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Aug 28, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers bent on raising the
minimum wage would do real harm if they succeed, Rep. Andy Biggs writes.
One of his colleagues, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is wrong about
why we elect presidents the way we do, Tara Ross
argues. Commentator Dennis Prager asks an appeals court to tell YouTube
to stop withholding educational videos from some viewers, Rachel del
Guidice reports. Plus: Tori Whiting on tariffs’ toll so far, and Walter
Williams on The New York Times’ history error.
On this date in 1917, suffragettes picket President Woodrow Wilson,
demanding he support an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women
the right to vote.
Commentary
No,
the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the Electoral College is a
“scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.”
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Commentary
Fellow
Lawmakers: Your Minimum Wage Bills Only Hurt Our Country
“For the first several years, they worked 20 hours a day, seven
days a week to make their business successful,” writes Rep. Andy Biggs,
R-Ariz., about a couple in his district who have a small restaurant
chain.
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Google
Defends YouTube Restrictions on PragerU’s Educational Videos in Federal Court
PragerU says Google and YouTube have restricted 10% of its video
content and that the “videos have been restricted … because they promote
conservative ideas.”
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Commentary
The
Proof Is In: Tariffs Are Harming the US
Americans are facing higher prices, which only will continue to
rise as the next round of tariffs are imposed in the coming months.
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News
Idaho
Must Pay for Transgender Sex Offender’s Surgery, Court Rules
Adree Edmo is a convicted sex offender who is scheduled to be
released from jail in 2021. Edmo was diagnosed with gender dysmorphia in
2012, identifies as a woman, and is currently housed in a men’s prison.
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Commentary
New
York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ Has Key Error About Our Founding
The word democracy appears nowhere in the two most fundamental
founding documents of our nation—the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution.
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Analysis
Recent
Grad Details How Colleges Promote Hookup Culture
“The college administration, a lot of university-funded programs
like Sex Out Loud, assume that all students are having sex by the first
date,” says Kara Bell.
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| Both chambers of Congress will be back at work in little more than two weeks, and Democrats are chomping at the bit to tackle issues now center stage in the political sphere. Chief among them is guns, which remain a preeminent issue nearly a month after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, where 31 individuals were killed. While discussions have cooled in recent weeks, Democrats and some Republicans are looking to September and beyond as an opening to measures to respond to gun violence, particularly legislation to strengthen background checks and allow law enforcement authorities to confiscate weapons using state “red flag” laws. As Jordain Carney reports, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is heading up negotiations with the White House to expand background checks, which he admits is a tall task given that the Connecticut Democrat has been through this song and dance before. Murphy, a former House member, was elected only weeks prior to the fatal shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but nothing was done in the aftermath. However, Murphy senses an opportunity after talks with the White House and President Trump but recognizes the steep climb ahead as skepticism runs rampant in Democratic circles. He puts chances at striking a deal at less than 50-50. The White House has “made it clear to me that they are very open to legislation that would expand background checks. That’s what the president told me personally. That’s what the White House reiterated to me,” Murphy told The Hill in an interview. Murphy isn’t the only one who thinks there’s a chance to pass legislation. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who pushed a limited background check bill alongside Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) following the Sandy Hook shooting in 2013, told Politico that this is the best chance in the last six years to pass a bill of this kind, even though it may be a more narrow background check so it could pass a GOP-held Senate. However, the legislation will likely live or die based on Trump’s druthers, and his political cover for GOP lawmakers has been scattershot. “The sweet spot is whatever President Trump is willing to support. If President Trump endorses a background checks bill, we will be able to get to 60 votes in the Senate,” Murphy said. Over in the House, House Democrats want to go a step further and tackle the rise of white nationalism and domestic terrorism, largely in response to the El Paso shooting. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has been holding field hearings this month, and will have a formal hearing in September. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is marking up a hate-crimes bill next week to bar gun sales to those convicted of misdemeanor hate-crimes. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has a bill that would provide state-based grants to bolster the reporting of hate crimes, strengthen support services for victims and train local law enforcement in managing bias-based cases, which he wants brought up immediately. Adding fuel to the fire, outside liberal groups are clamoring for something to be done on the issue. “Some of us have had this concern for quite a while, that [domestic terrorism] was always second fiddle to Islamist terrorism to the homeland. And we had a difficult time getting the documentation,” Thompson told The Hill’s Mike Lillis in a phone interview. “Ultimately we finally got an admission from the FBI that domestic terrorism was on the rise, but more importantly, it was tied more to radical right-wing extremists than it was any other group,” Thompson said. Separately, chatter about impeachment continues to dribble out from within the House Democratic caucus. Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) became the latest to announce his support for opening an inquiry against the president, making him the 132nd House member to do so, according to The Hill’s whip count. The Wall Street Journal: Swing-district Democrats push for vote on North America trade pact. |
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| LEADING THE DAY |
| POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: With Wednesday’s pre-debate polling and fundraising deadline looming, 11 Democratic presidential candidates could be set for exclusion from the next round of debates in mid-September, leaving some to openly complain about the rules set by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ten candidates have already qualified for the debate, set for September 12 in Houston. For those on the outside looking in, the clock is ticking as they prepare for life without making the debate stage. However, some may still have a chance on Wednesday to reach the needed four polls with 2 percent support. At least two polls are set to be released that could stretch the debate stage to 11 or potentially 12 candidates — one by USA Today and Suffolk University, and another by Quinnipiac University. Among those with a chance are Tom Steyer, the multimillionaire environmentalist, who needs only one more poll to qualify, having already reached the donor prerequisite, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who needs two more polls. She has also hit the DNC’s donor benchmark. The candidates have until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday to meet the DNC’s requirements for participating in the debate. For those who miss out, they still have the October debate to look ahead to as the polling and donor requirements remain the same (The Hill). Politico: Dems who miss debate take aim at DNC. The New York Times: Former Vice President Joe Biden extols his black support: “I think they know me.” The Daily Beast: Dems sound alarm: Trump is “carpet-bombing” us in key battlegrounds. Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine: How ‘Medicare for All’ went mainstream. |
| © Getty Images > Nevada: Nevada Democrats are struggling to make their caucuses relevant in an early state window dominated by first-in-the-nation contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. As Reid Wilson reports, candidates are venturing West more than they have in previous years, but not a lot more. In total, the candidates still in the race have held a combined 64 events in the Silver State, according to a running tally maintained by The Nevada Independent. That’s the same number of events Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) has held in Iowa alone. It is two more than the number of events candidates have collectively held in Iowa City, Iowa. Even more telling, the 64 events equals roughly one-sixth of the events candidates have held in South Carolina, a state that will vote a week after Iowa does. “People feel like it’s not enough,” Teresa Benitez-Thompson, the Democratic majority leader of the Nevada Assembly, said in an interview in her Reno district. “Being present and being here is very meaningful.” Another group that isn’t paying a ton of attention to the Western state? Pollsters. Only four surveys of potential Nevada caucus goers have been conducted this year. Elsewhere, 10 have been conducted in Iowa, 17 in New Hampshire and eight in South Carolina. Tellingly, more polls have been conducted in California, a state that won’t vote until Super Tuesday, than in the state that was “battle born.” One candidate who did announce plans to campaign in the state is Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). The senator will hold a press conference today on gun violence as Murphy and other lawmakers negotiate legislation with the White House. The Hill: The New York Times takes hits from all sides. The Washington Post: Six women seeking Colorado Senate seat ask Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to reconsider endorsement of former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. Politico: Trump, GOP fret loss in bellwether House special election. Elsewhere on the political scene … Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) took home the GOP nomination for governor on Tuesday night, setting up a general election matchup with state Attorney General Jim Hood in November. Reeves defeated retired state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. in a GOP primary runoff with 54 percent support (The Associated Press). **** WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Trump unleashed a torrent of Twitter grievances aimed at familiar targets on Tuesday. He skewered GOP presidential primary challengers William Weld and Joe Walsh, denied for a second day that he ever suggested halting hurricanes with nuclear weapons, as reported by Axios, and revisited his obsession with crowd size (arguing his rallies are larger than Democratic candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s events). The president also mentioned former South Carolina Gov. and former House member Mark Sanford (R), who is considering entering the GOP primary to challenge Trump. The president branded Sanford, former