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Jun 20, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where some in a House hearing boo a
fellow Democrat who dares oppose reparations for slavery. Joshua Nelson
has the story. Trump pulls the plug on Obama’s “clean power” regime,
Fred Lucas reports. Sen. Mike Lee proposes to rein in bureaucrats,
Carmel Kookogey reports. On the podcast, a high school girl tells why
she won’t roll over for transgender athletes. Plus: Adam Michel on a
swampy tax bill, Lindsey Burke on saving school choice for poor D.C.
kids, and Michelle Malkin on comeuppance for her alma mater.
Commentary High School Track Star Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Explains Why She’s Fighting Back “I’m having kids from other schools in other states at track meets coming up to me and thanking me,” says Selina Soule. More News Young Democrat Booed for Opposing Slavery Reparations at House Hearing Coleman
Hughes, 23, testifies that reparations would further divide the country
and make him and other descendants of slaves “victims without their
consent.” More News Trump EPA Replaces Obama’s Anti-Coal Clean Power Plan The
Environmental Protection Agency announces a new rule to grant more
flexibility for states in regulating coal-fired power plants, replacing
an Obama-era regulation halted by the Supreme Court. More Commentary With Crony Tax Bill, Democrats Are Doing Their Level Best to Revive the Swamp Congressional Democrats take the lead to renew a list of long-dead tax subsidies at the behest of powerful corporate lobbyists. More News Mike Lee’s New Bill Would Enforce ‘No Regulation Without Representation’ Sen.
Mike Lee, R-Utah, says that regulatory rules written and enforced by
unelected administrators violate Article I, Section 7 of the
Constitution. More Commentary Regulatory Red Tape Risks Strangling DC Opportunity Scholarship Program Each
time the program is reauthorized, new regulations are added requiring
participating private schools to conform more and more to the public
school system. More Commentary I’m an Oberlin Graduate. They Had It Coming. For
decades, grievance-mongering Oberlin elites have bullied and defamed
innocent white people without consequences in their multicultural Ohio
enclave. More
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POLITICO Playbook: Biden plays cleanup while his team gripes to the press
By JAKE SHERMAN, ANNA PALMER and DANIEL LIPPMAN
06/20/2019 05:56 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
NEW … TOM STEYER, the liberal billionaire, is airing a new, sharply worded impeachment ad today through Monday on national cable. The ad — which Steyer’s “Need to Impeach” group is putting $700,000 behind — will also pointedly run Friday and Monday on “Fox and Friends” in D.C., a clear attempt to get President DONALD TRUMP to see it.
— THE AD features Trump saying he’s “fighting all the subpoenas” and also shows the bit from the president’s interview withABC’s George Stepanopoulos where Trump says he would take dirt from a foreign country.
— THE KICKER LINE, voiced by Steyer: “AMERICA WILL MOVE FORWARD as soon as leaders stop acting on their own interest, start leveling with voters and do what’s right.” The minute-long spot
— THESE ADS might have a bit bigger impact now that upward of 60 House Democrats have called for impeaching Trump.
NEW … The TIME MAGAZINE COVER features TRUMP leaning against the Resolute Desk, with this headline: “‘MY WHOLE LIFE IS A BET’: INSIDE TRUMP’S PLAN TO KEEP THE WHITE HOUSE” Cover
NO APOLOGY … JOE BIDEN fires back at critics of his Eastland/Talmadge comments, via Bo Erickson of CBS. 1:31 clip
… BUT A CLEANUP ATTEMPT, per pooler Maggie Severns, filing from a donor party at the Chevy Chase home of Tim Shriver: “Biden spoke about Sen. Ted Kennedy. ‘He’s the guy who got me on the Judiciary committee, we served from years and years. And we had to put up with the likes of like Jim Eastland and Hermy Talmadge and all those segregationists and all of that. And the fact of the matter is that we were able to do it because we were able to win — we were able to beat them on everything they stood for.’
“‘We in fact detested what they stood for in terms of segregation and all the rest. And because of Teddy letting me become chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 1982, when he moved on to take on Health and Human Services, we were able to do so much. We restored the Voting Rights Act, we did it, and over time we extended it by 25 years not just five years.’” More from Severns
HOW IT’S PLAYING … THERE WAS A SPLIT between 2020 candidates, who largely piled on Biden, and prominent elected officials, who took a pass and leapt to Biden’s defense. The biggest deal: Rep. JIM CLYBURN, the House majority whip and South Carolina heavyweight, told a few of us just off the House floor that Biden’s working with Talmadge and Eastland is no different than him working with Strom Thurmond. NYT A1 story from Katie Glueck and Astead Herndon
INSIDE BIDENLAND … WAPO’S MATT VISER and SEAN SULLIVAN: “As seemingly random as it was for Biden to reference Sen. James O. Eastland, a long-ago deceased segregationist senator from his own party, some in Biden’s campaign had heard him discuss this relationship before — and warned him against mentioning it in public. Eastland, who represented Mississippi in the Senate from the early 1940s to 1978, often said that African Americans were ‘an inferior race.’
“Aides said they had urged Biden to find a less toxic example. ‘It might move him to pick a different senator,’ said one adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. ‘But he’s not someone you can go to and just say, ‘You’ve been doing this x number of years and you can’t do this anymore.’” WaPo
MARC CAPUTO: “But rather than bolster his image as an effective pragmatist, Biden’s parables of working with long-dead Dixiecrats have started to reinforce two of his biggest liabilities: his age and his record on race. A 76-year-old centrist who spent 36 years in the Senate before serving as vice president, Biden was already out of step with the Democratic Party’s left wing, which wants a fresh face, a woman, a candidate of color or at least an unapologetic progressive torch-bearer.” POLITICO
AND THERE’S THIS: “Does Joe Biden still believe in the death penalty? His campaign won’t say,” by Christopher Cadelago
— IT’S NEVER A HEALTHY SIGN when a campaign is airing its dirty laundry in the press. And there are reams of old Biden remarks that don’t jibe well with contemporary liberal views on race in America. Consider his favorable comparison of the late Sen. John Stennis to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, unearthed by CNN last month. Or his eulogy for Strom Thurmond, when he hailed the segregationist senator for holding what was once the longest filibuster in Senate history … without noting it was to block the Civil Rights Act.
Or take this little-noticed comment from a 1973 speech Biden made at the City Club in Cleveland: “I think the two-party system, although my Democratic colleagues won’t like me saying this, I think the two-party system is good for the South, and good for the Negro and good for the black in the South. … Other than the fact they still call me ‘boy,’ I think they’ve changed their mind a little bit.” More from Cleveland.com
— AOC GOES AFTER BIDEN: “If you ignore racism and if you don’t address issues of race with racists, then everything is fine, right? … That’s how you work with segregationists: By not confronting the racism and their institutionalization of second-class citizenship and a lack of fully recognizing African Americans.” POLITICO
BIDEN CAMPAIGN DEPARTURE LOUNGE … NATASHA KORECKI: “Veteran Democratic ad maker MARK PUTNAM has parted ways with Joe Biden’s campaign less than two months after the former vice president formally entered the race. Putnam’s departure came before Biden’s controversial segregationist remarks. Signs of division emerged early in the campaign when Biden’s team used a video centered on Charlottesville — and not one shot by Putnam — in his official campaign launch.
“Reached Wednesday night, Putnam would only tell us: ‘I wish the vice president well.’ Putnam was one of the lead ad makers for Barack Obama and he was behind Jason Kander’s 2016 U.S. Senate ad, in which the Democrat assembled a rifle blindfolded.” … A 2014 Ashley Parker profile of Putnam
Good Thursday morning. CONGRESSIONAL SOFTBALL GAME … The BAD NEWS BABES — the media team –beat the lawmakers 10-3, their fourth win in as many years, in the 11th annual Congressional Women’s Softball Game. The event raised more than $365,000 for Young Survival Coalition, a group that fights breast cancer. More from Roll Call
THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS swept both games of a doubleheader Wednesday against the Philadelphia Phillies. Max Scherzer pitched game two with a nose that he broke Wednesday, recording seven scoreless innings en route to a 2-0 Nats victory.
