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Politico reports, "House Democrats are plowing ahead on investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection with or without Republican leadership participation, scheduling the first select committee hearing on July 27.

"At the hearing, the committee will "hear first-hand” from officers from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Capitol Police."

The Republican minority leader hasn't made up his mind yet.

"I haven’t made a decision yet, even to appoint. I’m discussing it with my members. I have a real concern, the scope of what we’re looking at," McCarthy told Fox after complaining about the partisan nature of the committee.

McCarthy has accused Pelosi of "playing politics" with the inquiry.

"Putting Adam Schiff and Raskin on it looks more like an impeachment committee than one that wants to get to the bottom of the questions that are still out there," he said in an interview with Fox News Tuesday.

He didn't tell the Fox audience that it was his party that voted down the bipartisan commission whose members would not be members of Congress.

Fox viewers miss a lot. They should tune into ABC, NBC, and/or CBS to get a more well-rounded view of what is happening around them.
 
Why is the Republican Party sponsoring a program of discouraging vaccinations against a deadly virus?

We will never know because Republicans on this forum never discuss what their party is doing.

In any case, the program is successful. Republican-led states rank at the bottom of vaccination rates, and Republicans cheered when Biden didn't reach his goal of 70% which involved a plan to save American lives. 99.5 percent of all covid-19-related deaths in the United States occur among unvaccinated people -- the bulk of those deaths occurring in Republican-led states.

Michael Gerson writes, "The recent outbreak of applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the United States’ failure to meet its vaccination target was macabre."

The Tennessean reports, "The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails.

"The health department will also stop all COVID-19 vaccine events on school property. These changes to Tennessee’s vaccination strategy illustrate how the state government continues to dial back efforts to vaccinate minors against coronavirus."

The Tennessee Department of Health fired Dr. Michelle Fiscus, the top vaccine official in the Tennessee state government becuase of her efforts to vaccinate teenagers.

Why? Ignorance. Apparently, the Republican Party attracts the ignorant. If there is another explanation, I would love to hear it.

Gerson offers this. "Some people are just badly misinformed. They think the vaccines come with itsy-bitsy tracking chips, or make you magnetic, or render you infertile. Ignorance is a form of moral mitigation, but it is still, well, ignorance.

"Some oppose vaccination out of a tragically misapplied libertarianism. They somehow think the defense of freedom requires the rejection of sound medical advice from the government. They seek liberation from rational rules, prudent precautions, scientific reality and from moral responsibility for their neighbors’ well-being [and their children]. This is the degraded version of a proud tradition: Live free and let someone else die."

Gerson adds, "In the case of Fox News celebrities in particular, they must know that discouraging vaccination — by exaggerating risks, highlighting unproven alternative therapies and normalizing anti-vaccine voices — will result in additional, unnecessary deaths."

For rational Americans -- presumably this would exclude most Republicans -- all of this makes no sense. Will encouraging the spread of a deadly virus win votes in Republican states? Is that possible?

We will never know the answer. Republicans remain silent on the issue almost like they know they are acting stupid but do it anyway. They are so pathetic they can't even defend themselves.
 
Great news on the economic front.

ABC reports, "The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits has reached its lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the U.S. economy and job market are quickly rebounding from the pandemic recession.

"Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell by 26,000 last week to 360,000. The weekly tally, a proxy for layoffs, has fallen more or less steadily since topping 900,000 in early January.

"The U.S. recovery from the recession is proceeding so quickly that many forecasters have predicted that the economy will expand this year by roughly 7%. That would be the most robust calendar-year growth since 1984.

"The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has sharply reduced new viral cases — from a seven-day average of around 250,000 in early January to roughly 25,000 recently — despite a recent uptick. As the health crisis has receded, cooped-up Americans have increasingly emerged from their homes, eager to spend on things they had missed during pandemic lockdowns — dinners out, a round of drinks, sports and entertainment events, vacation getaways and shopping trips.

