Greg Abbott continues to blame everyone but himself for his disastrous Operation Lone Star scheme

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has been an unmitigated disaster, and he’s the one solely to blame for that. He’s the one who decided to use vulnerable asylum-seekers as a primary campaign prop. He’s the one who deployed soldiers to the border scheme. He’s the one who’s forced them to live in deplorable conditions when they could have been at home. Ultimately, it all points back to Abbott. (Personal responsibility, as Republicans used to like to say.) But as a leaked survey has revealed continued discontent among deployed soldiers (aside from…

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America’s Pandemic Star Loses Some Luster

Is Vermont the envy of America no more? The state long hailed for its pandemic response is experiencing one of the most intense COVID-19 surges in the country. Cases are twice as high as they’ve been at any other point. Hospitalizations are up sharply as well, confounding hopes that Vermont’s best-in-the-nation vaccination rate would protect its people from the Delta wave. The resurgence of the coronavirus—cases are rising again nationally after a sustained decline—has demoralized much of the country, but nowhere is that frustration more keenly felt than in the…

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U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls censure votes ‘petty’ after latest from Will County – Rockford Register Star

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls censure votes ‘petty’ after latest from Will County  Rockford Register Star Anti-Trump Republicans weigh forming new party  Al Jazeera English North Carolina emerges as battleground for post-Trump GOP  CNN It’s been a brutal two months for the GOP  NBC News Could Trump Split Republicans Into a Third Party? Why It’s a Real Possibility.  Barron’s View Full Coverage on Google News “us republicans” – Google News

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