Why should New York freshman step down from congress if he had any shame? The case of Santos, 34, who admitted lying about his education, education and family
He told him not to belong in this place. He said that New York freshman should have resigned from congress if he had any shame at all. Romney also bashed Santos’ decision to stand in the center aisle where he would get maximum exposure on television during President Joe Biden’s address to Congress.
Sinema walked in front of Romney when the Utah Republican passed by. Romney is talking whileSantos is turning and speaking to Sinema. The senator’s spokeswoman said that her boss and the congressman didn’t speak.
Romney told reporters that he should be seated in the back row, staying calm, rather than parading in front of the president.
Santos, 34, has been caught lying about the schools he attended, his employment history and family background. Complaints with the Federal Election Commission have questioned whether he is a true source of more than $700,000 in loans he said he made to his 2022 campaign.
The New York freshman is expected to face an investigation from the House Ethics Committee. Kevin McCarthy has so far not called for the resignation of his counterpart in New York, which is why some of his fellow New York Republicans have called on him to step down. Even though McCarthy initially awarded him the spots, he voluntarily stepped down from two committees.
He says that he embellished his record. Look, embellishing is saying you got an A when you got an A-,” the senator said. He shouldn’t be in Congress, because you didn’t even attend college.
They are going to go through the process to get him out. If he had any shame, he wouldn’t be there.
The New York Senator in Congress: What he wrote about his encounter with a Republican senator in the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
GeorgeSantos of New York may have just been caught in a lie by a senator, after lying extensively about his life story.
The House Republican claims he received positive words of encouragement from Sen. Sinema after his tense encounter with GOP Sen. Romney.
“Kyrsten Sinema as she was walking by, the senator from Arizona, she said something to the effect of ‘hang in there buddy’ or something like that,” Santos told Newsmax.
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Since Romney lost the presidential race in 2012 for boasting about hisbinders full of women qualification, there has been no political support for him.
But his remark about Russia being America’s “number one geopolitical foe” — which was widely ridiculed at the time — now seems prescient in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion of Ukraine.
In the past few years, the senator from Utah has earned a reputation for being a rare, candid voice in Washington, willing to buck his party. He was the lone Republican who voted to remove President Donald Trump from office in his first impeachment trial and one of seven to do so in Trump’s second impeachment.
House Republicans, who were initially planning a resolution condemning the Biden administration for not bringing down the balloon sooner, switched the wording to condemn the government of China for sending the craft over US territory in the first place.
It passed 419-0, a small act of bipartisanship only two days after a group of House Republicans heckled President Joe Biden as he was addressing both houses in his annual speech. There are not a lot of Romneys in the ranks of the extreme GOPers who revolted against the House Speaker and shouted their displeasure at Biden.
“Some members of the Republican caucus seemed keen to highlight the distinctions between the thoughtful, unity-emphasizing Biden and their own party’s shameful descent,” wrote Jill Filipovic. The parents of the man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers were introduced to the US by the Ukrainian ambassador, even though congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene stayed seated. That says more about Biden than ever before.
McCarthy, who aligned himself with Donald Trump and voted to overturn the 2020 election results,shushing, was described by SE Cupp as a heroic act of leadership.
Will he continue to’shroud’ the extremists and conspiratorial wing of his party as they act out and get in the way of his agenda which could include working with Biden from time to time?
Despite the issues being important to voters, neither the southern border nor inflation received any attention from the president, according to an article by a former Georgia lieutenant governor. The Chinese spy balloon undermined the talk of Biden and the Chinese President.
Biden “was feisty, full of energy, marshaled his arguments effectively and even batted back Republican catcalls with good humor,” observed David Gergen. “By the end of the evening, he looked like a boxer who can’t wait to get into the ring again.”
Now he faces an even sterner test, if he did actually move the needle. A public appearance by a president is powerful enough to shake up politics. Both Bill and Ronald Reagan had the ability to change minds when they held microphones.
The most moving part of the speech was the discussion of how black parents should talk to their kids about interacting with police officers, according to a former congressman.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was a political malpractice for him to not explicitly call for Congress to pass it. The family of a black man who was brutally beaten by police in Memphis deserved to hear it.
Where is the new president? A rebuke to President Biden, his heckling, his rhetoric and his interactions with the Republican-controlled Senate minority
Raul Reyes noted that “Biden smartly aligned himself with populist issues, like making wealthy corporations pay their fair share of taxes and proposing that all federal infrastructure projects use American-made materials.”
But, as Julian Zelizer pointed out, “times have changed and Biden has a tough road ahead. While the president offered a robust vision of how federal investment has and could create jobs in key sectors such as the semi-conductor industry and infrastructure, the kinds of manufacturing jobs that were at the heart of federal investment between the 1930s and 1960s have vastly diminished and are not likely to return.”
The president turned the heckling to his advantage by getting Republicans to deny any intention of cutting Social Security or Medicare. “You can say Mr. Biden fibbed, misled and exaggerated, and you wouldn’t be wrong,” Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “but in rope-a-doping Republicans on Medicare and Social Security he showed real mastery.”
In “a scathing rebuke” to Biden’s speech that served as the GOP’s official reply, “Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it’s time for a new generation of Republican leadership,” Alice Stewart noted.
At 40, he is the youngest governor in the country. She said that Biden is simply not suited to serve as commander in chief because he is 80 years old.
