Let’s face it….
The US Senate is DESIGNED to work on a super majority of 60 votes….
The place has SO MANY rules and quirks that make it almost impossible for a simple majority to do much of anything….
Joe Biden, a creature of the place for decades, does NOT want to go ‘nuclear’ and wipe out these rules/procedures….
One would understand why….
But?
Increasingly others do NOT have the patience and historical hold that Biden has….
And it appears that a whole Lot of Joe Biden’s promises and agenda will NOT get thru the US Senate…
In fact things have for any American President about executive policy making, that lasts during their terms and they are charged with the next President…
Congress has become politicised that it seldom does much of anything major….(535 people probably wouldn’t agree on anything either?)
The filibuster is in the way of any major change ….
It’s actually designed to do just that…
Get that 60 number on board for changes..
Not a simple majority vote….
Before it was just the Democratic left that wanted it relaxed (like the Republicans did)….
Now?
Even some Moderate Democrats thing think things should be changed for some cases…
Senate Majority leader Schumer is in a tough place…
While he certainly can try for the changes?
He won’t….
Two people are in his way….
West Virginia Democratic Senator Manchin….
And….
President Joe Biden….
The Democratic Majority in the US Senate isn’t REALLY much of one is it, eh?
Some lawmakers believe that if a stack of popular bills passes the House but cannot get through the Senate, it would put critical pressure on Senate Democrats to consider revamping their system.
“The longer the Senate doesn’t function as it used to, pressure will keep building for changes that would allow overwhelmingly popular policies to move forward,” said Phil Schiliro, who headed legislative affairs in the Obama White House.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has sidestepped questions about how Biden’s agenda could make it through the currently configured Senate.
“The bottom line is we’re going to come together as a caucus and figure out a way to get the bold action that the American people demand,” Schumer said recently. “We will put bills on the floor. We’re not going to be the legislative graveyard.”
Biden is uniquely situated to push a major change to the Senate proceedings, some Democrats say, because of his credibility as a Senate institutionalist. He served in the chamber for more than three decades and frequently speaks of it with affection.
In his previous stint in the executive branch, Biden showed flexibility. He supported the Obama administration’s push to end the filibuster on most judicial nominations, lobbying his former colleagues to make the change, said Ed Pagano, who was a legislative affairs aide in the White House at the time.
But Biden is also on the record defending Senate traditions like the parliamentarian’s rulings, saying in a 2005 floor speech that heeding them had “been the practice for 218 years.”
As for killing the filibuster — that, he warned at the time, would be “a fundamental power grab by the majority party.”….
image…NY Post
New Open Thread is HERE…..
50/50?
No I wouldn’t say that was much of a “majority.”
However,even if it was say 55/45 ,as a practical matter ,there wouldn’t be much difference other than Joe Manchin would likely not be paid as much attention to and VP Harris probably wouldn’t have to hang around the Senate as much.
No, the Senate was not designed in the Constitution (or the Framers’ debates or the Federalist papers) to work on a 60-40 or 67-33 margin, except for certain specific matters such as impeachment and the ratification of treaties.
You could argue that the Senate should work on certain long-standing customs and conventions, but those aren’t the design.
However, historically, the filibuster was part of a 175-year-old fight by the South (not having a Senate or House majority) against abolition and civil rights (think John C. Calhoun and Strom Thurmond.)
So i’m right 1/2 way on the Senate’s workings….
But the basic assumption IS correct…
The place NOW has turned into a maze of walls to stymie anything that a simple majority might Seek to push thru that even one senator is against….
In the filbuster from the jump was the way to do this…
They just got better at working it with time…
Yup….
Biden can fire people just like Trump….
President Biden on Friday fired Sharon Gustafson, who was appointed by former President Trump as the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The White House told Gustafson that she was being fired effective 5 p.m. Friday after she refused to resign willingly….
More…
Morning People…
A Good Morning to All….
