"The former defense secretary Robert Gates famously wrote that Joe Biden 'has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.' If the early days of his presidency are any indication, Biden is determined to prove him right.

"Out of the gate, the administration is demonstrating to the mullahs in Tehran that it so badly wants back into the flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that it is willing to ignore Iran's terror attacks on American citizens and soldiers. ...

"They will find a way to return to the Iran deal, to remove the sanctions on Iran even as it persists in terrorizing the region, and to torment Israel as payback for the real and perceived slights of the Obama years."

"Republican Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise criticized Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters, accusing his colleague of using the kind of 'dangerous rhetoric' that got him shot.

"'Let's be clear: Maxine Waters knew her rhetoric would incite violence in Minneapolis -- but she doesn't care, she just requests police escorts for herself,' Scalise tweeted Monday.

"'I was shot because of this kind of dangerous rhetoric,' Scalise continued, referencing the 2017 shooting that targeted Republicans during practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game."

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"Eight trillion dollars. That's how much President Joe Biden has proposed in new spending -- in just the 2 1/2 months since taking office. It's an absurd figure, equal to more than a third of America's entire yearly economic output.

"And it's overwhelmingly meant to transform the nation -- to empower and enrich Democratic special interests, lock in permanent Democratic control and impose radical left-wing ideas.

"Biden's latest hit: $1.52 trillion in discretionary spending. That follows $1.9 trillion for last month's American Rescue Plan, $2.3 trillion for Part I of his infrastructure plan and another $2 trillion or so expected soon for Part II.

"That mind-blowing $7.7 trillion total doesn't even count another $3 trillion or so in entitlement spending and $300 billion in debt-service costs; add that in, and you're talking about spending that's more than half the nation's $21 trillion output.

"Where would all the cash go? Mostly to Democratic allies and left-wing fantasies: unions and their members, Democratic states facing budget gaps, government bureaucrats, Green New Deal wish-lists and Dem-friendly corporations."

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"Democrats may well follow through on threats to add four new Justices to the Supreme Court -- though they have only three seats to spare in the House and a 50-50 tie in the Senate broken by Vice President Kamala Harris. But when Republicans inevitably retake the presidency and Congress they will retaliate by increasing the Supreme Court by another four or five Justices. Soon the Court will become just another agency, like the Education or Commerce Department, whose leadership will change with each presidential election.

"Such an outcome may prove satisfying to progressives determined to overthrow constitutional tradition. But it will come at the long-term cost of turning the federal courts into another openly partisan political body, rather than an institution that tries its best to do justice under neutral principles of law.

"There is a reason why the Supreme Court's size has remained nine Justices for more than a century: because our political parties realized that they should confine their competition to elections and policy, not changing the Constitution every two or four years."

"Congressional Democrats are slated to introduce legislation on Thursday that would add four more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, boosting the number of justices on the bench from nine to 13.

"Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts are backing the legislation and are slated to participate in a press conference about it on Thursday.

"'Supreme Court expansion is infrastructure,' Rep. Jones tweeted."

"A Monday New York Times front page headline on the explosion at a key Iranian nuclear facility claimed the 'Attack May Hurt Efforts to Reboot 2015 Deal.' On Tuesday, also on the front page, the paper declared that 'Israel's Role in Iran Blast Casts A Shadow on U.S. Nuclear Talks'.

"Get it? Making a new deal with Iran is a very good thing, anything that hurts the chance is a very bad thing, including Israel.

"Here's an alternative view: the Times is still drinking the Kool-Aid that the original Iranian nuclear pact was a success and is worth saving. To committed dead enders, Iran's violations of the terms and spread of regional terrorism are irrelevant."

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"Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., admitted to signing off on false information in a third-party advocacy group's email that went out about the Georgia voting law after it passed.

"The Washington Post flagged an email Warnock signed from the liberal nonprofit 3.14 Action as an example of Democratic misinformation about the sweeping Georgia voting reforms, as it claimed the new law restricted weekend early voting and ended no-excuse mail voting.

"'Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, one of two new Democratic senators representing Georgia, signed an email sent out by the advocacy group 3.14 Action after the law passed, which claimed it ended no-excuse mail voting and restricted early voting on the weekends -- also early proposals that did not become law,' the Post reported. ...

"Biden has also disseminated false information about the law, getting Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post's Fact-Checker for claiming the law limits voting hours."

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"Job growth exploded in March, with 916,000 nonfarm positions added, far outpacing projections. Under ordinary circumstances, politicians would be rushing to microphones to tout the good news.

"But President Biden never mentioned it. And when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said economic projections looked great, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly contradicted him.

"Why? Because telling the truth about the booming economy puts a lie to the idea that Biden's $2.3 trillion 'infrastructure' package is necessary, or even responsible."

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"Oddly, after dedicating his inauguration to national unity, Biden has abandoned the pursuit entirely. ...

"It's not clear what changed so drastically for Biden since his inauguration. Reporters say he now envisions himself as the next FDR -- changing our country through massive government intervention. In a nation as divided as ours, this sort of aggressive left-wing movement is sure to increase the already gaping political fault lines. It's also likely to boomerang. People did not vote for change of this nature. Just because it may be possible to squeeze through these changes doesn't mean it's smart. The political backlash could be severe.

"The saddest part is Biden never even gave a unity agenda a chance. Our country needs the healing he promised. Biden delivers the opposite."

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains confident that she can pass major items through her chamber even though she leads the Democrats' most fragile majority in the House of Representatives since the 1940s.

"'It's not going to be a problem,' Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters a month ago when asked about advancing her party's agenda through the House without the help of the minority Republicans.

"But the task facing Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., isn't getting any easier.

"The death Tuesday of 84-year-old Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida further reduces the Democrats' already perilous majority. What started out at the beginning of the year as a slim 222-213 margin is now temporarily down to 218-212. That means the Democrats can currently lose just two votes and still be able to pass legislation along party lines."