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What you spread can both come back to haunt as well as bite you. I have warned about this and expected it but did not know when it would happen. This boil has now begun to ripen.
Democrats risk the blow back effect of what they have been practicing but they also are pro's at avoiding deserved retribution.
The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party knows no bounds, remains alive, well and continues to metastasize. Will this become Pelosi and the Democrat's Charlottesville? (See 1b below)
Where the Democrat cancer signified by anti-Semitism and racial bigotry goes only time will tell. Obama was quick to play the race card now let's see if it continues to win the pot.
Meanwhile, the issue of Trump's character, persona and results of the Mueller Investigation could hand the center to the Democrats. Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff et al are banking heavily on this and will keep stirring the pot. (See 1 and 1a below.)
And:
This from a very dear friend and fellow memo reader:
"The problem with the democratic leadership is that it demanded an apology.
Camel’s poop.
This is not about being hurt but about doing the right thing. R-----"
What it got was a half-assed apology that reinforced the original statements…
What is should have demanded is an unconditional complete retraction with a
commitment not to repeat such statements or else she would be expelled from the party.
Finally:
This response to my latest memo:
Who cares about the Black caucus....you need to get the Jewish vote behind
Trump and quit apologizing about your support...Trump is easily the best president
in my 82 years. (See 1c below.)
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This op ed writer believes socialism will remain a dark cloud hanging over our future.Free stuff always has appeal because those who believe it is "free" never see the bill coming or find a way, as my generation has, to duck the cost. That, Ms.Pelosi, is real immorality.(See 2 below.)
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Is Bibi the Israeli equivalent of Hopalong Cassidy? (See 3 below.)
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Apparently, Trump wastes his time speaking with kids.
This article is by Salena Zito who will be here Oct 27-28, speaking for me about the forthcoming election. (See 4 below.)
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1) Democrats Face Great Opportunity—and High Peril
Party risks that perceptions of extremism or stridency could alienate the center
They confront a Republican president who has a job-approval rating that has never topped 50%, one they faced down in a government shutdown last month, and who awaits a special counsel report that could be anything from distracting to disastrous.
President Trump’s standing among independent voters, in particular, suggests the political center is wide open for Democrats.
Yet Democrats also could blow the opportunity, with a combination of policy extremism and internal stridency. Democrats face this question: Could they manage to scare off that center just as it has become so available?
This week Democrats are walking a tightrope in negotiations to avoid another government shutdown, with no certainty who might be blamed for failure. A preliminary agreement among congressional negotiators Monday night suggested that problem might be avoided.
At a recent town hall in California, Sen. Kamala Harris, who recently announced her 2020 presidential bid, said she favors Medicare for all. This prompted a debate among Democrats about what the party stands for on health care.
More broadly, the party increasingly is identified with policy proposals that are easy for Republicans to caricature as left-wing extremism. It is a fair bet that a majority of congressional Democrats don’t support either a 70% top tax rate or an across-the-board wealth tax on the richest Americans. But the former, advanced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the latter, advanced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her presidential campaign, have become the two most prominent Democratic tax proposals of 2019.
Similarly, the party’s most prominent climate-change plan isn’t simply rejoining the Paris climate-change accords that President Trump has disavowed, but the highly ambitious Green New Deal legislation.
To actually read the newly released Green New Deal is to be struck by both its audacious goals—meet 100% of America’s power needs through renewable and “zero-emission” energy sources within a decade, upgrade “all existing buildings” to make them more energy efficient, overhaul the transportation system—but also by the fact that the plan is mostly aspirational, more a statement of noble goals than a prescription of how to pay for them.
Still, the plan’s demands that the public receive “appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment” in green projects and its calls for “directing investments to spur economic development” suggest the energized progressive wing of the Democratic Party is beginning to push for a considerable expansion in government spending and economic activism.