RI Gov. Dan McKee’s formal inauguration at noon today live-streamed (for real die- at:
http://ritv.devosvideo.com/show?video=36dfd9ec1fc1
Indeed…..
Fernand R. Amandi
@AmandiOnAir
So far, Joe Biden has been a very, very good President.
Sen Roy Blunt has announced he will not seek a 3rd term in 2022.
I wonder who the “anti Trump” Republican in the primary will be. Im guessing someone who only kisses Trump’s ass instead of giving him a full on rim job lol
Morning….
The “definition “ of what constitutes an “anti Trump Republican “ keeps shifting ,at least here.
Indeed ,now it is hinted that simply saying you support someone Trump opposes might confer that status upon you.
In a few days,likely waving at Mitt Romney might conclusively “prove” your “anti Trump” credentials.
¿ So John Barrasso (Wyoming), chair of the Senate Republican conference saying that he’d (as would be in normal circumstances fully expected) support his House counterpart Liz Cheney (also Wyo.) makes him an “anti-Trump Republican” ?
Lots’s of Republicans ARE GOPer’s….
And shall remain so….
But do NOT embrace their so called party ‘leader’?
A distinct minority.
The vast majority of Republicans are all in with Trump .
Your continuing increasingly absurd efforts (see Barrasso above) to counter that simple fact notwithstanding.
Roy Blunt won’t run for Senate seat in 2022
Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.), a member of GOP leadership, announced on Monday that he won’t run for reelection in 2022 — marking the latest high-profile retirement for Senate Republicans.
“After 14 general election victories — three to county office, seven to the United States House of Representatives, and four statewide elections — I won’t be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate next year,” Blunt said in a video.
Blunt, 71, said that he will finish out his current term, which runs through 2022. He’s the fifth Senate Republican expected to not seek reelection….
More….
Blunt left off his loss in the 1992 Republican gubernatorial primary. He was finishing 2 terms as Sec of State then and lost to AG William Webster, who lost the general election by 20 pts to then Lt Gov Mel Carnahan.
Please Note….This IS my view also
Larry Sabato
@LarrySabato
Roy Blunt is part of a trend. No D Senators have announced 2022 retirement. Five R Senators are retiring, one each in AL, MO, NC, OH, PA.
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Eric Lodal
@ericlodal
Replying to
@LarrySabato
None of then can stomach running on the big lie
None of them are brave enough to stand up to MAGA
I predict 2022 gains for Dems in House and Senate, against all historical odds
Republicans are being forced to run on the big lie
Democrats will run on the recovery
Mr. Sabato?
…
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
Blunt’s retirement likely says a lot more about the direction of the GOP (towards Trumpism) than it does about a potential Dem pickup opportunity in a state Trump won by 15 points.
To me at first glance, James, it (unfortunately) suggests the exact opposite: that there will be no room and no oxygen left for anyone outside The Cult within Trump’s Own Party (T.O.P.)
The Second Coming (1919)
W. B. Yeats – 1865-1939
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity….
https://poets.org/poem/second-coming
I don’t think he even understands what he posts anymore.
I will continue my view of things in the Grand ole Party….
I DO understand its simmering….
There IS plenty of evidence…
Hey Jack?
Here’s ANOTHER example of how it’s Trump’s party, eh?
The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump’s attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president’s name and likeness in fundraising appeals,” Politico reports.
“Trump attorneys sent letters to a cadre of GOP committees asking them stop using Trump in fundraising appeals, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Other groups loosely affiliated with the party have also received notices.”
Politicalwire…
Wow!
Who cares?
No one here takes you seriously on this topic.
You publish things you don’t even understand and make a big deal out of things that don’t matter.
He, he, he……
We ALL believe what we want Jack….
That includes U….
And i guess u think u speak for everybody here?
On this ?Yeah I probably do.
Oh and James,The reason the RNC says they will ignore the cease and desist order?Is not because of any disagreement with Trump.Indeed their defense is Trump told them it was ok.
