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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:23 pm

It might be better for Boebert to be in DC to do nothing rather than tamper with internal state matters.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:40 pm

Who cares? It is one corrupt mess...
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:57 pm

Nothing will pass this year except budgets. The insurrectionists are likely to do the same as now. So the gov't will likely shut down later.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:29 pm

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a possible solution to the stalemate that has gripped the House of Representatives, Herschel Walker has offered Kevin McCarthy a check for seven hundred dollars to abort his bid for Speaker.

Appearing at the Capitol, the N.F.L. great said that he had already written the check and hoped that it was sufficient to “take care of this.”
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:21 am

FOX/Hannity
“Isn’t it time for you and your side to pack it in considering he [McCarthy] has over 200 [votes] and you have 20?” Hannity asked the Republican congresswoman.

“I understand the frustration. I promise you,” she replied.

“I’m not frustrated,” Hannity interrupted. “You didn’t answer my question.”

“There are more for us than against us,” Boebert continued.

It was the first back-and-forth in a sparring match between the widely watched conservative cable news host and the firebrand Republican congresswoman amid a chaotic race for the House Speakership that has consumed Washington this week.

As Boebert described her displeasure with McCarthy, Hannity pressed her repeatedly, asking, “Who do you want to be speaker of the House?”

“I am willing to have conversations with the Republican conference to come up with a consensus candidate,” she replied.

Later, after Boebert suggested she might nominate former President Trump, who has urged all Republicans to support McCarthy, Hannity scoffed, saying, “Is this a game show? Like we’re gonna pick [Rep.] Jim Jordan [R-Ohio] one day, Trump the other day?”
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:39 pm

The house rules about the speaker need to be fixed. This is ridiculous. It has worked 100 years but now there will be more of these insurrectionist congresssmen. So the simple solution is to put up nominees, vote. Then go to a second round with the top two. The one that gets the most votes, even by 1, is speaker.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:52 pm

Not. That's not what the founding fathers intended.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:17 pm

Impeach the founding fathers!
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:43 pm

well, if we followed originalists, they would become the hounding fetters
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:43 pm

Hawley opponent announces in Twitter
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:45 pm

Corruption?
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:02 am

Fifteen votes and the spineless wonder McCarthy has what he's been dreaming of for years. Doubt he lasts long, but it's not as if it really matters--whoever replaces him will be a step in the wrong direction. The Republicans are being buffaloed by the lunatic 'Freedom Caucus' zealots, and I think whoever is Speaker is going to end up giving them free rein. A reminder from Thom Hartmann regarding their agenda:

'The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think'
FDR created Social Security, unemployment insurance, guaranteed the right to unionize, outlawed child labor, regulated big business by creating the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other agencies, and funded infrastructure across the country from roads to bridges to dams and power stations.

He raised taxes on the morbidly rich all the way up to 90% and used that money to build schools and hospitals across the nation. He brought electricity to rural parts of the country, and put literally millions to work in various “big government” programs.

“Big government,” in other words, created the modern American middle-class.

By the 1950s a strong middle class representing almost half of Americans had emerged for the first time in American history.

By the late 1970s it was around 65 percent of us.

And that’s when the billionaires (then merely multimillionaires) decided enough was enough and got to work.

In 1980, David Koch ran for vice president with the Libertarian Party, an organization created by the real estate lobby to give an air of legitimacy to their efforts to outlaw rent control and end government regulation of their industry.

His platform included a whole series of positions that were specifically designed to roll back and gut FDR’s “big government” programs (along with those added on by both Nixon and LBJ’s Great Society) that had created and then sustained America’s 20th century middle class:
— “We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.
— “We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.
— “We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.
— “We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.
— “We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.
— “We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service.
— “We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.
— “We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.
— “As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.
— “We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.
— “We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.
— “We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.
— “We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.
— “We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
— “We support abolition of the Department of Energy.
— “We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.
— “We demand the return of America’s railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.
— “We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called ‘self-protection’ equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
— “We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.
— “We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.
— “We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.
— “We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.
— “We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.
— “We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
— “We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
— “We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
Today’s challenges to Kevin McCarthy are mostly coming from members of the Republican House Freedom Caucus, pretty much a reinvention of the Tea Party Caucus, funded in substantial part by rightwing billionaires and CEOs who share the late David Koch’s worldview.

The world is made up of “makers” and “takers,” they’ll tell you. The billionaire “job creators” shouldn’t be taxed to support the “moochers” who demand everything from union rights to a living wage to free college.

Why, these Freedom Caucus members ask, should their billionaire patrons be forced — at the barrel of an IRS agent’s gun! — to pay taxes to support the ungrateful masses through “big government” programs? Isn’t it up to each of us to make our own fortunes? Wasn’t Darwin right?

These Republicans believe our government should really only have a few simple mandates: maintain a strong military, tough cops, and a court system to protect their economic empires.

That’s why they’ll support massive prison expansions and nosebleed levels of pentagon spending but (metaphorically) fight to the death to prevent an expansion of Social Security or food stamps.

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:10 am

How soon till Hunter Biden's laptop is on the witness stand?
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:50 am

Two dangerous people have met. One an insurrectionist, one new to congress.
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Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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