Georgia governor again rejects lawmakers replacing electors
Republican Brian Kemp is again telling lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results and appoint 16 presidential electors who would support President Trump instead of President-elect Joe Biden.
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Loeffler again refuses to say Trump lost
That was the only debate ahead of twin Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate.
Trump lawyer Giuliani in hospital after positive COVID test
The BS never ends, and now he is sidelined.
The A2 co-lead:
Biden picks Xavier Becerra to lead health and human services
Becerra is a former congressman who is now the Democratic attorney general of California, and the pick ends a politically delicate search that brought complaints from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about a lack of Latinos in the incoming Cabinet.
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Putting aside the identity politics quotas, my first reaction is the guy is UNQUALIFIED for the POSITION!
I didn't a health field background there, did you?
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"Neera Tanden has delighted in labeling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as “Moscow Mitch”; in the wake of the acrimonious vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she cuttingly dismissed Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins as “the worst,”and as Democrats wrestled with the 2016 loss, Tanden tweeted her takeaway in a dig on former first lady Michelle Obama’s often-quoted political truism: “One important lesson is that when they go low, going high doesn’t ... work.” Tanden, who is president of the Democratic-leaning Center for American Progress and now president-elect Joe Biden’s choice for budget director, has spent years as a partisan combatant willing to go low against both Republicans and left-leaning critics of her former boss Hillary Clinton. Now some of those she’s bruised along the way see her upcoming confirmation as a chance to hit back, making her perhaps Biden’s most controversial staffing and Cabinet decision yet. Some Republican leaders have declared their opposition to Tanden — drawing a new red line over Twitter etiquette after years of ignoring President Donald Trump’s tweets. Some progressives, meanwhile, see Tanden’s nomination as a test of whether the left will challenge Biden, who ran as a moderate, over funding for social programs. “If she sails through without a challenge (from the left), it speaks badly for the progressive wing’s willingness to challenge Biden on anything,” said David Sirota, a former speechwriter for leftist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders who also worked at the think tank under Tanden. Sanders has not commented publicly on Tanden’s nomination, but other liberal senators including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Sherrod Brown of Ohio have expressed their support. Tanden would be the first woman of color to lead the powerful Office of Management and Budget. Friends and allies say that the fuss over her online persona is a distraction from her credentials and deep experience with large-scale policy making. That includes her roles in helping Clinton develop her health care plan in 2007 and later as a senior adviser that helped craft “Obamacare.”
He appoints her as he calls for healing and unity?
He must mean the unity after the purge.
This will make you think:
“She is a policy wonk first and foremost,” said Lindsay Hamilton, a former chief of staff to Tanden at the Center for American Progress.
The CAP is a Clinton-Organized and funding $tink tank.
On Friday, Biden tweeted his support, calling her “a brilliant policy mind with experience across government” and saying “above all, she believes what I believe: a budget should reflect our values.” Tanden, 50, has said her values reflect personal experience with the government programs she would play a key role in supporting. The child of Indian immigrants, her parents divorced when she was five and her mother spent two years on government support, food stamps and Section 8 housing vouchers in the suburbs of Boston before eventually getting a job as a travel agent. “I’m here today because of social programs, because of budgetary choices, because of a government that saw my mother’s dignity and gave her a chance,” Tanden said last week, as Biden announced the nomination. The experience gave her a belief in the ability of government to “pull families back from the brink,” she added. Biden’s team declined to make Tanden available for an interview.
The first wave of Republican criticism of Tanden mentioned none of her professional or personal experience, instead focusing on her aggressive Twitter hand. Tanden’s rhetoric online was “filled with hate & guided by the woke left,” Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said. Republican Sen. John Cornyn called Tanden “radioactive” and a spokesperson for the Texas senator has said she “stands zero chance” of being confirmed if the GOP holds the Senate. (Democrats need to win both of next month’s runoffs in Georgia to take control of the Senate.)
She has already been taken down by Facebook.
Democrats have been quick to point out the hypocrisy in Republicans’ focus on Tanden’s harsh posts. Most Senate Republicans have spent years backing President Donald Trump as he hurled personal insults — “horseface,” “phony,” “slob” — at opponents, stoked racial tensions and pushes falsehoods on Twitter.
Typical Democrat projection as they can't smell their own hypocritical stink.
Tanden has long been close to Hillary Clinton, serving as an East Wing aide to the then-first lady during President Bill Clinton’s administration. She would go on to serve as a top staffer in Clinton’s Senate office, policy director during Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 campaign and as an outside adviser to Clinton’s 2016 campaign for the White House. Tanden, who referred to herself as a “loyal soldier” for Clinton in a private email made public by WikiLeaks, aligned herself with Clinton early and stuck close to her through much of the last two decades. Jim Kessler, a former policy director in the office of New York Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said he first got to know Tanden more than 20 years ago when she called him to get a primer on New York politics as Clinton launched her first Senate campaign. “She was a sponge,” recalled Kessler. “It’s not easy being an outsider and that was not a simple race for Hillary. She was a big part of the reason that Clinton was successful.”
She has long been a Clinton hatchet man, 'er, person, and if you don't think the blatantly stolen election was a coup, you are not reading this.
After Clinton was defeated by Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary, Tanden joined the Obama campaign and went on to work as a top aide in Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services as he put together his signature health care reform. Tanden left the agency in 2010 to become chief operating officer at CAP, a longtime stronghold of Clinton loyalists.
It's presented as an unbiased and objective think tank, though.
Bunch of smart people solving the world's problems, wretch.
It’s not just Republicans who have a beef with Tanden; her expected nomination shines a light on lingering divisions inside the Democratic Party. Tanden clashed frequently online, and occasionally in person, with supporters of Sanders, the progressive standard-bearer during his bitter primary battle with Clinton in 2016 and again during his fight against Biden this year. Last year, Sanders wrote an open letter accusing CAP under Tanden’s leadership of playing a “destructive role” in the process. Calling out Tanden by name, Sanders said the think tank had a pattern of calling for Democratic unity but then “maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas.”
So Joe and these bastards were never serious with the disingenuous call, and I wish the left totalitarians over there would get their heads out of their asses and join Republicans and the wave of Trump supporters to throw all this off, the election fraud, COVID, all of it, and f**k Trump for letting it all happen.
Tanden has also previously endorsed cutting entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — something the Sanders’ wing of the party regards as a red line, but a position that Biden himself has held at different times. Sirota, who now publishes the political newsletter The Daily Poster, said the smoke over Tanden’s online persona obscures the true debate among Democrats over her policy choices. “In a rational political world, that would be the central issue regarding her nomination,” he said."
That's the point then, isn't it?
Yeah, there is nothing rational in this world anymore as evil runs amok.
Biden picks MGH infectious diseases chief Rochelle Walensky to oversee CDC
She is a professor at Harvard Medical School who will take over as head of the national public health institute, and her research on HIV treatment and care has been influential in advancing international health policy towards the promotion of HIV treatment as prevention, according to her online biography -- meaning she is probably all tied up in the AZT criminality and death that Fauci promoted earlier in his career.
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Barr is said to be weighing whether to leave before Trump’s term ends
Like a rat deserting a sinking ship, and now we know another one of the leakers to the New York Times.
No matter what happens, the GHOST of TRUMP will haunt the White House, the Democrats, and the country:
"Even after he exits the White House, President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the legitimacy of the election and seeking to overturn the will of voters could have staying power. Trump’s tactics are already inspiring other candidates and have been embraced by a wide array of Republicans. Supporters include congressional candidates, state lawmakers, party chairs, conservative legal groups and appointees to previously little-known state vote-certification boards. The breadth of support for Trump’s effort could be a troubling sign for future elections.
I'm sorry, I had to stop after laughing there.
Yeah, they may not be able to fraud up the next ones (not that the ones we have in the future will matter) as good after the "breadth of support for Trump," who somehow lost!
That's why the pre$$ is framing it as an overturning; it confers legitimacy on the thief Biden and the illegitimate power grab by the Clinton-Obama-Biden crime cabal that is backed by, for lack of a better word, the Deep $tate alphabet agencies.
“What this president is doing is poisoning democracy,” former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said, “and, yes, he is setting a precedent, suggesting that it is OK to violate these norms that have made our country great.” Granholm, a Democrat, joined with former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, to raise concerns about Trump’s refusal to concede and efforts to undermine the integrity of elections. “This is not who we are as Americans, and we don’t want the public coming away from this thinking this is the norm,” said Whitman, who served in President George W. Bush’s administration.
Granholm was drunk at one of Obama's conventions and Whitman told everyone at Grpound Zero the air was safe and just wipe the dust in your apartment off with a wet towel.
It's the criminal cla$$ coming together to ride this rogue they never liked out of office because he was never part of the club, not really.
Trump and his allies have pushed conspiracies involving voting machines manipulated by dead foreign leaders and tens of thousands of fraudulent mail ballots that somehow escaped layers of security and scrutiny by election workers across the country. They have filed lawsuits without evidence, tried to pressure state lawmakers into seating their own presidential electors and sought to influence low-level party members who sit on the state and local boards that certify election results. This is despite the fact that the federal government’s own cybersecurity arm declared the presidential election “the most secure in American history,” and Attorney General William Barr said the Department of Justice uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome.
