The Brain of a Daily Kos Reader is a Fearsome Machine
Tying up a loose end from the dearly-departed year 2021, here’s a recap of some of our C&J poll results from the fourth quarter. It gives the world a moment to pause and collectively marvel at the sound judgment and brainpower on display here at the Great Orange Satan:
✔ 86 percent of you are definitely ready to let states other than Iowa go first during future presidential primary seasons.
✔ 95 percent aren’t surprised that people who claim “Jesus is my vaccine” keep dying of Covid-19.
✔ 94 percent support Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s call for a federal data protection agency focused on safeguarding Americans’ online personal data and civil liberties.
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✔ 69 percent rightly predicted that world leaders would get nothing substantial done at the climate summit in Glasgow. (Greta was not happy.)
✔ 99 percent support the suspension and/or firing of health care workers and first responders who refuse to get vaccinated for Covid-19.
All of our poll results are double-checked by the world-famous Hinkelmeijer triplets in real time using the latest accordiotabulation technology.
✔ In mid-November we asked how you would grade Attorney General Merrick Garland’s job performance in terms of “his urgency in dealing with this precarious moment in our country’s history.” Three percent gave him an A, 14 percent a B, 30 percent a C, 29% a D, and 24 percent an F.
✔ Given various projects the new infrastructure bill will pay for, 32% were most impressed with lead-pipe replacement, followed by charging stations for electric vehicles (20%), with roads/bridges and broadband expansion tied at 17%.
✔ Not even close: 98 percent of the orange rabble support a vaccine mandate for people traveling by air, as Dr. Fauci has suggested.
✔ When asked to grade the overall performance of President Biden’s cabinet during 2021, 33 percent gave them an A, 53 percent a B, 7 percent a C, and one percent a D.
✔ And for 45 percent of you, your list of Festivus grievances for 2021 was longer than last year’s. For 23 percent the list was shorter.
Please: keep voting in our polls. It'll keep ya sharp for the midterms. And now, our feature presentation…
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Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Note: What kind of dancers do professional plumbers make the most money off of? Cloggers, of course. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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By the Numbers:
The Covid Games start in 30 days.
Days 'til the start of the Winter Olympics in that country that allows corruption and human rights abuses to fester. No, not us, silly—China: 30
Percent of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, polled by Civiqs who say they teach about racism at home: 86%, 39%
Percent of Americans in the same poll who believe the police improved how they interact with people over the last year: 18%
People in the ICU in Michigan on December 13 and January 3, respectively: 1,019 / 774
Average price of a used vehicle in November, according to Edmunds.com: $29,011
Percent chance that the Mercedes concept car EQXX is "made with a host of innovative recycled and sustainable materials including mushroom fibers, ground up cacti, and trash such as food scraps": 100%
Puppy Pic of the Day: Rule #1 for a seasoned criminal: leave no prints…
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CHEERS to bustin' that filibuster in the chops, boy howdy I'm tellin' ya this time it's for realz maybe. After eating his usual breakfast of rusty nails and single-handedly stopping several muggings and bank robberies with nothing more than his wits and those giant fists of fury, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sat down and scrawled an earthquake-inducing letter on a chunk of Harley tailpipe. And, by god, this time it's personal:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Monday that the Senate will hold another vote on voting rights legislation in January. If Republicans choose to filibuster debate on it for the fifth time, Schumer promised to hold a vote on changing Senate rules to enable it to come to the floor for debate and, ultimately, passage.
A helluva legacy if he pulls this off.
In a letter to his Senate colleagues, Schumer framed the push for voting rights laws as a response to the election fraud lies peddled by former President Donald Trump, which inspired the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Those lies and the insurrection have since stood as inspiration for Republican state legislatures to enact new laws that limit voting opportunities and, in at least one state, enable Republicans to purge Democrats from local election boards and replace them with partisans who can make it harder to vote in key Democratic counties. […]
The Jan. 6 anniversary is at the beginning of this final push for voting rights legislation. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, which falls on Jan. 17 this year, is the end: Schumer promised that any push to change Senate rules will come by that date.
