Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Capitol Seizure
“Pelosi says she would have put up a fight against Capitol mob: ‘I’m a street fighter ” [The Hill]. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says in a new interview that she would have put up a fight had she encountered rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6.” • Except security hustled her out. Which she allowed. Come on, man.
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Mr. Lee went big with the announcement, revealing his change of heart during an appearance on Fox News. The Democratic Party, he told the network, has undergone a negative metamorphosis.
“It’s not the party I grew up with 25 years ago, and it’s not the party I can stand with anymore. The working class, the small business owners are not part of the conversation anymore. It all has to do with the elitists and the socialists, and that’s not the agenda what I have in mind for this country in the future,” Mr. Lee advised.
The Nevada Republican Party is pleased with the mayor’s bold move.
The Democratic mayor of North Las Vegas, Nev., John Lee, has joined the Republican Party.
Lee said in a video posted to Twitter that he is “proud to be a Republican” and looks forward to working with the GOP and looks “forward to working alongside you to Make America Great Again.”
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In a Tuesday interview with Fox and Friends, Lee said he switched his party affiliation after “card-carrying members of the socialistic party” were elected to leadership posts in the Nevada Democratic Party’s leadership elections.
According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, the candidates were affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America.
Bird Song of the Day
At reader request, Birds of Australia. Duet with an insect.
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
That’s the stuff to give the troops. • Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, the rate of vaccination post-Inaugural would kink upward, as the policies of a more effective administration took hold. They have not. The fragmented, Federalized, and profit-driven lumbering monstrosity that we laughingly call our “health care” “system” has not responded to “energy in the executive,” but has continued on its inertial path, albeit in an upward direction.