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First off, US Person would like the CMM to stop referring to the corporate sponsored members of Congress who are obstructing their own party's policy agenda as "moderates". These few recalcitrant individuals are not "moderates" or "centrists" by any exaggeration of the meanings. The Biden social policy bill is hugely popular with the American people, even in their own states. They are not representing their constituents' interests, but the interests of their corporate and wealthy donors. Manchin told reporters,"I’ve never been a liberal in any way, shape or form", and Sinema was so barefaced as to attend a conference of special interest donors opposed to Biden's agenda she blocks in the Senate. Her own state party has voted "no confidence" in her. These legislators are extremists. Certainly they are not loyal Democrats. To refer to them as moderates gives undue credibility to the self-interested obstructionism in which they are engaged, and gives a patina of legitimacy to their extreme position. Joe Manchin makes about $500,000 each year directly from stock in his coal brokerage company. Biden proposes to raise taxes on those making over $400,000 annually, and reduce reliance on coal burning. Consider the source of this syntax--mass media owned by corporations who will pay more taxes if the reconciliation bill is passed. Manchin heartily supports a bloated defense budget costing $778 billion a year, but will not support a ground-breaking social program costing $350 billion a year. Talk about "fiscal insanity"! Radical corporatists would be a more appropriate descriptor. If reconciliation fails, they both should be invited to leave the party of democracy.
Meanwhile in Trumpworld, the Select J6 Committee of the House issued more subpoenas this week apparently aimed at discovering the connection between Individual One and his immediate circle to the organizers of the insurrection. One of the organizers subpoenaed, Katrina Pierson was a veteran of Trump's political campaign. Other targets were Amy Kremer, Caroline Wren, and Maggie Mulvaney, members of Women for America First. Pierson had a meeting with Herr Trumpillini on January 4th in which he asked about speakers for a separate event. She informed him of the rally held on January 5th organized by a group named the Eighty Percent Coalition. The organizer of that event was also subpoenaed.
Trump advertised the rallies in Washington which drove attendance up. He billed the January 6th rally where he spoke just before his supporters marched on the Capitol, as a "wild protest" against the alleged election fraud that removed him from office. He had been touting that BIG LIE for months previously. He told his supporters it was, "statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election." Several lawsuits by police and legislators accuse him of inciting the mob violence that occurred during its riotous forced entry into the Capitol building. According to a Committee news release,“The subpoenas seek a range of records that include materials dealing with the planning, funding, and participation in the events and bus tours; social media activity of associated entities; and communications with or involvement of Trump Administration officials and lawmakers.” Stay tuned to this space.
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| credit: D. Whamond "...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature."--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf |