A good amount of them UNDO actions of his predecessor President Trump…
They are the first wave of Joe Biden’s efforts to put things back together for the American Government…
President Joe Biden has signed a flurry of executive orders, actions and memorandumsaimed at rapidly addressing the coronavirus pandemic and dismantling many of former President Donald Trump’s policies.
The executive actions Biden has taken in the first days of his administration include halting funding for the construction of Trump’s border wall, reversing Trump’s travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries, imposing a mask mandate on federal property, ramping up vaccination supplies and requiring international travelers to provide proof of negative Covid-19 tests prior to traveling to the United States.
So far, Biden has signed more than 50 executive actions, 22 of which are direct reversals of Trump’s policies. Most of these actions have addressed the novel coronavirus, immigration and equity.
Biden defends the number of executive actions he has issued as necessary to undo what he considers “bad policy” inherited from Trump, especially on immigration.
To date, nine of his 11 actions regarding immigration are reversals of Trump’s policies.
“And I want to make it clear — there’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I have signed — I’m not making new law; I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said as he signed a series of actions on immigration from the Oval Office on February 2. “What I’m doing is taking on the issues that — 99% of them — that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I felt were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the area of immigration.”
See all of Biden’s executive actions below.…
image….NY Times
New Open Thread is HERE
Morning People.. …
In the early morning the US House passed Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill…
It now goes to the Senate where Schumer is going to work to keep the thing in one piece from Manchin and Republican tinkering…
Not a single Republican voted for final passage of the House version which includes the $15/hour minimum wage.
The minimum wage has been ruled not germane to the Budget Reconciliation Bill before the Senate, which ironically enough may make it easier to pass (without the objections of Joe Manchin, D-WV, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Az) although on a knife edge 50-50 vote (+VP Harris).
See all five relevant roll calls in the House, pretty much straight party-line, in a form sortable by party and vote, here:
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes
The Republican Party in 2021 thinks “populism” only means pitting the middle class against the working poor, people of color, immigrants etc.
Actually helping people?
That’s considered “elitist”.
That turns out a little muddled, Scott, given the ambiguous meaning of “middle class”
Without fancying myself the reincarnation of the spirits of Karl Marx, Max Weber or Talcott Parsons, I’d phrase it as the classic conservative strategy of pitting one part of the working class against another or against the underclass (lumpenproletariat), partly by playing on anxieties (or outright fears) about status and change.
Biden poll numbers remain 15 to 20% higher then Trump’s
Morning Consult poll has Cruz pilling numbers drop!
It’s down 11% ….
To 71%
Gotta give it to them Texan’s
Don’r matter
They sure stay behind their guys….
That’s only among Republicans in Texas. Overall, the poll has Cruz at 43%.
I wonder what Cuomo’s numbers are now in New York among Democrats.
We’ll see for sure on Cuomo
He’s not gonna just quit….
He has hired a defense attorney …
Third woman cone forward with Cuomo stupid come on comment…
He’s toast
Fine with me if he goes. Rising GQP star Madison Cawthorne is being accused of harassment and predatory behavior. I wonder if he’ll be forced to resign lol.
It’s a little different when it is something from his college days and trying to impress female peers, as opposed to being the Governor and boss and much younger, vulnerable woman.
Cawthorn seems like a real creep, but it’s a completely different situation. I also do not believe he is alleged to have physically violated anyone.
Or it’s different because you want it to be. Cawthorn was in college a mere 2-5 years agom. He entered college at 22 and was creeping on girls in their late teens while Trump was President.
Scott makes a good point about Madison, because if we apply the “Franken Standard” he should have already resigned right?
This is a difficult issue when people in any position of power are concerned.
For example, it took forever to bring down Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who were not only serial rapists, but power abusing, celebrity abusing serial rapists.
Public officials should be held to a higher standard than ordinary citizens (whether famous or anonymous, rich or poor). But does that higher standard mean “Queen of Hearts,” first the sentence, then the trial? Does it mean lightning fast presumption of guilt and expulsion to the abyss?