Meanwhile, the agony being experienced by the Virginia branch of the Democratic Party isn’t only a problem for national Democrats, coming as it does in an increasingly important swing state, but also a sign that the party is beginning to experience the consequences of a zero-tolerance attitude on perceived misbehavior. National Democrats of every stripe rushed to demand the resignation of Gov. Ralph Northam because of a racially offensive picture on his college yearbook page and his admission of once darkening his face with shoe polish to mimic Michael Jackson, only to discover that the state’s Democratic lieutenant governor is being accused of sexual assault and its Democratic attorney general has acknowledged a blackface incident of his own.
Democrats now are stuck with either living with a prominent governor they have condemned or, potentially, seeing the entire leadership of the state turned over to Republicans. They also are left to ponder whether they have developed a tendency to rush to judgment too quickly.
Adding to the drama, the party is on the verge of a nasty internal fight over comments of two freshman lawmakers—Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan—criticizing Israel and supporting the movement to boycott and sanction the Jewish state for its treatment of Palestinians. In a joint statement Monday, House Democratic leaders declared that “anti-Semitism must be called out, confronted and condemned.” Rep. Omar later apologized for her comments.
On one level, these are all signs of what happens to a party as it is growing and elevating new leaders. Ask the Republican party about the Tea Party insurrection of 2010.
The risk, though, is that centrist voters will think they see that an angry left wing taking charge. Democrats could appear to be succumbing to the national mood of anger, when the better image might be of hope.
An alternative approach was suggested Sunday by Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota as she announced her presidential candidacy. She portrayed herself as the optimistic granddaughter of an iron-range miner. Then she laid out a more moderate approach: promising immediate climate-change action without mentioning the Green New Deal, though she generally embraces it; ending tax breaks for the wealthy without endorsing a 70% tax rate; pledging universal health care without promising a government-run system.
It’s a play for the geographical and political center—where the 2020 presidential race figures to be decided, and where an independent candidacy by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz threatens to steal Democratic votes.
Ilhan Omar can’t seem to help herself when it comes to anti-Semitism. The question is: What are leading Democrats and Never Trumpers, who’ve repeatedly accused the White House of empowering anti-Semitism, prepared to do about the congresswoman from Minnesota?
Omar tried to wiggle out of the implications of her earlier tweet about Israel “hypnotizing” the world by claiming ignorance about its meaning. She said she didn’t know she was tapping into an anti-Semitic trope when she smeared Israelis defending themselves against Hamas terrorists.
But she dug herself in deeper this weekend with tweets in which she asserted that the only reason why members of Congress support the Jewish state is “the Benjamins” — that is, money — offered by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.
The claim that Jews use wealth to get their way is another libel that is straight out of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the classic anti-Semitic hoax that has migrated from czarist Russia to the Muslim fever swamps.
It’s also a deliberate misreading of reality. The overwhelming majority of members of Congress support Israel because the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. But to Israel haters, it’s all a vast plot cooked up by dark, conspiratorial Jewish forces.
Americans like Israel for a variety of reasons, not least shared democratic values. Most also think there is something wrong with those who want to destroy the one Jewish state on the planet. That’s the goal of the BDS — boycott, divest and sanction — movement that Omar and her fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan support.
BDS masquerades as a call for justice, but its discriminatory purpose is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism. And if there was any doubt about that, both Omar and Tlaib have been doing their best to erase it with statements that illustrate the inextricable ties between BDS and hate.
Yet the Democratic Party has no interest in dishing out to Omar (and Tlaib) the same kind of stern justice that the Republicans meted out to Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who was guilty of sympathy for white nationalists. King was stripped of all of his committee assignments. But Tlaib was put on the powerful Financial Service Committee and Omar was inexplicably rewarded with a coveted seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, which gives the BDS crowd a bully pulpit they had never enjoyed before.
It’s true that after staying quiet about previous anti-Semitic tweets, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the party’s leadership team finally condemned Omar’s comments and called on her to apologize. But while that’s an important step in the right direction, there appears to be little chance Omar and Tlaib will lose their committee assignments or face any other punishment.
