In six years, you could not have fixed the problem?

I have a friend who is a kind of fixer in the Israeli Knesset. You’d never know his name, and you’ve never seen his picture. But he is the guy who can grab a guy’s elbow and convince him to vote “the right way” on an upcoming piece of legislation. He is known and respected by all of the political parties, and in the past, he has worked with Knesset members from the far right to the center-left.

This week, he played a role in getting a new “mevaker ha’medina,” State Comptroller, elected. The fellow used to be Bibi Netanyahu’s lawyer. The vote was contentious and required several rounds. In the end, the Likud demanded that each member of the coalition take a picture of his ballot prior to submitting it. And with that, Bibi’s guy got elected. If you want to win, you sometimes have to know how to play hardball.

The Republicans love to be the country’s patsies. While the Democrats run roughshod over tradition and even rules and laws, the Republicans go for proper procedure. How on Earth did we have a 2020 election whose outcome was not known for days? How were Republican poll watchers shut out of a polling station after hours, and trying desperately to look inside? Why did the FBI seize 2020 election material in Georgia? How did tens of thousands of “Biden only” ballots appear in Michigan in the days after the official election ended? And while the Supreme Court has given the Republicans power to put an end to ridiculous pro-Democratic districts, the Republicans still can’t be bothered to pass a law that would guarantee that each voter is a citizen and who they claim to be. The SAVE America Act failed in the Senate again last week.

California went to the polls, and the two Republicans who appear to be in the two slots are at risk of finding themselves in third place. Steve Hilton may be in first place for the........

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