Friendly Fire: Julie & Mike ponder Facebook, Liz Cheney, and the great reopening
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Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
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, editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger.
Q. Facebook banned Donald Trump for at least another six months, prompting this response from the former president: “Free speech has been taken away from the president of the United States because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth.” Thoughts?
Julie: We are a long way from a Republican Party that believed in the free market, but Republicans, ironically, have a point about Trump being singled out when Facebook’s entire algorithm is designed to promote his kind of hateful, dangerous, divisive rhetoric. Facebook’s model – if not its business model – is inherently broken and if it wants to get serious about its rol
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Congresswoman Hinson supports removing Wyoming Congresswoman from leadership
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Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says she supports removing Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her Republican leadership post and replacing her with New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
Cheney became a target for removal after voting to impeach President Donald Trump. Hinson says it’s distracting to the party. “Our party leadership has to be focused solely on taking back the House majority in 2022. I think that is the only way we can stop the destructive liberal agenda being pushed by Speaker Pelosi and by President Biden right now,” Hinson says. “If Republicans are divided and not focusing all our efforts against these radical policies, then Speaker Pelosi will remain in power,” Hinson says.
One Republican’s loss could be a gain for a controversial congresswoman in New York.
Outspoken Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is being pushed out as the third-ranking member of the GOP caucus by other Republicans after speaking out against former President Donald Trump, and in her stead, upstate New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is reportedly making moves to replace her.
Stefanik, who has staunchly supported and stood by Trump, is working behind the scenes to whip up enough support to replace Cheney, according to reports, with few challengers stepping up to stand in her way.
According to a CNN report, the House GOP leadership is quietly backing Stefanik’s ascension as it looks to distance itself from Cheney, who has been engaged in a feud with Trump and his supporters.
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Back in March, Democrats passed a whopping $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, which included stimulus checks and more benefits for the unemployed. Less than a month later, President Biden unveiled a roughly $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill. Wyoming senior Senator John Barrasso says it s fiscal insanity. So when I look at all of this spending in the $2 trillion plan, I ll tell you, this isn t Monopoly money. It s real money. You just don t get to pass go and get another $2 trillion to spend, Barrasso said.
Democrats are quick to point out what they call GOP hypocrisy from party leaders like Barrasso, who is the number three Republican leader in the Senate. That s because under the last administration the GOP dropped trillions of dollars on tax cuts. But with the International Monetary Fund estimating the economy will witness more than 6 percent growth this year and with millions of Americans still out of work or underemployed, Biden says now is no time to let up on the gas
May 6, 2021
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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is continuing to pick up support towards potentially becoming the Republican party s conference chair in the House of Representatives.
That means the 21st District Representative could end up replacing Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is the third-highest ranking Republican in the House. Cheney has upset some members of her party by constantly criticizing former President Donald Trump who is among those who believe Stefanik should take her spot. A vote could happen as early as next week.