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I'm not sure. I saw a lengthy, live segment with Speaker McCarthy last Monday on CNBC's Squawk Box, and it was quite impressive and stressed the intent of bipartisan cooperation in getting at our most troubling issues.. Pelosi was simply incapable of anything resembling frank, honest, cogent responses to live questions.

Thank goodness we are keeping Air Force One with it's classic look. Trump's garish tastes should never be part of our national "look." On the other hand, as as for being a good president, a lot of what determines that is who you appoint to certain positions. These appointments are far more important that what the media reports. Biden's idiotic recommendation of Gigi Sohn as head of FCC has finally, and thankfully, ended. His FAA appointee recommendation, Phillip Washington, should also be rejected. He is simply nowhere near qualified for a position that federal law mandates experience. He has none. This is what troubles me about Biden. It' like nobody every looks at these very important positions, actually, it's like no rational person is running the shop. They are simply run up the flagpole for political patronage.

They, the Fed, is not trying to "cool the economy." They are trying to slow down inflation, which is part of the Fed's dual mandate.

I get what you and All Pro Bills are saying, and the point is valid. But, in my view, it takes a bit more than what we did re the mujahedeen to constitute a proxy war. Simply supplying arms doesn't puncture that threshold if you ask me. If it did, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur and the scores of South/Central America actions, would, and they do not approach what went on in Korea and Vietnam. Just a judgement re definition I suppose, but..........this thing in the Ukraine is getting really, really close to a definition of war, and if China arms Putin, we are in for interesting times.

Come on. In no way does the US support for Muslim rebels against the unprovoked Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan reach the level of a proxy war.

Not a mission for US military. The US military is not constructed to handle this type of thing. There are other options, but most wouldn't be possible without Mexican gov approval and leadership/participation.

With complete objectivity, if Biden was an airline pilot and walked like he walks, talks like he talks responds to to people the way he does and seems to be constantly suffering from some kind of disorientation, there isn't a captain or first officer who would agree to fly with him, or a passenger who would watch him and get on a plane. I don't know if he has dementia or is simply infirm, but there is clearly something wrong with him.

I think there's a high probability it won't be him the opposition will have to beat.

Here is Congressional testimony affirming what I pointed out above. Simple youtube, fast forward to the 45 second mark. This is what they spend money and time on. Idiotic waste of resources.

Biden's FAA Administrator nominee, one Phil Washington, isn't doing too well either. Confirmation hearings are embarrassing. Th man has no background understanding. At some point administrations need to stop appointing folks to important positions based on political patronage, and lean towards competence. Didn't used to be that way.

I'm not sure I understand he question, but demand is demand. There is a great deal of misunderstanding about military expenditures, but we are way beyond committing existing, paid for munitions, and what we are providing the Ukraine is going to be replaced at higher cost, thus increasing demand. Given that the US operates at a huge deficit, this money is borrowed, increasing the demand for capital, and directly inflationary.

The human story behind the headline of a Ukrainian pilot losing his life trying to avoid crashing into a village. Four minute youtube.with actual footage.

You are clearly too stupid. I am no member of a cult, and frankly your repeated accusation of that with anyone who thins is doing you no good. In short the "cult" nonsense is not working for you. Never voted for the guy and never will. False premise on whether I would have done something that didn't happen, but no surprise there. You are either a child, or remarkably stupid.

You are clearly too stupid to understand this. You continue to do what you always do, which is try to connect this to Trump, which is idiotic. This money is owed to the American taxpayer who took it on during another administration. It has nothing to do with MAGA/Trump/millionaires or billionaires. It has everything to do with a legal contract made that the US taxpayer agreed to, and if not enforced, the American taxpayer will be forced to pay for this default. I'm not sure you even understand that, let alone make any point that such a thing should ever be granted without Congressional consent.

Idiotic comment. The kids in school, and yet to be born, who will have to pay off this unsupported waiver of promissory notes would probably not be supportive of your's. This is a disgraceful strapping on non voters with debt that supposed rational people agreed to. Indefensible. By the way, the "millionaires and billionaires" are not effected by your non sequitur claim at all, but that is clearly above your ability to process.

Yes, and anyone with a scintilla of concern would be greatly disturbed by strapping others with $400b in debt without Congressional consideration, which is, after all, supposed to be the will of the people who are paying for it. And all by a knucklehead who can't speak, can't read, and can't find his way around a room.

Or completely unconcerned about spending $400 billion of other peoples money, paid off by current gradeschoolers or the other non aborted. And all of this without Congressional approval, which means no public hearing on it, and no consequence for a decree by a man who no longer function. Has it really gotten this bad?

We invaded a foreign nation that had violated a ceasefire agreement they had signed, and were in violation of many UN resolutions and were shooting at us in a no fly zone they had agreed to. I remember them cutting into that game once, and during that, the Bills had scored another touchdown, but the game was way out of hand by then.

During Desert Storm, the first Iraq war CNN was quite naïve and inexperienced but it kind of made them. I remember the first night, when that John Holloman guy and Peter Arnett were reporting live from that hotel in Baghdad when Holloman describes this bright glow on the screen as a missile going by, when it was clearly the afterburners of an F-15. The second war, 2003, I spend most of that out of the country, and CNN International, different from the US CNN, demonstrated clear bias and inaccuracy. It was that point that I completely lost respect for them. I will say that they were used a bit as well. Some of the weapons that were shown being "loaded" on US airplanes were not used. They just wanted to get them in a shot to frighten the Iraqis.

My first dive bombing training flights in the single seat, (no back seater), A7E I was doing 45 degree dive bombing deliveries. You drop the practice bomb at about 3000', then do a four-five G pull to get about 60 degrees nose and back up to pattern altitude. I couldn't figure out why I was knocking myself out every 4-5 G pull, then waking up after stopped pulling up and getting back to 1 G, until I finally figured out that my G suit wasn't plugged into the aircraft. Kind of a dumb, new guy, mistake, but I never told anybody.

Neither I nor you have any idea what causes people to believe that life begins at conception. In no way does that diminish the view. While I have no view on it, I do know that when my wife informed me of her three pregnancies, we viewed them as "lives." at that very instant. Ergo, I respect the views of those who believe that. What I would never do, and you have done, is celebrate the issue because it leads to election results you are favorable of. That, sir, is despicable.

You know....You can post any number of these things and it still doesn't get to the undeniable reality. Some pervert does something. Not a surprise. Happens all the time. The undeniable reality I speak of is that some people think life begins at conception. Those people know what the term is for taking a life. It has absolutely nothing to do with the actions of criminals. It is an honest judgement, the same as was made in the 1800's when even though it had been the norm for centuries, people determined that people from another continent were entitled to be treated the same as other folks. The absolute lunacy of this is the claim that those people want to control reproductive rights, anymore than the people of the 1800's wanted to deny property rights.

You are correct. It is a life sentence. And to the Nazis, a 25 million dollar claim. Haven't heard nor smelled one of them since.

Why not? Read the comments on the issue in this very thread. People writing things that indicate they have absolutely no knowledge of what was proposed just a few years ago, and instead, turning it into a political/class warfare suggestion instead of a reasoned economic issue. The chasm, in my view, has broadened to a point where such a commonality of purpose for the good of our union is not possible.

Years ago, this issue actually got some reasoned, rational discussion. The print number was discussed with an entire format of exclusions to protect the poor and eliminate the tax on certain necessities. Sadly, that discussion is not possible now.