Month: December 2020
Biden Building ‘First-Rate Team’
“A first-rate team that’s going to get us through this ongoing economic crisis and help us build the economy back, not just build it back, but build it back better than before… Our message to everybody struggling right now is help is on the way.”
— President-elect Joe Biden, quoted by CBS News, while introducing his economic team.
Republican Silence Hearkens Back to McCarthy Era
“The silence of congressional Republican leaders as President Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud grow wilder and more venomous increasingly resembles the party’s deference to Sen. Joe McCarthy during the worst excesses of his anti-Communist crusade in the early 1950s.”
— Ron Brownstein
Pardon Me — Please!
For Rudi, losing election challenges is no longer fun,
And his legal career, such as it was, is just about done.
But one wonders what crimes
He’s committed over time
That would lead him to ask Trump for a pre-emptive pardon.