Alleged funnyman Stephen Colbert claimed on Monday s edition of
The Late Show on CBS that the ten Republican senators trying to find a compromise solution with President Biden on COVID relief are the worst kind of losers. They are absent-minded caribou who are proposing that instead of simply letting Americans drown, they want to be able to wave to them while they drown.
Colbert described the meeting with the often absent-minded president as, The GOP s compromise offer to the Biden plan is the same way a pack of wolves compromises with an absent-minded caribou. In this case, apparently, Team Biden is a cagey pack of wolves, and that s good. It sounds like it could be a violent metaphor.
Alabama’s Richard Shelby among few senators to have participated in three impeachments
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The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is bringing back college memories for Angi Stalnaker and a lesson she learned from a beloved political science professor at the University of Alabama.
She recalled her professor, Bill Stewart, writing down the names of the Republican and Democratic senators who, prior to the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, indicated how they would vote before the trial started. Those who did have their minds made up beforehand, Stalnaker recalls Stewart saying, “violated their oaths.”
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Republican stimulus offer challenges Biden to split aid package
Erik Wasson, Bloomberg News An American flag flies outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S. on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked an attempt by Democrats to force quick action on increasing direct stimulus payments to $2,000 despite President Donald Trumpâs demands for the change. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
âPresident Joe Biden and Democratic congressional leaders must decide whether to break the administrationâs US$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal into pieces after a scaled-down Republican plan emerged.
The US$600 billion GOP proposal offered to the president by 10 Republican senators on Sunday provides the potential to move a bipartisan bill that includes components from the Biden proposal, including funding for coronavirus vaccines and testing, and unemployment assistan