"In response, businesses have scrambled to meet the unexpected surge in customer demand: They are posting job openings — a record 9.2 million in May — faster than they can fill them. The worker shortage in many industries is causing employers to raise wages and in some cases to raise prices to offset their higher labor costs."

Americans deserve the good news. It's been a rough year and a half.
 
By Melanie Zanona, CNN, writes, "The House GOP's plan to win back power is becoming increasingly centered on one man: Donald J. Trump.

"On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy became the latest in a parade of Republicans to make the pilgrimage to a Trump-owned property seeking the former President's support, while scores of GOP candidates have been invoking Trump's name and image to boost their campaign coffers, which are filling up at record rates."

This is a very strange phenomenon. Why? On Trump's watch, within a span of two years, his party lost control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Why in the world are Republican leaders gravitating to a loser?

The answer is two-fold.

First, uninformed, intelligence challenged grassroots Republicans still support Trump despite the enormous losses to the party. If they listen at all to what is happening around them, their use Fox News and other right wing sources exclusively. They avoid responsible news sources because Donald told them it is "fake news." Consequently, they believe Trump won the election, and they know nothing about the House and Senate except that they have been liberal as of late. They don't learn, and they don't want to learn.

Second, Trump is out to destroy the Republican Party because, of course, they are responsible for the election defeats -- certainly not him. Trump is using his obedient and gullible flock to accomplish that goal. Republican leaders are forced to pay homage to Trump or lose in the primary to someone who is. In terms of general elections where Trump is enormously unpopular, it is Catch-22 for Republicans.

Among all respondents in the latest poll, Trump was favorable for 32 per cent of American voters.

There is another factor to this that makes the matter all the more confusing.

The reader is reminded that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, tried to help Trump become President in 2016 and the product of their cyber war became public on a daily basis courtesy of WikiLeaks. How much this helped Trump is unknown. The fact that the communist ruler of Russia wanted Trump to be President and helped him again in 2020 is known.

The reader is reminded Trump at Helsinki in July 2018 rejected American intelligence and accepted the word of the Russian instead.

Currently, Trump seems hell bent on destroying America's free elections, refusing to accept his huge defeat in the popular and Electoral College vote, declaring to this day that he was the winner of the election. There is zero substantiation of that view. 60 court decisions and the Supreme Court went against him, as did his own A.G. Still he persists in his fight to destroy America's faith in free elections.

In an attempt to overrule the results of the election, Trump then planned and executed an insurrection against our government on Jan. 6.

No one is aware of any relationship between Trump and Putin. We are aware that Putin approves of nearly everything Trump has done and is doing, which may include the destruction of a major American political party. The results of that would be catastrophic.

Still Republicans follow their leader ... perhaps over an abyss into oblivion.
 
Climate change anyone?

The strangest thing happened last night while I was watching David Muir and the ABC News, a daily habit of mime.

There was a split screen. David was shown on the left and a video was being shown on the right. David was talking about the high temperatures we in the West have been experiencing for quite some time now.

On the left the video was showing massive flooding in Flagstaff, AZ.

BTW, it is not the heat that bothers one so much, it is the high humidity. That's what really sucks.
 
Climate change anyone?

The strangest thing happened last night while I was watching David Muir and the ABC News, a daily habit of mime.

There was a split screen. David was shown on the left and a video was being shown on the right. David was talking about the high temperatures we in the West have been experiencing for quite some time now. On the left the video was showing massive flooding in Flagstaff, AZ.
Over 55 million Americans are at risk for flash flooding this weekend as severe weather heads toward the Northeast.

Portions of the Northeast are nearly five times wetter than average for July so far. New York and Boston both could approach all-time wettest July before the month's end.

A slow moving frontal system is bringing very heavy rain from the central U.S. to the East Coast. The system is moving east this morning and will bring more heavy rain to parts of the Ohio Valley and ultimately into the Northeast. Severe storms, including the risk for possible tornadoes and damaging winds will be possible from Maryland to New York today, including Philadelphia and New York City.