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GOOD CATCH … BLOOMBERG’S @margarettalev: “’I’ve heard and studied the Laffer Curve for many years in the Wharton School of Finance,’ @realDonaldTrump (@Wharton ’68) said today at the White House as he honored Art Laffer, who famously drew the curve on a napkin… in 1974.”
HEADS UP — AP: “Iran Revolutionary Guard shoots down U.S. drone amid tensions,” by Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell in Tehran, Iran: “Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, while disputing the circumstances of the incident.
“The Guard said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, while two U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the downing happened over international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. The different accounts could not be immediately reconciled.” AP
NYT PUBLISHER A.G. SULZBERGER pens an op-ed for the WSJ: “Accusing the New York Times of ‘Treason,’ Trump Crosses a Line”
— Times spox Danielle Rhoades Ha on why Sulzberger wrote for a rival paper: “It was intentional. Attacks on press freedom are global and broader than any one news organization. To emphasize that point, our publisher reached out to the Journal to offer this piece.”
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WHO WOULD’VE THUNK … THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional negotiators broke up budget talks Wednesday, having reached no deal to lift strict caps that come into effect next year. Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN pitched a one-year stopgap funding bill at current levels, and a one-year debt limit.
— BURGESS EVERETT and HEATHER CAYGLE: “Budget talks at impasse as spending cuts, debt ceiling threaten economy”: “Though Senate and House leaders have been seeking a broader, two-year spending deal aimed at taking shutdowns and default off the table through the presidential election, negotiators left the huddle in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office far from a deal, according to lawmakers and administration officials. Democrats said Republicans were reluctant to do anything to get ahead of President Donald Trump, while Republicans said they couldn’t get a serious counteroffer from their Democratic counterparts.” POLITICO
— JUST A THOUGHT … DOES TRUMP realize how good of a deal Mnuchin is offering the Democrats right now? A yearlong budget deal coupled with a yearlong debt-limit package sidesteps the $100 billion in budget cuts Democrats so desperately want to avoid. It once again punts on TRUMP’S border wall. This seems like a too-good-to-be-true deal for Dems, given the complications in cutting a deal with the White House. Of course, Democrats have no incentive to accept this deal now, but come September, if it’s on the table, it might look pretty darn good with deadlines looming.
BRENDAN BUCK, the former top Paul Ryan adviser, says the debt limit must go: “The debt limit has not just outlived its usefulness. It has become a pointless danger. In recent years, debt limit increases have routinely had to be attached to unrelated bills, tying the full faith and credit of the United States to lawmakers’ ability to sort out other partisan squabbles. We’ve always avoided crisis, but a single failure could be catastrophic.” CNN
2020 WATCH — MELANIE ZANONA and LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ: “Republicans’ nervous campaign arm stumbling in fight for the House”
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TRUMP’S THURSDAY — Trump will meet with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and hold a meeting at 12:05 p.m. in the Oval Office followed by lunch in the Cabinet Room, before Trudeau departs at 1:25 p.m.
TRUDEAU will also be on the Hill and will meet with Speaker NANCY PELOSI. The pair will have a photo opportunity on the Speaker’s Balcony at 2 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
FED WATCH … BLOOMBERG’S JENNIFER JACOBS: “Trump Believes He Has the Authority to Replace Powell at Fed”: “President Donald Trump has told confidants as recently as Wednesday that he believes he has the authority to replace Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, according to people familiar with the matter.
“In Trump’s line of thinking, he could demote Powell to be a board governor, but isn’t planning to do so right now, the people added.” Bloomberg
— WSJ’S NICK TIMIRAOS: “Fed Holds Rates Steady, Hints at Future Cuts if Outlook Doesn’t Improve”: “Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady on Wednesday but strongly suggested they would cut them in the months ahead if an economic outlook clouded by uncertainty over trade policy didn’t improve.
“‘The case for somewhat more accommodative policy has strengthened,’ Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said at a news conference after the central bank announced its decision. Still, citing recent favorable economic data, The Fed didn’t bow to pressure from President Trump for an immediate rate cut. …
“The Fed is set to meet next on July 30-31, and investors in interest-rate futures markets have priced in at least a quarter-percentage-point cut then in the central bank’s benchmark short-term rate. ‘The market now knows the Fed is going to ease unless the data dramatically reverse,’ said Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at TS Lombard.” WSJ
THE INVESTIGATIONS — “Deutsche Bank Faces Criminal Investigation for Potential Money-Laundering Lapses,” by NYT’s David Enrich, Ben Protess and William Rashbaum: “The investigation includes a review of Deutsche Bank’s handling of so-called suspicious activity reports that its employees prepared about possibly problematic transactions, including some linked to President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, according to people close to the bank and others familiar with the matter.” NYT
— HAPPENING FRIDAY: Former Trump business partner Felix Sater is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, per WaPo: “The closed-door interview is part of an inquiry by the House panel into President Trump’s long-standing interest in expanding his brand to Moscow, a topic that Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee, has said he intends to explore further.”
TRUMP HAS LOST INTEREST IN VENEZUELA, according to WaPo’s Karen DeYoung and Josh Dawsey:“A frustrated Trump believed that national security adviser John Bolton and his director for Latin American policy, Mauricio Claver-Carone, ‘got played’ by both the opposition and key Maduro officials, two senior administration officials said. As the president ‘chewed out the staff’ in a meeting shortly after the April 30 failure, in the words of one former Trump official involved in Venezuela policy, he mused that he might need to get on the phone himself to get something done.
“Summer arrives this week with Maduro still in place, and little indication that he is imminently on his way out, or that the Trump administration has a coherent strategy to remove him. The president, officials said, is losing both patience and interest in Venezuela.” WaPo
TRADE WATCH … REUTERS: “U.S. tells India it is mulling caps on H-1B visas to deter data rules”
WAIT, WHAT? … AP’S BRIAN SLODYSKO: “Jane Fonda is joining a group of Hollywood power players to host a fundraiser for presidential candidate Steve Bullock on Thursday, a show of support that could lend credibility among Democratic donors to the little-known Montana governor.
“The Academy Award-winning actress, activist and fitness guru is among a handful of Los Angeles agents, producers and lawyers hosting the event at the home of model and professional golfer Anna Chervin and her talent-agent husband, Ted, according to an invitation obtained by The Associated Press.” AP
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM … Some folks noticed that STEPHEN MOORE, the conservative think-tanker who withdrew from consideration for a Fed board seat, was doing a TV hit from inside the White House on Wednesday — lending the impression that he was speaking on behalf of the administration despite holding no official post. Turns out, per our colleague BEN WHITE, that Moore was there to witness Trump award his fellow supply-sider Art Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and there was nowhere else to go.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “HUD hires former official at center of racial scandal,” by Katy O’Donnell: “The Department of Housing and Urban Development has hired Eric Blankenstein, the former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official whose racially charged blog posts sparked an uproar last year. Blankenstein has been hired by HUD’s Office of General Counsel as a senior counsel working on Ginnie Mae matters, making $166,500 a year, according to people familiar with the matter.
“Democrats and civil rights activists demanded that the CFPB fire Blankenstein after the Washington Post reported in September that he had questioned the veracity of hate crimes and whether the N-word is racist, in blog posts he wrote 14 years earlier.” POLITICO
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BEYOND THE BELTWAY … PALM BEACH POST: “Why Riviera Beach agreed to pay a $600,000 ransom payment to regain data access… and will it work?” by Tony Doris:“The city’s email and computer systems, at City Hall, the city’s Port Center offices and elsewhere, including those that control city finances and water utility pump stations and testing systems, are still only partially back online, two weeks after the ransomware attack was disclosed. But crucial data encrypted by the attackers remains beyond reach and there was no explanation of whether the city has any guarantee that the ransomers will release it if paid.
