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All the dishonesty and gamesmanship from top national leaders comes with huge downsides.

Pretending we can meet Biden's targets without drastic changes is the key to selling his program.
Voters will decide, starting in two years, if this push to the hard left is what they want. I wouldn't bet on that.
The saddest part is Biden never even gave a unity agenda a chance.
Republicans must insist that the federal and state rules that rig government work for union shops not apply to the record infrastructure spending.
Continuing to ignore the cries for change and hope the problems just fritter away is not the answer.
The reality is we are going to change the way we vote as technology advances.
Our situation is so bad that another bipartisan commission may be our best bet.
Sometimes, you even need compromise. We either join together on some of this, or we are all screwed.
Efforts to suppress the lab leak theory are unpersuasive on their face.
It's sort of shocking that a series of left-wing riots around the nation followed by a right-wing riot at our Capitol building haven't caused much self-reflection among the policymakers in Washington.
It was a perfect speech for the moment we are in as a country.

If we don't begin to heal, there is no telling where things will go.
The people who stormed that building do not represent the vast majority of America.
Republicans urgently need to get their act together and explain to any Georgian right of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez what is really on the line.
It's not good to be too cynical, but these days, it's harder and harder not to be.
Gavin Newsom went to a private party at French Laundry with a bunch of his lobbyist friends.

The importance of the two outstanding Senate seats in Georgia has increased dramatically.
At a bare minimum, our politics are now slightly — and sometimes more than slightly — less divided on purely racial grounds.
The most destructive thing to come from this election may be the continuation and even acceleration of the loss of trust Americans have in our nation's formerly trusted institutions.