hard to believe Chris Cillizza still has a job at CNN Joe Biden's numbers are collapsing among a group you really wouldn't expect https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/biden-youth-approval-polling/index.html
The 1 thing Biden got exactly right A successful balancing act on Ukraine https://theweek.com/joe-biden/1012914/the-one-thing-biden-has-gotten-exactly-right
Biden’s Dangerous New Ukraine Endgame: No Endgame With his strategy to “weaken” Russia, the U.S. president may be turning the Ukraine war into a global one. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/29/russia-ukraine-war-biden-endgame/ excerpt: George Beebe, a former chief of Russia analysis for the CIA, said that the Biden administration may be in danger of forgetting that the “the most important national interest that the United States has is avoiding a nuclear conflict with Russia.” He added that “the Russians have the ability to make sure everyone else loses if they lose too. And that may be where we’re heading. It’s a dangerous corner to turn.” Perhaps the most worrisome turn of events is that there no longer appears to be any possibility of a negotiated way out of the war—despite Putin’s statement to visiting United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres that he still hopes for such a solution. “It’s one thing to pursue a policy of weakening Putin, quite another to say it out loud. We have to find a way for Putin to achieve a political solution, so perhaps it is not wise to state this,” said one senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It’s getting more dangerous,” said Charles Kupchan, a former senior U.S. official and now a scholar of international relations at Georgetown University. “We need to start moving beyond Javelins and anti-tank missiles and talk about a political endgame.” Or, as Beebe put it, “We need to find a way of somehow discreetly conveying to the Russians that we would be willing to ease sanctions in the context of an international settlement. The military aid to Ukraine could also be used as leverage.” Yet any such negotiation looks less likely than ever. Both sides appear to be settling in for a long fight. After meeting with Putin and Lavrov on Tuesday, Guterres acknowledged that an imminent cease-fire was not in the cards and that the war “will not end with meetings.” more at the link
latest Monmouth poll https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_051222/ excerpt: more at the link
Joe needs to do something about all this election fraud. Every month a Republican is caught cheating in the 2020 election.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-19/democrats-republicans-january-6-politics Democrats should go on ATTACK....yes absolutely. ______________________________________________ BY KURT BARDELLA MAY 19, 2022 12:18 PM PT The question I get asked the most as someone who went from being a Republican to a Democrat is: “What’s the biggest difference between the two parties?” The answer: Every impulse Democrats have is defensive and every impulse Republicans have is offensive. A report in the Washington Post this week showed these dynamics at play perfectly between Democrats and Republicans on the January 6th Select Committee. As the Post described, Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy (Fla.) insisted that the committee focus less on former President Trump and more on the security and intelligence failures that allowed the attack on the Capitol. In response, Republican Vice Chair Liz Cheney (Wyo.) argued that the committee should keep its focus on the former president. This is the best illustration I have come across that demonstrates how different Republicans and Democrats approach things on a tactical and, I’d say, cellular level. When Republicans have the reins of power, they do not hesitate to go after the very top. From Barack Obama’s birth certificate to Hillary Clinton’s emails and potentially Hunter Biden’s laptop, the GOP is unapologetic about pursuing witch hunts for political gain. Democrats, on the other hand, are always pursuing lines of legitimate oversight reluctantly. At times, it feels like they are apologizing for doing the right thing. I think back to Trump’s first impeachment and the hesitant posture displayed by the Democrats during those proceedings. It was almost as if they were forced into it, regretted that it came to this, and moved as fast as possible to get it over with. Democrats controlled the House majority but never forced Trump administration officials with firsthand knowledge of the events that were at the center of the impeachment inquiry to testify such as John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney or Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Senate predictably torpedoed any effort to compel them to testify. History repeated itself during Trump’s second impeachment as firsthand witnesses like Mike Pence, Mark Meadows, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Rudy Giuliani, etc., were never called to testify. Hillary Clinton, of course, was grilled by the Republican-led Benghazi Committee for more than 11 hours. It’s almost as if Democrats believe there is some prize awaiting them for showing what they would characterize as restraint. There isn’t. Some Democrats might think that if they pushed for certain investigative inquiries, that would give Republicans license to seek retribution should they regain power after the midterms this November. Newsflash: They are going to do that anyway. Understand that if the GOP gets back the power of the gavel, they are going to unleash an investigative tsunami against Democrats and the Biden administration that’ll make the Benghazi circus look like a walk in the park. They will not show any hesitancy or restraint. They will not worry about looking partisan or responsible. They certainly won’t care about facts and the truth. Democracy itself is under siege from the Republican Party. Democrats may have just a few months left — if control of the House flips in the midterms — to protect and defend our democratic process. They should use every single tool of congressional power to hold the leaders of the Jan. 6 domestic terrorist attack accountable. They should use the visibility of a congressional hearing to put on display the full measure of lunacy and absurdity that have hijacked the Republican Party. They should invoke inherent contempt against anyone who refuses to comply with the committee’s subpoenas so that anyone who refuses to testify before the committee is thrown in jail by the House sergeant at arms. They should do what the Republicans would do given a chance: Refuse to compromise and go on the attack. This difference, of course, is that the Democrats are going after the insurrectionist machine and defending democracy while the GOP is tearing it down. =================================================== Well said. DD
all I did was post a tweet to a NY Post article. The Post did in fact publish the article that the tweet indicates was published.
Congratulations. Perhaps you should give some thought to where our government is heading if the Republican Party you keep promoting, a Republican Party that, to a great extent, still claims that the 2020 election of Joe Biden as president was "stolen" from trump, returns to power in Washington. A Republican Party that is actively working to elect state officials in several states across the country, men and women who loudly claim trump's "election" was "stolen," to positions overseeing their state's elections. I haven't seen any concern from you about this active assault on our system of government, promoted by influential members of the Republican Party, something I find curious.
