Publication: Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

You can mark our words that at his 100-day mark, Biden will try to take credit for tremendous progress in the coronavirus fight.

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President Biden has a coronavirus plan. The plan is to mostly continue the coronavirus plan of the Trump administration but use credulous reporters who can’t do division to convince the world that he has hatched a brilliant new coronavirus plan.

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After a two-year love affair with any nominal Republican willing to buck the party line dictated by Donald Trump, the media are ready to be shocked that Sen. Mitt Romney, the devout Mormon and fiscal conservative, actually doesn’t plan on rubber-stamping the most liberal presidential administration in history.

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Bannon is a Harvard educated Goldman Sachs alum who ran his own banking firm before becoming a Hollywood producer. He’s every bit as “elite” as the establishment Trump promised to dismantle. Some of Trump’s policies may show promise, but in his final hours, Trump once again proves that his base needs to let him descend to the ash heap of history while they find another hero.

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The data are pretty clear that for Republicans to advance as a party, they are going to have to find a way to divorce themselves from Trump.

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As President Trump blundered from one needless controversy to another, it was Pence who kept the executive branch as a whole from careening entirely out of control…He is a man of competence and character, a man of principle and patriotism. His countrymen, liberals and conservatives alike, owe him sincerest thanks.

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Donald Trump richly deserves the ignominy of being the first president ever to be twice impeached. His behavior has been effectively seditious, and he has been derelict in his sworn duty.

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President Trump is committing an unforgivable sin of omission this week. Trump should be openly, sternly, and vociferously urging all his supporters not to protest or riot at capitol buildings across the nation in the next week, and he should be warning that even the slightest violence will be met with appropriate force, along with arrests and prosecution. 

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On his way out the door, Donald Trump made sure he would never lead his party again. He stood in the breach last Wednesday morning and uttered the worst words ever said by a president of this country when he urged the mob that had gathered to disrupt the certification of the November election.

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Hours after rioters had stormed the Capitol, McConnell took to the Senate chamber to say emphatically, “The United States Senate will not be intimidated…They tried to disrupt our democracy and they failed.” The nation needed to hear precisely that, coming from him, a close ally to Trump who was unwilling to cross the clear, bright line from politics into conduct truly destructive of our constitutional republican system. His words that day will be committed to history.

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Immediately before the riot began, he told supporters at a rally on the National Mall not to “take it any longer” and to march on Congress. Rudy Giuliani called for “trial by combat.” This was demagoguery of the most grotesque kind. It should mark Trump with permanent disgrace, bring on him legal remedies, and disbar him from public life forever. 

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The mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was engaged in nothing less than a seditious insurrection. Officials who set the tone for the sedition, especially President Trump, acted even more disgracefully, as they are expected to know better, indeed to lead.

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Who could have possibly known that President Trump’s wild claims about the 2020 election being stolen from him might kneecap Republican efforts to hold on to the Senate? Well, pretty much anyone who cared about Republican efforts to hold on to the Senate.

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He was there to help heave them through the finish line, and anyone who watched his mega-rally couldn’t honestly say for certain that he did it.

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It’s a power grab of the sort that normally would best be called shameless or brazen, but listening to Trump, the best descriptor might be idiotic…There’s no reasonable case that Trump really won the election.

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On Jan. 1, China, Cuba, and Russia will become members of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Yes, China, which has imprisoned 2 million of its Uighur citizens in gulag reeducation camps, sterilized thousands, and used the rest for de facto slave labor, is donning the U.N. human rights mantle.

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Many of the same reporters who coasted to book deals and better jobs on the back of the anti-Trump “resistance” are not sure what comes next. All they know is that they’ve no intention of approaching President-elect Joe Biden’s presidency with the same histrionics and hostility that boosted their careers in the Trump era.

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Eddie Scarry: There are surely worse people on this Earth, but no one inspired more rage in my body in 2020 than the pandemic mask fetishists who worshiped the things strapped to their faces like idols, spreading the good word of their utility and harassing the heretics who dared whisper a scintilla of doubt about their efficacy.

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Nearly a year into our 15 days to slow the spread, our political class still refuses to call out our supposed medical experts for repeatedly discrediting themselves with noble lie after noble lie. Finally, Sen. Marco Rubio has rightly called out Fauci for lying to the public because our ruling class believes us plebians to be too stupid to understand the coronavirus science.

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Eddie Scarry: I traveled to South Carolina — on an airplane! — ahead of Christmas to stay in a house that will have nine people inside. By traveling, I supposedly “put others at risk,” but that’s one of those nonsensical lies liberals have come up with so that they can do their favorite thing: feel morally superior by shaming others.

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If President-elect Joe Biden is paying his coronavirus adviser anything, he should try getting a refund. Michael Osterholm doesn’t seem to know much more about the pandemic than the average cable news anchor, and that kind of knowledge is basically free of charge.

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The North Face has managed to make millions by billing itself as an environmentally conscious eco-friendly company…In reality, however, its business is predicated on selling clothes, shoes, and outdoor gear made of petroleum-based synthetic materials and then shipping those products around the world on fuel-guzzling ships and airplanes.

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Despite the record turnout for both major parties, the result is that Trump lost. Recognizing this is neither an embrace of the Democratic Party nor a personal rejection of the current president and his policies. It’s simply a statement of fact.

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From cheering the likely first openly gay, Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary to hailing the first all-female White House communications team, claims that require a humorous number of clarifiers for them to be true, journalists at establishment newsrooms have made one thing clear: They are excited about the Biden presidency.