Massachusetts Gov. Weld and former Illinois Rep. Walsh as “Three Stooges.” Trump also spent time Tuesday throttling the Federal Reserve, blaming the central bank for a slowdown in manufacturing. The president campaigned in 2016 to increase U.S. manufacturing jobs and bring back plants that moved overseas. As global growth slows, automation and labor costs shift industry practices and the administration’s tariffs dig in, the manufacturing sector is feeling the effects (The Hill). IndustryWeek reported this month that 37 out of the 38 manufacturing industries are declining as measured by the number of plants and employees, according to government data. > The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency diverted $271 million in disaster relief funding to the U.S. southern border to deal with migrant conditions and new policies to stem the pace of immigration. Combined with existing facilities to hold immigrants, the funding would make it possible for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain nearly 50,000 people at one time (NBC News). > The wall: The administration plans to build 20 additional miles of barriers along the U.S. southern border in Arizona and California (Bloomberg). Trump has repeatedly promised to complete 500 miles of border wall by the time voters go to the polls and he has directed aides to aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules to hasten construction before next year’s election, The Washington Post reports. The president has assured federal officials he would pardon them if they break the law, dismissing worries about contracting procedures and the use of eminent domain, saying “take the land,” according to officials present at the meetings. “Don’t worry, I’ll pardon you,” he told them. > Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is hearing from a growing number of farmers who say they are losing patience with the president’s approach to tariffs and a trade war with China and suggest it will not take much to lose their votes, as well (The New York Times). “We’re not starting to do great again,” Brian Thalmann, the president of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association, told Perdue at a recent event. “Things are going downhill and downhill quickly.” > Environment: Trump’s assertion during the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in France that he’s an environmentalist prompted critics to argue the opposite, asserting that the president undermines environmental protections and thwarts U.S. contributions to the global fight against climate change (The Hill). > Tech regulation: Faced with expanding regulatory scrutiny in Washington focused on companies’ privacy practices and market power, major tech firms are tapping into a revolving door between employees with experience in the Federal Trade Commission and top law firms that help the regulated community. The federal turnstile is not new, but the coziness between the FTC and its counterparts outside government raises questions about developments in Silicon Valley (The Hill). |
| IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES |
| INTERNATIONAL: Brazil’s president chafed at accepting $20 million offered by G-7 nations to help save expanses of burning and defoliated Amazon rainforest, an ecosystem that straddles nine Latin American nations (The Hill). Jair Bolsonaro and French President Emmanuel Macron bickered on Tuesday, complicating hopes for swift, cohesive global action (The Associated Press). The Brazilian president has mocked Macron’s wife and accused the French leader of disrespecting Brazil’s sovereignty, and his chief of staff skewered the French for the fire that heavily damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Macron has called Bolsonaro a liar and said Brazilian women are probably ashamed of their president (Reuters). Trump weighed in on Twitter to salute Bolsonaro. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil,” the president wrote. |
| © Getty Images > Russia: Moscow denied a travel visa to a second U.S. senator who, like the first, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a critic of President Vladimir Putin and a proponent of tougher U.S. sanctions on Russia. Connecticut’s Murphy said on Tuesday that Russia denied him a visa. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), said on Monday that his visa request was rejected. The Russian Embassy in Washington called Johnson “russophobic” on Twitter. It is uncommon for U.S. lawmakers to be denied travel visas, although Russia has made that decision before (Reuters). > Indonesia: To tackle man-made problems with sinkage, pollution and overcrowding, Indonesia is constructing a new capital to replace Jakarta. The country chose a 450,000-acre site on the wildly rugged island of Borneo for its new capital city, not yet named (The Washington Post). |
| OPINION |
| The Fed shouldn’t enable Donald Trump, by Bill Dudley, former New York Federal Reserve president, opinion contributor, Bloomberg. https://bloom.bg/2zotQGD (Dudley’s opinion piece stirred plenty of discussion, and The Hill’s Sylvan Lane has coverage HERE. The central bank formally rejected Dudley’s advice in a statement on Tuesday: “The Federal Reserve’s policy decisions are guided solely by its congressional mandate to maintain price stability and maximum employment,” a spokeswoman said. “Political considerations play absolutely no role.”) Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism, by Jim Mattis, The Wall Street Journal opinion contributor. https://on.wsj.com/2Hunha6 |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former chief economist for Biden, to discuss fears of an economic recession; Trita Parsi, a professor at Georgetown University and founder of the National Iranian American Council, to talk about a potential Trump meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani; and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, national co-chairman of the Poor People’s Campaign, who weighs in on the 2020 Democrats’ policies on poverty. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House gets back to work on Sept. 4 to begin consideration of legislation to respond to mass shootings. The Senate returns to Washington on Sept. 9. The president will have lunch today with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. Vice President Pence returns to his home state today and speaks at 1 p.m. to the American Legion National Convention in Indianapolis, then participates in a law enforcement roundtable at 2:15 p.m. at the Indianapolis State Police Museum. The vice president and wife Karen Pence fly back to Washington in the evening. Defense Secretary Mark Esper will be joined by Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to brief the press at 1:30 p.m. at the Pentagon. Dunford is retiring next month. The 76th annual International Venice Film Festival begins today through Sept. 7 in Italy. The cinema celebration lays down a red carpet for a global awards season that stretches toward the 92nd annual Academy Awards in February (The New York Times). |
| ELSEWHERE |
| ➔ Brexit: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked Queen Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament in order to push through Brexit. In a letter released Wednesday, the prime minister said that he “spoke to Her Majesty The Queen to request an end to the current parliamentary session.” The move will squeeze lawmakers who want to push new legislation to block a no-deal Brexit ahead of the planned Oct. 31 departure (The Associated Press). ➔ Epstein’s victims: One by one, women stepped up to a podium in a packed federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday and described how Jeffrey Epstein abused them and then leveraged his power and wealth to silence them, sometimes for years. The financier killed himself in jail two weeks ago, but more than 16 of his accusers showed up at a routine court hearing about the former financier’s indictment on sex trafficking charges, some of them urging prosecutors to continue investigating Epstein’s employees and associates, who they allege abetted his years of coercion of young women and girls (The New York Times). ➔ Opioids: Purdue Pharma offered $10 billion to $12 billion on Tuesday to settle opioid cases. The lawsuits allege the company and the Sackler family are responsible for starting and sustaining the opioid crisis (NBC News). ➔ State Watch: One day before a Missouri law banning abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy was to take effect, a federal judge blocked it on Tuesday. Opponents argue the law, signed in May, amounts to an outright abortion ban because many women are unaware they’re pregnant within eight weeks. Similar laws in Mississippi and Kentucky have also been blocked by courts this year (The Hill). … Utah health officials this week are reviewing 21 cases of severe vaping-related illnesses, about a week after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned of a cluster of lung disease cases that appear to be linked to e-cigarettes (The Salt Lake Tribune). … A New Jersey state appeals court ruled in favor of an assisted suicide law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs (The Associated Press). ➔ Hurricane: Dorian, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, forced Puerto Rico on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency as officials anticipated landfall today. “Practically the entire island will be under sustained tropical storm force winds,” predicted Roberto García, director of U.S. National Weather Service San Juan (NBC News). Trump on Tuesday signed an emergency declaration for the island, which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria, a deadly Category 5 storm that devastated the U.S. territory nearly two years ago. Pete Gaynor, the acting administrator of FEMA, named James Russo, a 17-year-veteran as federal disaster operations coordinator, to take the lead in affected areas. |
| THE CLOSER |
| And finally … What aspirations do children describe while living in encampment tents on the Mexican side of a bridge that stretches to Brownsville, Texas? BuzzFeed News journalist Adolfo Flores, reporting from Matamoros, Mexico, heard this from asylum-seeking young people: “I want to be an American,” 7-year-old Ilich said. “I also want to be a police officer. … I like their uniforms and want to protect people.” “I want to study and have a better life,” Christopher, 8, said. “I’d like to be an engineer because they make a lot of money and get to fix cars and machines.” Genessy, who is 7, said she wants to be a doctor. “They help people and save lives.” Hilary, 14, talks about becoming a mechatronic engineer because it combines mechanical, electrical and computer engineering. “It’s considered new even though it’s not, and it’s really useful,” she said. “In my country, it’s hard to dream like that. You have to leave in order to reach your dream.” |