The reason for this is obvious. Democrats, including many of those running for president, fear their party’s hard-left base is sympathetic to Omar and Tlaib. That’s not just because of their identities as Somali- and Palestinian-American, respectively. The leadership also understands that a critical mass of Democratic activists has bought into bogus intersectional theories that falsely link the struggle for civil rights in the US to the Palestinian war against Israel’s right to exist.
Dems aren’t the only ones shy about calling out Omar and Tlaib. The Never Trumper William Kristol, who regularly accuses the president of fanning bigotry, had maintained a puzzling silence on Twitter as of this writing.
And while The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin cheered Pelosi’s swift response to Omar, days earlier she had claimed that, “in the Democratic Party, unlike the Republican Party, racism gets no sanctuary. The Democratic Party of 2019 simply will not abide by a white governor’s racist play-acting,” referring to Virgina Gov. Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal.
Or maybe it will. Omar retains her committee seat, and Northam has clung to the Executive Mansion in Richmond.
These are the same people who have been at pains to discern anti-Semitic dog whistles from Trump, who may be flawed but is also openly sympathetic to Israel and the Jewish community.
Unless and until Omar and Tlaib are not only condemned but isolated as anti-Semites by both Democrats and Republicans, there’s little chance that this virus of hatred won’t continue to spread.
1b) Former KKK Grand Wizard Defends Omar Tweets
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Monday defended Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) tweets decrying AIPAC and what she suggested was the pro-Israel organization's improper influence on Republican lawmakers.
"So, let us get this straight. It is ‘Anti-Semitism' to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation's interest (israel's) over that of America ??????" Duke wrote in response to a tweet from Nikki Haley. The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations had responded to Omar's tweets from Sunday with condemnation.
So, let us get this straight. It is "Anti-Semitism" to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation's interest (israel's) over that of America ?????? https://t.co/2e1QbIxOGp— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) February 11, 2019
Omar attracted controversy when on Sunday she suggested that Republican support for Israel is driven by funding from the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization that does not directly donate to candidates. Omar retweeted left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald's condemnatory comments regarding how Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) criticized the congresswoman for anti-Israel stances. Omar wrote, "It's all about the Benjamins baby," a reference to $100 bills.
When Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon said she'd love to know who is "paying American politicians to be pro-Israel," Omar responded, "AIPAC!"
Duke, who served as grand wizard from 1974 to 1979, has an extensive history of racist rhetoric and of promulgating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. On Saturday, prior to Omar's tweets, Duke posted pictures of Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and their family, who are Jewish, on Twitter, with the caption "Please, accept me… screw the Christians, Israel first!"
He has endorsed 2020 presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) with the statement: "Tulsi Gabbard for President. Finally a candidate who will actually put America First rather than Israel First!" Gabbard rejected the endorsement.
Omar's comments from Sunday attracted criticism from many Democrats, including Reps. Max Rose (D., N.Y.), Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.) and Donna Shalala (Fla.). Rose, who is Jewish, tweeted out a statement calling Omar's words "hateful and offensive."
1c) Cory Booker’s Jewish Enablers
Ten days ago, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.
My closest friend since his years as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, where he served as president of my organization The Oxford L’Chaim Society, Cory was once considered the greatest ally the Jewish community might ever have in elected office. Having spent countless hours studying Torah texts with me, Cory was able to dazzle Jewish audiences with his insights on the Parsha, often quoting passages that we practiced together in Hebrew.
Upon his rise into the Senate, however, Cory’s support for Israel has cratered. He notoriously voted for the Iran nuclear deal, which presented a clear-cut existential threat to Israel and did so even as his senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, the heroic Bob Menendez, led the charge against it. When it was brought before the Senate subcommittee on Foreign Affairs, Cory betrayed his moral convictions when he voted against the Taylor Force Act, a law that merely forbade the Palestinian Authority from using American taxpayer funds to finance the families of terrorists. Even as his pro-Israel support evaporated, however, some expected presidential-candidate Cory to adopt a more sympathetic approach to the Jewish State. Perhaps in his efforts to represent the entirety of Democratic America he might finally commit to the Democratic Party’s stated approach — and his own countless promises — to be a stalwart friend of Israel.