Like I said you don’t even understand these various posts you make here on this subject.
You still want Trump yo rip the Hell out of the Republican Party right?(which means,and once again you apparently don’t even understand what you post, that Trump needs to keep his strength within the party so he can do all that “ripping.”)
What foolishness.
So his lawyer’s acted on their own?
Great move Jack….
Waiting, eh?
Ok
Ur comment is NOT quite true…
The RNC is using the First Ament to justify continual use of the Trump name and likeness it IS widely reported….
There is NO Trump said they are exempt for C& D…
Maybe u could supply the Trump comment u claim is there for the DNC exemption ok?
This IS seen as Trump VS Republicans as i originally stated….
At least across the media and by GOPer’s
You know something everybody else including Trump might know?
I WILL publish an updated post on this story that WILL fit with MY view of Trump and his ‘relationship’ with the party ….
How damn stupid.
What I was talking about was on all the tye sites,Bloomberg,The Hill, Mediaite.
I’m rather bored with your dumb little games.
no matter how hard I tried, I never could understand poetry. My brain is just not wired that way! I remember decades ago I attended a poetry reading and everyone around me was saying “wow – that was beautiful” and I responded “what did she say?”
Maybe I should just have pasted the last two lines of the first verse:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
which seems to me to characterize the (U.S.) Republicans of a century later.
Heaven knows that there is no room yet for rosy optimism, but you may recall the bloodbath that the Senate Democratic caucus suffered in 2004, when five Southern Democrats retired:
John Edwards (NC) — succeeded by Richard Burr (R), retiring in 2023
Fritz Hollings (SC)
Bob Graham (Fla)
Zell Miller (Ga)
John Breaux (La)
Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (Trump- Ga.) says she want money to stay in the United States and then lists a bunch of foreign countries ,including Guam ,where she doesn’t want the money to go.
Guam is part of the United States.
I listened to a podcast last night about Pat Buchanan. Now ole Pat is certainly a right wing white supremacist Nazi sympathizer. But he st least knows that Guam is part of the US.
She’d be no doubt astonished to meet her colleague, Michael San Nicolas, the duly-elected Delegate from Guam.
And then she’d likely call ICE and the Capitol Police.
Greene just wants the attention ….
Dumb as a brick….
Another Trump zombie….
They ALL are right Jack?
The Republican Trump ‘Zombie’ group of the Grand ole Party!
Proud and under his spell…
The Best one’s either hunted by the FBI or in Congress fighting against the Democrats and voting against the best interests to help Democrats next year!
The other party members standing up in rhe light only to be drowned out by the constant media attention the Trump zombie get?
The fractured ARE THERE….
But it’s Trump to keep festing on …
Working hard to help destroy the zombie’s …
And maybe be the best hope for Democrats
Forcing them to stay on their game and use his help to get stronger against what was the Republican party united…
Trump as a political force is a oxymoron…
He has been and always will be the NYC Real Estate guy with a oversized ego …
BTW?
He dropped into the Big Apple recently
Went to his named ‘Tower’
He was greeted there by a crowd of exactly
ONE❗️🙄
I wonder if Trump asked rhat person for money also?
Zreebs commented last night that he’d never been able to understand poetry.
I’m afraid that I’m lost by James’ series of stream-of-consciousness disconnected lines above. None seems to connect to another or to anything else I can see.
But I’m not sure if whatever hand-held device he uses allows him to see or compose a coherent paragraph whose sentences relate in some discernible order.
….it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act V, scene 5
Yes DSD…
Using the iPhone at work is VASTLY different than using a iMac at home….
But my points seem to get to Jack who feast’s upon countering them….
He, he, he
Yes the telephone makes him do it!
That’s pathetic ,even for you.
Look your incoherent rambling stream of consciousness drivel is here for all to see 24/7.Its got nothing to do with what device you are using.
Now as to my counters to you?It was always my impression that you encouraged such conversations.However,if I’m mistaken ?Then I will forgo any replies to your “stuff” in the future .Just tell me and I will happily comply.
Of course this is all so much foolishness.
Your problem is a classic one.You are always babbling on about your “point of view,” “opinion” etc.
You don’t understand the simple concept that ,
Yes ,everyone is entitled to their own opinion ,but no one is entitled to their own facts.You simply spout things off that rarely have anything to do with the opinion you are expressing and indeed often run counter to it.
When such is pointed out to you,rather than try to understand it ,you often lash out with incomprehensible gibberish and then blithely declare that your “point” stands.
The problem is that almost everyone left here wonders what the Hell youre talking about.
Jack?
Thanks for session
You can always make me smile….
Different strokes for different folks
We think different
Guam Republicans back Trump for president, pledging nine delegate votes
Staff Reports
Pacific Daily News/USA TODAY Network
March 14, 2020
Guam’s Republicans pledged all nine of their delegate votes for the upcoming Republican National Convention to the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
In a news release, newly elected Republican Party of Guam Chairman Tony Ada said, “Unlike previous politicians, President Trump has delivered on his promises to our country and to Guam. Whether it has been supporting our veterans and active duty military, improving our economy, or passing better, fairer trade deals,
President Trump has Guam’s best interests at heart and we are proud to pledge our delegates to him at the national convention.”
I have not heard much about Buchanan in recent years. It has been a long time since I have seen him as a guest commentator, I know he supported the nomination of Trump in 2016.
It is worth discussing why Buchanan failed while Trump succeeded. It may partially have something to do with Buchanan failing to effectively define himself as conservative, while Trump succeeded.
That’s a good question Zreebs. I definitely think Buchanan paved the way for Trump to eventually take over the GOP. Interestingly in 1996 the “Buchanan Brigade” was described as a guerilla effort to wrest control of the GOP from the establishment led by eventual nominee Bob Dole. Today it is the anti Trump faction that can best be described as leading guerilla warfare.
Generally I call it the Limbaughfication of the GOP that caused them to flirt more and more anti establishment types in the party peddling “populism” that’s really just white supremacy with a hint of class resentment aimed at those without college degrees.
Buchanan never had the media star power Trump did. You simply can’t compare The McLaughlin Group ratings with early seasons of The Apprentice. In the end that counted fot more thwn conservative movement bona fides–which Buchanan definitely had more than Trump.
An interesting take away from the podcast (Behind the Bastards) is that when Dav8d Duke dropped out of the 1992 Republican primary race he endorsed the Buchanan challenge to the renomination of GHW Bush. And Buchanan refused to denounce Duke the way Pres Bush did a year earlier when Duke was running for Louisiana Governor. A hint of things to come with Trump and the Proud Boys and other white supremacist groups and individuals.
That Trump was and is able to use the fringe aspect of the party is beyond doubt….
They where always there…
But looked down on….
It took a ‘Apprentice’ Entertainer to make the takeover….
The establishment and moderates are still around.
But nobody wants to acknowledge them…
The Trump zombies are still a majority…
But their numbers are shrinking around the edges….
Morning All….
The America’s Cup Sailing races begin in New Zealand..
I’m sure Daniel G will be watching…
Morning People….
BIG Day for President Biden
Bush And Clinton Portraits Hidden By Trump Are Once Again Displayed In White House
Jeremy Blum · Reporter, HuffPost
Tue, March 9, 2021, 2:57 PM·
The portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush have been restored to their former prominent place in the White House after they were sidelined during the presidency of Donald Trump, officials told CNN in a report published Monday.
The portraits were rehung in the White House’s grand foyer. They had been removed from the entrance hall in July of 2020 in favor of portraits of the 25th and 26th presidents, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ― both Republicans who served more than a century ago ― in an unusual bucking of tradition, where normally the portraits of recent presidents are given prominent placement.
According to a report by CNN describing the initial move, the portraits of Bush and Clinton were placed in the Old Family Dining Room, well beyond the sight of then-president Trump.
