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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September 2021 news and views. This is Part 2 of our excepts during a heavy news month.
Sept. 27
Top Headlines
Washington Post, Democrats outside Washington fear loss of historic opportunity- Washington Post, Opinion: Democrats: Political suicide is not a strategy, E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post, Merkel’s party lost, should go into opposition, rival party says- Washington Post, What you need to know about Olaf Scholz, possibly Germany’s next chancellor
- Reuters, German Social Democrats beat conservatives in vote to decide Merkel successor
Global Growth of Facism, Election Frauds
Proof, Investigation: Trump Lawyer Admits Trump's Legal Team Was Seeking An Emergency Injunction Against Certification of Biden's Win As Trump Incited a Riot to Delay the Joint Session of Congress, Seth Abramson- Palmer Report, Opinion: Sidney Powell just decided to take everyone down with her, Bill Palmer
Virus Victims, Responses
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Donald Trump’s legacy of death, Robert Harrington
- New York Times, Editorial: This Is No Way to End a Pandemic
- Washington Post, Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount
- New York Times, ‘I Need an Army’: Across America, Schools Cram for Their Covid Tests
- Washington Post, Changes in booster shot guidance lead to confusion for doctors, patients
Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 706,317- Washington Post, 213.2 million U.S. vaccinated
U.S. Election Fraudsters, Insurrectionists, White Nationalists
Washington Post, An elections supervisor embraced conspiracy theories. Officials say she has become an insider threat- Washington Post, Opinion: Arizona’s election ‘audit’ comes up empty, but that won’t stop the lying, Karen Tumulty
- New York Times, Analysis: The “stop the steal” movement is racing forward, ignoring its Arizona humiliation
- Washington Post, Analysis: Arizona audit debunks Trump’s false claims, but misinformation still threatens electoral process, Dan Balz
World News
Washington Post, How Afghanistan’s security forces lost the war- New York Times, How Ukraine Negotiated With the Taliban and Rescued 96 Afghans
U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections- Washington Post, Opinion: Taxing the rich is super popular. Democrats should talk more about it, Jennifer Rubin
- Washington Post, Biden defends his social agenda bill, saying the cost will be zero
- New York Times, With Abortion Largely Banned in Texas, Desperate Women Cross State Lines
- New York Times, Democrats Fear Failure to Deliver in Congress Could Be Fatal in Midterms
- Washington Post, Democrats lean into vaccine mandates, coronavirus response in Va. governor’s race
Washington Post, Harris, assigned to tackle volatile issues, quietly builds a network
U.S. Courts, Crime, Law, Police
- Washington Post, Supreme Court observers see trouble ahead as public approval of justices erodes, Robert Barnes and Seung Min Kim
New York Times, He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some
Top Stories
Washington Post, Democrats outside Washington fear loss of historic opportunity, Sean Sullivan and Tyler Page, Sept. 27, 2021 (print ed.). Gilda Cobb-Hunter is furious with fellow Democrats. A veteran social worker, civil rights activist and the longest-serving member of the South Carolina House, she is losing patience with the infighting that has stalled efforts to enact the agenda the party sold to voters.“I am seething at how Democrats continuously revert to the circular firing squad method of governing,” she said. “I just don’t understand it. I don’t understand why we continue to do that.”As Democrats in Washington struggle through contentious negotiations over a sweeping domestic policy proposal, many party activists and officials across the country are watching with a collective head-shake and mounting anxiety.
They see Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, yet so far unable to resolve their differences over a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure and social safety net package.
They see in President Biden, left, a candidate who ran on unity but is now plagued by intraparty divisions. In House and Senate Democratic leaders, they see competing priorities and a reluctance to get their members in line.Leading Democrats all want to expand heath-care access. They just don’t agree on the best way to do it.
'While many Democrats say that in the end, party leaders will find a way to pass their ambitious plan, some have started contemplating a nightmare scenario, in which the talks fall apart and Democrats are left explaining to voters who gave them the keys why they couldn’t get the car out of neutral.
