President Biden on Tuesday slammed House Republicans for reportedly targeting their 13 colleagues who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week by trying to organize an effort to strip them of their committee assignments.
Fascists employ fascism to achieve their ends.
Republicans always like to call Dems sheep while they work hard to punish any of their colleagues who leave the herd.
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went so far as to tweet the phone numbers of the 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill.’
Irma Greasy
Stripping the MOFOs of their committee assignments??? No way. Expel the SOBs and charge them with threatening a government official.
The ones being threatened with losing their committee assignments are the ones who voted with the Democrats on the Infrastructure bill (along with large minority of their Republican Senate colleagues). The ones facilitating threats on their cohorts are the ones trying to punish the ones who had the audacity to actually try their hand at legislating.
Re: Greene et al., it seems roughly half the party is run by sociopathic narcissists who truly have no empathy for other people and who only know how to respond to every situation with their id. There’s no ego present to temper their worst impulses and general awfulness.
Don’t encourage them. Biden stepping into this fray just pisses them off more. There will be more such incidents and, unless and until those a$$holes see expensive punishment for these incidents, they will continue unabated.
Two groups here, not sure which ones @caltg meant:
Republican reps who voted for the BIF who are currently being threatened with the loss of committees by their caucus
Rep Gosar (and others) who ought to face official sanction for threatening a co-worker. The question is which kind of sanction. Expulsion takes 2/3rds so that’s a non starter, but committee-stripping is easier and some posters argue was what finally got Steve King the boot.
And when Rep. McCarthy wouldn’t, Speaker Pelosi did the same for Rep. Greene as well.
Biden saying these things is what a normal President would do. The GOP has normalized the wrong things.
This Congressman voted for BIF because it was good for his distirct.
So the President of the United States is supposed to shrink back for fear of pissing off the worst people in the country? I thought the big complaint was that the “Dems won’t fight.” Sure wish people would make up their minds. To my own he’s speaking for the sane majority, saying this bullshit is bullshit and it’s gotta stop.
Democrats need to “splunge:” Stand tough against the bullshit, but don’t ruffle any feathers or provoke the other side and do it without looking indecisive.
Upton appeared to allude to Greene’s tweet when explaining the timing of when he began receiving threats.
He needs to get into her f***ing face about it.
This is all sounding like HS.
So when do the don’ts start promoting the doing of the goods in their districts? And taking credit for it.
The Beast of the Back Bench.
Shades of “Epstein’s Mother”. The GOP’s playbook is stunningly simple. They just do what all of us know:
Fall in Line
What else could induce grown men and women to work against what the Democrats are trying to legislatively accomplish??
Did FDR have FOX to fuck with? Yeah I KNOW about radical fascists in the U.S. during that time, but Roosevelt did not have FOX News 24/7/368 days a year against him.
I can certainly understand why NY Republicans voted for the bill:
The Empire State is set to reap upwards of $170 billion after the House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night.
Highways: $12.5 billion
$11.5 billion for roads, highways. $1.9 billion for bridge repairs. $142 million for electric-vehicle charging infrastructureAirports: nearly $1 billion
JFK — $294,682,575. LGA — $ 150,008,970. Long Island MacArthur — $21,595,630.Rail: $58 billion
$22 billion for Amtrak improvements, including the Gateway tunnel project under Hudson River.
$24 billion for Northeast Corridor modernization.
$12 billion for Intercity passenger rail, including high-speed rail.Water: $90 billion
$14.7 billion for the EPA’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which provides grants and loans for infrastructure projects.
$14.7 billion for the EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Funds, which provides loans to states for water-quality improvement.
$55.4 billion in supplemental emergency appropriations.Mass Transit: $9.8 billion
$9.8 billion for Clean Buses and Mass Transit
Texas will get 35 billion. Pennsylvania: 13 billion. Minnesota: 5.5 billion. West Virginia: 6 billion. Kansas: 3 billion. Kansas must keep their roads and bridges in good shape. I would imagine costs for anything in NY construction wise are really high.
I am sickened by and frightened of these people. They are mentally ill and many are armed.
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