It did when Al was concerned, everyone here got a demand: “do you condone his actions and should he resign immediately!’ I simply thought there should be an investigation.
So, should we calm down and let an investigation tell us whether the claims are true, and if true, where they fall on a criminal or misconduct scale?
I have seen Andrew in action when he worked in the Clinton Administration, he is an obnoxious prick. But New Yorkers like obnoxious pricks. I would never have worked for him, but lots of people did and do, and even obnoxious pricks deserve their day in court.
I am looking forward to that day for a guy named Trump.
I am interested to know if Kathy Hochul, a relative moderate from Buffalo, will be able to defeat a New York City based more progressive opponent, perhaps a minority, in a Gubernatorial primary.
Maybe if the field is splintered among several of those candidates.
Cuomo is going to become the 2nd straight elected Democrat Governor (and former State AG) to have to resign for sexual misconduct. And the other one in between them was scandal-ridden as well.
Of course, CNN basically is unable to cover the Cuomo situation in primetime because of one of their anchors.
CNN Cuomo has been banned from mentioning his brother….
No touching so far….
Jack can give call…
This is not arrest level.,..
This could cost him money….
I STILL DO NOT think Cuomo does a Franken
No, something does not have to rise to “arrest level” (which probably could have been the case for Franken based on one photo) for someone to have to resign.
The photo here certainly involves touching and one should not have to be a woman to understand it and why it is so offensive and out of bounds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html
There is nothing sexual about the picture….
I hate to go there but
Every power full male politician before covid has rhe same picture….
Caution….
Standards for Democrats are higher then for Republicans❗️
He grabbed her by the face (as can be seen in the picture) and says he wants to kiss her.
Yeah, perfectly normal way to treat a complete stranger. No man who would do that belongs in office.
A Democrat could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and james would likely still support them.
Yet oddly enough, he refuses to vote for Gillibrand.
The AG’s person and the women will make their case ….
We’ll see
But the bar IS lower for GOPer’s
No doubt…
No James. That is not acceptable behavior unless it was good bye kiss after a romantic date.
Perhaps the best way to understand why is to imagine how you would feel if a man held you that way.
And your “every powerful male politician” comment is a little disturbing. It implies that you are indifferent to sexual harassment. We don’t live in the 1960s any more.
Truthfully. I consider these online discussions here of who is a “hot” politician to be touching the boundary of what is acceptable. Some things can be thought but left unsaid.
As i said Z?
The list would long from both sides
That is no excuse and i expect the Governor will have to pay some money to the womne in the end no matter what…
As an example Trump went on a national radio show admitted and bragged about numerous sexual assaults ,and was nominated and elected President of the United States.
Indeed Jack….
Well, the different standard is that Republicans tend to be morally indifferent to offenses committed by Republicans. The solution is NOT for the Democrats to be morally indifferent when an offense is committed by a Democrat.
We aren’t likely to change who Republicans are even if I would like to believe that complaining helps.
Thousands of things are “arrest level,” yet people are never arrested .
And people who are arrested for “arrest level” matters are often never brought to trial.
Rancid Turd Ted Cruz used his CPAC speech to joke about going to Cancun while Texans froze to death and mocked AOC for her fear of death from his knuckle dragging goons.
That whole spectacle is nauseating.What a collection of creepy Right Wing kooks.
It’s like a scene from the old novel”1984” where words mean the opposite of their actual meaning as these crypto authoritarian, domestic terrorist supporting ,kooks yell “freedom.”
And isn’t it strange ?No post from James.Instead of the garbage he spouts here daily about them,here is the Republican Party 2021 in all its glory!
Cruz also said the GOP is no longer the party of country clubs, we’re the blue collar party.
Really. Ted Cruz. Who went to Cancun while Texans froze to stay at a Ritz Carlton resort and then came home to joke about it.
What these turds Cruz and Hawley mean is they are rich guys who want to turn the bigotry of some blue collar Americans into votes by blaming minorities, the urban poor, immigrants, LGBTQ.
Those “country club Republicans” were rich but not hateful. And to Cruz and Hawley THAT’S their real sin.
