Sinema: Democrats, you made Republican Daddy do it
Among all the smooth-brained gobbledygook, listen to this abuser-enabling perspective (from the 12:46 mark):Efforts to fix these problems on a bare majority party line will only succeed in exacerbating...
View ArticleMeaningful news articles and quotes, Feb. 2024
This post is a collection of links to political articles and social media posts, with quoted passages from them, that I encountered over the past month and found to be particularly significant. Hope...
View ArticleBiden, get back on the campaign trail right now
Biden condemns 'sick' Trump shooting, campaign suspends ads By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose, Reuters, July 13, 2024A Biden campaign official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the...
View ArticleWhat would actually unite the country? Total, crushing Republican defeat.
Know what would actually heal and unite the country?The complete and utter electoral defeat of fascist Republicans, at every level. Think end-of-the-Civil-War-Confederate-grade defeat.Then aggressive,...
View ArticleArticles of Impeachment for Pres. Trump as of Jan. 22, 2025
1. He pardoned and commuted the sentences of hundreds of people who committed insurrection on his behalf on and leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.2. He ordered the Department of Justice to stop efforts to...
View ArticleThe Schumer/Jeffries "Stop the Steal" bill announcement yesterday is a very...
“Today, Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems and protect Americans across the country,” Schumer said...
View ArticleSOTU: Dems should show that Trump/Musk must go
The better Democratic congresspeople are skipping the state of the union address, because Democratic leadership is stepping on their leverage if they went. A Democratic Party leadership worthy of the...
View ArticleEstablishment Democrats stage a "come to Caesar" moment for progressives
Rep. Jeffries’s letter to colleagues before the fascist rant that was the “state of the union address:”“Given my responsibilities in the House, I plan to attend the speech, along with other members of...
View ArticleWhat it means if Senate Dems don't filibuster the spending resolution
Right now Talking Points Memo has Coons, Kaine, Kim, Markey, Murray, Sanders, Slotkin, and Warren against the spending resolution (“continuing resolution” being a misnomer), Fetterman for it (vile...
View ArticleFate of the USA (& world) is in your hands now, Senate Dems. Don't f**k it...
Senate Democrats, you know all of that “dry powder” that you’ve been socking away for a quarter century? Know how you’ve preserved the (cursed) filibuster for when it is supposed to really matter?Now...
View ArticleAdmit it, Schumer fans: If he filibustered the CR into shutdown, you'd have...
Looking at posts like these and comments in kind on other posts, had Sen. Schumer led the Senate Democrats in filibustering the vile Republican budget into a government shutdown until the Republicans...
View ArticleSo Chuck, what are you going to do when Trump crosses your red line?
Democratic Senate Caucus Leader Chuck Schumer recently said that the USA isn’t in a constitutional crisis yet, not until Trump directly violates a Supreme Court ruling.Let’s put aside for a moment an...
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