GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
It's about time Dems started using the same tactics the GOP uses. Whiny hypocrites can't stand when the tables are turned.
Still I understand why they hesitate. It basically drags our government permanently into shitty behavior. This is why they don't start this stuff but reluctantly utilize it. You don't want to be known as the guy going for the balls but if that is how the opponent is going to fight whelp then I guess we are ballers.
Democracy is a fist fight. I've grown tired watching Democrats spend their time wringing hands and clutching pearls.
THIS? This is good stuff. Get in the fray, fight for what's right, for us, for results. I'm enjoying this.
This is a good opportunity to do it, and very calculated. Skipping the discussion portion would have no impact as it wouldn't have changed the vote, and it's the third discussion, so two already occurred. Its a "safe" way to demonstrate rules can't be dodged by one side.
Nope. Same rules should apply for both. They should not be the least bit reluctant to use the same tools the Republicans do. If the Republicans are breaking rules then the Democrats need to break the same rules. If the Republicans don't like it, they can stop breaking the rules whenever they feel like it.
I think until anyone in government sees consequences of their actions then nothing will change. If it's used against them, maybe they'll help legislate against it
Hear fuckin hear my friend! It's about damn time!
When Blackburn said again she wanted to talk, Cotton interjected, “Now I guess Sen. Durbin is not going to allow women to speak either. I thought that was sacrosanct in your party!”
Man, they thoroughly do not understand equality.
The GOP leadership consists of extremely manipulative sociopaths; they will say literally anything to benefit themselves or hurt others. They will weaponize anything with no shame and no hesitation. Everything they do is in bad faith.
Equality? They understand it but don't want it. Equality and fairness is the opposite of what they aspire to. They view themselves as better and therefore rules should benefit them and hurt others, to paraphrase the well known quote.
"The GOP leadership consists of extremely manipulative sociopaths"
A-fucking-men.
Understand this and you understand everything the GOP leadership says. It's never good faith, ever.
Why would I want equality when I'm better than all these assholes?
---any republican
They are not fools. They are evil. We will be fools if we do not internalize that reality.
They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.
“Cotton got so mad he started talking about himself in the third person.
“Mr. Cotton says the chairman needs to rethink his decision,” said Cotton, as his name came up in the roll call. “That’s what Mr. Cotton says.””
Lmao imagine getting you mad about the same tactics you supported, that you refer to yourself in the 3rd person.
I think from that point on I would refuse to call him any thing other than Mr Cotton, and always in a drawn out child-story like way.
Mr. Cotton: "How dare you use Mr. Cotton's dirty tricks against Mr. Cotton!"
Mr Cotton is getting upset!
George is getting upset!
Doesn't donnie do that all the time?
Though I wonder if he does it from habit due to all those years pretending to be John Barron, etc...
Cotton's pronouns are Cotton and Cotton. I wonder how Teddy feels about that.
To be fair, you'd get a bit confused if you killed fiddy men too.
That's weird. When the right is gaslighting others about injecting deeply radical activist judges into the system, they claim that judges should just be calling balls and strikes and so on. And now they are screaming about what are most likely center-right judges, LOL.
The butthurt is strong with the GOP, that's for sure.
once you assume that everything they say and do is about manipulating the system to gain as much power as possible, then using that power to reward loyalists and inflict violence on people they don't like, everything starts to make sense. at this point the republican party is an attempt at a junta in the US.
Once you realize that they don't give a damn about the rules you know how to deal with them.
Vote all of them out.
They just have no morals only self enrichment. They aren't butt hurt, they are evil.
This article totally misses the point: they didn't care about the judges. They were trying to run out the clock to prevent subpoenas of major conservative donors to the Supreme Court from getting out of committee.
Republicans generally count on news media missing the point of their shenanigans.
Clarence is trying to fuck around without finding out. I hope he finds out.
Push them through Durbin up until the very last minute! Republicans made new rules to follow of their own accord previously so follow them.
This is awesome.