Flash flood watches are in effect from Indiana to Massachusetts. The rainfall threat across parts of the Northeast is particularly concerning. The region is well above average for rainfall.

Flash flooding is a concern. As the ground is very saturated, the heavy rain will likely cause flash flooding very quickly.

Meanwhile, in the West, a heat wave is persisting across parts of the region, but it is not nearly as bad as the last few heat waves have been. In fact, there are only a couple of records being threatened over the next few days.


This information is courtesy of ABC News.
 
Climate change anyone?

There was a split screen. David Muir, ABC, was shown on the left and a video was being shown on the right. David was talking about the high temperatures we in the West have been experiencing for quite some time now. On the left the video was showing massive flooding in Flagstaff, AZ.
Over 55 million Americans are at risk for flash flooding this weekend as severe weather heads toward the Northeast.

Portions of the Northeast are nearly five times wetter than average for July so far. New York and Boston both could approach all-time wettest July before the month's end.
CNN reports, "At least 189 people are dead and hundreds more remain missing after catastrophic flooding hit large swaths of western Europe, with tens of thousands unable to return to their homes and many still left without access to power and drinking water.

"The flooding, caused by unprecedented rainfall, has hit parts of western Germany before shifting to neighboring Belgium and the Netherlands.

"In Germany, the true scale of the destruction brought by the floods was being revealed as the water subsided over the weekend, leaving behind devastation, mud and chaos.

"Entire towns, train lines and roads were swept away and at least 158 people have died in what the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described as the "worst natural disaster" in a century."
 
CNN reports, "The surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy has now led to increasing rates of hospitalizations and deaths. More than 97% of people getting hospitalized with Covid-19 now are unvaccinated, and 99.5% of deaths are among the unvaccinated.

At last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told the crowd: "Don't come knocking on my door with your 'Fauci ouchie.' You leave us the hell alone."

NBC reports, "On vaccinations Boebert's message is not the exception. For a sizable chunk of the Republican Party and conservative media apparatus, pushing back on the Biden administration’s efforts to vaccinate the country has become the norm in recent weeks."

The Dow lost 726 points today, and Yahoo Finance concludes, "Rising concerns about inflation and the resurgence of COVID-19 infections among the unvaccinated walloped Wall Street on Monday, with major benchmarks suffering their worst declines since May."

Congratulations to Tucker Carlson, Fox News, and grassroots Republicans. You have all contributed to slowing down the rapidly expanding Biden economy while causing Americans to lose millions of dollars in their investment portfolios. You must be enormously proud of yourselves.


Politico reports, "A federal judge has handed down the first felony sentence in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, sending Paul Hodgkins, 38, to prison for eight months for obstructing Congress’ effort to tabulate and certify the electoral vote.

Hodgkins marched onto the Senate floor with a Trump flag during the chaotic Capitol takeover. That was all he did plus he pleaded guilty -- meaning no trial, thus the light sentence. He received three years of supervised probation and must pay $2000 in damages to the capitol.

A felon for the rest of his life, eight months in prison, three years of supervision, and a $2000 loss all because he believed in Donald Trump.

What the f**k are Republicans doing? Is this any way to win votes? We will never know. As can be seen, Republicans remain totally silent on the issues. They are pretty much an intelligent challenged bunch.

So much so, they can't even defend themselves.
 
More than 97% of people getting hospitalized with Covid-19 now are unvaccinated, and 99.5% of deaths are among the unvaccinated.

At last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told the crowd: "Don't come knocking on my door with your 'Fauci ouchie.' You leave us the hell alone."
Nearly 30 percent of Republicans say they are not planning to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a CBS News-YouGov poll.

Data from Johns Hopkins University shows:
-- The average number of new Covid-19 cases each day the past week was 32,278. That's a 66% jump from the average daily rate the previous week, and 145% higher than the rate from two weeks ago.
-- An average of 258 Americans died from Covid-19 each day this past week -- up 13% from the rate of daily deaths the previous week.
-- 24,923 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. That's a 26% increase from last week and a 50% increase from two weeks ago.

