Will Biden’s crashing approval ratings hurt Democrats’ chances of holding onto the Senate? It certainly looks that way right now. A poll from the Democrat-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) early last month had Democrat incumbent Raphael Warnock up by a mere two points in a matchup against Trump-backed Herschel Walker, but a new CDMedia poll shows that Walker, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, is currently leading Warnock by 5 points. “A more fired-up Republican base has already coalesced behind Herschel Walker and the crossover vote favors him, as well,” Big Data Poll Director Rich Baris said. “But the size and scope of Walker’s advantage over Raphael Warnock is blinding when drilling down on area and region.”
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Baris notes that Walker is “is dominating among all the key regional demographics. Nearly two-thirds of white voters [65.0%] chose Walker, as did slightly more than 1 in 10 black voters [10.1%]. White voters represent slightly more than 6 in 10 voters in the Georgia electorate, while non-white voters combined typically represent just under 4 in 10,” reports CDMedia. “Warnock leads among urban voters 56.2% to 29.2%, while Walker dominates among rural voters 62.6% to 22.3%. The two candidates are statistically tied in the suburbs at 44%.”
The left (of course) is attempting to smear Herschel Walker. Since they cannot call him a racist, they will likely go after him with allegations of sexual misconduct. One way or the other, it is unlikely that they will prevail on the issues, so they must resort to smears.
Walker is (of course) a sports legend in Georgia. You always run the risk of alienating people if you attack a sports legend. Better have the goods if you want to go for that line of attack. I would think it would be better to simply say that Walker is less than qualified for the job and hit him with inexperience. But then again, it's also not unusual for celebrities to get past that on their celebrity.
Truth is that if the Democrats lose this Senate race, then they are in big trouble. This is a must hold for them to have any chance to retain even the 50-50 tie they currently have.
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On Sunday, Cheney wielded one of Trump's favorite insults against him, tweeting, "I like Republican presidents who win re-election" alongside a photo of Bush, who won reelection against John Kerry "is going to win in a landslide" in 2004 with Cheney's father, then-Vice President Dick Cheney, on the ticket.
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my GOD, he’s running over people and just a freshman
That child abusing Warnock will be slammed
Another unqualified candidate like Trump.
It was SO fun to be in Athens The Classic City then, REM starting, the B52’s, Love Tractor. Thursday night Drink and Drown at the B & L Warehouse
Where the Athens-Clarke County Police Station resides today was wildly different years ago. In the ‘70s, The Hodgson Oil Building on Oconee Street was a rock club called the B & L Warehouse. Lachowski recollects it as a place Pylon could not relate to well. “The type of bands that would perform here are bands that perform for hours. Kind of like the type of bands that would play at fraternity parties now––hard rock, Southern rock,” he says. “They were usually bands from Macon or Atlanta or a neighboring state. They were not recording artists though unless they recorded one for vanity or something.” Although it did not begin as an innovator for Athens music, the B & L Warehouse eventually became the practice studio for many Athens music groups, including Pylon. The B & L became another bar called the I & I in 1980, where Iggy Pop once performed.
every Thursday
Cold I hope there’s no animosity over Herschel and the worst trad in NFL history
😂😂
It would be a great deal with two unqualified candidates!!!
Donald Trump as the Republican President candidate and Herschel Walker as the Vice President's candidate in 2024!
https://www.nj.com/giants/2021/04/trump-backed-ex-nfl-star-who-might-run-for-us-senate-in-georgia-is-creating-a-lot-of-anxiety.html?outputType=amp
Wow Roger...
Four comments, all about Trump.
Obsessed much? The guy still lives rent free in your head!
Updated: Apr. 22, 2021,
Got anything from the last 6 months? And did you read the said article you posted from NJ.com, because as a native Jawjan I don’t give a shit what “The Situation” from Jersey thinks.
Without this third bucket of organized conspirators engaged in “pre-planning,” January 6 was just a mostly peaceful protest.
We are now in a better position to understand a crucial strategic dilemma facing the guardians of the official 1/6 narrative. If the guardians of the narrative want to preserve the official story that the federal government had no foreknowledge of 1/6—and thus they are not guilty of letting 1/6 happen for political purposes—the guardians must maintain that there was no foreplanning on the part of the insurrectionists.
On the other hand, if there’s no pre-planned plot, there’s no agreement to a conspiracy. If there’s no conspiracy, there’s no conspiracy case against the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys or Three Percenters. And if there’s no case, there’s no narrative. This is precisely why Alan Feuer, the NYT beat reporter for the 1/6 court cases, desperately needs there to have been a pre-planned plot. Otherwise, the flagship 1/6 cases, the premise of the 1/6 Commission, and the entire narrative against Donald Trump and his supporters, sinks like the Titanic.
