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Thursday GNR: Crushing the New McCarthyism [1]
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Date: 2023-01-12
Speaking of karma and how to tell your future, this is the only Tarot card anyone ever needs.
From the After Tarot deck
As Someday It May Happen (Little List Song) stereo version - John Reed , The Mikado
x YouTube Video
Gilbert’s lyrics in The Mikado include
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob,
And likewise — Never-mind,
And 'St— 'st— 'st— and What's-his-name,
And also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,
For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
That part hasn’t changed at all since then, except that nearly all of them now belong to only one party.
Bad News that is Gud Gnuz
More Classified Documents
NBC News: Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location
On Monday, the White House acknowledged a "small number" of classified documents had been found in an office Biden used.
OK, we know about the Bothsiderists. But we are on this nothingburger.
x I really wish the media would stop saying the DoJ is "investigating" the Biden classified documents. They are not. The trump-appointed US Attorney is REVIEWING the documents to DETERMINE whether an investigation is justified. An investigation has not been opened. — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) January 10, 2023 Rs, of course, will try to make this the new Benghazi. But our people are also on those committees, and will take their opportunities to call out the paskudnyaks for however long they try to drag this out. And our people will be squirreling away all of the hot stuff that we can use in future campaign ads.
House GOP struggles in pivot to governing
Ari Melber’s lede on The Beat
Abortion
Forbes: House Republicans are already voting on anti-abortion bills as GOP eyes even more restrictions
61% say abortion should be legal
EW Research, March 2022
We dealt the Rs a massive blow in the midterms because of that. But they took the opposite message from their anti-abortion minority faction: that they should double down, and set themselves up for a real shellacking in 2024.
I believe that [a total abortion ban] is tone deaf at this point. It is never gonna pass the Senate. It’s never gonna get to the President’s desk to be signed into law. We’re only paying lip service to the pro-life movement.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)
Then she voted for the ban.
x "This is probably not the way to start off the week" -- Nancy Mace on MSNBC criticizes the House GOP push for legislation to further restrict abortion rights pic.twitter.com/gUYoZOj46z — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2023
IRS
McCarthy promised that the first bill in this House session would defund the 87,000 “new” IRS employees currently authorized in a law from the last Congress that Rs can’t repeal.
And so it was.
👆👆😂😂👆👆
Impeachment Threats
Biden and Harris, of course.
House Republicans are preparing a cascade of investigations, some overlapping, into the Biden administration and its policies. Right-wing lawmakers have said the ultimate goal is to impeach the president.
They also want to impeach
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
AG Merrick Garland
And they will investigate
Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden’s hard drive
The Trump-ordered withdrawal from Afghanistan
FBI “overreach”
The border
The corona virus lab leak CT
The J6 Select Committee
Rs who claim that Benghazi wrecked Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign are hoping to “frame up” these issues for 2024. Ds are quite confident that we will frame this nonsense up the other way around.
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Science! Animals! Weirdness!
WSJ Opinion: Biden is coming for your gas stove
The Consumer Product Safety Commission enlists in the crusade to ban fossil fuels from the kitchen. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) could soon ban gas stoves.
This farrago of nonsense doesn’t even mention induction cookers. The whole Wrong-Wing media malarchy is up in arms.
We hashed all of this out years ago, after Berkeley CA banned gas hookups.
Renewable Tuesday: Now You're Cooking Without Gas
November 21, 2019
x Is Biden Administration Really Going To Ban Gas Stoves? Here Are The Claims
Here's my coverage @Forbes
https://t.co/YhA9ks7wF6 — Bruce Y. Lee (@bruce_y_lee) January 12, 2023
x They’ll ban @FoxNews before they ban gas stoves. Relax! — The absolute at large (@boycottbobble) January 12, 2023
ACTUALLY, Chris Hayes reports, the Inflation Reduction Act offers an $840 cash rebate for people to buy induction stoves, with certain income limits.
New 2023 Energy Tax Credits and Rebates You Can Use to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
Yay! And there are rebates for heat pumps insulation and electrical upgrades, too.
x Thanks for your interest!
To be clear, CPSC isn't coming for anyone's gas stoves. Regulations apply to new products.
For Americans who CHOOSE to switch from gas to electric, there is support available - Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes a $840 rebate.
https://t.co/fcmWMSSfE5 — Commissioner Rich Trumka Jr. (@TrumkaCPSC) January 9, 2023
x The problem is…this isn’t just today. This is going to be everyday in the House Republican majority.
It’s not just that they won’t be able to govern. It’s that they are going to be an embarrassing public train wreck while they refuse to govern. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 3, 2023
Sudan: Start of final phase towards civilian rule an ‘important step’
That would be amazing. Maybe then we could even put an end to Guinea worm while Jimmy Carter is still here to see it.
Stan Freberg
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