Before the inaugural fireworks have fully faded from our retinas, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is making clear that he intends to hold President Joe Biden’s nominees and legislative agenda hostage until Democrats agree to cede some of their power.
Continue reading “With Fresh Obstructionist Demands, McConnell Dares Dems To Blow Up The Filibuster”
The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to pass 500,000 at some point next month, President Biden said, in remarks that offered a whiplash from the previous administration.
Continue reading “COVID Death Toll Expected To Hit 500k Next Month, Biden Says”
Upon his return to the White House briefing room on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed a sense of relief to work under President Biden after spending the past year refuting former President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims on COVID-19. Continue reading “Fauci Says It’s ‘Liberating’ To Be Free From Refuting Trump’s Unfounded COVID-19 Claims”
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Thursday brushed off rumors of Ivanka Trump launching a primary challenge to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, according to a Capitol Hill pool report. Continue reading “Rick Scott Brushes Off Potential Ivanka-Rubio Primary Fight: ‘Supporting Incumbents’”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday denied that he, in fact, voted to overturn the election results as he failed to take responsibility for egging on former President Trump’s incitement of the mob behind the deadly insurrection of the Capitol earlier this month. Continue reading “McCarthy Falsely Denies Voting To Overturn Election Results”
The Biden White House and the Democratic Senate face numerous substantive decisions in the coming days and months. But certain decisions, more procedural than policy, will set the tone and ground rules today and in the months and years ahead. They are critical. And they will have a profound impact on the breadth and success of policy-making over the next two and four years.
You’ll be familiar with these ground rules decisions in concept even if the particulars are technical and occluded in administrative and parliamentary jargon. In short, will resurgent Democrats use their lawful powers to enact their policy agenda or get wrong-footed and derailed by bad faith arguments from Republicans about norms, fairness, unity and the like? Will they be gamed into chasing Republican buy-in, the possibility of which will always be snatched away after it has served its purpose of forcing Democrats to fritter away time they need to deliver on election promises?
This was the great failure of Barack Obama’s presidency, one he fully grasped only late in his second term and after Republicans had used it to wrest away control of Congress and the Courts.
One year ago today the CDC announced the first case of COVID-19 in the United States.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: The One Year Anniversary Of The First Reported US COVID Case”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, freshly stripped of his powers as the nation’s top diplomat after the Biden administration officially took over on Wednesday, appears to be counting down until Election Day 2024.
“1,384 days,” he tweeted early Thursday, the first full day of the Biden presidency. The countdown appeared to refer to the Election Day four years into the future, when Biden approaches the end of his first term as president.
The former top State Department official’s partisan comments come after he had gained a reputation for politicizing the agency in the Trump administration, and repeatedly made comments that reflected a refusal to uphold its commitment to nonpartisanship.
Pompeo had also delivered a bitter parting message on Tuesday, declaring a day before the nation welcomed President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — the first Black and Asian-American woman to serve in that role — that multiculturalism “is not what America is.”
Pompeo is rumored to be considering a possible 2024 presidential run, but the former State Department chief was quickly mocked for the remarks by those doubting his chances on Twitter:
about 1,019 days until pompeo flames out in the republican primaries https://t.co/pkIeXz4wfc
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 21, 2021
Arabic numerals? Not very American. https://t.co/aIggAsHlP4
— RiddanceHat (@Popehat) January 21, 2021
…until you're doing 2024 Election Night commentary for Newsmax https://t.co/cIAEghyZBP
— Matt Duss (@mattduss) January 21, 2021
Not usually how an outgoing Secretary of State greets a new administration. pic.twitter.com/ZFY5SYbuFQ
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) January 21, 2021
This is one of those tweets everybody will be dunking on in 1,384 days
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) January 21, 2021
… until you never become president
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 21, 2021
Are you guessing how long Trump’s prison sentence is going to be?
— Alyssa Hertzig (@alyssahertzig) January 21, 2021
Pompeo attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and install an autocrat.@mikepompeo is a traitor guilty of sedition. 1384 days in jail would be a good minimum sentence. https://t.co/NzQZU9bsvo
— Sean Quinlan ⚖ (@SPQ_ESQ) January 21, 2021
A House Democrat is asking that the FBI open an investigation into the role of Parler in stoking the Capitol insurrection.
Continue reading “READ: House Asks FBI To Probe Parler Role In Capitol Insurrection”
It’s been about 24 hours since now-former President Donald Trump slunk away from the White House for good, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), for one, is elated.
Continue reading “Pelosi Revels In Trump-Free White House: ‘What A Difference A Day Makes!’”
