Vance acknowledges Musk mistakes, says he must ‘quickly’ fix them
Alex Miller, Washington Times
Vice President J.D. Vance said he knows billionaire Elon Musk has made mistakes at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency and has to fix them. Polls show most Americans back Mr. Musk as he leads President Trump’s DOGE. At the same time, the tech billionaire hears jeers from liberals, particularly for the thousands of federal workers who have been fired amid questions surrounding his methods as he roots around in the nooks and crannies of government. Mr. Musk’s has called many of the fired employees “fraudsters.”

Pelosi and Democrats Slam Schumer for Supporting Vote to Advance CR: ‘Listen to the Women’
Just the News (Misty Severi), The Star News Network
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday indirectly slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after he indicated he would support advancing a GOP-led Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government through September. Pelosi said that Democratic senators need to “listen to the women” in the Senate, who have presented a counter resolution that would keep the government funded for just 30 days. Schumer previously expressed support for the 30-day option. "We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People.”

The Issue Is Not the Issue at Trump Tower Protest
Daniel J. Flynn, The American Spectator
For Trump, it’s not really about Khalil involving himself in a prolonged protest that involved all sorts of illegalities. The troubling aspect of the protests partly led by Khalil, a Palestinian born in Syria holding Algerian citizenship, involves the perverse idea underlying them: the righteousness of the barbarous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, which included kidnapping civilians, raping women, and slaughtering defenseless young people at a music festival. One so outside of civilization does not belong within our civilization.

A reminder that Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate
Byron York, Washington Examiner
If Harris had not been so tied to Biden, if she had been able to craft the campaign she wanted to run, would she have been able to win? That seems highly unlikely. The truest truism in politics is that candidate quality matters. And Harris was a terrible candidate. So blame Joe Biden for handicapping the Harris campaign. If he did, he did it not by tying Harris to his record as much as by having an awful record in the first place. But in the end, don’t blame Biden for Harris’s loss. She did that all by herself.

Harmeet Dhillon vs. the Bog
Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Spare a special thought for the woman soon to take on the federal government’s most treacherous bog. Bring on the hazard pay for Harmeet Dhillon, Mr. Trump’s nominee as assistant attorney general for civil rights. Ms. Dhillon will have a fight on her hands, but will have one advantage prior occupants didn’t—a chief executive eager to fire people. It is a hotbed of liberal activism that acts as a law unto itself. If Mr. Trump hopes to see through his goal of depoliticizing the Justice Department, it will be ground zero.

Schumer Calls Republicans 'Bastards' Who're 'Ruining Democracy'
Brittany M. Hughes, MRCTV.org
In an interview with MSNBC Thursday, Schumer openly called GOP lawmakers “bastards.” “To have the conflict on the best grounds we have, summed up in a sentence, that they’re making the middle class pay for tax cuts for billionaires, it's much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which would divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards - sorry, these people - which is not only all these cuts, but they’re ruining democracy.” Democrats have misplaced their decency again.
 

Where Is the Trump Legislative Agenda? Conservatives Cannot Live on Executive Orders Alone.
Daniel J. Flynn, The American Spectator
Trump faces a better situation with regard to the House, the Senate, the courts, and even the media (which has discredited itself to an unsalvageable degree) than Republican presidents of recent memory. Despite what Rep. Al Green insists, Trump did indeed receive an Election Day mandate. He needs to govern as though he does and not as though he faces a majority opposition in Congress. The clock ticks on his ability to institute substantive change through legislation, the one process essential to lasting policy transformation.