Yeah, the decision gets appealed - to the court that wants to overthrow the government.
If there isn't some way to get enough Senators to allow a court expansion - which given the way the Senate works is close to impossible now - the country is a ship headed for the rocks. The useful (i.e. blue) states will take to the lifeboats in the fo…
Yeah, the decision gets appealed - to the court that wants to overthrow the government.
If there isn't some way to get enough Senators to allow a court expansion - which given the way the Senate works is close to impossible now - the country is a ship headed for the rocks. The useful (i.e. blue) states will take to the lifeboats in the form of secession, leaving the rest to sink when their blue state tax payment welfare gets cut off.
We are going to do the same. We had our primary election in Oregon Tuesday and I was thinking that it is time to make a list for donations both here and across the country. As an aside we are still waiting for the results on Schrader's fate. His opponent is ahead, but... The county clerk in Clackastan (Clackamus County) knew two weeks before that there was a printing problem, but didn't do enough to take care of that. I don't know how long it was take because they are taking the original ballot (two people, one from each party doing this) and marking a new ballot that can fed into the machine. The county has offered other county workers to help. We do have a three woman governor's race now. Flannel shirt crypto financed Carrick Flynn lost and we have a Latina woman as the D candidate for the new CD six.
It surged at the last minute....I want to say around 30 percent or so which is miserable, but better than the 10 percent or so we were seeing late in the game. Lots came in the mail because the ballot only had to be postmarked on the 18th, so could arrive the next day. Drop boxes saw lots of last minute activity too. We voted the weekend after we got the ballots. Had to take the ballots to the post office as someone ripped the front off our community mail box. It is finally fixed and we got our keys just this week.
You might argue that the same Senate blockade that would preclude a Supreme Court expansion might also preclude a number-of-states expansion (specifically the addition of Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, maybe New York City, and *perhaps* some Pacific Islands); however, I think that were R states faced with the cutting off of the McConnell-states’ trough (and the prospect of unwinnable civil war) versus allowing an expansion of the country not the court, most would accede, changing the playing field radically while preserving the face they apparently need to save above all else.
Agree 100%, Laura. Also about expansion of state rights to territories….especially Puerto Rico and DC.
And you are on target about Sen McConnell. He continues to be more in the position of between a rock and a hard place. I cannot remember a President or elected official that created circumstance that makes it so difficult to walk the political high wire “do what I say, not what I do”. I swear, every time I watch McConnell speak, there is a more vacuous attitude swirling around him.
If anyone wants to throw a few $$$ to Cheri Beasley here in NC running for Sen Burr’s Senate seat, I’m sure she’d appreciate it. Check her out. She’s a wonderful candidate 💛.
TC, I can't leave the US like some readers here have done, but I confess to sometimes wishing exactly what you mention. I got so frustrated with the anti-maskers and anti-vax people that I would think, OKAY then, just do what you want and die! But, as a retired healthcare worker, I knew that we MUST attempt to protect the vulnerable. And my poor, vulnerable vaxed & boosted brother (who had not left his senior living facility room in over a year)--COVID came to visit and took him this past January. This pandemic has to end at some point (when, Lord knows!) and I wish this madness in the GQP would end (but I am doubtful) but in either case, I will NOT forget which party is responsible for the mess this country is in. And this never-before-vote-straight-ticket voter will act accordingly.
Thanks Ally. I'd written about it on here prior. He was in the moderate stages of dementia. He was sinking but nowhere near death. He had aphasia so he couldn't communicate at all. In a way, his suffering was ended. I was too afraid to visit him at the end (I was with him the day before he was diagnosed and knew something was wrong, but he couldn't tell me, so I was in isolation anyhow) I am just sad that his adult kids had to gown, mask and face shield to be with him, but at least, they were allowed to be with him. Many, if not most, had to say goodbye via phone.
Ahh, I had not made that connection. We are going through the dementia drama with my father-in-law right now. There are literally no resources for him in a 300 mile radius. We’ve had 2 potential placements fall through this week; have a decision coming on a third today.
I feel for you. My brother was in Assisted LIving, when he went, his aphasia was bad but he still had a small (very) vocabulary. He was able to go to p/t there, speech therapy, to the dining room (he had a key chain with tags of photos of what he wanted to eat, as the words often failed him). Three months later, COVID hit. For many months, no visitors at all were allowed. It was IMPOSSIBLE to explain to him, he had little verbal comprehension. I didn't see him for a year. The residents stayed in their rooms, and his decline sped up. By the time I was vaxed and could visit, he could say single words, sometimes a sentence fragment. I'd bring him favorite meals (the food there was not awful, but not appetizing, and he couldn't fill out forms to order anything. They were short staffed, nobody to help him) His dementia seemed to be increasing but they would not transfer him into their dementia unit as "he isn't an escape risk." !!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, girl, I have sooooo many stories.
Long story short, he was a veteran and with some help, my niece got him on hospice (pulling a few strings and a kind hospice RN who knew how to word things) which helped tremendously. The staff at the place said he was belligerent and just left him alone--he was belligerent because he didn't understand words and the staff wasn't trained to handle him.
