outcome. All the states have certified their results as fair and accurate, by Republican and Democratic officials alike.
Punctuating their resolve, both the House and Senate soundly rejected an objection to election results from Arizona, which had been raised by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and another from Pennsylvania brought by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. Still, most House Republicans supported the objections. Other objections to results from Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin fizzled.
The Pentagon said about 1,100 District of Columbia National Guard members were being mobilized to help support law enforcement at the Capitol. Dozens of people were arrested.
___
Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Kevin Freking, Alan Fram, Matthew Daly, Ben Fox and Ashraf Khalil in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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They pushed through the night with tensions high and the nation’s capital on alert.\nBefore dawn Thursday, lawmakers finished their work, confirming Biden won the election.\nVice President Mike Pence, presiding over the joint session, announced the tally, 306-232.\nTrump, who had repeatedly refused to concede the election, said in a statement immediately after the vote that there will be a smooth transition of power on Inauguration Day.\n“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted to Twitter by an aide.\nThe Capitol was under siege Wednesday, as the nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and don gas masks while police futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol, and Washington’s mayor instituted an evening curfew in an attempt to contain the violence.\nThe rioters were egged on by Trump, who has spent weeks falsely attacking the integrity of the election and had urged his supporters to descend on Washington to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s victory. Some Republican lawmakers were in the midst of raising objections to the results on his behalf when the proceedings were abruptly halted by the mob.\nTogether, the protests and the GOP election objections amounted to an almost unthinkable challenge to American democracy and exposed the depths of the divisions that have coursed through the country during Trump’s four years in office. Though the efforts to block Biden from being sworn in on Jan. 20 were sure to fail, the support Trump has received for his efforts to overturn the election results have badly strained the nation’s democratic guardrails.\nCongress reconvened in the evening, with lawmakers decrying the protests that defaced the Capitol and vowing to finish confirming the Electoral College vote for Biden’s election, even if it took all night.\nPence reopened the Senate and directly addressed the demonstrators: “You did not win.”\nRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the “failed insurrection” underscored lawmakers’ duty to finish the count. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress would show the world “what America is made of” with the outcome.\nThe president gave his supporters a boost into action Wednesday morning at a rally outside the White House, where he urged them to march to the Capitol. He spent much of the afternoon in his private dining room off the Oval Office watching scenes of the violence on television. At the urging of his staff, he reluctantly issued a pair of tweets and a taped video telling his supporters it was time to “go home in peace” — yet he still said he backed their cause.\nHours later, Twitter for the first time time locked Trump’s account, demanded that he remove tweets excusing violence and threatened “permanent suspension.”\nA somber President-elect Biden, two weeks away from being inaugurated, said American democracy was “under unprecedented assault, ” a sentiment echoed by many in Congress, including some Republicans. Former President George W. Bush said he watched the events in “disbelief and dismay.”\nThe domed Capitol building has for centuries been the scene of protests and occasional violence. But Wednesday’s events were particularly astounding both because they unfolded at least initially with the implicit blessing of the president and because of the underlying goal of overturning the results of a free and fair presidential election.\nTensions were already running high when lawmakers gathered early Wednesday afternoon for the constitutionally mandated counting of the Electoral College results, in which Biden defeated Trump, 306-232. Despite pleas from McConnell, more than 150 GOP lawmakers planned to support objections to some of the results, though lacking evidence of fraud or wrongdoing in the election.\nTrump spent the lead-up to the proceedings publicly hectoring Pence, who had a largely ceremonial role, to aid the effort to throw out the results. He tweeted, “Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”\nBut Pence, in a statement shortly before presiding, defied Trump, saying he could not claim “unilateral authority” to reject the electoral votes that make Biden president.\nIn the aftermath of the siege, several Republicans announced they would drop their objections to the election, including Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who lost her bid for reelection Tuesday.\nEarlier, protesters had fought past police and breached the building, shouting and waving Trump and American flags as they marched through the halls, many without masks during the COVID-19 crisis. Lawmakers were told to duck under their seats for cover and put on gas masks after tear gas was used in the Capitol Rotunda. Some House lawmakers tweeted they were sheltering in place in their offices.\nRep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., told reporters he was in the House chamber when rioters began storming it. Security officers “made us all get down, you could see that they were fending off some sort of assault.”\nHe said they had a piece of furniture up against the door. “And they had guns pulled,” Peters said. Glass panes to a House door were shattered.\nThe woman who was killed was part of a crowd that was breaking down the doors to a barricaded room where armed officers stood on the other side, police said. She was shot in the chest by Capitol Police and taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. City police said three other people died from medical emergencies during the long protest on and around the Capitol grounds.\nStaff members grabbed boxes of Electoral College votes as the evacuation took place. Otherwise, said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the ballots likely would have been destroyed by the protesters.\nThe mob’s storming of Congress prompted outrage, mostly from Democrats but from Republicans as well, as lawmakers accused Trump of fomenting the violence with his relentless falsehoods about election fraud.\n“Count me out,” said Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “Enough is enough.”\nSeveral suggested that Trump be prosecuted for a crime or even removed under the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which seemed unlikely two weeks from when his term expires.\n“I think Donald Trump probably should be brought up on treason for something like this,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., told reporters. “This is how a coup is started. And this is how democracy dies.”\nSen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., who has at times clashed with Trump, issued a statement saying: “Lies have consequences. This violence was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking division.”\nDespite Trump’s repeated claims of voter fraud, election officials and his own former attorney general have said there were no problems on a scale that would change the outcome. All the states have certified their results as fair and accurate, by Republican and Democratic officials alike.\nPunctuating their resolve, both the House and Senate soundly rejected an objection to election results from Arizona, which had been raised by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and another from Pennsylvania brought by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. Still, most House Republicans supported the objections. Other objections to results from Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin fizzled.\nThe Pentagon said about 1,100 District of Columbia National Guard members were being mobilized to help support law enforcement at the Capitol. Dozens of people were arrested.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Kevin Freking, Alan Fram, Matthew Daly, Ben Fox and Ashraf Khalil in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.",
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The Echo Chamber Era | RealClearPolitics
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Liberals once believed that private corporations have far too much power over the flow of ideas and information in today's society. Now it's conservatives who are worried.
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The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth | RealClearPolitics
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The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth
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The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President...
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The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry P. Arnn. The vice chair was Dr. Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the commission.)
The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the historical challenges to these founding documents and the need for civic renewal. The 16-member commission was diverse in the widest sense of the familiar adjective. It included historians, lawyers, academics, scholars, authors, former elected officials and past public servants.
Whether because the report was issued by a Donald Trump-appointed commission, or because the conclusions questioned the controversial and flawed New York Times-sponsored 1619 Project, there was almost immediate criticism from the left.
Yet at any other age than the divisive present, the report would not have been seen as controversial.
First, the commission offered a brief survey of the origins of the Declaration of Independence, published in 1776, and the Constitution, signed in 1787. It emphasized how unusual for the age were the founders' commitments to political freedom, personal liberty and the natural equality endowed by our creator -- all the true beginning of the American experiment.
The commission reminded us that the founders were equally worried about autocracy and chaos. So they drafted checks and balances to protect citizens from both authoritarianism, known so well from the British Crown, and the frenzy of sometimes wild public excess.
The report repeatedly focuses on both the ideals of the American founding and the centuries-long quest to live up to them. It notes the fragility of such a novel experiment in constitutional republicanism, democratic elections and self-government -- especially during late-18th-century era of war and factionalism.
The report does not whitewash the continuance of many injustices after 1776 and 1787 -- in particular chattel slavery concentrated in the South, and voting reserved only for free males.
Indeed, the commission explains why and how these wrongs were inconsistent with the letter and spirit of our founding documents. So it was natural that these disconnects would be addressed, even fought over, and continually resolved -- often over the opposition of powerful interests who sought to reinvent the Declaration and Constitution into something that they were not.
Two of the most widely referenced Americans in the report are Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr. Both argued, a century apart, for the moral singularity of the U.S. Constitution. Neither wished to replace the founders' visions; both instead demanded that they be fully realized and enforced.
The report details prior ideological and political challenges to the Constitution as we approach America's 250th birthday. Some were abjectly evil, such as the near-century-long insistence that the enslavement of African Americans was legal -- an amorality that eventually led to more than 600,000 Americans being killed during a Civil War to banish it.
Some ideologies, such as fascism and communism, were easily identifiable as inimical to our principles. Both occasionally won adherents in times of economic depression and social strife before they were defeated and discredited abroad.
Perhaps more controversially, the commission identified other challenges, such as continued racism, progressivism and contemporary identity politics. The report argued how and why all those who insisted that race might become a basis from which to discriminate against entire groups of people were at odds with the logic of the Declaration.
Historically, progressivism assumed that human nature is malleable. With enough money and power, Americans supposedly can be improved to accept more paternalistic government, usually to be run by technocrats. Often they sought to curb the liberties of the individual, under the guise of modernist progress and greater efficiency.
The commission was no more sympathetic to the current popularity of identity politics or reparatory racial discrimination. It argued that the efforts to insist that race, ethnicity, sexual preference and gender define who we are, rather than remain incidental in comparison to our natural and shared humanity, will lead to a dangerous fragmentation of American society.
Finally, the commission offered the unifying remedy of renewed civic education. Specifically, it advocates far more teaching in our schools of the Declaration and the Constitution, and other documents surrounding their creation.
It most certainly did not suggest that civic education and American history ignore or contextualize past national shortcomings. Again, the report argued that our lapses should be envisioned as obstacles to fulfilling the aspirations of our founding.
The commission may be short-lived with the change of administrations, given that it was born in the chaos of the divisive present. President Joe Biden reportedly planned to terminate the commission through an executive order.
But any fair critic can see that the report's unifying message is that we are a people blessed with a singular government and history, that self-critique and moral improvement are innate to the American founding and spirit, and that America never had to be perfect to be both good and far better than the alternatives.
(Victor Davis Hanson was a member of the 1776 Commission. His views here are his own and are not necessarily those of other commission members.)
(C)2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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It included historians, lawyers, academics, scholars, authors, former elected officials and past public servants.\nWhether because the report was issued by a Donald Trump-appointed commission, or because the conclusions questioned the controversial and flawed New York Times-sponsored 1619 Project, there was almost immediate criticism from the left.\nYet at any other age than the divisive present, the report would not have been seen as controversial.\nFirst, the commission offered a brief survey of the origins of the Declaration of Independence, published in 1776, and the Constitution, signed in 1787. It emphasized how unusual for the age were the founders' commitments to political freedom, personal liberty and the natural equality endowed by our creator -- all the true beginning of the American experiment.\nThe commission reminded us that the founders were equally worried about autocracy and chaos. So they drafted checks and balances to protect citizens from both authoritarianism, known so well from the British Crown, and the frenzy of sometimes wild public excess.\nThe report repeatedly focuses on both the ideals of the American founding and the centuries-long quest to live up to them. It notes the fragility of such a novel experiment in constitutional republicanism, democratic elections and self-government -- especially during late-18th-century era of war and factionalism.\nThe report does not whitewash the continuance of many injustices after 1776 and 1787 -- in particular chattel slavery concentrated in the South, and voting reserved only for free males.\nIndeed, the commission explains why and how these wrongs were inconsistent with the letter and spirit of our founding documents. So it was natural that these disconnects would be addressed, even fought over, and continually resolved -- often over the opposition of powerful interests who sought to reinvent the Declaration and Constitution into something that they were not.\nTwo of the most widely referenced Americans in the report are Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr. Both argued, a century apart, for the moral singularity of the U.S. Constitution. Neither wished to replace the founders' visions; both instead demanded that they be fully realized and enforced.\nThe report details prior ideological and political challenges to the Constitution as we approach America's 250th birthday. Some were abjectly evil, such as the near-century-long insistence that the enslavement of African Americans was legal -- an amorality that eventually led to more than 600,000 Americans being killed during a Civil War to banish it.\nSome ideologies, such as fascism and communism, were easily identifiable as inimical to our principles. Both occasionally won adherents in times of economic depression and social strife before they were defeated and discredited abroad.\nPerhaps more controversially, the commission identified other challenges, such as continued racism, progressivism and contemporary identity politics. The report argued how and why all those who insisted that race might become a basis from which to discriminate against entire groups of people were at odds with the logic of the Declaration.\nHistorically, progressivism assumed that human nature is malleable. With enough money and power, Americans supposedly can be improved to accept more paternalistic government, usually to be run by technocrats. Often they sought to curb the liberties of the individual, under the guise of modernist progress and greater efficiency.\nThe commission was no more sympathetic to the current popularity of identity politics or reparatory racial discrimination. It argued that the efforts to insist that race, ethnicity, sexual preference and gender define who we are, rather than remain incidental in comparison to our natural and shared humanity, will lead to a dangerous fragmentation of American society.\nFinally, the commission offered the unifying remedy of renewed civic education. Specifically, it advocates far more teaching in our schools of the Declaration and the Constitution, and other documents surrounding their creation.\nIt most certainly did not suggest that civic education and American history ignore or contextualize past national shortcomings. Again, the report argued that our lapses should be envisioned as obstacles to fulfilling the aspirations of our founding.\nThe commission may be short-lived with the change of administrations, given that it was born in the chaos of the divisive present. President Joe Biden reportedly planned to terminate the commission through an executive order.\nBut any fair critic can see that the report's unifying message is that we are a people blessed with a singular government and history, that self-critique and moral improvement are innate to the American founding and spirit, and that America never had to be perfect to be both good and far better than the alternatives.\n(Victor Davis Hanson was a member of the 1776 Commission. His views here are his own and are not necessarily those of other commission members.)\n(C)2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.",
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Joe Biden has been tweeting about his plan to implement a 100-day national mask mandate. A largely symbolic statement given the vast majority of Americans are...
