Heard On The Hill · 119th Congress
Dirk Kempthorne, the creaky runner appreciation
With this year’s race scheduled for May 6, I’ll be thinking of Kempthorne.
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With this year’s race scheduled for May 6, I’ll be thinking of Kempthorne.
He and his followers started the year trying to cast the violent mob that attacked law enforcement and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as "patriots."
↵↵According to a new page posted on Jan. 6, 2026, about Jan. 6, 2021, on whitehouse.gov, "The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as 'insurrectionists
↵↵A few days after Jan. 6, 2021, I went back to the Capitol.
↵↵In truth, the country will survive no matter what happens to tax credits that affect only 6 percent of the population.
After the election, another CBS national survey (Nov. 13-14) showed that the country overwhelmingly believed that Republicans succeeded in their handling of the shutdown over the Democrats by a 55-6 margin
↵↵In 2018, House Republicans lost women by 19 points (40-59) but made up ground during the Biden term, losing women by only 6 points nationally (46-52) in 2024, while Trump lost them by 8 (45-53).