Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday called out far-right House Republicans for taking appropriations bills hostage and risking a government shutdown.
Republicans are terrorists.
Good on Schumer.
Better still if the reactionaries attack his letter and pointedly defend their right to shut down the government.
Producing some high quality clips for Democratic adverts would be brilliant.
I look forward to the day when nobody asks Mitch McConnell for his opinion about anything, because they know he canât hear them through six feet of dirt and a casket.
Kev on why a shutdown would be bad.
Culture Wars is like Climate Change. Both are terms that suit the arguments of a bad faith politics.
Itâs not Culture Wars when it all originates from churches. These are church issues described as cultural issues. Churches have a tax advantage over ordinary Americans in their fight, as well as hegemony among the governing class.
And itâs not Climate Change. The argument is âshould I shit on my own doorstep?â Pretty simple answer.
The terms of the debate are all wrong yet somehow belong to the know nothings.
How is anyone going to find any agreement with the âwe want to destroy the governmentâ caucus. They are less than 20% of the rethugs in the House but they completely rule McCarthy. What a wuss.
Staggeringly rich people know there is profit in preventing productive discussion. They have spent uncountable fortunes to sabotage any potential debate, in part by ensuring the framing is hostile.
I had a poli sci instructor whose PhD thesis was that one of SCOTUSâs greatest unrecognized powers is to dictate the terms of all political conversation by their choice of which terms and concepts to focus on in their hearings and written opinions.
One benefit of hanging out with Thomas all the time at billionaire resorts is that you have a chance to make sure he embraces the concepts and framings that your biz lawyers told you will predispose the matter in your favor.
If I cared about McCarthy enough to piss on him when he was on fire I might feel bad. But I donât.
Democrats need to pound home the fact that the GOP-led House is not capable of good governance. McCarthy is presiding over a clown show, and that was all foretold by his leadership battle.
Say it every single day in every single interview.
Drive the point home and DONâT let the Right control this narrative.
Politics used to be considered the art of compromise by people holding differing beliefs, all for the common good of the nation. For the Republicans, politics is now the art of self-righteousness, greed, unyielding lying, and manipulation for narrow partisan, corrupt beliefs and to retain power. The Republican Party of old is dead, brain dead.
I want to shrink the Republican party until itâs small enough to drown in a bathtub.
A simple solution would be to just put the Senate Appropriation Bills on the House floor. Chances are good they would all pass. But of course Qevin wonât dare do that. Best hope is CR until Jan. 2025, after which these GOP clowns can sit and watch the Dems run the Congress in an orderly manner.
I sense McConnell is no longer able to get the shutdown averted from behind the scenes.
The contrast between the functioning Democrat-led Senate and the non-functioning Republican-led House is stark.
I sense that there are a number of House Republicans hoping that Sen. McConnell collapses so that he can be replaced â largely because he is not obstructive enough.
The GQP notion of compromise is that the non-GQP should just come over to the GQP way of thinking. Was looking for that politicianâs quote several years ago, but the GQP wants nothing to do with compromise.
Eureka â the PhD thesis in question:
From the abstract:
Working from research in empirical judicial politics, political psychology, and political theory, this dissertation argues that by promoting constitutional language in select issue domains, Supreme Court majorities can influence public discourse by promoting or discouraging the use of constitutional language in mainstream media coverage of political controversies.
(emphasis mine)
Just the thing for a 3-day weekend!
Oh, heâll be WAY deeper than that.
The governor of KY is talking right now about how to replace Mitchâs seat with a Democrat and not another R.