“New polling suggests a growing desire for new faces. 58% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters told a Washington Post/ABC News poll they hoped their party nominates someone other than Biden in 2024. The results of the poll show that nearly half of Republican voter said the same thing about former President Donald Trump.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/opinions/mitt-romney-speaks-out-opinion-column-galant/index.html
The tragedy of the 24th day of February 24, 2010: Dr. Abel Alomar and his family in Gaziantep, Turkey
Dr. Abdurrahman Alomar and his family were jolted awake at 4:17 am Monday in their sixth-floor apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey. A devastating earthquake had struck and they hurried out of the building in their pajamas into snow-filled streets. Taking refuge in their car, away from any buildings, Alomar spoke to CNN Opinion’s Sheena McKenzie about the toll the quake is taking on a region already devastated by war.
Alomar is a pediatrician who works as a senior health adviser with the Syrian American Medical Society, providing medical assistance across the border. In northwest Syria, we are already having a shortage of supplies, so we are using the regular inventories in our warehouses.
We need more support to make sure that we have the supplies for regular operations and to make sure that we’re ready for any injuries which may come from an earthquake or other disaster.
A Turkish writer wrote that aid has been dispatched, but the trucks are stuck on jammed roads hundreds of miles from the affected areas. Many people who have lost homes, their families, and loved ones find that there is nobody doing anything about the fires in their cities. And so they block the path of any official vehicle, policeman or government employee they can find and start to remonstrate. I have never seen their anger like that.
A year ago, shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, former comedian-turned-president “Volodymyr Zelensky’s popularity ratings were tanking as he battled allegations of unmet campaign promises to tackle endemic corruption,” recalled Michael Bociurkiw.
“Then on February 24, Russia’s total invasion blasted these concerns into the background. Almost overnight, that dark cloud over Zelensky vanished as he defied critics, and miraculously pivoted into the role of heroic wartime president and global symbol of defender of the free world.”
But corruption is still pervasive in Ukraine, as recent allegations and a new crackdown have shown, and Bociurkiw argued that it’s vital to keep fighting it.
“This is an opportunity to create a nation where corruption is not tolerated, and where oligarchs no longer have a free hand to rape and pillage the economy.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/opinions/mitt-romney-speaks-out-opinion-column-galant/index.html
The American Overflight of a Giant Spy Balloon and the Nature of Ultraprocessed Foods: A View from CNN Opinion
“So China’s protestations about the outrageousness of the US shootdown of a spy balloon flying over our sovereign territory seem a little rich, to put it mildly,” Sanner wrote.
The US Civil War and Napoleon’s soldiers used balloons for observation. Bergen wrote that his father worked for the US Air Force in the 1950s, and that he was responsible for sending balloons over the Soviet Union.
But there’s newer technology in the form of satellites that can take video, use thermal imagery to detect people moving around at night and “spy on pretty much anything, with a resolution of centimeters,” Bergen noted.
Bergen added that the overflight of US territory by a China balloon is not a national security catastrophe as a bunch of Republican politicians from Donald Trump on down have implied.
Chocolate ice cream for breakfast, a hot dog with mustard and relish for lunch: Nancy Pelosi, who led the House of Representatives for 30 years, was reported to have made some of those meal selections.
Lots of other lifestyle choices, plus genetics, may enable people to do just fine with such a diet. But CNN Opinion’s Kirsi Goldynia wrote, “As endearing as it is to imagine a politician scarfing down a frank with all the fixings or a bowl of chocolate ice cream, new research is exposing the health impacts of diets like Pelosi’s, high in ultraprocessed foods.”
Goldynia interviewed Marion Nestle, a nutrition expert and retired professor at New York University. People gain weight when they eatultraprocessed foods, because they encourage people to eat more calories. So, if you want to do something about obesity, and you want to lose weight, one way to do that would be to eat fewer ultraprocessed foods… If you’re somebody who can’t resist this stuff if you have it in the house, don’t buy it.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/opinions/mitt-romney-speaks-out-opinion-column-galant/index.html
What is the mood of the FTX ad? When celebrities are talking about ‘Love’ triangles in a Super Bowl commercial
After celebrities endorsed cryptocurrencies in Super Bowl ads last year, the mood is different. FTX, a company that was one of the leading companies in the field collapsed spectacularly during the ‘Crypto winter’.
Kara Alaimo wrote, “So far this year, brands seem to not be sticking their necks out. In an ad, Jack Harlow is bombarded with questions about a love triangle. The theory behind the spot is that we are all connected by six degrees of separation. Serena Williams is in a golf ad.
The M&M’S ad may buck the trend of playing it safe in the Super Bowl. The company recently claimed to be putting its spokescandies on ‘pause’ after they got caught up in the culture wars. After the green M&M started wearing sneakers instead of heeled boots last year, the company received a wave of criticism. … Staying woke is a smart idea for the brand. The actress Maya Rudolph will appear in a commercial during the game. The ad should show a message about diversity and inclusiveness.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/opinions/mitt-romney-speaks-out-opinion-column-galant/index.html
Tom Brady, GOATs, and the Chicago Bulls: What is a Physicist? How Many NBA Players Do You Know?
Tom Brady is not going to be on the field this season after he decided to retire. The GOAT acronym has become synonymous with Brady’s name, because he’s been frequently labeled the greatest quarterback and the greatest football player of his era.
On Tuesday, LeBron James set a new NBA career scoring record, besting the record set by Abdul-Jabbar. There is a fervent pitch around James’ name against those who believe Michael Jordan ended the GOAT discussion in professional basketball when he won six titles with the Chicago Bulls.
“I don’t begrudge those filling hours at a barber shop or a corner bar arguing about who is or isn’t a GOAT. I just want to leave myself out of it. I’m now content to say there are performers in many arenas I feel closest to in spirit because of how they do their work, play their games, sing their songs. They are not all- time greats and have been superseded by younger talent. But they’re great enough for me.”