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Cleta Mitchell has resigned

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:41:58 +0000

In reply to Lincoln Project going after

Cleta Mitchell has resigned from @FoleyandLardner. The firm said in a statement: "Cleta Mitchell has informed firm management of her decision to resign from Foley & Lardner effective immediately." https://t.co/2peHwUTjOi
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) January 5, 2021

Lincoln Project seems to be specializing in making sure that "ETTD"

Foley & Lardner is basically the most famous and prestigious law firm in Wisconsin.

Georgia, this is it. Today is

artappraiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:40:45 +0000

In reply to Lincoln Project going after

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The Second Confederacy in a

moat — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:22:56 +0000

In reply to Chip's statement while

The Second Confederacy in a nutshell. Incite violence while bemoaning it.

Chip's statement while

rmrd0000 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:10:14 +0000

In reply to Hilarious, it looks like Chip

Chip's statement while appearing on Tucker Carlson

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) scaremongered Monday about the possibility of Republicans losing control of the U.S. Senate, claiming the United States would endure a “full-scale hot conflict” as a result.

In an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, Roy warned what he believed will happen if Democrats flip the Senate by winning Tuesday’s runoff elections in Georgia.

“What happens tomorrow in Georgia, if we have a Democratically controlled Senate, I mean, we’re now basically at full-scale hot conflict in this country, whereas right now we’re in a cold civil war,” Roy told Carlson.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chip-roy-georgia-runoff-elections-warning_n_5ff419ccc5b6ec8ae0b57c09

"Despite Donald Trump’s

NCD — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:03:09 +0000

In reply to As Charles Blow notes, this

"Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to reprise Richard Nixon’s 1968 law-and-order message, Joe Biden defeated him by rolling up big margins in the suburbs of cities like Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. It’s true that Biden overwhelmingly carried those cities, but analyses by Harry Enten of CNN and Nate Cohn at the New York Times show that his net gain of urban votes was lower than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016. The suburbs elected Biden..In Detroit, Biden actually got 1,000 fewer votes than Clinton, while Trump added five thousand..". link

Republicans targeting, blaming and attempting the disenfranchising of blacks as bogeymen is always a GOP tactic to win. Trump lost in the suburbs.

Two points from @Morning_Joe:

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:52:07 +0000

In reply to 12 Republican Senators Will Challenge The Electoral College Vote

Two points from @Morning_Joe:

1.) The same problems Boehner had that ultimately drove him out is the same problem McConnell is going to have with the #SeditionCaucus

2.) GOPers who are loyal to @realDonaldTrump will live to regret it when he inevitably turns on them. pic.twitter.com/wrLIuUKVW7
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 4, 2021

This tweet was a reminder to me that Joe himself served as a fairly right-wing Republican in the House for four terms. I found it helpful to revisit exactly what that constituted in the 1990's (and note that he did not become an Independent until 6 mos. into the Trump presidency). Wikipedia:

Scarborough in 1994

In 1994, Scarborough won the Republican Party primary for Florida's 1st congressional district. The seat had come open when eight-term Democratic incumbent Earl Hutto announced his retirement. In the general election, Scarborough defeated the Democratic candidate, Pensacola attorney Vince "Vinnie" Whibbs Jr., with 61 percent of the vote. Whibbs was the son of former Pensacola mayor Vince Whibbs. The district had not supported a Democratic candidate for U.S. president since 1960. However, Democratic candidates had continued to hold most local offices well into the 1990s. Scarborough's win coincided with a large Republican wave that allowed the Republicans to take the majority in the House for the first time in 40 years.

Proving just how Republican this district was, Scarborough was reelected with 72 percent of the vote in 1996. In 1998 and 2000, he faced only write-in candidates as opposition.[13][14]

Tenure[edit]

During his congressional career, he received a 95 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union.[15] He signed the Contract with America. Scarborough served on the Armed Services, Judiciary, Government Reform, and Education committees. In 1998 he was named chairman of the Civil Service Committee.[16]

Scarborough was one of a group of about 40 freshmen Republican legislators who dubbed themselves the "New Federalists" after The Federalist Papers. Scarborough was elected political director of the incoming legislators. The New Federalists called for sweeping cuts in the U.S. government, including plans to "privatize, localize, consolidate, [or] eliminate"[17] the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development. Gingrich tapped Scarborough to head a Republican task force on education, and Scarborough declared, "Our goal is to get as much money, power, and authority out of Washington and get as much money, power, and authority into the classroom as possible."[6] Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio), then chairman of the House Budget Committee, adopted Scarborough's language eliminating the federal Department of Education in the 1996 House Budget Resolution.[18] The budget passed the House by a vote of 238–193.[19]

