I hope so. Weâve got to take this process back and by âbackâ I donât mean making the same rabid choices the other side has been making. Broaden it out, NancyâŚ
Absolutely, nothing will make GOP heads explode faster than bi-partisanship.
I was rather hoping sheâd restrict openening up the floor in order to exclude bad ideas.
Good luck with that. Not when Trump controls the U S Senate.
ETA, McConnell is traitorous filth. I wonder what this shutdown has to do with Trumpâs troubles. Everything, Iâd say. This was posted at Political Wire. The walls are closing in. Latest from Kurt Eichenwald.
Love the Rethugs, when theyâre in power they donât seem to understand that they do have the power to compromise to work out something that is good for both sides. However, when the Dems have any power Rethugs yell and scream about how theyâre unwilling to compromise. We all know who is more willing to compromise, but right now I feel like screw it why should they after how weâve been treated for years.
Seriously, ProPublica? I canât read this political drivel right now.
How about questioning whether tRumpâs Bitch Mitch will open up the Senate to bipartisanship if you really want to be helpful. Its the one thing that McTurtle has managed to get away with in the press for two years now, while also hiding out in Kentucky over the holidays.
If the country by 3/4s doesnât want a stupid fucking wall, its really up to tRumpâs Bitch Mitch to bring it up on the Senate floor so that those who voted 100-0 by voice vote the first time can do it all again.
Exactly. Amazing how much the political machinations in the press in some corners have now shifted to put the onus on Pelosi. Its like they choose to frame this pretend debate as a legitimate debate, when, as I recall, there is no fucking debate in thatâŚ.âand Mexico will pay for the wallâ.
Pundits must have their drama
Will Pelosi Open The Floor To Bipartisan Ideas?
I certainly hope not. Because bipartisanship usually means agreeing on whatever the rich donors of both parties want.
How quickly the Democratic Party forgets why they were given back the House- Oversight and Investigation; not some bullshit fantasy about joining hands with the GOP and singing Kum-Bi-Yah.
Donât waste our time- get to work on bringing these bastards to Justice or be prepared to have the House for just 2 years.
Seems to me that if McTurtle brought it up again to a vote on the floor of the Senate, it should be veto-proof. A no-brainer. At least thatâs how I see a 100-0 vote the first time around.
This obsession with âbi-partisanshipâ strikes me as pretty odd, (Really its a right wing construct used to keep the left in-line.) but letâs pretend its a real thing. We have a two party system and neither party holds a super majority, so by definition anything that passes both houses of Congress and is signed by the President is bi-partisan. With the Republican party having gone so far off the rails anything that meets the requirements to pass is going to be very heavily weighted to the Right side of the equation. With that in mind I donât think its a good idea for Dems to get too hung up on passing legislation. This would be a good time for us to highlight the differences, push legislation that we would like to get through and make damn sure that everyone knows WHY its not getting through.
But really we have a two party system for a reason, if one party rule (bi-partisanship), is what we want change the system.
Has anyone heard from Elaine Chao these days? Seems awful quiet at that agency when every other agency has been in absolute turmoil and under a cloud of suspicion. Thatâs no coincidence, I think. Imagine the shit sheâs been able to get away with while hubby keeps the Senate from exercising their constitutional responsibilities. Something smells rotten there. Iâd love to see the House Dems on the Oversight Committee conduct an audit of the Transportation Department just for the hell of it.
They have proven in the past that they will NOT participate. When the Dems ran the Senate under Harry Reid, Republicans would continually piss on the rules by introducing adders to bills that were intended to screw over the process - like an anti-abortion amendment on a bill for highway funding.
This was my biggest problem with President Obama. He assumed that you could extend an olive branch and that would help. Republicans snatched the olive branch out of his hand and used it as a club.
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Says it all.
I hope Iâm wrong, but my guess is that Republicans in the Senate knew the bill would not leave the House.
Betting that if Speaker Pelosi advances the exact same bill, passes it, and sends it to the Senate - enough Republicans will bail to prevent the veto-proof margin.
The machinations in the press are already âHillarizingâ Warren, questioning her likability and whether her time has passed. Funny, that. They ask if Pelosi will allow bipartisanship, but donât ask the same question of McConnell. Do we need to ask why?
Prodded by some House Wall Street-owned, Turd Way âDemocratsâ, in late November she agreed to establish a more open process for working on legislation and to allow more votes on amendments supported by both parties.
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Yes, the Democratic Party âLeadershipâ has a real knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Their #1 goal seems to be making the Rabid Reich Wing appear reasonable, so as to crush us in the next election. They just havenât wrapped their lobbyist-funded minds around the fact that they are NOT dealing with a Loyal Opposition. (Itâs either that or they are complicit with them.) They are dealing with an existential threat to the survival of human civilization, and they need to act accordingly. The people donât want âBipartisanshipâ! All âbipartisanshipâ ever got us was endless wars, a bloated MIC, rollbacks of Wall Street regulation, tax holidays for tax-cheating corporations and fealty to Saudi Arabia and Lukid. What the people want are results that make their lives better, no matter who delivers them or how they are delivered.