house republicans have repeatedly come up empty-handed when asked a straightforward question given that they re now in charge of the house, what do they want to cut? this is in the context of a possible debt showdown looming. social security and medicare are off the table, then where do republicans want to cut spending? that s going to be the part of the dance. well, the dance is here, and that s the context for the president s meeting late today. this was his first meeting with the new speaker, kevin mccarthy. we don t have the deal because the white house kept it as a closed press first summit. biden we know has sat at that resolute desk before, had his share of high stakes meetings and watched as vice president when then president obama faced a similar effort to ransom the economy. republicans are offering a similar brinksmanship, but also have internal fights with a narrow majority about what they want to do and what they want to cut. house republicans say they migh
From our Bureau of Real-Life Imitations of Orwell's Animal Farm with some assistance from our ever-busy Bureau of Socialist Social Justice Talk about draconian laws derived from sheer hypocrisy, this new "Code of Ethics" takes the cake. A new presidential decree aimed at middle and lower rank communist officials has made it a crime for
some rules that will apply to what kids see in a government-run classroom, or you take a step back and say this doesn t have a very good history. right. the real life imitations and what this is doing to florida students and also setting a precedent for the republican party and how conservative they will be. i think that is alarming. the bigger piece in how you set this conversation up is what is happening to our democracy when you were, one, educating an electorate but also when you re taking away this ability to folks to not just freedom of speech, but freedom of intellectual thoughts. it s almost as if desantis is saying i m going to govern like an authoritarian. that s not necessarily where we would want to go in a democracy. i think what we ve seen in history if it s going to repeat itself, it doesn t look too bite or too good for us. i m concerned about what s going to happen, the ripple effect and how we will see more conservative leaders and people