Examples of Democratic Party leadership

hanimmal

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I was going to do a side by side with Trump's knee bending in Helsinki, but there are Republicans in office doing Putin's dirty work now.

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Democrats, intent on overcoming objections by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), on Monday vowed to press ahead to secure the Senate confirmation of one of President Biden’s nominees, a Pentagon pick whose expertise on Russia would be critical amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

On Thursday, Hawley objected to quick consideration of Celeste Wallander, CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation and former senior director on Russia for the Obama administration’s National Security Council. Biden has tapped Wallander to serve as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.

Hawley, a harsh critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, has blocked quick action on several of Biden’s Pentagon nominees as he seeks answers about the administration policies.

“Senators have the right to object,” said Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, in a statement to The Washington Post on Monday. “They also have a responsibility to America’s national security interests, particularly when Russia is massing troops in Eastern Europe. It’s time for politics to take a back seat here.”

The effort last week to get Wallander confirmed along with two other Pentagon nominees — David Honey to be the deputy undersecretary for research and engineering and Melissa Dalton to serve as the assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security affairs — was led by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee.

Shaheen, in an interview with The Post on Monday, condemned Hawley’s efforts to slow Wallander’s confirmation, accusing him of putting national security at risk when Russia is encroaching on Ukrainian territory. Shaheen said senators have the right to hold up nominees if there are questions about qualifications but that Hawley’s blanket delay “is just unprecedented.”

“He’s interested in grandstanding, not in getting answers,” Shaheen said, noting that the Senate passed a defense bill in December that includes a commission tasked with investigating what happened in Afghanistan.

Hawley’s suggestion that Democrats “who supported that commission like myself, don’t want answers on Afghanistan is just insulting,” she said.

On the Senate floor on Thursday, Hawley accused the Biden administration of not moving fast enough to bolster Ukraine.
The GOP senator also suggested the administration’s actions in Afghanistan emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin and “other dictators around this world.”

“What accountability has there been in this time? Who has been relieved of duty? Who has been shown the door? What have we learned?” said Hawley, who also serves on the Armed Services Committee. “The answer is there’s been no accountability.”

In a statement to The Post Monday, Hawley doubled down on his criticism of the administration.

“As Joe Biden’s incompetence leads Europe closer to war, Dr. Wallander seems to think we should keep doing more of the same in Europe, including bringing Ukraine into NATO, which will mean more and more American troops,” said Hawley, who opposes any effort to admit Ukraine into NATO and insists the focus should be on China.

This month, the White House accused Hawley of “parroting Russian talking points” based on his comments about Ukraine and NATO.

A spokesman for Hawley noted that Wallander’s nomination had been pending in the Armed Services Committee since June of last year, raising questions about the demands now for expediency.

At her confirmation hearing last month, Wallander was critical of the Obama-Biden administration’s handling of Ukraine during Russia’s 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, saying the U.S. response was “too slow and incremental.”

Hawley’s opposition to quick confirmation of Wallander means the nomination will have to go through additional procedural steps by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). Shaheen said she hasn’t yet spoken to Schumer about what he will do, though she will try again to get unanimous consent to move quickly on the nomination.

Schumer filed cloture Monday night on all three nominations. The Senate is expected to vote on their confirmations Wednesday.

“This is a time when, as we’ve heard for months now, there is every effort to do everything possible in the diplomatic realm to address Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, and to the extent that Senator Hawley is preventing us from having the qualified competent people in place to address the issues right now, he is putting in danger our national security and our ability to address what’s happening on the ground in Europe,” Shaheen said.
 

hanimmal

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She really lays out the reality of today and the insurrectionist Republicans who are dangerously dividing our nation with their militarized propaganda trolling (foreign and domestic).

 

Fogdog

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Biden gave the nod to Kamala Harris by tasking her to deliver the message that the US will support Ukraine's independence from Putin's Russia and warn Putin's gang that the US has resolved to do them grievous harm if they continue their provocations at Ukraine's border

Harris says US ‘stands with Ukraine’ while warning Russia of ‘swift, severe and united’ consequences


Of course, this doesn't sit well with the Red Dog Republicans

It's "almost insulting to Europe and the world" to send Vice President Kamala Harris to speak in Europe on the Ukraine crisis when she's "clearly not up to this task on the brink of what could be a war," Rep. Guy Reschenthaler said on Newsmax Saturday.


Why, oh why is Biden sending Kamala Harris to stop Putin invading Ukraine?


