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Good morning from Washington, where the booming economy is making
more jobs available for blacks, Hispanics, and women, among others. Adam
Michel explains why liberal policies would derail that success. Gotten a
huge unexpected medical bill from an ER visit
or know someone who has? Doug Badger looks at Congress’ approach to
solving that issue. Fifty-nine years ago today, Harper Lee’s classic
tale of a lawyer’s fight for justice for an innocent man in segregated
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| Commentary How a Record-Breaking Economy Is Helping Those Who Need It Most June’s employment numbers were particularly good for African-Americans, with the unemployment rate dropping to 6%, nearing the historic low of 5.9%. Women, Hispanics, and workers without a college degree are seeing similar trends. More Commentary Epstein, Bean, and Buck: The Democratic Donors’ Sex-Creep Club There’s a lot of money from men with troubling reputations falling in the coffers of the party that claims to care most about sex assault and human trafficking victims. More Commentary Congress’ Current Approach to Surprise Medical Billing Could Have Unintended Consequences Patients rightly expect not to be financially penalized when they seek care in an emergency room or at a network facility. Congress rightly wants to address this problem, but the solutions it has so far contemplated are ill-conceived. More Analysis The Unintended Consequences of Student Loans Higher college costs, spurred by student loans, have discouraged low-income people from attending college more than middle-class or wealthy people. More News Acosta Defends Role in Epstein Plea Dea “The goal here was straightforward: Put Epstein behind bars, ensure he registered as a sexual offender, provide victims with the means to seek restitution, and protect the public,” says Acosta of the 2008 deal. More Commentary What Ross Perot Gave to America Over the course of his life, Perot always sought to raise public awareness of our military. He initiated or supported efforts to improve service members’ quality of life, to highlight the critical role they play in securing our country, and to see that their sacrifices were recognized. More Commentary Problematic Women: Trump v. Rapinoe We discuss whether or not air conditioning is sexist, drama over the “Little Mermaid” remake, and all the controversy surrounding the U.S. women’s soccer team. More Commentary Amazon Just Banned My Dad’s Therapy Books, Caving to LGBT Activists On Amazon, you can buy almost any book written throughout human history—from the Bible to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” As of last week, however, you cannot get any of Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Sr.’s books about leaving homosexuality. More | ||
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IN THIS ISSUE: – Notes on the State of Politics NOTES ON THE STATE OF POLITICS Farewell Ross Perot; Senate races on the fringe of the competitive map; the curious case of Justin Amash By Kyle Kondik and Larry J. Sabato Sabato’s Crystal Ball |
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KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Ross Perot, who died earlier this week, provided something of a template for Donald Trump. He also was the best-performing third-party presidential candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. — They are not top-tier races, but there have been noteworthy Senate developments on the outer fringes of the competitive map in Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia. — Justin Amash’s decision to leave the GOP creates another House swing seat. Ross Perot, political prophet There is a great quote from George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee and South Dakota senator: “You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.” Given how American politics has developed over the past half-century, that may be a fitting way to look at businessman Ross Perot, who died Tuesday at the age of 89. Perot ran two of the most credible third-party presidential bids in American history, garnering 19% of the vote in 1992 and a still-impressive 8% in 1996. Despite his showing, he didn’t win any electoral votes, confirmation of how the Electoral College helps perpetuate the nation’s two-party duopoly. Nonetheless, the themes of Perot’s campaigns provided something of a preview of Donald Trump, as he ran an outsider, populist campaign that was critical of free trade. Perot’s economic orthodoxy, at least as expressed in his campaign, probably existed to the left of the GOP, which one could also say about Trump, at least as a candidate if not necessarily in practice as president. This is not to say that Perot and Trump were platform twins. Contrary to Trump, Perot was pro-choice on abortion, and the Texan did not engage in race-baiting, which has been a staple of Trump’s career before and during his White House years. Perhaps if Perot had been 25 years younger and came around for the 2016 Republican primary instead of Trump, he’d be in the White House right now. Instead, Perot ended up as something of a forerunner to Trump. Perot’s homespun quips and memorable soundbites were different than Trump’s often coarse ones, but they had the same effect on his followers; the most fervent base prior to Trump’s may have been the so-called “Perotistas” of 1992. As it was, Perot produced the best presidential vote share of any non-Democrat or non-Republican since former President Theodore Roosevelt, running as a Bull Moose Progressive, won 27% of the vote in 1912. Table 1 shows the history of third-party performance since 1912. Table 1: Third-party presidential performance, 1912-2016 |
| Note: *In 1968, one faithless elector in North Carolina cast his vote for George Wallace rather than Richard Nixon. In 1972, one faithless elector in Virginia cast his vote for Libertarian John Hospers rather than Nixon. Source: Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Perot’s passing reignited a long-simmering debate about who Perot hurt and who he helped in 1992, when Bill Clinton unseated incumbent President George H.W. Bush. Some Bush backers are still convinced that without Perot in the race, Bush would have beaten back the Clinton challenge. Hypotheticals are difficult to prove, but we believe the evidence accumulated from 1992 onwards strongly suggests that Clinton would have won a two-way contest — and received the elusive majority he failed to win in both 1992 (43%) and 1996 (49%). But judge for yourself — here are some useful pieces about this enduring political question: — First, we recommend this instructive video from FiveThirtyEight about the “myth” that Perot cost Bush the 1992 election. — This New York Times article from just after the 1992 election discusses a poll of Perot voters. When asked if Perot had not been on the ballot, 38% of respondents said they would have voted for Bush and 38% said they would have voted for Clinton. Since Clinton already had over a 5% lead on Bush, this even split would have given the election and a majority of the vote to the Democrat. — This Washington Post article was published after the 1992 election and focuses on the Election Day exit polls. It concludes that Perot did not change the outcome of the election. — MSNBC published this analysis in 2015 when Trump was considering running as an independent rather than a Republican. It shows that Bush would have needed to win two-thirds of Perot voters to win the 1992 election — a very unlikely outcome given the hostility to Bush among a large percentage of Perot’s base. Action in fringe Senate races National Republicans groaned Monday as Kris Kobach (R), a far-right former Kansas secretary of state and weak 2018 gubernatorial nominee, announced a bid for Senate. While Kansas is a very Republican state — it hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932 — it also has a significant contingent of moderate Republicans that might recoil at a Kobach candidacy. We moved the race from Safe Republican to Likely Republican earlier this week, just as a precaution. Outside Republicans groups are openly slamming Kobach and assuredly will work against his nomination if needed. Trump endorsed Kobach in the 2018 gubernatorial primary. Table 2: Crystal Ball Senate ratings change Senator Old Rating New Rating KS Open (Roberts, R) Safe Republican Likely Republican The seat became open after Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), himself a weak performer in 2014, announced his retirement. Roberts beat independent Greg Orman by about 11 points in 2014, which amidst a sterling GOP environment was still the weakest showing for a GOP Senate candidate since a 1996 special election there held to replace Bob Dole, who had resigned his seat in the midst of his unsuccessful presidential bid. In any event, there very well could be competitive primaries on both sides. For the Republicans, besides Kobach, state Treasurer Jake LaTurner and former NFL player Dave Lindstrom are already in the mix, and Rep. Roger Marshall (R, KS-1) and state Senate President Susan Wagle may also join the race. Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and frequent TV defender of the president, is another possibility (his wife, Mercedes, recently joined the president’s reelection campaign after serving in a top White House communications position). Former U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda (D, KS-2) and former U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom are running on the Democratic side, but the most intriguing potential candidate hasn’t officially entered the race yet: state Sen. Barbara Bollier, who switched parties after the election and who is representative of the kinds of Kansans (moderate Republicans) that any Democrat would need to win. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has made no secret of the fact that his dream candidate is U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who represented KS-4 in the House before becoming CIA director and then leading the State Department. Pompeo seems to still be entertaining the idea. Speaking of McConnell, he got a notable challenger in his own reelection bid earlier this week when retired Marine pilot Amy McGrath (D) entered the race. McGrath lost a close race against Rep. Andy Barr (R, KY-6) last fall, but became something of a national sensation thanks to a splashy announcement video and her primary upset against former Lexington Mayor Jim Gray (D), who himself challenged Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in 2016. We are holding Kentucky at Likely Republican: Even though McConnell carries baggage as the leader of his party’s Senate caucus and isn’t popular, Kentucky has become very Republican. Readers may remember that McConnell’s 2014 race seemed very competitive throughout that cycle, but we never bought the hype, holding that race at Likely Republican the whole time. McConnell ended up winning by 15 points. McConnell likely will run behind Donald Trump in Kentucky — the state is less Republican down the ballot than it is for president — but we need to see a great deal of persuasive evidence before declaring him truly vulnerable. The gubernatorial election this fall will provide some clues: If Gov. Matt Bevin (R-KY), who has very weak numbers himself, nonetheless triumphs against a Democratic challenger who is more proven than McGrath, state Attorney General Andy Beshear (D), that will be even more of a signal that the Bluegrass State just isn’t really open to voting Democratic for much of anything these days. It is also not a guarantee that McGrath will have the Democratic field to herself. One other note: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) also picked up a challenger this week, former Rep. Scott Taylor (R, VA-2). Taylor, a former state delegate, defeated a sitting House member, Randy Forbes, in a 2016 primary after Forbes switched districts following court-ordered modifications to the state’s congressional districts, which effectively made Forbes’ old district, VA-4, unwinnable for a Republican. Taylor won in 2016 but lost in a close race to Rep. Elaine Luria (D, VA-2) last November, and he found himself bogged down by a scandal in which members of his staff allegedly forged signatures to help his 2016 challenger get on the ballot as an independent as a way to hurt Luria. One of those staffers was indicted in May, and the investigation continues. Taylor has his problems, but he also is a better candidate than Republicans might have otherwise fielded; certainly he is more credible than Corey Stewart (R), the neo-Confederate rabble-rouser who ran a weak