Because of the unvaccinated, hospitalizations have dramatically increased.

Because of the unvaccinated, deaths have dramatically increased.

And Republicans have nothing to say. Instead, they and their children are getting ill and killing themselves to make a political point.

I told you, today's Republicans are intelligence challenged.
 
Politico reports, "House Democrats are begrudgingly accepting Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks to join the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks — a list that includes a couple of their leading antagonists. The Democrat-led committee is set to hold its first hearing Tuesday."

Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large, opines, "House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy sent a very clear signal to Democrats -- and the country -- on Monday: He has zero interest in getting to the bottom of what really happened (and why) when the US Capitol was stormed by rioters convinced by former President Donald Trump that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.

"McCarthy made that crystal clear in the five Republican members of Congress he put forth for the House select committee formed to investigate the Capitol insurrection. The five: Republicans Jim Jordan of Ohio, Jim Banks of Indiana, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and Troy Nehls of Texas.

"Of the five, three -- Banks, Jordan and Nehls -- voted to object to the to the 2020 Electoral College results despite the fact that there is zero evidence of any widespread voter fraud or major irregularities. Both Banks and Jordan also signed on to a Texas lawsuit aimed at invalidating votes in several key swing states, a suit that was summarily rejected by the Supreme Court."

The insurrection was caused by a fantasy -- Trump's belief that he had won the election. 60 court decisions, the Supreme Court, countless state audits, and the certification by all 50 states said otherwise.

And yet these three Republicans who will be on the committee to investigate the insurrection believed in that fantasy. The Republican Party is being led by fools.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had veto power over McCarthy's selections. She made a wise decision not to veto any of the minority leader's picks.
 
And Republicans have nothing to say. Instead, they and their children are getting ill and killing themselves to make a political point.
Hm-m-m, I'm wondering, are Republicans reading my material.

Republican leaders and the conservative media are changing their tune on vaccinations. I will allow Salon to explain.

"Amid a rising media furor over the steady stream of vaccine disparagement from GOP politicians and Fox News talking heads, a number of prominent Republicans spoke up in favor of vaccines early this week.

"On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, "shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible" and asked that people "ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice." House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, got the vaccine after months of delay and then publicly said, "there shouldn't be any hesitancy over whether or not it's safe and effective." And Fox News host Sean Hannity, in a widely shared video, declared, it "absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated." This was treated in the press as an unequivocal endorsement."
 
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Politico reports, "House Democrats are begrudgingly accepting Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks to join the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks.
That information is incorrect.

Politico now reports, "Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned the GOP on Wednesday by vetoing two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's choices for a select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, a move all but guaranteed to spark a Republican boycott of the probe.

"Pelosi rejected Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who was tapped to serve as ranking member, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), both of whom voted to challenge certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral wins earlier this year."

In other words, both voted to overturn the 2020 election because Trump said the election was stolen from him. In other words, both were leaders of the insurrection the House committee will be investigating.

Still, Pelosi may have accepted the appointments. After all, she allowed the appointment of Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), who also voted not to certify Biden’s win.

In the case of Banks and Jordan there were overriding factors in their dismissal. “I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”

Banks, after being appointed to the committee, made this statement. “If Democrats were serious about investigating political violence, this committee would be studying not only the January 6 riot at the Capitol, but also the hundreds of violent political riots last summer when many more innocent Americans and law-enforcement officers were attacked. Make no mistake, (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi created this committee solely to malign conservatives and to justify the Left’s authoritarian agenda.”

Because Jordan was one of the leaders of the insurrection, and because of his close relationship to Donald Trump, who inspired the insurrection, it is quite likely Jordan would be called as a witness in the investigation.

Kevin McCarthy withdrew the remaining three Republicans. Earlier he had withdrawn his support for a bipartisan commission whose members would not be in government and would have had an end date of Dec. 31, 2021. Republicans killed the bipartisan commission. Now he refuses to take part in an investigation of the Jan. 6 ransacking of our capitol.

