The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today
1. Trump’s first State of the Union sets the tone for the next year, the midterms, and his entire presidency
— The president showed his willingness and desire to make deals on issues like immigration and infrastructure. Democrats don’t care.
— Those who watched the speech thought the speech was overwhelmingly positive.
2. Democrats offer up 6 rebuttals to Trump’s State of the Union
— The official Democrat response was offered by Rep. Joe Kennedy, whose drooling from a hideaway in Massachusetts would be comedic fodder if he wasn’t a Democrat. He didn’t mention Trump but he did speak in Spanish, and talk about tearing down walls.
— Also offering rebuttals, Bernie Sanders, Rep. Maxine Waters, and Michael Moore, for some reason.
3. Trump’s immigration rhetoric is going to be a hard sell to his base and his enemies
— For the Right, he talked about building a wall and ending chain migration BUT he also talked about legalizing almost 2 million people.
— For the Left, he talked about legalizing almost 2 million people BUT he also talked about building a wall and ending chain migration.
4. FBI/DOJ drama over Andrew McCabe and #ReleaseTheMemo continues
— The Inspector General asked why FBI leadership seemed unwilling to move forward on the examination of Hillary Clinton’s emails that were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner.
— Rep. Gary Palmer (AL-6) says he voted to release a memo on the FBI and DOJ because there may be criminal issues at play.
5. Congressman wants illegals who attend the State of the Union arrested
— Rep. Paul A. Gosar asked the U.S. Capitol Police and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consider checking the identification of all attending the State of the Union address and to arrest “any illegal aliens in attendance.”
— Arizona Senator Jeff Flake responded, “This is why we can’t have nice things…”, and Goser shot back, “This is why you got forced out of office.”
6. Alabama legislator, once again, introduces a bill to change the way divorces are decided
— Current Alabama law defaults to a every other weekend setup where the custodial parent has the children and the non-custodial parent gets them every other weekend and pays support. This bill sets up a 50/50 living arrangement.
— The new bill would explain: “Frequent and substantial contact means that the child has equal or as approximately equal as possible time with both parents”, barring a written finding of fact to change this plan.
7. Looks like a a good number of Alabama legislators might be in trouble
— Somewhere between 25 and 70 legislators have reportedly received subpoenas over the use of campaign finance funds.
— Most of this appears to be based on the use of credit card line items to disclose expenditures but not detail them.
