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the year is 2006, republican president george w. bush is signing an extension of the voting rights act. staying there behind him is missouri senator roy blunt who now thinks voting rites is a partisan issue. that 25-year extension of the voting rights act was so bipartisan that both the majority and the minority leader were there for the signing. oh, okay, right here next to hillary clinton is senator lindsey graham before he thought that protecting voting rights was a power grab. fast forward to today when the senator who will go into the history books as little more than a caddy to the disgraced twice impeached former president said this. as to voting rights itself, i think this is the most height manufactured issue in a long time. let s just be clear. when we talk about voting rights regulation, we talk a lot about what president biden should do, what majority leader chuck schumer could do but what about the republican party up until very recently unanimously sup ....
continent s population will be infected with omicron within eight weeks. to get past the wave, countries like france and germany are turning on those they see as the problem. isolating and alien nalting the unvaccinated. tightening the rules for the eu covid health pass, which is required for most public places. it s no longer enough to have a negative covid test, if you re not vaccinated. in france you need proof of a recent infection. french president emanuel ma crohn said the change is deliberate. quote, the unvaccinated i want to piss them off. germany went even further. it allows vaccinated citizens in eu covid health pass a change that triggered protest by the small minority of unvaccinated germans. a small minority. it seems europe is eager to move on and tps. making big moves to do so, which raises the question what about here in the atlantic reports growing group of americans called the vax and done. the americans who got their vaccines, got their boosters, ....
able to safely keep our children in school. every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get our children vaccinated. get our teachers vaccinated, get our teenagers vaccinated. and then, to practice all of those layered mitigation strategies that have been proven to work. well, the president facing all of this and more, as he makes his way back to the white house after spending saturday in nevada, where he and other top democrats paid tribute to the late senate majority leader harry reid. harry cared so much about his fellow americans. and so little about what anybody thought of him. it was all search light, no spotlight. during my time in the senate, he was more generous to me than i have any right to expect. he was one of the first people to encourage me to run for president. believing that despite my youth, despite my inexperience, despite the fact that i was african-american, ....
about yesterday s one-year so member rags about the january 6th insurrection was the absence of every republican with the exception of two members of the cheney family. as the capitol police officers who protected the u.s. capitol and the members who were hunted inside it that day marked the sad an versary, the gop took a decidedly different path. and one year after the insurrection, it has become blasphemy for any republican to describe the january 6th attack for what it is, a terror attack intended to stop democracy in its tracks by halting the electoral college vote count. case in point, senator ted cruz, who led the charge in objecting to the election results on january 6th but got himself in trouble this week for stating a few inconvenient truths during a senate hearing on wednesday. watch. we are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demo ....
president harris and congress. he said the former president bears singular responsibility. the vice president oddly used the ceremony to push for voting reform. president biden: for first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. harris: now the backlash for the white house going full hog politics. put former republican congressman trey gowdy and some republicans say it is time to bury the divisiveness. this country is not going to be united because of some speech of made by a president and former president but only when people are sick and tired of th ....