Sounds like Schumer has something up his sleeve. If he doesn’t get this done, it better be a one-way ticket on the first SpaceX trip to Mars.
CHEERS to peace in our time. Big announcement from the dudes in charge of most of the world's supply of metallic laser-guided Worse-Than-Hiroshimas:
China, Russia, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.
Nukes are legal. These are not.
It said that the five countries—which are the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—consider it their primary responsibility to avoid war between the nuclear states and to reduce strategic risks, while aiming to work with all countries to create an atmosphere of security.
“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” the English-language version of the statement read.
And in economic news: words remain cheapest commodity on earth for the four billionth straight year.
P.S. Britain, Pakistan and the UK didn’t sign on to this? Earth, we may have a problem.
CHEERS to beating Big Meat. Smart and appropriate move by President Biden, as he reaches out to rural Americans by taking aim at the giant price-gouging meat-packing conglomerates:
President Joe Biden met virtually with independent farmers and ranchers Monday to discuss initiatives to reduce food prices by increasing competition within the meat industry, part of a broader effort to show his administration is trying to combat inflation. “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism—it’s exploitation,” Biden said.
Meanwhile candy corn prices have skyrocketed to $1 million per pound, and Biden has done nothing. Nothing!
Biden is building off a July executive order that directed the Agriculture Department to more aggressively look at possible violations of the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act, which was designed to ensure fair competition and protect consumers. Meat prices have climbed 16% from a year ago, with beef prices up20.9%. […]
“We must get to the bottom of why farmers and ranchers continue to receive low payments while families across America endure rising meat prices,” said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Good. Because meat has gotten so expensive that in order to put pork on my table I've had to put my most cherished possessions in hock. You might call it...ham hock! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! (These and 499 other knee-slappers are now available in Billy's Industrial Food Industry Jokes For All Occasions, Volume LCXXIII. Hurry and get yours today---they're moo-ving fast!)
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI pic.twitter.com/8NvxIOIBVM
CHEERS to Democratic bulldogs. Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill—who coined the phrase "All politics is local"—died 28 years ago today at 81. His 1994 New York Times obituary is an excellent read on retail politics and how Team D can differentiate itself from Team R:
He was a large, joyous, generous-spirited man with a bulbous nose, yellowed white hair that flopped over his forehead and an ever-present cigar. […]
You never saw him and Lt. Frank Drebin in the same room together.
Mr. O'Neill was an old-style politician and proud of it, a House Speaker comfortable with power, who clung to his brand of liberalism long after it ceased to be fashionable, even among his fellow Democrats.
An early opponent of the Vietnam War, Mr. O'Neill took strong positions on many controversial issues. He was the Congressional leader who pushed hardest for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon and later, as Speaker, put his prestige on the line for Congressional reform. […] To Mr. O'Neill, who spoke of the Democratic Party with near-religious fervor, the party was the one of the cities, the working people, the poor, the needy, the unemployed, the sick and the disinherited. "And no way are we ever going to let them down," he would insist.
CHEERS to happy days in Nerdville. A lot of well-earned whooping and hollering at NASA yesterday as the James Webb space telescope—which, when fully active, will look so far back into history that we'll be able to see whose shoe our universe came from the bottom of—passed a major milestone in its deployment as it unfurled…
…all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield, a prerequisite for the telescope's science operations and the most nerve-wracking part of its risky deployment.
As of today, the Webb has its own trampoline.
The challenging procedure, which required careful tensioning of each of the five hair-thin layers of the elaborate sunshield structure was a seamless success today (Jan. 4). Its completion brought huge relief to the thousands of engineers involved in the project over its three decades of development, as well as the countless scientists all over the world who eagerly await Webb's groundbreaking observations. […]
Since Webb observes infrared light, or heat, it has to be kept at extremely cold temperatures so that there is no heat from Webb that could obscure its observations. By reflecting both incoming solar radiation and heat from planet Earth, the sunshield keeps Webb perfectly cold.
