If a Democrat Presidential Candidate had an Election Rigged & Stolen, with proof of such acts at a level never seen before, the Democrat Senators would consider it an act of war, and fight to the death. Mitch & the Republicans do NOTHING, just want to let it pass. NO FIGHT!Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has proved to be less a supporter of the president this fall, saying he considered the White House off limits during coronavirus outbreaks, willfully jumping to defend Joe Biden as president-elect amid election challenges, and telling Republicans in the Senate to not jump on the effort to contest the Electoral College on Jan 6.
After spending some time with president today, I am convinced he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to $2000 per person and challenge Section 230 big tech liability protection. Both are reasonable demands, and I hope Congress is listening. The biggest winner would be the American people.
"These measures, added onto the broader spending bill, are known as "tax extenders" — tax breaks targeted at specific, sometimes niche industries. And routinely extending these "temporary" measures has become something of a year-end tradition, despite loud complaints from some lawmakers who allege the votes largely benefit special-interest groups who stand to gain financially from the outcome."
France's Emmanuel Macron said the accord was the product of "unity and strength" demonstrated by the bloc. "The agreement with the United Kingdom is essential to protect our citizens, our fishermen, our producers. We will make sure that this is the case," he noted.The BBC was berated for its "spurious and biased" coverage of the deal:
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hailed the deal as "good news" and said it guaranteed the "interests and rights of European businesses and citizens."
Even Guy Verhofstadt, the EU parliament's chief Brexit representative and a militant proponent of European unity, said he was happy with the deal, even if it was "less ambitious" than what he'd wanted.
Notably, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was "optimistic" that her country would sign off on the agreement and expressed hope that the accord would "create the basis for a new chapter" in bilateral relations between the UK and Germany.
Among EU states, Ireland was perhaps the least enthusiastic about the new arrangement. The nation's opposition to the UK leaving the bloc is no surprise, as it creates complications due to its shared border with Northern Ireland. Prime Minister Micheál Martin, said that there is "no such thing as a 'good Brexit' for Ireland," but stressed the accord represents "the least bad version of Brexit possible."
Wales is not particularly thrilled and described the agreement as a "thin" deal, raising questions about whether Johnson's victory lap is warranted. "It will not be as easy to travel into Europe as it has been. Welsh students will not have access to universities in Europe in the way that we have enjoyed," Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said of the deal. He said that the accord did not honor the "promises" made to Wales about the post-Brexit relationship between the UK and EU. However, he conceded that the agreement provided a much-needed sense of stability for Welsh businesses, and suggested that it could be improved-upon in the future.
Scotland, furious, says it was backstabbed. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has lambasted the UK government for allegedly breaking its commitments to Scotland's fishing industry. She claimed that the compromise over fishing rights was particularly unforgivable.
"The extent of these broken promises will become apparent to all very soon. People in Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, but their views have been ignored. Scotland should begin to "chart our own future as an independent European nation."
There is "no deal that will ever make up for what Brexit takes away from us." The decision by the UK to leave the union has breathed fresh life into the Scottish independence movement.
Brexiteers hammered the BBC, claiming the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was interviewing "every man and his dog who could be against Brexit and the deal just done."
BBC, however, did interview Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage who told the network that the deal wasn't quite the clean slate he wanted, but left the UK "a lot better off than we were five years ago."
Against this background, new director Tim Davie has vowed to restore the BBC's once-famed objectivity. How accurately his network's Brexit coverage in the coming days will reflect that pledge is unclear, but the BBC's journalists, thanks to Davie's new rules, will at least be forbidden from "virtue signalling" on social media about the deal.
Comment: What a load of BS!
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