Jerry Summers: Before Marjorie
Jerry Summers The nationwide controversy over the winner of the 2020 contest in Georgia’s 14
th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene, doesn’t need to be elaborated on further except to confirm that she won almost 75 percent of the vote as an arch conservative Republican candidate. Said district starts in Marietta and generally follows Interstate 75 northward covering 12 counties to the Tennessee state line in Catoosa County. In 2016 ex-president Donald Trump carried the district with the eighth best showing in the nation and statistics further show that the 14
th District is the 10th most Republican district in America.
One of North Carolina’s most enduring political alliances – teachers and the Democratic Party – is being tested by today’s debate over reopening schools.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an embarrassment. Like, when your mom comes to school to bring the lunch you forgot, and sheâs wearing pajamas, fuzzy bedroom slippers and pink foam rollers in her hair.
Your classmates laugh. The jabs continue until the next clueless parent fails to consider their childâs reputation. Jokes about your motherâs fashion choice stick like flypaper and follow you through high school, and beyond. The tale is told at class reunions.
Shame has a long shelf life, like the impact of Greeneâs fringe rhetoric.
âLoony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,â Mitch McConnell said of the conspiracy-loving Greene. âSomebody whoâs suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.âs airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or th
âMind Bogglingâ and âDeadly.â This Is the Trump V.A.âs Racist Legacy.
âIt needs to be cleaned up right away,â one employee said. Will Denis McDonough, Bidenâs pick for V.A. secretary, help repair whatâs broken?
By Jasper Craven
Feb. 1, 2021
Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough.Credit.Pool photo by Sarah Silbiger
In May 2014, when retired U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Officer Nuwanna Franklin moved on from the Department of Defense to an administrative position at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Dublin, Ga., she envisioned a few years of rewarding work, and then retirement.
In her new role, Ms. Franklin received formal V.A. plaudits, thank-you notes from patients and other signs of gratitude from employees she advocated for as part of her role in the union. Yet she says the workplace was plagued by a pernicious and oppressive culture of prejudice â an environment in which she felt âyou canât speak up
I was so proud : Biden praises Mitch McConnell 02:09
Douglas Heye is the ex-deputy chief of staff to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a GOP strategist and a CNN political commentator. Follow him on Twitter @dougheye. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)Washington has been dysfunctional for a long time. The deep partisan divide has kept Congress from getting big things done. If we re going to change that, we ll have to do it together, especially now that the Senate is split 50-50.
Douglas Heye
It s a tall order, but as a Republican who has spent a good part of the last 30 years on Capitol Hill, I can say this: There is no politician better positioned to make this happen than Joe Biden.