A little wooden cane to the back of the head on the floor…
FWIW, there’s a non-trivial chance moscow mitch doesn’t serve out his term. But he’s not on the judiciary committee. OTOH, chuckie grass is, and he’ll be 90 in september.
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Exactly. They don’t have a majority, they’ve got 49 plus two, one of who is a complete nutjob, the other does vote for judges but won’t mess with “comity”. Schumer’s got no way to fix this.
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You are assuming manchinema sit out, as opposed to voting against.
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Actually, I’m assuming Manchin would support a rule change that allows committee members to be seated mid-term. Sinema is the one caucusing with the GOP
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N even then, he needs nine more senators to get the job.
Which he isn’t likely getting in an election year and with Trump dogging McConnell.
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She’s still a D.
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“America is facing a historic economic crisis brought on by an abject failure to address our exploding national debt, chronic inflation, a looming recession, and the more immediate need to raise the debt ceiling,” Manchin said in a statement Thursday. "Our elected leaders must stop with the political games, work together and negotiate a compromise. Instead, it has been more than 78 days since President Biden last met with Speaker McCarthy. This signals a deficiency of leadership, and it must change.
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This—although who knows if Sinema and Manchin would go along with it. If Manchin did, would Harris be able to cast a tie-breaking vote? Or would she not be able to, since it would be a rules/procedure vote instead of a legislative one?
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Maybe Biden could propose defunding Elon Musk’s subsidies…
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Your faith in precedent is precious.
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Hey Joe M, gfy.
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That’s not the case, and it’s no longer funny.
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And there are other fish to be fried.
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I am having near fatal deja vu right now. I would like to wind this back all the way to when Obama tried to nominate Garland and all of the shit since - McConnell’s refusal to consider, Trump’s win, McConnell packing positions he would not allow Obama to fill as fast as he can, RBG’s death, and now - Feinstein’s rapid but not unexpected deterioration. Words like precedent and norms taste like ashes in our mouths.
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My first thought as well. Given what’s at stake here, there’s precedent.
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I know this is also OT, but I didn’t know the strategist was Cleta Mitchell. Good grief.
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Wonder how many other tidbits Kacsmaryk hit from the Senate. My guess is that there is more.
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One way to get rid of all mail-in voting is to prohibit the mailing of ballots. I love our system in WA state. It takes a day or two longer to count ballots but that’s fine with me.
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Manchin is running for re-election in an R+20 state. Get used to this sort of rhetoric and ignore it, because he’s gonna being saying shit like that right up until election day november 2024.
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