The room, renovated by Michelle Obama during her husband’s tenure as president, was infrequently used during the Trump administration and had been relegated to a storage area, not even shown off during public tours.
Trump hiding portraits of his predecessors ties in with reports that the 45th president largely shunned the idea of one day becoming a member of the exclusive inner circle of former U.S. leaders.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/clinton-bush-portraits-white-house-195745649.htm
Bravo Joe!
Morning All…..
Morning Everybody….
… [Kyrsten] Sinema began her career in politics working in Ralph Nader’s Green Party. Her politics were so far to the left that she ran as an independent the first time she ran for state representative before later running as a Democrat and winning. Soon, she was in the Arizona state Senate, where she once said she was the most liberal member of the body, and that was probably true. She also led the fight against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in her state.
When she won a seat in Congress for 2013, she did so as a barrier breaker, becoming the first openly bisexual woman to ever serve. And guess what? It was a year later she tweeted that raising the minimum wage was a “no brainer” because, she argued, no one should work full time and live in poverty. This is the same argument advocates have made about the current minimum wage.
While there were some grumblings on the left about her bipartisan approach when she ran for Senate in 2018, she faced little opposition from Democrats for the open seat.
In 2020, however, Sinema came into her own nationally. She became known as the woman who wore colorful wigs on the staid Senate floor (since she wasn’t getting her hair cut during the lockdown.) When she presided over the Senate wearing a shirt reading “Dangerous Creature,” Mitt Romney was overheard telling her that she was “breaking the Internet.”
To which, she replied, “good.”
As a human and not a politician, Sinema is deeply impressive. For a while, she grew up in an abandoned gas station, she graduated from college in two years, and holds an M.B.A., a law degree, and a Ph.D. doctorate in justice studies. She also competes in Ironman competitions and has qualified for the Boston Marathon.
But by going to the middle, her shift in ideology and outlook has disappointed liberals. Still, it may have been logical enough given that she is representing all of Arizona, which retains a strong conservative bent despite voters there recently electing Democrats.
Though, while Sinema was giving her thumbs down, Arizona’s other Democratic Senator, Mark Kelly, did vote for the minimum wage increase. And, unlike Sinema, he is up for reelection next year.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/10/nation/senator-who-is-breaking-internet-liberal-hearts-has-wild-backstory/
Ron Johnson says he didn’t worry about the Capitol rioters because they “love this country”. But if they were Black Lives Matter?
Would have been a different story for him.
These Trump Republicans are just dying to say the N word publicly. . Johnson is definitely signaling to the racists, Nazis and others who stormed the Capitol that he loves them. Fuckers could Seig Heil and he’d say–“well, at least they ain’t n***ers”
Some ignorant people out there Scott….
Johnson Says Capitol Rioters ‘Love This Country’
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January didn’t worry him but that he might have been concerned if they had been supporters of Black Lives Matter, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Said Johnson: “I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned.”
He added: “Now, had the tables been turned, and Joe — this is going to get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa, I might have been a little concerned.”
Doesn’t make sense even in Ron Johnson’s universe.
Bring back Russ Feingold !!
Morning People….
This morning news is old news…..
How comforting …..
“They truly respect law enforcement”
Except for the one officer they beat to death. Oh and the others they crushed against a door.
Ron Johnson is an incredible piece of shit.
I don’t remember Ron Johnson being such a nut job until relatively recently. What could have happened to him that could have caused his current condition?
Indeed Scott….
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
Bye bye, rally around the flag event. A year ago Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom & Donald Trump all received boost to their approvals thanks to their pandemic response. Now, Cuomo faces calls to resign; Newsom faces a possible recall; & Trump is out of office.
Johnson is now basically an accomplice of the Trump Terrorists.
BREAKING….
If you haven’t done so?
Set ur clocks AHEAD A HOUR!
Morning Everyone….