challenge to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) last cycle. Taylor’s chances are probably dependent on Trump winning Virginia in 2020, which seems unlikely although is not impossible if the president is otherwise running considerably better than he did in 2016 nationally. That said, Taylor seems capable of at least converting Trump votes into votes for himself, which should keep him within range of Warner, who shockingly nearly lost in 2014. We continue to rate the Virginia Senate race as Likely Democratic. None of Kansas, Kentucky, or Virginia is likely to make or break the Senate majority next year: Realistically, we’re closer to rating all of them as Safe as opposed to Leans in our ratings. But the action in those states reminds us that there is more going on in the battle for the Senate than in just the topline races. Map 1: Crystal Ball Senate ratings Amash switch endangers his House seat The morning of July 4, Rep. Justin Amash (I, MI-3) declared his independence from the Republican Party. Amash, a conservative who has long been a thorn in the side of party leadership, stuck his neck out when he endorsed opening impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of the release of the Mueller Report. He had at least four primary challengers, according to Politico. It seemed possible, at least to us, that Amash could emerge from a primary if the vote was splintered, given that Michigan has no runoff. But he decided to simply leave the party. It’s hard to be a true independent in the House, because even independents typically need to pick one party caucus or the other to get committee assignments. For instance, even though Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Angus King (I-ME) are technically independents, they are members of the Senate Democratic caucus, which allows them to serve on committees in the Senate. Amash left the Republican caucus and resigned his post on the House Oversight Committee. To borrow the immortal words of Keith Richards, he walked before they made him run: Republicans were not going to allow Amash to remain in their caucus or serve on Oversight following his departure from the party. Amash said he will run for reelection as an independent, although it seems possible he may run as a protest presidential candidate, either as an independent or as the Libertarian nominee. If Amash does remain on the ballot, a three-way race would be hard to predict. His western Michigan-based district, MI-3, is effectively a version of the seat that former President Gerald Ford (R) held while he was in Congress. MI-3 definitely leans Republican, though not overwhelmingly so: Trump won it 51%-42%, and it was considerably closer in the state’s gubernatorial and Senate races last year, according to Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux. The heart of the district is the Democratic city of Grand Rapids, county seat of Kent County, a usually Republican but Democratic-trending swing county. Indeed, if you’re looking for a place that voted for Trump in 2016 but might vote Democratic for president in 2020, Kent County, which is mostly contained in Amash’s district, is a good possibility. The combination of a potential blue trend in MI-3 and a possible three-way race pushed us to move MI-3 from Likely Republican to Toss-up. We might move it to Leans Republican, though, if Amash leaves the race and it becomes a standard Republican vs. Democrat contest. We do think it should be competitive regardless, though. Table 3: Crystal Ball House ratings change Member/District Old Rating New Rating Rep. Justin Amash (I, MI-3) Likely Republican Toss-up Out Now: The Blue Wave, the UVA Center for Politics’ book on the 2018 election Our new book on the 2018 midterm elections, The Blue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections, is now available from Rowman and Littlefield. Edited by University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry J. 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Thursday, July 11, 2019 Ross Perot On Tuesday, “H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president” died of Leukemia. AP News From the Left The left recognizes Perot’s similarities to Trump but highlights their very different temperaments. “Both men convinced large numbers of Americans that it was better to have a successful business executive to solve the nation’s problems. Their pitch was that experience in the law, statecraft, diplomacy and government were irrelevant to seeking the highest office in the land — indeed such qualifications were corrupting… H. Ross Perot pioneered the insurgent trail that Trump rode to victory.” Jon Talton, Seattle Times “His television platform was Larry King Live, not The Apprentice, and his persona was genial and folksy, not blustery and dark. But more than a quarter century ago, Ross Perot revealed a truth about the American electorate that Donald Trump would exploit: There is a big chunk of voters who feel disaffected, harmed by free trade, threatened by demographic change, and attracted to an eccentric outsider who promises to upend the status quo.” Todd S. Purdum, The Atlantic “Perot, like Donald Trump, attracted a lot of disaffected white non-college graduates. A lot of these types of voters would later jump to the Republican Party and power Trump’s presidential victory in 2016… [But] to call Perot the first Trump probably doesn’t do either man enough justice. Trump’s brand of populism is far angrier than Perot’s ever was. And Perot dealt with slights differently than Trump. When he was called ‘crazy,’ Perot adopted the song ‘Crazy’ as his ‘campaign song,’ even dancing to it. In this way and many others, Perot was one of a kind.” Harry Enten, CNN “Nothing remotely like to the accusations of personal corruption that surround Trump ever arose in connection with the fastidious Perot, a famed/infamous moral scold. Perot was married to the same woman for 62 years and was said to be a loyal, if difficult employer (his company had a ‘moral code’ that prohibited infidelity). Trump is the ultimate symbol of excess; Perot bragged about never owning more than three or four pairs of underpants at a time as a young person… Apart from criticism of NAFTA, a protectionist bent, and a general disdain for the two parties, they didn’t have much in common.” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone “Many of Mr. Perot’s predictions about Nafta’s impact — notably his claim of the ‘giant sucking sound’ Americans would hear as businesses shuttered operations in the United States — proved either wrong or overstated. Paradoxically, however, his skepticism about lowering trade barriers has proved prescient… The ‘sucking sound’ from Mexico was never really heard, but there certainly was one from China after it entered the World Trade Organization in 2001… [In one study] a group of economists estimated that rising Chinese imports from 1999 to 2011 cost up to 2.4 million American jobs.” Eduardo Porter, New York Times “Yes, some will rush to blame Perot for Trump, but I think a cleaner case is to blame the parties for their distance from the voters — a distance, I would suggest, that continues. Perot was never entirely to my taste, but I’m going to miss him. And when I think about his quixotic presidential campaigns, I will always come back to that zinger about how the owners — ‘the people’ — can’t park on Capitol Hill. Go ahead and try to find a space not reserved for the self-important whose salary you pay. You’ll quickly discover how right Perot was; and how little has changed.” Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg “The two issues with which he is most often associated, support for a balanced budget and opposition to free trade, put him at odds with both of our major political parties. An old-fashioned, soft-spoken Southerner, he nevertheless held views on so-called ‘social issues’ that would be to the left of the mainstream of the Republican Party, both then and now. He was a fervent supporter of the Vietnam POW/MIA movement in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but he was not in any sense a hawk. Never mind 2003. Perot opposed the first war in Iraq in 1990… Perot’s death should be mourned by all Americans who regret the fact that it is no longer possible to make reasoned, non-ideological arguments about questions of public import, and by the devolution of our political life into mindless partisan squabbling.” Matthew Walther, The Week From the Right The right lauds Perot and sees him as a precursor to Trump. “Pros laughed at his use of charts and talk of NAFTA’s ‘giant sucking sound’ taking jobs to Mexico, but he won the very voters who’d later be the core Trump constituency. It’s easy to see why: During the ’92 campaign, he groused: ‘Our president blames Congress, Congress blames the president, the Democrats and Republicans blame each other. Nobody steps up to the plate and accepts responsibility for anything.’ Ross Perot the outsider still has a point. Rest in peace.” Editorial Board, New York Post “When you look closely at Perot’s campaigns, you see his influence everywhere ever since. His populist attitude against Washington informed the Gingrich-led Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. His fondness for plain-spoken fiscal rectitude popped up again in Al Gore’s Social Security ‘lock box’ and later in the Tea Party. And of course, Perot now looks like the Morning Star of Trumpism… Like Perot, President Trump is also a billionaire populist and a trade protectionist. Trump appeals to the same secular, nationalist voters that were Perot’s base. But Trump also appealed to and made pacts with all the factions of the Republican party.” Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review “Perot’s allergy to social conservatives was one of the things that would doom his populism… Trump, like Perot, campaigned as something of a moderate on social issues — but he did so without excluding social conservatives, and since becoming president he has served his coalition allies better than many a professed true-believer conservative Republican ever did. Trump also realized, as Perot should have recognized a quarter-century earlier, that third-party politics was a waste of time, when the same resources could be used to take over the GOP from within.” Daniel McCarthy, Spectator USA “From the perspective of 2019, H. Ross Perot looks like a key precursor to Trump: the billionaire political outsider who popped up on Larry King Live, opposed free trade deals, and who spoke bluntly and simply and promised to just roll up his sleeves and look under the hood. But there were some key differences. Perot worried about the deficit — ‘the crazy aunt in the basement’ and about the debt — back when it was a ‘mere’ $5 trillion. He supported means-testing Social Security. His policy interests were not wide but he knew enough about them to give lectures with charts. Perot was feisty but rarely obnoxious.” Jim Geraghty, National Review “What stood out for me about Perot was his raging moderation. Unlike most angry candidates running a populist campaign, Perot was a pragmatist, not an ideologue, and basically a centrist — more so, anyway than his two opponents (which is why Team Bush was wrong, I think, to claim that Perot cost Bush the election; studies have shown that Perot took about as many votes away from Clinton as he did from Bush)… Trump’s political genius, or one aspect of it, was his realization that he could capture the Republican presidential nomination and, eventually, the Republican Party. I wonder how Perot would have fared if he had tried to do the same.” Paul Mirengoff, Power Line Blog “After Republicans lost in 2012, failing to retake the White House and actually losing Senate seats despite a sagging Obama-era economy, two prominent analyses were proposed. One — the Republican National Committee’s ‘autopsy’ — said the GOP’s problem was embracing social issues too much and liberal immigration too little. The other analysis — the ‘Missing White Voter’ thesis — was grounded in actual data. It said the problem was that the GOP of the Bush family and Mitt Romney had turned off working-class whites to the point that they disengaged. Put another way, the GOP establishment in 2012 said the party could win by becoming more like George H.W. Bush; the deeper analysis said it could win if it became more like Ross Perot… “Ross Perot didn’t ‘give us Trump.’ But he gave us an insight into what America was really like. It just took 20 years for someone to put that insight to use.” Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner On the bright side… Dozens of costumed T. rex race on a horse track in a delightfully bizarre video. USA Today 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. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. 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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ALBERT EINSTEIN Good morning! While many media organizations have focused on President Donald Trump in their coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, they are overlooking larger questions about Epstein’s finances and his ties to former President Bill Clinton. Epoch Times contributor Jeff Carlson breaks down how Trump actually banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort, and dives into Epstein’s finances and ties to Clinton. Read full article here Ocasio-Cortez Says She Wants DHS to Be Abolished Sen. Charles Schumer Got Thousands in Donations From Jeffrey Epstein Bill Clinton Dined With Jeffrey Epstein in 1995, Predating Public Timeline: Report Iranian Boats Unsuccessfully Try to Seize British Tanker in the Gulf: US Official Americans’ dependence on government programs has diminished during the presidency of Donald Trump, most visibly in the shrinking of food stamp enrollment. Read more The definition of human rights has changed drastically since America’s Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and a new State Department commission that aims to renew these rights could change the face of government around the world. Read more The extreme flip-flops in narrative about what’s happening at the southern border, should, in theory, discredit the storytellers, says Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The War on Cops.” But they’re not. Read more After balking for over a month, Cineplex has announced it will screen “Unplanned,” a U.S. movie that has ignited hostility in liberal circles due to its pro-life stance and focus on the abortion industry. Read more Unrestrained by the strictures of the U.S. Constitution, judges in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have wrested so much lawmaking authority away from the people’s elected representatives in Congress that they are now rewriting U.S. immigration law by judicial fiat, conservative critics say. Read more Prosecutors from the team of special counsel Robert Mueller wanted Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to testify to something that isn’t true, Flynn’s lawyers said. When he refused, they tried to label him a co-conspirator in a case where they previously said he was only a witness. Read more See More Top Stories The Mueller Investigation Failed to Provide Evidence That the DNC Was Actually Hacked By Adrian Norman In 2017, a memorandum was sent to the White House from a group of former U.S. intelligence officials, including William Binney, former technical director at the National Security Agency. The team was a veritable who’s who of accredited technical wizards, comprising former top brass from the NSA, CIA, U.S. Air Force Intelligence… Read more Five Reasons Trump’s Celebration of America Was Epic Display of Patriotism By Nicole Russell As soon as the news broke that President Donald Trump was going to ramp up the usual Fourth of July festivities in Washington, with flyovers, tributes to every branch in our armed forces, and—wait for it—tanks, the mainstream media erupted with criticism, scolding, and even accusations that this meant Trump was morphing into a dictator before our very eyes. Turns out, the celebration wasn’t an omen of totalitarianism at all but an incredible tribute to the members of our nation’s military and an… Read more See More Opinions Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization the New Evil Empire? By Trevor Loudon Russia and China formed an international power bloc in 2001 that puts the old Soviet-led military alliance—the Warsaw Pact—to shame. It’s called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Most Westerners have never heard of it, yet it’s rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces on the planet. In fact, most Western leaders operate under the delusional belief that Russia and China are antagonists and can at times be played against each other. Read more Following his trip to Japan for the G20 Summit, President Donald Trump made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. President to ever set foot inside North Korea. How this event came about is a perfect example of how Trump operates. After observing Trump for a long time, I’ve learned to take very little he says at face value. People who hang onto his every word as if he literally means everything he says will never understand what he’s doing. ‘Experts’ Keep Insisting President Trump Is Doing It All Wrong on North Korea Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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| After dealing with primary nightmares for the better part of a decade, Senate Republicans are preparing to deal with a couple of high-profile intraparty fights in 2020 that could help determine whether the GOP holds on to the upper chamber. As Jordain Carney writes, Republicans are facing two daunting primary fights in Alabama and Kansas that could shake up the battle for the Senate. The two states should be safe GOP seats, but have emerged as early headaches for the party as they face insurgent bids from Judge Roy Moore and Kris Kobach, who are viewed as wholly unelectable by most national Republicans after blowing what should have been easy victories in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Although Republicans say they feel good about their chances to hold onto the chamber in 2020, contentious fights in the two states could help expand Democrats’ path back to the majority. They need four seats to wrestle away control. “We don’t need to be having any problems, it’s not a state we can stumble in. The map for the majority is OK, but if you have to start diverting resources to Kansas it complicates things,” one GOP operative said, adding that Alabama is also viewed as a “must-win state.” The two states are key stepping stones for the Democratic path back to the majority, along with other races in Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, and Maine. But candidacies by Moore and Kobach carry with them a certain amount of disdain in GOP circles, particularly those led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Senate Leadership Fund, a group led by McConnell allies, blasted campaign announcements by the two, indicating it will oppose both and ensure they do not reach the general election. Two others who aren’t enthused by runs from either are retiring Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), whom Kobach is running to replace, and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who told The Hill he has huddled with President Trump to figure out the best course of action to defeat Moore and avoid a 2017 situation. “It seems to me that if you have just lost a statewide race that the chances of you winning, running again for another statewide race would be very difficult,” Roberts said, pointing to Kobach’s gubernatorial loss in 2018. “[But] Kris Kobach once he makes up his mind, makes up his mind.” On the Democratic side, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) still hasn’t given up hope that multiple lower-tier Democratic presidential candidates will drop out and run for Senate in key states on the 2020 map. As Alexander Bolton reports, in the wake of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) decision to drop out of the presidential race, Schumer is hoping former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) will take the hint and launch Senate bids in their respective states, all of which could become tough, competitive races if they were to do so. Of the three contests, only one — Colorado — is expected to be considered a top-tier Senate contest as Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is believed to be the most vulnerable Senate Republican up for reelection. A GOP official told The Hill he fully expects any one of those candidates to reconsider a Senate run, a sign that no one is closing the door on Schumer landing another prize recruit ahead of 2020 as Democrats have struggled to land top-tier recruits in multiple races, including Iowa, Georgia and Texas. Josh Kraushaar, National Journal: For some, a presidential campaign is no résumé builder. The Tennessean: Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) won’t run for Senate, saying it’s not his calling. > Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to deliver a speech in New York on Thursday in which he lays out his foreign policy vision for the U.S. and he heavily criticizes Trump for his administration’s international policy decisions. According to a senior Biden campaign official, the former vice president will lay out a vision based on three pillars: repair American democracy and strengthen the coalition of democracies operating around the world, boost the middle class through the global economy, and put the United States “back at the head of the table” in mobilizing global action against threats such as Iran and climate change. Biden, if elected, is also prepared to go beyond the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Iran nuclear deal, both signed by the Obama administration when he was vice president, the senior official said. “It’s not enough to go back to Paris, as important as that is,” the official said. “He would, but he would then build on it in very substantial ways to get other countries to actually increase their own commitments.” After the speech, the former vice president is slated to hold a fundraiser in New York. The Hill: Democrats warn push for border crossing decriminalization will prove costly in 2020. NPR: South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg unveils plan to counter systemic racism. During an interview with The Associated Press, the mayor said of his proposal, “This is my entry, as specifically as possible, about what we can do across all these different areas of American life where the black experience is very much like living in a different country.” Politico: Being governor was once a solid path to the presidency. Not this time. Elsewhere in the political world … Amy McGrath, a Democrat who is running for Senate in Kentucky against McConnell, flip-flopped in a matter of hours over whether she would have voted “aye” on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. After saying in an interview that she probably would have voted for him, she reversed course on Twitter shortly after (Courier-Journal) … Justice Democrats announced Wednesday a trio of new endorsements, including candidates who are challenging Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) and Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) (The Hill). |
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| WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Facing intense scrutiny in Washington and calls from Democrats in Congress for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a 2008 plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein and insisted his relationship with Trump is “outstanding.” “Facts are important and facts are being overlooked,” Acosta said During a press conference at the Labor Department, Acosta said he is “pleased” that federal prosecutors in New York City this week brought sex-trafficking charges against Epstein, 66, a well-connected hedge fund manager and registered sex offender who pleaded guilty and was jailed for prostitution-related charges involving sex with underage girls years ago. Vice President Pence, traveling in California, told reporters, “Every member of our Cabinet serves at the pleasure of the president. We were pleased to see Secretary Acosta step forward and explain the basis of the plea agreement in 2008.” Acosta was the U.S. attorney in Miami who negotiated a deal that allowed Epstein to avoid federal prosecution in exchange for 13 months in a work release program, restitution to some of his victims and registration as a sex offender. “Times have changed, and coverage of this case has certainly changed,” the secretary told reporters. “We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail,” he said. “That was the focus” (The Hill). A former Florida state’s attorney in Palm Beach County pushed back on Wednesday against Acosta’s account. Barry Krischer, the Palm Beach County state’s attorney at the time of the investigation, said Acosta’s claim that local authorities were prepared to let Epstein walk without serving jail time until Acosta’s office stepped in was “completely wrong.” Acosta “should not be allowed to rewrite history,” Krischer said in a statement (The Hill). Trump has commended the secretary but also said the White House is reviewing the details of the non-prosecution agreement Epstein and his legal team negotiated with Acosta. Epstein’s numerous young victims, molested between 2001 and 2005 in the case Acosta handled, were not made aware of the terms of the deal in advance. Epstein is now jailed in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy. He will remain in custody at least until a bail hearing on July 15. Federal prosecutors have said he is a flight risk because of his wealth and international ties (Reuters). Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and committee member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sent Acosta a letter Wednesday inviting the secretary to testify on July 23 (The Associated Press). |
