“It’s called precedent,” the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.

  • @Trev625@lemm.ee
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    31 year ago

    Why should Dems follow all the rules when repubs don’t? If anyone cares about the rule, they should have punished the previous committee leaders even though they have an R by their name.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      -41 year ago

      The same reason Dems should do a SHITLOAD of things differently than the Republicans: because they’re better and more honest or at least pretending to be.

            • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              They’re not being taken advantage of. They’re CHOOSING to not use powers they legitimately have in order to protect their owner donors from what they, the Dem leadership, say in public that they want to do.

              Like back when they “had to” take the minimum wage increase that the vast majority of the population wants out of the infrastructure bill because one unelected bureaucrat didn’t think it was a budget item 🙄

              • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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                21 year ago

                Ok fair, that was a misnomer. They are definitely not being taken advantage of.

                That being said, what exactly do you think should be happening? Because I think things are escalating because of decisions made by reps, and dems have to do something in response no?

    • IzzyScissor
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      -41 year ago

      Because rules are how society works. If both parties agree to throw out the rules… we don’t have a democracy anymore.

      • @Confused_Emus@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        So it’s turn the other cheek bullshit? They’ve had my left, right, and both ass cheeks. There are no cheeks left to turn.

        • @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          21 year ago

          Love when people have that argument. I always politely remind them that we didn’t just turn all of our cheeks to Hitler and hope he stopped. At a certain point you gotta go all in.

      • Doc Avid Mornington
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        31 year ago

        If one party ignores the rules, while the other party follows them, the party with no regard for the rules will take all the power, and we definitely won’t have a democracy anymore.