Donald Trump Fought For Us. Now It’s Our Turn
January 27, 2021
Back in the early days of the Donald Trump phenomenon, whenever he supposedly got out of line a recurring joke about him was, “But he fights.” The pundits laughed. The poor rubes suckered by Trump were supposedly taken in by some canard that he was a fighter. But the fact is he was, he won a lot of those fights, and his voters are better off for those wins.
When the spurious allegations of long past sexual misconduct from now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh emerged, conventional wisdom said his nomination was over. Pre-Trump, that would have been exactly right. He would have been thrown under the bus in the time it took a Sandy Koufax fastball to reach the plate. It was the smart play. But instead Trump fought.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Still serving at 87, Dianne Feinstein brushes off calls to resign over memory issues [The Sacramento Bee :: BC-CALIFSENATE-FEINSTEIN:SA]
WASHINGTON The left wing of the California Democratic Party might want Sen. Dianne Feinstein to step down and make way for a younger leader, but for the time being President Joe Biden’s agenda depends on the 87-year-old lawmaker keeping her seat.
Feinstein last week filed fundraising paperwork under a committee that suggested she was thinking of running for reelection in 2024, when she would be 91.
She has not actually made that decision, but the paperwork set off a new round of calls for her to resign and allow California Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose a successor.
January 22, 2021
Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president of the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
WASHINGTON – Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States on Wednesday, shattering barriers not only as the first woman to hold a nationally elected office, but also the first Black woman and first Asian American to reach such heights.
As the world watched, Harris raised her right hand, face steeled as it was through so many hearings and debates that it became her signature stare.
Then, as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor read “so help me God,” the stoicism broke.
By Emily Rice | Bluefield Daily Telegraph
and J. Damon Cain | The Register-Herald Jan 21, 2021
Jan 21, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin said Tuesday that he believes former president Donald Trump is guilty of sedition. TWV FILE PHOTO
BLUEFIELD â On the eve his party taking control of the Senate and handing him chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, said Tuesday that the evidence to convict President Trump in an impeachment trial is âoverwhelming.â
Manchin, a centrist if not conservative Democrat, said he will continue to vote his conscience.
Speaking with reporters about his plans and concerns for the country with Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States, Manchin said he will wield power responsibly.