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Meanwhile, the administration’s policy to hold many migrants in Mexico instead of releasing them into the United States to await asylum and other immigration hearings is reducing the number of immigrants seen in the United States at detention facilities and at some key points of entry at the southern border (The New York Times). Apprehensions of migrants at the border with Mexico fell sharply in June (The Hill). Pence plans to tour a detention facility in Texas later this week and told reporters, “Our detention centers are overwhelmed.” > Homeland Security Department and facial recognition: State and federal lawmakers have been calling for new rules and investigations surrounding the use of facial-recognition data by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies using drivers licenses. Some lawmakers have called the government’s use of photos obtained from state licenses a “massive breach of privacy and trust.” On Wednesday, the window for swift federal intervention appeared to be closing, WIRED reported: “Legislators seemed alternately wary of facial recognition’s civil rights implications and enthusiastic about its benefits to law enforcement. Some representatives seemed impressed by the technology’s accuracy. But others noted that those statistics vary widely based on whether a system is assessing images that are well lit and show full faces, as well as factors like race and sex. The mixed reaction to a panel of Customs and Border Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and Secret Service officials was a stark contrast to two recent House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearings, in which lawmakers expressed deep concern about facial recognition’s potential for misuse and abuse.” > Courts: If Trump issues an executive order or presidential directive to the Commerce Department to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, it will spark an intense round of new legal challenges. Legal specialists told The Hill that the administration may run out of time to defend the president’s position in court under those circumstances because of statutory census deadlines that have passed. The administration continues to struggle in court with the Justice Department’s effort to swap out its legal team representing the government in census cases. A second federal judge refused the request without additional information (The Washington Post). Separately, the president won in court on Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Maryland and the District of Columbia alleging that Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution by profiting from foreign government guests at his Trump hotels, alleged to be an unlawful revenue stream from entities abroad. The court found that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue the president (The Hill). > U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and bees: Despite what many scientists describe as an alarming decline in the population and health of honeybees from pesticides and a destructive mite, the USDA temporarily stopped its traditional quarterly data collection about bees, citing tight resources at a time when research programs are being scaled back under the administration, CNN reported. The administration said it will still issue an annual honeybee report, however (The Hill). Researchers at the USDA’s Economic Research Service described the honeybee quarterly dataset as valuable and important for beekeepers and other stakeholders, such as the honey industry and farmers whose crops rely on pollinators. “We’re concerned about whether honeybee colony losses are still high and whether we’re making any progress in bringing them down,” Peyton Ferrier, an economist at the USDA who conducts research on how honeybee health affects the agriculture industry, told CNN. > Organ transplants and kidney disease: Trump instructed federal agencies on Wednesday via an executive order to pursue strategies that will diagnose kidney disease sooner, make treatment less expensive and encourage more people to donate their kidneys for transplantation (The Hill). More … Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch of Great Britain resigned on Wednesday, saying he could not perform his job in the United States following the diplomatically damaging leak of a confidential cable he sent to his bosses describing the Trump foreign policy team as “inept.” Trump castigated Darroch, calling him a “very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool.” Darroch was scheduled to retire at the end of the year, and Prime Minister Theresa May, who defended Darroch, will soon be leaving government (The Hill). … In Washington, divided government, increasing oversight by House Democrats and the hiring of Trump’s second White House counsel have resulted in a larger team of lawyers working for the president in the West Wing and across the street at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (NPR). |
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| CONGRESS: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took out her frustrations on progressive lawmakers in a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning after two weeks of a bitter back-and-forth between members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and moderates who helped the party win back the House last November over how to deal with migrant facilities at the southern border. Pelosi pleaded with her members not to allow vitriol directed at other members to reach Twitter. This was viewed as a veiled shot at Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), co-chairman of the CPC, who labeled the Problem Solvers Caucus the “Child Abuse Caucus” as House Democrats were embroiled in a battle over the $4.6 billion border supplemental bill two weeks ago, in which the moderates prevailed (The Hill). Liberals were steaming after Pelosi allowed a Senate-passed version of the bill to reach the House floor rather than a House-passed bill that contained more protections for migrants who are held at facilities along the border. Democrats are trying to keep tensions inside the conference as they bring the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the House floor this week. “There were some strong feelings; people are very, very upset with the humanitarian abuses that are occurring at the border that every American ought to be ashamed of. So there were some strong feelings, and they were manifested,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). “But there was no doubt that bill was going to pass.” The Washington Post: “Outright disrespectful”: Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them. Politico: ‘Do not tweet’: Pelosi scolds progressives in closed-door meeting. George P. Shultz and Pedro Aspe: Make Central America Great Again. |
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. I think there will be a supermajority of Democrats who will be supportive,” Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a top progressive, said on Wednesday evening.
With the bill not expected to win much support, if any, from across the aisle, Democrats need to rely on their members from all corners to support the bill, especially progressives who have remained question marks as the vote nears.
Progressive caucus leaders said Wednesday they remain undecided on how to vote on a $733 billion bill they consider too costly. But they showed an inclination to support it if amendments to constrain Trump’s war-making powers are added. A handful of progressives, including Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), have pledged to vote yes (The Hill).
The Hill: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin signals he wants debt ceiling vote before August recess.
Elsewhere in Congress … Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says that leadership’s decision to put her on several prominent House committees was in part an effort to keep her occupied. “I was assigned to some of the busiest committees and four subcommittees. So my hands are full. And sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy,” she said (The Daily Mail).
| OPINION |
Jeffrey Epstein forces Washington to deal with embarrassing connections, by Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2JrgjE3
A cautionary tale for Justin Amash from someone who knows, by former Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.), opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2G5XrbC
| WHERE AND WHEN |
Hill.TV’s “Rising” program features David Sirota, a senior adviser and speechwriter for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) campaign, discussing “Medicare for All.” Lauren Chen, a BlazeTV host, previews the White House’s social media summit today. And Alexandria Villaseñor, lead organizer at Global Fridays for Future Climate Strikes, talks about the Moms Clean Air Force Annual “Play-In.” Find the interviews beginning at 9 a.m. ET at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube.
The House meets at 10 a.m.
The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. and resumes consideration of the nomination of Robert L. King to be the Education Department’s assistant secretary for postsecondary education.
The president speaks at 3:45 p.m. during a White House event focused on social media platforms and treatment of conservative viewpoints (The Washington Post). Twitter and Facebook were not invited (CNN).
Pence, who is in California for a second day, will visit the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, which serves as the training site for U.S. Navy SEALs. He’ll also visit the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter MUNRO and deliver remarks to personnel. In the evening, Pence headlines a Trump Victory political fundraising dinner.
The Library of Congress and the Washington Performing Arts’ Mars Arts D.C. project co-host the “Summer Concerts on the Lawn” outdoor musical performance series on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. through Aug. 15. Tonight’s performers: Brent Birckhead Quartet. Free and open to the public. Location: North lawn of the library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, across the street from the U.S. Capitol. Information is HERE.
| ELSEWHERE |
➔ Federal Reserve: Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday gave Congress broad hints that the nation’s central bank will cut interest rates later this month as it navigates a global economic slowdown and headwinds from uncertain trade policies at home. “Economic momentum appears to have slowed in some major foreign economies and that weakness could affect the U.S. economy,” Powell said, adding a note of caution about persistently low inflation. Powell’s description of a more precarious economic landscape led many economists to conclude that a quarter-point rate cut is a virtual certainty at the Fed’s meeting in three weeks, with many forecasting further rate cuts to come (The Associated Press). The Fed chief will testify for a second day on Capitol Hill this morning, speaking to the Senate Banking Committee (The Hill).
➔ Brains + opioids: Scientists and medical experts with the National Institute on Drug Abuse are leading a first-of-its-kind study using scans of opioid addicts’ brains to help determine whether medication-based treatments will help damaged neural networks start getting back to normal faster than if patients try to kick their addictions without methadone, buprenorphine or extended-release naltrexone (The Associated Press).
➔ Champions: In New York, a metropolis that adores soccer, heroes and big parades on work-days, Wednesday’s celebration of the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s soccer team delivered joy and inspired legions of young athletes to appreciate team play and perhaps, in the future, equal pay. Quote of the day from Aly Hoover, 12, of New Jersey: “I just want to be like them” (The Associated Press).