Scarborough supported a number of anti-abortion positions while in Congress, including the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, that made it a crime to harm a fetus during the commission of other crimes.[20][21]

Scarborough sponsored a bill to force the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations after a four-year transition[17] and voted to make the Corporation for Public Broadcasting self-sufficient[22] by eliminating federal funding. He also voted for the "Medicare Preservation act of 1995,"[23] which cut the projected growth of Medicare by $270 billion over ten years, and against the "Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996,"[24] which raised the minimum wage to $5.15. Scarborough had a conservative voting record on economic, social, and foreign policy issues but was seen as moderate on environmental issues and human rights causes, including supporting the closure of the School of the Americas and defending accused terrorist Lori Berenson.[6][25]

While in Congress, Scarborough received a number of awards, including the "Friend of the Taxpayer Award" from Americans for Tax Reform; the "Guardian of Small Business Award" from the National Federation of Independent Business; the "Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the United States Chamber of Commerce; the "Taxpayer's Hero Award" from the Citizens Against Government Waste; and the "Guardian of Seniors' Rights Award" from the 60 Plus Association.[citation needed]

Scarborough was one of the 228 members of the House who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in December 1998.[26]

[...committee memberships and electoral history...]

Resignation[edit]

In May 2001, five months into his fourth term in Congress, Scarborough announced his intention to resign to spend more time with his children. Of his resignation, Scarborough said, "The realization has come home to me that they're at a critical stage of their lives and I would rather be judged at the end of my life as a father than as a congressman."[32]

A special election was held in October 2001 to replace Scarborough. Since then, Scarborough has contemplated returning to politics several times.[33][34][35] On July 11, 2017, Scarborough announced on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent.[36]

It was fun while it lasted

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:28:56 +0000

In reply to Meanwhile - "mixed signals"

It was fun while it lasted but now there's a worldwide pandemic with major earthquake-type effects on the worldwide economy and no one's crystal ball seems to better than anyone else's. I am sure many high up members are now thinking: careful what you ask for--"disruption"--it's being delivered in spades now; enough already.

I.E., see Charles Koch story from a couple months back: geeez, me and my brother, we waz wrong! so sorry. can we have normal again, please?

Meanwhile - "mixed signals"

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:16:36 +0000

In reply to at least rmrd has now learned

Meanwhile - "mixed signals" or "regrets I've had a few"?

Over the last four years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce PAC gave money to 10 of the 12 Senate Republicans who plan to challenge Biden's Electoral College victory. https://t.co/E33ojVCMnR
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 4, 2021

at least rmrd has now learned

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:51:44 +0000

In reply to So you're gonna keep singing

at least rmrd has now learned enough to say GOP wants to suppress "black URBAN" vote instead of "the black vote". I found the Charles Blow op-ed to be both racist and out of touch. Does Charles really think the GOP frets about skin color all the time? No, study up on demographics these days, Charles. They are more than happy to chase any BIPOC surburbans or rurals. AND THE KICKER, he thinks they are still the party of "the elites"!!!

Give me a break, Charles, you can't have it both ways, they can't be the populist party of Trumpkin Bumpkins and fervently anti-educated-elite and anti-urban and elite at the same time. And besides trying suppress urban vote, suppressing the vote also means giving college students a hard time about voting in college towns, stuff like that.

Texas is one excellent example, they were pleased as punch with the high turnout of "minorities" at the polls. Of course they would like to suppress the whole city of Detroit. But Bloomfield Hills? No way, all colors of voters welcome!

Blow's entire column struck me as way off base, the whole Jim Crow comparison is absolutely wrong IF you want to talk about what Trump's "populst" GOP is up to, that is. If you want to talk about a decade ago, another story. Really almost shockingly clueless for a NYTimes longtime op-ed writer. Seems like his grievances about the past are blinding him

The 140 House Republicans and

rmrd0000 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 20:26:38 +0000

In reply to So you're gonna keep singing

The 140 House Republicans and the 12 Republican Senators are playing to the base.

Do you really think they will work with Biden?

Imagine how emboldened they will be if they retain both seats in Georgia

McConnell did not want the circus.

Hawley, Cruz, Johnson et. al. laughed in his face.

We will see if any back down after the phone call or a big loss in Georgia