The Show Notes: D-Day at 78; Biden Wants Out of the Basement; Crime and Consequence

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History: Today is the 78th anniversary of D-Day. Today, the left storms American culture fighting pronouns. Then, men stormed beaches for freedom. Remember.

Biden Wants Out of the White House

Bedeviled by crises of their own making and then some, Joe Biden is frustrated and wants to hit the road.

The plan is to put Biden on the road to highlight progress being made, even incrementally, in meeting the series of tests, with visits this week to California, where he will preside over a summit of Western Hemisphere allies, as well as New Mexico to push for his climate agenda. The administration will also set aside its reluctance to work with “a pariah” nation with hopes to spur oil production. And it plans to sharpen its attacks on Republicans, aiming to paint the GOP as out-of-touch with mainstream America on issues like gun safety and abortion, all while hoping the upcoming Jan. 6 congressional hearings will further color the party as too extremist and dangerous to return to power.

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This comes after last week’s explosive NBC News story that Biden is causing anxiety for Democrats bracing for annihilation. That story was remarkable given the number of Democrats willing to talk about how bad it is getting and how frustrated the White House is.

Losing Manchin

Part of that frustration is the Biden Administration’s own incompetence. They cannot understand how they lost Joe Manchin. This WaPo story sets it up:

The statement drafted by White House aides two days later named Manchin as the focus of negotiations. White House aides sent a draft of the statement to Manchin’s office ahead of its release. Manchin’s chief of staff responded by asking the White House legislative director either to remove the senator’s name, or to add Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).

The White House issued the statement anyway. The president had personally signed off on it. But Manchin exploded, texting a senior Biden aide that the decision was “unconscionable and extremely dangerous” at a time when liberal activists were targeting Manchin’s family with protests.

Continuing:

But the breakdown last year remains baffling to many close to both Manchin and senior White House officials. Biden aides are still in disbelief that Manchin abandoned months of painstaking negotiations, seemingly in an instant, over what they regarded as an innocent statement that they did not believe would offend the senator.

Maybe don’t use a Senator’s name when he asks you because your base is already threatening his family. Trivial things sometimes matter and that really mattered to Manchin. The White House cluelessness is telling.

Crime and Consequence

Dem on Dem pressure: Democrats in the base are upset with Democrats over the crime wave. Source.

Fire Bomb a Police Car and Get a Slap. The Justice Department is going easy on a pair of attorneys who firebombed a police car. This is going to have big ramifications that the Democrats don’t seem to understand. Source.

The Rise of Rick Carruso. A Republican turned Democrat might just win the mayor’s race in Los Angeles because Los Angeles has gone down hill in a crime wave amid rampant homelessness. Source.

Encouraging News Out of CNN

First, they dropped the “breaking news” alert for everything. Now, they’re willing to put back on actual conservatives. This is really encouraging news out of CNN and we should be optimistic they get back to real news without the Trump obsession and the editorializing for the left.

CNN’s ubiquitous “Breaking News” banner is gone, now reserved for instances of truly urgent events. Snarky on-screen captions — “Angry Trump Turns Briefing Into Propaganda Session,” for instance — are discouraged. Political shows are trying to book more conservative voices, and producers have been urged to ignore Twitter backlash from the far right and the far left.

I’m a big fan of the network and am rooting for its success. Every other network, including Fox, needs competition from a network that focuses on hard news. In the past, no one did hard news better than CNN. They’re still the only network outside the BBC with the resources to cover global events. All of us should root for their success — competition is a good thing, particularly when the competition is on the news and not just against MSNBC. Source.

The Rest of the News

• The ABC News poll has more bad news for the Democrats. 83% of Americans say the economy is their big issue and will dictate who they vote for.

• Gas goes past $7.00 for many Americans.

• Democrats fume at the GOP highlighting high gas prices.

• Inflation has twice the impact on retirees, who also are most likely to vote.

• I’m going to live forever given the amount of coffee I drink.

• Get ready for the January 6th Committee theater. But they’re having disagreements.

• The January 6th committee appears to be an instrument of storytelling with a narrative, not necessarily a purely fact-finding mission. Using ABC News’s former president to help tell the story.

• Musk is waffling on going forward with the Twitter deal. Blames Twitter.

• Morgan Stanley says the markets are in a paradigm shift.

• Supreme Court will take the McCloskey case, the couple who pointed guns as protestors.

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