“The FBI, Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security are investigating the attack, which officials said began after someone in the police department opened an infected email May 29.
“More than 50 cities across the United States, large and small, have been hit by ransomware attacks during the past two years. Among them: Atlanta; Baltimore; Albany, N.Y.; Greenville, N.C.; Imperial County, Calif.; Cleveland, Ohio; Augusta, Maine; Lynn, Mass.; Cartersville, Ga.; and in April, nearby Stuart.” Palm Beach Post
FOR YOUR RADAR — CNN: “Syrian refugee arrested, accused of plotting attack on Pittsburgh church for ISIS”
WHAT SILICON VALLEY IS READING — “YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy,” by WaPo’s Tony Romm, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg: “The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for allegedly violating children’s privacy, according to four people familiar with the matter, in a probe that threatens the company with a potential fine and already has prompted the tech giant to reevaluate some of its business practices.
“The Federal Trade Commission launched its investigation after numerous complaints from consumer groups and privacy advocates, according to the four people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because such probes are supposed to be confidential.
“The complaints contended that YouTube, which is owned by Google, failed to protect kids who used the streaming-video service and improperly collected their data in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, a 1998 law known as COPPA that forbids the tracking and targeting of users younger than age 13.” WaPo
— WSJ’S ROB COPELAND: “YouTube Weighs Major Changes to Kids’ Content Amid FTC Probe”
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAlleenan having dinner at the Monocle. … Don McGahn speaking at the Union League Club of Philadelphia on Wednesday. … Having lunch together at Trump Hotel’s BLT Prime on Wednesday: Donald Trump Jr., Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Kyle Plotkin and Andy Surabian. … Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) chatting with Boris Epshteyn on an American Airlines flight on Wednesday from DCA to Nashville.
OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at the Hay-Adams at a party hosted by Stephen Moore and Steve Forbes celebrating Art Laffer getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Larry Kudlow, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, Mick Mulvaney, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kellyanne Conway, Adam Brandon, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Debbie Meadows, Corey Lewandowski, Jim DeMint, Dave Brat, Josh Arnold, Andrew Kovalcin, Zach Sentementes, Alexandra Preate, Sergio Gor and Vince Coglianese.
— SPOTTED Wednesday night at a farewell party for former Treasury spox Tony Sayegh at PJ Clarke’s hosted by Craft, the media consultancy: Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kaitlan Collins, Donna Borak, Pam Brown, Fin Gomez, Katie Watson, Damian Paletta, Bob Cusack, Josh Dawsey, Francesca Chambers, Ashley Parker, Stephanie Grisham, Hogan Gidley, Morgan Ortagus, Jessica Ditto, Brian Donahue and David O’Brien.
2020 TRANSITIONS — Per CNN’s Eric Bradner: Beto “O’Rourke’s latest hires are deputy communications directors Rachel Thomas, hired from the Democratic digital organization ACRONYM, and Ofirah Yheskel, who was Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s communications director. … O’Rourke [also] hired Aleigha Cavalier as his national press secretary. … Anna Pacilio, who was communications director for Texas Rep. Marc Veasey, was hired as O’Rourke’s director of women’s messaging.” CNN
— Steve Bullock has hired Rich Thuma to manage his campaign’s New Hampshire operation. He is a Bill Clinton and Al Gore alum. WMUR
OBAMA ALUMNI — Nick Colvin, a former personal aide to then-Sen. Barack Obama who later worked in the Obama White House Counsel’s office, will run in Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District, which is currently represented by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.). Detroit News
TRANSITIONS — John Stopher will leave his post as principal assistant to the Air Force secretary for space to return to the private sector. SpaceNews … DOJ legend and Mueller team member Michael Dreeben is leaving the department for parts unknown, per Darren Samuelsohn.
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Kathy Grant, MPAA’s VP of administration, who celebrated 30 years with the trade association Wednesday (hat tip: Chris Ortman)
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ian Prior, VP at Mercury and a DOJ alum, is 42. What he’s been reading recently: “I recently finished reading a book called ‘Advise and Consent,’ by Alan Drury, a reporter who covered the Senate in the 1950s. It won the Pulitzer in 1960 and documented a fictional confirmation hearing for a secretary of State nominee. One side tried to destroy the nominee, the other tried to destroy the chair of the subcommittee in charge of the nomination. Both were successful. It’s tough not to read that book without seeing shades of the recent Kavanaugh confirmation. It is probably one of the best books I have read in the past 10 years.” Playbook Plus Q&A
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Thursday, June 20, 2019 Harvard Revokes Kyle Kashuv’s Admission “Kyle Kashuv, 18, posted on Twitter that Harvard had revoked his admission over anti-Semitic language and repeated use of a slur referring to black people. He said in an apology that he made the comments when he was 16, before the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.” AP News From the Left The left supports Harvard’s decision, arguing that Kashuv’s comments were egregious and worthy of consequences. “Should the use of such racial slurs ruin Kashuv’s life or brand him forever? No. Should it keep him out of Harvard? Yes… Universities like Harvard have thousands of qualified kids applying for entry every year. I’m guessing they’d have no problem finding one as qualified as Kashuv who did not spew a bunch of racist screeds when he was 16. And, by the way, isn’t 16 old enough to know that racist screeds are, you know, racist? Kashuv is ‘news’ only because he’s a darling of some conservatives… if it were anyone else, we wouldn’t be giving it a second thought.” EJ Montini, USA Today “Conservatives love to lambaste campus liberals for practicing ‘identity politics,’ a poorly defined term that boils down to any kind of politics that takes concerns about identity-based oppression seriously. The Kyle Kashuv-Harvard saga is such a big deal because it taps into conservatives’ sense of their own victimhood — what conservative identity politics looks like in practice… “[Furthermore] the conservative view of racism treats it as a personal failing, a set of explicitly held ideas and attitudes that reflect outright animus toward a group of people… Liberals and leftists, meanwhile, see racism as a structural problem, reflected in both social institutions and deeply ingrained, arguably unshakable biases that can lead even people who firmly believe in ideals of equal treatment to act or speak in prejudiced ways. Addressing the consequences of racism requires work, effort, and vigilance. When you approach the situation through that lens, Kashuv looks less like a kid who made youthful mistakes and more like a young man who’s trying to escape responsibility for his actions, and his attempt to minimize his comment by saying they were designed for shock value is part of the problem. ‘Ironic’ racism is still real racism.” Zack Beauchamp, Vox “To argue that we should not be judged for what we do in our teens is to argue that we shouldn’t have selective college admissions at all—a defensible position, but not one that any of [the commentators defending him] hold… To have a chance of getting into Harvard as a freshman, you have to show that you used your last four years better than the competition used theirs. We now see that Kashuv did not use his time as well as the competition, so he can’t go to Harvard… Consequences and redemption are not in tension. In fact, they go hand in hand.” Hanna Stotland, Slate “Virtually everyone competing against Kashuv for an undergraduate seat was also a teen, and most never would have thought to casually repeat the most harmful racial slur in America’s history. No, Harvard shouldn’t have to take him. So, no Harvard. But then, where?… I actually saw a fair number of suggestions like this: Not Harvard. Somewhere else. Somewhere less good. The solution seemed reasonable, but it had a tinge of classism, an element of passing the buck. If you don’t believe that Harvard students should have to attend classes with someone who has used racist terminology within the past two years, then why would you subject University of Florida students to that?… What does it look like to make amends? How do we decide what’s redeemable, for example, and then how does a person actually become redeemed? What kind of roles does our society allow for them, and when?” Monica Hesse, Washington Post Many point out that “America is forgiving of youthful mistakes made by guys like Brett Kavanaugh. It’s forgiving of guys like Brock Turner. It’s forgiving of guys like Kyle Kashuv. It’s not, however, forgiving of guys like Tamir Rice… It’s not forgiving of guys like Kalief Browder, who was sent to Rikers, New York City’s notorious island jail, when he was 16 after being accused of stealing a backpack. Browder spent three years awaiting trial in Rikers island, half of the time in solitary confinement, because his family couldn’t raise bail money. When he was eventually brought to trial a judge dismissed all charges against him; two years later Browder killed himself. Not everyone gets to be a child in America… The right is obsessed with lecturing liberals on personal responsibility. However, as their response to the Kashuv situation demonstrates, they are not so keen on taking personal responsibility themselves.” Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian “One way you begin to earn public redemption for your mistakes is to accept the ramifications; many of the conservatives lamenting the lack of forgiveness shown Kashuv would, in other circumstances, understand that serving penance is often a requirement for obtaining pardon. If losing admission to America’s most elite private university is the worst that Kashuv faces as a result of his mistakes, he will be a fortunate young man indeed.” Joel Mathis, The Week From the Right The right criticizes Harvard’s decision, arguing that the comments do not appear to reflect Kashuv’s true beliefs. “Kashuv has been in the public eye for a year and a half. In that time, he has acted with remarkable poise, as have many others in his class. The fact that he participated in an idiotic and disgusting private group chat months before the Parkland shooting has had apparently no effect on his public behavior. If the new standard is that past private statements, once surfaced, override all public behavior since — including apologies, evidence of decency and willingness to evidence repentance — we are entering a dangerous new era… “Kashuv would have been admitted to Harvard if he had never engaged in activism: He scored a 1550 on his SAT and graduated second in his class. No one on the radical left or alt-right would have tried to destroy his academic career; no one would have bothered. Kashuv dared to speak up politically and thus became a target. Rational actors will take note and stay away from the public square, leaving that square to the most shameless and the most enigmatic.” Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire “No one disputes that his comments were egregious and wrong. Kyle doesn’t dispute that fact. He’s apologized publicly, and he apologized to Harvard. He’s done everything we want a young man to do when he’s done something wrong. But in today’s post-Christian, allegedly more-tolerant culture, apologies are not enough. He has to be punished… “Harvard has had the ability to watch Kyle more than virtually any other student in its freshman class. It’s seen him operate in the white-hot glare of public debate over one of the most contentious issues in American life. To the extent that any freshman is a known quantity, Kyle is known — and he’s known to presently conduct himself with unusual patience and dignity… Let’s not pretend that Kyle is anything other than a victim of the culture wars. Had he not stepped forward after Parkland as a conservative spokesperson, he would be in no one’s crosshairs.” David French, National Review “On the leaked Google Doc, Kashuv also wrote, “f*** my a** now NOW” and “I WILL LITERALLY F*** YOUR UGLY A** DOG.” Either Kyle leads a secret double life as a zoophilic, gay racist, or he, like all teenagers, said something outrageous among his friends for shock value… How many other students admitted to Harvard have ever written or uttered an offensive phrase or racial epithet — even jokingly, even just once? How many have ever sung along to a rap song or quoted a Quentin Tarantino movie? Does the Harvard Admissions Office plan to investigate the private teenage chat logs of the 2,000 students it just admitted?” Michael Knowles, Fox News “There are few mistakes a 16-year-old can make — again, below the level of a felony — that I’d want to alter their lives over. Teenagers are ignoramuses almost by definition. One might counter by saying that youth should be no defense in the context of college admissions: Harvard’s choosing among a population of 18-year-olds… Still, that’s no counter to believing that universities should be exceedingly forgiving of their charges, perhaps especially in Kashuv’s case. He did in fact endure an unusual trauma at Stoneman Douglas High and may have felt that he ‘grew up’ quickly afterward because of it. Often in cases like this, the claim that the accused is more ‘mature’ now and has seen the error of his ways rings hollow and too convenient. In Kashuv’s case, there’s more reason to believe there’s something to it.” Allahpundit, Hot Air “When Harvard pulled their offer to Michelle Jones (who murdered her own son), 166 of the University’s professors signed an open letter, ‘We are Educators, Not Prosecutors,’ denouncing the decision. How many do you think will speak out on Kashuv’s behalf?” Rafael Mangual, Twitter “Not even the most pompous administrator could claim with a straight face that no matriculating student at Harvard ever uttered a hurtful word. What doomed Kashuv was that his knuckleheaded moments were preserved in tidy digital packets to be turned against him. He is part of the vanguard of humans raised in the iPhone Age, for whom every mistake, offense and poor decision of childhood potentially lasts forever… “The decision to bounce an apologetic student over a sophomoric mistake betrays a lack of intellectual confidence in [its] original mission. It’s not the job of Harvard College, properly understood, to certify a relative handful of perfect human specimens and train them in the proper expression of approved ideas. Education is about improvement; it is rooted in the faith that errors can become resources, ignorance can be enlightened, horizons can be expanded. Improvement is the value from which learning derives its moral character.” David von Drehle, Washington Post A libertarian’s take This “represents a major victory for the online mobs of cancel culture. One way to discourage Twitter trolls from dredging up old dirt on their enemies would be to ignore them. By giving the bullies exactly what they wanted, Harvard has only emboldened them… No one is entitled to placement at Harvard, and if you say racist things to people, you should not be surprised when someone calls you out. But, as with the efforts to cancel James Gunn, Kevin Hart, Sarah Jeong, Kyler Murray, and so many others, we should be concerned about where this corrosive impulse to seek and destroy is leading us.” Robby Soave, Reason On the bright side… Norway island wants to be world’s first time-free zone. CNN Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. 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Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and expert on African-American voting patterns, explores the vital role that black voters will play in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. — The Editors KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Black voters are a crucial voting bloc in the upcoming Democratic primary season, particularly in the South. — White candidates with proven bona fides among black voters can compete for the black vote, even against other black candidates, as Joe Biden is showing (at least for now). — The differing backgrounds of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker provide each with unique avenues to appeal to black voters. — Whites, not blacks, are driving the growth in liberal self-identification among Democrats. Black voters and the 2020 Democratic primary The state of the black electorate is strong and positioned to be a king- (or queen-) maker in 2020. The candidate that black voters coalesce behind in the Democratic primaries will have the inside track on the party nomination, particularly in a large field. The Democratic field is already the most diverse in history. The candidates include no less than six people of color and six women (two of whom are of color). The field spans the ideological spectrum from moderates who are elders of the party establishment to far-left progressives advocating for significant and fundamental societal reform. The age range covers about four decades, from under-40 candidates such as Reps. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Eric Swalwell of California as well as Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, to former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who will both be in their late 70s by Election Day 2020. And there are three black candidates: Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), as well as Florida’s Wayne Messam, the mayor of Miramar. Whatever primary voters are looking for in a candidate, they are likely to find some version of it. The black electorate will, of course, be especially intrigued and interested in the black candidates. This is a natural reaction to such candidacies and not specific to black Americans — women, Hispanic voters, and the gay community, for example, react similarly to women, Hispanic, and gay candidates, respectively. Scholars agree that descriptive representation — the representation of a constituency by a person who sufficiently resembles it in appearance or lived experience — is important to groups, even when it is mostly symbolic and doesn’t result in policy gains. For this reason, Harris and Booker will attract black voters’ attention and will be immediately scrutinized through individual and group assessments. Black voters will get a sense of the candidates’ policy histories and proposals and, perhaps more importantly, determine the viability of each of their campaigns. The size of the primary’s black voting bloc will be of interest to most of the Democratic candidates. Black candidates understand quite well that their success is contingent on whether they can carry the black electorate. Past elections have proven that this is not a foregone conclusion. One need only recall that black voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama in the 2008 primary season until Obama won the Iowa caucuses. As Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said of black women at the end of 2007, “Most [of them] simply believe Clinton can win.” The notoriously pragmatic black electorate simply isn’t willing to automatically devote the lion’s share of its support to a black candidate based on race alone. This realization can provide a window of opportunity for white and non-black candidates of color, reminding them that they cannot afford to ignore black voters or tacitly surrender them to black competitors. But they will also need to be realistic about the extent to which they can compete for them. If they have not undertaken deep, consistent, and prolonged engagement, they cannot expect policy appeals alone to do the trick. The Clinton-Obama example demonstrates that established and well-known white candidates can effectively compete for black voters against black candidates. We are currently seeing this with Joe Biden, who is polling very well with black voters so far. For candidates making new entreaties to black voters, a goal of placing alongside or just behind black and respected white party elder candidates is a sound strategy. It positions