“We’re running out of time,” said Sean Bagniewski, chair of the Polk County Democratic Party in Iowa. “The midterms are almost here.”
Having already passed the infrastructure portion with bipartisan support in the Senate, Democrats can finish the job without a single additional Republican vote thanks to the process, known as budget reconciliation, they are using to pass the spending for social programs. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a letter to colleagues Saturday that the House will aim to pass both measures this week.
Clinching enough Democratic support to make the whole thing work has proved elusive, putting Democrats in battleground states on edge.
- Washington Post, Biden’s $4 trillion agenda in peril with Democrats still at odds ahead of key House votes
Washington Post, Opinion: Democrats: Political suicide is not a strategy, E.J. Dionne Jr., right, Sept. 27, 2021 (print ed.). Perhaps President Biden’s ambitious 
domestic program will suffer death by a thousand misconceptions. But as soon as you look at it that way, you’ll see why congressional Democrats are more likely to embrace the large measure of social reform they promised in last year’s election.This is because the single largest misconception is that Democrats have a political death wish. Such gloom, encouraged by the torrent of threats and counterthreats now emanating from the party’s various factions, confuses the inevitable struggles within a highly diverse political coalition for a party-wide blindness to costs of failure.
“If we were in Europe, we’d be 30 different political parties,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told me, with just a touch of exaggeration. But McGovern, who chairs the Rules Committee, believes his colleagues understand the bottom-line truth: “If we can’t deliver on this, God help us in the next election.”
What would not be okay: for Democrats to walk away from the best opportunity they have had in at least two generations to repair and reconstruct our nation’s social contract. Despite all their grousing, I think they know that.
Washington Post, Merkel’s party lost, should go into opposition, rival party says, Rick Noack and Loveday Morris, Sept. 27, 2021. After preliminary results showed a narrow win over outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats, the leader of the center-left Social Democrats said he has a mandate to form the next government.
The leader of the center-left Social Democrats on Monday said he has a mandate to form the next German government, after preliminary results showed a narrow victory for his party over its main rival, the conservative Christian Democrats.It is the first time in more than a decade and a half that the Social Democrats have outpolled their conservative rivals as their long time leader, Chancellor Angela
Merkel, steps down.“You can see a very happy SPD here,” Olaf Scholz, right, said from the party’s headquarters on Monday morning. He said his party had obtained the “mandate to lead the government.”
Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their smaller sister party “did not only lose significant votes, but they also received a message from the people: They shouldn’t be part of the government anymore, but should instead go into the opposition,” Scholz said.
Washington Post, What you need to know about Olaf Scholz, possibly Germany’s next chancellor, William Glucroft and Loveday Morris, Sept. 27, 2021. Olaf Scholz has managed what many in Germany had considered impossible: bringing the Social Democrats back from the dead.Germany’s oldest political party, the center-left Social Democratic Party, known by its German acronym SPD, has languished in the polls for years. But in Sunday’s elections, the SPD pulled ahead, winning 26 percent of the vote, according to preliminary numbers. The center-right Christian Democratic Union won 24 percent of the vote, the lowest mark for the party since its founding in 1945.
The tight totals leave an unclear and lengthy path forward for Scholz to build a coalition. Scholz and Christian Democratic leader Armin Laschet have said they hope to have a coalition formed by Christmas.
Scholz’s party was the junior coalition partner to Chancellor Angela’s Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats in Germany’s outgoing government, the third time it joined its traditional rival in a coalition. It’s a position the SPD took on reluctantly — but one that has enabled Scholz to raise his profile nationally.
Reuters, German Social Democrats beat conservatives in vote to decide Merkel successor, Thomas Escritt and Paul Carrel, Sept. 26, 2021. Germany's Social Democrats narrowly won Sunday's national election, projected results showed, and claimed a "clear mandate" to lead a government for the first time ...
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