9.30 Stephanie Miner in Politico: “The reality of politics is it’s a forum for ambitious people who believe that they are correct, And we are going into an election cycle. But it doesn’t have to be an authoritarian, dictatorial model. My experience is that women are more collaborative,” she added. But that’s because of how few get …
8.31 Matt Bai in the Washington Post: Will voters a year from now focus on the economy? Yes. The state of the pandemic? Sure. Government spending? Entirely possible. Bungling the end of a 20-year war in Afghanistan — a withdrawal that most people supported? Very, very unlikely. 8.30 After 2,461 U.S. service members killed, 20,000 …
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7.28 Dinner with Cathy and Tim at Water’s Edge Lighthouse restaurant in Glenville. 7.28 Kevin McCarthy: “Make no mistake — the threat of bringing masks back is not a decision based on science, but a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state.” Nancy Pelosi: …
6.30 Bill Cosby‘s conviction was overturned. 6.30 Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88. George Packer in The Atlantic: “Rumsfeld was the worst secretary of defense in American history. Being newly dead shouldn’t spare him this distinction. He was worse than the closest contender, Robert McNamara, and that is not a competition to judge lightly. McNamara’s folly …
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5.26 A Dutch court mandated that Shell reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement. 5.26 Ginny and I have dinner at the Albany Pump Station. Not good. 5.23 Lunch with Paul and Anne in New Paltz. 5.21 Marjorie Taylor Green: “You know, we can look back in a time …
4.28 Biden: “Twenty million Americans lost their job in the pandemic — working- and middle-class Americans. At the same time, roughly 650 billionaires in America saw their net worth increase by more than $1 trillion — in the same exact period. Let me say it again: 650 people increased their wealth by more than $1 …
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3.31 Michael Grunwald in Politico: Democrats and Republicans now have very different ideas of what counts as infrastructure, not only because of their very different political philosophies and policy goals, but because they now live in very different places with very different needs. . . .As the GOP has increasingly become a party of white families …
2.28 A six foot plus tall gold fiberglass statue of Trump was on sale at CPAC for $100,000. 2.28 EJ Dionne Jr. in the Post: “Trump’s takeover of the party in 2016 was undeniably built on long-standing habits of opposition to immigration, the courting of racial backlash and the waging of culture wars. But Trump …
1.30 Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post: Going forward, not only will House Republicans be associated with a colleague who “liked” a Twitter post calling for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s murder. They’ll be attached to QAnon, which promotes the extraordinary fiction that Trump was leading a war against Satan-worshiping pedophiles and cannibals, whose leadership includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, …