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  • Biden, McConnell Kentucky event is a roadmap for White House under new Congress

    01/04/2023 10:36:16 PM PST · by blueplum · 12 replies
    Reuters ^ | 04 Jan 2023 | By Steve Holland
    COVINGTON, Ky., Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell made a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at a bridge in Kentucky in a display of bipartisanship that offers a guide to how the White House hopes to govern in months to come.... ...Both veteran politicians have political reasons for appearing together. McConnell wants credit from voters in his home state of Kentucky for the spending project, while Biden wants to highlight the on-the-ground impacts of lawmakers working together. "The country needs to see examples like this," McConnell says of the bipartisanship that led...
  • The Trumpster as Joker: Can He Go All the Way?

    12/11/2015 1:58:25 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 28 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | December 11, 2015 | Andrew B. Wilson
    Art imitates Life, but sometimes(to paraphrase Oscar Wilde), Life outdoes the weirdest Art....In a key scene in the movie, the Joker's voice comes over the loudspeaker on two ferry boats that have lost power and are wallowing in the water. Both are loaded with explosives. He tells the people trapped aboard the two powder kegs that they are part of a "social experiment"-there being a detonator on each boat that will blow up the other boat. If one does not destroy the other by midnight, he will destroy both boats. And so a countdown begins, with scenes of chaos, soul-searching,...