This past Thursday — less than a week into his race — Cory removed all doubt as to just how firmly he would pander to anti-Israel extremists whose support he believes he needs to secure his party’s nomination. Cory voted against a critical federal anti-BDS bill, itself designed simply to protect Israel from being brought, economically, to its knees. Known as the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act (S.1), the act provides legal cover to state governments that seek to stymie the BDS movement. The law passed 77-23, earning yeas from every Republican except one, and with a substantial 25 Democratic senators supporting the bill.
Yet Cory voted against.
Funny thing, that. Just last December, Cory committed himself to co-sponsoring anti-BDS legislation. “I have long and staunchly opposed the BDS movement, and support this bill,” he claimed then. Even in his own recent explanation for voting against it, Cory insists on his “strong and lengthy record of opposing efforts to boycott Israel.” But instead of actually keeping his word, he abandoned Israel while meting out lame excuses that add insult to injury, claiming that the law “raised First Amendment concerns.”
“There are ways to fight BDS without compromising free speech,” Cory declared.
His explanation itself leaves us with two possible explanations. Either 80 percent of the Senate overlooked a critical threat to the First Amendment or Cory sold out America’s closest ally to more tightly align with far-left Democrats whose influence has grown in the primaries. Considering all but one of the seven other Democratic presidential candidates voted against the bill, that’s not a tough riddle to solve.
But Cory wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wishes to appease far-left anti-Israel activists whom he believes have a veto on the Democratic party nomination. But mindful of the fact that pro-Israel contributors have been his biggest financial backers, he deflects by using the “Torah thoughts” I taught him to demonstrate his kinship before Jewish audiences. But repeating Hebrew verses I practiced with him is no substitute to standing with Israel against the genocidal onslaught from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
Yet Cory has found a number of Jewish enablers — prioritizing political access before principle — who have allowed him to continue to vote against Israel while maintaining Jewish support. Like the path to hell, they may have good intentions. But in the end, it allows Cory to abandon Israel’s vital security interests while continuing to raise significant sums from Jewish networks. The thought of being on first-name basis with a man who might become the most powerful on earth can be dizzying for some and intoxicating for others. For the Cory enablers, it became dangerously addictive. Which is why no matter how far Cory veered from protecting the nation he swore to fight for, they continued not only to forgive but to provide the senator with the political cover he needed to forsake the Jewish state.
Before Cory shockingly announced his support for the Iran Deal, the head of NORPAC, my friend Ben Chouake, joined me and then-Governor Chris Christie at a press conference in which we implored Cory to join Senator Menendez in pressuring President Barack Obama to negotiate a better deal with Iran. Considering NORPAC is Cory’s second-biggest lifetime source of campaign contributions, one might have expected the senator to pay some price for having broken with their primary purpose.
But despite Cory’s yes vote on Iran, Ben would publicly forgive him without Cory ever having condemned the Mullahs repeated promise to annihilate Israel. “When he saw that his vote either way was not going to make a difference,” Chouake explained, “[Cory] felt this was not one to fall on the sword for. He said, ‘I’m going to give the president a leap of faith.’ I trust his intentions.” So Chouake went from calling on Cory to oppose the Iran deal to explaining to the Jewish community why it was ok that he didn’t.
Shortly after voting for the Iran deal, Cory held a closed-door session with Jewish leaders ostensibly to explain his stance. Because only those who defended him were invited (I, understandably, was not) it seemed the meeting’s real message to Jewish leaders was that access to Cory would hinge upon a public endorsement. Further confirming this theory is the fact that Rabbi Menachem Genack, head of the Kashruth division at the OU, told a reporter from The New York Observer that he would be attending the meeting, though he was “profoundly disappointed” in Cory. This disappointment seemed odd because Genack had helped arrange a conference call for Cory to explain his position to Jewish leaders. But even that rare moment of criticism would be exceptionally short-lived: just moments after expressing his disappointment, Rabbi Genack demanded that the reporter not publish his criticism (he did).