I digress. It was heartbreaking, the number of times I yelled at the staff (NOT MY PERSONALITY) or left sobbing.......
The "human warehousing" of the elderly in this country is appalling! I hope you can find a placement. I can totally believe you have to go outside of 300 miles, and realistically, how often can you and/or your wife then travel that far to go check on him? I wish that my brother could have aged at home or with family, but sometimes that is just not possible for the care that our loved ones require.
Ally, that’s hard too. I am so very sorry. My dad had had dementia and my mom kept him at home. It took a toll on her life too. My sister and I tried to intervene, get help for her to take care of him. She wouldn’t hear of it. He passed away a year after their 50th anniversary, in 1997. She lived until January 2006, brain fully intact but the body couldn’t keep up. My best to you and your partner also.
Miselle, I am sorry for the loss of your brother. I will also vote the straight Democratic ticket (have done for years now). Even though I am not sure it will really help.
I'm so sorry to hear that about your brother. I wonder which anti-vax scumbag among those charged with his care who wouldn't take care was responsible for the death.
Oh Miselle, so painful to hear about your brother’s loss. I too, lost my best friend of 47 years last November. Not to Covid but to cancer. It hurts. Thank you for giving of yourself as a healthcare worker. One of the most difficult jobs these days. My best to you.
Biden must follow FDR’s threat to expand the Court to iron out these discrepancies. Wish he had proposed this sooner but good grief, the man has a multitude of problems on his plate!!
FDR’s threat of court expansion worked then, but I think we are in more danger than the 1930’s. The house and senate must maintain majorities to maintain the balance of our system. SCOTUS must be expanded to even have an appearance of balance. Are we heading to the deep waters in the fight against the one party authoritarian state?
Yeah, the decision gets appealed - to the court that wants to overthrow the government.
If there isn't some way to get enough Senators to allow a court expansion - which given the way the Senate works is close to impossible now - the country is a ship headed for the rocks. The useful (i.e. blue) states will take to the lifeboats in the form of secession, leaving the rest to sink when their blue state tax payment welfare gets cut off.
If both non-delegation and the Senate filibuster prevail, democracy will indeed be shipwrecked.
...compliments of the Party of NO
The Republicans have won the grandest prize of them all; the Supreme Court.
Do you really think they will just give it away?
Not in our lifetime. Not with Manchin and Sinema in their pocket.
Baring a surprise flip of three or more Senate seats at midterms it’s not happening.
Why I will donate til I bleed to the three senate candidates with the best chance of winning.
Perfect. You inspired me to donate more. Although more never seems enough .
We are going to do the same. We had our primary election in Oregon Tuesday and I was thinking that it is time to make a list for donations both here and across the country. As an aside we are still waiting for the results on Schrader's fate. His opponent is ahead, but... The county clerk in Clackastan (Clackamus County) knew two weeks before that there was a printing problem, but didn't do enough to take care of that. I don't know how long it was take because they are taking the original ballot (two people, one from each party doing this) and marking a new ballot that can fed into the machine. The county has offered other county workers to help. We do have a three woman governor's race now. Flannel shirt crypto financed Carrick Flynn lost and we have a Latina woman as the D candidate for the new CD six.
Michele, do you know yet what the voter turnout rate was?
It surged at the last minute....I want to say around 30 percent or so which is miserable, but better than the 10 percent or so we were seeing late in the game. Lots came in the mail because the ballot only had to be postmarked on the 18th, so could arrive the next day. Drop boxes saw lots of last minute activity too. We voted the weekend after we got the ballots. Had to take the ballots to the post office as someone ripped the front off our community mail box. It is finally fixed and we got our keys just this week.
30% is discouraging. Thanks for the report. It will help motivate me to keep writing get-out-the-vote postcards.
Is it time for a list of the best and most necessary wins to be said out loud here?
I would like to see a list.
And the Democrats must also maintain control of the House after midterms.
Both events happening? Possible but how likely?
too damned true
You might argue that the same Senate blockade that would preclude a Supreme Court expansion might also preclude a number-of-states expansion (specifically the addition of Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, maybe New York City, and *perhaps* some Pacific Islands); however, I think that were R states faced with the cutting off of the McConnell-states’ trough (and the prospect of unwinnable civil war) versus allowing an expansion of the country not the court, most would accede, changing the playing field radically while preserving the face they apparently need to save above all else.
Dems would need to make the two Trojan Horses into real Democrats, good luck on that.
Exactly, Jeri
Agree 100%, Laura. Also about expansion of state rights to territories….especially Puerto Rico and DC.
And you are on target about Sen McConnell. He continues to be more in the position of between a rock and a hard place. I cannot remember a President or elected official that created circumstance that makes it so difficult to walk the political high wire “do what I say, not what I do”. I swear, every time I watch McConnell speak, there is a more vacuous attitude swirling around him.
Salud, Laura.
He is a destroyer as much as death star. I loathe that man. Oh, and one of the people we will be donating to is Randy Paul's opponent.
Rand Paul, that POS! He’s batshit crazy!
Anyone named after Ayn Rand is bound to have problems.
