We’re seeing a lot of GOP in disarray stories. They’re entertaining and individually contain some valuable information. But the GOP is not in disarray. There’s no GOP civil war. Indeed, for a party that just lost the presidency and the one house of Congress the party is united to an almost historically unprecedented degree. And it’s getting more united, not less, as we go forward. The only commotion are the punitive expeditions being mounted against the handful of renegades who briefly turned on Trump by supporting impeachment or making other conspicuous gestures of disloyalty.
What The NYT’s Epic Subvert-The-Election Conspiracy Story Had That Ours Didn’t
The New York Times on Sunday dropped a lengthy article on President Trump’s 77-day “Campaign to Subvert the Election.” You may remember that we did something similar last week. But the Times, unlike TPM, has a staff of hundreds fanned out across the globe. And their “Subvert the Election” story boasts an impressive seven-person byline, including the paper’s best investigative and White House reporters.
So, naturally, they uncovered some fresh detail about the President’s months-long effort to steal a second term. Here’s what’s new in the Times’ big front-page feature.
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Biden To Meet With GOP Senators Over Their Slimmed-Down COVID Package
President Joe Biden is slated to meet with 10 Republican senators on Monday to discuss the lawmakers’ push for a $600 billion COVID-19 package that would dramatically shrink down Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion proposal, per the White House’s daily schedule.
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Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser’s Key Role Planning The Rally That Preceded The Siege
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In the week leading up to the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that exploded into an attack on the Capitol, a top Trump campaign fundraiser issued a directive to a woman who had been overseeing planning for the event. Continue reading “Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser’s Key Role Planning The Rally That Preceded The Siege”
Convergent Evolution
One of the uncanny features of the COVID Pandemic – certainly one of the great events of all of our lifetimes – is the mix of horror and fascination one experiences learning new dimensions of the scourge. One of these for me has been watching scientists unravel the details of the new COVID variants now galloping around the globe, a sprint of investigative work only possible with the powerful genomic analysis tools that didn’t even exist a few decades ago. (In 1918, science didn’t even know there was such a thing as viruses. Or rather viruses weren’t recognized as distinct from bacterial infection.)
For me the big fascination and warning sign has been the new discussion of ‘convergent evolution’.
Dozens Bush Admin Officials Say They’re Ditching GOP Over Party’s Loyalty To Trump
Dozens of officials from ex-President George W. Bush’s administration say that the GOP’s fealty to former President Donald Trump, even after he incited the deadly Capitol siege, is driving them away from the party, according to Reuters.
Trump Scrapes Together New Legal Team For Impeachment After First Crew Jumps Ship At 11th Hour
Ex-President Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that he had found two new attorneys, one of whom represented Trump ally Roger Stone, to defend him in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial after his first defense team bailed little more than a week before the trial was set to begin.
GOPers Stop Short Of Urging Greene To Resign Day After Her ‘GREAT Call’ With Trump
Although several prominent Republicans on Sunday decried Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) incendiary remarks — which include heckling Parkland shooting survivors and musing about the execution of Democratic politicians — they shied away from joining in on calls for the QAnon-promoting House member to resign. Continue reading “GOPers Stop Short Of Urging Greene To Resign Day After Her ‘GREAT Call’ With Trump”
Biden Economic Advisers Won’t Weigh In On GOP COVID Relief Counter Offer Just Yet
National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and top Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein on Sunday wouldn’t offer their two cents on a new COVID-19 relief counterproposal by 10 Republican senators, but reiterated the President’s urgency on delivering relief to the public as the country reels from more than 420,000 deaths thus far from the novel coronavirus. Continue reading “Biden Economic Advisers Won’t Weigh In On GOP COVID Relief Counter Offer Just Yet”
Extremists Prompt Dodger Stadium Vaccine Site To Temporarily Shut Down
Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site was temporarily shut down Saturday afternoon when anti-vaccine and far-right groups descended upon one of the largest vaccination sites in the country, according to the Los Angeles Times. Continue reading “Extremists Prompt Dodger Stadium Vaccine Site To Temporarily Shut Down”