Had the rollout of the heat shield failed, NASA was ready with Plan B to keep the craft icy cold during its mission: having Ivanka Trump spend a few minutes a day staring at it.
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Ten years ago in C&J: January 5, 2012
JEERS to earth-shaking news. In northeast Ohio, underground storage of wastewater from the natural gas extraction process called fracking is causing earthquakes. Eleven so far. Of course, there's a difference of opinion on the seriousness of this. The people we typically refer to as educated scientists say "you ain't seen nothin' yet," while the group popularly known as politicians (Governor Kasich, take a bow) say "nothing to see here, please move along." Besides, who doesn’t dream about having their own vibrating bed?
When a female is ready to lay her eggs, she seeks out a tarantula and injects it with paralyzing venom.
Welcome to New Mexico!
She drags the tarantula to a burrow and stuffs it down the hole, then lays her eggs on top of the paralyzed spider. Several days later the eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the still living tarantula.
Also: not many people know that the state maintains an army of giant tarantula hawk wasps in an underground bunker in Roswell. And also not many people know that therein lies the reason for the state's official motto: "What New Mexico Wants, New Mexico Gets."
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial
”I Moved Into the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool With Bill in Portland Maine during COVID-19. Now I Don't Want To Leave.”
A majority Americans begin 2022 full of worry and dread. During President Biden’s first year in the White House, societal anxiety surged, including among voters who identify as independents and Democrats. In the newest Axios/Momentive year-end survey, 2021 saw a 50% increase in fear about what 2022 will bring among independents. Democrats weren’t much more sanguine. They began last year with refreshing optimism as their party took control of the White House and Congress, with only 19% of Democratic voters declaring themselves fearful about 2021. By year’s end, that number had surged to 45%.
Reflecting this dour assessment, the RealClearPolitics polling average of Joe Biden’s approve/disapprove ratio also receded sharply for the last year, from a stellar 20-percentage-point surplus in his favor on Inauguration Day, to a minus- 10-point rating.
Given this environment, Republicans naturally grow more confident about the midterm elections. But taking nominal control of Capitol Hill won’t be enough. Will Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and their lieutenants be content with stopping the woke and socialist-inspired agenda of progressives? Or will they boldly implement a full-throttle populist nationalist “America First” agenda?
Doing so requires focus, not a scattershot approach. The next Republican-majority Congress must concentrate intensely on a short list of the most pressing issues, where only the populists can rescue everyday Americans from the abuses of oligarchs and their handmaidens in both major political parties.
The first issue is inflation. This is the factor that explains the 30-point approval swing that has buried Biden’s White House in a matter of months. Inflation is, essentially, a tax — and a highly regressive one at that. After decades of restrained inflation, Americans understandably fear the continued loss of prosperity as their standard of living erodes by the day. For eight straight months, real wages have declined under Biden.
The ravages of inflation, predictably, hit the working classes the hardest. For example, a recent Gallup poll found that among modest earners making $40,000 or less per year, 71% report that inflation is a severe or moderate hardship. In contrast, among workers earning $100,000 per year or more, only 2% cited inflation as a severe hardship. A November Quinnipiac survey found that Biden still enjoyed a slight positive approval rating on the economy among those with college degrees, 50%-49%. But among non-degree holders, Biden languishes 54 percentage points underwater, with only 20% approval and 74% disapproval. Inflation helps explain this huge chasm.
What solutions should be offered? For starters, stop unfair labor competition so that workers have a chance to keep pace with the soaring prices of Biden’s inflation surge. Stop allowing millions of largely unvetted, illegal migrants to simply waltz into America under the bogus pretense of seeking asylum.