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A Gulf Between the Generations on Patriotism and Self-Sacrifice A new Wall Street Journal poll shows a deep gulf between Millennials/Gen Zers and older generations on God, patriotism, kids, and self-fulfillment. From Washington Examiner: “…[N]early 80% of people aged 55-91 said being patriotic is important to them, while only 42% of millennials and Generation Z, or those aged 18-38, said the same. Thirty percent of millennials and Generation Z said religion was important, compared to the over 75% of baby boomers, with just over 30% of millennials and Generation Z saying it was important to have children. Areas where the younger generations had placed higher importance compared to boomers were tolerance for others and self-fulfillment, with financial security being almost tied between the two age groups.” Older conservatives seemed somehow shocked by this news, while younger conservatives like Allie Struckey and Ben Shapiro pointed out that this poll, while terrifying, was nothing surprising. Me, I was just in the corner pulling my hair about because conservatives still aren’t prioritizing education reform. The left understands what’s at stake, which is why demands for woke lessons have reached even private school choice programs. From my latest at City Journal: “Bethel Christian Academy advertises its religious affiliation in its name, but Maryland bureaucrats were so shocked to find that Christianity was practiced there that they excluded it from the state’s voucher program, which provides funds for students to attend schools of their choice. Their decision forced six low-income students—whose families cannot afford tuition—to leave the school, and made it impossible for additional low-income students to enroll… Our public investment in the educational futures of American students was never meant to be captured and wielded as an indoctrination weapon by one faction of the culture wars. Parents—not partisan politicians or discriminatory bureaucrats—should have the right and responsibility of deciding what their children learn and which values will shape them into adults. School choice is meant to give voice to parents’ wishes for their children, not overrule them.” Of Bedbugs and NYT Standards The other buzz of the internet yesterday was columnist Bret Stephens quitting Twitter because of backlash he received after emailing a GW professor who called him a “bedbug.” I like Bret Stephens’ work, but if “bedbug” is the worst thing anyone has called him on the internet, I’d like to show him my menchies on an average Tuesday. It did prompt a great free speech statement from George Washington University, at least, although one would wish universities would be as strong on the First Amendment when the brouhaha involves figures on the left. This comes on the heels of another complaint from the NYT– that a couple Trump operatives should stop using their own tactics against them by digging up their journalists’ “bad Tweets” from years prior. Rich Lowry over at National Review thinks the Times should stop whining: “A group of Trump-supporting operatives has been finding and archiving old social-media postings of Times employees and other journalists for use in the ongoing brawl between the president and the press… I think it’s a bad idea for either side to rummage through old social-media postings and writings looking for firing offenses. It’s an inherently punitive project, and often an unfair one (no one is the sum of their tweets). But the rules of this game were established by the Left long ago. It should either change them — or stop whining.” Fashion Moment of the Week The VMA red carpet had some winners and losers, per usual. My favorites on this Refinery 29 round up are Camilla Cabello’s deconstructed Grecian gown and Taylor Swift’s hot girl Versace mini. And I have to admit I love the *bleep* out of that slouchy green velvet pantsuit on Bishop Briggs. Wednesday Links “Yield curve” inverts even further, 30-year rate plummets under 2%. (CNBC) The last recession crippled Millennial prospects. This next one might destroy us. (The Atlantic) Education’s latest fad, “social and emotional learning,” will be the woke replacement for teaching virtue. (National Review) The laments of fellow Bay Area natives about the destruction of San Francisco. (The Federalist) Everything you hear about the Amazon rainforest fire might be wrong. (Forbes) Chappelle’s new Netflix special is under fire for lack of wokeness, but BRIGHT editor Ellie is a fan. (The Federalist) If you missed The Federalist’s amazing screening of the Jimmy Stewart classic, Anatomy of a Murder last night in downtown DC, you can catch Ben Domenech and Randy Barnett chatting about the courtroom drama on the podcast. (Radio Hour) Speaking of Jimmy Stewart, many people know about the actor’s valorous service in WWII, but did you know he also completed a combat mission in Vietnam? (History Net) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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Facebook’s New ‘Clear History’ Tool Hits A Legal Roadblock Over Criminal Evidence Concerns
By Audrey Conklin –
A Texas judge temporarily blocked Facebook’s new “Off-Facebook
Activity” tool Monday over concerns of erasing evidence connected to
criminal suspects. Injury trial lawyer Annie McAdams, requested the
decision because she is working on a “significant human trafficking
case” that relies on potentially “relevant evidence that can be found on
Facebook.” …
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Joe Walsh’s campaign manager says the Illinois Republican all-but ignored his phone calls and communications before officially launching his long-shot White House bid. “As of this morning, it has been eight days and 23 unanswered phone calls since I last spoke with Joe,” Jacob Perry, a Republican operative … Joe Walsh’s Former Campaign Manager Airs Dirty Laundry On Client’s White House Bid is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Whittney Williams: Former Illegal Immigrant, Now Pro-Trump Supporter Running for Congress By Amalia White – Whittney Williams announced her goals to run for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District in 2020. This pro-Trump Republican is stirring things up and is capturing hearts with her unique story of going from an illegal immigrant to now calling for border security. 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Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Electoral College Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted, “The Electoral College isn’t about fairness at all; it’s about empowering some voters over others. Every vote should be = in America, no matter who you are or where you come from. The right thing to do is establish a Popular Vote.” Twitter Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) replied, “Abolishing the electoral college means that politicians will only campaign in (and listen to) urban areas. That is not a representative democracy. We live in a republic, which means 51% of the population doesn’t get to boss around the other 49%.” Twitter See our prior coverage of the issue here. The Flip Side From the Left The left supports eliminating the electoral college, arguing that all votes should count equally regardless of which state they’re from. “Presidential elections are currently decided by swing states, ones that are less racially diverse than the country as a whole and, in 2016, represented only 35 percent of eligible voters. Last presidential election, 95 percent of candidate appearances and 99 percent of campaign spending went to fourteen states. None of them are particularly rural nor, with the exception of New Hampshire, remotely small. The swing states, due to their electoral significance, also have a stranglehold on national policies. The coal industry, for example, has outsize influence because of its prominence in Pennsylvania. So, too, does the ethanol industry because of Iowa. Moreover, U.S. tariffs have disproportionately benefited industries located in swing states, and the battleground states have historically received more in federal grants than the rest of the country.” Adam Eichen, The New Republic “A presidential candidate who focused only on America’s cities and urban centers would lose — there just aren’t enough votes. Republicans live in cities just as Democrats live in rural areas. Under a popular vote, candidates would still have to build national coalitions across demographic and geographic lines. The difference is that those coalitions would involve every region of the country instead of a handful of competitive states in the Rust Belt and parts of the South… “The founders feared ‘direct democracy’ and accounted for its dangers with a system of ‘representative democracy.’ Yes, this ‘republic’ had counter-majoritarian aspects, like equal representation of states in the Senate, the presidential veto and the Supreme Court. But it was not designed for minority rule. Virtually everything was geared toward producing representative majorities that could govern on behalf of the country — to diminish ‘faction’ in favor of consensus.” Jamelle Bouie, New York Times “Statewide offices such as governor and senator take place all the time; all of them use a simple statewide vote; and yet lots and lots of statewide candidates nevertheless campaign in rural areas all the time, including in states where the rural vote is just a fraction of the overall vote. Others have noted that there are plenty of rural voters in California and other states – including, at least recently, Texas – that are uncontested and therefore get no candidate attention under the current rules… “There’s going to be a president elected, whether with a majority or a minority of the vote. It’s bad if the majority is rewarded with absolute rule, but it’s quite a bit worse – I’m not even aware of any vaguely plausible argument otherwise – if the minority is rewarded with absolute rule. And no, it doesn’t matter a bit if that minority is the one that Crenshaw (or anyone else) happens to like. The remedy for majority tyranny isn’t to tabulate the votes in some convoluted way to get a preferred minority to win. The Madisonian remedies for majority tyranny are such things as having multiple branches of government (each with a different form of election), meaningful federalism, separated institutions sharing powers, and so on.” Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg Many dispute Iowa Senator Jodi Ernst’s “claim that giving voters everywhere the exact same power to elect a president is going to ‘silence’ anyone… it’s true that the ‘losers’ — relatively speaking — in a shift from Electoral College to a popular-vote system would be closely contested ‘battleground states’ that naturally attract candidate attention more than safely Democratic or Republican states… “But the real howler about this is that Ernst is talking about preserving the power in presidential elections of Iowa, for God’s sake. This is the state where caucuses stand at the gateway to the presidential nominating process… Iowa, maker of legends and breaker of hearts. Candidates may secretly hate the Hawkeye State for the time and money it consumes, or for the winter weather, but they are going to pay it attention and hear its voters’ voices over and over again.” Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine Dated But Relevant: “The electoral college is, essentially, a vestigial structure — a leftover from a bygone era in which the founding fathers specifically did not want a nationwide vote of the American people to choose their next president… “A national popular vote system wouldn’t devalue the votes of people who live in rural states and small towns. It would accurately value them by treating them equal to people who live in cities. Furthermore, small-state interests are built into the Senate’s math (where Delaware absurdly gets as many senators as California), and many House districts are rural. So rural and small-state areas are hardly hurting for national political representation. Sure, candidates might end up spending less time stumping in the rural areas that currently happen to be lucky enough to fall within the borders of swing states, and more time in urban centers. But is that really a convincing rebuttal to the pretty basic and obvious argument that in the most important electoral choice Americans make, their votes should be treated equally?” Andrew Prokop, Vox Finally, “many rural states are ignored due to the Electoral College. Candidates don’t campaign in Montana, Kansas, or West Virginia. They spend time in big cities in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The Electoral College keeps candidates away from most states.” Renato Mariotti, Twitter From the Right The right opposes eliminating the electoral college, arguing that it incentivizes candidates to appeal to diverse coalitions of voters. “Ultimately, and as a matter of history, the Electoral College rewards those presidential candidates or political parties that do the best job of listening to a wide variety of voters. Those who decided to double down with their base and ignore the rest of the country usually end up losing… Recent close elections have come about because everyone keeps forgetting these important underlying purposes of the Electoral College. Many have neglected to build coalitions. Both parties are instead catering to their bases. Consequently, the first party to reach out to create broad coalitions will also start winning presidential elections in landslides.” Tara Ross, Daily Signal “In our current system, candidates campaign in every state in which there is a close contest, whether those states are large or small, rural or urban, demographically diverse or homogenous. And it’s extremely difficult to become president without building a large coalition of voters from many parts of the country, many of which have very different cultures, ideas, religious beliefs, ideological beliefs and economic interests. The Electoral College system isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly not racist, as Ocasio-Cortez suggested. Sparsely populated racially diverse states – including liberal states like Rhode Island – benefit from the Electoral College just as much as states like Montana do. The purpose of the Electoral College isn’t to help white people; it’s to elevate the power of voters in states that otherwise would be completely forgotten and disenfranchised.” Justin Haskins, Fox News “Campaigning in New Hampshire is very different from campaigning in California, and representing ‘all the people’ means representing them no less as Texans or New Yorkers than as citizens of an undifferentiated whole. Once the states are removed from the presidential election system, these important and celebrated features of political locale will lose much of their significance. Voters in the less populous states, indeed in any area that cannot be readily subsumed in a mass media market, will be of decidedly secondary importance to presidential candidates… Under direct election, the media mavens will not have to leave their offices in New York, Washington, or Los Angeles to run a presidential campaign. Why should they?… “As John F. Kennedy said in defending the Electoral College in the 1950s, changing the mode of presidential election affects not only presidential candidates, but the whole solar system of our constitutional and political arrangements—in ways that are difficult to predict but unlikely to be beneficial. With a national plebiscite, the customary ties that bind state and local party units to national campaigns will necessarily dissolve. The national party committees will have to be radically restructured, with state party representatives being displaced by political operatives bearing little or no allegiance to any state. Their loyalties run instead to the personal campaign apparatus of wealthy or powerful candidates.” Michael M. Uhlmann, The American Mind Some point out that, “In most states, a candidate who receives 51% of the vote receives 100% of the Electoral College votes. If you’re a member of the 49%, your vote becomes a footnote, and is not reflected in the final national electoral outcome… we can achieve a more representative electoral system without completely abandoning the Electoral College… States should choose to assign their Electoral College votes on a proportional basis, rather than according to a winner-take-all approach. This would mean that if a Democrat carries the state with 70% of the vote, they win most of the electors’ votes, but 30% still go to the Republican candidate, making the minority vote count too.” Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner Dated But Relevant: “What’s essential [about the electoral college] is the ability to have some check on direct democracy and the centralization of power that comes with it… All extreme political movements are hostile to restraints on their will. This is what unites the progressives who want to pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, and ‘reform’ the ‘undemocratic’ Senate with those on the right who celebrate President Trump’s emergency declaration and other attempts to rule by fiat. In a healthy democracy, leaders are answerable not just to voters but to legislatures, the courts, the states, and parties. The decades-long trend has been to dismantle this arrangement to make presidents answerable to no one but the slice of electorate that voted for them. And even there, those voters are increasingly more interested in seeing their leader ‘win’ than in holding them accountable.” Jonah Goldberg, National Review “Democrats need to stop bashing the Electoral College when they lose… |
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2016 election was winnable. You all know this. The Democrats
could’ve easily beaten Trump, but their people stayed home. With Hillary
Clinton on the ticket, there was just no excitement really. None. Just
compare the results from 2012 and 2016 in Wayne County, Michigan
(Detroit)—it’s quite stark and decisive. All Clinton had to do was match
Obama’s totals and she would’ve won. All she had to do was not tell
coal miners that her mission would be to throw them on the street. All
she had to do was reach out to rural and working-class voters—she
didn’t. When you don’t do the leg work—you only have yourself to blame.”
Matt Vespa, Townhall
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. Ilhan Omar: Adulteress Home Wrecker? I Guess She Can Stop Preening About the President’s Morality. Ilhan Omar has allegedly contributed to the break up of marriage. In fact, a woman in Washington has come forward and claimed that the woman’s husband wants a divorce because of his relationship with Omar. It turns out that the man, Tim Mynett, is a fundraising consultant for Ilhan Omar who has gotten nearly one […] The post Ilhan Omar: Adulteress Home Wrecker? I Guess She Can Stop Preening About the President’s Morality. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Last 48 Hours of Joe Biden’s Media Coverage Has Been Exceeding Unprofessional I realize the media is dying for a real fight in the Democratic Primary and I know many of them prefer Elizabeth Warren. But the media coverage of Joe Biden in the past 48 hours has been exceeding unprofessional. From CNN to Fox News to MSNBC to reporters all over social media, they have pronounced […] The post The Last 48 Hours of Joe Biden’s Media Coverage Has Been Exceeding Unprofessional appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » When All Else Fails Lower the Bar What is it about Progressive ideology that continually attempts to solve problems by lowering standards? Increasing regulation and control is surely a feature as well, but lowering expectations and is also a feature, not a bug. You see this throughout deep blue areas where people are defecating in public, politicians want drive-through injection sites and […] The post When All Else Fails Lower the Bar appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Swing State Polling Shows Nightmare For Republicans Trump has gone from net positive to negative in nine states that he won in 2016. The post Swing State Polling Shows Nightmare For Republicans appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Maybe Some Reporters Need to Lose Their Jobs The President’s team intends to use old social media postings, etc. to discredit various journalists and the news organizations that employ them. The press is outraged. The New York Times includes this really rich paragraph: “Two can play at this game,” he said. “The media has long targeted Republicans with deep dives into their social […] The post Maybe Some Reporters Need to Lose Their Jobs appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Bernie Admits ‘Berniecare’ Would Eliminate Union Benefits The post Bernie Admits ‘Berniecare’ Would Eliminate Union Benefits appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » More Bad News For Biden Polling Numbers, “The Floor Pretty Much Falling Out” The post More Bad News For Biden Polling Numbers, “The Floor Pretty Much Falling Out” appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Beto Claims Us To Blame For Drought In Guatemala The post Beto Claims Us To Blame For Drought In Guatemala appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Sad: Young Americans Care Less About Patriotism, Religion, or Having Kids Today This is sad to read. Members of my generation—namely Millennials and Generation Z (those ages 18-38)—rate the values of patriotism, religion, and having children as less important than their predecessors did two decades ago. Moreover, the poll shows young people today place more emphasis on values like self-fulfillment compared to their older counterparts. When divided […] The post Sad: Young Americans Care Less About Patriotism, Religion, or Having Kids Today appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Biden’s Mental Condition Isn’t a Joke Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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POLITICO Playbook: Who’s gonna make the debate stage?
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DRIVING THE DAY
BREAKING OVERNIGHT … FT: “Johnson to suspend parliament in bid to frustrate efforts to block no-deal Brexit,” by Sebastian Payne and Philip Georgiadis in London: “Boris Johnson is set to suspend parliament for at least a month in order to curtail the efforts of MPs who hope to pass legislation to avoid a no-deal Brexit on October 31.
“British MPs will return for a week in early September, but parliament is expected to be suspended during the party conference season and ahead of a fresh Queen’s Speech, scheduled for October 14.
“Senior Downing Street officials confirmed to the FT that parliament will return on September 3 ‘as timetabled,’ but will probably be suspended again early the following week. It will then return on October 14.
“The prime minister has failed to rule out proroguing parliament several times and insisted that ‘politicians don’t get to choose which public votes they respect.’ A cross-party agreement was struck on Tuesday to bring forward legislation next week that would force Mr Johnson to request another extension to Article 50.” FT
DEBATE STATS, BY THE NUMBERS … This album is dedicated to those who are complaining about being left out of the upcoming Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston. TODAY is the deadline for qualifying for the third debate, and we’re expecting at least two more relevant polls.
Ten candidates have already qualified: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.
There have been 21 DNC-APPROVED POLLS by today, and if you want to be on the stage, you need to have reached 2% in FOUR POLLS. Four of 21. … THOSE WHO WILL NOT QUALIFY are failing to reach 1% in the polls.
… AND ANOTHER ONE … NEW, USA TODAY: “Poll: Americans dread the 2020 election and have doubts about the outcome; Biden maintains his lead,” by Susan Page, Jason Lalljee and Jeanine Santucci: “A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found a sharply divided country that views next year’s presidential campaign as a sobering test of the fundamental values of the United States. A majority of those on both sides called the election the most important of their lifetimes.
