There are a lot of words you might expect a president to say over and over in the state of the yeun job address. Words like jobs, freedom, or if it is a joe biden speech, folks. The president last night chose a different word to be the theme of his remarks. He chose the word predecessor. A former republican president tells putin, do whatever the hell you want. My predecessor came off as they overturned. Hes the reason why they were overturned and he brags about it. My predecessor failed the most president ial duty that he owes to the american people. The duty to care. I think that is unforgivable. They told the nra that hes proud he did nothing when he was president. Many in this chamber want to take those Prescription Drugs away by repealing Affordable Care act. Im not going to let that happen. And we stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again. Biden did not utter Donald Trumps name once during that speech. But he referred to his predecessor more than a dozen times. That w
convicted of 34 felony counts in his new york hush money case, eight republican senators vowed to oppose all biden nominees and all democratic legislation as retribution. today six republican senators led by trump vice presidential short lister jd vance put oppose all nominees into writing. anyone who endorsed trump s guilt, anyone who supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of donald trump, and anyone who supported manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg orn supported law fare or censorship in other ways, which is just vague enough to include basically anyone president biden s nominated. now, these republican senators say their blockade will last until election day, and in practical terms that means the u.s. government will not be able to appoint representatives to thingsep like the u.n. general assembly or the world health organization or even to the not particularly seeming places like the international civil aviation organization and the public buildings
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boos, cigarettes, food, women, music, cars. i just bought a brand-new mercury kapri which i loved, and bobby had this maroon beat up old volvo with cracked leather seats. i m thinking, son of prominent scars dale physician, huh? i think it was eddy who said right at the beginning, i don t know if this will turnout to be great or terrible. so, there was always a question mark, a big question mark about where the story eventually was going. we didn t realize from then on just how much things were going to change. now one of the most remarkable stories i ve seen some sometime. a story about tripletts. eddy and robert and david reunited after 19 years. we have a story about tripletts that gives new meaning
departing by choice, others not so much, are giving their farewell speeches from their senate desks. as i stand here today, i am optimistic about the future, but my optimism is due more to the country that my parents gave to me than is due to the president condition of our civic life. i believe that we all know well that this is not a normal time, and that the threats to our democracy from within and without are real. and none of us can say with confidence how the situation that we now find ourselves in will turnout. peter morgan, an author, said no family is complete without an embarrassing uncle. we have too many embarrassing uncles in the united states senate. the united states senate is no longer the world s greatest deliberative body. and everybody needs to quit saying it. until we recover from this period of polarization and the fear of the political consequence of tough votes. but with all the problems i ve