From Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, Jennifer Bendery and Igor Bobic of HuffPost reported that Trump today reached out to Republican senators to kill the bipartisan border deal being finalized, “because he doesn’t want Biden to have a victory,” one source said. “The rational Republicans want the deal because they want Ukraine and Israel and an actual border solution,” Bendery and Bobic quote the source as saying. “But the others are afraid of Trump, or they’re the chaos caucus who never wants to pass anything.”
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans that “the nominee wants to run his campaign on immigration,” adding, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him. We’re in a quandary” McConnell said.
As I have said so many times in this blog, our political leaders do not want to fix immigration, they just want to use it as a hot button against the party in charge. It is a pitiful commentary on the state of our politicians in Washington D.C.
I don’t understand it and I don’t get it.
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Yesterday, the former president posted a threat to donors: “Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley is very bad for the Republican Party and, indeed, our Country…. Anybody that makes a ‘Contribution’ to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them and will not accept them.”
If a ten-year old said something like the above about someone, most parents would correct or discipline the child for saying something so belittling about someone else. Yet, when the former president says it, his supporters continue to stand by and applaud him.
I don’t understand it and I don’t get it.
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The reaction to Harbaugh leaving Michigan to coach the Los Angeles Chargers is getting positive reaction on both ends. The job he did at Michigan the last three years has been as good as it gets. His players wish him nothing but the best. The articles I have read coming from California indicate the Chargers community is looking forward to Harbaugh doing for the Chargers what he has done at all of his other head coaching stops.
I am sure the Michigan fan base has many opinions as to who the next coach should be. I hope Michigan hires Sherrone Moore. His handling of the interim coaching duties in the last three games of the season shows me he has what it takes.
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Another one pays the price for helping the former president’s attempt to override the 2020 presidential election and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, one of the pillars of our country’s democracy.
Per the NY Times, Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to former President Donald J. Trump who helped lay plans to keep Mr. Trump in office after the 2020 election, was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Mr. Navarro, 74, was found guilty in September of two misdemeanor counts of criminal contempt of Congress, making him the second Trump aide to face penalties related to one of the chief investigations into the Capitol riot. The judge overseeing the case, Amit P. Mehta, had rejected Mr. Navarro’s primary defense: that Mr. Trump had personally directed him not to cooperate with the subpoena, and that he believed he was shielded by executive privilege.
“The words ‘executive privilege’ are not magical incantations,” Judge Mehta said in handing down the sentence after a tense two-and-a-half-hour hearing in which he repeatedly took issue with Mr. Navarro’s claim of executive privilege.
“It’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card,” he said.
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As of September, 378 individuals have been sentenced to periods of incarceration over their involvement in the January 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol in the 32 months since the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election certification took place, the District of Columbia’s attorney’s office said on Wednesday.
More than 1,146 people hailing from all 50 states and the capital have been charged with a variety of alleged offenses in relation to their presence at the grounds of Congress that day. 623 people had received sentences—though not all had been handed periods of incarceration—while around 657 individuals had pleaded guilty to federal charges, “many of whom faced or will face incarceration at sentencing. Yet, the person responsible for the January 6, 2021, insurrection remains free, and he is well on his way to be the standard bearer of the Republican party in the 2024 presidential election.
How is this possible?
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Quote of the Day: ”The nominee” wants to run his campaign on immigration, adding, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.” “We’re in a quandary,” Senator Mitch McConnell
Orchid of the Day: Lion’s General Manager Brad Holmes for being named the NFL Executive on the Year by the Professional Football Writers Association
Onion of the Day: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leased a $90,000 luxury SUV last year, several months before his wife’s consulting firm bought an $807,000 home in Novi while the former Detroit mayor continues to owe more than $1.6 million in restitution to taxpayers and back taxes, according to public records.
Question of the Day: Should U of M name Sherrone Moore as the head coach to replace Harbaugh?
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There is no bottom for Trump. He is the quintessential school yard bully shaking the small kids down for their lunch money. Jeff