Bipartisanship, who?
As Democrats continue negotiations on their sweeping reconciliation package that centrist senators are putting up a fight over, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday appeared to cheer on disagreements among Democratic senators over the content and topline of the “human infrastructure” bill.
Continue reading “Twitter Users Torch RonJohn After He Quips That He ‘Prays For’ Dem ‘Gridlock’ On Reconciliation”Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who serves on the Jan. 6 select committee, on Sunday said that it wasn’t inappropriate for President Biden to urge the Justice Department to prosecute those who defy the panel’s subpoenas, following the DOJ’s terse response to the President’s remarks.
Continue reading “Kinzinger Defends Biden’s Call For Justice Department To Prosecute Those Who Defy Jan. 6 Panel’s Subpoenas”Some House and Senate Democrats are considering a new carbon tax after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shot down the crux of Democrats’ climate plan in the reconciliation bill, according to the New York Times.
Continue reading “Democrats Eye Carbon Tax After Manchin Opposition To Climate Plan In Reconciliation Bill”Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday made clear that he is not amused by Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s dig at him for going on paternity leave after the birth of his adopted twins.
Continue reading “‘It’s Important Work’: Buttigieg Swats Down Tucker Carlson’s Mockery Of His Paternity Leave”From TPM Reader MT …
Continue reading “Rising BIF Envy”I want to follow up from JB’s last line (Democrats in Congress have driven themselves into a cul-de-sac on the reconciliation bill) and just note how amazingly frustrated I am at the Democrats in Congress and those who said go for all or nothing. I have kept my thoughts to myself with the assumption that the Democrats know what they are doing. How stupid is that?
Unfortunately I think TPM Reader JB is right about this …
Continue reading “Which Side Are You On?”One other difference between Sen. Manchin and Sen. Tester you might have mentioned in your podcast this week is that Manchin is self-consciously wealthy.
While Congress is in recess this week, we’ll be watching negotiations on the infrastructure bill and presenting them to you in an evening briefing. Check in here to find out how the sausage-making is shaping up.
Continue reading “The Sausage Making: Manchin And Sinema Continue To Be Difficult In Their Own Special Ways”Like much of the reconciliation package, its chief climate provision has existed in a weird limbo for weeks.
Continue reading “The Crux Of Democrats’ Climate Plan Is Hovering Somewhere Between Life And Death”We have a lot of questions.
Continue reading “Arizona AG Posts Vid Of Himself Twirling Nunchakus For Some Reason”I’ve noted several times over recent weeks that former President Trump lacks most of the unique protections he had as President. That means the Jan 6th committee should be able to press a real investigation whereas the House committees in the previous Congress and the two impeachment processes could not. Much of this is because ex-Presidents have no executive privilege. But it’s just as much that they don’t control the Justice Department and that possession is 9/10ths of the law. The current President, in some cases directly and in others indirectly, has custody of the records of the government of the United States. But it’s a small wrinkle to this story that I want to expand on today, both because it’s interesting to know in its own right but because it’s a window into how this latest investigation really puts not only the judiciary but the elite legal profession itself on trial.
Continue reading “The Jan 6 Investigation Puts the Legal Profession on Trial Too”