No matter what, a major pillar of the official Jan 6 narrative is teetering on the brink of collapse
The fake News robotics Washington Post reported on Nancy Pelosi getting it fixed.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday sought to quell an internal Democratic revolt over President Biden's economic agenda, as growing rifts within the party threatened to scuttle a planned vote this week on a roughly $1 trillion package to improve the nation’s infrastructure.
The speaker delivered her pleas at a private, roughly 90-minute caucus meeting, where she and a roster of congressional allies -- including some of the House’s most vulnerable candidates -- made the case for unity among the party’s increasingly discordant liberal and moderate ranks.
Centrist Democrats have demanded a vote on the proposal to improve the country’s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and Internet connections, which Pelosi has tentatively set for Thursday. More-liberal Democrats, meanwhile, have threatened to oppose the public-works measure, hoping to use their support as leverage to secure a second, roughly $3.5 trillion package that moderates for months have tried to whittle down. That legislative effort aims to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations to pay for a number of new programs to expand health care, improve education and combat climate change.
Addressing the caucus on Monday, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders doubled down on their plan to hold the infrastructure vote as planned. But she walked back an earlier attempt to vote this week on the $3.5 trillion package as well, citing the fact that lawmakers continue to negotiate its contours, particularly with centrists led by Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
Pelosi did warn the package is likely to be smaller than the $3.5 trillion price tag that some Democrats initially anticipated, according to multiple lawmakers who attended the meeting who requested anonymity to describe the private affair. In doing so, the speaker and other leaders also urged for patience, stressing the political significance of their work -- with potentially Democrats’ majorities in the 2022 election on the line.
Ford has been scammed by the Democrats climate change hoax.
Ford Motor significantly increased its commitment to electric cars and trucks on Monday by announcing that it would spend billions of dollars to build three battery factories and an electric truck plant in the United States, creating 11,000 jobs over the next four years.
The company described the investment, which it said would enable it to produce more than one million electric vehicles a year in the second half of this decade, as the single largest in its 118-year history. All told, Ford and a South Korean supplier will spend $11.4 billion on the project.
The announcement is the latest multibillion-dollar move by an automaker to quickly move to electric vehicles and phase out gasoline-powered cars and trucks as part of the global effort to combat climate change.
Only 11,000 union scammed Democrats
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't know anything about the US Economy.
I told you so.
"Fed Chairman Jerome Powell cautioned that the causes of the recent rise in inflation may last longer than anticipated."
Yep, no shit .
Remember when we were told that around 75% would put us at herd immunity and end the pandemic? Now, Biden wants 98% before we can return to “normal.” That’s quite the shift, and to be honest, I’m not sure that 98% of the population can safely get the vaccines so that might complicate things. But again, these are just random numbers. The fact that highly effective natural immunity is widespread, encompassing tens of millions of Americans, doesn’t even come into play. Pfizer has money to make and Biden has political goals to reach, freedom and common sense need not apply.
All of this is theater, and that’s because the crisis is the point. Democrats are never going to willingly give up the power they’ve seized. Biden and his cohorts are going to play tyrant as long as the American people let them. Vote accordingly
I'm not surprised by Pelosi.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats Monday night that she is no longer linking reconciliation and infrastructure, and said she would seek to pass the public works bill this week regardless of the status of the larger domestic spending bill,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Pelosi’s move is a direct challenge to progressives, who have warned that they will block the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill if reconciliation isn’t complete.”
“This is a clear sign that Pelosi and her leadership team plan to muscle the infrastructure bill through the House Thursday regardless of where negotiations with the Senate on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package stand.”
The liberals will vote for both bills
Inflation is likely to stay high in the coming months before moderating, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is set to tell Congress at a hearing on Tuesday morning.
In testimony released by the central bank on Monday, Mr. Powell largely repeated remarks he made at a news conference last week after the central bank indicated it was likely to begin reversing its easy-money policies at its next meeting, Nov. 2-3.
A surge in inflation because of supply-chain bottlenecks and other challenges related to the reopening of the economy has been larger and longer-lasting than anticipated, Mr. Powell said in his prepared remarks. “But they will abate, and as they do, inflation is expected to drop back toward” the Fed’s 2% goal, Mr. Powell said.
