Day: March 7, 2024

‘Uncommitted’ By Choice

In a twist of the dagger voters are trying to get the attention of candidates….trying to have them mend their idiotic ways.

The new movement is to vote ‘uncommitted’…..

It all began in Michigan…..

If President Biden thought Michigan’s sizable “uncommitted” protest vote in the state’s primary last month was a fluke, he learned otherwise on Super Tuesday. In Minnesota, for example, about 19% of voters checked the “uncommitted” option, largely in protest of Biden’s support of Israel in the Hamas war. The results “again raised uncomfortable questions” for Biden not only regarding the remaining primaries but the general election as well, per Reuters. The results, as laid out by Axios:

  • North Carolina: About 88,000 uncommitted votes, or 12.7%
  • Massachusetts: 55,800, 9.4%
  • Minnesota: 45,900, 18.9%
  • Colorado: 43,400, 8.1%
  • Alabama: 11,200, 6%
  • Tennessee: 10,400, 7.9%
  • Iowa: 480, 3.9%
  • Spreading? In Minnesota’s case, the state has a sizable population of Somali residents, but the large percentage of dissatisfied voters suggests anger over Biden’s support of Israel has “spread beyond Muslim Americans to progressives and younger voters,” per the New York Times. The Hill similarly points to a “wave of urgency among progressive Americans” on the issue.
  • White House responds: “The president believes making your voice heard and participating in our democracy is fundamental to who we are as Americans,” said campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt early Wednesday, per the Times. “He shares the goal for an end to the violence and a just, lasting peace in the Middle East. He’s working tirelessly to that end.”
  • Harris’ speech: Another sign that the White House is taking this seriously is that VP Kamala Harris delivered a strong call for a ceasefire in a speech last week. “I don’t think the vice president would have made such a sweeping statement if Super Tuesday wasn’t happening, and we have been seeing the same thing with President Biden,” Asma Nizami, an organizer of Vote Uncommitted in Minnesota, tells Reuters.

Biden and his gang will say and do anything to try and stave off this movement…..they will lie and misinform, the same as any candidate would do, but it is time to cut through the BS and Americans to make their feelings be known and if this is what it takes then I am all for it.

Me?  I could not vote ‘uncommitted’ for my state you can only have 2 choices, GOP or Dem, and I think both are as worthless as they come.

This is a great idea and we should carry it forward from these primaries.

Put some fear in these slugs….fear of the people which they have bred out of Americans….time to re-awake our political spirit and time to make government truly….’of the people, by the people and for the people’.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

No Drama This Time?

The drama I am referring to is the drama around the coming fight over funding the government. For the last few years there has been an endless theater over spending. But a move, that surprised me, the new Speaker has sent a bill to the Senate to try and avoid the drama around a possible shutdown.

The House passed a $460 billion package of spending bills Wednesday that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation and send it to President Biden before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline, the AP reports. Lawmakers are negotiating a second package of six bills, including defense, in an effort to have all agencies fully funded before a March 22 deadline. In the end, total discretionary spending set by Congress is expected to come in at about $1.66 trillion for the entire year.

A significant number of House Republicans have lined up in opposition to the spending packages, forcing Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to use an expedited process to bring the bill up for a vote. That process requires two-thirds of the House to vote for the measure for it to pass. The House passed the measure by a vote of 339-85. The nondefense spending in this year’s bills is relatively flat compared to the previous year’s. Supporters say keeping that spending below the rate of inflation is tantamount to a cut, forcing agencies to be more frugal and focus manpower on top priorities. Johnson cited a 10% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, a 7% cut to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and a 6% cut to the FBI.

But many GOP lawmakers wanted steeper cuts. The House Freedom Caucus urged Republicans to vote against the first spending package and oppose the second one being negotiated. “Despite giving Democrats higher spending levels, the omnibus text released so far punts on nearly every single Republican policy priority,” the group said. Johnson countered that Republicans have just a two-vote majority in the House, while Democrats control the Senate and White House. “We have to be realistic about what we’re able to achieve,” Johnson said. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate would approve the legislation “with time to spare” ahead of Friday’s deadline, per the New York Times.

On the way to the Senate….will the Senate add to the drama or will this be a whitewash and pass?

Is this a new era?

Or are we just waiting for the next shoe to drop?

But for those that want some drama there is always the State of the Union speech which Biden will deliver tonight.  (This ought to be a chuckle)

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”