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For the most part, nominees aren’t subject to filibuster; the most that the Democrats can do is to slow the pace of approvals to a crawl, which they should have been doing from day 1. Next best time to do it for every nominee is today.
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Will it be a yet another strongly worded letter?
This was the final straw for him? Really??
Maybe he wanted that jet lol
My exact thought. I can not stand the current Democratic Party. They are deporting and imprisoning American citizens without due process and the straw that broke the camels back is a fucking jet.
I’m sure it benefits Israel in some way or he wouldn’t be doing it at all.
Oh boy, that’ll show em.
Unfortunately gumming up the Senate is about the only tool a minority has
Unfortunately, democrats only use that tool when they have the majority and only talk about using it when they don’t.
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He should’ve been doing that ages ago and with more intensity
For sure. But I’ll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never
I would define right now as for all intents and purposes essentially “never” in this context.
It would have been nice if he’d already been slowing the nominees over their lack of qualifications and their fascist ideologies.
Ground Chuck, it’s a little too late to curry favor.
Fascism will surely be defeated by “slowing the nomination process”. Well, I guess it’s something. Sigh.
If the midterms were held tomorrow I think the GOP would lose their majority (in at least one chamber). They need time to implement policies and rules that will either make voting harder or outright pointless (state legislators have floated the idea of straight up overriding the votes of their citizens). They have lots of time to fuck shit up, but they need that time all the same.
If the midterms were held tomorrow I think the GOP would lose their majority (in at least one chamber)
I dunno. I bet democrats could find a way to fuck things up between now and tomorrow.
At least he’s stopped happily voting for it.
He’s talked big and caved before.
Would he act this way if the plane was offered by e.g.
TaiwanIsrael?A bribe is a bribe is a bribe, even if we can only see one of the quid and the quo.
No, I mean, because it’s given by Qatar and he’s israel’s paladin. Maybe this one finally got him suspicious
More like Fuck Schumer
Strongly worded letter to follow.
With FOUR tough questions this time.
Let’s not get this confused, he is doing this now because Trump negotiated a hostage release and undercut Israel in the negotiation. It couldn’t be more obvious unless he said “the only acceptable course of action is to sell the plane and send the money to Israel for weapons”
Thanks for finally doing the right thing five months late. Not really promising, but if you at least arent lying about this that’ll be one good thing this congress has done in their lives.
Feckless Schumer
What’s he going to do? Write another letter?
Make a few milquetoast gestures, then completely cave instead of listening to what his angry constituents are saying like a spineless little shitbag?
I really hope AOC primaries him
I hope all of these clowns get primaried. In fact, getting primaried should just be a given for every candidate. People are denied more choice otherwise.
Not stop them or anything useful… just slow them; maybe keep them out of the news cycle entirely.
There aren’t enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.
Seems like that would’ve been a GREAT strategy 100-some odds days ago.
It sure is neat how republicans can reliably stop democrats no matter how large a majority democrats have, but it never seems to work the other way.
They couldn’t during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.
Which is why the national minimum wage is no longer 7.25 and BBB passed.
BBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.
The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.
And centrists ran on the inflation reduction act in 2024, with no shame at all for what they stole from us. Because killing everything that had a direct tangible benefit to voters (except lowering the price of 10 drugs for boomers on medicare) was democrats’ accomplishment.
Go ahead. Tell me how all the corporate handouts in the law will help individuals. Trickle down economics is so great.
The Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.
But how will This Help with the Democratic Plan of Do Nothing And Let People Suffer?
Get 'em Shumdawg!
