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Some pundits and politicians are hailing the Senate’s approval of a bipartisan infrastructure bill — with all 50 Democrats and 19 Republicans voting in support — as evidence that bipartisanship is possible and that there’s no need to scuttle the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass any legislation.
“This is what it looks like when elected leaders take a step toward healing our country’s divisions rather than feeding those very divisions,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
Bullshit Kyrsten. This was all about enough carrots to peel away some R senators who need stuff in their states. But you bargained away important items that now need to go into the reconciliation bill.
So to repent, you need to support eliminating the filibuster to pass voting rights.
Or get your sorry ass primaried.
And the LA pigs stood by and did nothing. Fuck the LA pigs.
San Antonio Police Department
And fuck the San Antonio pigs. Take their badges and kick them out onto the streets with no pensions.
Almost the entire Republican Cult is devoted to the fascist, climate denying, orange, anti-Christ idiot. These are known as Republican moderates.
…the idea that Biden can build on the success of his infrastructure plan to corral more Republicans to join him in a revival of bipartisanship is foolish.
Except he did it.
Speaking of a “less than moderate republican” there’s this gem…
Cillizza finishes with this…
“Words have consequences. When a sitting US senator throws out the idea of removing the president of the United States because a foreign policy decision has not gone according to plan, he degrades the seriousness of such as move. And for what? To score some cheap political points?”
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Yep Chris, cheap points to own the libs is where we are now.
Wait, what…?
So the question is, how does the Democratic Party broaden its spectrum to make sure to lock down the moderate to liberal Republican vote, now unrepresented in its own party, and their independent counterparts, while not losing anything on the left? The good news is they’ve been doing a much better job than their counterparts in Europe, where you see the French Socialists sinking without trace, UK Labour expelling any member that doesn’t agree with their pitiful leader, and the German Social Democrats written off by the left as corporate patsies and by the right as social bleeding hearts. Most Democrats seem to realize they’re a coalition party at this point, not some kind of sect, although that still depends to a degree on effective leadership, where we got unlucky with the Clintons but have been very fortunate with the likes of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Bernie Sanders, with Chuck Schumer proving to be a faster study than people had perhaps expected and the so-called Squad and all but a handful of “moderates” also playing ball. The bad news is we have a larger slice of far-right culture-war voters in the US than in Europe.
They should have also included Milicent Fenwick in the list on Moderate Republicans…plus she smoked cigars
“The power to destroy a thing gives you total control over that thing”, Frank Herbert from Dune. The “deplorable” base of the Republican Party that could care less about tax cuts for billionaires controls the Republican Party because without the deplorables there is no modern Republican Party.
The Republican Party represents a small minority on economic and domestic issues. Hence its economic and domestic policies will always be unpopular leaving the Party dependent on deplorables and stopping Democrats from enacting popular polices.
Given that Republican economic and domestic policies will never be popular, to have any chance of winning elections they must stop the Democrats from doing anything. That is the only way Republican economic policy will defeat Democrats is if Democrats are unable to enact their polices.
Furthermore, Republicans are dependent on not economic issues, in particular race above all else but also God, guns, gays and abortion. The result is that Republicans who do not care about Republican economic policies are in control of the Republican Party. I mean how many people with a high school degree or less really understand “Supply Side Economics” and want to give everything to billionaires.
Agreed
And I hope she is primaried in any case.
WTF? How has he, or anyone else, built on the success of the hard infrastructure bill?
Nelson Rockefeller and the Attica Prison uprising, anybody? He behaved exactly the same as Ronald Reagan would have, the event ending in 43 deaths. So, not a liberal, in my not so humble opinion.
My late father WAS a liberal Republican (Pro-Choice, Pro-dairy subsidies, Social Security, etc.). Bill Scranton, the old guy, was his model of a good public servant. Sadly that GOP is as dead as my dad. His brother, who was a GOP County DA, left the GOP for good in 2004. He now despises the current GQP, opining that they are religious fascists.
I grew up in the late 60’s through the late 70’s in a moderately Rockefeller Republican voting town in suburban NYC.
Our congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. was a solid environmentalist. He even worked with Pete Seeger to clean up the Hudson River.
But Attica. I was in 5th grade when it occurred. Our teachers would encourage us to read the local newspaper at night when we got home then discuss what happened the next day. Just about every kid in class was aghast at what occurred, not that it made them budding prison reformists. We could surmise from the teachers response that he knew that Rocky was playing the tough guy akin to Nixon’s law and order theme for a future presidential campaign.
