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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1349456011929780225?s=20
> Jaime Herrera Beutler of WA CD03 (Vancouver & southwest WA) has just said she will vote for impeachment.
> Dan Newhouse of WA CD04 (Yakima & most of Columbia River basin east of Cascade Mountains) has also said he will vote to impeach.
> Cathy McMorris Rodgers of WA CD05 (Spokane and far eastern WA) has yet to announce her position on impeachment.
Note that Newhouse and McMorris Rodgers (who is member of GOP House leadership) both supported the amicus curiae brief in support of Trumpsky's effort to overturn the electoral vote; Herrera Beutler did not.
Further note that, after the Trumpsky Putsch, all three voted AGAINST objections to counting both AZ & PA EVs.
Beyond that is fact that Newhouse and McMorris Rodgers are both UNLIKELY to ever run for US Senator or Governor. Why? Because it's been well over half a century since ANYONE from Eastern WA was elected to top statewide office.
Whereas Herrera Beutler is from Western WA, thus giving her way better chances. She is only 42 years old but has just been re-elected to her fifth term as congresswoman. She is also Latina, one of the reasons why she was talent-spotted by the GOP in the first place; she worked for Cathy McMorris Rodgers before running for the legislature then Congress.
For what it's worth, Just days ago during GOP House caucus meeting, JHB called out a QAnon congresswoman from Colorado for tweeting the location of members during the Putsch.
In interests of semi-full disclosure, yours truly has some experience with campaigns AGAINST Herrera Beutler. She is a conservative, and a devout evangelical. But she is NOT a wing-nut. And certain NOT a Putinist.
Personally think that her decision is LESS about political calculation, and more about personal conviction. AND same goes - even more so - for Newhouse
Roll call vote
It’s an electronic vote but CNN says it will take at least an hour
CNN says a seventh Rep has declared support for impeachment
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55617706
Now they've found out they were NOT just whistling Dixie, but were willing & ready (if not able) to use mob violence to overturn the duly-elected government of the United States.
Which has NOT been (until recently anyway) part of the Republican Party platform.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/gps-in-england-say-inconsistent-supply-of-covid-vaccine-causing-roll-out-issues
I am not sure how that is going to speed up the bottling of 14 million doses? You scream as much as your like at Boris and Hancock, that isn't going to ramp up the speed of the production line in North Wales. Both has been very forthcoming that supply is the limiting factor.
Whereas here in US, the socialist-progressives led by Washington, Madison, Hamilton, etc. specifically ruled it out in US Constitution.
Rollcalls now taking longer, because they are voting in groups to (try to) maintain (some semblance of) social distancing.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7612/
Fun fact, Boris Johnson was part of the group that tried to impeach Tony Blair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_motion_to_impeach_Tony_Blair
UK to introduce Brazil travel ban to prevent highly-infectious Covid strain spreading
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/uk-introduce-brazil-travel-ban-prevent-highly-infectious-covid/
When a traffic jam develops, the people who think that honking their horns will make it all go away. Those people.
I presume they feel vindicated when the delivery driver finishes unloading the skip (or whatever) and traffic resumes it's normal flow.
"I did that", they think.
Oops.
And how loyally the sainted King Charles I stood by his minister - until the ax fell.
I am so very very surprise..... I am shocked beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Of course, when a major party nominates then elects a traitor to his country as President, THAT's a problem, regardless of constitutional provisions.
Also the Stuart's liking for handing out lucrative monopolies to his chums.
--AS
And all while AZN and subcontractors are trying to ramp up production as fast as possible, but who knows what might happen. Got to get each batch to pass QA, then they have to fill and finish (and there is a world shortage of the glass viles), etc.
It is a massive moving target done at record speeds. That is why it should be expected that things at the moment can be a bit hit and miss.
Is that what those whining want ?
https://twitter.com/mpc_1968/status/1349426904160481281?s=09
'President is clueless'
Well, we knew that.
https://twitter.com/secpompeo/status/1349400826050011136?s=21
Yes it is frustrating to see inconsistent deliveries as this huge roll out occurs, but the over 80s should be fairly easy to track down, they are at home.
* Well I certainly hope they aren't deciding to go on a trip to the Caribbean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_QF5Jtuug
But the 78% of the independents seeing this as either a bad or tragic day for America is informative, and should be getting McConnell's attention.
If they can then exceed that planned production, well great, they can then offer the excess out to any centres that think thay can use them.
This is the system we will inevitably arrive at very soon. The sooner the better.
The Conservative candidate for London mayor has sparked controversy after suggesting that homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home.
Shaun Bailey has promised to deliver 100,000 affordable homes with his £4bn housing budget if he wins the election in April, many of them shared ownership, of which buyers would be able to purchase a share for as little as £100,000.
Asked in an interview with Inside Housing how this policy would benefit the capital’s 62,670 households currently in temporary accommodation, Bailey said he would encourage them to apply for shared ownership properties.
Asked how these families would produce a £5,000 deposit and secure a mortgage, he said: “I don’t think the £5,000 will [be a problem]. The mortgage application thing might be a bit tougher … they could save for it, yeah.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/13/tory-london-mayor-candidate-homeless-can-save-up-for-house-deposit
I’d recommend the “Noble War” as a rather fun account
Still can't quite understand how he lasted in the leadership contest as long as he did. A distinctly unimpressive speaker in my experience.
Only the best gets impeached twice.
What happened before?
1. It took time! Delays that disappeared completely with the EEA and CU
2. Traffic was significantly lower. We didn't have an integrated logistics network plugged into "the continent" with large amounts of stuff passing backward and forward on a just in time basis
So "it worked before so it will work now" is pointing out that because we used to be able to build Saturn 5 rockets it would be easy to build a new one and go back to the moon.
You want to try again?
I hope they are far better then yesterday’s dismal return.
My feeling is that what is mostly likely to change is the supply chains. The logistics networks.
Interestingly, I don't seem to have any problems with post to Europe. Despite the pandemic.
https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1349468131345969152
I think the quote was they are basically trying to open the equivalent of a national supermarket chain in a month.
I think the government are focused on setting up as much capacity as fast as possible, with the goal of them being open and having worked out the kinks by the time we get massive consistent supply.
My father got his jab today and was very impressed by how it was all organized. Very smooth. The only downside for the centre, they were doing the Pfizer one, which means apparently they are only doing 500 a day.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/joe-biden-plan-midterms-shellacking-458316
BUT he changed his mind after Pearl Harbor. And like millions of other Americans switched from being an isolationist to an internationalist. Just like Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI).
In fact, in 1946 Ford ran for Congress against a long-standing, staunchly-isolationist incumbent, beating him in the Republican primary and going on to win the general election. And the rest, as they say, is history.
IF you had told him in 1940 that he'd be ATTACKING a fellow GOPer for being an isolationist, he'd have said you were nuts.
Sea change.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/13/trump-impeachment-incitement-free-speech-458884
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-b1786789.html