“And after it’s over? If the candidate they support loses, nearly four in 10 said they would have little or no confidence that the election had been conducted in a fair-and-square way, setting up what could be a debate over the legitimacy of the next president. Those expressing doubts crossed partisan lines – 30% of Republicans and 45% of Democrats – although they identified different threats to the electoral process.
“In the crowded Democratic contest, former Vice President Joe Biden retained a wide lead, at 32%, up 2 percentage points from the USA TODAY/Suffolk poll taken in June. But Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren moved up 4 points to second place, at 14%, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped 3 points, now at third place with 12%.” USA Today
— AT ZERO PERCENT in this new poll: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Klobuchar, Wayne Messam, Joe Sestak, Tom Steyer and Marianne Williamson. Check out Zach Montellaro’s poll tracker
— ELENA SCHNEIDER: “Dems who miss debate take aim at DNC”
BIDEN SPEAKS. AND SPEAKS. … AND SPEAKS. … NOLAN MCCASKILL: “Joe Biden took questions from black reporters for 90 minutes. He did not disappoint”: “Joe Biden’s campaign convened a dozen or so black reporters from major media outlets Tuesday for what was offered as a private, off-the-record sit-down with the Democratic frontrunner.
“But Biden opened the discussion allowing himself to be quoted. And then he started talking, and talked some more, and before everyone knew it, the former vice president had held forth for 90 minutes. That’s an extraordinary amount of time for a major presidential candidate to meet the press in a single sitting.
“Donning a sleek blue suit and white shirt with no tie, Biden personally greeted each reporter and ended up taking a question — in some cases, multiple questions — from each one. He then darted off to catch a flight to Richmond, Va., where he was scheduled to hold a fundraiser Tuesday evening, before heading to South Carolina Wednesday for a campaign swing. …
“Biden expressed a preference for a smaller debate stage … ‘It’s taken me and I assume others some time to figure out how to engage in a non-debate debate, because there’s no debate,’ said Biden. He acknowledged his ‘mistake’ in saying ‘my time is up’ during a previous debate instead of talking over his allotted speaking time. ‘Turns out that’s a big mistake.’” POLITICO
PLACE YOUR BETS NOW … WHICH HOUSE DEMOCRAT will try to kill the G-7 at President Donald Trump’s Doral golf club in Miami by trying to attach language to a spending bill that says no international summit can be held at a hotel and/or venue owned by an elected official?
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WAPO’S NICK MIROFF and JOSH DAWSEY: “‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day”: “President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars’ worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to current and former officials involved with the project.
“He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.
“Trump has repeatedly promised to complete 500 miles of fencing by the time voters go to the polls in November 2020, stirring chants of ‘Finish the Wall!’ at his political rallies as he pushes for tighter border controls. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed just about 60 miles of ‘replacement’ barrier during the first 2½ years of Trump’s presidency, all of it in areas that previously had border infrastructure.” WaPo
— DEMOCRATS are likely going to be very, very interested in the president instructing aides to break the law, and promising a pardon.
TO WIT … WSJ: “Trump Administration to Divert Hurricane Relief Funds for Border Detention,” by Natalie Andrews and Michelle Hackman: “The Trump administration plans to use $271 million of Department of Homeland Security funds, including some designated to help hurricane-stricken areas, to detain and remove immigrants who cross the southern U.S. border illegally.
“DHS plans to divert money that lawmakers had designated for other purposes at the agency to increase its capacity to handle people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom are Central Americans seeking asylum from violence in their home countries.” WSJ
— AP/SAN JUAN: “Storm Dorian expected to strengthen, could hit Puerto Rico”
DRAFT HUCKABEE SANDERS EFFORT LAUNCHES … Jarrad Shelton has launched a “Draft Sarah Huckabee Sanders For Arkansas” PAC to try to get the former White House press secretary into the race for governor.
“My name is Jarrad Shelton from Nashville, Arkansas and I wanted to take a moment to invite you to join me, President Trump, and Patriots across America in showing Sarah Huckabee Sanders that she will have the support both in Arkansas and across the United States if she decides to run for Governor or any elected office in Arkansas.” The email… The website
THE PRESIDENT announced a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Sept. 9, the night before the competitive special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District between Democrat Dan McCready and Republican Dan Bishop. TRUMP can presumably help Bishop in this race, since the president won the district by nearly 12 points in 2016.
— LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and ALEX ISENSTADT: “Trump, GOP fret loss in bellwether House special election”: “Republicans are funneling resources into the southern North Carolina district as they try to stave off an embarrassing loss in a GOP-heavy seat that President Donald Trump won in 2016 by more than 11 percentage points. With private polling showing a close race between Bishop and Democrat Dan McCready, Trump will travel to the district on Sept. 9, the night before the special election, for a rally in Fayetteville, N.C. And the White House is also planning to deploy Vice President Mike Pence and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., before the election. …
“Republicans hope that Trump’s involvement in the district — which is filled with the type of white and older working-class voters that powered his 2016 win — will put Bishop over the top. ‘This race is about Donald Trump,’ said Jim Blaine, a senior adviser to Bishop’s campaign. ‘Dan’s embraced Trump 100 percent.’” POLITICO
NOTABLE AROUND TOWN … THE PENTAGON will hold a briefing Thursday. SecDef MARK ESPER and Joint Chiefs Chairman GEN. JOSEPH DUNFORD will speak to reporters at 1:30 p.m., for the first time in months. … Secretary of State MIKE POMPEO will meet with Saudi Arabian Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman at 1 p.m.
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WAPO: “Cheers! Barr books Trump’s hotel for $30,000 holiday party,” by Jonathan O’Connell and David Fahrenthold: “U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is planning a holiday treat for his boss. Last month, Barr booked President Trump’s D.C. hotel for a 200-person holiday party in December that is likely to deliver Trump’s business more than $30,000 in revenue.
“Barr signed a contract, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, for a ‘Family Holiday Party’ in the hotel’s Presidential Ballroom Dec. 8. The party will feature a buffet and four-hour open bar for about 200 people.
“Barr is paying for the event himself and chose the venue only after other hotels, including the Willard and the Mayflower were booked, according to a Department of Justice official. The official said the purpose of Barr’s party wasn’t to curry favor with the president. Barr holds the bash annually and it combines holiday festivities and a ‘ceilidh,’ a party featuring Irish or Scottish music.” WaPo
THE INVESTIGATIONS …
— “Deutsche Bank all but confirms it possesses some of Trump’s tax returns,” by Andrew Desiderio and Brian Faler: “The financial giant was responding to an order from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, demanding information about whether Deutsche Bank and Capital One possess any of Trump’s tax returns subpoenaed by the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees earlier this year.
“If the 2nd Circuit upholds those subpoenas to the two banks, the president’s tax returns and other financial documents could be used as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation. Last week, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) asked four other House committees — including Financial Services and Intelligence — to share documents with his panel that could aid its impeachment probe. Lawyers for Capital One, for its part, said in a corresponding response that the firm ‘does not believe it possesses tax returns responsive to the subpoenas.’” POLITICO
REUTERS/LYNCHBURG, VA.: “Exclusive: Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer,” by Aram Roston and Joshua Schneyer: “Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped his personal fitness trainer obtain valuable university property, according to real estate records, internal university emails and interviews.
“Around 2011, Falwell, president of Liberty University in Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca, began personal fitness training sessions with Benjamin Crosswhite, then a 23-year-old recent Liberty graduate. Now, after a series of university real estate transactions signed by Falwell, Crosswhite owns a sprawling 18-acre racquet sports and fitness facility on former Liberty property. Last year, a local bank approved a line of credit allowing Crosswhite’s business to borrow as much as $2 million against the property.” Reuters
SQUAD UPDATE … STAR TRIBUNE: “D.C. doctor alleges her husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar,” by Jim Spencer and Patrick Condon: “A Washington, D.C., physician alleged in divorce filings Tuesday that her husband, a national political consultant, left her after becoming romantically involved with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a client of his fundraising business.
“The couple, parents of a 13-year-old son, have been separated since the alleged affair came to light around April 7, according to a family court petition filed in D.C. Superior Court. Dr. Beth Mynett said her husband, Omar consultant Tim Mynett, confessed to her that he was ‘romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.’
“A spokesman for Omar declined a Star Tribune request for comment. In a later interview on WCCO television, Omar denied that she is separated or dating outside her marriage. However she cut off further inquiry about the Mynett divorce. ‘I have no interest in really allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue,’ she said.” Star Tribune
2020 WATCH …
— “Bernie Sanders won’t kiss your baby, but he feels your pain,” by Holly Otterbein in Sioux City, Iowa: “Bernie Sanders is getting warm and fuzzy. The Democratic presidential candidate who wouldn’t be caught dead kissing babies or flipping burgers at state fairs has figured out a way to engage in retail politics on his own terms — and there’s evidence it might be working.
