Will the next be worse? The postmortem on Joe's very bad week continues. Atop Da Hill, Joe Concha dissects Joe Biden's disastrous 48 hours. At WaEx, Paul Bedard gives Joe a White House Report Card: Biden's shrinking presidency stalling out. Solid Ds. Even WaPoo recognizes there's a problem, ‘One of those weeks’: From voting rights to vaccines, Biden experiences the limits of his office — and the fragility of his presidency, also, Virginia Kruta at Da Wire reports how Peter Doocy Asks Psaki Why Biden’s ‘Decades Of DC Experience’ Haven’t Paid Off ,‘What Happened?’ Peter knows well enough that Joe isn't really calling the shots. Clive Cook at WaPoo (from Bloomies) Biden Is Dividing the Country He Promised to Unite.
Over years of following American politics, I’d come to regard Joe Biden as harmless — a back-slapper without strong conviction, given to exaggeration and the occasional outright lie, but no worse than average for a career politician and no threat to the republic. Lately I’ve been wondering if I overestimated him.
Breitbart has a Poll: Plurality Say Biden Is Dividing the Country. Chuck Lipsom at Spec World, The little president who cried racism "Biden hides in the last refuge of today’s scoundrels." Capt. Ed at Haut Hair hears Retreat: White House declares Republicans, Manchin, Sinema not segregationists and traitors "as humans," or something. Then why did your speechwriters put it in your speech? At CNS News, Tulsi Gabbard: Biden’s Smear of Americans More Divisive and Disgusting than Hillary Clinton’s ‘Deplorables’ Slur. Tim Graham sees No Fact-Checking for Biden's Atlanta Smears. Pat Buchanan? Biden: Bull Connor's GOP Imperils Democracy
If Biden's purpose was to add Senate votes to build a majority for ending the filibuster on voting rights, this looks like a loser. Implying that 52 senators, including Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are racists for the stand they have taken on keeping the filibuster does not seem like the way to bring them around.
At WaEx, White House defends Biden's record after week of setbacks. Of course they do; they'd also tell you the sky is green if they needed it to fit their narrative. NYPo says Accusations fly as ‘demoralized’ Dems point fingers in wake of filibuster fallout. KT at Haut Hair reports Manchin, Sinema turn on Biden, join others holding him responsible for COVID test shortages. Fair is fair. Insty, WELL, THEY HATE HER, AND THEY HATE REPUBLICANS, SO THE CONFUSION WAS NATURAL: Whoops? CNN Chyron Labels Sen. Sinema a Republican During Anderson Cooper 360. NYT, cited by Haut Hair, Dems face dilemma on voting bills: Compromise or keep pressing?
Fox reports Kamala Harris advisers look for reset after difficult year for vice president, "Her team hopes to raise her floundering poll numbers." Althouse alludes to another reset attempt, But do they have a button? "I'm seeing "Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections" (NYT). . . If I were a Democrat — and I hasten to say I'm not a Republican either — I would banish the word "reset" from my vocabulary."
Fox, Republican Glenn Youngkin sworn in as governor of Virginia. I hope his snow removal plans are in order; Dems and the media (but I redund) are just aching to blame him for anything bad out of this nor'easter/ 'Bonchie' at Red State sees that Glenn Youngkin and Company Start Things off by Going Scorched Earth in Virginia
On his first day in office, Youngkin is going to sign an order to eliminate the state-wide mask mandate for children in schools. That’s in response to the overwhelming amount of data that masks in schools have been one of the most useless, asinine policies of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Further, Youngkin also announced the hiring of outspoken anti-CRT voice Jillian Balow as Education Superintendent, which will hopefully help to rein in the state’s rogue school boards. Clearly, things aren’t going the way Larry Hogan’s administration went in Maryland.
