Scott MacFarlane/Twitter:
FLASH: Home Choose Jan 6 Committee subpoenas Home GOP chief Kevin McCarthy, Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep Scott Perry (R-PA), Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep Andy Biggs (R-AZ) as a part of its rising investigation
Committee chairman Rep Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to GOP Chief Kevin McCarthy: “Sadly you declined voluntary cooperation”Committee: Chief McCarthy was in communication with President Trump earlier than, throughout, and after the assault on Jan 6The committee has already accomplished approx. 1,000 interviews. Its public hearings start in lower than a month
NY Instances:
How Overturning Roe Might Backfire for Republicans
The celebration was making headway with suburban girls on crime, colleges and inflation. Now the abortion debate is entrance and middle.
Sandra Sloan, 82, is the form of voter Republicans are relying on to assist them reclaim this contested part of a newly purple state. But Ms. Sloan, a retired highschool trainer who lives in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood, is uneasy in regards to the celebration for one primary purpose.
“I’m a Republican, however I nonetheless imagine that it’s a lady’s proper to decide on,” Ms. Sloan mentioned.
Dan Froomkin/The Nation:
The New York Instances Has Badly Misplaced Its Bearings
Its subsequent editor, Joe Kahn, must get it again on the right track.
When the present editor, Dean Baquet, took excessive job in 2014, American politics nonetheless labored roughly by the identical guidelines that had utilized for many years: The 2 rival events largely agreed on the information; they only interpreted them very otherwise.
Enter Donald Trump, on a wave of ignorance, disinformation, and white grievance, taking the Republican Social gathering to what had been thought-about an extremist fringe of alternate information and conspiracy theories. The variations between the events had been now not about coverage; they had been about reality and lies.
Craig Gilbert/Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:
Ron Johnson wants to maximise his base, and attract some anti-Trump Republicans, to win reelection
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson faces a Wisconsin citizens that’s extra adverse towards him — and extra polarized over him — than ever.
He has misplaced vital floor up to now few years with key voting teams reminiscent of girls, moderates, independents and suburbanites, together with voters within the as soon as lopsided GOP stronghold of the “WOW counties” exterior Milwaukee.
And the dividing strains over Johnson have deepened since he was final on the poll in 2016.
Greg Sargent/WaPo:
J.D. Vance, migrant infants and the unhinged GOP enemy hunt
The primary of those received began when Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) posted images depicting baby-formula shortages in shops. Regardless of these hardships, she complained, “they” are sending “components to the border.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) then amplified the declare. The administration is offering “child components to unlawful immigrants,” he railed, “whereas moms and dads stare at empty grocery retailer cabinets in a panic.”
Besides it’s a crock. As Glenn Kessler reveals, in supplying components to migrant children, the administration is following the regulation, which requires briefly holding them earlier than switch to guardians. That features mandated nourishment. The Trump administration did the identical.
Republicans don’t say outright that ravenous detained migrant children is preferable, that Biden ought to take components away from them and provides it to American dad and mom. So why hyperlink the 2 developments in any respect?
John Stoehr/The Editorial Board:
Really, the Democrats are fairly good at messaging
The issue is not messaging. The issue is infrastructure.
The established order, no matter that’s, nonetheless bigoted it could be, is within the Republicans’ favor. The established order is within the favor of the individuals who personal probably the most profitable media properties. We’ve got seen makes an attempt by liberals to create a liberal Fox. Guess what? They’ll’t generate profits.
Anthea Butler/MSNBC:
How the conservative Christian proper is hijacking homeschooling
The conservative Christian proper has been working arduous to dismantle public education for years.One of many primary purveyors of homeschooling was a fundamentalist, Rousas Rushdoony, whose work starting within the Nineteen Sixties in establishing Christian day colleges grew into the homeschooling motion. He noticed homeschooling as a approach to minimize the federal government out of training Christian kids and to arrange them to take their place in a theocratic authorities. Julie Ingersoll, creator of “Constructing God’s Kingdom: Contained in the World of Christian Reconstruction,” says Rushdoony “was one of many mental godfathers of the Non secular Proper, however he’s usually handled like a loopy uncle.”
Loopy or not, homeschooling supplies impressed by Rushdoony’s theology are on sale at the moment to oldsters who homeschool in America, and plenty of of these supplies reached dad and mom through the pandemic. Cameron’s documentary selling homeschooling is just not an aberration; it’s half of a bigger undertaking about dismantling the general public schooling system in america.
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