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Good Morning, DC.
It’s Thursday, and all eyes are on Wyoming. Congressman Matt Gaetz will be at the State Capitol in Cheyenne today rallying Republicans to send Liz Cheney packing. He’s not the only one. The Trump faction has been plotting revenge against Dick Cheney’s daughter for a while. On the impeachment day, Liz Cheney was setting herself up to take McCarthy’s place, but now, according to Jason Miller, Liz Cheney’s decision to vote to impeach President Trump “made her extremely vulnerable.”
According to the most recent poll conducted on January 25-26 this year, 70% of all Wyoming voters believe the Senate impeachment trial is unconstitutional. The majority (59% to 32%) approves of Republicans removing Cheney from Republican leadership in congress. Republicans approve 73% to 21%, while Trump voters agree 80% to 13%.
Interestingly, Republicans cite polls when they show them the answers they want to hear and attack them when they favor Democrats.
Trump built his political brand on wanting to “drain the swamp,” but the political games and strategies he and his people pursue are equally Machiavellian. In power center Washington DC, players consult polls as a guiding moral principle and source of approval, not the moral foundations of politics.
As the impeachment trial against Trump continues, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel issued a statement opposing it as “unconstitutional.”
“Democrats in Congress are rehashing the same strategy that they employed for the last four years: politically motivated overreach that will only divide us further. Make no mistake: Democrat leaders’ vendetta against President Trump had always included impeachment, with many pledging to do so even before he took office,” she stated.
Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism warning. “Information suggests that some ideologically motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fuelled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence,” the warning stated.
Domestic violent extremism is a new reality, fueled by dangerous QAnon conspiracy theories, which even GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel denounced yesterday. “QAnon is beyond the fringe. I think it’s dangerous,” she said. Will Conservatives take a note?
Congressman Jimmy Gomez introduced a resolution to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress “immediately” for “repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence.”
CNN’s KFile reminded the American public of social media posts by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for violence against elected Democrats.
“This woman should be on a watch list. Not in Congress’, said Hillary Clinton.
What will Biden do today? After receiving the daily presidential brief, the President will continue his executive actions streak. This time he will sign the EO to strengthen Americans’ access to quality, affordable health care. The Biden-Harris Administration will open a special enrollment period for Americans to sign up for health coverage. “For President Biden, this is personal,” a senior White House official told Good Morning DC. While Biden will be singing today the EO focusing on people who have been denied access to reproductive health care, Poland is shaken by the protests against the abortion ban. According to the new Polish law, abortion will only be permitted in rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is at risk.
The row over covid vaccine between EU and AstraZeneca continues. To make up for a shortfall in supplies, the EU demands access to AstraZeneca Covid vaccines made in the UK, but PM Johnson is confident that the threats to disrupt supplies will fail.
What happened is that the UK signed their contract with AstraZeneca first, three months before the EU, but now the EU wants to jump the queue. UK’s position is that the vaccines are already contracted for delivery.
“Amazing the EU claims that its delays in ordering vaccines were to allow it to get lower prices and ensure value for money for member states. Please remember that the Oxford Vaccine was produced at cost, all subsidized by the UK taxpayer; how do you get better value than that?” said MP Andrew Bridgen.
Sundance Film Festival opens today, and all screenings will take place online. They are doing things differently this year. Festival-goers will be exposed to seven days of premieres, events, artist talks, and cutting-edge XR exhibitions.
In case you missed it, amateurs are driving “Gamestop mania” that sent Wall Street into a tailspin. Hedge funders finally got caught in their own game. History has been made. “We are witnessing the French Revolution of finance,” said Scaramucci. Like it or not, peasants are now in the game. Nothing beats the big short.
That’s a wrap for this Thursday morning. Good Morning DC will be here tomorrow. The best is yet to come.
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