Delegation for 5.7.21: Dominoes fall â fraud watch â gun loophole â special elections â muzzling the right?
Dem dominoes
Every election cycle holds the potential to shake up membership in the Florida delegation. The first domino of the cycle fell this week when Rep.
Charlie Crist announced a
Ron DeSantis.
As far as Floridaâs team in Washington goes, the most immediate effect is the Pinellas Republican just became the first delegation to say he wonât seek reelection to Congress. That opens up Floridaâs 13th Congressional District. Republican
Anna Paulina Luna, Cristâs 2020 opponent, already filed to take another shot at the seat
May 4, 2021
A group of House Republicans is calling for a review of US environmental envoy John Kerry’s security clearance following reports he allegedly told an Iranian diplomat information about Israel’s operations in Syria.
The issue stems back to last month’s leak of an audiotape of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The New York Times reported April 25 that Zarif said in the recording that Kerry had told him Israel had attacked Iranian assets in Syria at least 200 times. It is unclear when the purported conversation took place. Kerry served as secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 and worked on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with Zarif.
Zarif reveals true face of Iranian regime
Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulami
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (AP)
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The London-based Persian-language satellite news channel Iran International last week released an audio recording of an interview conducted in March by Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economic researcher close to the government, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The three-hour recording contained extremely sensitive information, most of which supported what was already known, given that the source of the information is a senior Iranian government official who is, theoretically, the architect of Iranian diplomacy.
Regardless of who was behind the leaked recording and the objectives behind its release whether it was intended to polish the image of the so-called moderate faction in Iran and highlight the massive pressures it faces from the hard-line fundamentalist, so-called “revolutionary” faction, or an attempt by the Islamic Revo
Insight: âIf we donât believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we donât believe in it at all.â âVirginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Perspective: âFor a would-be FDR, Biden doesnât seem to understand that a fundamental source of the New Dealerâs power was enormous congressional majorities. FDR came into office in 1932 with almost a 200-seat majority in the House, 313-117, after Republicans lost more than 100 seats. ⦠In the Senate, FDR had 58 Democrats, as Republicans lost 12 seats in 1932 in one of the worst senatorial drubbings in history. ⦠With his legislative margin of error so thin, itâs unlikely that Biden will get his way on much besides spending and taxes. Almost all of his sweeping proposals, from federalizing elections to making D.C. a state, will fall by the wayside. More to the point, itâs wrong for Biden to attempt force through such radical measures when his mandate for them exists only in his ridiculous
Douglas Andrews
There was a speech last night, and it was a good one. It was presidential through and through; it was forceful, optimistic, and upbeat; it brought us together as Americans; and it reminded us of why ours is still the greatest nation on earth.
Oh, and Joe Biden also spoke.
To say that South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott merely upstaged the president last night is to miss out on the enormity of the task: The brief rebuttal from the opposition party
always pales in comparison, even when an accomplished and eloquent speaker is at the mic. All we remember about Marco Rubio, for example, was him reaching for that water bottle. No, for majesty and spectacle, thereâs simply no beating an American presidentâs speech to a joint session of Congress.