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Joe Biden has been tweeting about his plan to implement a 100-day national mask mandate. A largely symbolic statement given the vast majority of Americans are already wearing masks and have been doing so for many months now, if not the duration of the pandemic.
Today, 38 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico already have mask requirements. Other states, in lieu of a statewide order, have opted to permit counties to make their own decisions based on local infection rates. Or some states have required mandatory face coverings for specific industries such as salons and barbershops where people come into close contact.
That said, should politicians be expanding mask requirements 10 months into the pandemic or instead prudently reviewing the data to examine whether or not face coverings have been effective in curbing the spread of the coronavirus?
Let's look at California. On June 18, the day Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom announced its statewide mask order, there were 4,317 new coronavirus cases reported. On Dec. 26, there were 50,141 reported cases according to covid19.ca.gov, the state's COVID tracker. On June 18, there were 4,587 COVID-19 patient hospitalizations. Yet, approximately six months later, on Dec 29, there were 21,433 COVID-related hospitalizations.
In New York, Bloomberg News reports, "Covid cases in New York City are approaching a seven-day average positivity rate of 8%, the highest in more than seven months, and city hospitals are admitting more than 200 people a day for Covid-like illness."
In neighboring New Jersey, a mask mandate was implemented on July 8 with 252 new cases reported. On Dec. 30, there were 4,718 new cases reported. On July 8, there were 935 COVID-19 patient hospitalizations recorded versus 3,765 on Dec. 29, according to data compiled by the New York Times.
Ohio's mask mandate went into effect July 23. That day, 1,444 new cases were recorded versus 8,178 cases on Dec. 30. On July 23, there were 1,105 COVID-19 patient hospitalizations versus 4,409 on Dec. 30.
But that's not all. In Colorado, mandatory face coverings went into effect July 17. That day, 592 new cases were recorded versus 2,568 new cases recorded on Dec. 30. On July 17, there were 270 COVID-19 patient hospitalizations recorded versus 1,188 recorded on Dec. 29.
As you can see from the small sampling of regions highlighted, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been increasing, not decreasing, despite mask mandates. However, it's important to note that data fluctuates based on a variety of factors and the few states mentioned do not represent the entire country.
It's also imperative to note that the CDC strongly recommends the public wear a mask when social distancing is not possible. On a personal note, I wear a mask every time I leave my home and encourage others to do the same until health authorities say otherwise.
However, it's always sensible to review and analyze data to understand what mitigation measures are working, or may not be working, as we navigate the pandemic. We also have a social responsibility to review the detrimental consequences masks are having on the environment.
An alarming new study released by OceanAsia a Hong Kong-based marine conservation group found that "from a global production projection of 52 billion masks for 2020, we estimate that 1.56 billion masks will enter our oceans in 2020, amounting to between 4,680 and 6,240 metric tonnes of plastic pollution."
A troubling trend that won't be going away anytime soon. "These masks will take as long as 450 years to break down and all the while serve as a source of micro plastic and negatively impact marine wildlife and ecosystems," they said.
Bottom line: Authorities must do an in-depth analysis to determine if mask mandates are truly effective in curtailing the spread of the coronavirus and at what cost to the environment now and in the future.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
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Among the 232 votes in the House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump a second time were 10 cast by Republicans -- and now the GOP has a messy church...
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Among the 232 votes in the House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump a second time were 10 cast by Republicans -- and now the GOP has a messy church fight on its hands. That’s because one of the 10 breaking ranks was Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who chairs the GOP conference. The immediate question for House Republicans is whether Cheney should remain in that post after voting to impeach Trump. But this is a proxy fight. The broader question is whether Trump populism ought to remain Republican Party orthodoxy.
Each side is circulating petitions either supporting or opposing Cheney, though the conflict doesn’t cut the conference in half. At least not neatly. It was members of the House Freedom Caucus that began Wednesday morning by trying to force a debate about forcing her from leadership.
“She did this for her own personal political gain,” said Rep. Matt Rosendale. It was not a matter of conscience, the Montana freshman insisted. He told RealClearPolitics it was instead a betrayal meant “to elevate herself as one of the new leaders in the Republican Party,” before pausing to add, “the ‘New Republican party,’ if you will.” Who are these upstarts? According to Rosendale, they include those eager to put “the legacy of Trump behind them.” He paused again, this time to clarify: “When I say legacy, I don’t mean the legacy of the last 60 days that has been completely tainted and distorted.”
Trump’s record before last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol -- the memory of Trump that Rosendale and others want preserved, anyway -- is one of lower taxes and trade wars over manufacturing jobs, and anti-interventionism on the world stage. And though the president’s approval rating has plummeted since the mob action, he hasn’t fallen from grace with a certain segment of the party faithful. “Remember that as bad as this week was, and it was very, very bad,” said a veteran Republican aide with knowledge of all those involved, “Trump is still overwhelmingly popular in most of these guys’ districts and more popular than many of the [House representatives] themselves.
“Most members aren’t exactly going to be jumping at the chance to throw their names behind someone who impeached the top-polling politician in their district,” the aide predicted.
Rep. Andy Biggs, a Trump ally and the current HFC chairman, was calling for Cheney’s ouster before the impeachment vote on Wednesday. “The reality is she’s not representing the conference,” he said in a Fox News interview. “She’s not representing the Republican ideals.” She was “out there advocating for others to join her in impeachment,” he said. “That’s wrong, and I think she should resign.”
But Cheney, who was reelected to her post unanimously just three months ago, didn’t sound cowed. “This is a vote of conscience,” she told Politico. “It's one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the Civil War, constitutional crisis.”
Cheney’s critics are concerned that she didn’t merely cast a vote of conscience. The day before the impeachment vote, she issued a blistering statement critical of the president, which many Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, used against Trump in Wednesday’s floor debate. “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” the statement said. “Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
It would take just 20% of the conference, just 42 members, to force a referendum on Cheney’s status. Then, a majority would have to vote against the chair for her to be deposed. Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who floor-managed the opposition to impeachment Wednesday, has signaled that he favors such a vote.
Jordan knows these kinds of fights. In 2016, he joined with North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows in a successful attempt to force John Boehner from the speakership and then gave his successor, Paul Ryan, fits over Obama-era budget battles. It was Trump who helped elevate the rebels from discontented budget hawks to national prominence. They backed him when others balked at the rise of the real estate tycoon with questionable conservative ideals. It worked. Their gamble earned them an ally in the White House where Meadows has served as chief of staff since late March.
Some now find the group unrecognizable compared to those conservative purists who once held Republican feet to the fire over the finer points of federal appropriations. “I have no idea what happened to the Freedom Caucus,” said former Rep. Mark Sanford, who fought alongside Jordan and Meadows to lower spending, a posture Republicans quickly abandoned once in power. “Maybe it was just a fraud from the very beginning.” An early member of the caucus, the South Carolina Republican said that a partisan kind of centrifugal force had spun conservatives away from principle, toward a cult of personality, and “out into the far yonder.”
The squabble over Liz Cheney remains an undercard fight to the larger impeachment conflict. After all, only nine of her Republican colleagues joined her in voting to remove the president from office, and those on both sides of the issue realize it will take time for the GOP to figure out its post-Trump identity. For now, members are left sniping back and forth on Twitter over party power struggles that probably don’t register with average voters.
“Liz has more support now than she did two days ago. She has gained immeasurable respect,” tweeted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who also voted to impeach. A former Air Force combat pilot who still serves in the National Guard, Kinzinger then took a pot shot at Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee: “We may have to also have a discussion about who in our party fomented this, and their roles as ranking members.”
Others, such as Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, tried to play peacemaker. Although he did not vote for impeachment, Crenshaw, another military veteran, tweeted his support for Cheney, saying she “has a hell of a lot more backbone than most, [and] is a principled leader with a fierce intellect.”
“We can disagree without tearing each other apart,” he added.
It wasn’t clear if the House Freedom Caucus was unified or had the votes to force a referendum. A spokesman told RCP early Wednesday that “all of our members are on board with removing Cheney” before clarifying that “no official position has been taken with HFC on Cheney as of now -- just our chairman and a new freshman HFC member leading the charge.”
But there is dissatisfaction among those ranks with GOP brass. "I think that when Kevin and Steve supported an unconstitutional challenge to the election,” Rep. Ken Buck told reporters in a reference to Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, “and when [Liz Cheney] is supporting a constitutionally flawed impeachment, we have leadership issues.”
A spokeswoman for the Colorado Republican later told RCP that despite that dissatisfaction Buck “does not support the Freedom Caucus letter going around calling for Liz Cheney to step down.”
Nor does it sound as though Cheney is inclined to go without a fight. “I'm not going anywhere,” she vowed.
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He told RealClearPolitics it was instead a betrayal meant “to elevate herself as one of the new leaders in the Republican Party,” before pausing to add, “the ‘New Republican party,’ if you will.” Who are these upstarts? According to Rosendale, they include those eager to put “the legacy of Trump behind them.” He paused again, this time to clarify: “When I say legacy, I don’t mean the legacy of the last 60 days that has been completely tainted and distorted.”\nTrump’s record before last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol -- the memory of Trump that Rosendale and others want preserved, anyway -- is one of lower taxes and trade wars over manufacturing jobs, and anti-interventionism on the world stage. And though the president’s approval rating has plummeted since the mob action, he hasn’t fallen from grace with a certain segment of the party faithful. “Remember that as bad as this week was, and it was very, very bad,” said a veteran Republican aide with knowledge of all those involved, “Trump is still overwhelmingly popular in most of these guys’ districts and more popular than many of the [House representatives] themselves.\n“Most members aren’t exactly going to be jumping at the chance to throw their names behind someone who impeached the top-polling politician in their district,” the aide predicted.\nRep. Andy Biggs, a Trump ally and the current HFC chairman, was calling for Cheney’s ouster before the impeachment vote on Wednesday. “The reality is she’s not representing the conference,” he said in a Fox News interview. “She’s not representing the Republican ideals.” She was “out there advocating for others to join her in impeachment,” he said. “That’s wrong, and I think she should resign.”\nBut Cheney, who was reelected to her post unanimously just three months ago, didn’t sound cowed. “This is a vote of conscience,” she told Politico. “It's one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the Civil War, constitutional crisis.”\nCheney’s critics are concerned that she didn’t merely cast a vote of conscience. The day before the impeachment vote, she issued a blistering statement critical of the president, which many Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, used against Trump in Wednesday’s floor debate. “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” the statement said. “Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”\nIt would take just 20% of the conference, just 42 members, to force a referendum on Cheney’s status. Then, a majority would have to vote against the chair for her to be deposed. Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who floor-managed the opposition to impeachment Wednesday, has signaled that he favors such a vote.\nJordan knows these kinds of fights. In 2016, he joined with North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows in a successful attempt to force John Boehner from the speakership and then gave his successor, Paul Ryan, fits over Obama-era budget battles. It was Trump who helped elevate the rebels from discontented budget hawks to national prominence. They backed him when others balked at the rise of the real estate tycoon with questionable conservative ideals. It worked. Their gamble earned them an ally in the White House where Meadows has served as chief of staff since late March.\nSome now find the group unrecognizable compared to those conservative purists who once held Republican feet to the fire over the finer points of federal appropriations. “I have no idea what happened to the Freedom Caucus,” said former Rep. Mark Sanford, who fought alongside Jordan and Meadows to lower spending, a posture Republicans quickly abandoned once in power. “Maybe it was just a fraud from the very beginning.” An early member of the caucus, the South Carolina Republican said that a partisan kind of centrifugal force had spun conservatives away from principle, toward a cult of personality, and “out into the far yonder.”\nThe squabble over Liz Cheney remains an undercard fight to the larger impeachment conflict. After all, only nine of her Republican colleagues joined her in voting to remove the president from office, and those on both sides of the issue realize it will take time for the GOP to figure out its post-Trump identity. For now, members are left sniping back and forth on Twitter over party power struggles that probably don’t register with average voters.\n“Liz has more support now than she did two days ago. She has gained immeasurable respect,” tweeted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who also voted to impeach. A former Air Force combat pilot who still serves in the National Guard, Kinzinger then took a pot shot at Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee: “We may have to also have a discussion about who in our party fomented this, and their roles as ranking members.”\nOthers, such as Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, tried to play peacemaker. Although he did not vote for impeachment, Crenshaw, another military veteran, tweeted his support for Cheney, saying she “has a hell of a lot more backbone than most, [and] is a principled leader with a fierce intellect.”\n“We can disagree without tearing each other apart,” he added.\nIt wasn’t clear if the House Freedom Caucus was unified or had the votes to force a referendum. A spokesman told RCP early Wednesday that “all of our members are on board with removing Cheney” before clarifying that “no official position has been taken with HFC on Cheney as of now -- just our chairman and a new freshman HFC member leading the charge.”\nBut there is dissatisfaction among those ranks with GOP brass. \"I think that when Kevin and Steve supported an unconstitutional challenge to the election,” Rep. Ken Buck told reporters in a reference to Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, “and when [Liz Cheney] is supporting a constitutionally flawed impeachment, we have leadership issues.”\nA spokeswoman for the Colorado Republican later told RCP that despite that dissatisfaction Buck “does not support the Freedom Caucus letter going around calling for Liz Cheney to step down.”\nNor does it sound as though Cheney is inclined to go without a fight. “I'm not going anywhere,” she vowed.",
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Will Cheney and the Neocons Go Third Party? | RealClearPolitics
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Will Cheney and the Neocons Go Third Party?
