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More, and More Again

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So what should Democrats do now that impeachment is over? I argue in @PostOpinions today that they should step on the gas and keep investigating the Trump admin as aggressively as they did in the Ukraine scandal. On every front. https://t.co/oCK8M9Vxyr — Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 4, 2020              

America, Resistance, Trump

Times of Resolution & Defiance

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Churchill proposed a ‘moral of the work’ for his series The Second World War: In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill. Our times are not Churchill’s times, yet the moral of his work is suitable for us. It’s suitable for us, however, in a partial and unfinished way – we…

Impeachment Trial, Trump

From Closing Arguments in the Impeachment Trial

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.@RepJeffries: "Doing the right thing and being constant to our principles requires a love of moral courage that is difficult, but by no means impossible," as shown by the many public servants who spoke up against Trump's corrupt abuses of power. pic.twitter.com/oPqByNj1xE — The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) February 3, 2020          …

Congress, Trump

Suggestion for a Next Step

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I have a suggestion for @RepAdamSchiff: Within five minutes of the Senate acquittal vote, in his capacity as House Intelligence Committee Chairman, he should (a) notice a hearing scheduled for next week and (b) present @AmbJohnBolton with a subpoena to testify at it. — Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) January 31, 2020        

America, Bad Ideas, Government Spending, Trump

$1,000,000,000,000.00

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One reads that U.S. deficit to eclipse $1 trillion in 2020, CBO says, as fiscal imbalance continues to widen: The U.S. government’s budget deficit is projected to reach $1.02 trillion in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, as the federal government continues to spend much more than it collects…

Impeachment Trial, Law, Trump

Selected Remarks of Rep. Adam Schiff before the United States Senate, 1.24.20

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?? Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., noted at the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 how consuming the impeachment proceedings have been. “I don’t know about you, but I’m tired. I’m exhausted, but I’m also deeply grateful” for the senators’ consideration of the Democrats’ point of view, Schiff said at the top of…

Impeachment Trial, Law, Trump

Selected Remarks of Rep. Adam Schiff before the United States Senate, 1.23.20

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Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead House impeachment manager, laid out the Democrats’ abuse of power case against President Donald Trump during the second day of oral arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. Schiff starts by mentioning the president’s tweet urging people to “read the transcript” on the July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,…

Babbittry, Bad Ideas, Boosterism, CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Culture, Development, Economics, Economy, Local Government, Trump, WEDC

‘But Not in Conditions of Their Own Choosing’

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It’s a truism to say that all people make history, but not in conditions of their own choosing: Admittedly and sadly, the local boosterism of the pre-Trump years is now in retrospect worse than one might have initially believed: across America boosters who peddled false descriptions & junk solutions during the economic hardship of the…