Remember it down the road when the Democrats retake the House. Remember every one of them and let them know you’ll remember them.
On the subject of ousting, and Democrats retaking the house, aren’t there 30 or 40 or something Republicans in the house who need booted from office due to the prohibition on insurrectionists serving the government they tried to destroy? Why isn’t that being used to flip the house? Or, is it in the works?
Because the number of critters who’ve been convicted of insurrection or sedition is… zero. In 2022 folks tried to get MTG and madcaw disqualified from the ballot via the 14th amendment, two different federal judges weren’t having it.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today and move to Vacate the Chair due to the ethical misconduct of Mr McCarthy of California. Mr McCarthy has used his power to discipline members without cause while protecting domestic terrorists that child molestors in his own party.
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And that’s what counts.
I have no idea how many times I‘ve come to TPM for political insights and found myself expanding my vocabulary. Cordwainer. A new one for me.
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“I appreciate Speaker McCarthy’s willingness to address legitimate concerns and add due process language to our resolution. Deliberation and debate are vital for our institution, not top-down approaches,” Spartz said in a Tuesday statement.
“…which is why I’m caving in to pressure from the Speaker.”
Too bad votes can’t be cobbled together to oust Kev and various others out of the House altogether.
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I only became familiar with the word a few years ago when, doing genealogical research, l learned that several generations of my early MA and then (after their world in Charlestown has burned down in the Revolution) RI ancestors were cordwainers and tanners. (The mariner remained in their “genes” – my direct ancestor and the extended family fought in various land battles in the Revolution: they were also privateers out of Salem.) Back to the point: my direct ancestor left behind his “Moroccan factory” in Providence after the Panic of 1837 for WI, where he farmed (after selling the RI)-made stock of shoes and boots in Milwaukee, which then had about 400 residents), and then moved to MN in 1859, where they farmed until my great grandfather gave up farming and became a house painter in a college town (so his children could go to college) – though my grandfather continued to work every summer on his uncles’ farms in Mower County. So, my father’s great grandfather was the last of the line in cordwainers and tanners, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the cordwainer/tanner mentality was passed on. My father (who knew almost nothing of this family history, certainly nothing about tanners and cordwainers), even though we could not afford it, always insisted that we children wear quality leather shoes, and he always gave me something leather for a special present – say, to mark a graduation. Henry Louis Gates needs to interview me.
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Doesn’t Senator Ron Johnson get to vote on Rep Omar.
After all, he was running campaign commercials last summer that said if one voted for Mandela Barnes, he would be joining the “Squad”.
Who they are and proud of it.
Uh, I doubt Santos will step back into his committee positions without anyone noticing. The news media (including TPM) are obsessed with him. And now, the FBI has gotten into NY’s act and the FEC’s, of investigating him on campaign finance violations and on fraud (the vet’s dog). Today Santos looked so miserable as the press chased him that I almost felt sorry for him – almost. He know’s he’s in deep shit.
The son with a mother and sister (half or full?). His father exists only as an implication of the surname Santos. Grifter children, and possibly even the mother. (Home healthcare aid. Did her son steal the checks from her pocketbook, or did she steal them from the man she was “caring for” and give them to her son? I’ve begun to wonder.)
Somehow, this is an “only in New York City” story. Or maybe more specifically, “only in Queens” story. Recall where Trump grew up (of a rich father and grandfather, both grifters). Queens is a big county, so I don’t mean to impugn everyone there. But. (The low-level grift can move east only so far. After Long Island’s Nassau County, with its North Shore and Hamptons, there are the islands belonging to Massachusetts and then: the Atlantic Ocean.)
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Senators do not vote for Representatives as committee members in the House.
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Omar is.
- an Immigrant
- a Muslim
- Black
- a woman
- smart
(And a magnetic smile)
Everything Republicans hate and fear.
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Couldn’t resist.
Looking at jacket-free Gym wearing the same dingy greyish shirt for two years is not something I look forward to.
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Very much a crossword puzzle clue.
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Rep. Omar got in hot water a while back when she said “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby” taken to mean our support for Israel by throwing a lot of money at that country. Haters are still clinging to that even though apologized.
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The thing about this kind of petty retribution is it says nothing about Omar and everything about McCarthy. Everyone knows she’s just the chosen victim because she’s the easiest one to rally Republicans around (because racism, sexism, etc). As far as the committee goes, I assume she’ll be replaced by another, equally good Democrat, and McCarthy isn’t going to be able to get his caucus to agree to boot that one, too. I mean he could just barely pull it off with Omar, and Republicans despise her. (IIRC the only reason the Rs didn’t get to replace the MTG seat is they were stupid enough to say “MTG or nobody!” so Nancy said “Sounds good to me, dumbasses.” 
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I’m a little Mixed up. Is she the Rep that warned us about Jewish Space Lasers?
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