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/15/republicans-fret-eric-greitens-comeback-475737
This is pretty funny. Apparently Republicans who enabled and continue to support Trump are worried that Greitens could be the one Republican to lose the Senate seat in Missouri if nominated.
Honestly I think that the GOP pushed Greitens to resign while still supporting someone like Trump stuck in his craw. And that’s why he is leaning towards a Senare run.
That those same Republicans are worried now is hilarious.
You reap what you sow.
Morning….
Keith has been among the missing for a few days…
Ah….
The sweet sound of conversation in the morning….
Hello everyone….
Good to have Keith back…..
Busy Dog day….
Posts tonight….
Senator Doug Jones: Partisanship in the Senate: My Three Years in the “Radical Middle”
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm EDT
Sponsor: Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy (Brown University)
Location: watson.brown.edu/…
Event Type: Online only
Link: Join Virtual Event
Cost: Free
Register at https://watson.brown.edu/taubman/events/dougjones
Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama will be the Governor Frank Licht ’38 Lecturer this year. He began his Senate career as staff counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Howell Heflin (D-AL). In 1980, he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Birmingham. Beginning in 1997, Sen. Jones was nominated as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by a Republican-led Senate.
Currently, Senator Jones is a Politics Fellow at the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and a commentator at CNN.
In 2017, Jones won a special election defeating Roy Moore for the seat vacated by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions making him the first Democrat to win a Senate seat from Alabama since 1992. This victory was accomplished in “ruby red” Alabama which Donald Trump carried by 28 percentage points in 2016.
Jones was best known for his successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klansmen who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963.
He was defeated for re-election to the Senate this past November by former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville.
During Jones’s short three year career in the Senate he was consistently considered one of the most bi-artisan Senators and authored 23 bipartisan pieces of legislation that were signed into law. His tenure was also marked by difficult principled votes which he cast against Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and in favor of removing President Donald Trump from office during the impeachment trial in 2020.
He will discuss his years in public service, his hopes for the future, and his search for common-sense bipartisan problem solving to bring about lasting change — what he has called “The Radical Middle.”
Post later but Tax deadline is pushed back to to May 17rh
Afternoon people….
12 Republicans opposed Congressional Gold Medals for police who protected them on Jan. 6
Colby Itkowitz, Meagan Flynn
The Washington Post
1 day ago
A dozen House Republicans voted against a resolution to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police, the D.C. police and the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of those who protected the U.S. Capitol when it was attacked by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6.
The GOP lawmakers, many who said they objected to the use of the term “insurrectionists” in the resolution, are: Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Andy Harris (Md.), Lance Gooden (Tex.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.), Greg Steube (Fla.), Bob Good (Va.) and John Rose (Tenn.).
“We had to combine it with these editorial comments about the January 6 sequence of events, and then we had to logroll it with this exhibit at the Smithsonian, and … that was a little much for me,” Gaetz said after the vote.
Others objected to the use of the word “temple” in the resolution.
“Instead of simply being about honoring the Capitol Police who bravely protected the Capitol on January 6th, Speaker Pelosi included damaging language that unnecessarily weighs down the bill,” Cloud said in a statement. “The text refers to the Capitol as the temple of democracy – simply put, it’s not a temple and Congress should not refer to it as one. The federal government is not a god.”
Massie also opposed the use of the word “temple,” saying it was “a little too sacrilegious for me.”
The resolution states: “On January 6, 2021, a mob of insurrectionists forced its way into the U.S. Capitol building and congressional office buildings and engaged in acts of vandalism, looting, and violently attacked Capitol Police officers.”
It also says: “The desecration of the U.S. Capitol, which is the temple of our American Democracy, and the violence targeting Congress are horrors that will forever stain our Nation’s history.”
In a tweet Wednesday evening, Good, a first-term lawmaker representing a swath of central Virginia, said the resolution was “politically convenient” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Harris, the only Republican House member in the Maryland delegation, released a statement calling the measure a “politically charged publicity stunt.”