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Just when Democrats think their week can’t get worse, AOC says Pelosi is a racist. Geez. It just won’t end for them. AOC is going after Pelosi. Beto is spewing garbage about white supremacy. The idiot in Kentucky managed to take three positions on Brett Kavanaugh in a single day. It’s just a terrible week for them and President Trump’s poll numbers keep inching closer to 50%. Speaking of Beto, is he still here because of white supremacy? There are two black candidates running. Beto says white supremacy is woven into the fabric of our democracy. Shouldn’t he get out and back a non-white candidate if he really believes that? The Woke Afro-Future Fest A festival has come up with a brilliant idea. They’re going to charge based on race. Some races will get cheaper, better tickets. Some races will get more expensive, worse tickets. And some people are really finally starting to see woke progressivism is racist. God bless Texas. Democrats would have you believe it is going to be the next blue state. Here’s why it is going to stay red. Biden says he’ll get feisty. He seems to recognize he came off poorly by trying to be the elder statesman. With the rest of the Democrats piling on him, he’s mad and ready to be dad. He’s going to come out swinging at his opponents. Wonder if he’ll have a Sister Souljah movement about wokeness. He’s already been pretty critical of AOC. When Russell Kirk wrote his 1967 one volume biopic of Edmund Burke, the “dead consensus” was very much alive. Barry Goldwater had championed the cause of classical liberalism in 1964 that carried against the ossified New Deal and its coterie of attendants hoping to pick apart what remained of the carcass. Ronald Reagan offered Americans a time for choosing between individual liberty and the social welfare state. Giants such as William F. Buckley pronounced the old populism championed by the John Birch Society — that odd fusion of “America First” and Huey Long populism — as persona non grata. Megan Rapinoe Unknowingly Admits The Men’s Team Deserves To Be Paid More After the US Women’s team won the World Cup on Sunday morning, “equal pay” chants broke out from the crowd. When asked by Rachel Maddow how fans can support the fight for equal pay, USA soccer star and avid Trump hater, Megan Rapinoe made an interesting comment. Remember, as always, to go check out The Resurgent and be sure to like us on Facebook. Have a good day today. 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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POLITICO Playbook: How to think about Pelosi’s standoff with The Squad
By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN and DANIEL LIPPMAN
07/11/2019 06:00 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
BREAKING OVERNIGHT … NYT: “U.S. Prepares to Arrest Thousands of Immigrant Family Members,” by Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Young: “Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation, the final details of which remain in flux. The operation, backed by President Trump, had been postponed, partly because of resistance among officials at his own immigration agency.
“The raids, which will be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over multiple days, will include ‘collateral’ deportations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary stage of the operation. In those deportations, the authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.
“When possible, family members who are arrested together will be held in family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania. But because of space limitations, some might end up staying in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.” NYT
— THIS COMES AT AN AWFULLY bad time for the Trump administration. Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN was on the Hill on Wednesday afternoon, trying to sell a debt limit and spending bill. If this goes how most people assume it will, can Democrats cut a deal with the White House while these raids are going on?
HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS … BURGESS EVERETT and JOHN BRESNAHAN: “Mnuchin urges Congress to raise debt ceiling before August recess”: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is urging Congress to raise the debt ceiling before splitting for summer break, warning Wednesday that there may be a ‘need’ to do that before the August recess amid stalled negotiations on a broader budget deal. …
“‘Everybody knows that there’s been some outside effort talking about the debt ceiling and that is something we are having discussions about … and potentially the need to do something before everybody leaves,’ Mnuchin told reporters after meeting with GOP leaders on Wednesday. Asked if he wants action before the August recess, he replied: ‘It would be my preference to see them pass something.’ … ‘Secretary Mnuchin is discussing the matter with the speaker and that’s where it goes next,’ [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell said afterward.” POLITICO
COUNTDOWN: 10 LEGISLATIVE DAYS until the August recess.
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POWER MEMO: ON HOUSE DEMOCRATS … This is not intended as a defense of Speaker NANCY PELOSI, nor is it a critique of her leadership style. It’s an analysis of some unique dynamics that have sprouted up in the Democratic Caucus over the last few months — based on conversations with Pelosi’s leadership team, her allies, aides, friends, opponents and people who work with her every day.
THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT, at the moment, we are witnessing a clash within the House Democratic Caucus. It’s PELOSI vs. a group of Democrats who call themselves “The Squad”: REPS. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, ILHAN OMAR, AYANNA PRESSLEY and RASHIDA TLAIB.
THIS IS A CLASSIC CAPITOL HILL POWER STRUGGLE. But it also has some unique qualities, as it pits traditional — or hard — inside-the-Capitol power against external — or soft — political power.
PELOSI, who controls the formal levers of authority in the Democratic Caucus,is almost universally recognized as one of the savviest tacticians on Capitol Hill. Her power has always been in navigating between factions, building coalitions and getting legislation through a fractured chamber. Votes, she says, are the currency of the realm.
TO PELOSI, if you are one person, you have one vote. That’s the lens through which she views power. If you are one person who controls 20 votes, you’re powerful. If you’re one person who controls one vote, you’re just a normal member. So when she told the NYT’s Maureen Dowd that those four people are, indeed, four people, that was meant not as an insult, but rather as a reflection of a reality under which she operates.
“THE SQUAD’S” power is different. It’s almost entirely external. AOC, Pressley, Omar and Tlaib are big personalities on social media, with massive followings outside the Capitol. Their youth and diversity reflects both a changing party and a changing country. And last week, they used their celebrity to rail against a border funding bill that, in their view, leaned entirely too much toward Republicans. They negotiated to change it, got some fixes and still voted no. That’s a big no no in leadership’s book.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP believes that the weight of the caucus — at the moment — is more aligned with Pelosi. So the speaker’s brushback of the young upstarts is seen as internally wise.
IT’S EASY to compare Pelosi’s struggles with this small group to the GOP’s battles with the House Freedom Caucus. But the HFC was able to build coalitions that allowed them to veto leadership. Pelosi still enjoys very strong support in her caucus, and if that continues, The Squad will have to decide whether they want to bond together to bring down bills.
STILL, THEIR GRIPES sound awfully familiar. AOC, in an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick published Wednesday, said she has no relationship with Pelosi, and the two women haven’t spoken since a conversation about committee assignments in the winter. AOC complained that the Democratic leadership has consolidated “an insane amount of power in a handful of people” — a comment that could have come from Mark Meadows circa 2015.
— AOC FIRES BACK AT PELOSI to WAPO’S RACHAEL BADE and MIKE DEBONIS: “‘When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,’ Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post. ‘But the persistent singling out … it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful … the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.’” WaPo
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WHAT TEAM MITCH AND THE NRSC ARE SALIVATING OVER — “McGrath flip-flops on whether she would have voted to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court,” by Louisville Courier Journal’s Phillip Bailey:“Hours after telling the Courier Journal she would have voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath reversed course to say she would, in fact, not have voted for Kavanaugh.
“The reversal came after liberals and conservatives alike slammed McGrath’s comments on social media, with some saying they would not donate to the Kentucky Democrat’s campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“‘I was asked earlier [Wednesday] about Judge Brett Kavanaugh and I answered based upon his qualifications to be on the Supreme Court. But upon further reflection and further understanding of his record, I would have voted no,’ McGrath tweeted about four hours after the Courier Journal reported her comments. ‘I know I disappointed many [Wednesday] with my initial answer on how I would have voted on Brett Kavanaugh. I will make mistakes and always own up to them. The priority is defeating Mitch McConnell,’ she added.” Courier Journal
— TEAM MITCH tweeted a link to ActBlue’s contribution refund page. The tweet
SIX DAYS … CNN’S MANU RAJU and JEREMY HERB: “Dems seek to navigate Mueller landmines amid concerns over hearing format”: “House Democrats are diving into a week of intense preparations ahead of Robert Mueller’s testimony to ensure they maximize their limited time with the former special counsel, amid new fears that the high-profile appearance may lack the impact they are seeking to firmly shift public opinion against President Donald Trump. …
“But Mueller’s time before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees will be limited, with each panel currently expected to have roughly two hours back-to-back with the former special counsel — split equally between Democrats and Republicans. Lawmakers are beginning to raise alarms they won’t have enough time to press Mueller, who has already warned he would not go beyond the findings in his report.” CNN
IRAN LATEST — WAPO’S ERIN CUNNINGHAM in Dubai: “Britain says it thwarted Iranian vessels interfering with tanker in the Strait of Hormuz”
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WSJ’S RICH RUBIN: “Joe Biden Used Tax-Code Loophole Obama Tried to Plug”: “Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden used a tax loophole that the Obama administration tried and failed to close, substantially lowering his tax bill.
“Mr. Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, routed their book and speech income through S corporations, according to tax returns the couple released this week.
“They paid income taxes on those profits, but the strategy let the couple avoid the 3.8% self-employment tax they would have paid had they been compensated directly instead of through the S corporations. The tax savings were as much as $500,000, compared to what the Bidens would have owed if paid directly or if the Obama proposal had become law.” WSJ
THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN FALLOUT — “Acosta saves his job … for now,” by Ian Kullgren, Anita Kumar and Caitlin Oprysko: “Trump aides, who watched the news conference on TVs around the White House, were relieved by Acosta’s measured, lawyerly performance and were surprised that he spent nearly an hour answering questions, according to three people familiar with the situation.”
EPSTEIN’S CASH … “Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Infinite Means’ May Be a Mirage,” by NYT’s James Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, Kate Kelly and David Enrich: “Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue.
“Much of that appears to be an illusion, and there is little evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire.”