If President Joe Biden wants to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, why on Earth would he send Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe to address the issue?

Harris flew Thursday to the Munich Security Conference to work with allies to try to stop Russia’s Vladimir Putin from sending in the 150,000 troops he has encircling Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the early stages of an invasion are already “unfolding.”

But Harris has next to no diplomatic experience, beyond her (laughable) mission to address the “root causes” of the migrant flood at the southern border. The result of that? More illegal immigrants (nearly 2 million) than ever crossed the border last year.

What sort of decision-making is going on in the myopic White House bubble? Is this an attempt to burnish her standing on the world stage and reset her disastrous image at home? If so, it is a reckless and risky way to pursue selfish political ends
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Good Question, National Enquirer NY Post Editorial Board,

How about because the threat of sanctions fits perfectly with Harris's expertise with US law and negotiating settlements with the banks that serve crime bosses. Her experience as a successful prosecutor in San Francisco and Attorney General of California makes her a very good fit to bring the message that the US will shut down Putin, freeze his slush fund of money stolen from the people of Russia and end his meddling in US affairs for good.

It must bite Guy Reschenthaler in the ass, knowing from this session comes the experience he claims Harris lacks. Biden swung his two edge sword and cut him twice. Once by sending Harris and the second cut on the backswing by cutting away the "no experience in foreign affairs" critique.

Touché, Joe.
 
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printer

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Biden to name Ketanji Brown Jackson, DC appeals court judge, to Supreme Court
The White House made the announcement official Friday morning. Biden is expected to deliver remarks introducing Jackson as his nominee on Friday afternoon.

“Judge Jackson is an exceptionally qualified nominee as well as an historic nominee, and the Senate should move forward with a fair and timely hearing and confirmation,” the White House said in its statement.


For Jackson, her nomination culminates a meteoric rise through the federal judiciary following just eight months on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a role she was chosen for after eight years as a federal district judge in D.C.

Biden’s decision caps off a month of closely held deliberations at the White House over a replacement for Justice Stephen Breyer, who is due to retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s current term this summer.

Jackson, a former Breyer clerk, is expected to round out the court’s liberal wing, which also includes Sonia Sotomayor, 67, and Elena Kagan, 61. At 51, Jackson would also bring youth, diversity and likely a more liberal outlook than the 83-year-old Breyer, known for his judicial modesty and pragmatism.

Biden’s choice of Jackson delivers on his 2020 campaign vow to make history by nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Other candidates he considered for the role included J. Michelle Childs, a U.S. district judge in South Carolina, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger.

Jackson’s addition to the Supreme Court would not fundamentally shift its 6-3 conservative majority balance. But if she proves to be ideologically to the left of Breyer, it could reshape the three-member liberal minority and alter the court in more subtle ways.

During her confirmation hearings to the D.C. circuit last spring, Jackson faced a grilling from Senate Republicans, some of whom trained their fire on her decision in a case involving a congressional subpoena to compel the testimony of former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.

In what was the most consequential opinion of her career up to that point, then-U.S. District Judge Jackson sided with the Democratic-led House committee pursuing McGahn, ruling in a blistering 120-page decision that former President Trump could not bar McGahn’s testimony, with an admonishment that “presidents are not kings.”

Since then, she joined a unanimous three-judge D.C. Circuit panel that rejected Trump's bid to block his administration's records from being handed to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, a ruling the Supreme Court left intact.
 

schuylaar

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Biden to name Ketanji Brown Jackson, DC appeals court judge, to Supreme Court
The White House made the announcement official Friday morning. Biden is expected to deliver remarks introducing Jackson as his nominee on Friday afternoon.

“Judge Jackson is an exceptionally qualified nominee as well as an historic nominee, and the Senate should move forward with a fair and timely hearing and confirmation,” the White House said in its statement.


For Jackson, her nomination culminates a meteoric rise through the federal judiciary following just eight months on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a role she was chosen for after eight years as a federal district judge in D.C.

Biden’s decision caps off a month of closely held deliberations at the White House over a replacement for Justice Stephen Breyer, who is due to retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s current term this summer.

Jackson, a former Breyer clerk, is expected to round out the court’s liberal wing, which also includes Sonia Sotomayor, 67, and Elena Kagan, 61. At 51, Jackson would also bring youth, diversity and likely a more liberal outlook than the 83-year-old Breyer, known for his judicial modesty and pragmatism.

Biden’s choice of Jackson delivers on his 2020 campaign vow to make history by nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Other candidates he considered for the role included J. Michelle Childs, a U.S. district judge in South Carolina, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger.

