Don't know how she can't step aside,reminds me of Ruth B Ginsberg,there'd be one less arch con. on the bench now,and that seat would go a long way to reduce the far right majority that is muscling thru changes a maj. of Americans despise.https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4024613-feinstein-expressed-confusion-over-kamala-harris-presiding-over-senate-report/
Mrs. Feinstein is a dedicated public servant with a distinguished career....it's time to retire from that career in dignity, and not give our political opponents ammunition that they will use to smear her fine record.
It becomes increasingly obvious that she is no longer fit for the position, which is too important to leave in the hands of someone not up to the job any longer.
It's Joe's job to run the country and he made the best deal he could to avoid trouble and he had expert advice while making the deal. Maybe he could have done better but we and the pundits are in no position to judge at this point. I believe the republicans will be facing a shit storm by the next election and the democrats might be able to win enough to make some meaningful changes. Trump going down in flames in the middle of the primaries and 24 elections should help.https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/29/whats-in-the-debt-ceiling-deal-struck-by-biden-and-mccarthy.html
seems like true bipartisan politics, the deal sucks, no one is happy, and there will be numerous legal challenges...
I would have rather gone into default, let the republicans own it, and then minted the coin.
Now i feel like Biden just whored us all out a little, to save his poll numbers.
yeah, i know default would have been incredibly harmful, but this deal ain't no fucking favor to the American people.
It’s consensus politics, at least. The pain is spread across both parties. When everyone is complaining, that’s a fair sign that a balance has been achieved.https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/29/whats-in-the-debt-ceiling-deal-struck-by-biden-and-mccarthy.html
seems like true bipartisan politics, the deal sucks, no one is happy, and there will be numerous legal challenges...
I would have rather gone into default, let the republicans own it, and then minted the coin.
Now i feel like Biden just whored us all out a little, to save his poll numbers.
yeah, i know default would have been incredibly harmful, but this deal ain't no fucking favor to the American people.
It’s consensus politics, at least. The pain is spread across both parties. When everyone is complaining, that’s a fair sign that a balance has been achieved.
Also, Biden’s numbers are awful (because Americans are stupid). I doubt that’s his main motive.
The unfreedom caucus did get taken down a notch imo. And MosCarthy’s brand took a big hit. Getting Pedobear to blurt the truth is a win. That’ll come back in a year to bite R candidates on the bottom.No, and he's always going to be a much better choice than trump for anything....But i was really hoping for a semi-cataclysmic showdown with the far right freak patrol. It's way past time someone ground their faces into the dirt real good. Fucking gaetz just said it out loud, America is a hostage to the republican party...
I hear ya…BUT…look at what this has done to Kevin’s grip on power: he OWES Joe…he knows it, Joe knows it, the GOOP mass in the House knows it. The *deal* isn’t everything I’d like it to be (clean bill, or scuttle this nonsense for good)…but as Joe mentioned after the fact, ‘we could have done the same deal thru the regular process’ (salt in the wounds).https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/29/whats-in-the-debt-ceiling-deal-struck-by-biden-and-mccarthy.html
seems like true bipartisan politics, the deal sucks, no one is happy, and there will be numerous legal challenges...
I would have rather gone into default, let the republicans own it, and then minted the coin.
Now i feel like Biden just whored us all out a little, to save his poll numbers.
yeah, i know default would have been incredibly harmful, but this deal ain't no fucking favor to the American people.
Hoping their collective asses get gnawed off by the end of this yearThe unfreedom caucus did get taken down a notch imo. And MosCarthy’s brand took a big hit. Getting Pedobear to blurt the truth is a win. That’ll come back in a year to bite R candidates on the bottom.
Personally, I *love* “Sleepy Joe” jukin’ Kevin out of his socks. I’ll happily let Joe soften them up for a while before delivering the final whack.
No, and he's always going to be a much better choice than trump for anything....But i was really hoping for a semi-cataclysmic showdown with the far right freak patrol. It's way past time someone ground their faces into the dirt real good. Fucking gaetz just said it out loud, America is a hostage to the republican party...
Kevin might be fighting for his speakership soon enough when one of the morons moves to vote him out, then the republicans will be in a real pickle because nobody could replace him except Trump himself! The speaker need not be an elected member of the house and Trump could wreck it from the inside because none of them would dare to defy him! Someone should put the bug in Trump's ear about it, Kevin's house is useless anyway, might as well make them lick Trump's arse one more time. Only he can solve it, when he shows up for work! The democrats could ride the fucker like a horse and easily manipulate him into doing all kinds of stupid shit. Just calling him stupid would get quite the reaction since he's a moron who tries to hide the obvious fact that he's an idiot and know nothing.I hear ya…BUT…look at what this has done to Kevin’s grip on power: he OWES Joe…he knows it, Joe knows it, the GOOP mass in the House knows it. The *deal* isn’t everything I’d like it to be (clean bill, or scuttle this nonsense for good)…but as Joe mentioned after the fact, ‘we could have done the same deal thru the regular process’ (salt in the wounds).
FAI&P, BIDEN won - and McCarthy *lost*: weakest speaker in 100 years is weaker yet, and in public debt to his punching bag, and walked away with virtually nothing
The idea was funny for awhile but that’s worn off.Kevin might be fighting for his speakership soon enough when one of the morons moves to vote him out, then the republicans will be in a real pickle because nobody could replace him except Trump himself! The speaker need not be an elected member of the house and Trump could wreck it from the inside because none of them would dare to defy him! Someone should put the bug in Trump's ear about it, Kevin's house is useless anyway, might as well make them lick Trump's arse one more time. Only he can solve it, when he shows up for work! The democrats could ride the fucker like a horse and easily manipulate him into doing all kinds of stupid shit. Just calling him stupid would get quite the reaction since he's a moron who tries to hide the obvious fact that he's an idiot and know nothing.
Trump would destroy them if he got the job and would destroy them if he tried and didn't. It would be a fucking nightmare for them, he wouldn't show up most of the time and would be attacking his members all the time. The democrats could play him like a fish since he's so fucking stupid and thin skinned. He will be on trial or in court much of the time and in prison or a DC jail before too long and trying to get him to resign from the speakership would be like trying to impeach him as president! If someone told him, it would make it harder to prosecute him then he would go for it in an instant. He is only going for the presidency because he sees it as his only way to avoid prosecution and doing time, but that won't work in NY or even Georgia even if he were POTUS again.The idea was funny for awhile but that’s worn off.
Makes me wonder…yeah, a simple majority = quorum, but it should be possible to game that: GOOP has been an agenda-driven asshole every time they’ve gained a majority in either house & have worked up ways to fuck things ups as the minority party, so tit-for-tat, I say: those cats weaponized the congressional majorities 20+ years ago.
How about (in the hideous event that TG could become speaker) Dems strip down to one Rep in the chamber, enough to watch the exits, & call for quorum EVERY TIME a GOOPer leaves the floor. GOOP majority is razor-thin. Slow-walk; disrupt; rules-lawyer; wind the MF up as tight as possible & keep him there & use the shitty tea-party tricks to keep him nailed in place - ranting, fuming, incompetent, hate-filled rage-baby that he is, it’ll be GREAT TV…and a needed emetic for some.
The first week could cut his remaining base support in half