My takeaway here is: never go full petard
Wait, peter is the verb 'to fart ' in French? Oh man. I know a couple of Peters and don't like either. This is great.
I understand the point but man I’m having a hard time reading the 4 frames of comic. That sentence makes no sense no matter what order I read it in.
Some children hate their logic thrown back at them.
Putting all pieces and cards back in a hurry and taking the monopoly box home kind-of political strategy.
I kind of wish everyone who set foot in that room was fitted with a device that electrically zaps them every time they say some disingenuous bullshit. It's always so uncomfortable to watch, and they know exactly what they're doing.
I was saying the other day we need a neutral third party the hangs around Congress and every time they do something unconstitutional or stupid, the whole
classroom has to watch Schoolhouse Rock episodes about civics.Every time.
Dick Durbin is a funny name.
It sounds like a noir, private eye name. Dick Armey is weirder though.
NH had a Dick Swett too.
Dick Armey is still a more disturbing image though.
He’s like, evil Rick Rubin
Dirk Diggler vibes
Reverse UNO.
I reject modern political labels but would say I lean slightly right. Over the years I’ve wrote to many of our politicians but Mr. Durbin is the only one who actually gave me the time of day, and for that he has my respect.
Same, actually. He's the only office I've gotten a response from that shows my letter was actually read. Everyone else just sends the generic canned reply back.
Big "of COURSE two wrongs make a right" energy in this article and comment section 🤦
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.
Well...a wrong is a negative thing. Two wrongs would be a double negative. A double negative is a positive and a positive thing is a right. Therefore two wrongs do in fact make a right. (Please note: I don't believe this and an just using words recreationally)
Its not the multiplicative of wrongs its just the summation. If you rob a bank and also commit wire fraud that person isn't responsible for a wire fraud worth of bank robberies. In fact, that statement is nonsense. Two wrongs add up having done more wrong.
Careful about using words recreationally, that shit can be habit-forming!
Sincerely, wordplay addict and loving it 😁
This does not make me happy.
This is why using precedent and RROO is bad mojo for US American parliamentarianism. Very few act in good faith for a legal fiction that is the United States of America. And when the leader, the person in The Office Of The President, acts in bad faith we are fucked for generations if not permanently.
Now the representatives are abandoning their structure and tradition because the other side did, too.
We are done here.
The Hard Left needs to consider revolution.
edit: maybe i don't mean the revolution ... but the Senate of Rome became vestigial doing the same thing.
The question for me is this: who will be our person to go from Octavianus to Octavian in front of the world ?
I doesn't make me happy either, it's also the right thing for them to do in the circumstance. They can't pretend as though things didn't change, as consequences of the recent decades of Republican treachery.
It's tough to see a way out.
Though tempted to view these breaches of precedent by Republicans in isolation, I have to remind myself that the reasons they wanted to do so and got away with it are systemic. I mean, years ago, some of these things might have resulted in pressure from their own constituents. The Republicans have been chipping away at everything for decades to sculpt the nation into a shape that enables them to act with impunity. You can trace the progression in Congress starting with, say, Newt Gingrich. It's like an abusive sociopath overstepping boundaries little by little until they're in complete control.
That said, there was a time when politics broke out in fist fights. Thinking long term, it may not always be like this. But we can't expect a single election, or mere voting, to fix this.
Now the representatives are abandoning their structure and tradition because the other side did, too.
So the Democrats should just keep adhering to rules that allow the Republicans to block their every move despite the fact that the Republicans ignore those rules whenever they see an advantage to doing so?
That foolish mindset is why we now have the judicial cluster fuck which is putting our very Democracy is at risk. We are in a fight for our lives and freedoms and you don't go into such a fight with your hands tied behind your back. It is long past time the Democrats should have come out swinging.
US American parliamentarianism
USA does not have a parliament.
the leader, the person in The Office Of The President
The POTUS specifically is NOT the leader. That’s the whole point of checks and balances; the three branches of government are equal in power and can veto each others. This very different of other countries with a Parliament system.
USA does not have a parliament.
George Clinton and Bootsy Collins would disagree.