Biden s ambitious push to expand government was deliberately boring, Ted Cruz complains
7:34 a.m.
President Biden address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was the most ambitious ideological statement made by any Democratic president in decades â couched in language that made it sound as if he wasn t making an ideological argument at all,
Politico s John Harris writes. Though rarely described as gifted orator, Biden s speech was a remarkable performance in part because it didn t soar and largely didn t even try to. In plain-spoken language, he depicted a breathtakingly large agenda as plain common sense.
Or as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) groused after the speech, which he appears to have nodded off during, Biden is deliberately being boring, but the substance of what he is saying is radical.
Never-Trump conservatives really liked Tim Scott s GOP rebuttal to Biden s speech
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Sen. Tim Scott s (R-S.C.) response to President Biden s address to Congress on Wednesday was met with high praise from conservatives, including those who fall under the never-Trump label.
Scott began his speech by saying Biden seems like a good man, then promised not to waste your time tonight with finger-pointing or partisan bickering. You can get that on TV any time you want. Instead, Scott said, he wanted to have an honest conversation. About common sense and common ground. About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation, and how we move forward together.
Jimmy Kimmel gently tells MyPillow s Mike Lindell he thinks Lindell s old crack habit made him paranoid
5:21 a.m. In our nation s long and storied history, only one pillow salesman has ever been called to the Oval Office because the president was unhappy with his election results, Jimmy Kimmel said on Wednesday s
Kimmel Live. Our next guest is that pillow man. The original proposal was for Kimmel to interview MyPillow founder and election conspiracist Mike Lindell in a bed, and Kimmel apologized. I m sorry about that, the COVID people said no, he told Lindell. I know, you ve got rules here in California, Lindell said, adding that he has not been vaccinated.
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U.S. reportedly investigating a potential energy attack near the White House
Federal officials are investigating two incidents in the United States that appeared similar to the mysterious apparent attacks that left overseas personnel suffering from debilitating symptoms, CNN reports.
In one incident, a National Security Council official was reportedly sickened near the south side of the White House in November 2020, while in another, a White House official reported a similar attack while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb in 2019. They reported similar symptoms to CIA and State Department personnel impacted overseas, and officials quickly began to investigate the incident as a possible Havana syndrome attack, CNN writes.