Today:
Sunny, with a high near 70. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 56. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Highs are expected to remain in the 70s until early next week, when it will rise into the 80s briefly before dropping back to seasonable levels.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner’s earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks’ cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.
If Republicans have a strategy for remaining the majority party in Georgia, I am missing it. So far, it seems to be about punishing anyone in the party who has ever uttered a discouraging word about Donald Trump. That is not much of a strategy. Has anybody figured out yet that it is the Democrats the GOP should be focused on and not each other? Democrats have captured both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia and they will take the Governorâs office next year if Republicans donât get their act together â and soon. Write it down. . . .
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber this past week and nosily and unsuccessfully challenged her to a debate. That brought a righteously-indignant cluck from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. âThis is beneath the dignity of a person serving in the Congress of the United States,â she intoned. Oh, please. She probably for
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) survived another harrowing attack on the Hill. And by harrowing, I mean this ‘attack’ was merely a justified tongue lashing by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
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The fact that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t walk around the Capitol with a whip and a chair is yet another demonstration of his ineptitude as a circus trainer. From the
Two Washington Post reporters witnessed Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia. “You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”