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Some Schools Pay to Push CRT Curriculum at the Literal Expense of Everything Else
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From that Right wing rag -- The NYT
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First vote on bipartisan infrastructure bill fails as expected
The so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill that’s dominated congressional news coverage for the past month had its first moment in the sun last night. It almost immediately failed. This seems to have been a bit of theater on the part of Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin because they obviously must have already whipped the vote and knew it wasn’t going to come anywhere near sixty. In the end, it didn’t even make it to fifty because Schumer had to switch his vote at the last moment, allowing him to bring it up for another vote as soon as Monday. So will it pass next week? Possibly.
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Most of the coverage of this vote that I’ve seen this morning has attempted to focus on the bright side, suggesting that approval is just around the corner and Joe Biden will finally be able to chalk up another legislative victory. But you have to dig a bit further into the details to discover why the eleven Republicans who participated in this project weren’t ready to go along with the vote to proceed quite yet. Way down near the bottom of the linked article there is a reference to a letter that the eleven GOP members sent to Schumer. It says that they will likely be ready to proceed to a vote on Monday “if certain details about the package are ready.”
Minority Leader Mitch McConnel was a bit more blunt about it. “Around here, we typically write the bills before we vote on them,” he said.
So the reality is that the bipartisan group hasn’t even finished writing the bill yet. There is still the opportunity to tack on any number of new items that could sink it entirely, and yet Chuck Schumer wanted to push everyone to sign off on starting the debate yesterday.
Those of you old enough to remember the congressional debates over Obamacare likely recall when Nancy Pelosi said, “we need to pass the bill to find out what’s in the bill.” Chuck Schumer is never one to be outdone. The new message is, we need to vote on the bill before we bother writing the bill.
Some of you might be thinking there’s no harm in this. After all, they weren’t voting on the final passage, but just an agreement to move forward and begin debate. Fair enough. But the GOP has been burned too many times by agreeing to something only to have the Democrats insert poison pills at the last moment. And if they bring the bill to the floor for debate and then lose most of the eleven Republicans due to some last-minute shenanigans, what was the point of investing all of this time, to begin with?
The bottom line is that this bill may well move to the floor on Monday and possibly make it to Joe Biden’s desk. Then Chuck Schumer will be stuck trying to figure out a way to jam through the massively bloated three-to-five trillion-dollar Democratic wishlist that’s waiting in the wings. Since that would have to be done via reconciliation, the Senate Parliamentarian will likely be very busy in the coming month. Stay tuned.
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President Biden appeared last night in a half-empty auditorium for a live CNN town hall in Ohio.
CNN concealed the empty seats. Steven Nelson includes the photo below via Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Epstein’s tweet in his New York Post story “Biden speaks to half-empty room at CNN town hall.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/animatronic-short-circuit-2.php
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Fairfax County Public Schools are apparently trying to help teachers bring Critical Race Theory into the classroom,
which we were told isn’t happening
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PIPELINES ARE ONLY BAD WHEN THEY BENEFIT AMERICA:
Biden Administration Green Lights Putin’s Pipeline: Nord Stream 2 will boost the Russian president’s influence in Europe.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-administration-green-lights-putins-pipeline/
Flashback:
Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is pipelines in America, bad. Jobs in America, bad. Pipelines in Russia, good. Jobs in Russia, good. And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”
Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
- Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
- Blocking oil and gas pipelines
- Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
- Cutting U.S. military spending
- Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
You know who didn’t do those things? Trump. You know who is doing those things? Biden.
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7 minutes ago, Bidens_basement said:
Do you support the riots, looting and killing that went on for months and still going on?
You’ve never spoken out against it, so by your limited thinking, you must approve of last years insurrections.VOTERS AREN’T AS STUPID AS OUR RULING CLASS HOPED:
Two-thirds want BLM riots probed, more than Jan. 6.
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WELL, SHE’S A MARXIST:
D.C. Mayor Painted ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the Streets, But She Erased ‘Cuba Libre.’
