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Spin Zone, Q1 - 2025
Name and State: Charlotte O'Hare (D-HI) Reason: House Docket Two Target: National Center and Left-wing The House of Representatives continues its work for the American people by debating legislation that will help the American people and defend American interests abroad. After successfully passing all points on its first docket showing how much a chamber can get done if they do not waste time on giving unnecessary powers to the Majority leader. House Democrats were elected on a platform of defending Ukraine, as was Kyle Van Horn. Neither Levi Koenig nor the President should abandon the electoral mandate that elected President Allred. House and Senate Democrats are committed to standing behind Ukraine and our NATO allies. Under our current system 1.54 million children cannot afford the meals offered by our schools. I believe that one child going hungry is one too many. Our children need to be able to focus on the classroom and we can afford to make sure that each and every child has access to healthy breakfast and lunch. The Universal School meals act will go a long way to eliminating food insecurity for our children and help struggling families make sure that their children always have access to healthy and nutritious meals every day. As many people are preparing to retire, we must do what we can to protect their retirement over the long term. The Pension Protection and Fair Retirement Act, protects employees by preventing companies from using retirement accounts as leverage in trying to get an employee to resign early, and prevents a company from shirking responsibility for the pensions they agreed to. Retirement security is important not just for employees nearing retirement but all employees to make sure that they can afford the retirement they deserve when it is their turn to do so. -
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Vox Libertatis
Requiem for a Dream by Rondal Goldfarb The news today of President Kyle Allred passing away unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm at only 48 years old is a tragedy for not just the people who loved and supported him but signals as well the last dying gasp of the Grand Old Party. For better and worse, at his heart of hearts, President Allred represented the last of a now dead breed, the traditional conservative Republican archetype that believed in limited government, social conservatism, and a strong foreign policy and defense posture that was not afraid to intervene around the world to preserve an inflated ideal of American imperialism disguised as exceptionalism. Allred was a traditional conservative at his core, but he recognized that the road to power was littered with the bodies of failed resistance to President Trump. We have regularly pointed out the on again off again revolving door romance that was President Allred’s relationship with Donald Trump and his loyalist base. One week they were calling each other names in the press, and the next week they were back together, rinse and repeat ad nauseum. Like the bad boy you just can’t shake, Allred knew he needed Trump for his tradionalist message to go anywhere in today’s Republican Party. President Allred was forced to walk a tightrope between competing factions that led to a myriad of often contradictory words and actions. He regularly denounced and campaigned against Trump but nevertheless came around to supporting him in every election he ran in. He decried protectionism but pledged to keep the Trump/Biden tariffs in place. He spoke of fiscal restraint and the need to root out corruption in Medicare but insisted he would not reform the system rapidly speeding towards its demise. President Allred was a politician. What they say is rarely what they do. Nevertheless, we held out some small hope that he would be the chosen one to throw off the shackles of his party's recent authoritarian past and return to an ideal of limited government and free market ideals. And that the choice of Vice President Van Horn would temper his imperialist ambitions. There were fits of promise between the political posturing, but alas they shall not come to pass. Gone is the opportunity for President Allred to manifest his values into actions, and so too is the Party of free trade and limited government. In its wake, President Kyle Van Horn's faction reigns supreme. In his first statement as President he spoke plainly that he is 'not going to be Kyle Allred.' The balance to Allred’s interventionist neoconservatism is now the top of the ticket, projecting noninterventionism back into the mainstream but at the cost of borderline Democratic populism at home. The next four years under the uniparty (Van Horn’s word) in Washington will now instead have riveting debates about exactly how high the minimum wage should be, not if but by how much government should control free enterprise, who is the bigger ally to union bosses, and which who can dance around the looming apocalypse to entitlement programs without acknowledging the elephant in the room. Promises that cannot be kept will be made to disaffected working class Americans across the country while the U.S. Treasury self-immolates as domestic spending propels itself permanently over the fiscal cliff. In the meantime, we wish him godspeed in his pursuit of a fresh and long overdue new direction in foreign policy. President Van Horn’s America First policy will finally get us out of costly foreign entanglements abroad, but promises of reinvesting those dollars here without taking a serious look at the nation’s finances, sets the U.S. up to be more beholden to international financing (including from China) in the future, and at higher interest rates. Perhaps we are wrong and fate will intervene to force President Van Horn to become the fiscal hawk we hoped Allred would ultimately become, but only time will tell. In its wake, America is mourning once again, not just for a President, but for the death of an idea ironically as old as the nation itself, that trusting in the invisible hand of the free market will always yield optimal results. #ChooseFreedom -
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Sunrise to Sunset Network
The Sunset Statement: President Allred is Dead by: Anthony Clarke Washington DC. - Last night it was announced that President Allred died of a brain aneurysm. He is the first president to die in office since John F. Kennedy and the shortest serving president since William Henry Harrison. The passing of the President is a very sad occasion coming off the recent news about Jimmy Carter. It is unclear what legacy President Allred will leave behind. Vice President Kyle Van Horn took the oath of office last night. Immediately he made it clear that he would not try to be Kyle Allred. With that it was announced that he would withdraw the disputed cabinet nominations at Treasury and Education to appoint his own nominees. Levi Koenig stated on twitter that all current cabinet officers resign. Clearly there is some push from the anti-Ukraine side to immediate give all of Allred's policies the boot. However, I think it is important to remember for the GOP and for Van Horn that Allred was fairly popular so is Ukraine aid. They might be better off long-term trying to find a balance between completing Allred's popular promises and making Kyle Van Horn his own man. It could go a long way in extending this new honeymoon period they have.
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