Confront a bully from a position of strength and they usually back off. Remember, Joe, most of them are cowards on the inside.
The Hill (2/23/21) reports: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) over a report he is undecided on the confirmation of Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), President Biden’s nominee for Interior secretary. 'Jeff Sessions was so openly racist that even Reagan couldn’t appoint him,' the New York congresswoman tweeted on Monday, in reference to former President Trump’s first attorney general. 'Manchin voted to confirm him. Sessions then targeted immigrant children for wide-scale human rights abuses w/ family separation. Yet the 1st Native woman to be Cabinet Sec is where Manchin finds unease?' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to a report that the West Virginia Democrat has “remaining questions” about Haaland, whose confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy Committee is set for Tuesday...Last November, Ocasio-Cortez responded to a tweet by Manchin with an image of her appearing to glower at him at the State of the Union. Manchin had earlier linked to an article about his opposition to ending the Senate filibuster while knocking calls from lawmakers, such as Ocasio-Cortez, to defund police."
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Someone's got to ask the 'tough' (translation: completely reasonable) questions around here.
Washington Times (2/23/21) reports: "Since New Mexico will feel the brunt of President Biden’s moratorium on oil and gas drilling, it would seem an elected official from the state would be well positioned to answer questions about federal land management and energy development. That opportunity will come on Tuesday morning when Rep. Deb Haaland, who has represented New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District since 2019, appears before the U.S. Senate as Biden’s nominee to serve as the next secretary for the Interior Department...That’s why Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group that favors free-market energy policies, is doing it for them. The AEA cites figures that show the U.S. oil industry now pumps about 12 million barrels a day, with shale-oil companies accounting for about 8 million barrels of that total, which is roughly 8% to 10% of the global supply of oil. America’s accelerated pace of domestic energy production has been possible through the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which have freed the U.S. from relying upon unfriendly, unstable regions of the world to supply its energy needs. With these facts in mind, here are some of the AEA’s suggested questions:
- 'As the child of two parents who served in the U.S. military, what is your view on energy security and responsibilities to our allies overseas?'
- 'If America is able to aid our allies with plentiful, affordable natural gas, what would your message be to nations like Ukraine when denying them natural gas (in the form of delivered liquified natural gas — LNG)?'
- 'What is your view of the federal government’s regulatory role? What should it do, and just as importantly, what shouldn’t it do?"
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