- Dems will talk up their spending bills, regardless of what's in them, as a huge step forward.
- Republicans will call the bills socialism, even as they take credit for local projects getting money.
- No one will remember or care about the process.
One year from now:
- If the economy is doing well and COVID is beaten/mostly beaten, Dems won't get completely clobbered in midterms.
- If COVID is still an issue and the economy is weak, Dems will get clobbered.
Three years from now:
- If the economy is doing okay, Biden will likely win re-election.
- If it's doing badly, he will likely lose.
MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THAT:
The Republican Party is currently led by a would-be autocrat who tried to overthrow the republic after he lost his election.
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Who is taking what Trump did between Nov. 3 and Jan. 6 seriously?
Liz Cheney.
Here are some comments from today's Rules Committee meeting to schedule tomorrow's resolution holding Steve Bannon in criminal contempt:
“The people who attacked this building told us, continue to tell us on video, on social media, and now before the federal courts, exactly what motivated them. They believed what Donald Trump said, that the election was stolen and that they needed to take action."
"At this moment, it is not just the institution of Congress' authority that is at stake, the potential harm to the foundation of our Republic is far more significant. In the past week, President Trump has openly urged millions of Republican voters not to vote in 2022 or 2024.
But Bannon holds it anyway, gets Trump to call in, has the various looney Trump followers do their normal looney Trump follower things, and, voila, Youngkin is suddenly back having to choose between alienating Trump's base and every person with a college degree in the state.
To what end?
Well, Bannon loves Trump because he was Bannon's useful idiot, willing to push all of the alt-right/white nationalist stuff that Bannon was promoting at Breitbart.
"The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself."
Because that is what Trump is arguing. He plotted inside the Oval Office to overthrow democracy so he could remain in power, but wants the rules and norms offered by that democracy to keep that plotting a secret, basically forever.
NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow our democracy, and as part of that incited the Jan. 6 assault that led to 5 dead police officers and 140 injured.
A Palm Beach police charity is going to put big cash in Trump's pocket anyway.
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation would not disclose how much it will be paying Trump’s for-profit South Florida club to host the Jan. 22, 2022, “Policemen’s and Fire Fighters’ Ball.”
Tax filings with the IRS, however, show that it paid $235,012 in 2020, $214,760 in 2019 and $262,261 in 2018 in facility rental costs for the same event in those years, all of which were also held at Mar-a-Lago.