I've covered every secretary of state since George Shultz. Never one like this. Why does a West Point grad trample on a Constitution/values/principles he swore to uphold? Pompeo Faces Political Peril and Diplomats’ Revolt in Impeachment Inquiry
The president-elect still has the opportunity to begin his Administration with an appeal based on Lincoln’s first inauguration: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.”
Every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else. Catholics should vote accordingly, whether or not a Democrat is Catholic. The left controls the party.
Bret Baier points out to McConnell with receipts that his claims about how the Republican Party is focused on the future is contradicted by the fact fundraising emails from Republican candidates mention Trump more than five times each day
This was the scene when Republican Congressional leaders in August 1974 went to the White House and told Nixon that, whatever his delusions, he was finished:
Just because someone says he/she believes in God & Christian values doesn’t make it so. So many people seem willing to surrender their beliefs in pursuit of short term gains, false gods. But we see them.
I don’t expect Mike Pence to come around. Yet, it is still jarring that a man rooted in faith and scripture would punch the clock every day for a boss whose conduct flies in the face of every notion, liberal and conservative, of basic morality and decency.
It is extraordinary that a respected senior public official like Dr. Fauci would have to defend himself like this, publicly, against a sitting U.S. senator. Given the threats against Fauci and his family, given the rise in domestic terrorism here, Fauci had no choice.
Growing more desperate, increasingly displaying his authoritarian ways: Down in the polls and yearning for an October surprise, Trump lashes at his most loyal allies
@CommsDirector
@lrozen
Of course he will say that. Question is: Did he conspire with the president to start a new Mideast war to save Trump's political bacon?
Thank goodness for Ruth Marcus, who has moral and ethical clarity and understands the need to wield it: Opinion | Ruth Marcus: Donald Trump's latest outrage is too dangerous to ignore - The Washington Post
Trump’s Presidency isn’t just a failure, it is a disaster unequaled in the 244 year history of the United States. America is in chaos, 100,000 of us are dead and the economy shattered because of Trump’s incompetence. He is unfit and making this terrible moment worse.
Dear
@narendramodi
, my timeline has been inundated with threats from those who claim allegiance to you, they claim to be your supporters. Explicit rape and death threats, asking for blood of my family. Should journalists pay the price of bearing witness ?
#JournalismIsNotACrime
"The question to me is — how can you get Congress to pass something that the majority of us are for? That sounds straightforward, but those of us watching know it's not."
—
@AndrewYang
in the virtual JFK Jr. Forum on the legislative future of universal basic income
Nina Totenberg reports that (1) the Chief Justice asked his colleagues to mask up out of respect for Sotomayor’s health concerns, (2) only Gorsuch refused, and (3) his refusal forced Sotomayor to participate in arguments and conference remotely.
Amid reports
#Soleimani
was killed in a US attack, one has to wonder what Trump means when he talks about wanting to keep America out of Mideast wars and bring the troops home ... He may have triggered an expanded regional conflict w/o debate, much less a vote, in Congress
Obama gives full credit to George W. Bush for signing renewal of the Voting Rights Act, which Supreme Court weakened; says if politicians want to honor John Lewis they will revitalize "the law he was willing to die for."
These comments by
@SenBlumenthal
seem to go beyond the normal level of concern over cyberattacks. Americans deserve more clarity about what's going on for sure.
Stunning. Today’s classified briefing on Russia’s cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact downright scared. Americans deserve to know what's going on. Declassify what’s known & unknown.
Am I the only one who thinks, has
@Malala
completed university already? She has achieved so much in her short life. I am confident the future is bright.
Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree at Oxford. I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep. 😴
The national security negligence is stunning: the Commander in Chief is chasing a false allegation of election fraud at home, while a very real foreign adversary executed a very real hack of large swaths of his government - and his admin missed it.
So keep in mind that this man, who has taken a combination of serious drugs that experts say suggest a dangerous medical condition, is in charge of the nuclear codes. He seems to be delusional. And perhaps directing his own medical care as a political stunt.
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
For Republicans & conservative commentators seeking to foster unity, here's a phrase you could tweet or say: "I lied about election fraud in our president election last November. I apologize. President-elect Joe Biden won a free and fair election. Mr. Trump lost."
#JustDoIt
.
One party lifted up Brayden Harrington, a 13-yo boy who reminds us the power of empathy.
The other is elevating these two.
The contrast is stark. The choice clear.
After tonight’s debate, the extremist and violent group Proud Boys added Trump’s advice to them — “Stand by” — to its logo. Let that sink in: Trump didn’t repudiate violent white supremacist extremists but bolstered them.
Barr owes the American people honest answers. He also owes them to the career people at DOJ who do their jobs with honor every day. But I'm not holding my breath.
