Tom Cotton does look like a urinal, now that you mention it.
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I think you mean Senate God Joe Manchin. I’m so sick of them all. Schumer/Biden just cannot let themselves be dragged down so that this takes six months longer than it should. Manchin probably wants that so as to avoid a vote. Screw him.
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This is classic Republican bipartisanship. “We want you to put these provisions in the bill so we can vote against it and attack you for including them.”
I don’t understand why the Democrats don’t want to cooperate.
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OT: rogie-boy and wife sued by DoJ for tax evasion, $2 mil:
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Think of all the wheel alignment shops, and the first responders rescueing people after bridge failures.
And all the new lawyers.
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Since Carter – including Carter – because they were all in the pockets of the Kocks, and still are
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Lock him up!
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In its joint venture with the Russian mafia and the Kremlin the GOP is all about extracting all they can from the U.S., not putting anything in.
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I’m sure their new policy wonks, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are hard at work wordsmithing and number crunching on the bestest infrastructure bill ever. Matt Gaetz is standing by in case they need help.
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Manchin is going to demand cuts here and there so that progressives get mad at him and he’s seen as in the middle. So long as he keeps to that, whatever. This is why you go big with the initial plan and don’t negotiate against yourself to get R’s on board. Start with everything you want and even after the ‘moderates’ cut a little, it’s still a really good bill. Start with a compromise offer and they water it down to crap.
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that was a good one
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Dr. Seuss weeks are over. Ted Cruz spends his days making black ladies say “defund the police”. Laura Ingram is bashing “woke Asian elites.” Keep trying, something might stick.
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They can’t even put one bill together — they are so divided.
Republicans don’t even talk to one another.
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I don’t think they like each other very much.
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I feel bad for Chuck Schumer … he thought he was majority leader, but has been eclipsed by Coal Dust Joe. Fate can be cruel that way.
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I think he’s planning a comeback.
I don’t know if it will work, but I’m pretty sure he’s going to give it a whack.
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To have to sit here after a violent insurrection and a full term of treason, sedition and 24/7 work to undermine the nation and listen to these clowns pretend that there’s still a legit caucus is, how shall I put it—stress inducing. The enemy of America is the GOP. They do not want the Republic to survive in the current form. Full stop. It would be nice if the Dems would just focus on messaging this simple fact everywhere, all the time. It’s not hyperbole or partisan speak. It’s a cold fact backed by observable actions.
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Is that Marjorie Taylor Greene"s microscopic dick?
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Holds are like filibusters in that they can be defeated by a vote of the full Senate.
And yes, these holds are a function of Senate rules, which can be changed … but only with a vote.
Many attempts have been made to restrict holds, or to render them less harmful to the ordinary course of business.
You see where we are.
Blue slips are something a little bit different. They pertain to judicial nominees and are a privilege given to each nominee’s home-state senators only – whereas Cotton wants to block USA nominees from other states, not his own.
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Ideally they would cost Republican politicians their jobs.
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