DL Open Thread Wednesday April 27 2022
It is a strategy that is brilliant in its simplicity and effectiveness, but they won’t do it.
Free Idea for Moderate Democrats: Criticize Republicans
Conservative positions on abortion and LGBT rights are astoundingly unpopular. It could be better sledding for moderates than condemning their own party.
Over the last week or so, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a moderate Democrat from Virginia, has returned to one of her favorite activities: attacking members of her own party. She recently dished to Politico, attacking police reformers as being an electoral liability (as she did immediately after the 2020 election), and boasting about sucking up to her local police department.
All political news is just TMZ for current events nerds.
Kevin McCarthy was asked about his Trump lie. His answer was gibberish
(CNN)On Monday, during a trip to the US-Mexico border, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked why he had lied about the idea of asking then-President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
“The reporter never asked me that question. The reporter came to me the night before he released the book. And my understanding was he was saying that I asked President Trump to resign. No, I never did. And that’s what I was answering. If you’re asking, now, did I tell my members that we’re gonna ask — ask them if I told any of them that I said President Trump — the answer is no. I’m glad you asked that question, but what’s more important than something that happened 15 months ago on a private conversation with about four other people is what’s happening here right now.”Literal gibberish. (I listened to McCarthy’s answer about 15 times to try to understand what he was saying.)
The George W Bush and Obama administrations quashed evidence of Saudi governments connection to 911 hijackers. (This news broke last September but is getting some attention now because there is video.)
The Biden administration has declassified a 16-page FBI report tying 9/11 hijackers to Saudi nationals living in the United States. The document, written in 2016, summarized an FBI investigation into those ties called Operation ENCORE.
The partially redacted report shows a closer relationship than had been previously known between two Saudis in particular — including one with diplomatic status — and some of the hijackers. Families of the 9/11 victims have long sought after the report, which painted a starkly different portrait than the one described by the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004.
While the commission was largely unable to tie the Saudi men to the hijackers, the FBI document describes multiple connections and phone calls.
Years ago, the commission wrote that when it came to the Saudi diplomat Fahad al-Thumairy, “We have not found evidence that Thumairy provided assistance to the two hijackers.” A decade later, it appears FBI agents came to a different conclusion. The report says Thumairy “tasked” an associate to help the hijackers when they arrived in Los Angeles and told the associate the hijackers were “two very significant people” more than a year before the attacks.
An October Flag of the Day is in the news.
cawthorn again caught with a gun at an airport and today accusations of insider trading. if he was a democrat coons would be building a bipartisian coalition to have him impeached
If he was a Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand would have conducted a full blown exorcism by now.
Sic transit gloria Franken