Does McCarthy think this is all a bad dream, and it will suddenly go away?

Trump blames the Republican Party for his loss on November 3. His planning for the insurrection began in December. His inspirational speech on Jan. 6 that caused death and destruction has placed the Republican Party between a rock and a hard place.

The evidence in this investigation will include testimony from witnesses, documents, and videos, some of which have been seen by the country several times. The pathetic argument that this merely a partisan sideshow will go only so far.

The Republican Party's refusal to play a role in the investigation will go much farther and will be heard during the summer and fall of 2022, an election year.

It's possible Donald did a good job of destroying his party.
 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned the GOP on Wednesday by vetoing two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's choices for a select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, a move all but guaranteed to spark a Republican boycott of the probe.

"Pelosi rejected Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who was tapped to serve as ranking member, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio),
both of whom voted to challenge certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral wins earlier this year."
There has been an interesting development.

CNN reports, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering naming GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger to join the select committee investigating the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
During a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning, Pelosi said, "We'll see," when asked about the potential appointment.

"I mean, there are some members that would like to be on it," Pelosi added. "But, we'll see."
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who's been appointed chairman of the new committee, said Thursday that adding Kinzinger to the panel has been discussed with the speaker. Thompson said if Pelosi signs off, Kinzinger will be a "welcome addition."

"Kinzinger, a vocal Republican critic of former President Donald Trump and who was one of 10 GOP House members to vote for his second impeachment, would join Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming as the only Republicans on the new select committee. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled his five GOP members from the panel, after Pelosi rejected two of McCarthy's five choices -- Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio."

The committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing next week.
 
It comes as no shock as to why Republicans on this forum do not want to talk about their party or their party's leader. If they did so, they would be embarrassed and subsequently laughed off the forum. Their dignity lost forever.

This is what their leader said about the Jan. 6 insurrection. He described his supporters on January 6 as a "loving crowd" in newly released audio.

"I think it was the largest crowd I've ever spoken before. It went from that point—which is almost at the White House—to beyond the Washington monument. It was—and wide. And it was a loving crowd, too, by the way.

"There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Personally what I wanted is what they wanted. They showed up just to show support because I happen to believe the election was rigged at a level like nothing has ever been rigged before."


Trump's comments can be interpreted in various ways. The first conclusion one might reach is that Trump has lost it. He has gone around the bend. He needs help. He is mentally ill and unwilling to accept reality.

Of course, most Republicans have a hard time with reality. As shown on this thread and others like it, they avoid reality. They will avoid this report.

Is Trump mentally ill? Perhaps not. Perhaps he is fully aware of the gullibility of his flock. Using the mantra that the election was stolen from him, millions of his wide-eyed followers believe it and have contributed millions of dollars to Trump's coffers. A recent Ipsos/Reuters Poll national poll found that 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the “true president.”

Another possibility is that Trump is having fun with the media. The incredulous comments are Trump's idea of humor, and he knows they will get top billing in the media. It worked. The incredibly outrageous remarks are all over the media. There were over 30,000 hits on my search engine.

We know Trump wants to be center stage, and, like many Republicans, for some strange reason he enjoys looking stupid. After all, McCarthy is looking like an idiot as he tries to explain why Republicans will not be a part of the investigation of the deadly and violent rampage in our capitol on Jan. 6.
 
"There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Personally what I wanted is what they wanted. They showed up just to show support because I happen to believe the election was rigged at a level like nothing has ever been rigged before."
Is Trump mentally ill? Perhaps not. Perhaps he is fully aware of the gullibility of his flock. Using the mantra that the election was stolen from him, millions of his wide-eyed followers believe it and have contributed millions of dollars to Trump's coffers. A recent Ipsos/Reuters Poll national poll found that 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the “true president.”
"Using the mantra that the election was stolen from him, millions of his wide-eyed followers believe it and have contributed millions of dollars to Trump's coffers."