Mr. Powell acknowledged that there are risks that price pressures are higher than anticipated or more enduring. The Fed would raise interest rates “if sustained higher inflation were to become a serious concern,” he said.
Mr. Powell strongly indicated last week the Fed could start to reduce, or taper, its $120 billion in monthly asset purchases as soon as its next scheduled meeting and that it could complete that process by the middle of next year
Mr. Powell is set to testify alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Banking Committee as part of quarterly hearings mandated by the March 2020 economic-relief measures that turbocharged the central bank’s emergency lending programs.
The Fed ended those programs at the start of this year, and the central bank by the end of August had sold all of the corporate bonds and related assets it purchased last year to backstop business-lending markets.
FBI busts FBI terror plot...
https://youtu.be/xmJ0HDbZi5M
Biden and Harris are getting things done!
No matter what happens in Congress over the next few days, the one thing even President Biden’s harshest critics cannot say is that his administration’s accomplishments are inconsequential. This is a White House that does big things at home and abroad.
It is possible, but unlikely, that the week could end with the Democratic Party doing its best impersonation of a smoking ruin. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) might fail to craft a version of Biden’s $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” package that moderate Democrats will vote for. And progressive House Democrats, in response, might torpedo the $1 trillion “hard infrastructure” bill that the Senate has already approved.
I doubt this Armageddon scenario will occur, since the argument is less about substance than about arithmetic — congressional arithmetic at that, which is much more flexible than the addition and subtraction we learned in school. The numbers involved are so humongous that Pelosi and Schumer ought to be able to find some sweet spot that lets both moderates and progressives claim victory. No Democrat should see failure as an option.
But the fact that we’re talking about trillions of dollars instead of mere billions gives an idea of how ambitious the Biden-Harris administration is. Anyone who might have imagined that our oldest president would mostly be a soothing corrective after the insanity of the Donald Trump years was dead wrong.
Look at what Biden and Vice President Harris have done to reshape U.S. foreign policy — an area in which presidents largely have free rein. Previous administrations talked the talk. Biden is walking the walk in ways that have both our allies and our adversaries struggling to keep up.
The Obama administration talked for years about ending the war in Afghanistan and withdrawing American forces, but ended up agreeing to a troop surge instead. The Trump administration signed a bad deal, incompetently negotiated, to bring U.S. troops home but got booted out of office before being able to follow through. Biden could have tried to get out of the bargain. Instead, he went ahead and fulfilled it.
No, the withdrawal wasn’t pretty. But it happened. This nation’s longest war is over — any way you look at it, that’s a historic milestone, and one Biden has used to reshape U.S. goals abroad.
Biden and Harris are pulling off a shift in our foreign policy orientation that has been talked about for more than a decade — a “pivot” or “tilt” away from our traditional focus on Europe and the Middle East toward the region now called the Indo-Pacific, with an eye toward the rise of China as a competing superpower.
Biden secretly negotiated a new defense pact with Australia and Britain that will give the Australians nuclear-powered submarine technology as a check on China’s growing naval power. He hosted the first in-person summit of the Quad strategic alliance — the United States, Japan, Australia and India — in another initiative aimed at containing China’s regional ambitions. He sent Harris to Southeast Asia to shore up U.S. ties with Singapore and Vietnam.
China’s leaders hate all of these moves, which they see as hostile. It is unclear whether Biden’s shift in focus makes a potential confrontation over the fate of Taiwan more or less likely. Even if it doesn’t come to that, this reorientation matters, and it matters a lot.
Still, it is true that Biden’s political standing and the Democrats’ electoral prospects will probably turn on the success or failure of his domestic agenda. You can love that vision or hate it, but the one thing it can’t be called is modest.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act under President Barack Obama was the most significant shift in the role of government in this country since the Reagan administration. Now, however, Biden is seeking a much more dramatic sea change.
He wants to help Americans buy electric cars and build charging stations to make them practical as a way of fighting climate change. He wants high-speed trains on some heavily traveled routes. He wants everyone to have broadband Internet access. He wants to provide free or subsidized child care and 12 weeks of guaranteed paid family leave. He wants to offer free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds and two free years of community college. He wants to expand Medicare benefits and reduce prescription drug costs.
Okay, he wants everything including the kitchen sink. And that’s what the nation needs after four decades of trickle-down economics that created massive inequality and allowed the nation’s physical infrastructure and human infrastructure to fall behind.
Biden and Harris have been in office for just eight months. Deduct style points from their score if you like. Acknowledge the failures on issues such as immigration. But they swing for the fences. And they get things done.
