Mirror mirror on the wall who is the biggest asshole of all?
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“Allowing these tax credits to lapse without a clear path forward would risk real harm to those we represent."
Not one single Republican would tolerate a bank saying, “As of now, we’re not taking some of your electronic transfers in order to save capitalism” without…
- First, bitching out their banker for lack of notice, and
- Second, bitching out their banker for having no idea when, or even if, they ever plan to start taking them again, and
- Third, bitching out their banker to explain where their money is currently located in the ether
…while their money is sitting safely in the bank president’s personal checking account, because he believes a ballroom will really enhance his prestige. But Republicans expect you to accept their chaos without question as good government.
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Basically, TSF has figured out that all he has to do is whine about some perceived slight and hold out his hand and someone will write him a multimillion dollar check. You know every penny goes into his personal bank account. Sure beats working.
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Yep, that’s it all right. It may have been the one thing he was both capable of and interested in learning. Seventy-nine years and that’s all anybody’s got out of him.
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Only queasy about crimes?? Boy does trump havit easy.
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Hilarious video of Ted Lieu searching for GOP at start of shutdown
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As much as I believe I understand the personality, I have a hard time believing he exists to the extent he does.
It reminds me of the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine.
His greed, his ego, his grievance and criminality is unthinking and unrelenting. It is automatic, baked in and there is no change, no moment of not. It is his mission in life. Nothing more.
I had to look for this line, but it fits.
“They say there’s no devil, Jim, but there is. Right out of hell, I saw it!”
– Commodore Matthew Decker, 2267 “The Doomsday Machine”
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He will say it, but I doubt it will actually be paid.
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That is the first photo I have seen where he really resembles his father. Strange.
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“While it’s a desired outcome, there’s a process that’s required — by Constitution and by law — for Congress to be not only consulted but engaged,” Jerry Moran (R-KS), the committe’e’s senior member, said. Both Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have made similar remarks.
The concerned Republican caucus has expressed its meaningless reservations and TPM has fallen for it by writing an article. The more things change the more they stay the same.
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Hell, the GOP had and has the votes at anytime to reopen the government if they suspend the filibuster and Dems need to hit this everyday. Because that’s the last thing they want to do. They roided themselves into passing a disastrous budget reconcillation bill - for us, but more importantly in this context, for them. They are desperate for bipartisan cover, and so far the Dems aren’t making that fetch happen.
The understandable, but critical miscalculation was that Schumer would fold again, not realizing how much heat he took from his colleagues and the base, nor the effect of the craven recission bill on Dems across the board. They thought the Dems would start by meeting them half way and then negotiating to 75/25 in their favor.
But this time the Dems said no and they are at a dead end with headlights approaching and they either give in our wind up owning a bill that’s already infuriating the country.
Look at this way. They used 51 votes to get in this mess. The can either give in or cement it with the same 51.
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Just happened. Give TPM a few minutes.
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I’d been in college in MN maybe a few weeks when I went to Sioux Falls to work for McGovern’s reelection as senator. He won, but not for long. I recall in that period
McGovern recounting how he knew all might be lost when two old women (“little old ladies”) told him to keep the government away from my Social Security.
The nature/culture dichotomy can get boring, but. SS payments had gotten to be nature for them, not culture.
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But no one in the cult does a fucking thing about it. Because they’re in a cult.
This bunch is the worst collection of weasels and cowards in the nation’s history. There’s no wiping that stain off. So wake me up when someone on the right does something.
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This may be a stupid question, but when in conflict, which one wins, nature or culture?
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When there’s a conflict between nature and culture we all loose, unless culture recognizes its Mother.
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Clearly the rules-based order ain’t working. Trump and Johnson are mostly doing this to avoid Epstein blowback. Yesterday Treasury employees were forbidden to photograph the demolition of the East Wing of the White House.
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Obamacare was born as a conservative alternative to the failed Clinton health-insurance plan; it was concerived in a cosnervative think tank (Heritage Foundation?), and its first version was enacted in Massachusetts under the conservative governor Mitt Romney. The Obama administration adopted the idea in the realization that the Clinton plan could never pass Congress.
It was the conservative Demcorat from the Connecticut insurance business, Joe Lieberman, who killed the idea of including a public option–a form of Medicare for All–in the original Obamacare.
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@dont answered your question well.