Well The Cancun Kid can lead the way in showing the “blue collar” folks that Republicans are really with them.
He can introduce a measure to repeal the Trump tax giveaway to the wealthy tax bill of 2017.Come on Ted,show those working class people you’re really with em and stick it to those “country club” types .
Uh I won’t hold my breath!
Cruz on the blue collar thing is from a media piece poll,…
Good posts by Jack and Scott.
I watched a newsmax talk with some guy last night for 3 min and had to change the channel…
The guy was in a zombie like trance going on about how he and others had to fight the ‘left’….
No mask…
Zoned out…..
Jonestown just comes to mind
You can understand the Capitol mentality
Some scary stuff‼️…
A long review article in the Winter Dissent that’s nearly impossible to summarize here, but has loads of important analysis that would interest people here of every persuasion about splits among Democrats, splits among Republicans, the alienation of the working classes and growing inequality. Although it may take 10-15 minutes to read, every9one here will find something useful (or at least some hammer with which to bash other contributors — e.g. the Democrats are too left-wing; no they’re too centrist, etc.)
Backlash Forever
It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left. But we should also reject the idea that social conservatism always lies latent within working-class culture, ready for right-wing politicians to activate.
Gabriel Winant ▪ Winter 2021
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
by David Paul Kuhn
Oxford University Press, 2020, 416 pp.
Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
Liveright, 2020, 288 pp.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/backlash-forever?
I did find a partial summary (or at least outline of contents) in the Dissent newsletter:
Backlash Forever
The 1970 Hardhat Riot—when a mob of construction workers in New York City beat up antiwar demonstrators—has become “a signal incident in the breakdown of the old New Deal coalition,” writes Gabriel Winant. And in liberal discourse, “the backlash still rules: the Silent Majority, the Reagan Democrats, the Kansans who have something the matter with them, Joe the Plumber, the elegized hillbilly, the Rust Belt diner patrons, Joe Bailey. At each election, these archetypes of the white working class line up for the unrepentant oligarchs of the Republican Party.”
In this account, workers have a natural home on the center-left, but they have been pushed into the arms of right-wing culture warriors by left-wing overreach. What that story misses is “the role of liberal politics in the erosion of working-class solidarity”:
Since the early twentieth century, liberal politicians have both depended to some degree on such solidarity to supply mass support and at the same time sought to contain it to sustain their own position. When this project of containment succeeds, class itself begins to diminish as an organizing political force—empowering liberal politicians, but producing oligarchy for society at large.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/backlash-forever
Morning All….
Morning All….
For the past week plus, there has been quite an intriguing political battle going on in regards to whom will become the next Chairman of the Illinois Dem Party.
It is a two person race now between Chicago Alderman Michelle Harris and Congresswoman Robin Kelly, though more accurately a proxy battle between Gov. Pritzker and Sen. Durbin respectively. There was a third candidate in the race until yesterday, who was an Hispanic female State Senator. It had looked like Harris had the edge, but then the third candidate, backed by Congressman Chuy Garcia dropped out and endorsed Kelly, which seemed to give her a clear edge
It’s pretty amazing that Pritzker as the Governor seeking reelection and the richest man in politics may lose this one, but apparently there is some bad blood between him and Durbin. Several of Kelly’s colleagues from the Illinois delegation are supporting her opponent, as is Tammy Duckworth, who has taken a different stance than Durbin, Michael J. Madigan, the scandal-plagued former Chair has come out in favor of Harris, and it’s amazing that the campaign would even publicize it.
Now, there is a brouhaha today with the anti-Kelly people saying that because she is a federal official she cannot legally serve as Chairman of a State Party (because she cannot legally raise soft money herself) but Kelly’s people are pushing back on that, saying for example that a Congreswoman from Georgia is the Chair of that state’s party.
The vote is supposed to take place on Wednesday.
Mitt Romney was injured over the weekend while visiting grandchildren in Boston, in what he says was a fall, that knocked him unconscious and required a large amount of stitches to his eyebrow and lip.
