Sunday, December 29

Joe Gonna Show?

Apparently so.

News reports, updated since I wrote the Eric Ciaramella post below, say that candidate Biden has changed his mind, and indeed will comply with the subpoena asking him about his son's business dealings in the Ukraine that the President asked his foreign counterpart to look into before releasing millions of dollars in taxpayer aid to that countr

If Biden's son -- and Pelosi's daughter and a slew of other politicians whose children are also alleged to be "doing business" in the region and taking in millions in unearned fees -- was not qualified for the work he was allegedly doing and indeed was trading on his parent's political name, well that would be at least one good thing to learn from the impeachment hearings.

You thought we were kidding about cleaning up Washington, escorting out the deathbed politicians like Nancy Pelosi who have had their years in service and need to be taken off the DC dole, with her children too if need be?

We Trump voters were dead serious about that!
No status quo acceptance of "business as usual, the DC way", even if the current media leaders -- many of whom inherited their jobs based on family connections -- want to look away at the children in Washington asking what their country can do for them abroad, what kind of money the Biden or Pelosi or Clinton name, say, brings a grown child...

This is how inequality, and poor international policies, are created. You ask, when interviewing, who is this person related to here? Rather than asking whether their skill set is competitive in hiring the best, not just the best connected.

Looking forward to some intelligent questions being asked of Biden. IF he's really the clueless father that he pretends, well, voters should know that too.

Bring it on, 2020! Let's shed a light on all those dark corners where the secrets to success lie. That's how we learn and grow, not by networking our own into power artificially.

First Joe. Then Eric.
Some come voluntarily when urged and nudged.
Some I suspect, we are going to have to subpoena, kicking and screaming... Legally, we can do that too.


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FAIRFIELD, Iowa — Joseph R. Biden Jr. backtracked on Saturday from his stated position that he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Instead, he declared that he would abide by “any subpoena that was sent to me” even as he insisted there was no justification for calling him as a witness.A day after reaffirming that he would not comply with a subpoena, Mr. Biden tried twice on Saturday to clarify his remarks, asserting that there would be no “legal basis” for such a subpoena but left it unclear, for much of the day, if he would ultimately comply with one.