For our citizens, end obstacles to work, including the administration’s capricious and unscientific workplace vaccine mandates.
Return to the pro-energy policies of the previous administration: oil pipeline construction, rejuvenated drilling, and aggressive exploration on government lands so that Americans can benefit from cheap, abundant, domestic fuel.
Longer term, continue the process that President Trump began of demanding fairness and reciprocity in trade deals, especially with China. Once an America First president is elected in 2024, change tax and tariff policies permanently to compel the on-shoring of production back to the United States, especially in critical industries like semiconductors and medicines.
But healing the economy alone is not enough.
Our society suffers a sickness of the soul as well, and legions of everyday Americans feel silenced and intimidated by ruling class elites who insist that we pretend to believe fundamental myths, like the existence of dozens of genders. It’s high time for politicians to speak publicly the way the vast majority of Americans speak privately regarding hot-button cultural issues.
As a recent Rasmussen poll revealed, 75% of Americans agree that only two human sexes exist. Only 18% believe in multiple genders, and yet that small minority drives education policy and makes nearly every important cultural decision for our society, declaring the massive supermajority of Americans to be hopeless bigots for accepting the reality of humanity as male and female.
From a policy standpoint, the America First agenda must embrace this issue for elections, from school boards all the way to the U.S. Senate. Stop radical teachers and their unions from sexualizing young children and indoctrinating them with unscientific gender-fluid psychobabble. Forbid any public buildings or funds for such atrocities as drag-queen story times for children. Make illegal the infiltration of girls’ and women’s sports by biological males.
The common theme with these two issues is protection. Right now, powerful forces collude to oppress the masses, via financial and cultural repression. Only the emerging populist nationalist movement can protect citizens in both realms. Restoring wages and restoring gender sanity represent an agenda worthy of a great movement in this new year.
Senate Republicans can now breathe easier on Jan. 6.
Former President Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday evening that he would cancel a previously planned press conference is good news for Senate Republicans, who earlier in the day openly fretted that he would pull their party back into debating his false election claims.
It also ensures that Republicans won't have to keep one eye on the TV on the anniversary of the Capitol attack, nor will they face a deluge of questions about Trump in the immediate days.
“I don't think that's a good idea,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), when asked about the press conference earlier Tuesday. “I guess it depends on what he's going to say. But early assumptions are that it's going to be an aggressive statement. I just don't think it's a good idea.”
Similarly, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said she wanted to “stay focused on congressional activities." And Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who voted to convict Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack, said the event wasn’t a “terribly good idea,” but added, "What am I going to do about it?”
And those were the members who decided to even talk about it. Even as the former president continues to defend the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol, Senate Republicans largely prefer to ignore him, still seeing scant purpose in provoking a prickly Trump even a year after he's left office. In interviews Tuesday, several declined to comment and instead said their attention is on moving forward.
Senate Republicans' opting not to discuss Trump’s latest grievances highlights the ongoing tension within the GOP over how much attention to give to the former president, especially as he continues to falsely state that the 2020 election was stolen. While many Senate Republicans condemned Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack — when pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol — he still holds substantial sway over the party, particularly in GOP primaries.
“It’s a free country and you’re entitled to say whatever you want to say subject to some limitations, but I think the country has moved on,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.). “I think that’s where we ought to focus our efforts, is on getting things done for the American people and not re-litigating issues that have already been decided.”
In addition to talking about the 2020 election, Trump was also expected to decry the House select committee’s investigation into Jan. 6. In his statement announcing he was canceling the rally, Trump blamed the committee for his decision and said he would discuss “many of those important topics” at a rally in Arizona on Jan. 15.
“In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday,” Trump said, reiterating his false charges of widespread election fraud.
While Senate Republicans appeared to be dreading the press conference, House Republicans had taken a more friendly tack toward Trump. On Fox News on Monday night, Laura Ingraham asked Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) if it was "smart" for Trump to do a speech on Jan 6.
