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  1. 4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Yeah, literally the only thing they wanted and didn't get was Obamacare repeal, which they tried to pass through reconciliation and didn't need to worry about the filibuster. The GOP isn't interested in passing legislation that can't pass through reconciliation and the moment they change their mind about that and control the senate they'll repeal the filibuster if it hasn't already been done.

    This, except one minor correction. They knew they never had the votes to repeal Obamacare. They backed themselves into a corner after their shitty tantrums the previous six years and had to pretend to their base they really wanted it. John Boener called this one back in February of 2017 almost exactly as it happened.

    The ONLY thing the GOP wanted to do during the Trump years was give their donors a tax cut. That, and confirm judges.

  2. 4 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    I view Blount retiring as a good sign. The GOP probably doesn’t think they can take the senate back in 2 years and why should they?
     

    dems will be favored in Pennsylvania. The people there love fetterman, he’s a perfect representative for that state.

    grassley needs to retire. The guy is almost 90.

    Blount committed GOP seppuku by helping plan Biden's inauguration and then speaking at said inauguration.

  3. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    And every red state will sue the fuck out of the bill and it will be taken to the Supreme Court and they'll overturn it. What am I missing?

    This was my thought as well. My guess is that the new bills were designed with past court rulings in mind. The justices had to state why they ruled the way they did, so the new bills could use that as a legal framework on which to build something more robust.

     

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  4. 13 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     

    I disagree. Trump happened because people listen to Rush.

    I think it's an important distinction. Rush didn't happen in a vacuum and its important to lay the blame where it properly should be laid and that's at the foot of the masses who ever put stock in a single word he said and then voted because they allowed their beliefs to be shaped by him. 


     

    The notion that politicians and pundits on the Right are at the mercy of their base is a dangerous myth. The masses have been whipped into a frenzy by a steady stream of lies from callous depraved "leaders", like Rush and Trump. 

    These people are treacherous manipulators and we should celebrate every time they get their microphones taken away, by whatever means.

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  5. 3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    I think we are going to see a whole bunch of bills passed in short order now that the 2nd impeachment trial is done. It will be nice to see a functioning government that will skip right past the part of said government that wants to derail what President Biden said he would do. Time to really ramp up vaccine production and get the public vaccinated because COVID has taken more than enough of our fellow Americans. Passing the stimulus whether a single member of the death cult votes for it should be right at the top of the list and then pass a comprehensive infrastructure bill so we can get a whole bunch of Americans back to work across the country. There is a lot of other important legislation that needs to be brought into law, but those would be a good start.

    I like your spunk but three bills, the maximum amount of bills that could pass through reconciliation, is a far cry from a "whole bunch of bills". 

    Or do you think the Dems nuke the filibuster?

  6. 36 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    To be fair to McCarthy (which is more than that quisling deserves), nobody who served in the House could ever hope to keep this House GOP caucus in line. That whole job is about getting the party pulling the same direction on a legislative agenda and they have no legislative agenda to speak of. They don’t give two shits about governing. To most of them, the entire job is just about posting and angry tv appearances attacking their enemies.

    My point was that this vote did not have to happen if McCarthy would have dealt with MTG on his own or among leadership. Instead, he made all his caucus go on record. There are several freshmen Rs in purple districts who have had a rough first month in office, voting wise. I'm talking about the two ladies in CA, the one still undecided in NY, and the one in IA who won by like 10 votes.

    The whole reason Mitch built a pile of Dem House bills up on his desk was to prevent them from coming up for a vote and making his members stick their necks out. One explanation is that Trump told McCarthy to hold the vote in order to find out who the "traitors" are, after flying down to Mar a Lago and slob his knob.

  7. Ron Johnson is not popular. I have to believe he's being advised to retire rather than put that seat at risk. You'd expect dipshit senators in red states like Missouri or Texas (wince), but not in a state that reelected Tammy Baldwin by double digits. And yet there he is, for now.

  8. Mike Pawlawski knows what he's talking about. PK is a great hire. His defenses at UW were among the best in the P12 even if Jimmy Lake gets some credit for that.

    He also doesn't seem to have head coaching aspirations so if he works out there should be little worry about him getting hired away.

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  9. The Capitol insurrection was shocking, sure, but something about seeing it coming weeks in advance takes it out of the running for me. The teargas church photo-op was way more out of left field and just as sinister.

    TrumpCare going down in flames in the Senate. Now THAT was shocking to me. Oh, and BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

     

  10. Ha! Chinese state media thinks Pompeo is freelancing and that the Trump Admin is trying to poison the well on their way out the door.

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    Another commentary posted online by CGTN, the English-language channel of state broadcaster CCTV, called Pompeo’s announcement “a cowardly act of sabotage” of the next U.S. administration.

    “The Trump administration, in its continuing efforts to burn the house down before leaving office, has crossed a dangerous red line with China days before incoming President Joe Biden takes office,” the commentary read in part.

     

  11. 3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Has the whole world gone crazy?  


     

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    Nope. Just Nye County. 

    Don't be fooled by all that empty desert. Nye County has 2/3 the population of Victoria. Pahrump, the county's largest settlement, is a magnet for all nutjobs in the Las Vegas region. 

    RIP Art Bell

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  12. My head agrees with you 100%.

    My heart says that the agreement by the UN to ostracize Taiwan in exchange for China, and the accompanying worldwide severance of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, is a relic of an era when China truly had zero problems with neighbors. That isn't the case anymore. 

    Oh, and fuck China and their phony decorum. Everyone knows the back channels have been open all along.

    It is possible for Biden to use this as a bargaining chip. 

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