The conflict between neoconservatives and the Trump base sets up a major battle for which faction will control the Republican Party in the post-Trump era.
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Never Forget Names of Republicans Attempting a Coup | RealClearPolitics
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Never Forget Names of Republicans Attempting a Coup
This time they'll fail. But their disloyalty to America is clear.
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Abandoning Free Expression Won't Solve U.S. Problems | RealClearPolitics
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The Fate of the Nation Is In Georgia's Hands | RealClearPolitics
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The fate of the U.S. Senate -- and the nation -- will be decided by Georgia voters in just day.
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Good morning, its Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Over the weekend, the human race hit a grim milestone: The novel coronavirus that spread rapidly out of central...
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Good morning, it’s Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Over the weekend, the human race hit a grim milestone: The novel coronavirus that spread rapidly out of central China a year ago has now claimed 2 million lives. That’s the official tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. When you think that China’s government still admits to only 4,800 deaths -- in the world’s most populous nation and where this contagion originated -- the true number is almost certainly significantly higher.
In two days, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office as the 46th U.S. president, the number of Americans felled by this pandemic will have surged past 400,000. Biden has vowed to vastly bolster the government’s vaccination efforts. I pray that he follows through on that promise.
With that, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s lineup includes Martin Luther King III (New York Times), Alveda King (Fox News), Kaitlyn Tiffany (The Atlantic), and Olivia Nuzzi (New York magazine). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
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After Siege, Will GOP Fight Scandal-Tainted Biden Nominee? Susan Crabtree explores whether Alejandro Mayorkas, named to lead the Department of Homeland Security, will face a tough confirmation fight in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.
Might Trump’s Final Revenge Be a Third Party? Bill Scher outlines the history behind such a move.
RCP Takeaway Podcast. On the latest episode, Tom Bevan, Phil Wegmann, Andy Walworth and I discuss impeachment, Biden’s inauguration, and other news.
Senate Shift Could Mean More Aid to States and Cities. Lou Cannon has this assessment of the prospects.
Slight Relief From Illinois’s Predatory Government. Richard Porter spotlights a hint of common sense found deep in a 764-page bill on policing and related matters passed last week.
Leaving the GOP: Why I’m Now Politically Homeless. Linda Chavez writes that she remains a conservative but no longer wants anything to do with the party that enabled Donald Trump’s nativist-driven populism.
Big Tech, Big Brother and the End of Free Speech. Frank Miele asserts that we’re witnessing a real-life sequel to Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Build Back Better Can Be Biden’s American-Made Legacy. Scott Paul notes that the incoming president’s goals line up well with those of American manufacturers.
Conservatives Should Learn From the Left. Heather R. Higgins argues that organizations protesting for liberal issues are adept at deflecting blame for their bad actors.
How Art Offers Refuge From -- and a Reframing of – Unrest. Sabrina L. Schaeffer advocates an avenue for healing in troubled times, one helpful to both children and adults.
SCOTUS Can Prevent Balkanization of Climate Lawsuits. At RealClearPolicy, Thomas Fisher examines a case in which a U.S. city has sued BP for “a rise in sea level… as well as an increase in storms, floods, heatwaves, drought, extreme precipitation.”
Polluting a River in the Name of Public Health. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy revisits the era of London cesspits, cesspools and ill-considered sewage disposal.
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Now Come the Challenges for President Biden | RealClearPolitics
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Now Come the Challenges for President Biden
Our country has been through the Civil War and the Great Depression, but we now face an unprecedented variety of challenges.
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An Open Letter To Sen. Joe Manchin: It's Time To Change Parties
The West Virginia Democrat is key to slowing the march of the authoritarian left.
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HONG KONG (AP) YouTube has suspended U.S. President Donald Trumps channel for at least a week amid concerns over ongoing potential for violence,...
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HONG KONG (AP) — YouTube has suspended U.S. President Donald Trump’s channel for at least a week amid concerns over “ongoing potential for violence,” making it the latest platform to limit the president’s online activities.
The Google-owned platform said it removed content that was uploaded on January 12 from the Donald J. Trump channel for inciting violence, although it was not immediately clear which videos in question were in violation.
“After careful review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to the Donald J. Trump channel and issued a strike for violating our policies for inciting violence,” a YouTube spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Under the suspension, Trump’s channel is temporarily prevented from uploading new videos or live streams for at least seven days, although the channel remains live, YouTube said.
Comments would be indefinitely disabled on the channel, YouTube said. Under YouTube’s policies, a second strike would result in a two-week suspension, while a third strike would get the account banned permanently.
The move to curtail Trump’s social media activity comes after a mob of his supporters, urged on by his rhetoric, stormed the Capitol last week to try to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
Tech companies have moved to suspend Trump’s online postings, with Facebook and Instagram suspending Trump at least until the end of his term and Twitter permanently banning his account. Other sites, including Reddit and Snapchat have also banned Trump. Online shopping platform Shopify has pulled Trump stores off its platform.
Companies like Apple and Google have also moved to ban Parler, a social networking site popular among Trump supporters, from their app stores. Parler’s site also went offline this week after Amazon ceased to provide hosting services to the company.
“A minimum of seven days is an important and necessary first step by YouTube, and we hope they will make it permanent,” said Jim Styer, CEO of media rating firm Common Sense Media.
“While it is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack on our Capitol to get here, it appears that all the major platforms are finally beginning to step up and take this important issue seriously and that policymakers and the public are committed to holding them accountable,” he said.
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Incitement, Insurrection, Impeachment, Imperiousness, & Idiocy | RealClearPolitics
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It's a decent bet the House of Representatives will attempt to impeach Trump for the crime of giving a speech at a rally.
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The Whole, Messy, Crazy GameStop Saga in One Sentence | RealClearPolitics
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If you want it in a sentence, I guess it goes something like this: The GameStop saga is a ludicrous stock mania born of pandemic boredom and FOMO, piggybacking off of a clever Reddit revenge plot, which targeted hedge funds, who made a reckless bet on a struggling retailer—and it’s going to end with lots of people losing incredible amounts of money.
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America Is Back, Indeed | RealClearPolitics
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Flattening the Curve Worked--Until It Didn't | RealClearPolitics
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Flattening the Curve Worked--Until It Didn't
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In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 was beginning to take its awful toll in the United States, three words offered a glimmer of hope: flatten the curve.
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Is This How Greatness Ends? | RealClearPolitics
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Dems Are Turning Minneapolis Into a Violent Wasteland | RealClearPolitics
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Dems Are Turning Minneapolis Into a Violent Wasteland
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If you want to know what the real-time self-destruction of a city looks like under Democrats' dangerous ideology, Minneapolis offers the perfect model.
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China's Year of Repression Ends w/Cruel Christmas Tradition | RealClearPolitics
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Chinese authorities typically jail dissidents around Christmas when the world is distracted. In 2020, Beijing acted like it was Christmas all year.
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Joe Biden, High Priest of the Cult of Woke | RealClearPolitics
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To understand what's gone wrong with big-city public education -- where militant teachers union bosses dictate urban school policy and politics -- just look to...
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What's Wrong With Public Schools? It's the Unions
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To understand what's gone wrong with big-city public education -- where militant teachers union bosses dictate urban school policy and politics -- just look to Chicago and the saga of Sarah Chambers.
Her embarrassing story has gone worldwide. But it does have a message.
It tells public school parents who want their kids back in school, and property taxpayers, everything they need to know:
That they don't count. And their children don't count.
Which is why some parents are leaving shutdown cities like Chicago to find places where their children can benefit from in-classroom learning rather than be dumbed down by Zoom instruction, which fails the kids.
And it is another reason, for the sake of all kids -- but especially low-income children trapped in large, substandard public school systems -- that there must be real school choice.
Chambers is a Chicago Teachers Union leader who was part of a union delegation that visited Venezuela in 2019 and praised its socialist government. On her social media accounts -- which were under Sarah4Justice before she deleted them -- she repeatedly posted entries telling teachers to stay out of classrooms and thwart Chicago school officials' plans to reopen this week.
CTU officials have insisted it is all about saving lives during the pandemic.
As first reported by WGN-TV's Ben Bradley, hours after another of her protestations she took an embarrassing selfie while poolside in sunny Puerto Rico and posted it on her Instagram account.
Chambers was lying on her stomach, wearing a floppy sun hat. She was beaming and said she was going to enjoy some delicious seafood.
"Then we are going to old San Juan to get some yummy seafood mofongo! We have an entire private Airbnb house to ourselves."
Is mofongo tasty? I certainly hope so. I prefer lemon, olive oil and oregano. But I've learned that mofongo is actually a soup made with shrimp, rice and tomato sauce. I'd love to try it.
Chambers wore something else besides that floppy sun hat: She wore the extreme arrogance of the CTU, where she was on the executive board. She's reportedly no longer on the board, and she has issued some kind of apology and suspended her social media accounts.
I'm not writing this to pick on her. I respect teachers. I married one. But until union members wake up and challenge the militant CTU leadership that has led them and hundreds of thousands of students astray, this disaster will continue.
Chambers made a stupid move, yes. But she's a special-education teacher and wouldn't have entered the field without caring for special-ed students. Yet she should know better because children who suffer from learning disabilities have been among those most hurt by the loss of in-classroom instruction during the pandemic shutdowns of public schools.
More than half of Chicago Public Schools teachers who were expected to return to school on Monday did not show up for work.
Some teachers defied their militant union bosses and did go, knowing they should be in the classroom. They care about their kids.
Teachers know that oftentimes, a public school teacher is the only adult who really cares for the kids.
But more than half not showing up? That's unacceptable.
The union leaders prattle on that they're concerned about the lack of what they say is adequate COVID-19 protection. They once insisted that they "follow the science" in urging public schools be closed.
But now science tells us a different story, that children are not major transmitters, that the best place for kids is in the classroom, that remote learning is a failure, and that many students -- especially low-income minorities -- are being lost.
Supermarket cashiers go to work every day. Store managers like my brother go to work. Cops go to work. Nurses, paramedics, firefighters, doctors, streets and sanitation workers, bus drivers.
Are all of them less human or worthy than a teachers union boss chowing down on mofongo?
One study, now a bit outdated, showed at least 39 percent of Chicago Public Schools teachers sent their own kids to private schools. I figure the number is probably higher today.
Those schools, for the most part, have been open, either fully or in some hybrid fashion.
Many Democratic politicians who kowtow to the power of the teachers unions also send their own children to private schools.
In Chicago, the teachers union leadership hones its image as political intimidators. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has caved to them before, giving teachers 16 percent pay raises over five years.
But Chicago police are still waiting for their contract.
To illustrate the reach of CTU political leverage, more than 30 Chicago aldermen signed a letter of concern supporting the teachers union against the Chicago Public Schools.
"Why the concern now?" CPS boss Janice Jackson asked on Tuesday. "Do they care more about the lives of CPS teachers than the Catholic schoolteachers that have been going to school since August?"
Unfortunately, she didn't answer her own question.
So, I'll answer it for her.
Because the old Chicago political patronage system -- which supplied generations of political workers for elections -- has broken down.
The power vacuum was filled by the CTU and other public worker unions. They're organized. They have money for political contributions and provide muscle in the precincts that can break political careers.
They mayor is clearly afraid of the militant CTU leadership. The aldermen are, too, as are, I suppose, many good and committed public school teachers who'd rather not speak up against their leaders, though they know they're doing wrong by the children.
And what are the students and their parents and taxpayers to do?
They can leave.
Or they can chew on a big bowl of mofongo and think of Sarah Chambers, smiling, in that big floppy hat at poolside, telling public school teachers not to go to school.