Eugene Robinson
He's a brilliant Pulitzer prize winning author.
One of my favorite writers in this era.
He destroyed your Sleepy Joe Biden rhetoric.
He summed it up far better than me
Okay, he wants everything including the kitchen sink. And that’s what the nation needs after four decades of trickle-down economics that created massive inequality and allowed the nation’s physical infrastructure and human infrastructure to fall behind.
Biden and Harris have been in office for just eight months. Deduct style points from their score if you like. Acknowledge the failures on issues such as immigration. But they swing for the fences. And they get things done.
I like the baseball analogy.
Go Dodgers
A major component of President Joe Biden’s plan to raise revenue to pay for his trillions of dollars in new federal spending is now under fire from trade associations across the country.
The Biden administration has made clear its plan to beef up IRS auditing by expanding the agency’s funding and power. Biden’s latest proposal would require banks to turn over to the Internal Revenue Service bank account information for all accounts holding more than $600.
In a sharp pushback against the proposal, more than 40 trade associations, some of which represent entire industries or economic sectors, signed a letter to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., raising the alarm about the plan.
The letter, which includes the support of several banking coalitions, calls on Congress to reject that requirement, saying it violates customer privacy and would create an incredibly expensive and elaborate reporting requirement for the banks.
“While the stated goal of this vast data collection is to uncover tax dodging by the wealthy, this proposal is not remotely targeted to that purpose or that population,” the letter said. “In addition to the significant privacy concerns, it would create tremendous liability for all affected parties by requiring the collection of financial information for nearly every American without proper explanation of how the IRS will store, protect, and use this enormous trove of personal financial information. We believe that this program is costly for all parties, not fit for purpose, and loaded with potential for unintended and serious negative consequences.”
The groups argue it would target "almost every American" and question whether the IRS could keep that information secure from hackers and bad actors.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/irs-would-track-all-bank-transactions-over-600-under-biden-plan-businesses-revolt
1939
So tell me again what an authoritarian, totalitarian, tyrant, Hitler-wannabe, threat to the Constitution and to America Donald Trump was and is.
He never cared about my bank accounts.
Stop focusing on the negative. Biden and Harris have gotten things done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/27/no-matter-what-happens-congress-biden-administration-has-done-big-things/
Slow Joe an da Ho have gotten things done according to a racist, fabulist piece of shit.
Junkie Floyd had more class than Robinson.
If you call getting 13 service members killed "getting things done."
If you call blowing an innocent family to bits "getting things done."
If you call making almost everything more expensive, especially basic needs "getting things done."
If you call completely abdicating the responsibility of securing our southern border "getting things done."
If you call releasing tens of thousands of un-vetted and unvaccinated refugees into the interior of the country "getting things done."
If you call abandoning 1000+ Americans and Afghan allies in Kabul "getting things done."
If you call using the FBI as your personal STASI "getting things done."
If you call having NO FUCKING PLAN to "stop Covid in its tracks" "getting things done."
If you call not being able to answer a single impromptu question from ANY 'journalist' EVER "getting things done."
If you call declaring war on the Border Patrol over a horse-whip LIE "getting things done."
And I could do this ALL FUCKING DAY.
Leave it to an affirmative action hire and hack like Robinson to celebrate an "administration" whose every "accomplishment" has been a fucking disaster.
P-U-litzer prize winner. LOL. Fucking shitstain.
Oh, and lest I forget -
If you call GIFTING $85 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS worth of American weaponry "getting things done" then that's REALLY getting things done.
Stairmaster Joe has vaulted a pack of 11th century stone age savages into having one of the top ten militaries on the fucking PLANET.
Now THAT's "getting things done!!!"
He never cared about my bank accounts.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! With a $1.98 in them.....why would anyone give a fuck......
Filed under - "How to be right 100% of the time."
When you see a swastika graffiti/racial slur 'hate crime' (LOL), ALWAYS assume the perpetrator is BLACK, until proven otherwise.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-man-arrested-for-n-word-graffiti-swastikas-at-emory-university/
This method has served me very well.
The Cave IN.
"I'm not surprised by Pelosi.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats Monday night that she is no longer linking reconciliation and infrastructure".
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Lost the debate, again.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't know anything about the US Economy.
I told you so.
"Fed Chairman Jerome Powell cautioned that the causes of the recent rise in inflation may last longer than anticipated."
