Memorial Day-I ponder how US soldiers froze in the Battle of the Bulge, X-Mas ‘44 to secure our freedom 80 yrs later. Some gave more,my father,Bernie Singer, captured there & taken to Stalag 9B in Germany. At 101,maybe the oldest surviving POW.
@NormOrnstein
@LarrySabato
@sbg1
Wishing my father, Bernie Singer a happy birthday today. At 101, perhaps he is the oldest surviving
#POW
captured in the
#BattleoftheBulge
12/25/1944 Also, ran a family business for 70 years & married to my mother for 75 years. ♥️ed by his grandchildren.
@NormOrnstein
@TedDeutch
John Roberts is a disgrace. The Court is in a crisis of legitimacy, reeking of shocking ethical lapses. And he continues to ignore or abet the problem. A complete failure of leadership.
The really critical thing to know about Joe Biden’s age is that Donald Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack our NATO allies and basically nobody in the media seems interested in talking about that.
Look who says he gives a sh*t about gun violence. Spoiler Alert, FL Gov doesn’t😢 3 weeks ago he signed bill SB 1884 with just
@TheFLGOP
votes saying, if local govts want to regulate guns they can pay as much as $100K in damages‼️tying the 🤚 of
@MayorDaniella
@fred_guttenberg
We mourn the loss of the two victims and are praying for the recovery of the more than 20 people injured at El Mula Banquet Hall near Hialeah. We are working with local authorities to bring justice to the perpetrators. Justice needs to be swift & severe!
@RonDeSantis
In your riot law, “riot” is defined as a gathering of 3 or more people whose words/actions are PERCEIVED as threatening by others nearby. Huh? Why don’t you just give “storm troopers” the right to pick up anybody under the sun.
@NormOrnstein
@TheRickWilson
@RepDMP
Thank you
@POTUS
for coming to Florida & to
@SenRickScott
for putting politics aside to join him. This is what leaders do at time of need. Truly unfortunate that
@RonDeSantis
chose to slither away & not be a part of this on behalf of the state and on behalf of all Floridians.
My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is
@JoeBiden
.
Behind every single legislative move that
@RonDeSantis
makes, his thinking is: "How can I make bigots feel good about their bigotry?"You now can’t teach black history, so as to learn from slavery, in Florida. Should follow… No Holocaust teaching?
@NormOrnstein
@RepDeanPhillips
"Ron DeSantis has a lot of defects as a national candidate, but the main one is how estranged he is from the basic decency of the country and her people."
His culture war insanity is appalling to the overall majority of Americans and is a big reason his campaign is over:
My friend
@fred_guttenberg
lost his daughter in the Parkland shooting.
In the aftermath, I worked with him & other MSD families to turn anguish to action. We stood up to the NRA to pass gun violence prevention laws in Florida.
I know we can do the same in Congress. Watch below.
And those who enable and emulate the murderers (Trump) will end up in history’s hell — but the sooner we stop them, the less harm and havoc they will wreak in the meantime.
Bob Graham is revered by me and my family. He is the best of the best when it comes to public servants. He really cares about his constituents & he loves this country. He is the living embodiment of INTEGRITY. Happy birthday🎂 Bob.
@GwenGraham
@NormOrnstein
@LarrySabato
@fineout
Dad and my daughter in the middle of the Florida Everglades. The Everglades were my Dad’s backyard as a boy.
Today he is 87.
Happy Birthday, Dad. You are deservedly so loved by so many.
The kitschy RFKjr throwback ad is squarely aimed at the oldest segment of voters who fondly recall his dad & uncle —and probably don’t know much about him
He is a thoroughly dishonest and corrupt character. I will never understand how Elijah Cummings saw him as such a close friend. Everyone else saw through him.
This is who Donald Trump just had dinner with: “This is going to be the most racist, sexist, anti-semitic, holocaust-denying, speech in all of Dallas this weekend!” Elon Musk is also lifting his permanent twitter ban because free speech.
The next Speaker of the House, Rep Mike Johnson- ZERO in the House except to recruit members to sign on to a election denial/insurrection lawsuit. Is he different than guilty pleading, insurrection Attys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell & Kenneth Chesebro?
@NormOrnstein
@RepJoshHarder
I'm one of those who frets that the election will be much closer than the polls indicate. That in a world where non-voters are never targeted by Dems, huge turnout could contain multitudes. So I'm dropping some old footage of Joe Biden here:
Katie's Sidebar:
From inside of the courtroom, we're getting reporting that the jury is having a tough time staying alert for this cross-examination by Blanche. Jurors are rubbing their eyes, shifting in their seats.
