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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Jennings had to help the latest panel try and figure out why Daniel Penny — who heroically subdued Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train in May, restraining a man with a long rap sheet who had been threatening to kill people — and Luigi Mangione — who allegedly ambushed, shot, and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked down the street — are two very different people.
Perhaps Taylor's utterly insane justification of cold-blooded murder is what led to Vox Media ending its deal to distribute her podcast and YouTube show.
Liz Cheney Threatens Donald Trump's DOJ With 'Sanctions' If They Investigate Her
As to her threats, they are toothless. The Trump DOJ should investigate what happened with the January 6th committee. It should find out how much evidence was altered and destroyed in what was a clear abuse of power and a waste of taxpayer money. That's what people voted for in November. They didn't vote for the status quo. They voted for change and accountability. Cheney, who campaigned with Kamala Harris, can cope and seeth about it.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
Things will be a bit busier on the Hill on Tuesday with several meetings and hearings set, including:
- House Homeland Security, Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee — “Given the Green Light: Open Border Policies and Threats to Law Enforcement”
- House Oversight and Accountability — “Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service”
- Senate Judiciary — Hearings to examine mass deportations
- House Natural Resources, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee — Oversight hearing titled: "Desecrating Old Glory: Investigating How the Pro-Hamas Protests Turned National Park Service Land into a Violet* Disgrace."
- House Homeland Security, Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee —“Safeguarding the Homeland from Unmanned Aerial Systems” (This one should be quite interesting in light of the Drone-a-palooza of late.)
(I'm assuming "violet" is a typo and not a veiled reference to Purple Haze. I'll be interested once the 119th Congress starts and the GOP controls the Senate to see if their hearing titles become more jazzy or remain staid and vanilla.)
White House What's Up
President Joe Biden will receive his Daily Brief Tuesday morning. In the afternoon, he'll deliver remarks at the Brookings Institution "on his middle-out, bottom-up economic playbook." ('Twill be riveting, I'm sure.) Tuesday evening, Biden will "deliver remarks at a Christmas for All Dinner in Celebration of Unity, America, and Special Olympics" in the East Room of the White House.
Full Court Press...
Alright, so we know the Penny verdict, and we have the alleged UHC CEO assassin identified and in custody.
Monday was the deadline for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to file its response to President-elect Donald Trump's most recent motion to dismiss the falsified business records case, but no word yet on whether/when Judge Juan Merchan will be ruling on that. We also continue to await the New York appellate court's ruling on the civil fraud appeal.
Kudos again to attorney extraordinaire Harmeet Dhillon, who'll be heading up the DOJ's Civil Rights division.
There's only one case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday: Seven County Coalition v. Eagle County Colorado — Examining whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority.
Meanwhile, over in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in the corruption trial against him.
MORNING MUSING
Weird. Remember when that was the next big thing? Minnesota Governor (and failed vice presidential candidate) Tim Walz tried so very hard to make it stick as to Vice President-elect JD Vance; only it did the old "I'm rubber, you're glue" boomerang and landed right back on Walz. There's been a lot of weirdness lately. It's hard to pinpoint when it started, but let's just look at the last month or so:
- the cozy fireside chat between Trump and Biden
- the cozy Notre Dame chat between Trump and Jill Biden
- the fall of Assad/Syria
- the mysterious drones over New Jersey (and parts of California and Texas)
- the UHC CEO shooting
- the Hunter Biden pardon
- the Kamala Harris drab hostage video
- Biden looking very Scrooge at the Christmas tree lighting
There's so much more I could add but I don't want to belabor it. Things just seem extra topsy-turvy and, well, weird these days.
LIGHTER FARE
Who else could have tamed the Bumble?
— Mandi (@mandirising) December 9, 2024
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