“Over the past month, Sanders has held a series of small, share-your-pain town halls and other events, in which he’s asked voters to respond to prompts such as ‘Talk about your health care experience’ and ‘Anybody in the room trying to make it on less than $15’ an hour? …
“The emphasis on intimate, personal interactions with voters is a departure from the early days of Sanders’ 2020 campaign, when he often spoke uninterrupted for long periods of time at large rallies. When he held smaller town halls, Sanders would sometimes take a few questions from the audience and be done.” POLITICO
THE JUICE …
— KARL ROVE will go to Louisiana to fundraise for Rep. Ralph Abraham’s (R-La.) gubernatorial campaign. The invite
TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president will have lunch with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt at 1 p.m.
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WILD STORY … K.C. STAR: “LaTurner weighs GOP primary against Rep. Watkins after urging from former Gov. Colyer,” by Bryan Lowry: “Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner said Tuesday that he will consider dropping out [of] the race for U.S. Senate to instead mount a primary challenge against freshman Republican Rep. Steve Watkins after encouragement by a former Kansas governor.
“Former Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer took the highly unusual step Tuesday of calling for LaTurner, a Republican, to drop out of the race for an open Senate seat and challenge an incumbent Republican after Watkins has spent more than a week battling a whisper campaign. …
“The National Republican Congressional Committee said in an email that it does not ‘comment on Republican primaries, real or hypothetical.’ … Watkins held a town hall in Topeka Monday following a week of so-far-unsubstantiated rumors circulating about his personal life. On Friday, he pushed back against speculation in political circles that he would resign. Asked by a reporter after the event if he knows where the rumors are coming from, Watkins responded: ‘I don’t know.’” KC Star
— HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT! The NRCC won’t comment on a potential primary of a sitting Republican member of the House.
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ICYMI — ANDREW DESIDERIO and SARAH FERRIS with an Irvine, Calif., dateline: “‘You are helping him’: Vulnerable Democrats grilled on impeachment”: “Voters across the country — from California to Pennsylvania to Massachusetts — grilled House Democrats on the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump at a series of events this month, regardless of whether they support or oppose the drastic measure.
“The very first question Rep. Katie Porter received at a town hall here, for example, was where she stood on impeaching Trump. To rousing applause, the vulnerable California Democrat told the crowd that she favors impeachment — even though some worry it would play into the president’s hands. Porter, who flipped a Republican seat in what is becoming a more liberal Orange County, also acknowledged the political dangers of her pro-impeachment stance.
“‘People said, “Well, this might be risky, you might not get reelected,”’ Porter said. ‘I said, “I am here to do what’s right.”’” POLITICO
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HOT IN TEHRAN — “U.S. Plans to Open Direct Talks With Iran-Backed Houthis in Yemen,” by WSJ’s Dion Nissenbaum and Warren Strobel: “The Trump administration is preparing to initiate direct talks with Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen in an effort to end the four-year-old war, a conflict that has become a volatile front line in the conflict with Tehran, according to people familiar with the plans.
“The U.S. is looking to prod Saudi Arabia into taking part in secret talks in Oman with Houthi leaders in an effort to broker a cease-fire in Yemen, according to these people.” WSJ
VALLEY TALK — “Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets,” by NYT’s Mike Isaac: “Anthony Levandowski was once one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after technologists. As a pioneer of self-driving car technology, he became a confidant of Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, and helped develop the search giant’s autonomous vehicles. Uber wooed him to gain an edge in self-driving techniques. Venture capitalists threw their money at him.
“But on Tuesday … [f]ederal prosecutors charged him with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google. At an arraignment in a federal courthouse in San Jose, Calif., a disheveled Mr. Levandowski, dressed in a blue blazer and dark brown pants and accompanied by his parents, posted $2 million bail and was ordered to wear an ankle monitor after prosecutors argued that he was a flight risk.” NYT
MEDIAWATCH — N.Y. POST’S @LevineJonathan: “Ken Klukowski, a longtime senior legal analyst for Breitbart News, has been hired as a ‘special counsel’ for the Office of Management and Budget. He will report to general counsel Mark Paoletta.”
— Maya King will be the next POLITICO fellow, covering the 2020 campaign on the politics team. She graduated from Howard this spring.
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SPOTTED: Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) meeting last week at a Dallas social gathering with Raja Farooq Haider Khan, PM of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
TRANSITIONS — Kerry Healey is joining the Milken Institute as the first president of the Center for Advancing the American Dream, which is slated to open in 2022. She most recently was president of Babson College and previously was Massachusetts lieutenant governor. … Joe Schatz will be partner and managing principal of cybersecurity strategies and operations at TechCentrics. He previously was chief information security officer at the White House. … Caitlin Brosseau will be senior director of U.S. public policy at TripAdvisor. She previously was senior director for government relations and public policy at Pandora.
ENGAGED — Bill Russo, deputy communications director for the Joe Biden campaign, got engaged to Alice Muglia, former protocol specialist and advance officer at DoD under Ash Carter, while on a fly-fishing vacation with family in Montana.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Sam Wainwright, a resident physician at Mass General, and Emilie Wainwright, a site manager at TNTP, welcomed Josephine Jamie Wainwright on Monday afternoon. The couple met at the New America Foundation.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ellen Carmichael, president of the Lafayette Company, is 32. A fun fact about her: “My favorite musical artist is Mark Knopfler, and Dire Straits is my favorite band. I even did a podcast about my love for them on National Review’s ‘Political Beats.’” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Julia Brownley(D-Calif.) is 67… Sheryl Sandberg is 5-0 … Gary Shapiro is 63 … Alex Skatell of IJR … former Defense Secretary and Sen. Bill Cohen (R-Maine), now chairman and CEO of the Cohen Group, is 79 … R.C. Hammond … POLITICO’s Marty Kady and Caleb Wong … WSJ’s Ken Thomas … Tom Jolly … Pat Pelletier … Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Films, is 74 … Morgan Chalfant, White House reporter at The Hill … Hilary Halpern, VP of government affairs at Polaris Consulting … Brian Horn … Ellen Ratner … Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, EVP of government and corporate affairs at Univision Communications … Mallory Blount, director of public affairs at Treasury, is 25 …
… Matthew Swift, chairman, co-founder and CEO of the Concordia Summit … Sarah Carlson Brooke, director of NBC’s “Meet the Press” … Precision Strategies’ Thomas Winslow … Heather Marie Vitale of Sourceree … Jim O’Brien, vice chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group … Connor Ryan … Callie Strock … Ann Marie Jablon … Robert Simpson … Jay Wegimont … Luke Bunting … Luci Arveseth … Abbie Sumbrum … Lindsay Gill … Arlet Abrahamian … Rachael Dollar … Jennifer Cervantes … Bird’s Taylor Bolhack … Carol Kelly … Emma Tomaszewski of Advanced Network Strategies … Ben Halle, press secretary for PPFA and Planned Parenthood Action Fund … Allison Lichter … Tori Stilwell … Kimberly Plumer … Kate Peyton (hat tip: Teresa Vilmain)
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Who knows if the same will happen when I start revealing the shocking findings in Open Borders Inc. that will expose every scam, racket, and sacred cow destroying America’s sovereignty on both the Left AND the Right? I’ve been blessed to be your voice over my 25+ years in media. Now, I may need you to help be my voice if the powers that be try to silence my message about the traitorous financiers working to erase our borders and our country. I promised newsletter subscribers the first scoops on how you can meet me on the book tour and also get signed copies: Check out the Open Borders Inc. website, which is live NOW. My brand new column below talks more about my new campaign to #StandWithICE. I’m looking for brave patriots who will organize with me to make sure the Trump Derangement Syndrome-infected Soros mob does not go unanswered again as the protests against our men and women enforcing our immigration laws heat up. Will you join me? In liberty, Michelle ========== Get Off the Sidelines: #StandWithICE Dear fellow patriots: It’s time to stop making nice with those who are waging war on ICE. Are you sick of your neighborhoods being hijacked by law enforcement-bashing thugs who prioritize every last illegal immigrant over law-abiding families, workers and employers? Are you sick of do-nothing politicians promising to take action while well-funded and well-organized protesters riot in our streets and obstruct criminal arrests? Are you sick of nobody (except for a few demonized Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer activists) standing up on the front lines against the American flag hijackers and knee-takers and hatred-inciters threatening ICE employees and Border Patrol agents and their families? If so, I hope you will join me as I tour the country the next few months and take the battle for our safety and security straight to the nation’s worst open borders sanctuaries. Look around. We have unhinged Democrats uniting in common cause with violent antifa and cheap labor-hungry big business CEOs to blow holes in our sovereignty and endanger our communities. We have trashmouth Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michiganistan, leading protests against ICE in Dearborn two weeks ago that bullied the city into withdrawing from cooperative agreements to hold illegal immigrant detainees. We have militant socialists in New