"I welcome it. President Trump has important things to say," Banks said. "I'm looking forward to hearing what President Trump has to say."
Most Senate Republicans voted to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial centered on his role in the Capitol attack and most also voted to block a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission from being established. House Democrats instead set up a select committee to probe the circumstances around the attack.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both scheduled to deliver remarks at the U.S. Capitol that day. Meanwhile, many Senate Republicans are expected to be out of town for GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson’s funeral.
Few Senate Republicans see an upside in talking about Trump, the 2020 election and his role in the Jan. 6 attack.
“There's no benefit on commenting,” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). “So I'm not going to comment.”
For many, ignoring him is often the path of least resistance. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly declined to engage in questions about Trump, merely saying he’s focused on the future. When asked about Trump's press conference, McConnell said Tuesday: "It'll be interesting to see what he has to say." And Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the No. 4 GOP leader, said Tuesday he hadn’t given much thought to the press conference.
“He’s going to do what he’s going to do and … I think that most of us want to make sure that something like that never happens again,” said Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.).
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo started 2022 much like he ended 2021, with an apparent legal victory.
A lawyer for the disgraced ex-leader of the state said Monday that the Manhattan district attorney’s office ended its investigation into the Cuomo administration’s nursing home policies during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis without pressing any charges.
“I was told that after a thorough investigation – as we have said all along – there was no evidence to suggest any laws were broken,” Elkan Abramowitz, former outside counsel for the executive chamber, said in a statement posted by Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi on Twitter.
The news from Manhattan comes after prosecutors in Nassau and Westchester counties said in late December they would not seek charges against the former governor related to sexual harassment allegations made against him.
In late March 2020, as COVID-19 cases were increasing in New York, state officials initiated a new policy requiring nursing homes to accept patients who had tested positive into their facilities.
The rationale was to free up beds at hospitals suddenly taxed by an influx of patients needing treatment. Shortly after the policy started, though, caseloads and deaths at the long-term care facilities skyrocketed.
The administration eventually issued a report that said the policy was not responsible for increased deaths at the facilities. Instead, the administration said community spread brought it in as workers and visitors introduced the virus to nursing homes before additional steps could be taken to control it.
The policy was eventually rescinded in early May.
The administration would also reveal daily death totals regarding people who died at hospitals and nursing homes. In January 2021, however, state Attorney General Letitia James said an investigation by her office determined that while Cuomo and state leaders did not underreport the total number of deaths, the number of deaths attributable to nursing homes was undercounted by up to 50%.
All the while, Cuomo’s national profile rose as his daily COVID-19 briefings made him a national political figure. He eventually received a $5 million book deal regarding his management of the crisis during the early days of the pandemic.
State lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were also critical of Cuomo and the nursing home policy, especially regarding the lack of information the administration revealed about it.
Cuomo resigned in August, not due to the nursing home investigation, but after an independent investigation into several sexual harassment accusations against him. Those sexual harassment allegations and the nursing home policies were also part of an impeachment probe led by members of the state Assembly.
The state’s public ethics agency also pulled its approval of Cuomo’s $5 million book deal. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics also has taken steps to force the former governor to give back the money after the impeachment investigation determined administration officials worked on the book in violation of the conditions it gave in its approval of the book deal.
And while Cuomo may not face prosecution in New York County, that does not mean he will necessarily escape punishment.
Prosecutors in the New York City borough were just one of several agencies investigating Cuomo regarding nursing homes. An investigation by James’ office still continues as well as ones by the FBI and federal prosecutors.
Janice Dean, a Fox News meteorologist who became one of Cuomo’s most outspoken critics after her in-laws died in nursing homes, noted those ongoing inquiries in a statement on Twitter after Monday’s news broke.
“This sounds like a little favor from an outgoing Manhattan DA, which we’ll address with the new DA,” Dean tweeted.
Cyrus Vance served as the Manhattan district attorney until the end of December. Alvin Bragg won election in November and took over officially on New Year’s Day.