@djohnson1924
@JulyJane
@Acosta
So you don't believe Trump should be accountable to the people? Be forced to explain his policies like every other prez, Dem & Rep?
As Secretary, my approach for hostage negotiations was to get every American home, but not in a way that creates more Americans hostages.
I fear the Biden Administration fell dangerously short of this standard.
#HerschelWalkerForSenate
1 He put a gun to his ex-wife's temple & told her he was going to blow her brains out.
2 He fantasized about murdering a man because he delivered a car late.
3 He played Russian roulette with a loaded gun
4 Multiple women have accused him of stalking
The FBI website 👇 re those who stormed the Capitol, trying to overthrow democracy. These people are an existential threat. Our system is based on elections, debate, compromise, voting to advance the common good not mob rule. .
We are a rule of law country. We don't convict/execute people without legal process to protect their rights. Now, wannabe strongmen encouraged by Trump want to replace our tradition with their whims. It's not just a tweet, it's a fundamental test of already strained institutions.
WAPO pulled a list together: 16 Trump officials, including Trump himself, Melania, Barr, Pence, Parscale, Ivanka, McEnany and more have voted by mail recently.
People need to hear what this congresswoman
@laurenboebert
is saying. She calls Democrats "terrorists." This is the kind of inflammatory, corrosive language used by fascists to delegitimize, dehumanize political opponents. History has shown us where that leads.1/
Lauren Boebert called her Democratic colleagues, “terrorists,” while discussing the possibility of working with them:
“We cannot negotiate with terrorists. Democrats are not wanting to give you an inch.”
Mental healthcare is healthcare. It should be guaranteed as a right along with dental and vision.
If you get a bad cut, you go to the doctor to heal it faster and healthier. Same goes here.
If I could prescribe it to other members, I would 😉
“If you read somebody saying that the hearings failed to accomplish something important,” writes
@davidfrum
, “that will only be true if you let it be true.”
Reporters and voters need to keep trying to pin these elected representatives down & make them explain themselves. The truth is they can't give a credible explanation for why they oppose gun control. It makes Cruz & others very uncomfortable when they are asked these questions.👇
On the school shooting, British reporter
@Stone_SkyNews
asks the most important question of all to Ted Cruz: “Why does this only happen in your country?”
@davidaxelrod
@RepAdamSchiff
Of course Schiff is irritating to people who have no principles or conscience and are being exposed for their willingness to sell out America and its democracy.
Just let that sink in: The nation's top intelligence official is doubting who will be president on Jan. 20, chipping away further at democratic legitimacy. The votes have been counted and recounted.
Her arrest and imprisonment were already a travesty and this compounds the injustice: Saudi Activist Who Fought For Women’s Right to Drive Is Sent to Terrorism Court
Are you 35 or under & never been published in Arms Control Today, the authoritative disarmament source? Consider writing for our “New Voices” feature. Especially looking for women, people of color who are traditionally underrepresented in this debate. cgiacomo
@armscontrol
.org
.
@SecPompeo
: I hope that the Chinese Communist Party will begin to recognize that if they want to rise, if they want to continue to build out their nation, that they need to do so on a Western rule set that honors the rule of law and honors freedom and respect for sovereignty.
In this 2-minute clip on tonight's
@MehdiHasanShow
, I sum up almost everything Ivanka's father, the president, has done to incite violence and terror here in the U.S. since 2015 (I had to speak very fast!). Watch and share:
So more than 200 Republicans have now put themselves on record in favor of a congressman
@RepGosar
who created and disseminated a video threatening a fellow lawmaker and the president. Even his brother calls him unfit for office. What a party. God help this republic.
Here’s all you need to know about our elections: Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help
#Senate
For those who care about press freedom, a good review by
@brianstelter
about the horrifying rise in abuse against journalists who are just doing their jobs.
What if someone hadn't been filming?
My report for
@CNNTonight
about videos of alleged excessive force by police officers – and how the videos sometimes inspire even more people to take to the streets
Of the Republican Senators who attended this weeks “Biden isn’t doing enough for Ukraine” press conference…
2/3 of them:
Risch
Sasse
Kennedy
Cruz
Marshall
Fischer
Lankford
Hoeven
Sullivan
voted AGAINST the bipartisan $12B Ukraine aid package.
CNN had let
@JohnJHarwood
go. This after releasing
@brianstelter
. Pretty obvious
@Acosta
will be next. In light of this I wanted to re-up this piece I wrote the other week for the
@latimes
about how CNN’s new leadership is betraying journalism.
Among many reasons the rest of us have had a hard time comprehending the descent of so many Americans into mass psychosis is a belief that anyone who embraces such nuttery must have traumatic reasons for doing so. But it's affluence and plenty, not trauma, that led us here. /1