(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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On her social media accounts -- which were under Sarah4Justice before she deleted them -- she repeatedly posted entries telling teachers to stay out of classrooms and thwart Chicago school officials' plans to reopen this week.\nCTU officials have insisted it is all about saving lives during the pandemic.\nAs first reported by WGN-TV's Ben Bradley, hours after another of her protestations she took an embarrassing selfie while poolside in sunny Puerto Rico and posted it on her Instagram account.\nChambers was lying on her stomach, wearing a floppy sun hat. She was beaming and said she was going to enjoy some delicious seafood.\n\"Then we are going to old San Juan to get some yummy seafood mofongo! We have an entire private Airbnb house to ourselves.\"\nIs mofongo tasty? I certainly hope so. I prefer lemon, olive oil and oregano. But I've learned that mofongo is actually a soup made with shrimp, rice and tomato sauce. I'd love to try it.\nChambers wore something else besides that floppy sun hat: She wore the extreme arrogance of the CTU, where she was on the executive board. She's reportedly no longer on the board, and she has issued some kind of apology and suspended her social media accounts.\nI'm not writing this to pick on her. I respect teachers. I married one. But until union members wake up and challenge the militant CTU leadership that has led them and hundreds of thousands of students astray, this disaster will continue.\nChambers made a stupid move, yes. But she's a special-education teacher and wouldn't have entered the field without caring for special-ed students. Yet she should know better because children who suffer from learning disabilities have been among those most hurt by the loss of in-classroom instruction during the pandemic shutdowns of public schools.\nMore than half of Chicago Public Schools teachers who were expected to return to school on Monday did not show up for work.\nSome teachers defied their militant union bosses and did go, knowing they should be in the classroom. They care about their kids.\nTeachers know that oftentimes, a public school teacher is the only adult who really cares for the kids.\nBut more than half not showing up? That's unacceptable.\nThe union leaders prattle on that they're concerned about the lack of what they say is adequate COVID-19 protection. They once insisted that they \"follow the science\" in urging public schools be closed.\nBut now science tells us a different story, that children are not major transmitters, that the best place for kids is in the classroom, that remote learning is a failure, and that many students -- especially low-income minorities -- are being lost.\nSupermarket cashiers go to work every day. Store managers like my brother go to work. Cops go to work. Nurses, paramedics, firefighters, doctors, streets and sanitation workers, bus drivers.\nAre all of them less human or worthy than a teachers union boss chowing down on mofongo?\nOne study, now a bit outdated, showed at least 39 percent of Chicago Public Schools teachers sent their own kids to private schools. I figure the number is probably higher today.\nThose schools, for the most part, have been open, either fully or in some hybrid fashion.\nMany Democratic politicians who kowtow to the power of the teachers unions also send their own children to private schools.\nIn Chicago, the teachers union leadership hones its image as political intimidators. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has caved to them before, giving teachers 16 percent pay raises over five years.\nBut Chicago police are still waiting for their contract.\nTo illustrate the reach of CTU political leverage, more than 30 Chicago aldermen signed a letter of concern supporting the teachers union against the Chicago Public Schools.\n\"Why the concern now?\" CPS boss Janice Jackson asked on Tuesday. \"Do they care more about the lives of CPS teachers than the Catholic schoolteachers that have been going to school since August?\"\nUnfortunately, she didn't answer her own question.\nSo, I'll answer it for her.\nBecause the old Chicago political patronage system -- which supplied generations of political workers for elections -- has broken down.\nThe power vacuum was filled by the CTU and other public worker unions. They're organized. They have money for political contributions and provide muscle in the precincts that can break political careers.\nThey mayor is clearly afraid of the militant CTU leadership. The aldermen are, too, as are, I suppose, many good and committed public school teachers who'd rather not speak up against their leaders, though they know they're doing wrong by the children.\nAnd what are the students and their parents and taxpayers to do?\nThey can leave.\nOr they can chew on a big bowl of mofongo and think of Sarah Chambers, smiling, in that big floppy hat at poolside, telling public school teachers not to go to school.\n(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.",
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President Joe Biden contends there is
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Joe Biden's COVID Deceptions
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President Joe Biden contends there is "nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months," which is the exact opposite of what presidential candidate Joe Biden promised voters during the 2020 campaign. And by "exact opposite," I mean the president's alleged plan to beat coronavirus literally said that "the trajectory of COVID-19 in America is headed in the wrong direction" and only he could fix it.
The Biden "plan" amounted to a slew of nebulous promises that would be implemented to correct the "Trump fiasco," such as accelerating the development of a vaccine, producing more masks and pressuring governors to sign mask mandates. Biden repeatedly promised to alter the trajectory of COVID-19. In a platitudinous Oct. 23 speech, Biden pledged to "immediately put in place a national strategy that will position our country to finally get ahead of this virus and get back our lives."
"Immediately" is an adverb meaning at once, instantly, without any intervening time. It does not mean waiting around to take credit for when the Trump-era vaccines kick in.
One of the silliest talking points pushed by left-wing pundits during the election was to say that Biden had warned us about the pandemic. Evidence of this contention revolves around a single USA Today column in which the then-presidential candidate noted that there were at "least five cases" of COVID-19 in the United States, and there "will likely be more." Hardly Nostradamus.
Worse still, Biden continually underestimated the speed with which medical technology would move. It's true that Operation Warp Speed was a rare "public-private partnership" success. Yet, every time President Donald Trump promised that a vaccine would be available by the end of the year, "fact-checkers" were deployed to claim this was a lie. By Dec. 23, the United States led the world in vaccinations, with over a million people vaccinated. This despite the fact that, during the presidential campaign, Democrats such as Kamala Harris engaged in a cynical partisan effort to erode trust in government by intimating that the efficacy and safety of vaccines would be compromised under the Trump administration.
Now, CNN reports that the Biden administration has inherited "no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of from the Trump administration." An anonymous source claims that "there is nothing for us to rework. ... We are going to have to build everything from scratch." Why does CNN allow anonymity in a piece bashing the previous administration? Most likely because the claim is obviously untrue. Even National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci refuted the notion. Indeed, the very existence of the vaccine refutes the notion as well.
Then again, if there were no vaccine plan -- or, as is the case, we need a better one -- why wasn't the Biden administration ready with its own? The president had promised to "seek out governors and mayors and other leaders of both parties, from every state, territory, and tribe, and consult with education, technology, business, and labor leaders" -- basically, everyone but your sister -- so he'd be "ready to hit the ground running and fight the virus as our next President."
The phrase "hit the ground running" means to start a new activity immediately and with a lot of enthusiasm.
At a White House press conference on Thursday, Biden claimed that the Trump administration's distribution of coronavirus vaccines had been a "dismal failure," and set a goal to vaccinate 100 million Americans by the end of April -- or, around 1 million people per day. But on the day before Biden made his promise, there had already been 1.6 million doses administered in the United States, according to Bloomberg. One hopes Biden's plan isn't to slow down inoculations, and that his "plan" was just a clumsy attempt to convince a compliant press to give him credit for existing accomplishments.
When a reporter gently pushed back and noted how unambitious the administration's goals were, Biden shot back: "When I announced it you all said it wasn't possible. Come on, give me a break, man." Did they? Who did? The Trump administration "plan" showed that the U.S. was set to administer at least 170 million doses by the end of April.
Now, I'm skeptical that there was much more the Trump administration could have done to stop the spread of coronavirus. Almost everything we have done has been reactive. Nearly every economic and political system has also struggled to contain the virus. Nearly every state, blue and red. That, however, wasn't an outlook shared by Democrats, who blamed Trump personally, and Republicans generally, for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Biden is now imbued with the same powers as Trump -- even more, with effective control of both houses -- and all he's done is deflect.
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How to Stop Using Google Search on Your Computer, Phone | RealClearPolitics
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How to Stop Using Google Search on Your Computer, Phone
Data scientists say Google can shift elections. Refusing to use Google for search is an easy tweak everyone can and should do now.
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School Choice More Important Than Ever | RealClearPolitics
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One thing the current pandemic has made clear is the importance of school choice.
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WASHINGTON -- One thing the right always had claim to was the belief that -- unlike Black Lives Matter and social justice protests -- tea party and later MAGA...
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WASHINGTON -- One thing the right always had claim to was the belief that -- unlike Black Lives Matter and social justice protests -- tea party and later MAGA rallies were peaceful, if at times profane, political speech.
There have been instances of violence from partisans on both sides, but it was left-wing protests that left cities torched, small businesses in ashes, police forces terrorized and once-vibrant city centers a dystopian mess.
That's gone now.
When Trump supporters marched from The Ellipse in front of the White House to storm the U.S. Capitol, they went beyond where the black-mask anarchists have gone. President Donald Trump's front-line troops assaulted Capitol Police.
The terrible goal was for a mob to swarm the seat of U.S. democracy and intimidate lawmakers to overturn the hallowed vote of the American people.
It was a journey that began with Trump's refusal to recognize that former Vice President Joe Biden won the Electoral College. I've talked to multiple Trump supporters who told me that the election was stolen, and that fraud skewed the vote in the Democrats' favor.
They stuck to their guns, so to speak, as recounts failed to change a single state's outcome. They stuck to their guns as judges and courts found the Trump campaign claims to be flimsy and unconvincing -- way below the bar necessary to disenfranchise legally cast American votes.
I understand that Trump voters take pride in their refusal to be swayed by experts and pundits who, like me, thought Trump could not win the Republican primary in 2016 -- and then, when he did, that he could never win the general election. Their unshakable faith in Trump is the very thing that brought him victory four years ago.
So, they turned that faith into a club that they brandished whenever any Republican disagreed with Trump for any reason. To doubt Trump in any way -- on federal spending, his habit of demeaning his own staff, his casual lies -- was interpreted as an act of heresy.
When it became clear Trump lost on Nov. 3, GOP lawmakers who saw the writing on the wall had to walk on eggshells just to state the obvious.
In the run-up to Wednesday's madness, I talked to Republicans who embraced efforts to claim an unearned victory because, they said, Democrats gamed the system by expanding mail-in ballots. Some mumbled that the federal investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign -- which was not established -- was a way to delegitimize Trump's surprise victory. Like it was simply tit-for-tat to scheme to nullify honest votes.
I've also talked to Trump supporters who counter that left-wing agitators infiltrated the Trump march. I've seen no proof of that. But I did watch MAGA men who thought it was a grand idea to disrupt and threaten elected officials about to fulfill their constitutional duty.
I haven't seen proof of the fraud they claim. But if it were true, the way adults deal with corruption is to make their case in the public square, fight in the courts and -- if every door closes and they lose -- regroup for the next battle.
The MAGA movement never thought about the consequences of what would happen if the base magically succeeded. What would have happened if the courts somehow had overturned several states' election results and handed Trump victory? What would have happened if the mob intimidated Congress to proclaim Trump the 2020 victor? What would have happened if Vice President Mike Pence had declared Trump the victor?
The answer: civil war.
The majority of Americans who voted for Biden would fight back. Capitals would become war zones and innocent people would die.
Donald Trump simply isn't worthy of the bloodshed and destruction he has inflamed. He isn't an idea. He isn't a principle. He is an ego.
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Democrat Prospects of Convicting Trump in Senate Fade Away | RealClearPolitics
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Trump or McConnell? 2 Competing Explanations for GA Losses | RealClearPolitics
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Trump or McConnell? 2 Competing Explanations for GA Losses
Did $600 stimulus checks or presidential allegations of rigged voting cost Republicans the Senate?
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Republican Senators Ask: What Is McConnell Doing? | RealClearPolitics
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Republican Senators Ask: What Is McConnell Doing?
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family.
The last-minute clemency, announced Wednesday morning, follows separate waves of pardons over the past month for Trump associates convicted in the FBI’s Russia investigation as well as for the father of his son-in-law. Taken together, the actions underscore the president’s willingness, all the way through his four years in the White House, to flex his constitutional powers in ways that defy convention and explicitly aid his friends and supporters.
To be sure, the latest list was heavily populated by more conventional candidates whose cases had been championed by criminal justice activists. One man who has spent nearly 24 years in prison on drug and weapons charges but had shown exemplary behavior behind bars had his sentence commuted, as did a former Marine sentenced in 2000 in connection with a cocaine conviction.
But the names of prominent Trump allies nonetheless stood out.
Besides Bannon, other pardon recipients included Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser who pleaded guilty last fall in a scheme to lobby the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the looting of a Malaysian wealth fund, and Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce.
Bannon’s pardon was especially notable given that the prosecution was still in its early stages and any trial was months away. Whereas pardon recipients are conventionally thought of as defendants who have faced justice, often by having served at least some prison time, the pardon nullifies the prosecution and effectively eliminates any prospect for punishment.
“Steve Bannon is getting a pardon from Trump after defrauding Trump’s own supporters into paying for a wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for,” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said on Twitter. “And if that all sounds crazy, that’s because it is. Thank God we have only 12 more hours of this den of thieves.”
And while other presidents have issued controversial pardons at the ends of their administration, perhaps no commander in chief has so enjoyed using the clemency authority to benefit not only friends and acquaintances but also celebrity defendants and those championed by allies.
Wednesday’s list includes its share of high-profile defendants. Among them were rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, both convicted in Florida on weapons charges. Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, has frequently expressed support for Trump and recently met with the president on criminal justice issues. Others on the list included Death Row Records co-founder Michael Harris and New York art dealer and collector Hillel Nahmad.
Other pardon recipients include former Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican who served three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges, and former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, who was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Cunningham, who was released from prison in 2013, received a conditional pardon.
Trump also commuted the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served about seven years behind bars for a racketeering and bribery scheme.
