Good Friday morning, Friends! What a week! The Russians cannot order viagra any longer. And they are working like mad to come up with an alternative. But I think this may be the real breaking point in Russia invading Ukraine. We can always hope.
Lent is upon us, and I always feel guilty if I don’t give something up. Is it wrong to give up something you wouldn’t miss anyway? I gave up chocolate one year. Boy, was that ever a mistake! What are you giving up? Maybe I could give it up, too.
We haven’t had a real snowfall all winter here, and those treasonous birds are trying to convince me that March is nearly over. But I’m on to them. The Ides of March is still a month away. If I give up something I’ll really miss, the Ides of March will be two months away.
Our Chief’s home team won the Superbowl. And our thermostat keeps bouncing back and forth between 60 and 17 ~ sometimes in one day! Bonus point: my 20-foot expandable cobweb catch does extra duty as a broom and retriever of a cookie tin when I change my mind.
I hope your coming week is filled with that which gives you small pleasures. I know I’ll be looking for mine.
Be safe. Be well. You and Yours!
Gloria
Dems Approval Of Biden’s SOTU Shot Up 19 Points To 72...
A new CNN poll shows that 72 percent of those who watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Speech (SOTU) approved of it. And that included 43 percent of the Republicans. President Biden was in his element as a former senator when he gave his 2023 address. And he took on the MAGA party hecklers with the ease of an old pro.
CNN interviewers measured how well the sitting president did both before and after the State of the Union. A full 72 percent of Americans watching the speech were positive about President Biden’s performance. And of that number, 34 percent had a very positive opinion.
The audience’s response to “policies Biden has proposed will move the country in the right direction” showed a marked improvement, leaping a dramatic 19 points. Prior to the speech, 52 percent had a positive opinion, but that number skyrocketed to 71 percent following the SOTU. Among Independent voters, the percentage shot up even higher, 26 points, from 40 percent to 66 percent.
Resolution To Remove George Santos From Office Proposed In Congress
Representative George Santos (R-NY) may not be long in the House of Representatives. Three LGBTQ Democrats have introduced legislation to expel the man who cannot tell a straight story. One of those Democrats referred to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ill-considered decision to let the New York representative attend a classified Pentagon meeting on the Chinese balloon on Thursday, according to The New Civil Rights Movement.
Why would McCarthy let Santos see classified intelligence? Legal and national security professionals went after that action. They said doing so was a “threat to our national security [and] insane.”
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, according to ABC 7 News:
‘I HAVEN’T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THE PRECISE LANGUAGE CONNECTED TO THE RESOLUTION. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT SAYS AND IT CERTAINLY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
Lawyers For Kari Lake Served With Bar Complaints Over Election Lies
A group of attorneys filed bar complaints against Kari Lake’s lawyers. The Arizona Republican lost in her bid for Arizona governor last fall. And The 65 Project will also use “shame and censure election denialism” to make its case against Lake’s attorneys. Americans are tired of waiting for their elected representatives to deal with the broken political system. So our citizens are taking back their power, ergo The 65 Project.
Days after Lake lost her bid in the Arizona gubernatorial race, the candidate met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Just as the ex-president refused to concede a legitimate loss in the 2020 presidential election, Lake has done so, too. But voters in Arizona were not interested in her shrill candidacy, constantly condemning the voting process and claiming voter fraud.
The federal judge sanctioned Lake’s attorneys, but now the consequences are far direr. The Arizona Central reported:
‘[LAKE’S LAWYERS] COULD FACE SUSPENSIONS OR EVEN DISBARMENT
‘Evidence Of A Crime’ To Void Trump Client-Attorney Privilege Revealed
Special Counsel Jack Smith has just made an argument for releasing Donald Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, from the attorney-client privilege exception so that the lawyer can testify. When conversations occur related to the commission of a crime or crimes, that privilege is no longer valid. Most importantly, Smith’s action implies there was a crime committed involving Trump and Corcoran.
Federal prosecutors for the Department of Justice (DOJ) wrote to the judge overseeing the case claiming that the ex-president and Corcoran were indeed involved in a crime of fraud, according to The New York Times.
A Trump spokesperson noted Smith was conducting a “witch hunt:”
‘[N]OTHING MORE THAN A TARGETED, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED WITCH HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, CONCOCTED TO TRY AND PREVENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM RETURNING HIM TO THE WHITE HOUSE.’
Poll Shows Trump Losing Badly Ahead Of 2024 Election
Donald Trump is not the best presidential candidate to run against President Joe Biden should the sitting president decide to run for reelection in 2024. A new Morning Consult Political Intelligence Survey finds that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fits that bill with some significant demographics.
However, both Republicans would lose to President Biden:
‘TRUMP WOULD LOSE TO BIDEN BY THREE POINTS IN A HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUP, WHILE BIDEN AND DESANTIS WERE TIED. REPUBLICANS HAVE NEGATIVE OPINIONS OF THE EX-PRESIDENT VERSUS 9% FOR THE FLORIDA GOVERNOR.’
Gloria Christie is a political journalist for the liberal online newspaper The Bipartisan Report. Find her here on Facebook. Or at Three White Lions, her book written in her own unique style with a twist of humor on Amazon Kindle Vella and the Gloria Christie Three White Lions podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc. Christie’s Mueller Report Adventures In Bite-Sizes a real-life compelling spy mystery (in progress).