The hurling of the conspiracy slur means there is truth to it, and it is amazing to read the flip to most secure in history after four years of bogus sarges of Russian collusion and the like (never mind the Chinese ownership of all the Dominion voting machines that flipped votes in all the swing states).
Even so, Trump has found friendly lawmakers and party officials willing to bolster his claims and adopt his tactics. On Friday, a group of 64 GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania signed a statement urging Congress not to accept the state’s slate of electors for Democrat Joe Biden. They cited a litany of complaints over how the election was conducted. “A number of people have shown themselves willing to go along or at least being perceived of going along instead of just condemning the entire operation,” said Wendy Weiser with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. “It was not written off as it should have been.” In recent days, lawmakers in battleground states have provided friendly forums for Trump allies to air their suspicions. A group of GOP state lawmakers in Arizona held an unofficial meeting where Trump’s lawyers repeated claims of irregularities with the state’s vote count but provided no evidence of widespread fraud. The chairwoman of the Arizona GOP asked a court to overturn Biden’s win in the state.
All I have to say is Iraq and WMD when it comes to claims without evidence, and trust, once lost, is hard to restore, especially when they are willfully blind and criminally neglecting the massive evidence in many states.
The effort then shifted to Michigan, where Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani appeared at a four-hour legislative hearing to argue that fraud had occurred. “Throughout this hearing, my colleagues continued to speak in circles about ‘getting to the bottom of this,’ but we’re already at the bottom, and there’s nothing down here,” said Michigan state Rep. Darrin Camilleri, a Democrat. “Down here at the bottom of all this, it’s just a dark, empty place.”
Oh, so THAT is to where ALL the TRUMP VOTES DISAPPEARED (like I would believe anything a Democrat says at this point)!
On Thursday, a legislative committee in Georgia received testimony from a Trump campaign attorney about purported irregularities despite a hand count and machine audit that revealed no major problems with the vote. Election law experts say time will tell whether Trump’s approach and the support it has generated in the GOP represent a shift in how candidates handle defeat.
They mean a steal.
“Next time could be worse,” constitutional law expert Edward B. Foley warned in an op-ed last week while offering praise for the few Republicans willing to stand up to Trump. Those included Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who certified his state’s election amid calls for his resignation from fellow Republicans and threats, and Aaron Van Langevelde, one of two Republicans on the Michigan board that certified that state’s results. While the other Republican on the Michigan board abstained, Van Langevelde said he was required under state law to certify Biden’s win. The result, Foley noted, could have easily been different if other Republicans more open to Trump’s arguments had occupied those same positions. “What makes this year’s narrow escape so unnerving is how far the plot to overthrow the election got with so little factual ammunition,” Foley said.
RINOs all, and please remember that the OPPOSITE of what you READ in the PRE$$ is the TRUTH!
Others believe Trump’s behavior is more of a fluke and unlikely to result in any lasting damage to the electoral process. “Everybody knows that it’s just because they lost,” said Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat. “There isn’t anyone from the president on down that genuinely believed that there was any real fraud. That’s what makes it so disingenuous.”
It's over. That's the end of the two-party duopoly.
Full ahead into one-party communism, folks!
A few candidates have followed Trump’s lead, refusing to concede and seeking extraordinary measures to address their concerns. A Pennsylvania congressional candidate who lost his race has yet to concede and signed on to a lawsuit challenging the validity of all mail ballots cast this year. A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan called on the state to take the unprecedented step of delaying certification so an audit could be done — despite an extensive county canvassing process that did not find significant irregularities. He ultimately conceded. Using the 2020 election as a springboard to create more trust in the process would help, said David Carroll, head of the democracy program at the Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. That could involve requiring state and local election officials to be nonpartisan and appointed rather than elected by party, clarifying vague election laws, implementing federal standards for parts of the process and ensuring more training for election workers and volunteers. “There was a lot of discussion before the election that the process might not be credible. Those are the things we see around the world where democracy is weak,” Carroll said. “It will be important for us to sit down as a nation and as a society and say we don’t want this to happen again. If we don’t, it’s likely that it could.” Trump’s strategy, even if it fails, will probably still be an effective rallying tool for supporters, and it has generated at least $170 million in donations since Election Day. As Trump hints at running for president again, he will need his supporters to stay energized and on his side. “I don’t think it’s going to go away,” said Democratic California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, “because I don’t think he is going away.”
He may very well be going away to a prison cell, and what makes him think they will let him win in four years after stealing his incumbent election?
Speaking of California, why didn't they mention David Valadao?
WTF is with the SELECTIVITY and OMISSIONS in my PRE$$, huh?
The Globe hack Farragher, whom I never waste time reading, profiles one who completes his appointed holiday rounds in the gloom of this dark COVID night -- celebrating those who helped deliver the steal to Biden.