Other Jewish leaders would go further, allowing themselves to be entirely recast as Cory’s sycophantic apologists. In particular, Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Chabad of Yale worked tirelessly to draw Jewish leaders into meetings with Cory to preserve his standing in the Jewish community.
Interestingly, you don’t need to be a Presidential hopeful to get Rabbi Hecht to go wobbly on Israel — Middle Eastern dictators apparently make the cut as well. The Rabbi recently leaped into the center of the Jewish community’s Qatar scandal, defending the Jewish leaders (Rabbi Genack was one) who traveled to Doha to sit with the foremost funder of the Hamas terror organization. Hecht published a bizarre column praising Nick Muzin, the Washington swamp lobbyist who took millions to whitewash Qatar when the Emirate faced American censure for funding terror. Hecht has not revealed if he and Muzin have any financial relationship or why he published the obsequious column.
Most tellingly, though, is the fact that last Thursday — on the very same day that Cory voted against the anti-BDS bill — Rabbi Hecht fawned over Cory for The Yale Daily News, calling Cory “a truly an out-of-this-world person … and the most magnetic and charismatic person I have ever known.” Though Booker had just officially crossed into the quadrant of the Senate most critical of Israel, Hecht still felt the need to endorse him. “America,” he concluded, “would be lucky to have a president like him.”
Now comes the news that AIPAC is considering giving Cory and other similarly declared Presidential candidates with flimsy records on Israel a speaking platform at next month’s policy conference. If this were an election year — as next year is — it would be vital that AIPAC show fairness and balance to all candidates. But providing a platform to those who vote against Israel on BDS sends the message that there is no price to pay for such betrayal.
And that would be the wrong message for America’s most important pro-Israel group to deliver.
Shmuley Boteach, “America’s Rabbi,” whom The Washington Post calls “the most famous rabbi in America,” is the international bestselling author of 32 books, including his most recent, The Israel Warrior. He served as rabbi at Oxford University for 11 years where Cory Booker was his student president. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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In his recent State of the Union address, President Trump triumphantly declared that America will never be a socialist country. As much as I hate to break it to him and those who hopefully cheer that sentiment, it’s just not true. We all know it’s not true. And we all know why.
If I can just be blunt, it’s a little tiresome to see so many adult Americans express shock over how popular the aged Bernie Sanders and his youthful iteration, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are amongst young people, including the millennial
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‘This will be Islamic Revolution’s last anniversary’ if Iran attacks Israel, warns Netanyahu
Responding to threats today by an Iranian military commander to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa, Netanyahu warned that military action by Israel would put an end to Iran’s “revolution.”
By World Israel News Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed threats issued today by Iranian military leader Yadollah Javani, who claimed the Islamic Republic’s military would decimate Israeli cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa if the US attacks Iran.
Netanyahu responded in Hebrew on social media, posting a video in which he warned, “I don’t ignore Iran’s threats, but I’m also not intimidated.”
He added, “If [the Iranian] regime makes a terrible mistake and tries to destroy Tel Aviv or Haifa, it won’t succeed. And it will be the revolution’s last anniversary they ever celebrate.”
Javani’s remarks were issued at a rally celebrating the Islamic Revolution’s 40th anniversary, a milestone marked with aggressive speeches by Iranian leaders, military parades, and gatherings at which regime supporters chant the popular slogan, “Death to America!”
Meanwhile, the Iranian economy teeters on the verge of collapse, with a plummeting currency and skyrocketing rates of inflation bringing the nation to the verge of chaos.
