Plus: Biden Campaign Lawyers, Democrats Advised Green Bay on Election Procedures
March 22 2021
Good morning from Washington, where a big bill to repair the nation’s infrastructure looks like it’s next on the majority’s agenda. David Ditch expects the worst. The minority party needs to get its act together to improve health care, Rep. Jim Banks writes. On the podcast, Rob Bluey asks climate change skeptic Marc Morano about his new warning to Americans about the Green New Deal. Plus: new COVID-19 guidance for schools; more election shenanigans in Wisconsin; an undemocratic school board in Maryland; and the growing attack on merit. On this date in 1947, in response to public fears and congressional probes of communism, President Harry Truman, a Democrat, orders a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees.
The language chosen by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—coupled with comments from other prominent Democrats—suggests the call for bipartisanship should be taken with a grain of salt.
Worried that “thousands” of votes ran the risk of not being counted, a Wisconsin Democratic operative fired off an email to Green Bay officials a day before the presidential election.
Republicans must learn from our blunders over the past decade so that when we’re granted an opportunity to govern again, we don’t repeat those mistakes.
“The Green New Deal is about a takeover of our economy using a climate scare to achieve their ends, and the architects ... are very open about that,” author Marc Morano says.
Bureaucrats who work for this school board control who can be nominated as student member and how that person can campaign—a clear and irreconcilable conflict of interest.