SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

UNBELIEVABLE – FROM FOX:    Seattle police will start cracking down on rioters who damage businesses, the city's interim police chief warned Saturday.  Chief Adrian Diaz's pledge came days after anti-Biden rioters left Pike Place Market’s original Starbucks coffee shop with its windows smashed and numerous downtown business owners feeling abandoned by the city, according to reports.  Like his predecessor, Carmen Best -- who departed last September, claiming a lack of support for police from some city officials -- Diaz said he doesn’t believe rioters who smash windows and tag businesses are promoting a cause.  "On January 20th, the events at a variety of locations had no meaning. There was no discussion about what they were fighting for, or what type of social justice message. That cannot happen," Diaz told reporters at a news conference, according to the Seattle Times.  He added that rioters seeming more focused on "lighting fires" and "breaking windows."  "These are things we need to work on," he added.  Seattle is a leftist city which has failed to prosecute many of the rioters who've struck the city since the summer.  Neither President Biden nor Vice President Harris has condemned the rioting. 

BAD IDEA – FROM BREITBART:   Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told  “Just the News” on Friday that the Democratic-led Senate and House will vote in favor of statehood for the District of Columbia and send the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk, who has expressed support for D.C. statehood in the past.
Bowser said, “The nation’s capital, the federal enclave, continues to exist as the nation’s capital and everything outside of those new boundaries becomes the 51st state. Our congresswoman – we had our first successful vote on statehood in the House of Representatives last year. She reintroduced the bill. She has a record number of sponsors.”  She continued, “It is going to be reintroduced in the Senate in a couple of weeks, and we expect to have a favorable vote in the Senate as well, and then it goes to the president of the United States. We have made a big focus to President Biden to support D.C. statehood and make it part of his 100-day agenda.”  She added, “Just like you, we pay the same federal taxes as every citizen of the fifty states of the U.S. expect we do not have two senators. We literally have no one to speak for us in the Senate. We have to have full representation.”  Translated into English, the Democrats will have two more votes in the United States Senate.  If Puerto Rico is added to the Union, that's four more votes.  Both D.C. and Puerto Rico are basket cases, so the rest of the country will pay their way. And Republicans will probably never have a majority in the Senate again.  Think of the judiciary that will result.  Think of the America that will result.  Think of our children.

January 23, 2021