Talk about suckers, Trump's uninformed, intelligence challenged followers are the epitome of the term. The circumstances of their gullibility is being monitored all over the internet, and social media participants are having a field day.

The Post reports, "Former President Donald Trump’s political PAC raised about $75 million in the first half of this year as he trumpeted the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, but the group has not devoted funds to help finance the ongoing ballot review in Arizona or to push for similar endeavors in other states, according to people familiar with the finances.

"Instead, the Save America leadership PAC — which has few limits on how it can spend its money — has paid for some of the former president’s travel, legal costs and staff, along with other expenses, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the group’s inner workings. The PAC has held onto much of its cash.

"Even as he assiduously tracks attempts by his allies to cast doubt on the integrity of last year’s election, Trump has been uninterested in personally bankrolling the efforts, relying on other entities and supporters to fund the endeavors."

Forum Republicans do not speak of their party or its leader because both are an embarrassment nearly every day. Early this week, the leader of the Republican Party in the House declared that his party is not interested in taking part into the House's investigation of the deadly Jan. 6 rampage of our capitol.

The far right extremists who participated in the rampage got their inspiration from Trump who was President at the time.

Little wonder why Republicans run and hide.
 
Early this week, the leader of the Republican Party in the House declared that his party is not interested in taking part into the House's investigation of the deadly Jan. 6 rampage of our capitol.

Speaker Pelosi wants Republicans to participate in the Jan. 6 investigation. If the Republican leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, won't appoint Republicans to the Jan. 6 committee, then she will.

McCarthy turned control of Republican members of the committee over to the leading Democrat, decidedly not a smart move. He may not like the choices Pelosi makes, but that was his decision.

ABC reports, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are considering inviting Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to join the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, and asking a former GOP congressman to serve on committee staff amid a standoff with House GOP leaders over their picks for the panel, according to sources familiar with the deliberations.

"Kinzinger, one of ten House Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection, has remained a vocal critic of the 45th president and House GOP leaders over their handling of the episode and its fallout (for example, the GOP killed the lawmaker bereft bipartisan commission. The incredibly dumb move was orchestrated by Trump.)"

ABC continued, "Former Virginia GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, a former intelligence officer who lost his primary last year, has been a forceful critic of other Republicans over election-related disinformation and QAnon conspiracy theories, and could join the committee staff in an advisory capacity, according to sources briefed on the discussions.

"Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the only Republican named to the committee by Pelosi, has publicly and privately encouraged the speaker and Democrats to bring both Republicans on to their investigation, the sources said."
 
"Using the mantra that the election was stolen from him, millions of Trump's wide-eyed followers believe it and have contributed millions of dollars to Trump's coffers."
The Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, wanted Donald Trump to be our President. In July 2018 Trump rejected American intelligence, and, instead, accepted the statements of the Russian dictator.

For nine months Trump has been attacking America's free elections, claiming the 2020 election was pervaded in fraud.

The sad part, many leading Republicans in our government plus millions of Americans are aiding Trump in his effort to sabotage our elections. Republicans seeking office want Trump's endorsement because without it, it's over for them.

Republicans who support the lie have absolutely no basis for their belief. All Trump and his gullible followers can do is repeat the Big Lie over and over again. 60 court cases, the Supreme Court, countless state audits (three in Georgia alone) have examined the election and found no significant fraud.

The fifty states manage America's elections. The idea of election fraud so large in scope as to change the results of the Presidential election is preposterous.

CNN reports, "Ex-President Donald Trump's big lie came full circle on Saturday as he traveled to Arizona to dangerously seize on the false fruits of a sham election "audit" precipitated by his own discredited claims the 2020 election was stolen.

"On a late afternoon of delusion and incitement, Trump offered a preview of how he could exploit grievances of millions of supporters who buy his lies about voter fraud to power a possible new presidential run in the future.

"The now self-sustaining myth that Trump was improperly ejected from power is at the center of a belief system that the ex-President is imposing on his party and is making a litmus test for 2022 GOP candidates seeking his endorsement, including in the Arizona Senate race, which is one of the GOP's top targets as they try to take back the Senate."