He joked first though that he made a mistake by showing up at CPAC
Several years ago, when Harry Reid was injured in a “exercise machine” accident, some on the left said, perhaps quasi-seriously, that Mitt Romney had put a Mormon Mafia hit on him. So, I guess this could be retribution.
I had heard Lou Dobbs talk about the Mormon Mafia. Who specifically on the “left” used that term?
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., lawyer and D.C. political power broker, dies at 85…
He was the consummate Washington power broker, reaching the peak of his quiet authority during the 1990s, when he was, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, President Bill Clinton’s closest adviser. He had Clinton’s ear through two terms as president, including the most challenging moments, when Clinton faced an investigation and impeachment over a relationship with a White House intern….
More…
The only “Mormon Mafia” I ever heard of in DC were the Mormons at OMB that, by all accounts, overpopulated the place in comparison to other groups in government. A phenomena that started under the Reagan Administration and continues today, and as obnoxious many of them could be, our OMB analyst was a Marriott that knew nothing of our Agency’s mission, they didn’t engage in hit jobs against politicians (they simply cut off funding streams).
However, Departmental Staff did regularly refer to the Mormons at OMB as the Mafia. It was always my opinion that there was a push to place those folks at OMB given the power they have over budget development as we go through the process. It wasn’t a “left thing” it was a process thing, they held the purse strings and it took the OMB Director to overrule them on may occasions. Who was behind that “push” is open to speculation.
I disliked our Analyst so much that it was years before I could even bring myself to stay at a Marriott Hotel. In fact, I just booked my first Marriott last night in Seville Spain for next Christmas (betting on safe travel by then).
I think we have an obsession here about poor Harry Reid, God bless him, and an oversized fixation with his power to make or break a potential President (especially when a certain Presidential candidate is mediocre at best).
Morning
There are a LOT of people who Cuomo has beat on politically….
They have prayed for this moment…
The should be careful….
If he holds on?
They will looking over their shoulders for him
He does not take prisnors
Remind ya of sombody?
Trump aside, I do not buy into the different standard thing.
There was a Republican Congressman from New York a few years back who was forced by party leadership to resign because he had sent a woman a shirtless photo.
As for Cuomo, the more people are talking about his personal behavior and to the extent it might drive him out of office, the less attention is being paid to the fact that as Governor, he had a huge scandal in covering up nursing home deaths.
Yes, one story is “sexier”, but one did more harm to more people directly.
Brace yourself Scott:
Rush Limbaugh’s casket was draped by the American flag.
Apparently, Limbaugh also had a Marine Honor Guard at his funeral.
I knew he did a lot for Marine charities, but is that something that a non-veteran is entitled to? I suppose the anal cyst that kept him out of service had cleared up.
I think Rush might have read a comment in the past left on here and was buried in St. Louis just to taunt Scott and his bladder.
It’s not worth it Scott!
I don’t approve of such acts but I saw a meme saying if Rush was so against gender neutral bathrooms shy will his grave be one?
I remember you posting that you were preparing to drive down to Cape Girardeau to do the deed, but he made it easier for you.
Don’t do it though. It’s a trap!
Rush is buried in a city that voted 82% against Trump and in a heavily African American part of town.
Why he chose to he buried there I don’t know..
But the important part is he’s finally quiet.
I can picture the McCloskeys standing guard…
His website has some sort of creepy audio of Rush and his wife discussing his funeral and how “cool” it was going to be and how Mrs. Limbaugh felt it needed to be almost on par with a Presidential funeral.
The McCloskey’s guarding El Rushbo’s grave? Ha! Those drunken ambulance chasers??
Of course I would rather have them waving guns around in a cemetery where most people they’d accidentally shoot are already dead.
This one lady in Final Jeopardy guessed that Fidel Castro had three times addressed a Joint Session of Congress (1996, 2011, 2015)
Rest in peace to Vernon Jordan.
I noted today that he and Larry Flynt are among the most high profile Americans to have survived assassination attempts. They were shot just a couple of years apart in 1978 and 1980, and now have died within a month of each other.