Top men
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admits he DIDN'T expect the Delta surge at the border and says 1 in 5 migrants have an 'illness' after Trump claimed they're bringing 'contagious diseases'
'I did not expect to be in late September where we are' Mayorkas said
Trump, on Monday, claimed that the migrants had been released 'with no vetting, checking or even minimal understanding of who they are'
Images show Haitian migrants playing games on a beach in Columbia as tourists walk by, seemingly not phased as they continue enjoying their vacation
Some Haitians were seen playing games, including dominoes, with fellow Venezuelan travelers who are also hoping to seek asylum in the U.S.
The photos from the beach paint a strikingly different narrative than images showing caravans of migrants attempting to cross through jungles, rivers and other dangerous conditions
The newly released images come as the American government has admitted that 12,000 Haitian migrants have been released into the U.S.
Mayorkas claims that number could go up as 5,000 other cases are still being processed
Sad rat that you missed the story with High School kids destroying property on Tik Tok and inscribing the swastika over urinals with the words "HAIL HITLER" !!!!!!! From a very white school in the burbs....wonder where these kids got their hatred from????? Me thinks parents like you who ascribe to the Proud Boyz mentality!!!!
BLM and Antifa cause billions of dollars in damage but dopey is worried about a urinal in a suburb. We don't call him dopey for nothing.
And you and the GOP have caused 670 k dead anerucans from ignoring covid BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Feckless loser ballz....LOLOLOLOLOL
Liberal understanding of free market economics in a nutshell:
Jen Psaki: It’s “unfair and absurd” that companies would increase costs for consumers in response to us taxing them more.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1442653892672581635
rrb said...
Slow Joe an da Ho have gotten things done according to a racist, fabulist piece of shit.
Junkie Floyd had more class than Robinson.
If you call getting 13 service members killed "getting things done."
If you call blowing an innocent family to bits "getting things done."
If you call making almost everything more expensive, especially basic needs "getting things done."
If you call completely abdicating the responsibility of securing our southern border "getting things done."
If you call releasing tens of thousands of un-vetted and unvaccinated refugees into the interior of the country "getting things done."
If you call abandoning 1000+ Americans and Afghan allies in Kabul "getting things done."
If you call using the FBI as your personal STASI "getting things done."
If you call having NO FUCKING PLAN to "stop Covid in its tracks" "getting things done."
If you call not being able to answer a single impromptu question from ANY 'journalist' EVER "getting things done."
If you call declaring war on the Border Patrol over a horse-whip LIE "getting things done."
And I could do this ALL FUCKING DAY.
Leave it to an affirmative action hire and hack like Robinson to celebrate an "administration" whose every "accomplishment" has been a fucking disaster.
Yep, if he gets a few more things "done" we will be done as a country.
What a fucking disaster of a president
FJB
and his whole administration
Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi
This is the first time in recent memory that a government shutdown has been possible when one party — one party — has controlled the White House, House, & Senate. The Republicans own that. #DoYourJob
9:36 AM · Jan 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/954044854778105857
Benny
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1442553384582533121
“The border is closed”
“Migrants are getting whipped”
“There’s no border crisis”
“The border is under control”
“The border crisis is seasonal”
“Illegals are not getting released into American towns”
“Illegals are not bringing COVID.”
ALL LIES.
This administration makes big lies effortlessly
and the state media goes along
1984
and 1939 (h/t rrb)
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Lost the debate, again.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't know anything about the US Economy.
I told you so.
"Fed Chairman Jerome Powell cautioned that the causes of the recent rise in inflation may last longer than anticipated."
The lies Team Biden say are easily exposed.
THE BIG LIE is dead.
"Inflation is Transatory"
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT bought it, parroted it here 100's of times.
All wrong.
Told ya so.
General Milly followed the chain of command.
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate panel Tuesday that his first call to reassure his Chinese counterpart that President Donald Trump had no plans to attack China late in his administration was directed by Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper.
rrb wants a firing squad for almost every person except for Trump.
“The calls on 30 October and 8 January were coordinated before and after with Secretary [Mark] Esper and acting secretary {Christopher C.] Miller’s staffs and the interagency,” Milley said in prepared remarks, explaining why he spoke to Gen. Zuocheng Li to assure him that the United States did not intend to attack China.
The calls were revealed in the book “Peril” by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and Post reporter Robert Costa.
“I know, I am certain, President Trump did not intend on attacking the Chinese, and it is my directed responsibility to convey presidential orders and intent,” he continued. “My task at that time was to de-escalate.”
