With his close friend Richard Nixon’s ascendance to the presidency, Graham advised that Vietnamization was the key to victory in his “Confidential Missionary Plan for Ending the Vietnam War.” In addition, while he publicly gave lip service to being apolitical, Graham organized massive events that provided veiled support for Nixon and the war in Vietnam.
Left out that this wasn’t done to advance some liberal agenda, but pass disaster relief. Literally the most basic bipartisan shit congress can do. That Johnson seems incapable of doing.
I’m not the best at math, but if she’s averaging 20% in the primaries (after dropping out)…even a quarter of those folks voting third party or staying home means you’re toast, bro.
"The House was in session at the Capitol on Thursday, but thanks to the latest procession of Republicans reporting for duty in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse to show support for former President Donald J. Trump at his trial, the party risked ceding its control of the floor,” the New York Times reports....
Republicans already have full transcripts of the conversations and now want the audio so they can pull out of context for political purposes. But, they now can’t have them. Moving on…
Interesting thing about the decision - the 3 liberal justices were the ones dissenting.
The conservative majority said that this map should be used only for the election in November (because of their previous decisions that changes can’t be made this close to an election). That means the challenges to the map from right wing groups in the hostile lower circuit courts will come back after November and they will still have a chance to throw it out.
The liberals argued that the court would have ample time to consider the merits of the case (in light of the precedent they set in the nearly identical Alabama case) and order the map to remain in effect until the next census.
Lots of gamesmanship in the decision - but still good for Democrats in November (at least this year).
Rev. Billy Graham statue unveiled at US Capitol (youtu.be)
Gross
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"The House was in session at the Capitol on Thursday, but thanks to the latest procession of Republicans reporting for duty in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse to show support for former President Donald J. Trump at his trial, the party risked ceding its control of the floor,” the New York Times reports....
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