Attempted sabotage thwarted. For now.
Perhaps by the lopsided vote even House Republicans have gotten the message: if Trump wants it, it must be bad.
A good compromise would be to stop funding schools if they teach heliocentrism. Everyone knows the Earth revolves around what’s for lunch.
There was a hye-larious joke decades ago; the teller says “I read so much about how bad smoking was for you that I gave up reading.” Ha ha ha ha ha! Now our society is that joke. We’ve given up reading. The average person can’t do the most rudimentary critical thinking. We’ve increasingly cut ourselves off from any source of information that contradicts our prejudices and makes us upset. By “we” I mostly mean wingnuts. But it affects everyone and we’re going to be a third-rate nation before we know it. We’re a third-rate nation now by most quality of life measures. We don’t want to learn and know stuff and grow. People who do increasingly live in enclaves–leafy suburbs, or trendy city districts. But you go to any big-box store where the regular folks live and look around. That’s America. If the folks there seem to you like the citizens of an exceptionally advanced country then I envy your optimism. I wish I were optimistic myself.
The next attempt will be to force dynamic scoring.
If they can’t kill the CBO, they’ll kill the credibility of the CBO.
Sort of what Trump is trying to do to Sessions.
Seriously…
Idiocracy was not intended to predict the future, but it seems that it show a more likely future than most of the other futuristic movies.
The CBO should take a passive-aggressive approach with these petulant douchebags. The next time they submit a shitty bill for scoring, only to have them whine about the score, the CBO should give them all participation ribbons…
GOPosaurs didn’t see the film as a cautionary tale. They saw it as an operating manual…
I posit, with no particular info to back it, that no more than 2% of the populace over the age of 23 has read a non-fiction book cover to cover in the past year. Invariably any time you hear someone speak with “authority” on a subject you can dig deeper and discover their knowledge of the subject comes from watching television, listening to the radio, or People magazine.
Speaking of television, can anyone tell me what the fascination is with TV judge shows? Two obvious knuckleheads bicker in front of a fake gallery of observers about who owes the electric company for the last bill before 3 roommates broke up Shirlene moved out and what’s with Ted and his too long hot showers, and that bitch Amanda is always stealing from my side of the fridge! Wah!!
WTF?
Read another way that describes The Right today.
A professor of mine got back after jury duty on a lengthy trial. Asked how it was, he said, “I hope none of you is ever really expecting a jury of your peers.”
I honestly can’t believe what has become of our country and not just trump. Honest to Gawd, if I could get out of here and go somewhere sane like New Zealand, I would, and never look back. What a mess. A friend just recently moved to NZ, couldn’t be happier for them and more than a bit envious.
OK, got that off my chest. Back to the fight…sigh.
IIRC, Rep. Perry said that since he and his wife are done having kids, he doesn’t want to pay for maternity care.
I’m not sure he always understands the issues.
My Dog, these people really are stupid. It’s just a never-ending litany of stupid, poorly-thought-out legislation coming from Republicans. I mean, seriously, how stupid do you have to be to vote for these morons? That’s a serious question. You seen the Republican roster of idiots, morons and ne’erdowells lately?
And now they’re starting to fail up into Cabinet positions!!!
I think they already did that, didn’t they? A couple of years back, in 2015 I think.
Dictator Trump has another tantrum ?
ne’er is overly generous.
Scaramucci calls in to CNN and goes completely off the rails, accusing Priebus of being the leaker this morning…and still no article about it here??