anti-semitism on our campus period, end of story. you cannot thread a needle. you have to be as full throated defense of jewish students as you are in defense of every other student on campus. but if i can just explain why this makes so much sense, why when campuses have people protesting, chanting from the river to the sea, which is a chant that envisions israel without jews in it, which is hamas goal, or inta fa da, this century the second inta fa da killed a thousand civilians with bombings on bus stops, at caves, atopy sa places. the rhetoric being used is dangerous and must be called out everywhere by university presidents, by elected officials, by everyone who understands that we have an obligation not just to protect the jewish community but to stand squarely against terrorism, the kind that we experienced in our own country not that long ago. and that we need to stand against wherever it occurs. especially when there are americans who were killed and americans who ar
U.S. Senator Gary Peters. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Gary Peters).
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) – Wednesday,
 U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, outlined his key priorities as he takes on a new leadership role in the 117
th Congress.
Peters, who previously served as the committeeâs Ranking Member, will continue to focus on bolstering the federal governmentâs Coronavirus pandemic response, strengthening national security â including combating the rising threats of domestic terrorism and cyber-attacks â and ensuring government is working efficiently and using taxpayer dollars responsibly.
for a lot of reasons. especially this, you know, website health care debacle start-up, that this is, indeed, impacting his legacy overall, mark? of course. but i don t think it impacts the long-term legacy. i don t think i mean, two months ago people would have said, this syria thing is going to tanlt the presidency. no one s talking about syria. you know, six months ago they would have said nothing else. we are in a 24-hour news cycle. and then later on down the line it s not. that s not to say obama care won t be an index of obama s effectiveness. in three months no one will be talking about the website. i have to refute this idea that president obama was dishonest when he said if you want this policy, you can keep it. under the grandfather clause, people can keep them. the people that can t keep them are getting policies that are cheaper and better. there is something called a consumer protection. there are certain states that we don t allow people to have whether it s food,
few weeks that obama doesn t doesn t work. if the website had worked perfectly, would the right be suddenly saying obama care makes sense? universal health care is a good idea. of course not. you think this makes it easy. the fight yeah. on whether this health care plan really has merit has just been made easy for the naysayers? low-hanging fruit. so let s talk about legacy, then. the president s legacy is defined in large part likely by this health care effort. and that s whether it s effective or not. so mercedes, is this white house, in your view, in trouble? yeah, absolutely. just this week he made the oversimplified statement to try and defend his oversimplified statement that if you like your health care, can you keep it. well, in fact, 10 million people are likely to lose their health care. the ones that they picked. and he called it quote, unquote, substandard plans. well, for many of these people who did the research, they really thought that this was the best
these deadlines, but just period? absolutely. first of all, everyone can see that this is an extraordinary embarrassment. i do not concede that the president knew. you know, he s not the webmaster in chief. there are people under him whose job it is to make this work. the buck stops with him, but i doubt that he moved it and still moved forward at the same pace and speed. as far as it being a sort of referendum on health care itself, no, i strongly disagree. obama care cannot be reduced to the website. and in many ways it already has been successful. all the people who were not in the health caroline who are in it now, it s been successful for them. all the people with preexisting conditions who get covered, it s successful for them. even the people who have been forced to take new plans that are now cheaper and actually fit consumer protection standards, it s better and functional for them. so obama care is working in many ways, but this website is a mess. the obama administration h