Literally one of the most important things Cong GOPers can point to during the fall campaign and the leader of their party thinks “its a yawn”. I’ve never understood the loyalty these GOPers pay Trump when he could care less about any one of them or the party. He demonstrates this daily and yet the avg elected Republican behaves like a hazed frat boy “thank you sir, may I have another.”
.@chucktodd: "What do you tell Jewish Americans who are donors to the Democratic Party, Who are concerned that the party is moving away from being supportive of the state of Israel?"
@RepDelBene: "I think I have always said that folks should talk directly to the folks who are running for office in their communities and ask them the tough questions about kind of their concerns about what's happening, whether it's about what's happening in the Middle East, what's happening economically, what they're seeing with ICE in communities and the war in Iran. Talk to folks."
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So glad my friends @AARP are sponsoring these statewide polls by professional pollsters (bipartisan Fabrizio (R)/Impact (D)) again this cycle. Getting quality statewide senate/gov polls are always a challenge. Here’s their latest on OHIO. https://t.co/v9M6fv54dz
So taxpayer dollars are being used to endorse a specific set of religious readings for school children? This should be an easy 1st Amendment case to win, no? “Textbook” indoctrination fwiw. https://t.co/Z52RsWFDhL
Thanks to my dear friends @meetthepress for recalling this today:
Remembering Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell's joint Meet the Press interview (2007) https://t.co/GMlLfXWSQe
Tillis on CNN on confirming Todd Blanche as AG: “I've got a positive predisposition towards Blanche ... But if there's even a whiff of a lack of independence, then that could influence my vote.” [So he’s already decided serving as Trump’s personal atty doesn’t already come with an odor that does not smell of independence?]
Lots on this app over the last day about what Gen. Chris Donahue did and did not do during the evacuation of Afghanistan. A lot of it is unmoored from the facts.
A few truths:
1) Secretary Hegseth is free to choose the commanders he wants, by statute and tradition.
2) Donahue's contributions to the U.S. military and nation are significant, whether Hegseth chooses him for another assignment or not.
3) Donahue was deployed to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul -- not Bagram Airfield -- only *after* Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. The Taliban seized power Aug. 15, 2021. He learned he was deploying on the 16th and arrived on the 18th with the airfield still in disarray.
4) Have attached some passages from his interview with military investigators that October. Donahue said then that what he saw when he arrived in Kabul was "all very unacceptable to me" and that he was "jacking people up" trying to get order.
He also recalled threatening Taliban officials that if they fought American troops during the evacuation "we would be able to kill more of them than they could ever hope to kill of us."
Donahue added: "The first 3 days we did not really sleep. I told our surgeon that we needed to prepare for a mass casualty event."
The assessment of many informed people was that the troops on the ground were thrust into an untenable situation and scrambled to get control. The Afghan government and the Biden administration lost control of the situation and the U.S. military scrambled to restore order.
This is seriously deranged and fucked up.
@PeteButtigieg is a decent man and his kids — and no public figures kids - should ever be political pawns—>
Former VP @Mike_Pence: "I'm a Republican and what I can imagine is the Republican Party returning to our roots because they have been a pathway, not just a political success, but those policies and practices created the longest peacetime expansion in American history, literally brought down the Soviet Union, saw Roe v. Wade sent to the ash heap of history where it belongs and on and on and on and established the greatest military in the history of the world."
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So, Mr. Speaker, you're saying it will take a Democratic majority for Congress to do its Constitutional duty of oversight?
I'd prefer a Republican majority willing to do that.
Man our politics are dumb. I get it, it’s hard to sell the idea of simply fixing our tax code to get rid of the loopholes that exist only the wealthy. But that’s the real scam and issue. How about closing all the wealthy loopholes that Congress has essentially “sold” to lobbyists for the last 30 years. I promise you it would likely get the super rich paying more than they do now, rather than doing this class warfare cos play.
It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.
10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed.
The system is fundamentally broken.
The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans.
It’s time for an economic reset.
https://t.co/nrRXzlFLKy
🚨 JUST IN: Scott Bessent says America needs to go full NATIONALIST mode and reclaim our communities instead of prioritizing foreign imports
He’s based!
“We can't tell people, 'let them eat flatscreens.' I think people would rather have their communities BACK, they'd rather have the dignity of work than cheap gadgets!”
The more Trump goes after Murkowski, the more likely the real number Dems will need to take control of the Senate is “3” not 4 — as she has hinted at before, she can decide to caucus with the other side if she chooses. And if a Dem (Peltola)wins the AK Senate seat, it would be on brand for her to say, “my state has indicated they want a Dem senate….”
Johnson: If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y'all impeachment's not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the The cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.