I don't blame them. Once again, Blanche has lost the plot
@Liz_Cheney
What I don’t understand is why the Maga cult is willing to trade democracy and the constitution for a fascist dictatorship run by a corrupt mob boss?😼
I saw the exchange with
@JaredEMoskowitz
& Chairman Comer on the
@GOPoversight
Frankly, Jared kicked ass‼️ He called Comer on the way Comer runs to Fox News with innuendo about Joe Biden and his family
I’m glad Jared threw it back at Comer’s family
@NormOrnstein
@LarrySabato
@NormOrnstein
has many of the reasons
@HouseDemocrats
couldn’t support McCarthy. Here’s more 1. Baseless impeachment inquiry of
@JoeBiden
2.McCarthy refused to approach Dems 3. He reneged on spending cuts deal he made with
@POTUS
to prevent shutdown 4. Extremists owned him
@sbg1
Max, you are simply wrong about this. Kevin McCarthy repeatedly lied about the election, trashed and punished Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and protected insurrectionists like MTG, threw over the spending plan he helped construct. How would supporting him be good for the country?
“As fatalities from the virus continue to increase daily, never in recent historical memory has there been a more unsettling display of Florida government’s dark impulses to conceal the truth from its own citizens. Citizens should be outraged.”
Mellman: Partisan hacks in black robes
@MarkMellman
puts it well. Who can have faith in a Court where Justices are taking perks from THOSE THAT HAVE MATTERS IN FRONT THEM? Think it’s bad now? Wait until Trump ll
@NormOrnstein
@LarrySabato
@FiredUpCarol
@LarrySabato
@NormOrnstein
Forget the facile & non-sudstanitive debate points revealed in DeSantis leaked debate memo,it is how his SuperPac used a tricky (perhaps illegal)
way of getting him the strategy that should be bothersome.
Common-sense gun violence prevention measures have bipartisan support. If we work together, we can keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, pass universal background checks, and implement red flag laws nationwide.
Florida Atty Gen says Impeach DHS Sec Mayorkas
Is this what FL (any state) wants of its Atty Gen? Why isn’t she filing suits to help consumers? No,she’s paving her way to run for Guv. Guv? I’d like to see HER impeached for this!
@NormOrnstein
@NickNehamas
WOW: former Trump advisor Cassidy Hutchinson just said live on MSNBC “I think everybody should vote for Joe Biden if they want our democracy to survive." She’s a Republican who worked for Trump, saw his behavior, saw how he led, and she’s saying support Biden. That’s a big deal.
On August 4th, I will lead a bipartisan visit inside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting site before it is torn down.
All of Congress has been invited, so they can witness the aftermath of a school shooting & the horrific impact it’s had on our community in Parkland.
.
@fred_guttenberg
, whose daughter Jaime was killed in Stoneman Douglas massacre, says
@mtgreenee
is "depraved" & should be removed from Congress.
Greene has said Parkland shooting was "false flag" operation & taunted student-turned-activist
@DavidHogg111
.
Telling the world that parents are lying after they have buried their kids from a mass shooting, trying to say the kids never existed and erase the even small existence they did have is the lowest form of existence.
‼️WATCH! Ron DeSantis talks about January 6!
“It was NOT an insurrection.
The idea that this was a plot to overthrow the government of the U.S. is NOT true.
To say that they are seditionists is just wrong.”
In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.
After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting
@RonDeSantis
thought he could peddle some freedom platform because he played “Russian roulette” with Covid. It’s more like FREE..DUMB as, thanks to Ron, FL is the most repressive state in the union inc 6 wk abortion &
#DontSayGay
I say
@GwenGraham
for Guv in ‘27‼️
@NormOrnstein
It is hard to overstate what a fall from grace Ron DeSantis has had, from serving as the next conservative superstar to seeing lawmakers in his own state abandon ship and the state’s Republican Party shaft him at its signature event of the year.
@NormOrnstein
Great family story. For mine, I don't have to back any further than my father from Lynn, Ma. In WW II, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge,captured on his 22nd birthday 12/25/1944 & sent to Stalag 9B Never talked about it. Still with us-the oldest living POW❓❓
My grandfather Rubin Latz, who came from Vilna, then in Russia, to Virginia, Minnesota, then moved to North Minneapolis where he headed the Laundry Workers Union. A champion of civil rights and social justice, he was a core part of the "kitchen cabinet" that recruited Hubert
As I told
@Bsamuels0
from
@haaretzcom
:
Two things are giving me strength right now: the resiliency of the Jewish people and the leadership and moral clarity of President Biden.
@NormOrnstein
@HillaryClinton
Sorry for your loss… Both of you. William Butler Yeats: "From our birthday, until we die, / Is but the winking of an eye"
With 2023 in the rearview mirror, many political challenges remain unresolved.
@NormOrnstein
and
@kavitapmd
are back for a new year with new political prognostications about what 2024 holds for Congress and more.
Thank you
@maxschachter
for working with
@RepMoskowitz
and
@MarioDB
to organize this and thank you to the members of Congress joining. While I cannot be there, looking forward to the work we can all do together to enhance school safety and reduce gun violence.