— EYES EMOJI: “Epstein listed 14 phone numbers for Trump; his wife, Melania; his longtime personal assistant, Norma Foerderer; his houseman; and his security officer. Other Trumps in the book … include the president’s ex-wife Ivana; and their daughter, Ivanka.” WaPo’s Marc Fisher
— N.Y. POST: “NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins”
— “Whispers, suspicion about Epstein on Caribbean island,” by AP’s Danica Coto in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands … “Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Private ‘Pedophile Island,’” by N.Y. Magazine’s Matt Stieb
A SEA OF PRODUCTIVITY AT THE WHITE HOUSE? … SEAN DOOCEY, the deputy assistant to the president and director of presidential personnel, sent an email to department liaisons to the White House with this news:
“WHILE YOU ALL track your departments’ internal numbers, we want to privately share the collective impact of your hard work across the administration. As an administration, we have quietly broken all records with staffing schedule c/ non-career SES/ equivalent positions across the government. We currently have 438 more appointees than the Bush administration and 367 more than the Obama administration. Personnel is policy, and your record-setting hard work to get these folks onboard enables the President’s agenda.”
— THE EMAIL from Doocey included this at the bottom in bold: “[These are internal White House numbers that should not be shared without White House approval.]”
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TRUMP WEIGHS SANCTIONS ON CHINA, via Eliana Johnson: “Senior administration officials are now in agreement that China defied U.S. sanctions when it imported more than a million barrels of crude oil from Iran earlier this month. They are now grappling with whether – and how – to hit back, according to three U.S. officials.
“The State Department had considered giving China a pass by issuing a waiver allowing Chinese companies to receive Iranian oil as payment in kind for their investment in an Iranian oil field, but that idea has been abandoned. China hawks on the National Security Council are now pushing for the U.S. to impose secondary sanctions on Chinese entities, a move that would throw a wrench into trade talks between the two countries and further strain the relationship.”
MEDIAWATCH — “CBS holds bizarre ‘pep rally’ for staffers amid ‘Evening News’ shake-up,” by N.Y. Post’s Oli Coleman: “We’re told that as part of the morale booster at CBS headquarters, incoming anchor Norah O’Donnell, heavyweight news division president Susan Zirinsky and ‘Evening News’ executive producer Kim Godwin starred in taped ‘music video’ set to a DJ Khaled song — complete with a dance routine. We’re told the scene sent heads spinning — a flurry of texts about the surreal occasion bouncing around the industry.” N.Y. Post
THE JUICE …
— MICHELE BACHMANN left Congress in 2015, but she still has nearly $1.6 million on hand in her campaign account, according to a FEC filing made public Wednesday.
— JOE BIDEN is releasing a video detailing what he sees as the Trump Doctrine. He’s giving a foreign policy address today at 1 p.m. at the Graduate Center at CUNY in New York.
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — THE PRESIDENT will speak at the social media summit today at 3:45 p.m. in the East Room. It’s closed press.
PLAYBOOK READS
THE TRUMP-NYT ED BOARD ALLIANCE … “Time for the Fed to Cut Interest Rates”
THE NEXT BRITISH PM? — “Johnson finds it ‘hard to disagree’ with Trump’s verdict on May,” by Jack Blanchard in London: “Speaking to POLITICO London Playbook as news broke on Wednesday that U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch had resigned over his leaked cables on Trump, the man set to be Britain’s next prime minister refused to echo much of the U.K. establishment’s indignation at the president’s leadership style. …
“‘He has strong views about Brexit and he has strong views about the deal. Probably, from the point of view of those of us who want to get Brexit done and make a great success of it, it would be fair to say this is a debate that’s best conducted within the U.K.,’ Johnson added. ‘But you know — the president has his style and his approach.’” POLITICO Europe
HOW PELOSI ROLLS … WAPO’S DAMIAN PALETTA and ERICA WERNER: “Pelosi has also shown little regard for Trump’s top deputies. She has been unsparing in her public criticisms of Mulvaney. At one point during a budget negotiation in May, Pelosi snubbed acting budget director Russell Vought when he spoke up to reiterate a point. Turning to Vought, Pelosi asked, ‘What was your name again, dear?’ according to an individual who witnessed the exchange and spoke on the condition of anonymity to recount it.” WaPo
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION … WSJ’S DUSTIN VOLZ: “The Trump administration hasn’t allowed members of Congress to read a classified directive President Trump issued almost a year ago outlining new rules for the military’s use of cyber weapons, despite repeated requests, according to lawmakers and others familiar with the matter.” WSJ
— “State Department Analyst Resigns After White House Blocked Climate Change Testimony,” by WSJ’s Timothy Puko and Warren Strobel: “A State Department intelligence analyst has resigned in protest after the White House blocked portions of his written testimony to a congressional panel to exclude data and evidence on climate change and its threat to national security, State Department officials said. The analyst, Rod Schoonover, prepared a written report citing peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and intelligence reports, which conclude that climate change could have wide-ranging national security impacts …
“White House officials allowed him to speak to the panel in June, but prohibited him from including evidence and data supporting his assessments in written testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last month, according to one of the officials familiar with the matter. That cut his written testimony by half, the official said.”WSJ
NYT’S DAVID SANGER: “Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch … wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff.” NYT
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BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Mississippi GOP Governor Candidate Won’t Let Female Reporter Cover Campaign Trip – Unless She Brings a Male Colleague,” by The Wrap’s Lindsey Ellefson:“Mississippi Today reporter Larrison Campbell on Tuesday said that GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster’s campaign denied her request to shadow him on a campaign event — unless she was accompanied by a male colleague.
“In a post on Tuesday, Campbell said Foster’s campaign director Colton Robison denied her request to travel solo with the state representative as he campaigns ahead of the Republican gubernatorial primary, because he ‘believed the optics of the candidate with a woman, even a working reporter, could be used in a smear campaign to insinuate an extramarital affair.’” The Wrap … Campbell’s post
— Campbell is married … to a woman.
WHAT THE E-RING IS READING … AP’S LOLITA BALDOR: “Officer accuses general of sexual misconduct”: “A senior military officer has accused the Air Force general tapped to be the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of sexual misconduct, potentially jeopardizing his nomination. Members of Congress have raised questions about the allegations and the military investigation that found insufficient evidence to charge him.
“The officer told The Associated Press that Gen. John Hyten subjected her to a series of unwanted sexual advances by kissing, hugging and rubbing up against her in 2017 while she was one of his aides. She said that he tried to derail her military career after she rebuffed him.
“The Air Force investigated the woman’s allegations, which she reported days after Hyten’s nomination was announced in April, and found there was insufficient evidence to charge the general or recommend any administrative punishment. The alleged victim remains in the military but has moved to a different job.” AP
HAPPENING TODAY: “Conspiracy theorists, far-right agitators head to White House with social media in their sights,” by NBC’s Ben Collins and Monica Alba: “Conspiracy theorist Bill Mitchell, an online radio host and frequent guest on Infowars who has promoted the Qanon conspiracy theory, has tweeted that he will attend the event. Tim Pool, a YouTube personality who has pushed the false conspiracy theory that former [DNC] staffer Seth Rich leaked hacked emails to WikiLeaks, also plans to attend the event.”
MEDIAWATCH — PAGING JUSTIN AMASH … “Expansion of Secrecy Law for Intelligence Operatives Alarms Free Press Advocates,” by NYT’s Charlie Savage: “The C.I.A. is quietly pushing Congress to significantly expand the scope of a law that makes it a crime to disclose the identities of undercover intelligence agents, raising alarms among advocates of press freedoms.
“The agency has proposed extending a 1982 law, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which makes it a crime to identify covert officers who have served abroad in the past five years. Under the C.I.A.’s plan, the law would instead apply perpetually to people whose relationships with the intelligence community are classified — even if they live and operate exclusively on domestic soil.” NYT
— Jamie Fly will be president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He is currently a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The announcement
— Showtime’s “The Circus” will return with eight new episodes tracking the 2020 presidential election. The first episode is Sept. 22.
— Tucker Carlson vs. Ilhan Omar. Pull up a chair. CNN
PLAYBOOKERS
TRANSITIONS — Heather Swift has been detailed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as senior adviser to the director, focusing on immigration and southern border crisis comms. She most recently was senior adviser to the Interior secretary. … Matthew Jaffe will be senior director and brand partnerships managing editor at Salesforce. He is currently communications director for the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and EP of David Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” and “Hacks on Tap.”
SPOTTED separately at Cafe Milano on Wednesday evening: Wolf and Lynn Blitzer, Catherine Stevens, Kathy “Coach” Kemper, Catherine Reynolds and Greta van Susteren.