"There is no way they win elections without cheating," Trump said of Democrats.

But, then, Trump thought that the crowd that ransacked our capitol on Jan 6 was a "loving crowd."
 
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President Joe R. Biden, how refreshing that sounds. What a refreshing day. Our divisive, erratic, foolish, conspiratorial, narcissistic President is gone, replaced by a President who deeply wants to unite us. Barring ill-advised preconceived notions about President Biden, his task should be easy. We are all Americans.

That said, although I voted for Biden for obvious reasons, not unlike 81 million Americans who did the same, I am a conservative Independent. That's official. In CA, we have to declare our political posture. Until I was driven out by Trump, for over a quarter of a century I was a declared Republican. I voted for Biden, but I have some reservations concerning him, mostly having to do with taxation and spending.

I said all that because I want to be honest with readers. I want them to know where I am coming from.

Whether or not Biden will be a good President is obviously an open question, but I think he is a good man. He will do his best to unite us and adopt policies that benefit all Americans, while removing those policies that do us harm. He wants the United States to rejoin the community of nations, and the days of isolation and making unitary decisions that involve other nations, in particular our traditional allies, are over.

The European Union's top politician, Ursula von der Leyen, said it best. "After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House."

For the first time in four years, there is optimism in America created by a popular President. 59% of Americans approve of Biden.

On day one, Trump's approval rating was 40%, and, although it went lower than that, it never got much higher. Thus the reason for American optimism.
No hun americans don't support Biden but then again you are trying to manipulate and playing games.
 
The Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, wanted Donald Trump to be our President. In July 2018 Trump rejected American intelligence, and, instead, accepted the statements of the Russian dictator.

For nine months Trump has been attacking America's free elections, claiming the 2020 election was pervaded in fraud.
"There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Personally what I wanted is what they wanted. They showed up just to show support because I happen to believe the election was rigged at a level like nothing has ever been rigged before."
The leader of the Republican Party in the House declared that his party is not interested in taking part into the House's investigation of the deadly Jan. 6 rampage of our capitol.
Mystery solved!

I know why Republicans on this forum won't defend their party or discuss what their party is doing. Since they remain completely silent on the issues, I am forced to speak for them. If I get anything wrong, I'm all ears.

It's really very simple. Forum Republicans have nothing to work with.

The leader of the party was the Russian dictator's first choice. The leader of the party incited an insurrection on Jan. 6 caused by his insane assertion that the election was stolen from him. Then the leader of the party described those who engaged in the rampage upon our capitol a "loving crowd."

A Congressional investigation into all of this is about to begin, Republican leaders in the Senate are totally silent. There is not a word from them concerning the attack upon our capitol, during which they were victims, forced to run for cover from the violent right wing extremists loyal to the leader of their party.

Later Senate Republicans killed the bipartisan commission per the orders of the leader. So now we have a select committee in the House, and an investigation controlled by Democrats. Not very bright.

Does any of this make sense to anyone?

Then there is the confused Republican leader in the House where this important investigation is about to take place. First he blames the President, even calling Trump on Jan. 6 and pleading with him to call off the dogs. Then he changes his mind and goes to kiss the hand of the insurrection leader at his palace in Mar-a-Lago.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty's position now is, he does not want his party taking part in the investigation of the ransacking of our capitol during which five people were killed and over a hundred police officers were badly injured.

Nevertheless, two House Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are interested in the truth and will take part in the investigation. Their voting records indicate they are more conservative than McCarthy and Trump isn't even close. McCarthy called them "Pelosi Republicans."

Cheney, the daughter of Dick Cheney, Bush's vice-president, told reporters she found the barb “pretty childish.”

“We've got serious business here. We have important work to do,” she added.

Now, after absorbing all that, try to mount a defense of the Republican Party. You can't.

It's really very simple.

The investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection begins tomorrow.
 
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