“The men and women on the thin blue line, including the brave men and women of the United States Capitol Police, should never be used as props for politically charged publicity stunts like this bill,” Harris said. “I truly commend the Capitol Police for their actions on January 6th, and am very grateful for their service in keeping us safe each day. But I cannot support partisan charged language found in this bill.”
41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege
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Two police officers who defended the Capitol have died by suicide. Others are hurting.
Earlier Wednesday, Gohmert corralled several other Republicans to support a separate resolution honoring the Capitol Police — one that made no mention of the events of Jan. 6, according to a copy obtained by Politico, but included the names of three police officers who defended the building that day and died in the days that followed.
Gohmert’s resolution said: “Most recently, we mourn the losses of Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood, and Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, who all passed in January 2021.”
“I cosponsored @replouiegohmert’s PRO police bill,” Greene tweeted after voting against the other resolution.
Good, who as a candidate accused his Democratic opponent of wanting to “defund the police,” also expressed support for Gohmert’s “pro-police bill.” ….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-dozen-republicans-voted-against-congressional-gold-medals-for-police-who-protected-them-on-jan-6/ar-BB1eHqy6
…to which I can only echo The John Birch Society 50 years ago:
Support Your Local Police
Among Democrats who crossed the aisle into the G.O.P., there are some perfectly honest public servants, such as Walter B. Jones of North Carolina and Richard Shelby of Alabama.
…but then there’s Virgil Good (D>R, Va)
If there ever is such a thing as a redneck first name, it has to be “Virgil”!
“Virgil Caine is my name and I worked on the Richmond train,
Til the cavalry came and tore up the tracks again…..”
Biden bangs his leg going up the steps to board Air Force One….
The White House on Friday waved off any concerns about President Biden’s well-being after he stumbled twice on the stairs when boarding Air Force One for a trip to Georgia, with aides saying the president is “doing 100 percent.”
Biden slipped while jogging up the steps to the presidential aircraft on Friday morning. When he caught his footing, he stumbled again, dropping to a knee and taking a moment to collect himself before continuing to the plane….
More…
And the people were singing. They went La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La.
So now you have seen what exists of my artistic side!
Thanks DSD….
The ones NOT supporting this ARE ASSHOLES
My mistake, that Good among the Dirty Dozen is Bob Good, newly elected from Virginia in 2020 and yet another GOP wrestler, not Virgil (apparently no relation).
Bob Good was the Person who ousted incumbent Republican Denver Riggleman largely because he officiated at some same sex ceremony. I’m pretty sure that his Congressional district includes Liberty University and is a relatively social conservative district.
Morning all
Morning People
Trump’s Mar-a-Largo partially shot down due to virus exposure…
Today is the first day of Spring❗️
I had not heard that! I can’t imagine Trump shutting down the place voluntarily, but I also can’t imagine the DeSantis government shutting it down-even if the club had a fatality rate of a death camp!
Who could imagine that COVID-19 could spread at Mar-a-Lago?
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago partially closed due to Covid outbreak
A receptionist at the Mar-a-Lago club confirmed the news, saying it was closed until further notice.
Also the Idaho Legislature has recessed for two weeks due to aCovid outbreak.
Despite Democrats plea to practice safe procedures,most Republicans in the Republican dominated body refuse to wear masks.
The GOP holds a 4-1 advantage in both houses of the Idaho legislature. Most of Idaho is “nut-job” conservative. Even Boise is far from liberal.
At one time Idaho was quite Left Wing.
In the forties the state elected “the singing cowboy” Glen Taylor to the US Senate.
Taylor was often accused of being a Socialist and even a Communist .In 1948 he was the VP candidate on the Progressive Party ticket with Henry Wallace which was widely supported by Communists.
In the 60s and 70s Idaho was represented in the Senate by Frank Church ,a liberal Democrat who was noted for his investigation of the CIA and was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidential nomination in 1976.
Some claim that the reason Idaho has become so Republican is that it has become a haven for Right Wingers fleeing California.
