Washington is ready to solve all problems.this weekthe Senate will consider what the House has already done—How to remove hate from human hearts with quick voting (And I hope there will be as little controversy as possible.).
The Jewish faith may be the most persecuted faith in history. From Babylon to Egypt, Greece to Rome, from emperor to fuhrer, king to mufti, Jews have carried the burden of murder. That is, until House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) resolved the issue last week with a bill that would allow the government to “protect Jews by punishing hate speech as defined by law.” was. work definition It is part of the Holocaust Remembrance Project. ”
Much has been said about how reckless and overreaching Johnson’s new bill is, and you can find some interesting critiques from Glenn Beck and others, but the more pressing issue in Washington’s snow globe is The question is whether this bill has a chance of being passed.
First of all, its origin.
The Anti-Semitism Bill began as a “messaging bill.” Regardless of the possibility of passage in the Senate, the Republican Party is trying to unite and vote in the House of Representatives, get Democrats to take a stand against it, and then start campaigning. Moreover. To this end, Mr. Johnson visited Columbia University’s campus to initiate a debate in which he rightly called the violent, threatening and illegal style of encampment “un-American.” is.
The trip went well in the end, as he subsequently announced new legislation that includes everything from ties between Jews and the state of Israel to criticizing the state of Israel as illegal hate speech.
The bill would help better define Mr Johnson and his allies. This incident, along with cutting off aid to Ukraine, compromising border security and defending warrantless wiretapping, paints a picture of Johnson as a caricature of a 2012-style Republican. This person has proven unable to apply the lessons of his last eight years (if they were learned in the first place) to governance.And now he center-left coalition In the US House of Representatives.
Messaging The messaging portion of the bill fell apart as soon as it was introduced. Republicans like Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida denounced the Gospels as so broad as to criminalize them, and Democrats on the other side joined in the opposition, supporting the messages of the campus occupiers and rioters. Republicans lost a golden opportunity to make a simple political argument that illegal rioters are unacceptable and should be punished, and instead debate specific points with radicals and anarchists (always stupid), and instead argue federally against speech. (also bad).
What should I do then? The bill now goes to the Senate, which returns on Tuesday. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is reportedly eager for passage. Much of the turmoil began in his state, and the left-wing civil war it has unleashed into the open is deeply unpleasant to the most powerful Jewish politician on the planet.
But several things stand in Schumer’s way.
First, about the whole civil war. He has colleagues in his own caucus who oppose passage, including Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). There is a high possibility that there will be trouble with the state (state), and there is a possibility that Mr. Chris will leave the party. Murphy (D-Conn.). Leaders generally don’t like to expose their failures in their own conferences (with the notable exception of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)), but when push comes to shove, Schumer is probably a good candidate for party members. It would be possible to appease the remaining members of the convention and persuade them to come to the party convention. line.
The second problem is that Republicans (mainly) remember that free speech protections are necessary to protect unpopular speech, and that the federal government’s arsenal of “hate speech” is There are concerns that the situation will expand. They don’t have the stomach for a big fight either.
At the start of the new week, a battle of sorts is breaking out as politicians on both sides of the aisle have a hold. But here’s the third problem. Senate politicians don’t really want to fight about Israel right now. This debate is a minefield all around, just as the presidential election shifts into a new gear.
After all, “it’s the Senate,” a longtime Republican Senate aide told Blaze Media. “They are afraid of everything associated with it.”
But candidates don’t want to talk about it either. After weeks of dragging his feet, Joe Biden finally condemned the riot late last week, and former President Donald Trump signed an executive order in December 2019 that is nearly identical to Johnson’s bill. Although the executive order is more like a glorified press release than a law, it caused little controversy when it was signed (and so far has been largely ignored rather than abused by the current administration).
But on the other side of all the reservations, there are a significant number of co-sponsors who are prepared to bring this bill to the president’s desk. “It will probably pass in some form,” one senior conservative Republican aide predicted to Blaze Media. “No one in the Senate wants to fight hard, but some senators are working to change the First Amendment so it’s less offensive and doesn’t affect the Bible.”
But ultimately, there is a real prospect that nothing will happen. It won’t take much to grind the Senate to a standstill, and many Democratic senators will want to pretend they have nothing to do with the chaos on campus. Schumer may decide his time is better spent endorsing more liberal candidates than debating Israel before voters.
glenn beck in Blaze News:The House antisemitism bill is a hidden hate speech law. Don’t be fooled.
In other news
Trump trial drags on
The former president’s hush money trial enters its fourth week on Monday, with President Trump and his beautiful blue eyes As prosecutors continue to review the witness list, they are forced off the campaign trail and back into the Manhattan courtroom.
Last week, Hope Hicks, a former Trump aide, took to the stage to testify about her role in the 2016 campaign and her interactions with Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and star witness for Democratic prosecutors. I burst into tears.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers continue to undermine Mr. Cohen’s credibility, arguing that much of the “conspiracy” prosecutors are describing to jurors is not actually illegal.
The trial will resume at 9:30 a.m. Monday, but prosecutors have not released any details.Iwitness they will do that put on stand. For your safety. ”
Meanwhile, the number of presidents continues to decline.
according to ABC News and Ipsos poll, Biden’s approval rating among black voters has fallen by more than 20 points since his election, and his approval rating among Hispanics has declined by 17 points. Young voters flipped from Biden +24 to Trump +5, according to the poll.
The same poll shows Trump ahead of Biden overall, but the incumbent still leads among most important likely voters, 49% to 45%.
“They keep shaking the voting machines and spitting out the same wrong numbers” Nellie Bowles of the Free Press made a jokeciting similar results from a CNN poll released a week earlier.
white boy summer
This week saw a revenge spree in which ordinary American students took aim at campus extremists and their allies working to detain the university.
The week began with University of North Carolina students defending the American flag, but instead a mob carrying a Palestinian flag yelled abuse at them and threw ice cubes at them.
“Please help us raise money to give these guys the party they deserve,” one of the brothers quickly posted on GoFundMe. In less than a week, the effort raised Over $500,000.
That example went viral. The next day, the New York Police Department followed the Frato brothers’ lead and re-erected Old Glory at City College after the mob had removed it. Now, groups of ordinary college students across the country are making fun of it, hurling abuse at the occupiers and mocking the activists.
Fire starts: “‘Stepping back into the past’: The American Catholic Church is witnessing a major change to its old ways.” Associated Press
Politics aside, the Catholic Church in America is changing. We have been seeing a return to orthodoxy among our younger parishioners for years.. meanwhile IMr. t’s While it is true that a decidedly unconventional pope rules one of the last absolute monarchies on earth, a more astute observer might perceive the church as more authoritative. . The system is more democratic than it appears, and changes occur frequently. from belowNot to the top but to the topunder. Although condescending, this AP article documents some of the changes currently occurring.
decreasing numbers [of practicing Catholics] This means those who remain in the church have a greater influence than Catholics as a whole.
At the national level, conservatives have become increasingly dominant in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and in Catholic intellectual circles. They include everyone from the philanthropist founder of Domino’s Pizza to six of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
“Then there is the priesthood.
A 2023 report from Catholic University’s Catholic Project, based on a survey of more than 3,500 priests, found that the movement toward liberal politics and progressive theology, which was common in the 1960s and 1970s, The young priest who was killed has “almost disappeared.”
Today’s young priests are more likely to believe that the church has changed too much after Vatican II and is caught up in America’s rapidly changing views on everything from the role of women to LGBTQ people is much higher.
