"All members of Congress swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, which establishes a republican form of government. The whole point of a republic is that contests for power are conducted through a framework of rules and democratic elections, where all parties agree to respect the result whether they lose or win.
The Constitution, as goofy and jerry-rigged as it is, stipulates that insurrectionists who violate their oath are not allowed to serve in Congress. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, written to exclude Confederate Civil War traitors, says that “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress … who … having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same[.]” How the Supreme Court ruled, or whether Republicans actually believe their lunatic claims, is irrelevant. It’s still insurrection even if it doesn’t work out.
Democrats would have every right, both under the Constitution and under the principle of popular sovereignty outlined in the Declaration of Independence, to convene a traitor-free Congress (also including similar acts committed by Republican senators like Lindsey Graham, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, and others), and pass such laws as would be necessary to preserve the American republic."
"The government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said separately that it has been working with other agencies “regarding recently discovered activity on government networks.
President Donald Trump last month fired the director of CISA, Chris Krebs…"
Funny the vanity of people who don’t actually have the credentials. It’s a pretty useless form of honorific IMO. I actually hardly ever use Dr. (Ph.D in chemical physics) in front of my name (only with clients to establish credentials) but it’s weird in meetings when people who know you call you by your first name and others call you by your Dr. + last name. Like if it’s two different people.
One time that was cute was going to the doctor with my daughter when she was 5. Nurse calls us in “Next, Mrs Shandril” and my daughter who had asked why there was Dr. in front of my name on my business card, just corrected the nurse out loud in the waiting room “DR. Shandril” with a serious face and her really high-pitch voice. I still remember that Dr. Mom
That said, I did not even know there was such thing as EdD. I still have no clue what’s the difference but some people must have had a complex about it in education…
Did you ever attend college? I know I had a number of professors with “Doctor” in their title.
People generally have more experience with medical doctors, so that’s the go-to imagry when hearing the title. But those are not the only people who are called “doctor”. Unless Ms. Biden tries to pass herself off specifically as a medical doctor, there’s nothing wrong with her using the title in her name.
To be honest, if you work at a University and have a terminal degree such as a PhD or an EdD, you’re referred to as “Dr. xyz”. I have a PhD in engineering and my first job after grad school was as a post doc/visiting professor in Texas. I was referred to as “Dr. xyz” though obviously I’m not an MD.
When I transferred to industry, my boss asked me if I wanted the Dr. in my business card. I said no; I’m kind of a low profile nerd. But that tells me it’d be okay for people with engineering doctorates to use the honorific.
Dr. Biden worked in a community college so I can easily see her using the honorific, and it’d be appropriate.
Dr. Jill Biden has no medical degree. By adding Dr. to her name is a farce.
It is completely normal for PhD’s and other terminal degrees with “doctor of” in the wording to be referred to as “Dr. so-and-so”.
I know a lot of people with either MDs or PhDs, and the MDs don’t have any issue or negative perception of the PhDs using “Dr” as their formal title. (the people MDs rag on as “farces” are homeopaths and chiropractors)