Bannon has been charged with duping thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, he allegedly diverted over a million dollars, paying a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself.
Bannon did not respond to questions Tuesday.
Trump has already pardoned a slew of longtime associates and supporters, including his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort; Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law; his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone; and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
A voice of nationalist, outsider conservatism, Bannon — who served in the Navy and worked at Goldman Sachs and as a Hollywood producer before turning to politics — led the conservative Breitbart News before being tapped to serve as chief executive officer of Trump’s 2016 campaign in its critical final months.
He later served as chief strategist to the president during the turbulent early days of Trump’s administration and was at the forefront of many of its most contentious policies, including its travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries.
But Bannon, who clashed with other top advisers, was pushed out after less than a year. And his split with Trump deepened after he was quoted in a 2018 book making critical remarks about some of Trump’s adult children. Bannon apologized and soon stepped down as chairman of Breitbart. He and Trump have recently reconciled.
In August, he was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and brought before a judge in Manhattan, where he pleaded not guilty. When he emerged from the courthouse, Bannon tore off his mask, smiled and waved to news cameras. As he went to a waiting vehicle, he shouted, “This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”
The organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group portrayed themselves as eager to help the president build a “big beautiful” barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, as he promised during the 2016 campaign. They raised more than $25 million from thousands of donors and pledged that 100% of the money would be used for the project.
But according to the criminal charges, much of the money never made it to the wall. Instead, it was used to line the pockets of group members, including Bannon.
Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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One man who has spent nearly 24 years in prison on drug and weapons charges but had shown exemplary behavior behind bars had his sentence commuted, as did a former Marine sentenced in 2000 in connection with a cocaine conviction.\nBut the names of prominent Trump allies nonetheless stood out.\nBesides Bannon, other pardon recipients included Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser who pleaded guilty last fall in a scheme to lobby the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the looting of a Malaysian wealth fund, and Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce.\nBannon’s pardon was especially notable given that the prosecution was still in its early stages and any trial was months away. Whereas pardon recipients are conventionally thought of as defendants who have faced justice, often by having served at least some prison time, the pardon nullifies the prosecution and effectively eliminates any prospect for punishment.\n“Steve Bannon is getting a pardon from Trump after defrauding Trump’s own supporters into paying for a wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for,” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said on Twitter. “And if that all sounds crazy, that’s because it is. Thank God we have only 12 more hours of this den of thieves.”\nAnd while other presidents have issued controversial pardons at the ends of their administration, perhaps no commander in chief has so enjoyed using the clemency authority to benefit not only friends and acquaintances but also celebrity defendants and those championed by allies.\nWednesday’s list includes its share of high-profile defendants. Among them were rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, both convicted in Florida on weapons charges. Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, has frequently expressed support for Trump and recently met with the president on criminal justice issues. Others on the list included Death Row Records co-founder Michael Harris and New York art dealer and collector Hillel Nahmad.\nOther pardon recipients include former Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican who served three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges, and former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, who was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Cunningham, who was released from prison in 2013, received a conditional pardon.\nTrump also commuted the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served about seven years behind bars for a racketeering and bribery scheme.\nBannon has been charged with duping thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, he allegedly diverted over a million dollars, paying a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself.\nBannon did not respond to questions Tuesday.\nTrump has already pardoned a slew of longtime associates and supporters, including his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort; Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law; his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone; and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.\nA voice of nationalist, outsider conservatism, Bannon — who served in the Navy and worked at Goldman Sachs and as a Hollywood producer before turning to politics — led the conservative Breitbart News before being tapped to serve as chief executive officer of Trump’s 2016 campaign in its critical final months.\nHe later served as chief strategist to the president during the turbulent early days of Trump’s administration and was at the forefront of many of its most contentious policies, including its travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries.\nBut Bannon, who clashed with other top advisers, was pushed out after less than a year. And his split with Trump deepened after he was quoted in a 2018 book making critical remarks about some of Trump’s adult children. Bannon apologized and soon stepped down as chairman of Breitbart. He and Trump have recently reconciled.\nIn August, he was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and brought before a judge in Manhattan, where he pleaded not guilty. When he emerged from the courthouse, Bannon tore off his mask, smiled and waved to news cameras. As he went to a waiting vehicle, he shouted, “This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.”\nThe organizers of the “We Build The Wall” group portrayed themselves as eager to help the president build a “big beautiful” barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, as he promised during the 2016 campaign. They raised more than $25 million from thousands of donors and pledged that 100% of the money would be used for the project.\nBut according to the criminal charges, much of the money never made it to the wall. Instead, it was used to line the pockets of group members, including Bannon.\nAssociated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report.",
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Breaking Norms, Biden to Purge Career Intel Official | RealClearPolitics
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Breaking Norms, Biden to Purge Career Intel Official
Pelosi, Schiff, and Biden have politicized a career intelligence community position by demanding the removal of a national security professional.
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Good morning, its Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. As House Democrats rush to impeach Donald Trump for the second time, tortured commentary has become the norm --...
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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. As House Democrats rush to impeach Donald Trump for the second time, tortured commentary has become the norm -- and not only among political partisans. Perhaps the most unsettling was the media’s sudden fixation with the president’s access to “nuclear launch codes.” Yes, this is a political talking point meant to justify impeaching a guy even as moving vans are scheduled to arrive at the White House. But as the cable news talking heads repeated it uncritically hour after hour, its effect was to terrorize their own viewers. Is that a sustainable business model?
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder, Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley came up with the goofiest line of the week. Asked by Fox News anchorman Bill Hemmer whether Donald Trump feels “emasculated” after being banned from social media, Gidley responded, “I wouldn’t say emasculated. I mean, the most masculine person I think to ever hold the White House is the president of the United States.”
I understand Gidley was being loyal to his boss -- and that manliness is a purely subjective quality. Nonetheless, I can’t resist putting this claim in historical perspective, a labor of love I’ll undertake later today. In the meantime, 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 Birgit Jennen and Ania Nussbaum (Bloomberg News), Nicholas Goldberg (Los Angeles Times), and David Harsanyi (National Review). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
* * *
Biden’s Dilemma: Unity or Impeachment? Susan Crabtree lays out the stakes as the incoming president mulls how to balance party leaders’ demands to punish Trump with his own desire to heal our divisions.
DHS Chief Wolf Resigns, Sans Mention of Capitol Violence. Phil Wegmann has the story.
A Black Republican’s Georgia Autopsy. Autry Pruitt chastises the GOP for making little effort to engage with African American voters in the Peach State.
The Great Social Silencing. Kalev Leetaru weighs in on the banning of President Trump on social media and other developments on the free speech front.
“Survival Checks” as Universal Basic Income? At RealClearPolicy, Matt Weidinger warns that Chuck Schumer’s call for additional pandemic relief could morph into recurring payments.
Climate Risk and Financial Stability. In RealClearEnergy, Rupert Darwall argues that when central bankers play climate politics they lose focus on their core responsibility.
Online Education’s Stealth Advancement. At RealClearEducation, Glenn Ricketts writes that the expansion of remote learning has avoided the usual scrutiny by program review committees, thanks to COVID.
A Medical Advocate Saved My Life. At RealClearHealth, Trevor FitzGibbon recounts his near-fatal brush with COVID.
How Alcohol Saved Humanity From Foul Water. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy has this history lesson.
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Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
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The Georgia Senate runoffs are our one chance to increase the incoming Biden team's odds of limiting COVID deaths and helping strapped families.
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The Huge Stakes of Biden's New Covid Plan | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Been Unplugged. Now What? | RealClearPolitics
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Mitch McConnell's Finest Hour | RealClearPolitics
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Addison Mitchell McConnell has been known for his bare-knuckle politics since he first beat Sen. Walter Huddleston in 1984 for the Kentucky Senate seat the incumbent Democrat had held for three terms — a surprise win in a state which at the time rarely elected Republicans.
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Why Does U.S. Need Republicans? The Answer Is Simple | RealClearPolitics
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The task before us is to continue to be the one nation in history where any person, regardless of their standing at birth, can make anything of themselves.
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Sen. Josh Hawley: Man in the Arena | RealClearPolitics
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Sen. Josh Hawley: Man in the Arena
Josh Hawley's brand of muscular populist Republicanism is ready for its close-up.
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Trump's Call Highlights White House Bunker Mentality | RealClearPolitics
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The F Word: Is Donald Trump a Fascist? | RealClearPolitics
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WASHINGTON (AP) Theres little doubt that Nancy Pelosi will be reelected House speaker when the new Congress convenes Sunday. It could take a high-wire...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s little doubt that Nancy Pelosi will be reelected House speaker when the new Congress convenes Sunday. It could take a high-wire act for her to get there, largely thanks to the pandemic.
The only woman in history to serve as speaker, the California Democrat has a reputation as a formidable vote-counter and wily deal-cutter. Those skills have helped her fend off threats and cement her as leader of her party in the House since 2003, and seem likely to carry the day on Jan. 3, when the Constitution requires the new Congress to begin.
“Yeah, I do,” Pelosi told a reporter this week when asked if she had the votes wrapped up.
In what seemed an indication of confidence, Pelosi told reporters Wednesday that Rep.-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, will be sworn in, even as Democratic opponent Rita Hart’s challenge to the election results remains under review by the House. Miller-Meeks is certain to vote against Pelosi to be speaker.
Even so, the terrain Pelosi faces will allow almost no margin for error.
The full House elects the speaker, and Democrats will have the chamber’s smallest majority in 20 years in a vote in which Republicans are certain to vote unanimously against her, joined by Democratic defectors. Democrats will have a 222-211 edge, with one race still undecided and one vacancy after Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., died Tuesday after battling COVID-19.
The raging coronavirus pandemic, combined with routine illnesses and the usual risks of wintertime travel, could make attendance unpredictable for the first House roll call in months that lawmakers will have to attend in person. To avoid risks of exposure to COVID-19, the House altered its rules this year to let its members vote by proxy from their homes, but that change dies with the old Congress.
“I’m fine,” Pelosi said when asked if COVID-19 absences were a concern.
The speaker’s election, in which members traditionally vote verbally in alphabetical order, has long been the first vote taken by the new House. Because of COVID-19 concerns, lawmakers will be voting in groups in a roll call expected to last three to four hours.
“It’s extraordinarily tricky” for Pelosi, said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., an 18-year congressional veteran. Still, he said, he expects her to prevail “because I don’t see what the alternative is” for Democrats.
To make sure they’re at full strength, both parties’ leaders are urging lawmakers to take health precautions and return to Washington well ahead of Sunday to avoid travel snags.
“I still have people come up to me who say, ‘Well, I can vote remotely, right?’” House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said earlier this month of his colleagues. “No, you can’t.”
In a memo this week, Congress’ chief physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving told House members that any guests, including family, will have to follow local District of Columbia requirements for COVID-19 testing.
On a day when members’ families and friends normally swarm all over the Capitol, incoming House freshmen will be allowed just one guest apiece in the chamber’s gallery to watch them take their oaths. Returning members will not be allowed any guests in the gallery.
Top Democrats have checked on the availability of lawmakers who’ve had serious health problems. McGovern says Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., 84, who’s been fighting pancreatic cancer, has told him he intends to attend. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., who nearly died from pneumonia after falling while running in March and has been convalescing ever since, says he’s told Pelosi he will return to the Capitol for opening day.
“I’m planning on going back because that’s my job,” said DeSaulnier, 68.
Pelosi retains the support of most Democrats, who revere her for leading their 2018 recapture of House control and their battles against President Donald Trump. She’s kept her party’s moderates and progressives largely united and raised boatloads of campaign cash.
But at 80, about the same age as her top two lieutenants, Pelosi remains a source of frustration for younger Democrats eager to climb the leadership chain. Discontent and division have grown after expected gains in last month’s elections evaporated and 12 Democrats lost House seats, prompting calls for fresh messengers in response to criticism that party leaders did a poor job of campaigning on the country’s deep economic problems.
No Democratic rival to Pelosi has emerged, greatly diminishing the odds she’ll be toppled. Perhaps unanimously, Republicans will back Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California for speaker, but he seems destined to become minority leader again.
Even so, Pelosi must minimize the number of Democrats opposing her.
Of 15 Democrats who bucked her when she was elected speaker in January 2019, three lost reelection last month. One is in a race where votes are still being counted and another became a Republican.
That leaves 10 Democrats who opposed her two years ago. Of those, Washington Rep. Kurt Schrader has said he’s now open to backing her and at least two others have said they will do so, Jason Crow of Colorado and Jim Cooper of Tennessee.
“She has led a contentious Democratic caucus well during the pandemic and the Trump presidency,” Cooper said.
It’s unknown how many of the 15 incoming Democratic freshmen might oppose Pelosi.
Some suggest the tight numbers might encourage Pelosi’s Democratic critics to force the balloting into a rare second round, when she could eventually win but perhaps be forced into promises about bills the House would consider or other concessions. People mentioning this scenario insisted on anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes conversations.
Voting for speaker has needed multiple ballots only 14 times, including in 1923, the only time that has occurred since the Civil War.
