Thatâs what I was wondering too, Chammy. I read of the scheme as I was heading for bed in California last night. By breakfast time itâs all over?? Someone held a Mark VII, 15 round Re-election Optics revolver to their temples.
They will regroup and effectively gut the OCE in other, more subtle ways. They wonât let this go. KAC was just on The Today Show this morning âexplainingâ the reasons for eliminating the ethics panel. Itâs all doublespeak and bull shit spread by Trumpâs senior honeywagon.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/03/kellyanne-conway-congressional-ethics-did-job.html
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Poor PaulieâŚ
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OK, I responded to Joshâs request for help getting a vote count on this, and I called my Republican Congressmanâs office in DC and politely asked the person on the phone how Congressman Kinzinger voted. He assured me that he would relay the message to him and I would receive a response (I havenât). So it was not Donald Trump, but ME who is responsible for the reversal!! Youâre welcome!
But really, it felt good to engage! In fact, I was inspired and encouraged this morning by this piece in the NY Times today, encouraging Tea Party tactics for progressives, and linking to an actual action plan, called âIndivisible.â
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Norm Ornstein at the Atlantic for one, the guy who told us a long time ago that everything that was wrong in politics was because of republicans.
@anniew Heâs already being given credit, at least by Bloomberg.
President-elect governing by tweets while sitting President is still in office. Thereâs so much wrong with this it makes me sick to even write it.
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It appears his staff wrote that. Maybe at his request, but itâs not in the usual immature style of his usual tweets.
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OK so Iâll be upbeat and say this is the first victory of the Trump era, sort of like the Doolittle raid on Tokyo early on in WWII, not the end of anything but certainly one for the good guys. And why question whether it was really a backlash and outcry? What was it if not? An attack of conscience? Uh-uh nope nohow.
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O/T, but good news nonetheless. Went to the swearing in Sunday of all the Democrats who swept to office here in Houston. Parts of Texas may still be all fucked up, but Democrats swept the board in Harris County. (Only the exurbs went for that person. Hillary still won the county by 54-42.)
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? OhâŚRightâŚWE DO! Sorry! Silly us, we just forgot! Heh, heh, hehâŚHoo boy, what WERE we thinking?
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Now lets go after the most ethics challenged politician since Boss Tweed,
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Theyâll slip it into some sort of must-pass legislation this spring.
The GOP is the model of political corruption, and wonât let anything stand in the way of its grifting jackass members.
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Which is just going to make their being ripped-off even that much more funner.
You canât save the brainwashed. But Iâm willing to take their money.
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https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/816330466827628544
McCarthy proposed bipartisan effort to draft changes to OCE, to be delivered by August recess. Accepted by conference by acclamation.
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There was genuine outrage, from Dems and Repubs, saw it explode over Twitter.
Have no idea why this, but not other stuff, ignited it. Knew it was real when I started to see RWâers like Mark Sanford come out strongly against it.
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What a bunch of mamby pamby milquetoast these aholes are. Meet in âsecretâ, pass crap, backlash via social media, reverse course andâŚtry again in secret only move to not allow anyone to film/speak before it becomes lawâŚand then whine and snivel how âhardâ it is to put backâŚala North CarolinaâŚ
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We can hope that the carte isnât as blanche as congressional Repubs have been assuming.
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Foolish virgin.
The Repubs merely altered the schedule for normalizing their monumental corruption.
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So let me see if Iâve got this straight:
House Republicans prepare to wet their beaks by gutting the ethics procedures. President-elect âConflict of Interestâ scolds them. They backpedal. Grifter-in-Chief goes on to make millions, while they get the shaft.
If Iâm a Republican Congress critter, Iâm pissed.
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Donât complain just here where you are preaching to the choir.
Backlash matters!
Put the fear of GOD into your representatives. Better yet, put the fear of losing their JOBS into their lost souls. This they fear more than GOD!
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Prosperity after the disastrous Obama years is the new trending lie along with the lie thatâs already in place that says that other than in CA and NY trumpet won the popular vote.
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