i don t even know how to explain 2020. it was a crazy, crazy year. bad things happen in philadelphia. bad things. former vice president joe biden to become the 46th president of the united states. i had no idea what we would be in for. i thought it was fake i thought my friends were messing with me. a philadelphia landscaping company has been thrust into the national spotlight. it was supposed to be anonymous. put me in shock to see my name on the president s twitter. we probably got thousands of calls. you have 950 new messages. we have a lot of haters. i remember asking, did we make a mistake? there were just way too many trees. here is the other thing. and i think we ll discuss this with the board when we have a zoom. i m marie siravo, i m 65 and the president of four seasons total landscaping in philadelphia. we do ground maintenance, irrigation, seeding, flowers, snow removal. it s kind of boring. i think the most challenging part of startin
so the recent fights on capitol hill over infrastructure and social spending have featured plenty of democratic infighting, nothing new there. until now republicans have managed to stay out of the spotlight, but that is beginning to change as some very public fractures are emerging within the gop. republicans in the biden era have defined themselves by one characteristic. they are against whatever joe biden and his party are far. that s it, pure and simple. and gop leaders know that any crack in their wall of opposition could cost them the chance to flip the house in 2022. now, one fracture became apparent this week when 13 house republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill faced a wave of harassment, including, yes, death threats, from the trump-aligned party base. congressman adam kinzinger received a call from someone telling him to, quote, slit his wrists and rot in hell. and another said they hoped don bacon with slip and fall down a staircase. they pale