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Miller-Meeks is certain to vote against Pelosi to be speaker.\nEven so, the terrain Pelosi faces will allow almost no margin for error.\nThe full House elects the speaker, and Democrats will have the chamber’s smallest majority in 20 years in a vote in which Republicans are certain to vote unanimously against her, joined by Democratic defectors. Democrats will have a 222-211 edge, with one race still undecided and one vacancy after Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., died Tuesday after battling COVID-19.\nThe raging coronavirus pandemic, combined with routine illnesses and the usual risks of wintertime travel, could make attendance unpredictable for the first House roll call in months that lawmakers will have to attend in person. To avoid risks of exposure to COVID-19, the House altered its rules this year to let its members vote by proxy from their homes, but that change dies with the old Congress.\n“I’m fine,” Pelosi said when asked if COVID-19 absences were a concern.\nThe speaker’s election, in which members traditionally vote verbally in alphabetical order, has long been the first vote taken by the new House. Because of COVID-19 concerns, lawmakers will be voting in groups in a roll call expected to last three to four hours.\n“It’s extraordinarily tricky” for Pelosi, said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., an 18-year congressional veteran. Still, he said, he expects her to prevail “because I don’t see what the alternative is” for Democrats.\nTo make sure they’re at full strength, both parties’ leaders are urging lawmakers to take health precautions and return to Washington well ahead of Sunday to avoid travel snags.\n“I still have people come up to me who say, ‘Well, I can vote remotely, right?’” House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said earlier this month of his colleagues. “No, you can’t.”\nIn a memo this week, Congress’ chief physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving told House members that any guests, including family, will have to follow local District of Columbia requirements for COVID-19 testing.\nOn a day when members’ families and friends normally swarm all over the Capitol, incoming House freshmen will be allowed just one guest apiece in the chamber’s gallery to watch them take their oaths. Returning members will not be allowed any guests in the gallery.\nTop Democrats have checked on the availability of lawmakers who’ve had serious health problems. McGovern says Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., 84, who’s been fighting pancreatic cancer, has told him he intends to attend. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., who nearly died from pneumonia after falling while running in March and has been convalescing ever since, says he’s told Pelosi he will return to the Capitol for opening day.\n“I’m planning on going back because that’s my job,” said DeSaulnier, 68.\nPelosi retains the support of most Democrats, who revere her for leading their 2018 recapture of House control and their battles against President Donald Trump. She’s kept her party’s moderates and progressives largely united and raised boatloads of campaign cash.\nBut at 80, about the same age as her top two lieutenants, Pelosi remains a source of frustration for younger Democrats eager to climb the leadership chain. Discontent and division have grown after expected gains in last month’s elections evaporated and 12 Democrats lost House seats, prompting calls for fresh messengers in response to criticism that party leaders did a poor job of campaigning on the country’s deep economic problems.\nNo Democratic rival to Pelosi has emerged, greatly diminishing the odds she’ll be toppled. Perhaps unanimously, Republicans will back Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California for speaker, but he seems destined to become minority leader again.\nEven so, Pelosi must minimize the number of Democrats opposing her.\nOf 15 Democrats who bucked her when she was elected speaker in January 2019, three lost reelection last month. One is in a race where votes are still being counted and another became a Republican.\nThat leaves 10 Democrats who opposed her two years ago. Of those, Washington Rep. Kurt Schrader has said he’s now open to backing her and at least two others have said they will do so, Jason Crow of Colorado and Jim Cooper of Tennessee.\n“She has led a contentious Democratic caucus well during the pandemic and the Trump presidency,” Cooper said.\nIt’s unknown how many of the 15 incoming Democratic freshmen might oppose Pelosi.\nSome suggest the tight numbers might encourage Pelosi’s Democratic critics to force the balloting into a rare second round, when she could eventually win but perhaps be forced into promises about bills the House would consider or other concessions. People mentioning this scenario insisted on anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes conversations.\nVoting for speaker has needed multiple ballots only 14 times, including in 1923, the only time that has occurred since the Civil War.",
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The power of these companies to control public discourse is a clear and present danger to everyone who values free speech.
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Biden Needs an Innovation Agenda | RealClearPolitics
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Dr. King taught us that direct cash payments are a smart response to poverty and mass unemployment. In this crisis, we need to heed to call.
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As soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of
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As soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of "incitement of insurrection" in the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol, Rand Paul rose to object.
The Senate, he said, has no right to try a private citizen, which Trump now is. Thus, what we are about to do is flatly unconstitutional.
Forty-five of 50 Republican members agreed with Paul's motion.
"This vote indicates it's over. The trial is all over," said Paul. "If you voted that [the Senate trial is] ... unconstitutional, how in the world would you ever vote to convict somebody for this?"
Consistency says you would not.
Susan Collins of Maine, one of five Republicans who voted against Paul's motion, agreed that the vote portends the final vote on conviction.
"Do the math," Collins said. "It's extraordinarily unlikely the president will be convicted."
Rand Paul may have just derailed the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Chief Justice John Roberts, the constitutional officer designated to preside over Senate impeachment trials, has said he will not preside over this latest trial of the ex-president. With Roberts seeing no constitutional duty, and declining the honor, his replacement as the presiding officer will be Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving Democrat and the president pro tempore of the Senate.
But Leahy is viscerally hostile to Trump and one of a Democratic bloc that voted twice last January to convict Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors. How will it look to the world if this partisan is installed as both judge and juror at the trial of his political enemy?
Welcome to Zimbabwe.
Does the liberal establishment, now back in power and controlling the House, Senate and presidency, not see how this is all going to look in the history books, generations hence?
Blinded by hatred of Trump, enraged by the mob that stormed the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi's House, in a rush to judgment, without hearing a single Trump witness and without letting his lawyer offer a defense, impeached, i.e., indicted, Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection."
But how could Trump have incited the riot and the attack on the Capitol when the mob swept up the stairs before Trump finished speaking a mile away? And he would end his rally remarks by urging the crowd to march to the Hill "peacefully and patriotically."
We have subsequently learned that plans and plots were being hatched days before the assault on the Capitol began.
Was the Trump White House, or Trump, privy to those plots?
In August 1974, it was a near certainty that the House would vote to impeach Richard Nixon. But after the president resigned, the House did not impeach, and Ford pardoned Nixon so the country could move on.
The rage of the establishment at being deprived of its revenge against Nixon who had turned the Silent Majority against it, not unlike today, knew no bounds. And, though history has vindicated Ford, his pardon of Nixon precipitated a plunge in his poll numbers.
Half a century on, however, history says Ford did the right thing.
Why then are the Democrats continuing with this exercise in vengeance?
They want Trump convicted so that he will be prohibited from ever again holding public office. The establishment fears that Trump could make a comeback, win the Republican primaries in 2024, become the nominee, and return in triumph as president.
They are determined to abort that possibility. Many openly admit it.
What does that say about the liberal establishment's love of democracy when they would disqualify, in advance, the largest vote-getter their opposition party ever had, out of fear he might come back to win the presidency as he did in 2016?
"Trust the people!" was a campaign slogan made famous by George Wallace. Our national establishment prattles endlessly on about its devotion to democracy, but it does not trust the people.
But the establishment is going to pay a price for trying to squeeze the last ounces of juice out of this rotting fruit. President Joe Biden's call to unity are being drowned out by Democratic howls for a trial, conviction and banishment.
This effort to convict and disqualify Trump from running again tells us more about the people behind it than it does about Trump.
For the odds are slim at best that Trump would or could, at 78, win the nomination and the presidency a second time, as Grover Cleveland did in 1892.
Yet, a fearful establishment does not want to take the chance.
For all the babbling about "democracy" we have heard in recent days, the establishment wants to eliminate the possibility that the people could rise up, and, horror of horrors, elect Trump once more.
You can smell the fear.
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There is plenty to lament right now. But conservatives' time and energy would be better spent thinking ahead and plotting a future—one that, in all likelihood, can still be salvaged.
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Once-secret documents will show Steele told FBI he leaked Russia collusion narrative to counteract Clinton email scandal.
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With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cult or the money?...
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With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cult or the money? The money or the Trump cult?
One hoped that love of country and its democratic institutions would have been reason enough to strongly condemn fellow Republicans who tried to overturn the results of a legally certified election. Only a handful of Republicans rose to the occasion, with a few more signing on following the obscene Trump-fueled rampage on the Capitol.
Despite pleading with President Donald Trump to stop the riot, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy still would not lift a finger to defend the democracy. He joined the more than 120 lawmakers in refusing to count Electoral College votes.
Until ... until America's blue chip companies started announcing their intention to stop sending money to the Republican miscreants. That got McCarthy's attention.
McCarthy's position as party leader depends on his ability to dole money to Republican candidates. Less money, less power. Threatened, McCarthy tried to weasel out of his disgrace by letting it be known that he actually told Trump that "the election is over." What courage!
Over at the Senate, Rick Scott of Florida faces a cloudy future as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a fundraising enterprise. He also tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, perhaps the ugliest face of Trumpian violence, now has a taste of what's in store. Kansas City-based Hallmark has made the extraordinary demand that Hawley return its employees' donations.
It's a poorly kept secret that Republicans are no longer the kings of fundraising. Democrats are. In the recent U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock raised over $32 million more than the losing incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, even though she is a creature of Wall Street. Jon Ossoff beat Republican David Perdue in both votes and the money race, having raised almost $50 million more.
Corporate PAC donations have traditionally been a greater source of money for Republicans than Democrats, so the post-riot condemnations bode ill for the GOP. Many of the big companies now suspending contributions to the treasonous lawmakers had given more money to Republicans than Democrats in the 2020 election cycle. They include AT&T, Comcast, American Express, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mastercard and Dow Chemical.
The giant business lobby, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says some members of Congress have "forfeited" its support because of their anti-democracy actions. Meanwhile, the death of Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson leaves Republican fundraising still more endangered.
As for small donors, they raised a total of $368 million for Joe Biden and only $268 million for Trump. Interestingly, Biden also swamped Trump in big donations -- $646 million versus Trump's $396 million.
Why? Republicans have turned away from sane governance, which is what business wants above all. Trump's response to the COVID crisis was an exercise in civic anarchy, and other Republican leaders joined him in playing to cheap seats. They could have done simple things, like urging Americans to wear masks rather than mocking those who did. They could have acknowledged there was a problem.
Sure, many moneyed interests wanted tax cuts, but chaos, dysfunction and unnecessarily drawn-out COVID-fueled recession canceled the benefits. And it needs noting that a lot of rich Americans do love their country.
It is a great relief to good Americans that corporate chieftains share their revulsion at the shocking climax of the Trump presidency. Best of all, they have the means to strike back at its enablers where it hurts. The insurrection is truly over.
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"With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cult or the money? The money or the Trump cult?\nOne hoped that love of country and its democratic institutions would have been reason enough to strongly condemn fellow Republicans who tried to overturn the results of a legally certified election. Only a handful of Republicans rose to the occasion, with a few more signing on following the obscene Trump-fueled rampage on the Capitol.\nDespite pleading with President Donald Trump to stop the riot, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy still would not lift a finger to defend the democracy. He joined the more than 120 lawmakers in refusing to count Electoral College votes.\nUntil ... until America's blue chip companies started announcing their intention to stop sending money to the Republican miscreants. That got McCarthy's attention.\nMcCarthy's position as party leader depends on his ability to dole money to Republican candidates. Less money, less power. Threatened, McCarthy tried to weasel out of his disgrace by letting it be known that he actually told Trump that \"the election is over.\" What courage!\nOver at the Senate, Rick Scott of Florida faces a cloudy future as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a fundraising enterprise. He also tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory.\nSen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, perhaps the ugliest face of Trumpian violence, now has a taste of what's in store. Kansas City-based Hallmark has made the extraordinary demand that Hawley return its employees' donations.\nIt's a poorly kept secret that Republicans are no longer the kings of fundraising. Democrats are. In the recent U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock raised over $32 million more than the losing incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, even though she is a creature of Wall Street. Jon Ossoff beat Republican David Perdue in both votes and the money race, having raised almost $50 million more.\nCorporate PAC donations have traditionally been a greater source of money for Republicans than Democrats, so the post-riot condemnations bode ill for the GOP. Many of the big companies now suspending contributions to the treasonous lawmakers had given more money to Republicans than Democrats in the 2020 election cycle. They include AT&T, Comcast, American Express, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Mastercard and Dow Chemical.\nThe giant business lobby, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says some members of Congress have \"forfeited\" its support because of their anti-democracy actions. Meanwhile, the death of Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson leaves Republican fundraising still more endangered.\nAs for small donors, they raised a total of $368 million for Joe Biden and only $268 million for Trump. Interestingly, Biden also swamped Trump in big donations -- $646 million versus Trump's $396 million.\nWhy? Republicans have turned away from sane governance, which is what business wants above all. Trump's response to the COVID crisis was an exercise in civic anarchy, and other Republican leaders joined him in playing to cheap seats. They could have done simple things, like urging Americans to wear masks rather than mocking those who did. They could have acknowledged there was a problem.\nSure, many moneyed interests wanted tax cuts, but chaos, dysfunction and unnecessarily drawn-out COVID-fueled recession canceled the benefits. And it needs noting that a lot of rich Americans do love their country.\nIt is a great relief to good Americans that corporate chieftains share their revulsion at the shocking climax of the Trump presidency. Best of all, they have the means to strike back at its enablers where it hurts. The insurrection is truly over.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
"Republicans Are Getting Stripped of Money",
"With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cult or the money?..."
