Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike -- what day is it? Tab-closing DAAAAAY ...
DJ Daniel, newest member of the United States Secret Service, meets President Trump in the Oval Office! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/MshogUuMK9
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) March 5, 2025
Ed: What a great young man!
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80% of viewers tonight believe Al Green's behavior was inappropriate.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 5, 2025
Another example of the Democrats taking the 20% side on an 80/20 issue. pic.twitter.com/qLc5Ux6bHq
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Personally, I’m praying they keep on refusing to listen. The petulance on display last night during Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress is only going to add to the disgust many Americans are feeling. How can you not applaud a kid fighting cancer? Well, they didn’t.
And the American people aren’t likely to be thrilled, especially as the speech resonated with nearly 70 percent of the people polled about it.
Democrats are alienating their own base, alienating the middle, and keep alienating the right to the point they don’t even want to talk to the Dems.
Ed: But Trump is a NAZIFASCISTSTINKYBOTTOM, Tom Knighton? Why U no get it?
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VP Vance at roundtable in Eagle Pass, TX: The President said yesterday, we didn’t need new laws to secure the border. We needed a new president and thank God we have that. pic.twitter.com/5Me6mOjsfB
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 5, 2025
Ed: Huh. A Vice President who actually visits the border. Who knew this was possible? HAS VANCE BEEN TO EUROPE YET? [checks notes] Oh yeah, he has.
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Automakers will get a one-month reprieve from tariffs on Mexico and Canada for cars that comply with a free-trade agreement between those two nations and the U.S., the White House said Wednesday. ...
The tariff exemption applies not only to those Detroit-based automakers, but to any cars from Canada and Mexico that comply with the trade deal, an administration official said.
Trump is also open to additional tariff exemptions such as those he granted to carmakers, Leavitt added. She again acknowledged that tariffs could cause some economic disruptions.
Ed: I'm not a big fan of tariffs, and I'm less a fan of tariff chaos. I do appreciate that Trump wants to force more cooperation on security and interdiction and that tariffs tend to work in forcing it. I also note well that Canada applies tariffs to American ag goods, a point that has not gone unnoticed among farmers who still worry about losing markets. I would just like a consistent and firm policy in place on which everyone can rely for minimal "disturbances," as Trump put it last night.
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Jim Jordan just ripped the Mayor of Denver APART for five minutes straight.
— George (@BehizyTweets) March 5, 2025
"Who's Abraham Gonzalez?"
Mayor Johnston: "He is an individual that was released from the county jail on Friday in the City and County of Denver."
Jordan: ...Venezuelan gang member arrested by Border… pic.twitter.com/fMX6jEHECF
Ed: We need more of this kind of scrutiny applied to mayors running "sanctuary cities." Anna Paulina Luna agrees, as you will see next -- and a different kind of scrutiny as well.
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Rep. Anna Paulina has taken a bold stance by referring all 4 mayors at the Congressional hearing to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.#Accountability pic.twitter.com/HPm15DjhrE
— Salem News Channel (@WatchSalemNews) March 5, 2025
Ed: Obstruction of federal law enforcement is a crime, even when done for political purposes. If any other Tom, Dick, or Harry interfered with the IRS or ATF in a Democrat administration, you had better believe they would be prosecuted rapidly and with great enthusiasm.
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U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner died at the age of 70, only a couple of months into his first term as a congressman.
Turner, D-Texas, suffered a medical emergency after attending President Donald Trump’s address to Congress, according to a NBC News report.
Ed: First off, may Rep. Turner rest in peace, and thank you for your brief service for your community in Congress. That's incredibly sad news. For those who wonder, his seat will remain open until Texas governor Greg Abbott calls a special election to fill out the remainder of Turner's term. (The US Constitution requires all House members to be elected.) It's not yet clear when the special election will be called, but it's safe to assume it will take a few months, during which time the seat will remain vacant. Turner's district, TX-18, has a Cook index of D+23, so Democrats will safely hold the Houston district.
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🚨 Zelensky says that Ukraine and the U.S. are working on an upcoming meeting.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 5, 2025
"Talks are happening." pic.twitter.com/pg13XHC3Xb
Ed: It sounds as though we may not see a new agreement until next week, although that's probably as late as it will go, if that. Perhaps Zelensky's public repentance was insufficient after all, although Trump did read part of Zelensky's statement last night in his speech to Congress. It's probably close to being finished.
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Moreover, the eight groups, the biggest of which are the Climate United fund and Coalition for Green Capital, which received grants of $6.9 billion and $5 billion, respectively, have been empowered by the EPA to choose the hundreds of smaller nonprofit organizations across the country that will do the climate change work. They will get loans, not grants, which they are supposed to repay. There is nothing in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that calls for oversight of those loans.
“This clearly was intended from its beginning to be a slush fund,” Glock told The Free Press. “The goal was to give them money with minimal strings and allow them to lend it to people they favored. It is an absolutely wild program. I haven’t seen the likes of in previous government-lending history.”
Ed: That's because it was an American Adscam, intended to benefit groups that agitate for progressives in elections. And while the flow may be cut off soon, those groups received a LOT of capital, and may be able to string it out long enough to keep the scam going.
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NEW: Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Rep. James Comer get into a screaming match after Pressley tried entering an article into the record.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 5, 2025
Pressley: "Data from Texas shows that US-born Americans commit more r*pe and mu*der than immigrants."
Comer: "This trend of you all trying to get… pic.twitter.com/0nioQuFSaO
Ed: When will Democrats wake up to the fact that this isn't helping? Let's hope sometime in, oh ... 2033 or so.
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211-209, House GOP overcomes Dem effort to kill censure resolution against Al Green for his floor protest during Trump speech. He is expected to be censured tomorrow.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 5, 2025
It used to be very rare when the House would censure a member — and only for some of the worst offenses.
Now…
Ed: "Now it's becoming far more common," Raju says in the rest of the tweet while offering a link to the history of punitive measures imposed by the House. Maybe it's because of the increased visibility of members of Congress, or the perceived benefits of grandstanding that incentivizes it. But this kind of disruptive behavior has to have some consequences if we are to curtail it at all.
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