Quote:During an interview today on MSNBC’s program “Live With Ayman Mohyeldin” Rep. Ilhan Omar basically told the host that progressives like herself were telling Joe Biden to use executive power to reshape the economy so it “works for everyone.”

Omar and her friends also want Biden to use executive power to declare an emergency over “climate change” and to reshape the country accordingly.

If President Trump had tried to use executive power in the way Omar is asking Biden to do the Democrats and the media would have gone insane with rage and called him a nazi dictator or something similar.

But with Biden they’re encouraging it. Sad, disgusting and entirely predictable.

Read the whole thing, it’s important to know how these people think:

OMAR: “—to see how diligently they have worked to expedite the transition process even though they have been faced with so many obstacles.

As progressives, you know, we are still pushing to see more of us as part of the transition team, and we’ll continue to do that.

You know, we recently led a petition asking the administration to look at what they can accomplish in the first 100 days with their executive power.

We continue to push for more people who are willing to fight for real progress in this country to be included in the transition. And we’re just waiting to see, you know, what happens in the next couple of weeks as we gear up to see them get sworn in.”

MOHYELDIN: “And let me ask you really quickly, what are your priorities, and that of other progressive members of the Democratic Party beyond just representation, but in terms of agenda?”

OMAR: “So, what we’re asking for the incoming administration is to come into this with eyes wide open.

We recognize that the Republican Party will do everything that they can in their power to make sure this president is not successful.

They have said they might begin to work with him in six months. We know that what gets accomplished in the first 100 days are important for an administration and we’re asking, you know, President-Elect Biden and Harris to use their executive power in increasing the minimum wage to $15 for federal workers.

We’re asking them to use their executive power to declare the climate crisis as a national emergency.

We’re asking them to use their executive power in strengthening OSHA protections.

We’re asking them to use their executive power in, you know, reinstating things like Temporary Protection Status for so many people in our country.

There are so many things that need to get done in regards to undoing the damage that has been done in the last four years. Also, in stabilizing our country in regards to the economy and the Coronavirus.

But we also have an opportunity to leap into the future as we look at what it means to create an economy that works for everyone.”

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Quote:Dozens of current and incoming congressional members have signed onto a letter penned by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) calling on the next administration to making abolishing the death penalty a priority once President-elect Joe Biden enters office.

In the letter, reported by CNN, Pressley slams the Trump administration for resuming federal executions this year amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and for executing “more people in six months than the total number executed over the previous six decades.”

“The current administration has weaponized capital punishment with callous disregard for human life,” Pressley said.

“With a stroke of your pen, you can stop all federal executions, prohibit United States Attorneys from seeking the death penalty, dismantle death row at FCC Terre Haute, and call for the resentencing of people who are currently sentenced to death,” Pressley continued in the letter to Biden.

“Each of these elements are critical to help prevent greater harm and further loss of life,” she added.

According to CNN, 40 current members of Congress and three newly elected lawmakers have joined Pressley’s calls.

The Hill has reached out to Pressley’s office for comment.

Biden has pledged to work to pass legislation to abolish the federal death penalty and provide states with incentives to encourage them to do the same, though the congressional Democrats are pushing for an immediate end to the federal death penalty once he enters office Jan. 20.

News of the letter comes days after the controversial federal execution of Brandon Bernard.

Bernard had been executed by phenobarbital injection on Thursday despite widespread calls from the public and prominent figures like Kim Kardashian demanding the execution be halted.

“He was such a reformed person. So hopeful and positive until the end. More importantly he is sorry, so sorry for the hurt and pain he has caused others,” Kardashian said after his death.

Bernard, 40 at the time of his death, had been 18 when he was involved in the kidnapping and killing of a religious couple in Texas. The couple, who had been from Iowa, had reportedly been placed in the trunk of a car by a group of teenagers and shot by a man named Christopher Vialva.

Vialva was the first Black man to died by federal execution since the Trump administration resumed the punishment in the summer after 17 years of a hiatus.

Another Black man, Alfred Bourgeois, was also executed last week. According to The Associated Press, three more inmates are scheduled to be executed before Biden takes office. Two of them are also Black men and the other is a white woman.

Last year, Pressley introduced a measure that sought to abolish the death penalty shortly after the Trump administration announced it would be resuming the form of punishment.

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Meh - as long as they are in prison for life with no chance of parole - I could care less if they live or die.

Of course AP is the same person also lobbying for rapists to be released from prison because of The Rona sooooooo.

Should we merge this thread with the how insane are leftists thread? This goat herder and magic 8 ball Ayanna are at the top of the insane list

Well, can’t really blame a Somolian for not knowing how our government is suppose to work.

She's a moron.

Use EO to raise the FEDERAL min wage to 15 bucks an hour?

I'm not even gonna bother looking, but I'd guess that would effect literally dozens of people.

EO declaring the weather a "National Emergency"!

Thought zerO fixed that? No? Oh, instead he bought a f$%^ing mansion on beach front property? Seems he's not all that worried about it.

Stabilizing the country in regards to our economy and the Rona? Yea, first step- figure out what the eff this thing is. Step 2- figure out how to avoid catching it. Step-3 figure out how to treat those who do catch it. Step 4- How about develop a vaccine or 5! to avoid catching it at all. Step 5- Have a plan in place to rapidly deploy the vaccine quickly, efficiently and safely.

Sounds like a pretty solid plan to me, too bad no one pursued those steps...

As I said, she's a moron.

She sounds like an 8th grader, you know, talking about, you know, a bunch of, you know, gibberish.

Well, under a communist regime, EVERYBODY works for the federal government. So that $15/hour would apply to, well, everyone but her and the ruling class.

Certainly not a raise, and I most certainly look forward to raiding our local Richmond zoos to slaughter animals to feed my family. Good times!