The former Senate majority leader, who died this week at 82, was a forward-thinking political strategist who played to win. vox.com/18165142/harry… via @voxdotcom
Reid's policy decisions had huge repercussions.
But NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, will be as long lived as the three people pictured here...who would not be on the Supreme Court if not for Reid. He set in motion the events that guaranteed Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.
Liberals delude themselves on this. It is HIGHLY questionable whether McConnell could have kept his caucus together to oppose Garland after Scalia's passing if not for fact that Obama and Reid had just recently nuked the judicial filibuster.
Exactly. So: 1. Vax. 2. Personally decide what safety/mitigation measures would make you feel safe. 3. Vax. 4. If you feel sick, get tested, consider therapeutics quickly. 5. Get vaxxed. 6. Get vaxxed. 7. Get vaxxed.
We need to get on with our lives, protect the vulnerable as much as we can, but also realize that there is a cost with every measure we take, and some of those costs are extremely high...and not just in dollars and cents.
"Biden could have fulfilled the promises that he made during his campaign and set himself and his party up for a successful 2022. He could have ignored the hollow passions of Twitter and cable...and delivered the quiet, limited, competent leadership that he promised..."
"Instead? Well, instead he did precisely none of that. Instead, he ignored all evidence to the contrary and concluded that he was a world-historical figure. Instead, he began talking about “transforming” the country."
We can talk about 'gun control' all you want. But there are many people across the societal spectrum suffering from severe mental disease, and we are failing them.
- School shootings
- Drug epidemic
- Suicide epidemic
- Homelessness
All of these are PRIMARILY issues of psychiatric illness. They are all the same problem, and we keep trying to solve them in different ways.
"DeSantis wants to resurrect Florida State Guard, a WWII force disbanded in the late 1940s. Unlike the Florida National Guard, the FSG would answer solely to the Governor. No federal deployments. No federal missions. No federal dollars."