7. A majority (52%) of Americans say they will not get the new COVID-19 vaccine, 70% of Democrats say they will, and the vast majority of those who will get the shot are either Democrats or 65 years old.
6. This is not “House of Cards,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed activist Laphonza Butler to the U.S. Senate and was NEVER going to make Vice President Kamala Harris a senator again to replace the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) so Newsom could VP and Biden could resign. Reminder, “House of Cards” is fiction, the president and first lady had a threesome with a secret service agent in that show and no politician is as competent as Frank Underwood.
5. Speaking of conspiracy theories, lunatics on social media and their amoral media friends are suggesting complaints about books at a Fairhope library are part of a complicated scheme to trick people into not wanting smut available to children. Those making these silly claims STILL refuse to talk about the books being objected to.
4. Federal judges have ruled that “the public is free to ignore” police officers asking for photo identification after a Huntsville man sued the city for an arrest over his refusal. The panel wrote, “So to summarize, it has been clearly established for decades prior to Mr. Edger’s arrest that the police are free to ask questions, and the public is free to ignore them.”
3. U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y) decided to disrupt a government preceding by pulling a fire alarm. The only thing more embarrassing than his excuses are his defenders. Some in the House GOP want to expel Bowman, but others want to expel U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for threatening to depose Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), but neither will happen.
2. The government will stay open and Alabama’s 45,000 government workers have to go to work today after a last-minute-ish deal was made to fund the government for 45 days. The government will stay as open as the U.S./Mexico border and Ukraine did not receive billions of dollars as part of the legislation.
1. Alabama’s House delegation was split 4 to 3 with both Alabama U.S. senators voting YES. U.S. Reps. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile), Mike Rogers (R-Saks), Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) and Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) were also in the YES column and Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) and Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) voted NO.
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