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Thanks Greg, I needed your edge to help me begin to process four years of disgust about Merrick Garland. I am sick to my stomach about him. Your historical helps a bit, especially when you write this truth - "Failing to exercise power when it's needed is also an abuse of power."

How did such a weak person even advance so far? Garland was helped at each step by Jamie Gorelick. Just one note - she was the ethics lawyer for Jared [Kushner] and Ivanka [Trump] - nuff said. The inside game is always in full swing. Biden was not the leader we needed for this moment. I salute his service. He got a lot of important things done but chose not to take on the most important. Could any one leader have taken on covid and the coup? I believe the answer is yes, but he and his team chose infrastructure and trusted it would make the difference. But he wasn't FDR. He did the projects without inspiring hearts.

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Thanks, Joel. Biden did a lot, a whole lot, of amazing things, but he was never much good at communication. That's what his administration, and the DOJ in particular, and the Dems in general, lack: effective communication. They almost always come off badly. And when they find someone who is good at this -- AOC -- they sideline her.

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AOC, Katie Porter and her blessed white board, Pete Buttigeig (to a lesser degree) Ben Wikler, Tammy Baldwin, Amy Klobuchar even Liz Warren was uncharacteristically quiet this term around. There's a pattern...

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