You guys will be happy to know that according to HHR’s remaining Trumpists:
-“CG” supports:
Open Borders
Cancelling of the XL pipeline and other major fracking/oil ventures in the United States
Dependence on foreign sources for oil
Feelings determine gender
China is a friendly nation
Whites (loosely defined as any person with light skin tone but not an elected Democrat) are racist
Reparations
More government control of education
More government control of speech
Government association with certain private companies to silence particular individuals/groups”
The list is probably far from over too
Well they are a bunch of fucking nuts. And pretty much in line with House and Senate Republicans on the rise in the party–Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Josh Hawley.
Was Josh Hawley always like this?
Hawley went from generic right winger to QAnon poster boy.
It caused former Sen Jack Danforth to claim supporting him was the biggest mistake he’s made
Hard to believe that Danforth left the Senate 26 years ago! I remember him better than some current Senators. Maybe his name doesn’t sound like a blast from the past because of roles such as UN Ambassador?
If HHR is correct, then CG is far more liberal than me. People who get their news from conservative sources have no sense of reality of how liberals think.
Maybe conservatives just need to read what James writes?
So, CG. will that be your platform in your next run for Dog Catcher?
I’m sure it would attract enough bipartisan support to defeat The Machine.
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/st-louis-mayoral-primary-results/
St. Louis will have another woman as mayor in April regardless who wins the runoff. The results of today’s “approval voting” non partisan primary advanced Alderman Cara Spencer and Treasurer Tishaura Jones to the April 6 election.
Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed came in third and utility executive and 2017 GOP nominee Andrew Jones 4th.
This is Reed’s third loss in a mayoral race. He’s the William Jennings Bryan of St. Louis politics I guess.
Good Morning People….
Post coming up on Biden and energy…
CG’s people ARE on to something brewing…
CG’s people?
Does that mean there are people who follow CG? Does he lead a cult?
“HHR’s remaining Trumpists”
I was under the impression that everyone at HHR was a Trumpist, which was why I assumed that you weren’t always fully respected there. Does this mean that HHR now has more than one or two Trump opponents?
Scott:
As she closed her joint hearing (with Gary Peters, D-Mich.) this afternoon, Amy Klobuchar (DFL-Minn.) praised Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), her committee’s ranking member, for the bipartisan way he had approached the congressional investigation (e.g. agreeing on witnesses), the way he had organized the inauguration ceremony and his behaviour on Jan. 6th, carrying out the formalities (including that wooden box with the states’ electoral vote declarations) together with Mike Pence, the Speaker and other congressional leaders.
This seems like the polar opposite of the other Senator from the Show-Me State, Josh Hawley (R).
Is there a history between them? When Hawley had a more moderate style, had they got on better?
Any relation to former Sen. John Danforth (also R) ?
There had been a warning among the QAnin that Trump would return to the Presidency tomorrow March 4th ….
The House has just suspended business for tomorrow….
The Capitol Police has gone on alert
There are National Guard troops still stationed at the Capitol…
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly wins Chairmanship of Il Democrats.
Proxy victory for Dick Durbin.. political loss for Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Interesting…..
Won’t go anywhere I’d think…
We’re talking about McConnell’s wife….
Watchdog Cites Elaine Chao for Misuse of Office
“The Transportation Department’s inspector general asked the Justice Department in December to consider a criminal investigation into what it said was Elaine Chao’s misuse of her office as transportation secretary in the Trump administration to help promote her family’s shipping business, which is run by her sister and has extensive business ties with China,” the New York Times reports.
“The inspector general said the Justice Department’s criminal and public integrity divisions both declined to take up the matter in the closing weeks of the Trump administration, even after the inspector general found repeated examples of Ms. Chao using her staff and her office to help benefit her family and their business operations and revealed that staff members at the agency had raised ethics concerns.”
Defending Liberalism from the culture warriors
By Lord William Wallace | Wed 3rd March 2021 – 9:15 am
‘Democracy doesn’t happen by accident. We have to defend it. Strengthen it. Renew it.’ President Biden said that in his virtual address to the Munich Security Conference last week. He was talking explicitly about threats to Democracy across the world, but implicitly also about the threats within the United States. We should worry that liberal Democracy, open society and constitutional government are not to be taken for granted in Britain, either.