But while Youngkin is making the moves you’d expect, it’s the new Attorney General Jason Miyares that is already causing wailing and gnashing of teeth. He’s replacing Mark Herring, who ran the office in the typical far-left, woke fashion that led to a higher crime rate and deterioration of safety. Herring also let the various George Soros-funded district attorneys in the state run wild.
Twitchy, Incoming Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares cleans house, reportedly fires entire civil rights division. Richmond.com, Miyares fires 30 in AG's office, including lawyer investigating dangerous conditions at Richmond apartments. Fox, Virginia's new AG Jason Miyares announces major investigations within hours of taking office
Virginia’s newly sworn-in Attorney General Jason Miyares announced investigations into the Virginia Parole Board and Loudoun County Public Schools within hours of taking office. . . "One of the reasons Virginians get so fed up with government is the lack of transparency - and that’s a big issue here," Miyares wrote. "The Virginia Parole Board broke the law when they let out murders, rapists, and cop killers early on their sentences without notifying the victims. Loudoun Country Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additional assault of a young girl."
And speaking of the sexual assault of a young girl by a skirt wearing boy, John Sexton at Haut Hair notes that Loudoun County still won't release report on high school sexual assaults, but Smith family wants it made public. WTVR 6 in Richmond, History-making Winsome Earle-Sears hopes to help lift kids out of poverty through education "The Republican said her background as a Jamaican immigrant who arrived in the United States at age six, shaped her worldview that with hard work and education, a child, even those living in abject poverty, can become anything they want to."
Insty, SCIENCE! Midterms coming up! "US Government to end daily COVID death reporting. A document issued
issued Jan 6 by the US Health and Human Services tells hospitals they are no
longer required to report daily COVID-19 deaths to the federal government
starting Feb 2." That's one way to destroy the virus. Also, 2024
PRESIDENTIAL RACE OFFICIALLY BEGINS:
● Florida Democrat Nikki Fried compares Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to Adolf Hitler.
● Samantha Bee Labels DeSantis ‘Worse Than Trump.’
Flashbacks:
● American Politics Reaches Its ‘Worse Than Trump’ Phase. “This is simply how Democrats begin to talk about Republican candidates whom they believe are capable of winning a national election. When such candidates reach office, they’re Hitler. When they’ve left office, they’re bad, but not as bad as the ones in office. And when they’re dead, they’re the sort of Republicans whom the living ones should be more like — yes, even if, when they were alive, they, too, were deemed to be Hitler. The assertion that ‘DeSantis is worse than Trump’ was inevitable from the moment Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.”
● Every New Republican Is the Most Evil Republican Ever.
● Every Republican president or presidential candidate is the next Hitler — even Calvin Coolidge, who served before the Nazis came to power.
KT again, Texas Dems work around election integrity law as they mail out "hundreds of thousands" of mail-in ballots. On Da Hill, Trump to make election claims center stage in Arizona. Dan Chaitin at WaEx reports GOP Arizona governor candidate drops out hours before Trump rallies with endorsed rivalPolitico whines Trump 2024 is here, if he wants it. Althouse blogs the Slantic, "Trump has had a remarkable 14 months. Most losing presidential candidates are forced into quiet retirement by their parties."
Insty blogs HUGH HEWITT: RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel On The RNC’s Divorce from the Biased Presidential Debate Commission.
They even saw it from Da Hill, YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes Dan Bongino's channel, for departing from the regimes orthodoxy on masks.
Politico claims to have identified We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News. conservatives, of course, unlike the peddlers of the Russagate hoax, and the wild origin of WuFlu.
Switching gears to the Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion, Andy McCarthy, a Never-Trumper, but an honest former federal prosecutor thinks Seditious Conspiracy Is the Wrong Charge in the Capitol-Riot Prosecutions
Seditious conspiracy is the rare criminal offense in which motive matters. In most crimes, prosecutors need establish only knowledge and intent — meaning, the defendant did not act by mistake. If you embezzle funds from a federal agency, for example, it makes no difference that you needed money to feed your starving family; you knew the funds were not yours, and you stole them on purpose, case closed.