SPOTTED at a soft launch party Tuesday night in Dupont Circle for US CyberDome, a new nonprofit that intends to give presidential campaigns free cybersecurity help: former Homeland Security Secretaries Jeh Johnson and Mike Chertoff, Jeremy Bash, Richard Fontaine, Neera Tanden, Saleela Salahuddin, Carrie Adams, Marsha Catron and Erin McPike.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Michael Steel, a partner at Hamilton Place Strategies, and Mary Kathryn Steel, director of corporate communications at AbbVie, on Monday night welcomed Michael Anderson Steel Jr., who will go by “Anderson.” He was 8 lbs 11 oz and 21 inches. Pic… Another pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Urmila Venugopalan, SVP for strategy and chief of staff at the MPAA. How she’s celebrating: “I am taking my 2-year-old daughter to France for a road trip through the Loire Valley with my parents and sister’s family. I am looking forward to celebrating my birthday with all the delicious wine and food along the way! My husband has to stay in D.C. to work, so I plan to celebrate all over again with him when I get back.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Garrett Graff is 38 … Chris Maloney, partner at the Black Rock Group and a Mitt Romney alum (hat tip: Devin O’Malley) … Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is 73 … Jason Recher … Emily Benavides, deputy comms director for Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) … POLITICO’s Sophie Read and Katie Rice … Daniel L. Doctoroff is 61 … Max Levchin is 44 … Valery Galasso … Olivia Chow is 33 … Stephen Goodin … Arthur Bushkin … Lindsey Kozberg, a Bush 43 alum now practicing law at Park and Velayos in LA … Lindsay Rapkin … Nora Connors … John Becker … KayAnn Schoeneman … Todd DeLorenzo … Stacy Merrick Montejo … Paige Rusher, press secretary for Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) (h/t Caitlin Carroll) … FAA’s Kurt Owermohle is 6-0 (h/t daughter Sarah) … Andrew Kirell …
… Joe Wall of Goldman Sachs … Matthew J. Rosenbaum … Stephen Berger is 8-0 … Ari Teman … Josh Wachs, founder and president of Wachs Strategies … Michael Wong … Georgia Godfrey … Corey Boles is 42 … The City’s Alyssa Katz … Mortimer Caplin … Stephen Hostelley … Laurie Goldberg … Tristan Berne … columnist Jamie Stiehm (h/t Tim Burger) … Ryan Van Grack … Scott Graves … Matt Lahr, deputy assistant DNI for strategic comms in the Office of the DNI … Susy Schultz … Donna Tappin … Zach Simon … Chris Vaeth … Bruce Greenstein … Katie TePas Graff … Anne Sokolov, COS for Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) … Kate Sokolov of Google … Jenn Connell Kramer … AMA’s Sandy Marks … Page Gardner … Mike Wittenwyler … Jim Anderson … Harold Bloom is 89
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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray July 11, 2019 The ‘Ditch Mitch’ McConnell Campaign Is Just Democrats Lighting Their Money On Fire By Warren Henry Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath raised more than $2.5 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign against Mitch McConnell. The people who donated may as well have lit their money on fire. Full article How Ross Perot’s Debate With Al Gore Over NAFTA Foreshadowed Today’s Politics By Fred Bauer Any political regime depends in part upon trust, and, when those in power do not live up to their commitments to the people, an appetite for change grows. Full article The AOC-Pelosi Feud Will Not Be Settled In Congress By Warren Henry The feud between Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi represents a clash of two different types of politics, the outcome of which will define the Democratic Party and American politics for some time to come. 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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Ben Kamisar
FIRST READ: Is pushing for a citizenship census question almost as valuable for Trump as getting one?
Two
weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration
cannot include a citizenship question on its 2020 census,
President Trump is expected to
announce executive action on adding the question back in.
Here’s what the court said in its
5-4 majority opinion:
“The court’s majority said the government has the right to ask a
citizenship question, but that it needs to properly justify changing the
long-standing practice of the Census Bureau.
The Trump administration’s justification was “contrived,” [Chief Justice John] Roberts wrote, and did not appear to be the genuine reason for the change, possibly implying that the real reason was political.”
Indeed, last Friday, Trump pretty much admitted the citizenship question was political in nature.
“Well, you need it for many reasons. No. 1, you need it for Congress.
You need for Congress, for districting. You need it for appropriations,
where are the funds going? How many people are there? Are they citizens,
are they not citizens? You need it for many
reasons.”
And remember, it was back in May when
the New York Times reported on those hard drives from a deceased GOP expert on gerrymandering, which revealed that a citizenship question on the census would benefit Republicans.
Our question: How would this executive action give proper justification for adding the question – given Trump’s own statement from Friday?
And what gives the president authority to take executive action on this matter, given the Supreme Court’s earlier decision?
Remember, the census is under
Article I of the Constitution (the legislative branch); the president’s authority is Article II (executive branch).
But by continuing to fight for this citizenship question, no matter the
rationale, does Trump achieve his intended purpose here –
a chilling effect on the communities responding to the census?
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AOC vs the Democratic establishment
Here’s what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“When
these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the
progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more
moderate members, which I understood,” she
told
the Washington Post. “But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . .
the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
And here was AOC talking about Joe Biden’s age to
The New Yorker:
AOC: I think that, when it comes to age, I think age gets used as a proxy for capacity. And so I think there are
some folks that are of a certain age where you can kind of question their capacity.
New Yorker: Who are you talking about?
AOC: I think Donald Trump is a perfect example. [Laughs.] I don’t think he’s all there.
New Yorker: Joe Biden?
AOC: I think Joe Biden,
his performance on the stage kind of raised some questions with respect to that.
But I don’t want to say, just because someone is seventy-nine, they
can’t or shouldn’t run for President. I don’t want to use those proxies,
a number as a proxy
for capacity. I think you have to assess a person’s capacity on a
case-by-case basis.
ICE raids to begin on Sunday
Two senior DHS officials tell NBC’s Julia Ainsley that
the ICE raids that were postponed three weeks ago are now scheduled to begin on Sunday.
They will
target roughly 2,000 families in major cities across the United States,
the same 10 cities named under the previous plans, including Chicago,
LA, Miami, New York.
2020 VISION: Biden talks foreign policy, Pete unveils plan to help African Americans
At 1:00 pm ET in New York City,
Joe Biden delivers a speech on foreign policy in which he outlines his three pillars,
NBC’s Mike Memoli, Marianna Sotomayor and Andrea Mitchell report.
Those three pillars, per a senior Biden adviser:
- “To repair and reinvigorate our own democracy, even as we strengthen the coalition of democracies operating around the world.”
- “To equip our people to succeed in global economy with what he calls a foreign policy for the middle class.”
- “To put the United States back at head of table in mobilizing global action on global threats, especially threats that are unique to our century.”
Meanwhile, NBC’s Josh Lederman writes that Pete Buttigieg is releasing an 18-page plan today to improve conditions and opportunity for black Americans – on everything from the health care, education and criminal justice systems to entrepreneurship and access to credit.
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
On the campaign trail today: Julián Castro, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren participate in a LULAC town hall in Milwaukee… Warren holds a separate town hall after the event in the city… Joe Biden delivers his foreign-policy address in New York at 1:00 pm ET… Kirsten Gillibrand goes on her “Broken Promises Tour,” hitting Pittsburgh, Pa., Youngstown, Ohio and Cleveland… John Hickenlooper is in Chicago… And Jay Inslee discusses clean-energy jobs in New York.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds:
Kamala Harris held
her first fundraiser that was open to the press. The
event held in Brooklyn drew about a thousand attendees. NBC’s Deepa
Shivaram reports, “I spoke with more than a dozen folks waiting in line –
about half were there because they were very
enthusiastic about Kamala Harris and have already decided on their
vote, or they are still narrowing down their choices and Kamala is in
the top two or three.”
And some color from Steve Bullock’s meet-and-greet in Iowa yesterday.
Priscilla Thompson reports, “He has these rooms cracking up like no candidate I’ve seen thus far. He regularly tells a joke about people being, ‘Iowa nice,’ when they say they’re considering him, but that he doesn’t want to be number 37 on their list if he wants a real shot at their vote. One voter today mentioned he was asking all the candidates a particular question to which, Bullock chimed in, ‘Awww I’m not your first.’”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 17
17.
That’s the
number of Democratic presidential candidates who want Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to resign because of new scrutiny on the non-prosecution deal he helped cut for Jeffrey Epstein.
Candidates are lining up to take shots at Acosta, accusing him of having “actively
worked to cover up and protect a serial sexual predator,” criticizing him for “protecting
predators,” or panning the “sweetheart
deal.”
(The remaining candidates aren’t defending Acosta—they just haven’t weighed in publicly.)
Acosta has faced a mountain of criticism over the issue in recent days,
so it’s not a surprise that White House hopefuls are joining the fray to
criticize one of Trump’s cabinet members.
But taken together, all of the outrage amplifies Trump’s decision to keep him on board, all while giving the president an easy out if he decides (or a warring faction within his administration) decides to axe him.
TWEET OF THE DAY: It’s not easy being a red state Democrat
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
Coming soon: another
debt ceiling debate.
House Democrats are
escalating their investigation into the administration’s handling of migrants at the southern border with new letters to private detention centers.
President Trump’s
controversial social-media summit kicks off Thursday.