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Eye Roll: CNN’s Biden Town Hall Went Exactly the Way You Expected
by Curtis Houck
On Wednesday night, President Biden was granted the second town hall of his presidency (with the first in February and the third in the last year) by his adoring fanboys and girls at CNN and, not surprisingly, the Jeffrey Zucker-led network made sure that the 80-minute event was little more than a foot-message (or smelling of the hair since that suits his fancy). Along with an eight-to-three split in Democrat to Republican audience questioners, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon repeatedly inserted himself in trying to help Biden along, press him from the left, and offer only one real challenging moment.
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1 hour ago, BillStime said:
HA - the Lincoln Project is far more Republican than Trump and the current GQP party.BillZy says what.
😂
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The Antifa/FBI Coalition
by John Dietrich
Over two dozen people were killed during the Antifa and BLM protests in 2020.
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The New York Times has reported there have been twenty terrorist plots against the U.S. Three of those plots were real; the other 17 were created — and then stopped — by the FBI.
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The DC Metropolitan Police also had at least one undercover employee embedded within the pro-Trump crowd.
This is not speculation. It is based on court records. It is preposterous to contend that the FBI did not have operatives in this disturbance
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/the_antifafbi_coalition.html
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Pelosi Proves What a Sham Her Jan. 6 Commission Truly Is With Her Latest Move
If you didn’t already know that a “Jan. 6 Commission” controlled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was going to be a partisan witch hunt, Pelosi just confirmed it with her latest move.
Pelosi had appointed Democratic choices to the Commission including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), so you already know how biased it was going to be, stacked with anti-Trump people.
It was already stacked, with Democrats having eight choices for members and Republicans only getting five.
But when Republicans announced their choices for the Commission, Pelosi vetoed two of them: Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
In a statement, Pelosi reiterated the lie that the three-hour riot on Jan. 6 was the worst domestic assault on American Democracy since the Civil War. She then gave the following rationale for rejecting the two members.
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee.
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”
How could there be any more proof that she only wants a partisan display? She just proved it in spades.
Jordan had also made it clear that if he got on the panel he was going to question Pelosi about the lack of security that day. Apparently, that wasn’t something that Pelosi wanted to face.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is striking back now. He’s now announced he’s going to pull all the Republican appointees from the Commission unless she seats the two people to whom she was objecting.
“Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees.” McCarthy said, “Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts.” He also called her action an “egregious abuse of power.”
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The FBI Just Took Another Gut Punch Over the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
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Larry Elder Wins Court Battle Against Democrats Playing Dirty to Keep Him Out of California Recall Election
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Whoops: Kamala Gets Caught in a Lie About Republicans
FTA:
Harris apparently wasn’t thinking about that when she told a big whopper to CBS News. She told CBS during a phone interview that she had been talking with Republicans about the Democrat voting bill, S. 1. Harris claimed the voting “rights” should be “a non-partisan issue” and “should be approached that way.” Of course, it’s Democrats who have politicized it, lying about Republican bills and trying to use their own bill to push their own political agenda. “I have spoken to Republican senators — both elected Republicans and Republican leaders,” Harris claimed about S. 1. “I’ve talked with [Senator Lisa] Murkowski about this issue.”
But that wasn’t at all true, as her own office had to later say, to correct her statements. Turns out that while Harris did speak to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), it wasn’t about the voting bill, but about infrastructure, according to CBS. Murkowski’s office said it had been solely about infrastructure. So in other words, Kamala was lying and the one person she named said it wasn’t true.
Harris wanted to, falsely, suggest that there were Republicans who might go along with the Democrats’ power grab bill. The bill is a boatload of Democratic agenda items from banning voter ID to allowing ballot harvesting everywhere. But not only is Murkowski against it, so is every other Republican who has gone on record. So Harris’ effort to try to suggest anything else blew up on her and only showed her to be a liar.
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KIRA DAVIS: California Parents Start Petition to End Absurd School Mask Mandates.
What ? do the parents think that they are their kids ?
The American Media Should Not Be Trusted
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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