Jackson’s addition to the Supreme Court would not fundamentally shift its 6-3 conservative majority balance. But if she proves to be ideologically to the left of Breyer, it could reshape the three-member liberal minority and alter the court in more subtle ways.

During her confirmation hearings to the D.C. circuit last spring, Jackson faced a grilling from Senate Republicans, some of whom trained their fire on her decision in a case involving a congressional subpoena to compel the testimony of former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.

In what was the most consequential opinion of her career up to that point, then-U.S. District Judge Jackson sided with the Democratic-led House committee pursuing McGahn, ruling in a blistering 120-page decision that former President Trump could not bar McGahn’s testimony, with an admonishment that “presidents are not kings.”

Since then, she joined a unanimous three-judge D.C. Circuit panel that rejected Trump's bid to block his administration's records from being handed to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, a ruling the Supreme Court left intact.
This deserves it's own thread due to the historical nature..somewhere between the five war threads.
 

eddy600

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Because SSI is capped at about $124k income then it stops being withdrawn, because rich white guys decided that they don't want to pay taxes.

All it takes to fix it is to up the cap, and it is magically fixed. The threat of the sword is a tool that the right wing hate mongers have their propagandists use to scare people into crying about other spending taking it away.

As for Bernie, I would say for me it is not that I don't like him, it is just that he is Russia's choice, which tells me that they knew they could tank him in a national election (even if it is just scaring people with the boogyman 'Socialism').


Im starting to think that the word 'capitalist' is one of those loaded words that place people into some bullshit camp if they don't call themselves it, or not.
When you posted this SSI was capped at $142000 today it is capped at $147000, My father just had a letter sent to him stating this from SSI.
 

printer

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"It might reduced the value of my coal holdings."
Manchin to oppose Biden Fed pick over climate stances
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Monday that he will not vote to confirm President Biden's pick for a powerful position on the Federal Reserve Board over her criticism of the fossil fuel industry.

In a Monday statement, Manchin said he opposes Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as the Fed's vice chair of supervision because of his "concerns about the critical importance of financing an all-of-the-above energy policy to meet our nation’s critical energy needs."

Raskin, a former Fed governor and Treasury Department deputy secretary, urged financial regulators and banks to pay closer attention to climate-related financial risks for years before Biden chose her to be the Fed's regulatory chief. She had also warned against making investments in fossil fuel projects and companies, noting the environmental risks and financial volatility within the sector, and opposed the Fed giving emergency loans to fossil fuel companies during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

While Raskin said throughout her confirmation hearing that she would not use the Fed to steer funding away from oil and gas production, Manchin said the views on energy-related financial matters will cost her his support.

"Now more than ever, the United States must have policy leaders and economic experts who are focused on the most pressing issues facing the American people and our nation - specifically rising inflation and energy costs," Manchin said.

"The time has come for the Federal Reserve Board to return to its defining principles and dual mandate of controlling inflation by ensuring stable prices and maximum employment. I will not support any future nominee that does not respect these critical priorities.”
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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"It might reduced the value of my coal holdings."
Manchin to oppose Biden Fed pick over climate stances
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Monday that he will not vote to confirm President Biden's pick for a powerful position on the Federal Reserve Board over her criticism of the fossil fuel industry.

In a Monday statement, Manchin said he opposes Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as the Fed's vice chair of supervision because of his "concerns about the critical importance of financing an all-of-the-above energy policy to meet our nation’s critical energy needs."

Raskin, a former Fed governor and Treasury Department deputy secretary, urged financial regulators and banks to pay closer attention to climate-related financial risks for years before Biden chose her to be the Fed's regulatory chief. She had also warned against making investments in fossil fuel projects and companies, noting the environmental risks and financial volatility within the sector, and opposed the Fed giving emergency loans to fossil fuel companies during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

While Raskin said throughout her confirmation hearing that she would not use the Fed to steer funding away from oil and gas production, Manchin said the views on energy-related financial matters will cost her his support.

"Now more than ever, the United States must have policy leaders and economic experts who are focused on the most pressing issues facing the American people and our nation - specifically rising inflation and energy costs," Manchin said.

"The time has come for the Federal Reserve Board to return to its defining principles and dual mandate of controlling inflation by ensuring stable prices and maximum employment. I will not support any future nominee that does not respect these critical priorities.”
the day will come when we have more than a 1 person majority...and then this fucking asshole will become the insignificant piece of shit that he is
 
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