While popular protests over the course of the last several years indicate that the Islamic Republic regime remains deeply unpopular with large swaths of Iranian society, the lack of free speech in the nation and pervasive human rights abuses perpetrated by the regime make it dangerous to publicly challenge the powers that be in Iran.
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4) A Surprise Virtual Visit From the President
By Salena Zito
Webster SPRINGS, W.Va. — No sitting president has ever visited here before. So it was a pretty big deal when 14 local high school students in a civics class had President Trump talking to them in their classroom Wednesday, all thanks to a Skype video call that Sen. Joe Manchin was having with them.
Senior Brennan Williams, 18, is still grinning ear to ear a few days after the experience. "Well, I mean, I've never talked to somebody that important before, and it was just crazy," he said of initially talking to Manchin. "Then, the president of the United States calls the senator and then decides he wants to talk to us, well, that was even crazier. I just couldn't stop smiling; I still can't."
His classmate Parker Stout, 18, says it was an honor he will never forget: "We prepared for our Skype call with Sen. Manchin by watching the State of the Union Address Tuesday night. What we never expected was that that would include talking to the president."
Manchin said the once-in-a-lifetime event was organized by Webster County High School Principal Stacey Cutlip and his office to discuss issues that came up during the State of the Union address, as well as other topics.
Manchin explained in an interview with the Washington Examiner: "They wanted to talk about the environment. They want to talk about coal, the jobs possibilities, what's going to happen. And they want to talk about guns. As you know, that's usually a big thing. But now the front burner was about the shutdown, how we're going to handle it and border security."
"So, we were talking about all those things, and we were 20 minutes or so into our conversation, and I see on my cellphone 'Unknown' pops up. Well I know the way it pops up, it's either going to be someone from Schumer's office or McConnell's office calling about something," he continued. "Or maybe the White House. You never know."
Turns out it was the White House, specifically, President Trump's assistant.
Manchin told the kids he needed to put them on pause for a few minutes, and all Stout and Williams saw from their vantage point, they explained, was a black screen. A few moments later, Manchin came back and told the students he had "a little surprise" for them.
Manchin put the phone on speaker, and the president started to chat with the kids.
Stout said: "Not everybody in the room you know is politically for Trump, but in that moment that didn't matter, just that fact that you're going to listen to the president talk to a small group of kids. Everyone had a smile on their face and was just so surprised and couldn't really say anything. We just listened to him and smiled."
Manchin said Trump was very charming with the kids: "He says, 'I love West Virginia. And I know they like Joe, and they like me, and we're gonna work together.' And he told them to stay involved, and he appreciates they were very much interested and excited that they were involved in the process and wanted to know what's going on."
The president also mentioned the reason he called Manchin was to thank him for applauding when few Democrats did during bipartisan moments in the State of the Union speech.
Manchin said of his personal conversation with the president: "I said, 'Mr. President, I've always stated that I know my state well and that it's something that my state and I represent the people of my state, I'm going to stand up and be respectful. When I thought the things that you were saying resonated with something I might believe in but definitely my state supports, I'm gonna be there and show the courtesy and manners that I think that I was raised with."
The former governor stood several times and applauded during the president's speech, in particular on energy projects and banning late-term abortions.
Energy's a big thing that Trump talked about, said Manchin. "He didn't talk about coal, but he talked about energy in general," he said. "We're an energy state, and we want to continue to make sure we provide the energy the country needs."
Manchin said the most "controversial" things he applauded were the personal issues on life. He "could ... feel the daggers" when he stood up for Trump's remarks calling for legislation to curb third-trimester abortions. "Late-term abortions, my goodness. It would have to be a dire medical situation," he said, adding that what Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has supported and what New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has done with late-term abortion bills in their states is "just totally unconscionable" to him.
Manchin said he was a little struck by the photo on Reuters.com taken of him standing during the speech with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sitting behind him, giving him the stink eye: "My goodness. Well, I could hear the boos a little bit, you know. I didn't know if the boos were for the president or for me standing; I wasn't sure. But I could sure feel the daggers."
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