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Orwell's 1984 and Today | RealClearPolitics
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We can see today the totalitarian impulse among powerful forces in our politics and culture. We can see it in the rise and imposition of doublethink, and we can see it in the increasing attempt to rewrite our history.
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"We can see today the totalitarian impulse among powerful forces in our politics and culture. We can see it in the rise and imposition of doublethink, and we can see it in the increasing attempt to rewrite our history.",
"Orwell's 1984 and Today",
"Orwell's 1984 and Today | RealClearPolitics"
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Lady Gaga and the Star-Spangled Banner | RealClearPolitics
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Lady Gaga and the Star-Spangled Banner
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America is like no other country in the world, and our national anthem is like no other, as I wrote in a 2016 essay:For good reasons, we have the only national anthem that concludes with a question:...
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"Lady Gaga and the Star-Spangled Banner",
"Lady Gaga and the Star-Spangled Banner | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-29T15:49:13 | null | 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
I'm in 1%. We Should Support Biden Raising Our Taxes | RealClearPolitics
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I'm in 1%. We Should Support Biden Raising Our Taxes
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I expected the wealthy would do well under Donald Trump, but not as grotesquely well as those of us in the top 1% have done. From the day Trump won in 2016 to the day he lost in 2020, the stock markets were up at least $12.7 trillion, which means that the top 1% of the 128.5 million US households -- the 1.28 million that own 51% of the stock market -- could each have gotten richer by an average of around $5 million.
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| 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
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"I expected the wealthy would do well under Donald Trump, but not as grotesquely well as those of us in the top 1% have done. From the day Trump won in 2016 to the day he lost in 2020, the stock markets were up at least $12.7 trillion, which means that the top 1% of the 128.5 million US households -- the 1.28 million that own 51% of the stock market -- could each have gotten richer by an average of around $5 million.",
"I'm in 1%. We Should Support Biden Raising Our Taxes",
"I'm in 1%. We Should Support Biden Raising Our Taxes | RealClearPolitics"
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The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump | RealClearPolitics
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The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump
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The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump
Our concern shouldn't focus on whether Trump can derail Biden's inauguration. Instead we should be deeply concerned about whether this cult can derail our democracy
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"The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump\nOur concern shouldn't focus on whether Trump can derail Biden's inauguration. Instead we should be deeply concerned about whether this cult can derail our democracy",
"The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump",
"The Next Aspiring Autocrat Won't Be a Buffoon Like Trump | RealClearPolitics"
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The 'Virtue' of the New Totalitarians | RealClearPolitics
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"The 'Virtue' of the New Totalitarians",
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The Great Post-Election Republican Implosion | RealClearPolitics
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The Great Post-Election Republican Implosion
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Leaving Mitch in the ditch: Trump loyalty may prove too potent a force in the GOP for McConnell to handle
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"Leaving Mitch in the ditch: Trump loyalty may prove too potent a force in the GOP for McConnell to handle",
"The Great Post-Election Republican Implosion",
"The Great Post-Election Republican Implosion | RealClearPolitics"
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Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence
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Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence
With Washington swarming with troops and his travel schedule derailed, the president-elect faces the same dilemma as that of 1861.
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"Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence\nWith Washington swarming with troops and his travel schedule derailed, the president-elect faces the same dilemma as that of 1861.",
"Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence",
"Biden Will Be Inaugurated Under the Shadow of Violence | RealClearPolitics"
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GOP Can't Afford to Leave Trump's Voters Behind | RealClearPolitics
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GOP Can't Afford to Leave Trump's Voters Behind
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The president set us on the right course for a lot of policy. It's time to continue down that path without his baggage to weigh us down.
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| 2021-01-11T00:00:00 |
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"The president set us on the right course for a lot of policy. It's time to continue down that path without his baggage to weigh us down.",
"GOP Can't Afford to Leave Trump's Voters Behind",
"GOP Can't Afford to Leave Trump's Voters Behind | RealClearPolitics"
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Five Political Lessons From the 2020 Election | RealClearPolitics
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Five Political Lessons From the 2020 Election
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With a new year upon us, it seems prudent to boil down all the things we clearly learned about politics during the 2020 elections into a few bright-line lessons for the very near future. It’s very likely we will learn more once reliable post-election analysis based on Census data and voter files becomes available. (One of the problems analysts face right now is that 2020 exit polls are especially unreliable thanks to methodological issues raised by heavy voting by mail.) But searing some big-picture findings into our brains is useful since some of them contradict hot takes or override in significance other data points that have been exaggerated or misunderstood.
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"With a new year upon us, it seems prudent to boil down all the things we clearly learned about politics during the 2020 elections into a few bright-line lessons for the very near future. It’s very likely we will learn more once reliable post-election analysis based on Census data and voter files becomes available. (One of the problems analysts face right now is that 2020 exit polls are especially unreliable thanks to methodological issues raised by heavy voting by mail.) But searing some big-picture findings into our brains is useful since some of them contradict hot takes or override in significance other data points that have been exaggerated or misunderstood.",
"Five Political Lessons From the 2020 Election",
"Five Political Lessons From the 2020 Election | RealClearPolitics"
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The Risks of a New Age of Political Repression | RealClearPolitics
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The Risks of a New Age of Political Repression
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A new age of political repression is coming at a time in which we need protests the most, and it will be a bipartisan affair
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| 2021-01-14T00:00:00 |
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"A new age of political repression is coming at a time in which we need protests the most, and it will be a bipartisan affair",
"The Risks of a New Age of Political Repression",
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Biden's Heartfelt Appeal for Unity Likely to Be Unavailing
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"We must end this uncivil war," Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president on Wednesday. Hours earlier, in his last moments as the 45th president, Donald Trump extended "best wishes" to the "new administration." Graceful words, but accompanied by sharp and, in some cases, deserved attacks. Our presidents since George Washington have come to office through an inevitably adversary process, and while they may inspire "unity" on occasion, that's more the exception than the rule.
That process has become especially adversary in times of close division, like the polarized partisan parity prevailing since the 1990s. Joe Biden is the fifth consecutive president taking office with his party holding majorities in both houses of Congress. But those majorities proved evanescent for both his two Democratic and his two Republican predecessors, and his party's current margins in the House and Senate are just as precarious as then-President George W. Bush's were 20 years ago.
This polarization is sharp because it's based not so much on economic issues, which can often be settled by splitting the difference, but on deeply held moral values by which people live or seek to live their lives. Solomonic solutions can remain unacceptable to those with strong feelings on both sides.
What we shouldn't expect, and what Biden is unlikely to deliver, are bipartisan compromises of the type that were frequent during his 36 years in the Senate but have become rarer, if not quite nonexistent, in the last dozen years.
Examples include transportation and communications deregulation during the administrations of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Social Security repair in 1983, immigration and tax packages in 1986, welfare reform in 1996 and the Medicare fix in 1997 that led to a couple of balanced federal budgets.
Most were the products of not partisan control but divided government at a time when Republicans seemed to have a lock on the presidency (for 20 of the 24 years between the 1968 and 1992 elections) and Democrats a lock on Congress, or at least the House (where they held 243 of 435 House seats between the 1958 and 1994 elections).
With little hopes of overturning the other side's lock, politicians made deals to get half a loaf and maybe a bit more. But in polarized partisan parity, in which control of the White House and of both houses of Congress has alternated, politicians have an incentive to wait till their side gets the White House and both sides of Capitol Hill.
So, Washington hasn't seen such bipartisan achievements since Bush and then-Sen. Edward Kennedy hammered out their education bill in 2001. Bush couldn't get Democrats interested in Social Security changes in 2005. Then-President Barack Obama couldn't negotiate a budget deal with then-House Speaker John Boehner in 2013. Bush and Obama failed to get immigration legislation in 2006, 2007 and 2013.
And note what happens when one party gets control and legislates. Then-President Bill Clinton tried to pass health insurance legislation in 1993 and lost his Democratic majorities in 1994. Obama did pass health insurance legislation in 2010 and lost even more House seats.
Obamacare remained unpopular while Obama was in office, but changing Obamacare became unpopular when Trump and Republicans tried to in 2017 and when Democrats won the House in 2018. The lesson I draw is that voters gripe about health insurance to pollsters and politicians, but when they see a plan that threatens their own arrangements, they prefer the status quo.
In a time of polarized partisan parity, passing major bipartisan legislation is mostly impossible, and using partisan majorities to pass longtime wish lists usually boomerangs on those in power.
Biden's inaugural address was light on legislative issues. "We face an attack on our democracy and on truth" -- justified but not unifying criticism at Trump's lengthy refusal to concede defeat and Trump supporters' assault on the electoral process two weeks ago -- "and a raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world."
But Biden's coronavirus policy looks very much like Trump's. As for "growing inequity," actually, pre-virus, incomes had been getting more equal. As for "systemic racism," we've had civil rights legislation since even before Biden was elected senator, and accusations that anything more than a handful of Americans favor the "white supremacy" he highlighted are not very unifying. Neither are his attacks on "lies" if that means attacks on free speech.
Recent polls show Trump falling and Biden's numbers not rising above partisan levels, below the honeymoon levels incoming presidents once got. His appeal for unity sounded heartfelt, but it will be of little avail if he pursues the sharp partisan agenda of which there were numerous hints in his text.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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| 2021-01-22T00:00:00 |
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"\"We must end this uncivil war,\" Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president on Wednesday. Hours earlier, in his last moments as the 45th president, Donald Trump extended \"best wishes\" to the \"new administration.\" Graceful words, but accompanied by sharp and, in some cases, deserved attacks. Our presidents since George Washington have come to office through an inevitably adversary process, and while they may inspire \"unity\" on occasion, that's more the exception than the rule.\nThat process has become especially adversary in times of close division, like the polarized partisan parity prevailing since the 1990s. Joe Biden is the fifth consecutive president taking office with his party holding majorities in both houses of Congress. But those majorities proved evanescent for both his two Democratic and his two Republican predecessors, and his party's current margins in the House and Senate are just as precarious as then-President George W. Bush's were 20 years ago.\nThis polarization is sharp because it's based not so much on economic issues, which can often be settled by splitting the difference, but on deeply held moral values by which people live or seek to live their lives. Solomonic solutions can remain unacceptable to those with strong feelings on both sides.\nWhat we shouldn't expect, and what Biden is unlikely to deliver, are bipartisan compromises of the type that were frequent during his 36 years in the Senate but have become rarer, if not quite nonexistent, in the last dozen years.\nExamples include transportation and communications deregulation during the administrations of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Social Security repair in 1983, immigration and tax packages in 1986, welfare reform in 1996 and the Medicare fix in 1997 that led to a couple of balanced federal budgets.\nMost were the products of not partisan control but divided government at a time when Republicans seemed to have a lock on the presidency (for 20 of the 24 years between the 1968 and 1992 elections) and Democrats a lock on Congress, or at least the House (where they held 243 of 435 House seats between the 1958 and 1994 elections).\nWith little hopes of overturning the other side's lock, politicians made deals to get half a loaf and maybe a bit more. But in polarized partisan parity, in which control of the White House and of both houses of Congress has alternated, politicians have an incentive to wait till their side gets the White House and both sides of Capitol Hill.\nSo, Washington hasn't seen such bipartisan achievements since Bush and then-Sen. Edward Kennedy hammered out their education bill in 2001. Bush couldn't get Democrats interested in Social Security changes in 2005. Then-President Barack Obama couldn't negotiate a budget deal with then-House Speaker John Boehner in 2013. Bush and Obama failed to get immigration legislation in 2006, 2007 and 2013.\nAnd note what happens when one party gets control and legislates. Then-President Bill Clinton tried to pass health insurance legislation in 1993 and lost his Democratic majorities in 1994. Obama did pass health insurance legislation in 2010 and lost even more House seats.\nObamacare remained unpopular while Obama was in office, but changing Obamacare became unpopular when Trump and Republicans tried to in 2017 and when Democrats won the House in 2018. The lesson I draw is that voters gripe about health insurance to pollsters and politicians, but when they see a plan that threatens their own arrangements, they prefer the status quo.\nIn a time of polarized partisan parity, passing major bipartisan legislation is mostly impossible, and using partisan majorities to pass longtime wish lists usually boomerangs on those in power.\nBiden's inaugural address was light on legislative issues. \"We face an attack on our democracy and on truth\" -- justified but not unifying criticism at Trump's lengthy refusal to concede defeat and Trump supporters' assault on the electoral process two weeks ago -- \"and a raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world.\"\nBut Biden's coronavirus policy looks very much like Trump's. As for \"growing inequity,\" actually, pre-virus, incomes had been getting more equal. As for \"systemic racism,\" we've had civil rights legislation since even before Biden was elected senator, and accusations that anything more than a handful of Americans favor the \"white supremacy\" he highlighted are not very unifying. Neither are his attacks on \"lies\" if that means attacks on free speech.\nRecent polls show Trump falling and Biden's numbers not rising above partisan levels, below the honeymoon levels incoming presidents once got. His appeal for unity sounded heartfelt, but it will be of little avail if he pursues the sharp partisan agenda of which there were numerous hints in his text.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
"Biden's Heartfelt Appeal for Unity Likely to Be Unavailing"
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Racial Equity, Equality and the Bureaucrats' Charter | RealClearPolitics
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Commentary Reading one of the first new presidential executive orders—titled Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support ...
