Presidential involvement has its pitfalls
03 Feb 2021
Tribune News Service
The danger of campaigning on a pledge to “unite the country” is that if you win, your opponents get to decide whether you will succeed. That’s the dilemma now facing President Joe Biden and the best way for him to achieve his goal is not to make too big a deal of it.
In political terms, unity will have to take the form of bipartisanship, given the math in Congress. And the extent to which Biden is already getting trolled by Republicans for not being unifying underscores one of the great paradoxes of presidential leadership: A president’s engagement on an issue can make it harder to resolve.
Mitch McConnell condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene s loony lies, defends Liz Cheney Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday went to bat for GOP Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney while condemning remarks from freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
McConnell issued a statement condemning the extremist views of Greene, whose support for QAnon and other conspiracy theories has drawn scorn from Democrats and some Republicans.
McConnell said the Georgia congresswoman s embrace of conspiracy theories and loony lies is a cancer for the Republican Party. Somebody who s 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. s airplane is not living in reality, McConnell said. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our
Steve Bannon Says Mitch McConnell Is Terrified Of A Real Defense Of Donald Trump
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Revolver News published on Sunday, former White House strategist Steve Bannon addressed Donald Trump s forthcoming impeachment trial and his break with his defense team.
According to Bannon, the South Carolina lawyers bailed on Trump because of their adherence to a concept promoted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham that suggests ignoring the heart of the issue purported widespread electoral fraud and focusing on arguing due process. According to the Graham Strategy, as long as you don t throw in the face of the do-nothing establishment their own failure protect the people, defend the constitution and deliver a fair election, Trump will avoid conviction, Bannon said.
(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden and Democratic congressional leaders must decide whether to break the administration’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief proposal into pieces after a scaled-down Republican plan emerged. The $600 billion GOP proposal offered to the president by 10 Republican senators on Sunday provides the potential to move a bipartisan bill that includes components from the Biden proposal, including funding for coronavirus.