https://www.wsj.com/articles/look-whos-stil...inion_lead_pos2President Trump has left office, but peace and harmony have not descended upon the land. Left-wing rioters rampaged in the streets of Portland, Ore., and Seattle on Wednesday, no matter Joe Biden’s unity plea.
In Portland, rioters smashed the windows of the Democratic Party headquarters and scrawled graffiti on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. Demonstrators carried signs reading “we are ungovernable” and “we don’t want Biden—we want revenge! For police murders, imperialist wars, and fascist massacres.”
Portland police say some rioters carried “pepper ball guns, electronic crowd control weapons similar to Tasers, large fireworks, shields and rocks” and that “weapons were seized including Molotov Cocktails, knives, batons, chemical spray and a crowbar.” No doubt mostly peaceful protesters, as CNN likes to describe this sort of thing.
In Seattle, protesters burned an American flag outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, and rioters shattered windows at the federal William Kenzo Nakamura courthouse, an AmazonGo store, and the Pike Place Starbucks. Some chanted at the police, “We protect people, you protect property,” according to the Seattle Times. Law enforcement arrested three people for property damage, burglary and felony assault.
The rioters in both cities identified themselves as anarchists or Antifa members who claimed to be protesting racism, fascism and police brutality. Yet in damaging a federal courthouse and Democratic headquarters, they attacked the judiciary and democratic institutions.
A spokesperson for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told us she “has consistently denounced individuals who are targeting small businesses and government facilities,” adding that property destruction was “unacceptable.” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s spokesman said he “condemns all forms of violence, intimidation and criminal destruction.” Yet both had blamed Mr. Trump as the cause of their urban violence, and both cities have imposed restrictions that hamper the ability of police to respond to violent protests and have emboldened rioters.
Prosecutors are rightly throwing the book at those on the right who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The same should apply to those on the left who wreaked havoc Wednesday. When political violence is tolerated, it inevitably spreads.
აი ეს იცის დაუსჯელობის სინდრომმა, აქ უკვე ტრამპი არაფერ შუაშია, ეს ხდება ულურჯეს შტატების ულურჯეს ქალაქებში მას მერე რაც ტრამპი ოფიციალურად დასრულდა.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-filibus...inion_lead_pos3ესეც საინტერესო ედიტორიალი, სცენარი რომელიც აქ არცერთ მხარეს რა გვინდა რომ მოხდეს.
Democrats are eager to get rolling on their priorities, and the multi-trillion-dollar question is whether they’ll blow up the Senate legislative filibuster to pass a progressive agenda with 51 votes. This procedural radicalism won’t be the political winner the party imagines.
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell have been working on a deal to share power in a Senate split between 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats. (Vice President Kamala Harris breaks ties.) During such a divide in 2001, the parties ironed out procedures that, for example, allowed leadership of both parties to move bills deadlocked in committee. This is a good model but it’ll be harder to strike a deal amid current political passions.
Mr. McConnell wants Democrats to agree not to end the legislative filibuster as part of the arrangement. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin has said several times he won’t lend the necessary vote to nuke the 60-vote threshold. Mr. McConnell is right to want to address the question before a heated political dispute arises.
But Democrats want to keep this hostage so they can threaten to shoot it. The progressive playbook: Wait for an emergency and claim that extraordinary times warrant breaking the filibuster, and hope Mr. Manchin rolls under pressure. Then try to ram through every Democratic priority from a public ObamaCare option to D.C. statehood.
The left has recast the filibuster as racist for its 1950s role in delaying progress on civil rights. But a mere four years ago some 61 Senators signed a letter calling to “preserve existing rules, practices, and traditions” in Senate debate, including then Sen. Harris and Democrats Cory Booker (New Jersey); Patrick Leahy (Vermont); Chris Coons (Delaware); Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and many more. The only difference now is that a Democrat is President.
Democrats are also pondering a backdoor bust of the legislative filibuster by exploiting a process known as budget reconciliation. These budget bills can elude the filibuster, though there are conditions on what can be included. Democrats could overrule the Senate parliamentarian and pass whatever they want with a simple majority. Some conservatives wanted to do this to pass health-care reform in 2017, but GOP leaders knew it would deal the death blow to the filibuster.
The left should not assume that bloody-minded behavior will be good for Democrats. With a 50-seat majority, the party can’t lose a single Senator to pass a bill. Will Democrats make Mark Kelly of Arizona and Raphael Warnock of Georgia—both facing voters again in 2022—go on record supporting a government takeover of health care?
The strategy could sacrifice the party’s most vulnerable members, only to set up the GOP in 2024 to reform entitlements or pass tort reform with a bare majority.
The left is at risk of repeating a costly mistake: Assuming they’ll always be in power. In 2013 Harry Reid broke the filibuster for judicial nominations to pack the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He won a few appellate judges, but at the price of making it easier for Mr. McConnell to confirm three Supreme Court Justices in the last four years. As Mr. McConnell warned in 2013: “You’ll regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”
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