The GOP is in a season of soul-searching. The party that’s all too happy to offer financial support to its candidates wants to use the name of the president some of its members voted against. It’s like the Little Red Hen, only if the rat had been fighting her the whole story. Maybe they should be called “rats” instead of “RINOs”.
Whether voters support or oppose Trump, we should all fear a party that allows its members to be so blatantly fork-tongued. Then again, purifying that party with new blood might not solve the problem. It just might make things worse.
Democrats are getting along a whole lot better than Republicans ever did, especially recently. The COVID-19 porkulous bill is sailing through Congress faster than lies from a used car salesman. Yet, the bigger topic of Capitol discussion is the sixty-vote requirement for non-budget bills. That’s part of the Senate’s current “Standing Rules” named after the late Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. So, they call it the “Byrd” rule. They made it, now they want to end it. That would look like a power grab.
You know how midterms go. Democrats ending their own “Byrd” rule might backfire. They seem bent on getting Trump elected in just four years. Obama took eight, so their efficiency is improving. If people can trust elections again, Biden may have to join Carter and HW in the great hall of one-term presidents. Maybe Biden will get lucky and have a dam named after him like Hoover, or maybe a vacuum cleaner.
Law
Supreme Court: Bad GOP lawyering may have just saved the Voting Rights Act // Vox
Congress
Voting rights fight could move Democrats to finally end the filibuster // Yahoo News
More Democrats Join Effort to Abolish the Filibuster // NY Times
Pressures grows on Biden to take on the filibuster // WA Post
Washington as Usual
Senate passes COVID-19 plan, clearing way for nearly $2 trillion in relief // Yahoo News
Pence pushes false election fraud claims in denouncing Democratic reform bill // CNN
Democrats
Cuomo defiant as top New York lawmakers call on him to quit // AP
Republicans
Trump says he’ll campaign against Murkowski in Alaska next year // CNN
Trump sends cease-and-desist letters to GOP campaign committees // NBC News
CPAC: Trump targets Republicans like Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell // USA Today
Violence, Radicalism & Terrorism
Boulder party on the Hill: Police looking to make arrests // NBC 9 Boulder
Security & Public Safety
Markets, Economy & GDP
China is sounding the alarm about a global market bubble // CNN