Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 5:17 PM for 10h 17m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.32% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 8 AM, and Whitewater’s Police and Fire Commission meets at 7 PM.
On this day in 1950, the Stasi, the secret police force of East Germany, is established
Here are a few photos of Marjorie Taylor Greene from last night’s State of the Union address:
Marjorie Taylor Greene at SOTU (Getty) pic.twitter.com/rjuKaTqDmG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023
There will be some who will cheer her on as a conservative populist heroine. Some, but not enough: she acted, and dressed, like a mobster’s wife. Her antics remain repulsive to key (that is, normal) constituencies the GOP needs to win.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reported to have said of Greene that “I will never leave that woman…I will always take care of her.” (McCarthy was speaking politically, not romantically. Candidly, there is no skepticism of McCarthy deep enough, even from this libertarian blogger, that one would assume McCarthy was describing a romantic connection.)
Best wishes to the 118th Congress.
Cheers erupt as rescuers save family in Syria after deadly earthquake: