MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In the News
Realize what this really means: taxpayers pay when the FBI does not follow protocol -
Op-ed by David Ignatius @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 22
After a rocky few months in which President Biden sometimes seemed captive of the progressive wing of his own party, he took a solid step back toward the center Monday in renominating Jerome H. Powell as Federal Reserve chair.
The decision to retain Powell, a Republican, and appoint Democrat Lael Brainard, Powell’s chief rival for the top job, as vice chair, could refurbish Biden’s basic promise to make orderly government work again — despite the intensely partisan era. It was, as a senior White House official put it to me shortly after the announcement, “a very Joe Biden decision.”
Biden’s tweet announcing his choice had a pragmatic, down-the-middle tone: “America needs steady, independent, and effective leadership at the Federal Reserve.”
The senior White House official explained the Powell choice this way: “At a time of churn and unease about the economy, ‘stable and steady’ seemed like a good way to go — so keep Powell in his seat and keep Lael as the leading Democrat on the Fed.” The Fed decision, this Biden insider continued, offered “a bipartisan set of picks to try to advance the idea that not everything in American should be a partisan throwdown.” [....]
Sounds to me like Biden's DOJ to BLM: We don't agree with "defund the police"
Remember Obama's "Free Trade" Deal with Colombia. Like all "free trade" deals, it is accelerating the climate crisis. There are two main reasons: The primary is that free trade means much more goods are transported using filthy fossil fuels. The other reason is that lots of other countries don't enforce environmental protection laws if they even have any.
The vote could come as early as today on a $1.85 trillion social policy and climate bill that would be the largest expansion of the safety net in 50 years.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was optimistic that the bill would reach President Biden’s desk. Democrats can afford to lose only a few votes.
By Jonathan Weisman @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 18
WASHINGTON — House Democrats, increasingly confident that they have the support to pass their $1.85 trillion social policy and climate change bill, drove toward a vote on the package as early as Thursday evening, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing optimism that the measure would ultimately reach President Biden’s desk.
“It’s pretty exciting. This is historic; it is transformative,” Ms. Pelosi said on Thursday morning, telling reporters that the final pieces should fall together later in the day to allow for a vote on legislation known as the Build Back Better Act.
Democrats can afford to lose only a few votes given their slim margin of control. But the speaker was leaving nothing to chance.
Technical changes will have to be made to the bill before the vote to ensure that it can be considered under special rules known as reconciliation, which shield it from a filibuster, allowing Democrats to push it through over unified Republican opposition in the Senate. And some moderate Democrats are still waiting on a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office which Ms. Pelosi said should arrive by 5 p.m. [....]