None of us should under-estimate the extent to which the US Republican Right has effectively colonised the Conservative Party. Our right-wing media takes its cue from American campaigns – on culture, free markets, ‘family values’, suspicion of government as such. Tory MPs interact with US politicians and think-tankers far more than with conservatives across the Channel. Funds flow into the UK from right-wing US foundations, companies and lobbies, supporting similar groups and promoting like-minded causes over here. The denigration of liberalism that grips the American right is echoed in London seminars on ‘post liberalism and endless attacks on Britain’s allegedly ‘metropolitan liberal elite’ – by well-connected and well-paid Conservative intellectuals who live in London themselves.
The right-wing narrative represents the people of Britain, who have been betrayed by the sophistication of an over-educated liberal elite. Britain’s cultural and political institutions, therefore, have to be recaptured for ‘common sense’ and the common man: from the BBC, our universities, the left-wing curriculum taught in our schools, the criticisms of strong government peddled by ‘Guardianistas’, the judges and lawyers who have over-promoted minority rights. To read the Telegraph, the Spectator, or magazines like Standpoint is to understand liberal elites as intolerant, even authoritarian, as well as unpatriotic. In the Daily Mail last week, a Leave-supporting professor declared himself to be part of a ‘secretive’ group of academics defending the cause of ‘viewpoint diversity’ and academic freedom against the cultural censorship of intellectual life in British universities….
From Liberaal Democratic Voice, the leading independent blog for the British Liberal Democrats (as in the Liberal Democratic Party as opposed to Labour or the Tories)
The Biden immigration bill is dead.
Even the House isn’t going to take it up.
The Senate never was going to.
James got into one of his well known discussions with me when I opined that a massive new immigration law wasn’t a priority now with the pandemic still going on.
Of course in his usual hyperbolic way he pronounced Biden “had” to do something on this.
I guess Biden didn’t “have to.”
Biden probably had to do something to satisfy his Latino, Asian and Caribbean American constituencies.
And at some point there has to be (or rather should be) some kind of grand bargain. But I suspect that the elements will come separately, rather than in one grand package.
Morning All….
“Neanderthals are hunter-gatherers, they’re protectors of their family, they are resilient, they’re resourceful, they tend to their own. So, I think Joe Biden needs to rethink what he is saying.”
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), on Fox Business, on President Joe Biden’s criticism of the governors of Texas and Mississippi.
It’s not clear why she’s speaking in the present tense.
She’s bern jockeying for awhile with Trump Party Senators Jim Inhofe and Tommy Turbeville for the coveted title…
“Dumbest Senator”
At the rate it’s going Republicans may soon consider literacy “elitist”
Alabama’s Governor actually extended a mask mandate for another month.
I also heard an interview with Jim Justice of WV on CNN, in which he defended mask mandates, while admitting that nobody likes them, and he sounded like an incredibly reasonable and effective leader.
which are traits I might not have thought of as they related to Justice before.
Yes since I’ve been heavily criticizing other Trumpites,give credit where credit is due,Justice has been doing an excellent job during the pandemic and West Virginia has also done a good job with vaccinations
Alabama Gov change direction’s?
She extended the mask mandate until April 9 and says she will lift it then.
Ok….
MSNBC reported that they had lifted it around noontime today….
Obviously at some point, these government mask mandates are going to be lifted and will need to be lifted. April may be too early, but this is coming fairly soon. Of course, that does not mean people should not be encouraged to wear masks for a somewhat longer period of time, but as the health emergency recedes, so will the need for a govt mandate.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his longtime partner, Marlon Reis, are engaged
The couple has been together for 17 years and have two children….
More…
They are reading the entire Stimulus bill.
Turn into C-SPAN 2 for riveting television.
A stupid waste of time by Ron Johnson.
I presume that the intent was to give the Republican conference more time to twist the arms of Lisa Murkowski and any other weak sisters within their fold to follow The Party Line.
(Of course, Lisa Murkowski was not re-elected as a Republican in 2010. She was successfully primaried but won the general as an independent.)
Morning people….