NYT
May 10, 2021 3:05 PM ET
That history has some Democrats worried that deaths or illnesses could derail President Biden’s efforts to pass ambitious bills through Congress, which his party controls by the narrowest margins in decades.
“Our ability to make good on Biden’s agenda is pretty much dangling by a thread,” said Brian Fallon, a former aide to Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader. “I don’t think it’s uncouth to talk about it. I think it’s a reality that has to inform the urgency with which we approach those issues.”
As the accompanying chart shows, more than 1,160 sitting members and members-elect have died from accidents, disease and violence since the first Congress met in 1789, according to a New York Times analysis of House and Senate records. They include multiple House speakers, famed senators and two former presidents: John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson, who both returned to Congress after leaving the White House.
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Yes, my headline is pretty blunt but no more so than this NY Times piece itself. Last week CNN published a story about the progressive push to get Justice Breyer to retire. There’s was one paragraph in that story which I found particularly striking. It noted that the Senate could fall into Republican’s hands “at any moment” because “two members of the Democratic majority are near or just over 80 years old.” In other words, Democrats are one stopped heartbeat away from losing the chance to replace Breyer with a young progressive.
Today, the NY Times weighs in with a piece that is focused not just on Justice Breyer but the possibility that President Biden’s entire agenda could come to a grinding halt if the wrong people were to die suddenly.
Melbourne headquartered cloud services provider and CRN Fast50 member AdventOne was the only Australian company to be awarded one of 17 IBM Beacon Awards.
The Beacon awards “recognize Business Partners worldwide who integrate IBM technologies and services into solutions that break new ground, drive innovation and take the world forward,“ according to the awards website.
AdventOne was given the ‘Outstanding Solution Driving Client Modernization and Transformation with IBM Power Systems’ award.
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Rush to the Democrats: Stop the War on Police
May 4, 2021
KEN: It’s harder and harder to find the news media when police are doing wonderful things. The word “racism” has lost its impact, so it’s overused, and so now “systemic” has been added to “racism,” and “systemic” is becoming overused. You know, Rush talked about this, the watering down and the manipulation of language during the Trayvon Martin case.
RUSH: The left has begun to talk about “profiling” here, not racism. They’re accusing Zimmerman of “profiling” Trayvon and that, of course, is a no-no. Nobody likes profiling because it’s judgmental, and in many cases prejudicial. So profiling would be, “See? A young, 17-year-old black guy in a hood! That equals ‘criminal. ” That’s profiling; you can’t do it. “Profiling” equals the charge of racism, but they’ve beat that to death, in a sense.
Aside from the Onion, the chatter comes from the leadership over at Demand Justice, which includes Brian Fallon as the executive director. There s also Chris Kang, the co-founder and chief counsel of the group, who spoke in favor of court packing when Democrats introduced such legislation last month. And it s pretty obsessive.
Happy anniversary of Justice Souter announcing his retirement to all Stephen Breyers who celebrate!
(It’s almost as if spring retirement announcements happen all the time and no one needs to wait until June!) https://t.co/fvegBeXtql Christopher Kang (@cdkang76) May 1, 2021
On Saturday, John Kruzel with the Hill reported that Court watchers buzz about Breyer s possible retirement. He opens his piece with pointing out The possibility of Justice Stephen Breyer’s imminent retirement is hanging over the Supreme Court as the current term enters its final weeks and Democrats cling to the slimmest of Senate majorities.