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants the president to help reimburse the city’s
Emergency Planning and Security Fund for the recent July 4 celebration
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He was decidedly uneven as a husband, too, but in Lady Bird he had the right partner. “In our case, we were better together than we were apart” is how she put it in a 1988 interview with NBC News. “And I knew that, and I loved my share of life with him.” While riding on the highway this summer, take a moment and look out the window. Unless you’re an American of a certain age, you won’t remember this, but taking a drive in this country, even on the most scenic route, once meant gazing at endless billboards and trash on both sides of the road for mile after mile. Thanks to Lady Bird’s “beautify America” push — her signature issue as first lady — that’s no longer true. “There is a growing feeling abroad in this land today,” she explained at the time, “that ugliness has been allowed too long — that it is time to say ‘enough’ and to act.” I’ll have more on Lady Bird Johnson’s actions and words in a moment. First, I’d steer 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: * * * Steyer: From Impeachment Agitator to 2020 Candidate. Phil Wegmann tracks the newest Democratic aspirant’s efforts to first kick Donald Trump from office and now to succeed him. At Senate Hearing, Space Advocates Shoot for the Moon. Jack Beyrer has the story as the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 prompted this expert assessment of America’s space future. A “Nixon Going to China” Moment for Trump on Immigration. Julia Mullins reports on a panel discussion this week about the border crisis and related issues. Northam’s Latest Gambit to Change the Subject Flops. Jenny Beth Martin argues that a special session of the Virginia legislature called by the governor to address gun violence was a charade. Who’s Going to Clean Up America’s Voter Rolls? In RealClearInvestigations, Mark Hemingway explores the national problem of untended and overgrown voter rolls. How a Pop Music Documentary Undercuts the IP Theft Narrative. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny spotlights the “Echo in the Canyon” message that good ideas are always appropriated by others, which benefits all in the long run. Separating Fact From Fiction About Short-Term Coverage Plans. In RealClearHealth, Jeff Smedsrud counters claims that the plans are junk insurance. How to Grow Your Hippocampus. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy examines theories about reversing decline of the brain structure essential to cognition and memory retention. * * * Born in 1912 in the East Texas town of Karnack, the future wife of the 36th U.S. president always gravitated toward the outdoors. Often solitary, but rarely lonely, she would paddle a canoe under the shade of ancient cypress trees on the bayous of Caddo Lake, developing a love of natural beauty that never left her. She earned her famous sobriquet as a little girl for being “purty as a lady bird,” but we know Lady Bird by her works, specifically her labors on behalf of nature. These efforts began with the creation of the First Lady’s Committee for a More Beautiful Capital. As I mentioned above, it was a time when taking a drive along the highways and byways of this country was like driving through a municipal dump. Litter cluttered the roadsides, junkyards dotted the landscapes, and billboards were the main vista. Mrs. Johnson expanded her efforts beyond the Washington area to the entire nation. The upshot was legislation, officially called The Highway Beautification Act, but known on Capitol Hill simply as “Lady Bird’s Bill.” To get it passed, Lyndon Johnson cajoled his former Senate colleagues, twisted arms, and issued all the earthy threats he was famous for. The bill was signed into law on Oct. 22, 1965. Liberal magazine writer Meg Greenwood tipped her cap to the “deceptively sweet and simple-sounding name of ‘beautification.'” Still, Mrs. Johnson fretted that the term could be construed as “cosmetic” and “trivial,” and made a point of telling people that her vision encompassed so much more, including “clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas.” Jacqueline Kennedy, her predecessor as first lady, had instilled in Americans an appreciation for historical buildings. Lady Bird and her husband, who came to power as a result of the ugliest day in Dallas history, expanded this focus to the outdoors. One of our most eloquent first ladies, Lady Bird left a trove of quotes and written observations about nature, America, and her life in politics. Here are a few of them: ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION — “I cast one last look over my shoulder and saw in the president’s car a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying in the back seat,” she wrote in her diary. “It was Mrs. Kennedy, lying over the president’s body.” — “My own reaction was anger and shame that this should happen in my state.” ON LIFE WITH LYNDON — “He made me try harder and do more, and for the natural indolence I had, he was its mortal enemy, and I think perhaps sometimes I made him persevere or take a gentler attitude toward people or events or be less impatient.” — “We both helped each other laugh. He could be one of the funniest people in the whole wide world. He was a great mimic and he played just as vigorously as he worked. He did not play enough.” ON THE VIETNAM WAR — “Lyndon’s abilities and his agenda and desires were in the fields of health and education and equal rights. He’d repeat over and over the phrase about the only war this nation wants to wage is the war against poverty, ignorance, and disease, and he really took overwhelming pleasure in prosecuting that war. But this other quicksand … would not go away. You don’t write on a blank slate. You take the world as it is when you walk in that door and try to deal with it.” ON CIVIL RIGHTS. –“I know the Civil Rights Act was right, and I don’t mind saying so,” she told crowds during a four-day rail trip through eight Southern states, trying to bolster support for her husband’s 1964 election. –To hecklers who met her train, dubbed the Lady Bird Special, she’d listen for a while then reply, “You’ve had your say. If you’re finished, I would like to talk.” ON NATURE — “I grew up listening to the wind in the pine trees of the East Texas woods.” –Upon landing in Austin for the first time and seeing from her plane window a field of bluebonnets in full bloom: “It was as though the gates of the world flung open for me. I felt in love with life itself.” –“The subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool. All the threads are interwoven — recreation and pollution and mental health and the crime rate and rapid transit and highway beautification and the war on poverty and parks — national, state and local. It’s hard to hitch the conversation into one straight line because everything leads to something else.” Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Like a summer blockbuster sequel, debt ceiling chatter is back, thanks partly to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s recent Congressional testimony. 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| Watch: Trump at CPAC implicating Bill Clinton at Epstein Island Posted: 10 Jul 2019 11:40 PM PDT Full quote: Sean Hannity: Bill Clinton Donald Trump: a nice guy, got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein, a lot of problems. What does it mean? Trump heavily implied Bill Clinton partook in the sexual acts at the infamous acts on Jeffrey Epstein’s island. However there are […] The post Watch: Trump at CPAC implicating Bill Clinton at Epstein Island appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| Divisive telescope to restart building next week in Hawaii Posted: 10 Jul 2019 08:04 PM PDT HONOLULU (AP) — Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii’s tallest mountain will desecrate land sacred to some Native Hawaiians. State officials announced Wednesday that the road to the top of Mauna Kea mountain on the Big […] The post Divisive telescope to restart building next week in Hawaii appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The race card: AOC accuses Pelosi of ‘the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color’ Posted: 10 Jul 2019 07:52 PM PDT Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a racist in the eyes of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This response comes after a continuous back-and-forth in which the freshman Congresswoman Tweets complaints about her party’s leadership while the Speaker calls on the radical progressive wing to stay off the airwaves. In the latest unhinged chapter of the […] The post The race card: AOC accuses Pelosi of ‘the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Adelle Nazarian to Trump: Ask Emir of Qatar about Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera Posted: 10 Jul 2019 07:18 PM PDT As the leader of Qatar visits President Trump in the White House, many are calling on the President to bring up sensitive topics about two organizations that work in opposition to Trump’s administration and America in general: the Islamic terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood and news agency Al Jazeera. Qatar’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood are […] The post Adelle Nazarian to Trump: Ask Emir of Qatar about Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Iran will continue to be a pest until they become a real problem Posted: 10 Jul 2019 06:15 PM PDT Today, Iran is an annoying little dog barking like crazy but unable to penetrate the pant leg of western powers operating in the Middle East. But even an annoying little dog can be very dangerous if they sink their jaws into someone’s jugular, and at this stage they may be seeking a jugular to go […] The post Iran will continue to be a pest until they become a real problem appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Even a broken clock is right twice a day: AOC correctly admonishes Pelosi’s rebuke against social media Posted: 10 Jul 2019 03:57 PM PDT Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be wrong more than a broken clock, but she’s very much correct to admonish Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for calling on members, including the four freshman Congresswomen who make up AOC’s “Crew,” to never go after each other publicly on social media. “You got a complaint? You come and talk […] The post Even a broken clock is right twice a day: AOC correctly admonishes Pelosi’s rebuke against social media appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Border crisis top issue cited by ACM poll respondents Posted: 10 Jul 2019 03:09 PM PDT It was easy to see what was most important to American Conservative Movement respondents before we were a quarter of the way through counting responses to our question, “Priorities: What must conservatives put at the top of the list for America?” The border crisis was cited in 92% of the responses from emails sent to […] The post Border crisis top issue cited by ACM poll respondents appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Conservative Eric Early announces challenge for Adam Schiff’s seat Posted: 10 Jul 2019 02:23 PM PDT Early Calls Schiff A National Disgrace And Vows To Hold Him Accountable For Damaging America. LOS ANGELES, CA – July 10 – Today, Eric Early announced his candidacy for Congress in California’s 28th District. Conservative Republican Eric Early, a successful private attorney and proud father, will challenge Schiff and hold him accountable for wasting taxpayer […] The post Conservative Eric Early announces challenge for Adam Schiff’s seat appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| SOCCER SHOCKER: World Cup Star Megan Rapinoe PROTESTS as NYPD Officer Sings US Anthem US Women’s Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe publicly protested the US national anthem during Wednesday’s victory parade in New York City; refusing to salute the flag as a member of the NYPD sang the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’The controversial athlete unloaded on President Trump during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tuesday night; saying the Commander-in-Chief… |
| BEYOND ICE: Ocasio-Cortez Says US Should ‘Get Rid’ of the Department of Homeland Security Controversial Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned US officials across the country this week; suggesting the United States should “get rid” of the Department of Homeland Security.The New York lawmaker was speaking during a recent interview when she was asked if the US should “get rid” of the agency; created by President Bush shortly after… |
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HANNITY: Christopher Steele Hated Trump and Was Paid ‘A Ton of Money’ for His Lies
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Christopher Steele was grilled by DOJ lawyers in June; facing tough
questions over his debunked Trump Dossier. “The investigation into the Deep State’s abuse of power has now come full circle. Christopher Steele -who created the Russian dossier- was grilled by federal prosecutors in June. The interview lasted more than 15 hours and was conducted by lawyers that were working for the DOJ’s Inspector General,” said Hannity… |
| IT’S OFFICIAL: US Agency Responsible for ‘Medicare’ Now Spending More than $100 BILLION PER MONTH For the first time in our nation’s history, one federal agency is now dishing out more than $100 billion per month, and it’s not the Department of Defense. According to a new report, the Department of Health and Human Services is spending unbelievable sums on Medicare, Medicaid, and other expensive entitlements.“In the first… |
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