A message to Bragg’s office seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Senator Ted Cruz is optimistic about a Republican takeover of the House in 2022, something he believes will lead to the impeachment of President Biden.
The Texas Republican made the comments in the latest episode of his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
The first step in the possible impeachment of the President requires the House falling back under Republican control after the midterms, something Cruz describes as a nearly 100 percent likelihood.
“I’m very optimistic about 2022,” he said. “I put the odds of the Republicans winning the house at 90/10 and it may even be higher than that.”
It is an assessment with which oddsmakers tend to agree.
Republicans are the clear favorites to win the House majority in 2022 with at least five Democrat-held seats already leaning towards the GOP, forecaster states
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Senator Cruz went on to suggest once the House is in Republican hands several investigations would be opened into the Biden administration.
“If we take the House, which I said is overwhelmingly likely, then I think we will see serious investigations of the Biden administration,” Cruz said.
The Political Insider reported last month that the GOP is planning investigations on seven fronts should they prevail in the midterms: The IRS, the National Security Agency, parents of school children, the border crisis, COVID response, Afghanistan and JEDI.
That report has more detailed explanations of the investigations that will, according to Republicans, begin on Day 1.
On whether or not Republicans would turn investigations into impeachment action against President Biden, Cruz could envision such a scenario and reminded Democrats that they set the precedent.
“I do think there’s a chance of that,” Cruz said. “Whether it’s justified or not, the Democrats weaponized impeachment. They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him.”
“One of the real disadvantages of doing that is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” he continued.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, predicts that the Republican take over the House of Representatives in the midterm elections later this year, and probably move to impeach President Joe Biden in 2023. https://t.co/VJG53YuDzL
Ted Cruz stated that the odds of Republicans winning the Senate, the chamber required for conviction after the House votes to impeach, isn’t quite as high.
“I put our odds at 50/50,” he said of potential GOP control of the Senate. “I think it’s going to be a really good year but it’s a bad map.”
Cruz went on to explain that the border crisis and Biden’s “decision to just defy immigration laws” are the most likely grounds for impeachment.
The crisis at the southern border continues to worsen with more than 173,000 illegal immigrants apprehended in November according to preliminary reporting.
That marks the highest total for November in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) history.
The Biden Administration’s hypocrisy on COVID and the southern border crisis is nauseating. We don’t need a booster shot, we need a booster wall. #TX38https://t.co/NU20mf17zk
Cruz’s colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), believes the botched Afghanistan withdrawal is the most pressing need when discussing impeachment.
“I think Joe Biden deserves to be impeached because he’s abandoned thousands of Afghans who fought with us and he’s going to abandon some American citizens because he capitulated to the Taliban to a 31 August deadline,” Graham said as the withdrawal was taking place.
The evacuation and ceding control to the Taliban led to a suicide bombing killing 13 service members, a retaliatory drone strike by the United States that killed 10 civilians – including an aid worker and 7 children – and hundreds of Americans being left behind in the hostile country even to this day.
Cruz said no matter the focus, “there will be enormous pressure on a Republican House to begin impeachment proceedings.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that "there's a chance" Republicans will impeach President Biden if they win the House majority in this year's midterm elections."If we take the House, which I said is overwhelmingly likely, then I think we will see...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in an interview Monday that it is likely that Republicans will win back the House in 2022, and said if they do, they will probably consider impeaching President Biden.
Sen. Ted Cruz said that a Republican-led House after the 2022 elections likely will consider impeaching President Biden on “multiple grounds.”
In the latest episode of his podcast “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” the Texas Republican said he was extremely confident that his party will win Congressional majorities and that this ...
Congressman Jamie Raskin, who served as lead impeachment manager of former President Trump's second impeachment trial and is on the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his new book "Unthinkable." The book covers the impeachment and the death of Raskin's son, who died just days before the Capitol siege.
