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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrian Schatz . We won the Senate. We get the gavels.
I agree with this 100%. Fuck Mitch, he will never work with Dems unless he gets what he wants
Link to tweet
Fullduplexxx
(8,171 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,304 posts)Autumn
(45,942 posts)the Biden admin as he was the Obama admin.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,304 posts)Moscow Mitch wants to prevent Democrats receiving any credit for any accomplishment, and he wants a Federal government that is nearly impotent, outside of national defense.
Autumn
(45,942 posts)Eighty percent of the world could die on the streets and they would be just fine with the military controlling the few people left.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,825 posts)Make him and his wife as rich as possible at taxpayers' expense.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,304 posts)Mariana
(14,941 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,171 posts)BComplex
(8,973 posts)It's not a 2/3 issue. It's a "rule" and we can make all the rules we want to.
William769
(55,783 posts)Demsrule86
(70,800 posts)is a 50 50 stalemate right now...don't know how we fix this
Demsrule86
(70,800 posts)done. This is organizing the Senate...not legislation.
BComplex
(8,973 posts)And the first rule can be that the filibuster is against the rules when it comes to organizing the senate. And then later we can vote on the filibuster.
Fullduplexxx
(8,171 posts)No majority
wiggs
(8,014 posts)including investigations of members, of NRA, revisiting Russia, impeachment, nominees, senate rules, etc. horsetrading going on, probably, so GOP are being dicks so that they can trade NOT being dicks for something they want. Classic Trump too.
lastlib
(24,632 posts)Never offer your hand to a rabid dog unless you are prepared to club it into submission. You can substitute "republikan" for "rabid dog," and it still works.
Demsrule86
(70,800 posts)it stays. And Schumer says no....how would you handle it? We have a 50 50 Senate.
Fullduplexxx
(8,171 posts)kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)kinds of lovely information on the criminality of McConnell and his wife. Then tell him to STFU and take it or he is going to prison.
PinkTiger
(2,593 posts)Than Democrats.
Trump would make up shit.
fwvinson
(488 posts)since his sorry face first appeared. Kentucky, especially East of Lexington, Richmond and Covington, for the most part, are as crazy fascist as you can get. I've always wanted that part of the state to fall in a hole or something. Only one thing I can stand with these people, they really love their UK Basketball.
Autumn
(45,942 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)Demsrule86
(70,800 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,171 posts)samnsara
(18,207 posts)Wawannabe
(6,233 posts)Stinky The Clown
(68,377 posts)onecaliberal
(35,412 posts)appoint them as acting. We should not listen to or care what the republicans want.
BComplex
(8,973 posts)And then vote on the motion?
roamer65
(36,959 posts)bringthePaine
(1,806 posts)Warpy
(113,032 posts)I don't think abolishing it is appropriate, since it's a useful tool for a minority party, which used to use it rarely and only when the other party was trying to pass something really repugnant. McConnell has abused it for far too long and will abuse it now. It has to go until he does. Suspend it for 6 years and require a vote at the end of that period on whether or not to restore it.
The Senate was designed as a deliberative body with a majority vote, except in special cases like removal from office after impeachment.
The founders knew about cults. They just didn't envision half of Congress would be taken over by one.
leftstreet
(36,219 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,712 posts)did anyone else look at this post and IMMEDIATELY think to themselves...
"that poor boy must have had a terrible childhood growing up with that name"?
Volaris
(10,531 posts)Kamala makes the Majority. Does mitch wanna change the rules so that the minority party runs committees?
That's just silly.
Is this some kind of trial balloon to see what kinds of nonsense we will put up with, and to what degree?
mountain grammy
(27,144 posts)CanonRay
(14,750 posts)He has proven this beyond a doubt, and he will never change.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,585 posts)He will explain how unity works when you've lost the election, despite great effort to suppress the vote. Eventually we get to be a democracy again. And fix Republican made toxic inequality.