York, funded by the far-left Tides Foundation, spreading “abolish ICE” hatred in the streets and instigating witch hunts against ICE online. We have Silicon Valley social justice warriors, including thousands of seditious zealots at Google, Amazon and Microsoft, demanding that their employers stop doing business with any agencies that help enforce our federal immigration laws. This isn’t empty virtue signaling. It’s causing horrific mayhem from coast to coast, as I reported two weeks ago. And it’s not just our men and women at ICE, under literal fire, who suffer the consequences. Have you heard about what’s happening in my old neighborhood in Montgomery County, Maryland? Thanks to treacherous, anti-ICE sanctuary policies that have festered since I moved away more than a decade ago, foreign sexual predators rule the streets with impunity. In just the last month, five rape suspects in this country illegally have been arrested there. The feds report that at least one suspect was released in defiance of an ICE detainer; two more allegedly gang-raped an 11-year-old girl; and another, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint, has fathered 10 children here (all now anchored here with birthright citizenship). That’s just five we know of; the sanctuary anarchists in MS-13-infested Montgomery County refuse to collect statistics on these public menaces. How about my adopted home state of Colorado? Earlier this month, deportation officers caught Mexican illegal immigrant Roberto Gutierrez-Hernandez, who had been convicted of sexual assault on a child in the sanctuary hell of Boulder. ICE had originally lodged a detainer on Gutierrez-Hernandez with the county jail in March 2017 on other criminal charges and then again in November 2017. The jail run by Boulder’s sanctuary anarchists refused. Another young illegal immigrant, El Salvadoran Amilcar Aguilar-Hernandez,racked up a criminal conviction for felony trespassing before being arrested in a rape case at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs,. He is also currently being prosecuted for orchestrating an escape from the Aurora ICE facility near Denver. Last week, I had an opportunity to visit with the dedicated folks at ICE who work at the Aurora, Colorado, detention center run by GEO Group. This is the same facility where open borders mobsters tore down Old Glory and replaced it with a Mexican flag last month. Inside, illegal immigrants get free access to LexisNexis, dental services, a full-scale pharmacy, video games, pingpong tables and even telepsychiatry appointments. But you wouldn’t know it from the hysterical rhetoric and lies. John Fabbricatore, acting field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Denver, shared his concerns about the ICE workforce’s safety. “It’s definitely something that I worry about,” Fabrricatore told me. If protesters want to change our laws, “people should be protesting Congress, not our officers.” A veteran of the agency for 27 years who also served in the Air Force, Fabbricatore spoke passionately about his job: “It’s about protecting the United States. We do it with professionalism and courtesy. Most of the people here are parents. We don’t want bad things happening to people and children.” Christopher Jones, assistant ICE officer in charge at the GEO Group facility, has served with ICE since 2008, Border Patrol for 9 years and the Marine Corps for 8 years. “We’re forced to defend what we do on a daily basis,” he said, describing how irate social justice mobsters have taken pictures of his officers while sanctuary police stand by. “False narratives,” he warned, are threatening his colleagues and their loved ones. The guardians against immigration anarchy shouldn’t have to go it alone. That’s why I’m launching a nationwide tour of sanctuary cities — including Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Minneapolis — to expose the money behind the sovereignty saboteurs and to organize citizens willing to #StandWithICE (for more information, go to OpenBordersInc.com.) If we don’t get off the sidelines, the lawless mob will win. And if the lawless mob wins, we will lose America. 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general election campaign. Warren has energy and seems to learn from her
mistakes. However, I do not think Trump would be unprepared should the
Democrats select her to be their candidate in 2020.”
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FIRST READ: One night, 10 candidates: It looks like next month’s Democratic debate stage is set
Who knew the political world would be waiting on the results of two polls in late August?
But here we are.
And assuming that
USA Today/Suffolk and
Quinnipiac are the only qualifying polls released before today’s deadline to make September’s Democratic presidential debate,
here’s what we learned:
1. Tom
Steyer didn’t hit 2 percent in either poll – in fact, he was below 1 percent in both – which means
there will be just 10 participants next month: Joe
Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg,
Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Andrew Yang, Amy Klobuchar and Julian
Castro.
2. Because only 10 qualified – instead of 11 – there will be just one debate night in Houston, on Sept. 12, which means Biden, Bernie and Warren will all share the same stage.
3. The higher threshold to make September’s debate (130,000 donors, hitting 2 percent in at least four polls)
winnowed a field with some 20 candidates in half – to 10.
4. Money doesn’t buy you love
or participation in a presidential debate: Steyer has spent nearly $12
million for an opportunity to make the debate stage, while Kirsten
Gillibrand
(who also didn’t make it) has spent more than $2 million.
5. Steyer and others still have a shot to make the October debate, since the qualifying polling period
lasts from June 28 to two weeks before the debate – which gives them more time to make that debate stage.
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … nearly $12 million
Nearly $12 million.
That’s the amount of money Tom Steyer’s presidential campaign has spent in advertising as of yesterday — $10.3 million over the TV and radio airwaves, and another $1.6 million digitally over Facebook and Google, according to Advertising Analytics.
This includes a combined $3.2 million in Iowa, $2.2 million in New Hampshire, $2.5 million in South Carolina and $1.8 million in Nevada – all in an effort to qualify for the September Democratic debate.
(It shows you why Steyer performs better in early state polls rather than national polls.)
By comparison, here’s the other candidate ad spending to date:
Trump: $4.1 million (all digital)
Gillibrand: $2.1 million ($1.7M over the airwaves, $400K digital)
Warren: $1.8 million (all digital)
Buttigieg: $1.7 million (almost all digital)
Harris: $1.7 million ($1.3M digital, $400K over the airwaves)
Biden: $1.1 million ($900K digital, $200K airwaves)
Where’s the House Democratic oversight?
In the last 48 hours, we’ve learned that:
- the Trump administration is pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to pay for immigration detention space;
- Trump has promised, in an effort to build his border wall/fence, that he will pardon any subordinates should they have to break the law to get it done quickly, per the Washington Post;
- Attorney General William is planning to spend tens of thousands of dollars (of his own money) for a holiday party at Trump’s hotel – benefiting Trump’s business.
- and Trump is planning to hold next year’s G-7 summit at his Miami golf resort – once again benefiting his business.
And the Democratic response?
Well, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted about the millions of disaster-relief money headed to the border…
… But the response to the other stories? We haven’t heard much.
We get that Congress is on its August recess.
Still, the lack of a coordinated response and a plan for action only seems to normalize this kind of behavior.
One of the frequent criticisms of congressional Republicans is that their silence/acquiescence only enables the president.
But here’s the other side of the coin: What are Democrats doing to hold Trump accountable?
2020 VISION: Biden sports double-digit leads in two new polls
It sure does look like that Monmouth poll was an outlier, according to the two national polls released this morning:
Biden 32 percent
Warren 14 percent
Sanders 12 percent
Harris 6 percent
Buttigieg 6 percent
Yang 3 percent
O’Rourke 2 percent
Booker 2 percent
Biden 32 percent
Warren 19 percent
Sanders 15 percent
Harris 7 percent
Buttigieg 5 percent
Yang 3 percent
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden, in South Carolina, holds town halls in Spartanburg at 11:45 am ET and Gaffney at 4:45 pm ET… Beto O’Rourke is in North Carolina… And several members of the field (Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Bill de Blasio) address and AFL-CIO convention in Las Vegas.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: At a townhall in South Carolina, Beto O’Rourke was asked by a supporter of President Trump if O’Rourke’s campaign was just about defeating President Trump and if there was “any actual evidence” that the president is a racist.
NBC’s Jordan Jackson has O’Rourke’s response: “I’ve talked about his repeated warnings of invasions of dehumanizing or attempting to dehumanize people by calling them animals – those are words he’s used. Predators, killers, somebody mentioned shithole countries, which was his description of nations in Africa or wanting to have more immigrants from Sweden and Norway which he has also said. Or how about this: Four women of color dually elected by their constituents—he told them to go back to their country. When this is their country.”
Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Iowa State Capitol, where she touched on the Johnson & Johnson settlement. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports: “NBC asked Klobuchar if the landmark ruling went far enough. The senator said, ‘What these companies did is horrific,’ and that they were, ‘playing with people’s lives.’ Klobuchar said the ruling is only the beginning and that she expects so see a ‘national master settlement’ similar to what happened with to the tobacco industry.”
TWEET OF THE DAY: It’ll be Reeves vs. Hood in November
THE LID: Deep breaths
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we did a deep dive into the Monmouth poll (yes, THAT Monmouth poll.)
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
Boris Johnson is asking to suspend Parliament, which would cut the time members have to pass laws stopping a no-deal Brexit.
Trump wants a wall so badly that he has “told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly,” according to the Washington Post.
