HMM: Manchin returns to Build Back Better negotiations with demands. “Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is open to reengaging on the climate and child care provisions in President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package — or dramatically lowers the income caps for eligible families, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.”
It’s not quite dead yet.
THE FRUITS OF FEARMONGERING: Panicky Would-Be COVID Victims Line Up for Hours to Find Out if They’re Sick.
THEY NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER LEARN:We have a powerful weapon to fight inflation: price controls. It’s time we consider it.
Maybe Joe Biden could combine the worst economic policies of Carter and Nixon.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Go Home 2022, You’re Already Drunk. “Just to reassure you that some things are still normal, leftists are still going out of their way to prove how depraved and awful they are.”
MATT TAIBBI: The Democrats’ Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump.
On the full Meet the Press Sunday, [Chuck] Todd in an ostensibly unrelated segment interviewed 1619 Project author and New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones about Republican efforts in some states to ban teaching of her work. He detoured to ask about the Virginia governor’s race, which seemingly was decided on the question, “How influential should parents be about curriculum?” Given that Democrats lost Virginia after candidate Terry McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach,” Todd asked her, “How do we do this?”
Hannah-Jones’s first answer was to chide Todd for not remembering that Virginia was lost not because of whatever unimportant thing he’d just said, but because of a “right-wing propaganda campaign that told white parents to fight against their children being indoctrinated.” This was standard pundit fare that for the millionth time showed a national media figure ignoring, say, the objections of Asian immigrant parents to Virginia policies, but whatever: her next response was more notable. “I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” Hannah-Jones said. “I’m not a professional educator. I don’t have a degree in social studies or science.”
Thank you, Chuck, for handing Hannah-Jones all the rope she’ll need to hang a few more Congressional Dems.
MATT MARGOLIS: Senate Republicans Had Better Block This Biden Judicial Nominee. “Abudu also is a supporter of Democrats’ efforts to federalize elections, and she echoes Biden administration rhetoric about Jim Crow.”
BREAKING: Betty White Dies at Age 99.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to End ‘Remain in Mexico.’
SQUANDERED TRUST: ‘The CDC Now Recommends’ Is the Joke We All Needed in 2021.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Break Your Chinese Shopping Habit for 2022: Here’s How.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: 2021 Has Just Been an Intolerable, Mutated Variant of 2020. “After the disaster of the 2020 ‘election,’ the biggest thing that conservatives were hoping for in 2021 was that we could put the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu nonsense behind us.”
HEH: First Annual Bill Clinton Award for Feminist Achievement: Roberta Kaplan. “For too long, the business of humiliating and undermining female victims of sexual misconduct was dominated by men. When attorney Roberta Kaplan and former Michelle Obama aide Tina Tchen founded Time’s Up in 2018, many assumed its goal was to bolster the #MeToo movement, rather than destroy it. Few if any pundits believed the female-led group would eventually become the preeminent apologist for prominent Democrats accused of harassing and abusing women.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Best Vodka, Gin, Rum and Other Spirits We Drank in 2021.
Even more useful: Something New Something Old: The Best Scotch Whisky Values of 2022.
My go-to in 2021 was the Jura 10-year-old. It has a great rustic quality to it, and at $40-$45 a bottle, it’s the best deal going in single malts.
LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
BATTLESWARM: Obit Watch: Harry Reid.
“Leaving a trail of slime behind him-“
Start over.
“A repugnant, repulsive reptile-”
Try again.
“What can be said about him that hasn’t already been said about bubonic plague?”
Strike that.
Man, I’m really having trouble staying on the high road for this Harry Reid obit.
If you don’t have anything nice to say about Harry Reid… you’ll enjoy this.
AJ KAUFMAN: Eric Holder and Democrats Misunderstand Harry Reid. “Some sort of ‘toughness’ did not make Reid effective; having 60 senators did. And there are reasons that occurred. Of course, today’s radical, tone-deaf Democrats won’t understand this, so they lash out instead.”
ON THE PLUS SIDE, HE WOULDN’T BE ANY WORSE THAN NEW YORK’S CURRENT GOVERNOR OR ITS PRIOR ONE: As NY County DAs Drop “Credible” Cases, Could Cuomo Return to Power?
JOANNE JACOBS: PJs in class, fights, anger and apathy. “Many students wear pajamas, the dress code of bedrooms turned to classrooms and a reflection of disrupted sleep schedules. Students move through the hallways sluggishly, looking at their phones or straight ahead, as if still staring at computer screens.”
TEN YEARS LATER: Two Hundred Years Early: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011.
THE LEFT’S DEMAND FOR HATE IN AMERICA VASTLY EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax, This Time in Maryland.
NO, IT REALLY ISN’T: 2022’s hottest trend is buying a better face mask.
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