Milley said that he briefed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the Jan. 8 call shortly after it occurred, and acting defense secretary Miller at a meeting about it soon afterward. He acknowledged speaking to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as well, in a conversation in which she asked about Trump’s ability to launch nuclear weapons. He said he explained to her that the president does not have the sole ability to do so, and that he was in the “chain of communication” of officials that the president would need to consult. He then reminded his staff of the nuclear protocols and procedures, he explained.
“At no time was I attempting to change or influence the process, usurp authority or insert myself into the chain of command,” Milley said. “But I am expected to give my advice and ensure that the president is fully informed.”
Always wrong Roger strikes again.
You can't be real. This has to be a fake persona. No one is as stupid and so spectacularly wrong as Roger.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Tuesday that the Afghan army’s sudden collapse caught the Pentagon off-guard as he acknowledged miscalculations in America’s longest war including corruption and damaged morale in Afghan ranks.
“The fact that the Afghan army we and our partners trained simply melted away – in many cases without firing a shot – took us all by surprise,” Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“It would be dishonest to claim otherwise.”
Austin was speaking at the start of two days of what are expected to be some of the most contentious hearings in memory over the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan, which cost the lives of U.S. troops and civilians and left the Taliban back in power.
The Senate and House committees overseeing the U.S. military are holding hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, where Republicans are hoping to zero in on what they see as mistakes that President Joe Biden’s administration made toward the end of the two-decade-old war.
It follows similar questioning two weeks ago that saw U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken staunchly defending the administration, even as he faced calls for his resignation.
Austin praised American personnel who helped airlift 124,000 Afghans out of the country, an operation that also cost the lives of 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghans in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport.
“Was it perfect? Of course not,” Austin said, noting the desperate Afghans who killed trying to climb the side of a U.S. military aircraft or the civilians killed in the last U.S. drone strike of the war.
Senator James Inhofe, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Republican, squarely blamed the Biden administration for what critics say was a shameful end to a 20-year endeavor. Inhofe said Biden ignored the recommendations of his military leaders and left many Americans behind after the U.S. withdrawal.
“We all witnessed the horror of the president’s own making,” Inhofe said of Afghanistan.
Many of the hardest questions may fall to the two senior U.S. military commanders testifying: Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Marine General Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command.
The hearing is live.
The Republicans are trying to discredit General Milly and again Biden because they don't have an agenda.
1967 when the demonstrations against segregation laws turn violent protests against white only restrooms and even death threats against people of color.
You are using the same rhetoric by George Wallace
The President didn't follow some advice.
The head of U.S. Central Command confirmed media reports that he recommended to President Biden that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and that he believed withdrawing those forces “would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”
Why it matters: Biden denied last month that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "No one said that to me that I can recall."
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley testified to Congress that like CENTCOM commander Gen. Frank McKenzie, he also recommended that Biden keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.But Milley stressed: "I am required and the military commanders are required to give our best military advice, but the decision-makers are not required to follow that advice."
The big picture: The Pentagon’s top leaders have come under intense scrutiny over the series of disasters that followed the U.S. exit. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Milley, and McKenzie are testifying before Congress for the first time since the withdrawal.
The latest: "I think that our credibility with allies and partners around the world and with adversaries is being intensely reviewed by them to see which way this is going to go. And I think that 'damage' is one word that could be used, yes," Milley told senators.
The President will come under fire.
Axios is live and they are troubled for the same reason as Scott Johnson.
Why it matters: The Pentagon's top leaders have come under intense scrutiny over the series of disasters that followed the U.S. exit, including the Taliban's seizure of Kabul, the ISIS-K terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and scores of Afghans in August, and a retaliatory U.S. drone strike that killed 10 civilians.
They are asking who gave direct orders.
Cold I hope there’s no animosity over Herschel and the worst trad in NFL history
The worst part of that trade was that Minnesota gave them contingent picks based on whether or not they kept the players Minnesota gave them. Darrin Nelson refused to report to the Cowboys and Minnesota lost a pick. They cut the other players Minnesota gave them (which included like 2-3 starters) and took the picks.
So in the end, the Vikings traded five players, 3 first round draft choices, 3 second round draft choices and a couple of other draft choices for Walker and like four late round picks.
And Jerry Burns (the head coach) actually preferred Darrin Nelson to Herschel Walker in his offense. They had to completely change everything from the Jerry Burns short passing game (later referred to as the "west coast offense) to the old I formation and Walker 7 yards back. None of the offensive linemen were run blockers.
Then Walker started to flake and said he wanted to be a bobsledder!
Jerry Lynn made the worst trade in the history of sports.
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