those candidates to inherit black support should the frontrunners lose traction and be perceived as no longer competitive. Contrary to common logic, attempting to appeal to black voters by espousing a series of far-left policy proposals is unlikely to work: The majority of black Democrats are not liberals (this may be another factor helping Biden). Besides, in a crowded field that will have multiple progressive candidates running to the left of the Democratic mainstream, such policy appeals will not provide a sufficient distinction. Further, engaging black political elites in hopes they signal who black voters should support is also insufficient. There are plenty of examples of this: Congressional Black Caucus members initially supported Clinton over Obama; advocated for the reelection of Massachusetts Rep. Mike Capuano in 2018 over primary challenger Ayanna Pressley, a black Boston city councilwoman who won the primary and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018; and backed Rep. Chris Van Hollen in Maryland’s 2016 senatorial primary over CBC member Donna Edwards, who won the black vote by 20 points but lost the election. Black voters tend not to take their cues from black political elites. Consistent engagement at the local level is the only way non-black candidates with low name recognition can make inroads with the black electorate. The schedule of Democratic primaries will figure largely into the choices available to black primary voters. The first two are in Iowa and New Hampshire with black populations of 3.8% and 1.6%, respectively. In a change from previous election cycles, Nevada will be the third contest, and its population is just about 10% black. In 2016, black voters comprised 13% of the caucus, indicating that Nevada will provide the first look at who black voters may support in 2020. The outcomes of these three contests will have a substantial effect on the South Carolina primary, where black voters were 61% of the primary electorate in 2016. If history is any guide, black candidates that emerge from the preceding primaries in a strong position win South Carolina. Both Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama entered South Carolina as real contenders for the nomination, and black voters in South Carolina blazed a trail for their long-haul competitive campaigns. Thus, the 2020 South Carolina primary will determine the viability of a black candidate’s campaign and foreshadow the black electorate’s preferred candidate. Here is where the black voters’ pragmatism is on full display. They want to know that the presidential candidate who receives their support has a realistic shot at winning the nomination. Casting symbolic or ideological votes for black candidates in the name of racial solidarity has little place in the voting booth. In November 2007, Obama was trailing Clinton in South Carolina by 13 points. He did not garner a plurality of black support there until after he won the 2008 Iowa caucus and effectively tied in the New Hampshire primary. Once black voters realized he could win white voters, thereby demonstrating a real opportunity to secure the nomination, his support skyrocketed. He won the South Carolina primary in January with over 55% of the vote in a three-person contest, garnering 82% of the black vote. Winning white voters in Iowa and New Hampshire was a critical factor that permitted most South Carolina black voters to align their pragmatism with their desire for descriptive representation. It is quite possible that no black candidates will emerge from the Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada contests with a delegate count that places them in the top three or four of the primary field. A number of candidates are likely to withdraw if they are not competitive in those first three contests. In this case, the black vote choice is more difficult to discern. Black candidates may make the case that if black voters in Deep South states support their campaigns, they can emerge as a leading candidate, just as Jesse Jackson did in 1988 when he rode wins in six southern states to a second-place finish for the nomination. Leading white and non-black candidates are likely to lean on their engagement strategies to convince black voters that their campaigns are the safest and most rewarding bet to make for the protection and advancement of black group interests. Again, the candidate that can win the majority of black support has the inside track to the nomination. Biden, at present, is in pole position. One final word on the Democratic primary: If two black candidates enter South Carolina and the ensuing Deep South primaries with viable campaigns, black electoral behavior will likely hinge on other factors, such as gender, policy positions, and cultural markers. For example, should Harris and Booker be in strong positions to secure the nomination, research suggests that there will be a discernible gender split in the black vote, with more men supporting Booker and more women supporting Harris. The two senators are similar on social and economic policy, but Harris’s moderate criminal justice record as California attorney general may help with older black voters who tend to be more conservative whereas Booker’s more progressive stance may advantage him with the more liberal younger voters. Harris’s cultural markers — she’s a graduate of a historically black university and a member of the nation’s oldest black sorority — communicate a shared black lived experience that Booker’s biography is missing. This, too, could make a difference to voters attempting to ascertain authenticity. Finally, it simply isn’t known the extent to which Booker’s being unmarried or Harris’s interracial marriage and immigrant parentage will influence black vote choice, if at all. What is certain, however, is that the black electorate perceives both candidates as black Americans, and the impact of race consciousness on political behavior indicates marital status and parentage will pale in comparison to the opportunity for descriptive representation. What does this all mean for the party’s nomination? The 2020 Democratic presidential primary will be the first in which most Democrats identify as liberal. The party’s leftward drift is led by millennials (57% identify as liberal), those with postgraduate education (60%), and the doubling of liberal white voters from 28% in 2000 to 55% in 2017. This evolution is reflected in the number of progressive candidates who have chosen to run for the party nomination and the policy proposals they’re championing. Meanwhile, the number of black liberal voters has held steady for two decades at about one in four. Candidates will need to fashion campaigns that can balance the desire the majority of voters have for more progressive policies with the need to appeal to the more moderate and relatively conservative ideologies of black Democrats. Read the fine print Learn more about the Crystal Ball and find out how to contact us here. Sign up to receive Crystal Ball e-mails like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Use caution with Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and remember: “He who lives by the Crystal Ball ends up eating ground glass!” |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. The Time to Examine Joe Biden’s Record on Race Was 2008, Not 2019 This story is not going to hurt Biden, but it does show two things. First, it shows the media is willfully lazy and unwilling to level criticism of Democrats when it is a D v. R race. Second, it shows Democrats are willing to weaponize race against their own party now. Neither speaks well of the press or the Democrats, but this is certainly just another reason Donald Trump will probably win in 2020 as Democrats tear themselves apart. The post The Time to Examine Joe Biden’s Record on Race Was 2008, Not 2019 appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Reject God and He Turns You Over to This God is the foundation of all logic, science, reason, and morality. It is to be expected, then, that if you or your culture rebels against God, you will necessarily rebel against logic, science, reason, and morality. If there were any question remaining about whether or not American pop culture was in outright, flagrant rebellion to […] The post Reject God and He Turns You Over to This appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The “Cool Kids” of the Climate Movement Eye 2020 According to Politico, the Sunrise movement is gearing up for 2020. In their string of flop houses around the country, recent college grads and students who like to kvetch about crushing student loan debt are musing about how they are going to strong arm their elders into ruining the economy. All while living on stipends […] The post The “Cool Kids” of the Climate Movement Eye 2020 appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Surprising Place Where the Proposed Chinese Tariffs Could Hurt There have been plenty of things written about the proposed tariffs on Chinese goods. We’ve seen opinions fired from both sides on the damage that this trade war could do (or not do, if you’re inclined to be in favor of it). One industry that hasn’t garnered a whole lot of coverage when it comes […] The post The Surprising Place Where the Proposed Chinese Tariffs Could Hurt appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Amazing: Student Gets Kicked Out of Class For Saying There’s Only Male and Female This is just an amazing video to watch. Hat tip to Rod Dreher for covering it. The student, Murray, tells the teacher that there are only two genders, male and female. The teacher tells him that the national authority says otherwise. Teacher: “I am not putting my opinion out. I am stating what is national […] The post Amazing: Student Gets Kicked Out of Class For Saying There’s Only Male and Female appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Mitch McConnell Blasts Reparations Talk: No One Currently Alive Was Responsible For That The post Mitch McConnell Blasts Reparations Talk: No One Currently Alive Was Responsible For That appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » CNN Cuts Away from Trump Speech After Crowd Shouts ‘CNN Sucks!’ The post CNN Cuts Away from Trump Speech After Crowd Shouts ‘CNN Sucks!’ appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » To Twitter! To Twitter! We Must Fight Back! Just how unserious are Democrats and the press? Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times claims the President is engaged in ethnic cleansing. Chris Hays from MSNBC says that yes, in fact, the President is running concentration camps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the same thing. And what is their response? Tweeting. That’s it. If you really […] The post To Twitter! To Twitter! We Must Fight Back! appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Don Lemon And CNN Can’t Stop The Trump/Hitler Comparisons In a discussion with Chris Cuomo on CNN, Don Lemon once again made a Trump/Hitler comparison. The thing about the despicable people in history. Extreme example. Hitler. Think about any of those people. Would you say that that person is allowed — if you could look back on in history would you say well, I’m […] The post Don Lemon And CNN Can’t Stop The Trump/Hitler Comparisons appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Do Democrats Believe This Or Are They Trying to Get President Trump Shot? Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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Ocasio-Cortez drew criticism after saying the U.S. is running “concentration camps” on the southern border. “That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps,” Ocasio-Cortez said Monday in an … Left-Wingers Pile On Chuck Todd For Calling Out Ocasio-Cortez | is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » George Soros Continues to Collect District Attorneys By Michael R Shannon – Last week’s Democrat primary in Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington Counties was great news for companies whose business model includes cleaning human poop off the sidewalk. The sanctimonious leftists in both counties just nominated new prosecutors who plan on increasing justice by ignoring crime. Thanks to almost $1 million contributed by … George Soros Continues to Collect District Attorneys is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Thursday, June 20, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump will participate in a set of meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada. Keep up with Trump on CDN’s President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s schedule for 6/20/19 All Times EDT: 12:00 PM Participate in the arrival of the Prime Minister of Canada 12:05 PM Participate in … President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Thursday, June 20, 2019 is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Here’s How To Celebrate The Fourth Of July In DC This Year By Shelby Talcott – If you’re looking to celebrate July 4 this year in Washington, D.C., the Trump Administration has a full day planned out. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced details of the Independence Day celebration in a press release on Wednesday. The event will take place on the National Mall … Here’s How To Celebrate The Fourth Of July In DC This Year is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Former Senate Aide Gets Four Years In Prison For Mass Doxxing Of Republicans By Luke Rosiak – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Democratic aide to four years in prison for hacking Senate computers, using spy devices and “doxxing” Republicans. Jackson Cosko — a former aide to Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee — stole the … Former Senate Aide Gets Four Years In Prison For Mass Doxxing Of Republicans is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Joins CNN By Audrey Conklin – Former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced his new position as a CNN commentator Wednesday on Twitter. “Super excited to be joining @CNN as a commentator. Start tomorrow night — talking politics and the economy. Will be MUST WATCH TV. Game on!” McAuliffe tweeted. In a later Wednesday tweet linking … Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Joins CNN is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » New York County Clerk Refuses to Give Driver’s Licenses to Illegals, Despite New Law By Jake Dima – Erie County Clerk Michael “Mickey” Kearns told a local outlet that he will not issue licenses to illegal aliens in defiance of a new New York Law. New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Green Light Bill Monday, which allows illegals to obtain driver’s licenses, WIVB4 reports. … New York County Clerk Refuses to Give Driver’s Licenses to Illegals, Despite New Law is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » KAG 2020 – Grrr Graphics – Ben Garrison Cartoon By Ben Garrison – Are You Ready for 2020? President Trump held his re-election kick off in Florida to a 25,000 strong crowd that packed the event both inside and out. The President’s speech was well received by the crowd. Trump also raised a record 25 million dollars in 24 hours after he announced … KAG 2020 – Grrr Graphics – Ben Garrison Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Other Democratic 2020 Candidates Are Not Happy With Biden’s Segregation Comments By Shelby Talcott – Former Vice President Joe Biden said that “at least there was some civility” while working with racist senators in the 1970s. Multiple Democrats condemned Biden’s comments, calling for him to apologize and evolve. Biden’s comments link to past issues where he supported segregationists and their agenda. Former Vice President Joe … Other Democratic 2020 Candidates Are Not Happy With Biden’s Segregation Comments is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Republican Lawmaker Booed For Explaining Why Slavery Reparations Could Be Unconstitutional By Molly Prince – Republican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was booed during the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on slavery reparations after he contended that reparations may not be constitutional. “Here in the Judiciary Committee we have an obligation to acknowledge that any monetary reparations that might be recommended by the commission created by H.R. … Republican Lawmaker Booed For Explaining Why Slavery Reparations Could Be Unconstitutional is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Republicans Ask DOJ Why Qatar-Owned Al Jazeera Isn’t Registered As Foreign Agent By Chuck Ross – A group of Republican lawmakers is asking the Justice Department whether Al Jazeera Media Network should be required to register as foreign agent of Qatar. Republicans said Al Jazeera appears to promote the goals of the Qatari government by “influenc[ing] public opinion in the United States” in a letter to … Republicans Ask DOJ Why Qatar-Owned Al Jazeera Isn’t Registered As Foreign Agent is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Where Does President Trump Go from Here? By Amanda Alverez – Did anyone see the President Trump 2020 kick off rally? Did you notice the obvious sadness and disgust – some would even say the disappointment and tears began before President Trump took to the podium. For some it was a very sad and disappointing day and those Democrat Socialists will … Where Does President Trump Go from Here? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Nearby Star May Support Life By Kyle Hooten – A nearby star may support life on two newly discovered Earth-like planets, according to the journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The two yet unnamed worlds were recently discovered by the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) orbiting Teegarden’s Star, an old and remarkably stable star located just 12 light … Nearby Star May Support Life is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s allegation that the U.S. is “running concentration camps” on the southern border. Several prominent Jewish groups, including Holocaust research center Yad Vashem, responded to Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram comparison of migrant detention centers to Nazi “concentration camps” on Twitter … Holocaust Research Center Invites Ocasio-Cortez To Learn About Concentration Camps is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump’s EPA Finalizes Plan To Repeal And Replace Obama-Era Coal Plant Regulations By Michael Bastasch – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its plan to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. 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Marco Rubio has some advice for the Democrats on the presidential debate stage next week
As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare to descend on his hometown of Miami for their first 2020 primary debate, Sen. Marco Rubio has a little candid advice. “If one of your opponents attacks you, don’t repeat the same answer three times,” the Florida Republican quipped. “It doesn’t go well.” Read More…
Only 3 percent of Democratic voters want a president in their 70s, survey finds
A new Pew survey found that the age of presidential candidates is important to potential Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters and that they prefer their candidates younger, specifically in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Read More…
When sanctions become weapons of mass disruption
Independent experts are worried lawmakers are overplaying the sanctions card with legislation that underestimates the potential harm to U.S. economic and diplomatic interests while overestimating the likelihood of success. Read More…
As Democrats line up to debate, the GOP is regressing
OPINION — It was pretty startling, actually, viewing the lineup for the first debate of Democratic presidential hopefuls in April 2007 on a stage in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Among them were the usual suspects — Sens. Chris Dodd, John Edwards and Joe Biden. And then, there were surprises — Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Read More…
What’s in a vote? In the Senate, it’s in the eye, or ear, of the clerk
How do I vote thee? Let me count the ways. Unlike the House, where the utilitarian electronic voting card does all the work, senators have so, so many ways to say “yes” or “no.” Read More…
Bad News Babes defeat Congress for fourth year in a row
The Bad News Babes crushed the members’ team for the fourth year in a row at the Congressional Women’s Softball Game. It was a 10-3 blowout. Read More…
Danny Glover on reparations bill: ‘Policy is moral, democratic — an economic imperative.’
Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cory Booker, among others, appeared before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday to testify regarding HR 40. Watch the video here…
There’s no crying in baseball … or congressional softball
It was a blast from the past at Wednesday’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game as the teams paid all kinds of tribute to one of America’s classic sports comedies, “A League of Their Own.” Read More…
Tempers flare as leaders, White House fall short on spending deal
A meeting of top White House officials and congressional leaders broke up Wednesday without agreement on topline funding allocations for appropriators, raising fresh doubts over their ability to avert another fiscal crisis later this year. Read More…
Border spending bill sent to Senate floor, but House may act on its version first
Senate appropriators approved $4.59 billion in emergency funding Wednesday to address the influx of migrants at the southern border, and their House counterparts said they’re prepping a similar bill to bring to the floor as soon as Tuesday. Read More…
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| Even WaPo thinks Elizabeth Warren’s proposals are way too expensive Posted: 20 Jun 2019 05:18 AM PDT The Washington Post is one of the Democrats’ favorite mainstream media news outlets. They don’t get the bad wrap for fake news as much as CNN or MSNBC. They also don’t get the label of having unhinged journalists like the NY Times. They’re clearly left-leaning and have tremendous reach, but so far the President has […] The post Even WaPo thinks Elizabeth Warren’s proposals are way too expensive appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| No, technology does not simply bend Left Posted: 20 Jun 2019 01:19 AM PDT On the Joe Rogan Experience featuring tech billionaire, Naval Ravikant, that circulated on Conservative media for the comments about the Left winning the culture war and shooting the survivors, the claim was made that technology bends to the Left. The video made a claim, that taken on its face contributes to the myth that society […] The post No, technology does not simply bend Left appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| PragerU’s Will Witt informs UCSD students Che Guevara was fiercely against LGBTQ Posted: 19 Jun 2019 09:32 PM PDT Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara imprisoned and murdered many homosexuals in his days fighting the “good fight” that so many progressives seem to admire. This fact of his history seems to have been wiped from the general progressive consciousness. Today, the University of California in San Diego even has a “Che Cafe” that is supposed to be […] The post PragerU’s Will Witt informs UCSD students Che Guevara was fiercely against LGBTQ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Tucker Carlson: The truth about the Koch brothers and GOP Posted: 19 Jun 2019 08:48 PM PDT Considering how much influence the Koch brothers and their network of GOP mega-donors have over American politics, there is surprisingly very little discussed about their actual policy initiatives. This is by design. In many ways, their perspectives shield them from scrutiny by the American people because neither ideological side wants the people to know much […] The post Tucker Carlson: The truth about the Koch brothers and GOP appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Listen to every word Burgess Owens says about reparations Posted: 19 Jun 2019 07:19 PM PDT Former NFL player Burgess Owens delivered an amazing speech before Congress today talking about reparations. He called for them, but not from the United States government as Democrats are wanting. He wants reparation paid by the Democratic Party to the African-Americans Owens believes have been hurt by the leftist ideology espoused by today’s Democrats. The […] The post Listen to every word Burgess Owens says about reparations appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| AOC offers no solutions and ‘not one dime’ for DHS to fix ‘concentration camps’ Posted: 19 Jun 2019 05:51 PM PDT Let’s play a quick game of “read between the lines.” Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez complained about migrant detention centers at the border being “concentration camps.” I disagree, but so be it. Let’s assume the detention centers are inhospitable and even inhumane based on the sheer mass of people coming across the border and filing asylum claims. One […] The post AOC offers no solutions and ‘not one dime’ for DHS to fix ‘concentration camps’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| 7 reasons Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee Posted: 19 Jun 2019 02:58 PM PDT There are those who say the Democratic nomination for president is Joe Biden’s to lose. And he will. As much as I’d love to see the only Democratic candidate who doesn’t want to destroy America become the nominee just in case President Trump loses, it’s becoming increasingly clear he has no real chance. Why? Because he […] The post 7 reasons Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The realities of the two-state solution Posted: 19 Jun 2019 02:02 PM PDT The belief that a two-state solution is possible and that it is the solution most likely to bring peace is discussed by observers outside of Israel as an almost foregone conclusion. This outsider view too often wholly ignores the unfortunate realities on the ground in Israel. If either side has ever truly considered the possibility […] The post The realities of the two-state solution appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Hope Hicks and the difference between talking to Congress and Mueller Posted: 19 Jun 2019 01:50 PM PDT I’ll keep this brief since it really isn’t that complicated. Democrats are complaining that former White House adviser Hope Hicks wouldn’t answer questions in a closed door meeting with the House Judiciary Committee. They say she’s under orders from White House counsel to not discuss her actions while working for the campaign or administration. They […] The post Hope Hicks and the difference between talking to Congress and Mueller appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Border lies: Democrats start spinning ‘manufactured crisis’ to mean something different Posted: 19 Jun 2019 01:18 PM PDT The old talking point was to claim the growing emergency situation at the border was a “manufactured crisis.” Democrats across the board echoed those words for months before, during, and especially after the government shutdown that spread across last December into January. But as more Americans are waking up to the reality that the crisis […] The post Border lies: Democrats start spinning ‘manufactured crisis’ to mean something different appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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06/20/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Losing Strategy; Inactive Voters; When Harry Met Taft-Hartley By Carl M. Cannon on Jun 20, 2019 09:17 am Good morning, it’s Thursday, June 20, 2019. On this date in 1947, Harry Truman gave a peppery radio address to the nation explaining why he had vetoed bipartisan legislation design to curb the power of organized labor. Officially known as the Labor Relations Management Act of 1947, it was then and forever more known as Taft-Hartley. Living up to his “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry” nickname, Truman denounced Taft-Hartley as “a shocking piece of legislation” that would cripple the rights of working people, increase industrial strife, and lead to a “dangerous challenge” to free speech and a free press. “I vetoed this bill because I am convinced it is a bad bill,” Truman said. “It is bad for labor, bad for management, and bad for the country.” Bold talk, but in hindsight we can say two or three additional things about Taft-Hartley. For starters, Truman played this issue like a fiddle. Second, it probably saved his presidency. I’ll offer a third observation in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Trump Hopes to Win Next Year, But Is Trying Not To. A.B. Stoddard lays out the president’s ever-growing list of self-inflicted wounds, which are eroding support among his already narrow base. Calif. Begins Removing 5 Million Inactive Voters on Its Rolls. Susan Crabtree has the details. Concerned GOP Outlier: Trump Must State He Is “Not King.” Myra Adams urges the president to stop joking about serving more than two terms and to assure voters he will accept the election outcome in 2020. Inequality Has Surged Since ’89, and Life Has Become Easier. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny writes that thanks to advances hatched by 1 percenters, the needs of more people around the world are being met. The National Environmental Policy Act Belongs in a Museum. In RealClearEnergy, Kenny Stein argues that the law works against the rebuilding of America’s infrastructure. Is It Time to Cut U.S. Losses in Venezuela? In RealClearWorld, Ted Galen Carpenter advises abandoning efforts to install opposition leader Juan Guaido. Time to Press the Accelerator on Hypersonic Weapons. In RealClearDefense, Daniel Goure warns that China and Russia are ahead in developing extremely high speed weapons that can evade or outrun any existing air and missile defenses. Millennials Need Time-Tested Traditional Churches. In RealClearReligion, Thomas Raabe sees a silver lining in polling of young people about their worship preferences. The Problem With a 90% Graduation Rate. In RealClearEducation, Nat Malkus asserts that lofty high-school numbers don’t equate with improved outcomes. * * * The Labor Relations Management Act of 1947 came in response to perceived excesses of the Wagner Act, a 1935 cornerstone of the New Deal. The Wagner Act (which, notably, did not cover government employees) conferred on Americans the right to collectively bargain with their employers or to join labor unions that would do it for them. It prohibited employers from thwarting those efforts either by attempting to take over the unions or undermining them with discriminatory hiring and firing practices. To enforce these provisions, the Wagner Act created