[BizPakReview] ...Vice President Kamala Harris visited George Mason University in northern Virginia to mark National Voter Registration Day. After addressing a class, the vice president took questions from students and praised a student who accused Israel of committing "ethnic genocide," telling her that "your truth should not be suppressed."
[FoxNews] ABC News left out a remark from former President Barack Obama describing "open borders" as "unsustainable" from the televised portion of his interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"Immigration is tough. It always has been because, on the one hand, I think we are naturally a people that wants to help others. And we see tragedy and hardship and families that are desperately trying to get here so that their kids are safe, and they're in some cases fleeing violence or catastrophe," Obama told co-host Robin Roberts in the excluded portion on Tuesday.
"At the same time, we're a nation state. We have borders. The idea that we can just have open borders is something that ... as a practical matter, is unsustainable," he added.
ABC did air a portion where Obama blamed Republicans for the failure of comprehensive immigration reform to pass Congress, and highlighted his administration's approval of temporary legal status given to Haitian migrants following the devastating 2010 earthquake there.
ABC included Obama's full comments in the online article about his interview, although they weren't mentioned until the 13th paragraph.
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It's called lying by omission. They tell you what they want you to hear to fit their narrative but they never tell you the whole story.
Of course open borders are unsustainable and some day, when Obama thinks he has admitted enough Third World types into this country to replace the current reluctant citizens and accomplish his socialist plans, he will slam the door shut.
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[NYPOST] The Ranking Member of the House Armed Services committee slammed President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...... on Wednesday for the "extraordinary disaster" of the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in which 13 service members were killed, calling the president "delusional" in his assessment of the event.
In his opening statement prior to hearing the testimony of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) accused Biden of misleading the American people after vowing to stay in Afghanistan until all Americans were out, adding that the withdrawal operation "will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of American leadership."
"I fear the president may be delusional," Rogers said.
"This wasn’t an extraordinary success, it was an extraordinary disaster. It will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of American leadership."
Milley appeared before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday for a second day to review the 20-year Afghanistan war and the botched withdrawal that ultimately led to the deaths of 13 US service members.
He testified alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command who oversaw US troops in Afghanistan.
During his opening statement on Tuesday, Austin repeated his acknowledgment that the withdrawal went awry, listing several reasons for the various failures.
Austin laid out that the US "did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership," in the Afghan government, as well as the "damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations" by Afghanistan's Caped President Ghani’s command.
"We did not anticipate the snowball effect caused by the deals that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander struck with local leaders in the wake of the Doha agreement," he said, pointing to the "demoralizing effect" that had on Afghan soldiers.
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We did not anticipate the snowball effect caused by the deals...
Sure you did but went on with it anyway to protect your phony baloney jobs. Once Xiden rejected your advice you should have done the honorable thing and resigned but then again you have no honor.
[NYPOST] Two opposing approaches to governing divide today’s Democratic Party.
One focuses on class-based politics, wealth redistribution and defunding police. National Democrats have in many ways adopted this politically fraught and practically flawed proposition.
The other approach centers on unity, growing the economy for all, supporting businesses and reforming, rather than defunding law enforcement. Without question, this mode of governance should be the one the party adopts. And it is now resurging with the rise of Eric Adams
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[EpochTimes] On the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that Democrats are crafting a stopgap bill to fund the government through December to avert a shutdown on Friday.
Schumer said that the bill will extend government funding to Dec. 3, and will provide “long-sought” emergency relief to areas affected by Hurricane Ida as well as emergency funding for the ongoing Afghan special immigrant crisis. On Monday, Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a bill with the same measures by blocking debate on the continuing resolution.
With these ongoing crises, Schumer said: “the last thing the American people need is a government shutdown. This proposal will prevent one from happening.”
Democrats have also emphasized that the nation’s first ever default could arise from a failure to raise the debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the results of such a default would be “catastrophic.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned Tuesday that this default could destroy the value of the dollar and wipe out “trillions in family wealth” for middle Americans.
Schumer claimed that the crisis was caused by “Republican stupidity.” Democrats “are working to prevent such an outcome,” Schumer said.
Republicans Predict Measure Will Fail
Republicans have argued that the crisis is of Democrats’ own making. In a petition drafted by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in early August, 46 Republican senators refused to approve a debt limit increase. They explained that Democrats were on an “unprecedented deficit spending spree,” and argued that approving a debt limit increase would enable future Democratic spending.
The petition boasted several big-name signatories: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), as well as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Still, many Democratic leaders, including Schumer and President Joe Biden, assumed that these Republicans were bluffing. Monday’s vote demonstrated that practically every Republican, even those who did not sign the petition, opposed a debt limit increase.
At a Tuesday press conference, Pelosi also argued that the broad majority of spending came from debts incurred under President Donald Trump. “This is not about future spending, this is to pay the bills that were incurred,” she said, adding, “Only 3 percent of this is about Joe Biden’s presidency.”
Schumer said of the vote, “Republicans unanimously voted in favor of default.”
In the petition, Republicans warned that the United States should not be allowed to default, but demanded that Democrats raise the debt ceiling on their own through reconciliation, the process being used to pass Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget. In early September, Pelosi rejected the move; Tuesday, Schumer restated that opposition.