AG William Barr has booked a personal holiday party costing $30,000 at Trump’s Washington D.C. hotel.
NBC’s Melissa Holzberg reports on how a Republican group is trying to elect more women to Congress — but they’re not getting a hand from the NRCC.
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| UK opposition reacts with fury to Parliament suspension Posted: 28 Aug 2019 05:08 AM PDT Opening commentary: As always, anything we post from the Associated Press does not necessarily reflect our editorial perspective. News of Brexit is easier handled by international news agencies. With that said, this move by Boris Johnson is masterful. It will be contested, but there is very little the opposition can do other than rush within […] The post UK opposition reacts with fury to Parliament suspension appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Judge orders fake vets to hand write names of 6756 fallen soldiers Posted: 28 Aug 2019 04:57 AM PDT We often here about instances of judicial overreach, but this is a story where the punishment most appropriately fits the crime and serves as a strong deterrent against those who claim valor falsely. The story comes out of Montana from KOAT detailing the sentence two men received. Despite being charged for other crimes, the conditions of […] The post Judge orders fake vets to hand write names of 6756 fallen soldiers appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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08/28/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Opioid Lawsuit; Imperiled Species; Valor and the Vote By Carl M. Cannon on Aug 28, 2019 09:12 am Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. On this date 102 years ago, an American president exerted the power of his office by ordering some demonstrators arrested and jailed. In so doing, Woodrow Wilson set in motion events that would assure he lost the argument — and that women would win the vote. It didn’t happen that simply and directly, of course, but what Alice Paul and her “Silent Sentinels” did in front of the White House that summer was in its own way as brave as what the Doughboys were preparing to do in Europe. I’ve written about this heroic Quaker woman before, but historical examples of how moral authority can overcome physical force is not a story I ever tire of telling. I’ll have more about what happened on this day in 1917 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: * * * Landmark Liability Case and the Common Law’s Lament. Donald J. Kochan sees flaws in a judge’s “public nuisance” basis for ruling against Johnson & Johnson in an opioid lawsuit. New Trump Rules Will Accelerate Loss of Climate-Threatened Species. Aimee Delach assails the administration’s rewrite of Endangered Species Act regulations. Intel Gatekeeper Said to Drag Feet on Trump-Russia Files. Months after Attorney General William Barr began declassifying files, key U.S. intelligence agencies are still withholding documents, Paul Sperry reports in RealClearInvestigations. Trade Deal With Japan Won’t Make Up for China Failures. In RealClearMarkets, Allan Golombek asserts that Japan didn’t agree to anything that wasn’t already in the TPP that President Trump walked away from his first week in office. Busting the Millennial Privacy Myth. In RealClearPolicy, Rick Boucher spotlights surveys showing the younger generation, which grew up in a digital world, shares the privacy concerns of older Americans. The Unenviable Plight of Evangelicals. In RealClearReligion, Kenneth Frantz and Samuel Perry write that criticism from “exvangelicals” has proven to be more damaging than attacks from secularists. * * * When Woodrow Wilson arrived at Union Station in Washington, D.C., for his second inauguration in the late winter of 1917, he was surprised by the dearth of welcomers awaiting his train. “Where are the people?” he asked. Watching the parade, he was told. The parade in question was the women’s march organized by suffragists, following the same route Wilson would take the next day. And with that simple exchange, the battle lines were drawn. In the early days of his second term, the president had another struggle on his mind, and even with the benefit of hindsight, this doesn’t make him look bad: Wilson had run for reelection promising to keep the United States out of World War I, then called the Great War, but soon after taking the oath for the second time, he realized how difficult this was going to be. For their part, the suffragists had waited too long to let events in Europe dictate their timetable. They’d been making the case for extending the voting franchise to women since the Civil War; to them the gruesome wars waged by one democracy against another were not a reason to delay granting them their rights. To them, the carnage of war only confirmed the importance of women having a voice in the affairs of state. In August 1917, Wilson’s head was elsewhere. John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army general he’d tasked with leading American troops in Europe, had opened the First Army headquarters in France, and within weeks half a million American soldiers would be thrown into the lines at St.-Mihiel. In feminism’s trenches, meanwhile, Alice Paul and her army of demonstrators continued marching, as they had for months, in front of the White House. Mostly they just carried signs, all of their demands contained in single placard: “Mr. President, what will you do for women’s suffrage?” They showed up in bad weather and good, from January through late August. For a while, Wilson was courteous toward the women. As he entered and exited the White House, he would tip his cap and say hello to them. But as the U.S. prepared to enter the fighting in Europe, public opinion shifted against the women, as did the president’s demeanor. With Wilson’s imprimatur, authorities began arresting demonstrators, ostensibly for blocking sidewalk traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue. According the Library of Congress, 218 suffragists were arrested outside the White House in 1917, 10 of them on this date. What happened next, behind bars, would alter the course of history. Nearly half of the women hauled off by police were incarcerated in the D.C. jail or a women’s prison called the Occoquan Workhouse. But just as “Black Jack” Pershing’s soldiers would turn the tide of war across the ocean, Alice Paul’s peaceful army proved a force to be reckoned with. In prison, the women launched hunger strikes. Fearing they would have female martyrs on their hands, authorities force-fed them through tubes, a violent procedure that helped turn public opinion in the women’s favor once again. “When the forcible feeding was ordered I was taken from my bed, carried to another room and forced into a chair, bound with sheets and sat upon bodily by a fat murderer, whose duty it was to keep me still,” Paul explained upon her release. “Then the prison doctor, assisted by two woman attendants, placed a rubber tube up my nostrils and pumped liquid food through it into the stomach. Twice a day for a month, from November 1 to December 1, this was done.” No scientific surveys yet existed to measure the effects that news accounts of such treatment had on contemporaneous public opinion. None were needed. By January 1918, Wilson reversed field, and lined up in support of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. August 26 is celebrated as Women’s Equality Day in honor of the 19th Amendment’s adoption in 1920. But the hardest work was done in the streets and jail cells, not the halls of Congress or state legislatures, most of it by mostly anonymous women, including the 10 bold suffragists arrested on this date, August 28, in 1917. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com |
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| You Should at Least Read My Column before Writing a Hit Piece Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: A not-so-persuasive accusation of “traveling fantastically creative routes to reach the sunny side of Trump” and a lesson from the world of comic books that probably applies to political columns; Trump orders his staff to build new border fences quickly, regardless of the consequences; and a new poll suggests that surprising Monmouth poll wasn’t at all accurate. I Suppose This Means I’m ‘Fantastically Creative,’ in a Way Frank Bruni of the New York Times writes, “‘Even Trump’s Supporters Are Getting Tired of His Daily Drama’ was the headline on Jim Geraghty’s Monday column in National Review, which sometimes travels fantastically creative routes to reach the sunny side of Trump.” “Travels fantastically creative routes to reach the sunny side of Trump”? Is he referring to National … Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories Glasgow University’s Curious Decision to Pay Itself Reparations Charlie Peters A university in Scotland that was built in part on slave-trading money proposes to pay reparations by establishing its own center for scholarly study. Without a Suitable Enemy, Trump Is Adrift Jonah Goldberg The fizzle of the Mueller probe was a grievous blow to the president, for the simple reason that it removed an extremely useful political and psychological bogeyman. GOP Senator Johnny Isakson to Resign at the End of the Year Jack Crowe Senator Johnny Isakson announced Wednesday that he will resign at the end of the year due to persistent health issues. ADVERTISEMENT The Simpsons and the Cowardice of Tribal Comedy Peter Spiliakos The attempt at humor is perfunctory. Too bad for those who would rather laugh than hear their political views validated. The Moral Dimension to Our National Debt Michael Tanner Every child born today inherits a portion of that debt. We are living at our children’s expense. You can’t get much more “taxation without representation” than that. MSNBC Host Hurts Women by Claiming They Have Better Character Katherine Timpf To state that it is a “fact” that a woman in an elected position would certainly have no issues with “character” is quite easily proven false. The 1619 Project’s Potted History Michael Brendan Dougherty If the aim of the 1619 Project is to tell the history of our country “truthfully” for the first time, we have to include everyone and everything. Ilhan Omar’s Campaign Has Paid Over $200,000 to Her Alleged Lover for ‘Fundraising… Jack Crowe Omar’s campaigns have disbursed roughly $230,000 to a consulting firm owned by Tim Mynett, a fundraising strategist accused of having an affair with Omar. ADVERTISEMENT WHAT NR IS READING Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Andrew C. McCarthy “If you want to become conversant in every aspect of this [Russiagate] hoax that matters, if you want to be the one in your family that has the answers to any question about this, then this book is a must. Not only that, it is fun to read it… It blows this thing to smithereens.” — Rush Limbaugh LEARN MORE Photo Essays Top Shots A-10 Thunderbolt ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser. |
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