Polybius
Polybius's JournalWell, Sen. Bob Casey Jr. sure has nothing to worry about in 2024
Doug Mastriano is leading big-time in the Republican primary. 
He has 39% to the more sane David McCormick's 21%.
https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PennsylvaniaRepublicanPoll31323.pdf
Happy Daylight Saving Time!
It's that time of the year, so here is this annual post. I love this time of the season. Yeah, we lose an hour but to me this signifies the first important step to ending Winter, and that Spring is around the corner. Love that it gets dark later too! Some people don't like the adjustments, but it's never taken me more than day or two to used to. Anyway:
Manchin says he won't advance Biden lands nominee
Source: The Hill
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate committee tasked with evaluating presidential nominees related to energy and natural resource issues, said Friday that he will not advance one of President Biden’s nominees.
Manchin, in a Houston Chronicle opinion piece, said he would not advance the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis, who has been nominated to be assistant secretary for lands and minerals management at the Interior Department.
“Today, I have also decided, as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, that I will not be moving forward the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis as assistant secretary of the Department of Interior,” he wrote.
He cited an internal Interior Department memo in which Daniel-Davis signed off on a decision not to lower the fees that companies have to pay to the federal government to extract oil and gas because of climate change concerns.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3893878-manchin-says-he-wont-advance-biden-lands-nominee/
That's three in a week (he also opposed the IRS and FCC nominees).
US Senate Democrats side with Republicans to block Washington DC crime bill
Source: BBC News
In a rare move, the US Senate has used its right to block Washington DC city laws by halting a criminal reform bill that critics called soft on crime.
The Republican-sponsored Senate bill passed by a vote of 81-14 on Wednesday.
It overturns the DC Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, which was passed by the Democratic-controlled city council and lowers penalties for some crimes.
It marks only the fourth time in history that Congress has overturned a law of the nation's capital city.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64897233
Actual Lauren Boebert Tweet on International Women's Day
https://twitter.com/RepBoebert/status/1633517490834743319Manchin on endorsing Biden in 2024: 'Let's see who's involved'
“The bottom line is, let’s see who’s involved,” Manchin said in an interview with CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “Let’s wait until we see who all the players are. Let’s just wait until it all comes out.”
Manchin, one of the most moderate Democrats in Congress, has been an irritant to liberals and progressives in his party, and has publicly split with Biden for what he has called some in his party pushing the president too far to the left.
“We’ve got a runaway debt, we’ve got inflation that’s killing people, we’ve got unsecured energy, we have a border that’s out of control — you’re telling me we’re in the same ballgame, in the same ballpark? I don’t think so,” Manchin said.
Read more...
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1632415424309612545
Jim Justice said he'd decide by the end of February whether to run for the Senate or not
What happened? Did he mean personally decide and just not tell us? It's March 5!
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to decide on race for Joe Manchin's Senate seat by end of February
CNN posts article on Terry Yeakey, the hero Oklahoma City cop that was found dead a year later
This story is about one of those people. His name was Terry Yeakey. He was an Oklahoma City police officer and a military veteran. Yeakey saved at least three people from the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, the day a terrorist attack killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others.
Something happened to Yeakey in those hours in the wreckage. He was badly shaken, and his worldview seemed to change. In time, he grew suspicious and afraid. He ran afoul of his supervisors. He went on secret missions, withholding his motives and plans from fellow officers. He seemed to be conducting his own investigation.
And then, 385 days after the bombing, his body was found near some trees in a field off a country road.
Read more...
I'm not a conspiracy-type guy at all but his story has always fascinated me. I've never believed that it was suicide.
Why does Virginia have a one consecutive term rule for Governors?
I get that most of you support term-limits (I don't, but I respect the opposite view), but one consecutive term only is ridiculous. Why not two or three? No other state does this for governors, it just strikes me as odd.
Who was the best NYC Mayor of the last 45 years?
I'm only going back 45 years because I don't remember anyone before Ed Koch. I'm kinda torn between two, and would like to see where everyone else stands before I vote on my own poll. Please give your opinions as to why you chose as you did.
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