Tag: McCarthy
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Terrorists Have Won
Back during the Iraq war, version two, when Liz’s dad was Vice President, he used a phrase that stuck with me, “The Terrorists will have won”. In one aspect, the terrorists are winning right now. What terrorists. Bear with me on this one After Obama won, in 2008, the Tea Party movement began. This was…
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Face of the Party?
Yesterday was day one of the new congress and what got accomplished. Sweet nothing. It is the Republicans’ turn to govern and, after three votes, they still could not pick a House Speaker. After the third vote, Kevin McCarthy got 202 votes. Over 90% of Republicans voted for him as House Speaker. However, Kevin needs…
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Mish Mash
So many things that could be covered today. Will give quick tweets on each of them. Ten years ago today, 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven, were shot and killed at Sandy Hook. This happened 11 days before Christmas. I remember thinking if this doesn’t change things, nothing will. Ten years later…
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Unhappy Dance
This is Kevin McCarthy. He has been the Republican House Minority leader durining the current term of Congress. He wants to be the House Speaker, so bad, that he can taste it. He was sure that he was going to get it. All his friends were telling Kevin that the red wave was going to…
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No blank Cheque
Lot of competing issues that could be chirped today including Liz Truss pulling a British version of a Scaramucci by resigning as leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister, after only six weeks, and, ongoing legal woes for Trump and his Trumpkins. But today’s chirp is about the world wide consequences that could happen…