Why the accused acted is, however, a core question in seditious-conspiracy prosecutions. It must be proved that force was directed at government facilities and agents because they instantiated the government’s execution of its lawful authority. Or it must be shown that the defendant was trying to wage war against the American people: The purpose of attacking civilian infrastructure, for example, must be to coerce the United States into surrendering, changing policy, or taking some other national action. To the contrary, while blowing up a building in order to collect on the insurance is a heinous act, and one who does it should face a severe sentence, it’s not seditious conspiracy.
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A good example (I could cite many others): The indictment relates that in an interview on December 22, 2020, the lead defendant, Elmer Rhodes, “urged president Trump to use military force to stop the lawful transfer of power” (emphasis added) and described the upcoming January 6 joint session of Congress as a “hard constitutional deadline” to do so.
That is a grossly inaccurate description of what happened. Rhodes did not urge that the lawful transfer of power be stopped. Prosecutors offer no reason to believe that Rhodes intended to obstruct the lawful transfer of power. To be accurate, the indictment would have to say Rhodes urged Trump to stop what Rhodes believed was the unlawful transfer of power. And while Rhodes was mistaken in this belief, he did not formulate it out of thin air. He believed the transfer of power to Biden would be unlawful because the incumbent president — the only public official vested with constitutional authority to uphold the laws — insisted it would be unlawful. Consequently, Rhodes saw January 6 as a “hard constitutional deadline” because he saw himself as upholding the Constitution — preserving the government, not overthrowing it. He was not trying to oppose the government’s lawful authority; he saw himself — again, based on what the government’s own top official was saying — as protecting the government from the unlawful seizure of authority.
Vicky Taft at PJ Media has a better review; Nick Searcy Blows the Lid Off the Jan 6. Narrative With 'Capitol Punishment.' WaPoo want the investigation extended to Trump, The Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump? WaPoo whines about how Jan. 6 panel grapples with how to secure testimony from lawmakers, Pence, "The House select committee is divided on whether to pursue subpoenas, in part over fears that a protracted legal fight would delay the committee’s goal of issuing a report ahead of the November midterms." It's all about battlespace preparation for the midterms. NN hears MSNBC say McCarthy Should Be 'Handcuffed,' 'Locked in Basement' for Defying Jan 6 Panel. They better be careful, their turn in the minority may come soon. Mediaite whines Tulsi Gabbard Claims Biden Is ‘Targeting’ Jan 6. Defendants Just for Being ‘Anti-Authority’. No, he's targeting them for being anti his authority.
An amusing anecdote from the Insider, Capitol rioters called Nancy Pelosi's office looking for a 'lost and found' for items they left behind on January 6, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin. Doh! They weren't all the sharpest tacks on the board.
In contrast, from PM, BLM rioter sentenced to federal prison for burning down Minneapolis shop after fire killed man, 10 years.
Lee was not directly charged with Stewart's death. However, the man's death did factor into the prison sentence, Post Bulletin reported. In written arguments, prosecutors requested a 144-month sentence stating that "the Court's sentence must account for the fact that Mr. Lee's crime took Oscar Stewart's life."
Lee's legal counsel argued in written filings for an 88-month prison sentence, stating the lighter sentence would allow Lee to "have an additional chance at life; to be a father to provide for his community, and to become a law-abiding citizen once again." In court Friday morning, attorney Bruce Rivers said that Lee was "caught up in a mass protest against police violence." Rivers stated that Lee had checked to make sure no one was in the building before starting the fire.
"I was hoping to be another voice added to the cry for change. I wanted to be part of the solution instead of being part of the problem. Though I don't stand by my actions, I stand by my reasons behind them," Lee said.
At Wa Ex, Emily Brooks reports Jim Banks says ‘long past time’ to kick Cheney and Kinzinger from House GOP. It looks like the voters are going to do it anyway.
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