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Finally, one more thought, a leader is a

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dealer in hope. So said Napoleon Bonaparte and looking

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around the world today, boy, do we need

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our leaders to bring us some hope, hope that

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we can give workers their fair piece of the pie

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without destroying the automobile industry in the process. Today

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. As the UAW strike against Ford continues, we

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are at a crossroads. Choosing the right path isn't

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just about Ford's future and our ability to compete.

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This is about the future of the American automobile industry

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. Hope that the FED can bring us in for

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that soft landing with inflation under control and no recession

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. Frankly, the FED has won the battle with

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the American consumer and they're slowing down hope that all

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this money we're borrowing will really be invested in the

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future of our economy. The whole point of this

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is to increase innovation, research and development in the

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industry, not, you know, we're not giving

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you taxpayer money to fluff your pillow and increase your

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profit and give it away to your shareholders. We're

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giving it to you to invest in R and D

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and most especially right now, looking for some glimmer

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of hope in the Middle East when things look so

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bleak, I was outraged and saddened by the enormous

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loss of life yesterday in a hospital in Gaza,

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based on the information we've seen to date, it

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appears the result of an arrant rocket fired by a

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terrorist group in Gaza. But at a time when

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we're looking desperately for hope, it sometimes seems as

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if some of our important leaders have gone missing.

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As for example, we've seen with college presidents who

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faced with the admittedly difficult lines to draw between free

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speech and the moral high ground have gone strangely silent

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, at least for a time at Harvard, given

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the number of issues on which leadership at Harvard and

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other universities have spoken out to fail to speak out

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with equal vigor when it is terror towards Israel was

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I thought a real moral failing. And at the

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University of Pennsylvania, the university president, um Liz

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Miguel, I think she's a good person. I

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don't think she's anti Semitic. I do think she

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made some mistakes here, some of which she's acknowledged

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, but the decision about her future lies with the

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board of trustees at Penn. But the biggest absence

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of all may be in our political leadership, particularly

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in the House of Representatives, which faced with the

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prospect of a continuing war in Ukraine. And yet

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another government shutdown a month from now decided to do

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something it had never done before in history, fire

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its speaker, the most senior elected member of Congress

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and third in line for the presidency. The Yays

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are 2 16. The nays are 2 10.

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The office of Speaker of the House of the United

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States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And

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this week after a war begun when Hamas attacked Israel

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and President Biden asked for emergency funding in an oval

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office address, Hamas and Putin represent different threats.

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But they share this in common. They both want

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to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilated.

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Republicans repeatedly failed to pull themselves together to name someone

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to fill the speaker's all important job. First rejecting

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Representative Steve Scalise and then refusing to give it to

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representative Jim Jordan. No, having received a majority

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, the whole number of votes cast by a surname

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, a speaker has not been elected. We may

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need our leaders to give us hope at this critical

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time. But then again, as then Senator Hillary

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Clinton said about a different war in the Middle East

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. Hope is not a strategy.