He could certainly explain why his caucus saw no cause for raising the “issues” of Afghanistan while TFG was (i) negotiating an irresponsible surrender plan with the Taliban, but without members of the former government present, and, (ii) slow walking and throwing wrenches in the gears of the program to allow our Afghan auxiliaries to evacuate to the United during his administration.
I don’t, however, suppose those are the important issues Sen. Cassidy had in mind.
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Exactly! He wasn’t up there bragging about how the Texas GOP has achieved a policy goal they have pursued for 40 years. He wasn’t talking about how other states would now follow TX’s lead in overturning Roe. He said “gulp! Never mind that, let’s talk about Afghanistan”
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Somebody tell him the war is over, we left Afghanistan to the Afghans. It’s not his playpen anymore.
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It’s that Libertarian myth thingy. I can do whatever I want, but I’m not responsible for how my actions affect anyone else.
Kind of makes me appreciate this much more.
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Very interesting article in the Sept/Oct issue of Mother Jones on how divided the nation is politically and why/how/when it happened. Surveys show that until 2000 the nation was pretty ambivalent about those who chose to be members of the opposite political party but then it changed quite radically. I have believed that the decision by the Supremes on December 12, 2000 to stop the counting of the votes in Florida and install George Bush Jr. the POTUS was a more significant event for the nation than the attacks of 9-11. Al Queda was an external threat, the partisan make up of SCOTUS had become an internal threat. Right wing media exploded after that decision in effort to justify the appointing of a president by taking away the State of Florida’s mandate to count and recount the votes . They decreed that this decision could never be used as precedent and then slunk out the back door to avoid the assembled press. 12-12-2000 is a date that will truly live in infamy.
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Hope you get to read Jennifer Rubin’s column in today’s WaPo. She talks about how this decision by SCOTUS will inflame and unite the women of America once again. What Cassidy and the other misogynists in the GOP know deep in their lizard souls.
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If you’re thinking of legislation and spending, I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
But, I do expect he’ll be blaming the Democrats for not doing enough fast enough before long.
It’s a go to distraction provided by a modified climate, one just too good for the insincere to pass up.
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And yet, here in Wisconsin, there is not a whole lot of organization surrounding the women’s protest, especially here in Wisconsin.
There’s a FB page for the movement here in WI, but it hasn’t had a new post since last July.
As a matter of public service, here’s a link to sign up to march:
March with us on October 17. | Women’s March (womensmarch.com)
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I suspect the election of Obama was also a major part of this phenomenon. The election of a black person to the presidency was not something many expected to see in their lifetime. For some of us, it was a wonderful moment of history. For others, it was their racist nightmare come true, with a heaping helping of “socialist commie atheist Muslim dictator weak-ass Democrat” nonsense thrown in for good measure.
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It’s Obama’s fault for not fixing the problem!
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Yep and they’ll also go the next step: Why did the Democrat party stop us from fixing climate change for all these years, and why won’t they do something about it now? Also, cut taxes and ban electric cars!
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Of course!
Who else would (1) wear a tan suit, and, (2) be the headwaters of everything currently wrong with this country?
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I’m surprised no one has said Obama should have pulled out of Afghanistan after Bush got OBL.
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I think the current GQP line, TFG’s surrender agreement conveniently forgotten, is that we left too quickly and should’ve stayed longer.
Of course, they’d be saying the exact opposite if Biden’d surged US troops.
It was gonna be heads, I win, tails, you lose, no matter what the Democratic administration did.
ETA: They really won’t state any policy preferences except what serves their short term gain, when they’re out of power. (ed.)
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Or fits on a bumper sticker.
The brevity of policy statements helps the vast majority of Americans grasp what the GQP stands for. Because they understand it, they support it.
The problem with Dem messaging is that it evolves into a lecture (which doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker) and is, therefore, ‘too elite’, too difficult to understand.
The American people are now finding out what bumper sticker policy results in. I wonder if they are figuring it out? I guess we’ll find out in 2022.
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Back during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings I was chosen at random to make a TV advertisement for Planned Parenthood begging Murkowski to vote against Kav. In the end she did but said it was because his own demeanor and bearing at the hearing showed he was unfit to be a judge of any court and that she was not influenced by PP or other pro choice pressure. Her sister Sue could not see that churlish pouting behavior of Kav as disqualifying or that he would be the deciding vote to end a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions. And then along comes Amy to seal the deal.
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“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan
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Makes me think of Trump’s (or Trump’s people’s) apparent distrust of Coney-Barrett when they went with Kavanaugh previously. Perhaps they were fearful she wouldn’t play the long-game properly.
Then again, if that’s the case, they apparently misjudged his other picks as well.
Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Justice Garland is proving to be a stalwart swing vote protecting the Court from its own worst tendencies.
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This!
The best thing now is for our collective unconsciouses to get really pissed off, REALIZE consciously that we are justified, and act accordingly. That is more likely in women before men, where intuition is generally more connected to what has to be done. But by God, we men had best do the same, harness our most powerful emotion, fear into anger, and get moving toward massive changes. Those are happening because of the natural world AND the total malfeasance of the Death to All But US Party. We have to enjoin this battle, because we ARE on a sinking ship.
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If Dems were wired like GOPers, pep talks would be unnecessary. I don’t look at this as a weakness, just a characteristic.
Activating Dems (as opposed to GOPers) is more like herding cats, but so what?
Does that mean we cannot devise a motivating strategy and tactics that work for us?
That’s why I mentioned Howard Dean a few days ago.
Now, I am not a person who necessarily is a Dean Disciple…However, I am referencing the spirit of fight that he embodied for many. We had better devise a way to get us On The Team, as soon as possible and as aggressively as possible and as inclusively as possible…and I gotta tell ya:
If this Texas thing doesn’t motivate, then we should all self measure ourselves for caskets.
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