“Going through reconciliation is risky to the Democrats country and is a non-starter,” the senator said, adding that using reconciliation to raise the debt limit is “very, very risky,” and said, “We’re not pursuing that.”
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Cruz predicted that such a stopgap bill would be proposed and would fail.
He accused Schumer of “trying to hide from responsibility for the trillions in debt that Democrats are irresponsibly trying to load onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.” The majority leader, he said, was “trying to find an outcome where 10 Republicans vote with him so he can blame those Republicans for Democrats’ irresponsible debt. It’s a game. It won’t work. Schumer knows it won’t work.”
While McConnell suggested that Republicans may be open to such a resolution on Monday, Cruz said that this new move will fail as well.
“When this fails, I fully expect Schumer is gonna surrender,” Cruz commented, “and he’s gonna do what he could have done weeks or months ago, which is [to raise] the debt ceiling using Democratic votes.” He added, “Accordingly, Democrats will bear responsibility for the trillions in debt that they’re saddling on the country.”
[TheVerge]Bezos’ Blue Origin “gambled” with its Moon lander proposal last year by hoping NASA would be willing to negotiate its $5.9 billion price tag, agency attorneys argued in blunt legal filings obtained by The Verge. NASA, cash-strapped with a tight budget from Congress, declined to negotiate and turned down Blue Origin’s lunar lander in April and picked SpaceX’s instead, sparking ongoing protests from Bezos’ space company.
NASA officials haven’t talked much about Blue Origin’s legal quarrels beyond occasional acknowledgements that the company’s protesting — first at a watchdog agency and now in federal court — is holding up the agency’s effort to land humans on the Moon by 2024. But in hundreds of pages of legal filings The Verge obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request, agency attorneys exhaustively laid out NASA’s defense of its Artemis Moon program and doubled down on its decision to pick one company, SpaceX, for the first crewed mission to the lunar surface since 1972.
ROUND 1: A COSTLY BID In NASA’s main response to Blue Origin’s protest, filed in late May, senior agency attorneys accused the company of employing a sort of door-in-the-face bidding tactic with its $5.9 billion proposal for Blue Moon, the lunar lander Blue Origin is building with a “National Team” that includes Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Blue Origin was “able and willing” to offer NASA a lower price for its lunar lander but chose not to because it expected NASA to ask and negotiate for a lower price first, the attorneys allege, citing a six-page declaration written by the company’s senior vice president Brent Sherwood in April.
In the declaration, Sherwood complains that NASA “did not afford Blue Origin, a well-funded private space company backed by Jeff Bezos, any opportunity to submit a revised business position” when NASA found out it wouldn’t have enough money from Congress to fund two lander proposals. He said Blue Origin had already committed “almost one billion dollars” of corporate contributions and private investments to the Moon lander bid, and “had the financial potential to increase” that.
Backed by the world’s richest second richest man, Blue Origin indicated in its protest that the $5.9 billion price — nearly double SpaceX’s proposal — was partially based on an assumption that NASA would have more than enough money from Congress to pay for the proposal, even as Congress had been indicating a month before Blue Origin submitted its proposal last December that it wouldn’t give NASA all the funding it said it needed. In NASA’s response, the attorneys said companies were instructed to submit their best proposal first. They pointed to seven instances where NASA told bidders its award decision, and whether to pick one or two companies was based on how much funding it’d end up getting from Congress.
But Blue Origin argued that NASA should’ve canceled or changed the terms of the program when Congress voted to give the agency only a quarter of what it requested. Blue Origin has also argued that it was unfair of NASA to only invite SpaceX to tweak parts of its proposal after selecting it for a potential award, one of many claims that NASA attacked over hundreds of pages of legal rebuttals.
Overall, NASA effectively called BS on that argument, saying “Blue Origin made a bet and it lost.”
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...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......
[EpochTimes] On the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Majority Leader 
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In NASA’s main response to Blue Origin’s protest, filed in late May, senior agency attorneys accused the company of employing a sort of door-in-the-face bidding tactic with its $5.9 billion proposal for Blue Moon, the lunar lander Blue Origin is building with a “National Team” that includes Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Blue Origin was “able and willing” to offer NASA a lower price for its lunar lander but chose not to because it expected NASA to ask and negotiate for a lower price first, the attorneys allege, citing a six-page declaration written by the company’s senior vice president Brent Sherwood in April.
In the declaration, Sherwood complains that NASA “did not afford Blue Origin, a well-funded private space company backed by Jeff Bezos, any opportunity to submit a revised business position” when NASA found out it wouldn’t have enough money from Congress to fund two lander proposals. He said Blue Origin had already committed “almost one billion dollars” of corporate contributions and private investments to the Moon lander bid, and “had the financial potential to increase” that.
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But Blue Origin argued that NASA should’ve canceled or changed the terms of the program when Congress voted to give the agency only a quarter of what it requested. Blue Origin has also argued that it was unfair of NASA to only invite SpaceX to tweak parts of its proposal after selecting it for a potential award, one of many claims that NASA attacked over hundreds of pages of legal rebuttals.