Many Western states were once quite radical (even revolutionary) because many of their voters were miners or loggers. They were major centers of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Greenbacks, the Free Silver movement, the People’s Party, the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party (Non-partisan League and various shades of Progressivism.
Idaho was the site of a very bitter and bloody struggle between the mine-owners and Big Bill Haywood’s Western Federation of Miners (a founding union of the IWW) — culminating in the celebrated political murder trial in 1907 of Haywood and two other Wobbly leaders for the 1905 explosion that killed a former Idaho governor, Frank Steunenberg. Clarence Darrow, about as shy, reticent and self-effacing as Al Sharpton or Melvin Belli, joined the legal defense team without apparently doing much to help their case in court.)
Wyoming (now among the three or four reddest states, as in red = Republican, rather than socialist or communist) calls herself the Equality State because Wyoming’s women have had the right to vote since statehood in 1890. Back then, she elected the country’s first woman to statewide office (Superintendent of Public Instruction), but seems to have elected very few women since.
Arizona (admitted 1912) also had a radical heritage from the copper miners, which only ended in the 1950’s with Goldwater, Laxalt & co.
I read Glen Taylor’s reminiscences (obviously not an ice-cold objective analysis) and he never claims to be (neither does he actually deny being) a socialist or communist, but the views in those memoirs suggest he was a liberal progressive with isolationist/pacifist inclinations that drew him away from Harry Truman and towards Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party. Some of his accounts of their hostilely-received campaign tours of the South are quite hairy.
I remember Frank Church as a rather prominent senator in the 70s, who was rather progressive on most, but not all issues. He was in office until he lost a close race in 1980- probably at least partially attributed to Reagan’s landslide victory. I’m less convinced than Jack that Idaho was “quite left wing” in the 1970’s, but Church did manage to win there. Likewise, I would not call Ohio “quite left wing” just because it elected Sherrod Brown.
His son, Forest was a well-known UU minister and a very gifted author. He was the author of the first book I read about Unitarian Universalism (Something like “A Chosen Faith”). So Frank Church’s son impacted my life!
I don’t recall if I ever told you that I was one of 5 finalists last year for a job in Boise Idaho. But I felt I under-performed in the interview, so I didn’t make it to the final two. In retrospect, I don’t think I would want to start a new job during the pandemic, and it is unlikely They would have matched the pay of my current job. I am no longer looking for new job opportunities – especially if my company let’s me stay in Chicagoland.
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For most of us?
Things tend to work themselves out….
Glad to hear ur alright where u are…
No James. Things do NOT “tend to work themselves out.” That sounds like the religious predestination theory that one of my former bosses believed in. Many things in life remain unresolved, and people (for example) are still dying because of racism.
As A famous economist once said “In the long run, we are all dead”.
Morning
Louisiana Republican Julia Letlow won the special election in the state’s 5th Congressional District in the race to replace her late husband, former Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R), who died from COVID-19 complications in December.
According to election results recorded by The New York Times, Letlow won a resounding 64.5 percent of the vote. …
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R- Wisconsin.)says there was no violence on the Senate side during to Trump terrorist attack of June 6.
That is a lie.He knew it was a lie.
Johnson ,by trying to cover up for the insurrectionists ,is now a domestic terrorist accomplice.
He’s very “afraid” of Black Lives Matter though.
The Republican Party 2021.
Johnson has to let the Proud Boys and the 3% folk (aka Nazis) know he’s on their side.
And what will Republicans do about this?
Not a damn thing.
Stupidity knows no bounds…
Alabama Republican Congressman and seditionist Mo Brooks announced he is running for an open Senate seat in 2022. Just before the Jan 6 Stop the Steel rally, Brooks told the crowd “today is the day American Patriots start taking names and kicking ass”. Richard Shelby is not seeking re-election.
Morning People….
Alabama Senators Tuberville and Brooks. One would have thought it would be a good day for the conservative movement when the state was no longer stuck with Sessions and Shelby!