the National Labor Relations Board. The 1935 law, union leaders proclaimed, was nothing less than “labor’s Bill of Rights.” But a rash of strikes as the United States emerged from the shadow of the Depression and World War II led to a widespread perception that the Wagner Act went too far. It had created “closed” shops (in which employers agree to hire only union members), allowed secondary strikes, and made no provisions allowing the government to delay, even temporarily, a union walkout in industries of critical national importance. Taft-Hartley, which enjoyed broad support on Capitol Hill among Democrats and Republicans, was the corrective. But did it go too far in the other direction? Although Truman didn’t think so at first, prominent labor leaders characterized Taft-Hartley as a bill that would lead to “slave labor.” More than two dozen congressional liberals signed a letter calling it a “new guarantee of industrial slavery.” The issue was joined just as a presidential election season was taking shape. Finding his voice as a full-throated union man helped the president; Truman’s narrow reelection victory in 1948 could not have been accomplished without labor support. Yet, and this is the third point that I promised, it’s an observable fact of American political history that once presidents are given new authority, they relish it — and use it. Harry Truman certainly did. His veto of Taft-Hartley was overridden by Congress and in his second term Truman repeatedly invoked Taft-Hartley’s 80-day “cooling-off period” in strikes or threatened strikes that he ascertained would imperil the “national health or safety.” In 1952, Truman also used the law to briefly nationalize America’s steel industry. Five years after he had taken to the radio waves to denounced Taft-Hartley as a “dangerous challenge” to working people, Truman gave another speech from the White House. This time, he argued the issue from the opposite perspective. “My fellow Americans, tonight our country faces a grave danger,” Truman said on April 8, 1952. “These are not normal times. These are times of crisis.” What had changed in five years? Well, for one thing, America was at war again. Truman used his evening address to explain that the labor dispute between steel companies and their workers threatened to deny U.S. troops the weapons and tanks they needed to fight in the Korean conflict. “I would not be faithful to my responsibilities as president if I did not use every effort to keep this from happening,” insisted the commander-in-chief. It’s a rationale that presidents had used before — and are still using today. Viewing it through the lens of non-partisanship, one can acknowledge two competing ideas are true at the same time. First, using the power at your fingertips to right what you see as a wrong is simple human nature — no matter who is in the Oval Office. Second, under our system of government, it is the job of the legislative and judicial branches to curb this temptation, as was done in this very case to Harry Truman. But that is a subject for another day. Carl M. 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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: Trump’s Outrage Scale vs. Democrats’ rules of engagement
The last two days have demonstrated one of the Democratic Party’s biggest challenges against President Trump, especially over the next year.
Their presidential field is going to rough up each other over issues that cut to the heart of the debate over the party’s future, but that would barely register a blip on the daily Trump Outrage Scale ™.
Add up those kinds of Dem skirmishes over a year, and you can see why an incumbent president (who faces no real primary threat) has a built-in advantage for re-election – no matter his current poll numbers.
On Tuesday, President Trump refused to apologize to the “Central Park Five” – young African Americans and Latinos in the late 1980s who were wrongly convicted for beating and raping a Central Park jogger.
“You have people on both sides of that,” Trump said. “They admitted their guilt.” (Fact check: They were later exonerated.)
The next day, the Democratic presidential field piled on frontrunner Joe Biden for recalling “civility” in working with segregationist Democratic Sens. James Eastland and Herman Talmadge from the 1970s, even if he disagreed with them on the issues.
Cory Booker called for Biden to apologize (which the former vice president refused to do).
“Vice President Biden’s relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people.”
And then there’s this: “James Eastland literally thought my wife and I should not have the legal right to marry, that those children should not exist and our children should not be on this earth. That’s how personal it is for me,” Bill de Blasio said on “MTP Daily” yesterday.
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Now ask yourself: Which of these stories – Central Park Five or Eastland/Talmadge – is still making headlines today?
Don’t get us wrong: We’ve said before that one of Biden’s biggest weaknesses in this 2020 Democratic race is how his nearly 50 year career in Washington makes him seen out of touch with today’s Democratic Party – on race, on abortion, on “civility.”
Yesterday’s pile-on is a chief example.
And it also showed how the rest of the Democratic field isn’t going to give him the benefit of the doubt on any of these issues.
That’s what happens when you’re the frontrunner.
But the dust-up is also a reminder of the disconnect between the kinds of issues that will get Democratic candidates into trouble, versus what Trump has conditioned almost everyone to see as just the latest in a series of predictable outrages.
And that’s a significant advantage for the president of the United States.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Trump’s playbook on Biden
A tale of two controversial Biden statements
Twenty-four hours later, we’re surprised that Biden’s Eastland/Talmadge remarks got more attention than what he said about wealthy people and their taxes.
On Eastland/Talmadge, per the pool report of the fundraiser he attended:
Mr. Biden then recalled his time serving in the Senate. “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,” Mr. Biden said, briefly channeling the late Mississippi senator’s Southern drawl. Mr. Biden said of Mr. Eastland, “He never called me boy, he always called me son.” Mr. Biden then brought up a deceased Georgia senator, “a guy like Herman Talmadge, one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys. Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.”
On wealthy people and their taxes:
“By the way, you know, remember I got in trouble with some of the people on my team, on the Democratic side, because I said, ‘You know what I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people.’ Not a joke. I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money. The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change. Because when we have income inequality as large as we have in the United States today, it brews and ferments political discord and basic revolution.”
Rich people are just as patriotic as poor people?
Let’s not demonize anybody who has made money?
No one’s standard of living will change?
How are those comments also not producing big stories today?
Iran shoots down U.S. drone
“A U.S. drone was shot down in international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, U.S. Central Command said, contradicting a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that it struck the aircraft after it entered that country’s airspace,” NBC’s Courtney Kube, Phil Helsel and Ali Arouzi write.
“The news comes amid rising tensions in the region, with American officials blaming Iran for what they said was an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has denied any involvement.”
2020 VISION: Oh, Roy.
Roy Moore will make an announcement today at 3:00 pm ET on whether he will run for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, per NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard.
The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, who lost his 2017 special U.S. Senate race against Democrat Doug Jones, will address reporters at The Foundation for Moral Law, the conservative/religious group which Moore founded.
Hillyard adds: In the December ‘17 special election to fill the remaining two years of Jeff Sessions’ seat, Moore lost by 20,715 votes. There were 22,819 other Alabamians, including Republican Sen. Richard Shelby who wrote in an alternative name to Moore or Jones.
And Moore referenced that fact yesterday, tweeting this:
On the campaign trail today: Michael Bennet holds a press call at 9:30 am ET to unveil his plan to combat corruption and strengthen democracy… And Julian Castro, in Florida, delivers remarks at the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s annual conference.
AP Photo/Brynn Anderson
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 7.7.
That’s Joe Biden’s average score among Democratic voters asked to rate his strength as a candidate against Donald Trump on a scale from 0-10, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
On the questionnaire’s scale, a rating of 0 meant that respondent believed the candidate had no chance of beating Trump, while a score of 10 meant that the candidate would definitely beat him.
The 7.7 rating for Biden was the highest of all Democratic candidates.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren had average scores of 6.5 and 6.4, respectively.
The poll was in the field June 12 to 17.
THE LID: Electability (yeah, you know me)
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we did a deep dive on those new electability ratings from the Monmouth poll.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
The Washington Post writes that Trump is “losing interest” in Venezuela after failing to score a “quick foreign policy win” there.
Here’s the latest on the officer-involved shooting that took South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg off the trail.
Does Joe Biden still support the death penalty?
Ta-Nehisi Coates made a splash on the Hill yesterday during a hearing about reparations.
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