If anyone wants to throw a few $$$ to Cheri Beasley here in NC running for Sen Burr’s Senate seat, I’m sure she’d appreciate it. Check her out. She’s a wonderful candidate 💛.
I wish he was 6 feet under a few rocks.
I wish I shared your optimism about my fellow Americans, but I don't.
TC, I can't leave the US like some readers here have done, but I confess to sometimes wishing exactly what you mention. I got so frustrated with the anti-maskers and anti-vax people that I would think, OKAY then, just do what you want and die! But, as a retired healthcare worker, I knew that we MUST attempt to protect the vulnerable. And my poor, vulnerable vaxed & boosted brother (who had not left his senior living facility room in over a year)--COVID came to visit and took him this past January. This pandemic has to end at some point (when, Lord knows!) and I wish this madness in the GQP would end (but I am doubtful) but in either case, I will NOT forget which party is responsible for the mess this country is in. And this never-before-vote-straight-ticket voter will act accordingly.
I'm so sorry you lost your bother, Miselle. You must be furious at the anti-vax and anti-mask covidiots.
I’m sorry for your brother’s senseless death.
Thanks Ally. I'd written about it on here prior. He was in the moderate stages of dementia. He was sinking but nowhere near death. He had aphasia so he couldn't communicate at all. In a way, his suffering was ended. I was too afraid to visit him at the end (I was with him the day before he was diagnosed and knew something was wrong, but he couldn't tell me, so I was in isolation anyhow) I am just sad that his adult kids had to gown, mask and face shield to be with him, but at least, they were allowed to be with him. Many, if not most, had to say goodbye via phone.
Ahh, I had not made that connection. We are going through the dementia drama with my father-in-law right now. There are literally no resources for him in a 300 mile radius. We’ve had 2 potential placements fall through this week; have a decision coming on a third today.
I feel for you. My brother was in Assisted LIving, when he went, his aphasia was bad but he still had a small (very) vocabulary. He was able to go to p/t there, speech therapy, to the dining room (he had a key chain with tags of photos of what he wanted to eat, as the words often failed him). Three months later, COVID hit. For many months, no visitors at all were allowed. It was IMPOSSIBLE to explain to him, he had little verbal comprehension. I didn't see him for a year. The residents stayed in their rooms, and his decline sped up. By the time I was vaxed and could visit, he could say single words, sometimes a sentence fragment. I'd bring him favorite meals (the food there was not awful, but not appetizing, and he couldn't fill out forms to order anything. They were short staffed, nobody to help him) His dementia seemed to be increasing but they would not transfer him into their dementia unit as "he isn't an escape risk." !!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, girl, I have sooooo many stories.
Long story short, he was a veteran and with some help, my niece got him on hospice (pulling a few strings and a kind hospice RN who knew how to word things) which helped tremendously. The staff at the place said he was belligerent and just left him alone--he was belligerent because he didn't understand words and the staff wasn't trained to handle him.
I digress. It was heartbreaking, the number of times I yelled at the staff (NOT MY PERSONALITY) or left sobbing.......
The "human warehousing" of the elderly in this country is appalling! I hope you can find a placement. I can totally believe you have to go outside of 300 miles, and realistically, how often can you and/or your wife then travel that far to go check on him? I wish that my brother could have aged at home or with family, but sometimes that is just not possible for the care that our loved ones require.
You’re describing exactly what we’re experiencing. Nothing local, no real Veterans assistance. It’s discouraging.
Ally, that’s hard too. I am so very sorry. My dad had had dementia and my mom kept him at home. It took a toll on her life too. My sister and I tried to intervene, get help for her to take care of him. She wouldn’t hear of it. He passed away a year after their 50th anniversary, in 1997. She lived until January 2006, brain fully intact but the body couldn’t keep up. My best to you and your partner also.
I'm sorry, Ally.
I'm sorry, Miselle.
Miselle, I am sorry for the loss of your brother. I will also vote the straight Democratic ticket (have done for years now). Even though I am not sure it will really help.
It might not help, but it definitely won't hurt. :-)
I'm so sorry to hear that about your brother. I wonder which anti-vax scumbag among those charged with his care who wouldn't take care was responsible for the death.
Oh Miselle, so painful to hear about your brother’s loss. I too, lost my best friend of 47 years last November. Not to Covid but to cancer. It hurts. Thank you for giving of yourself as a healthcare worker. One of the most difficult jobs these days. My best to you.
Biden must follow FDR’s threat to expand the Court to iron out these discrepancies. Wish he had proposed this sooner but good grief, the man has a multitude of problems on his plate!!
You can't do that without the congressional votes in hand to back up the threat.
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FDR’s threat of court expansion worked then, but I think we are in more danger than the 1930’s. The house and senate must maintain majorities to maintain the balance of our system. SCOTUS must be expanded to even have an appearance of balance. Are we heading to the deep waters in the fight against the one party authoritarian state?
FDR had congressional majorities to back up his threat. We don't.
We're not heading into the deep waters. We're there! In a leaky canoe.
Maybe, but I do feel Biden should still make that statement.
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