I can't think of a better way for the Party of No to shoot themselves in the foot than to torpedo a bill to support veterans regarding toxic exposure. It's purely expedient; a knee-jerk reaction to being outplayed on other political points using whatever they could pick up in front of them. There's dread on the mall; senators and represe…
I can't think of a better way for the Party of No to shoot themselves in the foot than to torpedo a bill to support veterans regarding toxic exposure. It's purely expedient; a knee-jerk reaction to being outplayed on other political points using whatever they could pick up in front of them. There's dread on the mall; senators and representatives are beginning to do the gut check on their chances of riding that MAGA wave versus abandoning a sinking ship with the rest of the non-MAGA conservative/moderate/independent sectors of the electorate. Even with a short public memory, we're close enough to the midterms now that electorate will recall recent votes that evoked emotions of betrayal of principle when their representatives act out of spite or political posturing rather than based on what their voters are telling them. They're just opening up a hornets nest on the very issues that they are supposed to own. It's now becoming the democrats mid-term election to lose with so many issues that are popular with a broad section of the electorate either rejected by the Party of No, or passing with increasing numbers of moderate republican defections from the party leadership.
It's hard to understand what is happening with the two Democratic senator hold-outs other than to wonder if their voters are making themselves heard as well. Perhaps their donors are talking. I can't think of any more powerful influences that would move Manchin and Sinema out of the spoiler role they have played with the Dems. I am no daring to hope that we may see a broad turning of the tide; popular opinion(that means the mainstream press) moving in favor of the party in power, a breakdown of solidarity amongst the republicans and the unraveling of the MAGA grip on conservatives. I can't imagine it will be a smooth ride into the mid-terms, more like a major cat fight, but all that matters are the final tallies when the voting is over.
Manchin is a rich conservative from way back. Sinema sold herself after getting elected as a progressive. Neither is going to change for us. We need to elect more Senators to get a working majority for the legislation we need, filibuster be damned.
"It's hard to understand what is happening with the two Democratic senator hold-outs other than to wonder if their voters are making themselves heard as well. Perhaps their donors are talking.."
"But the main culprit, the cancer on the body politic, is money: Money, money, money. When I ran 6 years ago, in 1998, I raised $8.5 million. That $8.5 million is $30,000 a week, every week, for 6 years. If you miss Christmas week, you miss New Years week, you are $100,000 in the hole and don't you think we don't know it and we start to work harder at raising money. As a result, the Senate doesn't work on Mondays and Fridays. We have longer holidays. The policy committee is adjourned and we go over to the campaign building because you can't call for money in the office. So we go over to the building and call for money and obviously we only can give attention to that. We don't have time for each other. We don't have time for constituents, except for the givers. Somebody ought to tell the truth about that." - Former Sen. Fritz Hollings
Ronald Reagan's economic mentor, Milton Friedman said (and wrote a famous thesis about):
"The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits."
So if a corporation is a person, that person is a sociopath. You see it reflected in the past CEO of CBS' remarks on the candidacy of Trump:
You see in puerile "GOP" government shutdowns. Tradition has it that "the love of money" which, I take to be an exclusionary obsession with it, "is the root of all evil". That's Reaganomics; what we are up against, and must firmly renounce.
I can't think of a better way for the Party of No to shoot themselves in the foot than to torpedo a bill to support veterans regarding toxic exposure. It's purely expedient; a knee-jerk reaction to being outplayed on other political points using whatever they could pick up in front of them. There's dread on the mall; senators and representatives are beginning to do the gut check on their chances of riding that MAGA wave versus abandoning a sinking ship with the rest of the non-MAGA conservative/moderate/independent sectors of the electorate. Even with a short public memory, we're close enough to the midterms now that electorate will recall recent votes that evoked emotions of betrayal of principle when their representatives act out of spite or political posturing rather than based on what their voters are telling them. They're just opening up a hornets nest on the very issues that they are supposed to own. It's now becoming the democrats mid-term election to lose with so many issues that are popular with a broad section of the electorate either rejected by the Party of No, or passing with increasing numbers of moderate republican defections from the party leadership.
It's hard to understand what is happening with the two Democratic senator hold-outs other than to wonder if their voters are making themselves heard as well. Perhaps their donors are talking. I can't think of any more powerful influences that would move Manchin and Sinema out of the spoiler role they have played with the Dems. I am no daring to hope that we may see a broad turning of the tide; popular opinion(that means the mainstream press) moving in favor of the party in power, a breakdown of solidarity amongst the republicans and the unraveling of the MAGA grip on conservatives. I can't imagine it will be a smooth ride into the mid-terms, more like a major cat fight, but all that matters are the final tallies when the voting is over.
Manchin is a rich conservative from way back. Sinema sold herself after getting elected as a progressive. Neither is going to change for us. We need to elect more Senators to get a working majority for the legislation we need, filibuster be damned.
I have made the irrelevance of Manchin in Nov my hill to die on. Others have too.
It would make my day to see that supercilious 'senator' and his yacht sailing out of Chesapeake bay for the last time.
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"It's hard to understand what is happening with the two Democratic senator hold-outs other than to wonder if their voters are making themselves heard as well. Perhaps their donors are talking.."
"But the main culprit, the cancer on the body politic, is money: Money, money, money. When I ran 6 years ago, in 1998, I raised $8.5 million. That $8.5 million is $30,000 a week, every week, for 6 years. If you miss Christmas week, you miss New Years week, you are $100,000 in the hole and don't you think we don't know it and we start to work harder at raising money. As a result, the Senate doesn't work on Mondays and Fridays. We have longer holidays. The policy committee is adjourned and we go over to the campaign building because you can't call for money in the office. So we go over to the building and call for money and obviously we only can give attention to that. We don't have time for each other. We don't have time for constituents, except for the givers. Somebody ought to tell the truth about that." - Former Sen. Fritz Hollings
Ronald Reagan's economic mentor, Milton Friedman said (and wrote a famous thesis about):
"The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits."
So if a corporation is a person, that person is a sociopath. You see it reflected in the past CEO of CBS' remarks on the candidacy of Trump:
“It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/
You see in puerile "GOP" government shutdowns. Tradition has it that "the love of money" which, I take to be an exclusionary obsession with it, "is the root of all evil". That's Reaganomics; what we are up against, and must firmly renounce.