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"Racial Equity, Equality and the Bureaucrats' Charter",
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Biden Won't Stop Antifa Until Portland Is Burned Down | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Won't Stop Antifa Until Portland Is Burned Down
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The nation’s capital was hard to recognize on Inauguration Day this year. In response to the Capitol Hill siege on Jan. 6, thousands of police and National Guard troops were sent on the streets of Washington, DC, where they manned checkpoints and set up barriers.
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Biden's Worst Executive Order Went Almost Entirely Unnoticed
This one order will rule them – and us – all.
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As noted earlier this week, President Trump's power and influence are ebbing by the minute. That is what happens to lame ducks, and with just 12 days to go in his presidency, Trump is the lamest of lame ducks. He no longer has any clout to force lawmakers, even those of his own party, to do much of anything.
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Pence's Time for Choosing
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Mike Pence is a man of God. He is also a practiced politician of intense discipline who answers every question, no matter how aggressive or personal, with carefully prepared talking points delivered in a reassuringly measured Midwestern cadence.
He is always on message. He has hardly ever, as vice president, strayed from the MAGA line.
When asked about his prayers during the pandemic, Pence explained in one breath how he offers prayers of intercession (that the suffering would be comforted), prayers of petition (that leaders would be given wisdom), and prayers of thanksgiving (that Donald Trump is his boss). “I have to tell you,” he told RealClearPolitics aboard Air Force Two shortly after accepting the nomination for vice president in August, “I really could not be more proud of this president's leadership through this global pandemic.” That Pence would turn a question about faith into an answer about Trump is not surprising.
He has been nothing but dedicated to the president, and no controversy -- not the Ukraine scandal, not the St. John’s church photo op, not even the “Access Hollywood” tape -- has ever caused Pence to abandon his post. Disciplined. On message. Loyal. Pence is all of that: A vice president straight out of central casting, who has backed up Trump at all costs but who will now risk four years of earned goodwill in one afternoon. He has to count votes.
As vice president, Pence serves also as president of the Senate, meaning that on Wednesday he will preside over a pro forma certification of the Electoral College vote. The duty is normally procedural. But by clinging to power and alleging widespread voter fraud, Donald Trump has foisted an uncomfortable decision on his loyal lieutenant: ratify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden or back his boss.
“There is a famous verse coming out of the Book of Esther,” David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth and a longtime friend of Pence, told RCP. “I think that applies to Mike right now.” Pence knows the scriptural passage McIntosh is talking about. It is the story where the queen in Babylonian exile must decide whether to denounce a plot to slaughter the Jewish people or to say nothing and ensure her own safety. The Word of the Lord:
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for a time such as this?
The parallel is obvious. The choice, less so. Pence is faced with a difficult decision that will affect not only the nation but his entire legacy. The vice president, no doubt, is seeking divine wisdom. And for a time such as this, he has reportedly sought guidance from political advisers and legal experts and the Senate parliamentarian. McIntosh, for his part, didn’t say who the “Babylonians” are in this case.
Trump has made his thoughts known. “I hope that Mike Pence comes through for us. He’s a great guy,” the president said Monday night at a rally in Georgia. The hopes of Trump World rest on playing the so-called Pence Card, the idea being that the vice president would unilaterally reject the election results. “Of course, if he doesn’t come through,” Trump added, “I won’t like him quite as much.”
This would be a bitter pill for Pence, who is widely believed to harbor Oval Office ambitions of his own. Being a party to a quixotic attempt to overturn the election results, however, could very well make him a pariah in any future general election.
But close friends as well as current and former colleagues stress that the vice president has a higher allegiance. “He’s very loyal to President Trump, who obviously is very interested in the outcome, but the most important feature about Mike is that he really is a constitutionalist,” McIntosh said. As for the gaggle of Senate Republicans who plan to challenge some state results, McIntosh predicted that Pence would limit himself simply to using “the chair to give them an appropriate hearing for their motion.” Nothing more.
The task before Pence is simple, at least on paper. The vice president is to open envelopes that contain the Electoral College votes reported from the individual states and then, “in the presence of” both chambers of Congress, hand them to the tellers of the House and Senate. Trump adviser Peter Navarro argued that Pence has broader authority, that he could delay the process and grant a 10-day audit of the results. Pence is apparently unmoved by this curious theory. “Peter Navarro is many things,” the VP’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told the Wall Street Journal. “He is not a constitutional scholar.”
While Pence has signaled that he is open to GOP efforts to overturn the election result, he hasn’t tipped his hand. It still isn’t clear what he will do, other than serve his constitutionally mandated clerical role. The vice president, his office said in a statement, “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th.”
The Trump campaign and its allies have filed no fewer than 60 legal challenges alleging widespread fraud. None have been successful in court. Meanwhile, there has been whispering among White House staff that the vice president is not a true believer when it comes to election conspiracies. The New York Times reported that Pence even told the president that he didn’t believe he has the power to block congressional certification of a Biden victory. This, Trump said late Tuesday night, was “fake news.”
“The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act,” Trump said in statement, later adding that the “election was corrupt in contested states” and therefore “was illegal.”
“Our Vice President has several options under the U.S. Constitution,” Trump’s statement added. “He can decertify the results or send them back to the states for change and certification. He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote for one state tabulation.”
If Pence doesn’t exercise those oddball options as Trump prescribes, he could alienate the president’s base. But what good is a base that isn’t large enough to win national elections? That is the question of GOP strategists surveying the wreckage of 2020. Trump couldn’t secure his own reelection, let alone keep Republican Senate majority which, as of Wednesday morning, appears lost.
There may be an opportunity in all of the chaos, a chance for Pence to place a steady hand on the wheel of government as the peaceful transition of power begins. “It only helps his future ambitions,” said Rep. Jim Banks, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee that Pence once helmed.
“Only the wacky fringe elements of the Republican Party believe that Mike Pence should stand up before the nation, on the floor of the House, and not perform his constitutional duties of counting the electors from the States,” added Banks, who predicted, “Pence will be president one day.”
Those ambitions were evident to former Rep. Mark Souder from early on. The two Hoosiers served in Congress together, and Souder watched as Pence moved steadily through House leadership to the Indiana governor’s mansion and finally to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across a parking lot from the White House. “He is gonna have to choose,” Souder said of the vice president’s last, and most consequential, decision. “Pence respects the institution too much; he’s signaled it, and he is not going to overturn the vote, court cases, and state election officials because he built his career on states’ rights.”
“I can't see him selling out,” Souder added. “Not for this guy.”
Pence will preside over a joint session of Congress, his office confirmed late Tuesday night, to count electoral votes at 1 p.m. Trump is scheduled to speak at an event across town two hours earlier. It is billed as the “Save America Rally.”
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"Mike Pence is a man of God. He is also a practiced politician of intense discipline who answers every question, no matter how aggressive or personal, with carefully prepared talking points delivered in a reassuringly measured Midwestern cadence.\nHe is always on message. He has hardly ever, as vice president, strayed from the MAGA line.\nWhen asked about his prayers during the pandemic, Pence explained in one breath how he offers prayers of intercession (that the suffering would be comforted), prayers of petition (that leaders would be given wisdom), and prayers of thanksgiving (that Donald Trump is his boss). “I have to tell you,” he told RealClearPolitics aboard Air Force Two shortly after accepting the nomination for vice president in August, “I really could not be more proud of this president's leadership through this global pandemic.” That Pence would turn a question about faith into an answer about Trump is not surprising.\nHe has been nothing but dedicated to the president, and no controversy -- not the Ukraine scandal, not the St. John’s church photo op, not even the “Access Hollywood” tape -- has ever caused Pence to abandon his post. Disciplined. On message. Loyal. Pence is all of that: A vice president straight out of central casting, who has backed up Trump at all costs but who will now risk four years of earned goodwill in one afternoon. He has to count votes.\nAs vice president, Pence serves also as president of the Senate, meaning that on Wednesday he will preside over a pro forma certification of the Electoral College vote. The duty is normally procedural. But by clinging to power and alleging widespread voter fraud, Donald Trump has foisted an uncomfortable decision on his loyal lieutenant: ratify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden or back his boss.\n“There is a famous verse coming out of the Book of Esther,” David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth and a longtime friend of Pence, told RCP. “I think that applies to Mike right now.” Pence knows the scriptural passage McIntosh is talking about. It is the story where the queen in Babylonian exile must decide whether to denounce a plot to slaughter the Jewish people or to say nothing and ensure her own safety. The Word of the Lord:\nFor if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for a time such as this?\nThe parallel is obvious. The choice, less so. Pence is faced with a difficult decision that will affect not only the nation but his entire legacy. The vice president, no doubt, is seeking divine wisdom. And for a time such as this, he has reportedly sought guidance from political advisers and legal experts and the Senate parliamentarian. McIntosh, for his part, didn’t say who the “Babylonians” are in this case.\nTrump has made his thoughts known. “I hope that Mike Pence comes through for us. He’s a great guy,” the president said Monday night at a rally in Georgia. The hopes of Trump World rest on playing the so-called Pence Card, the idea being that the vice president would unilaterally reject the election results. “Of course, if he doesn’t come through,” Trump added, “I won’t like him quite as much.”\nThis would be a bitter pill for Pence, who is widely believed to harbor Oval Office ambitions of his own. Being a party to a quixotic attempt to overturn the election results, however, could very well make him a pariah in any future general election.\nBut close friends as well as current and former colleagues stress that the vice president has a higher allegiance. “He’s very loyal to President Trump, who obviously is very interested in the outcome, but the most important feature about Mike is that he really is a constitutionalist,” McIntosh said. As for the gaggle of Senate Republicans who plan to challenge some state results, McIntosh predicted that Pence would limit himself simply to using “the chair to give them an appropriate hearing for their motion.” Nothing more.\nThe task before Pence is simple, at least on paper. The vice president is to open envelopes that contain the Electoral College votes reported from the individual states and then, “in the presence of” both chambers of Congress, hand them to the tellers of the House and Senate. Trump adviser Peter Navarro argued that Pence has broader authority, that he could delay the process and grant a 10-day audit of the results. Pence is apparently unmoved by this curious theory. “Peter Navarro is many things,” the VP’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told the Wall Street Journal. “He is not a constitutional scholar.”\nWhile Pence has signaled that he is open to GOP efforts to overturn the election result, he hasn’t tipped his hand. It still isn’t clear what he will do, other than serve his constitutionally mandated clerical role. The vice president, his office said in a statement, “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th.”\nThe Trump campaign and its allies have filed no fewer than 60 legal challenges alleging widespread fraud. None have been successful in court. Meanwhile, there has been whispering among White House staff that the vice president is not a true believer when it comes to election conspiracies. The New York Times reported that Pence even told the president that he didn’t believe he has the power to block congressional certification of a Biden victory. This, Trump said late Tuesday night, was “fake news.”\n“The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act,” Trump said in statement, later adding that the “election was corrupt in contested states” and therefore “was illegal.”\n“Our Vice President has several options under the U.S. Constitution,” Trump’s statement added. “He can decertify the results or send them back to the states for change and certification. He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote for one state tabulation.”\nIf Pence doesn’t exercise those oddball options as Trump prescribes, he could alienate the president’s base. But what good is a base that isn’t large enough to win national elections? That is the question of GOP strategists surveying the wreckage of 2020. Trump couldn’t secure his own reelection, let alone keep Republican Senate majority which, as of Wednesday morning, appears lost.\nThere may be an opportunity in all of the chaos, a chance for Pence to place a steady hand on the wheel of government as the peaceful transition of power begins. “It only helps his future ambitions,” said Rep. Jim Banks, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee that Pence once helmed.\n“Only the wacky fringe elements of the Republican Party believe that Mike Pence should stand up before the nation, on the floor of the House, and not perform his constitutional duties of counting the electors from the States,” added Banks, who predicted, “Pence will be president one day.”\nThose ambitions were evident to former Rep. Mark Souder from early on. The two Hoosiers served in Congress together, and Souder watched as Pence moved steadily through House leadership to the Indiana governor’s mansion and finally to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across a parking lot from the White House. “He is gonna have to choose,” Souder said of the vice president’s last, and most consequential, decision. “Pence respects the institution too much; he’s signaled it, and he is not going to overturn the vote, court cases, and state election officials because he built his career on states’ rights.”\n“I can't see him selling out,” Souder added. “Not for this guy.”\nPence will preside over a joint session of Congress, his office confirmed late Tuesday night, to count electoral votes at 1 p.m. Trump is scheduled to speak at an event across town two hours earlier. It is billed as the “Save America Rally.”",
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