Seth takes a closer look at Senate Democrats clearing a procedural hurdle to pass their COVID-19 relief bill after moderate Senators demand limits to the bill’s eligibilities.
Trump DOJ declined to investigate Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell’s wife
Mitch voted to acquit Trump
The Q in GQP stands for Quid Pro Quo— Lindy Li (@lindyli) March 3, 2021
What the fuck is up with these “moderate” Democrats?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 5, 2021
I can’t believe this is going to trial:
The trial of a Des Moines Register reporter who was arrested covering racial justice protests last summer begins next week in what experts said is a rare criminal prosecution of a journalist on assignment in the USA. https://t.co/P16vwZE3wn— Emmanuel Felton (@emmanuelfelton) March 4, 2021
From Pompeo’s Madison dinners and errands to Elaine Chao’s personal tasks to Scott Pruitt… you almost get the idea it was grifters as far as the eye could see…. a fish rots from the head, eh?
— Jennifer ‘pro-reality’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 4, 2021
re: #2 Charles Johnson
All I can think is that everyone with a (D) after their name is so goddam traumatized by 2010, and the way Fox News was able to convince Americans that THEIR HEALTH CARE WAS BEING TAKEN AWAY BY SOCIALISTS!!!
… that they’re afraid to take decisive action in anything other than a +14 D district.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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The Republicans aren’t going to allow a militant center, so the Democrats are going to do it.
Seriously, though, the Republican party has no room for moderates and the Democratic party is the “not the Republicans” party, so we get all of them.
Covid is no joke. One former patient was so brain damaged afterwards he thought he won an election that he lost by 8 million votes.
— Mike Bennett Blue Wave 2020 🌊 (@ImpeachTrump012) March 5, 2021
It’s not WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS it is WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH JOE FUCKING MANCHIN?
“Vermin.” That’s the word she’s searching for, vermin. https://t.co/eBw2M1S9p5
— tom choad (@tomablogger) March 5, 2021
re: #2 Charles Johnson
They are going to make sure that Republicans retake Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024 by refusing to help President Biden get anything done. His agenda dies in the Senate. A failure to pass voting rights legislation will ensure Republican dominance.
What exactly is involved in killing the filibuster? It needs to die if democracy is to survive. Otherwise, it’s obstructionist politics til the next election, Dems lose, and it’s hello Nazi Germany. Simple as that.
Those li’l pecan pies I made last week were so good I made another batch. pic.twitter.com/xVOab43N6J
— Liddle Pecan Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 5, 2021
1. Dylan McDermont
2. Bob Crane
3. Rosalind Russell
4. Annie Leibovitz (I think she left as an infant)
Not sure who is “the most” famous.— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 5, 2021
Charlie Bronson and Lou Christie.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 5, 2021
BREAKING/SCOOP: FBI has arrested 1st Trump appointee in connection with #Capitol Riot. Freddie Klein worked on Trump 2016 campaign then landed a ‘special assistant’ job at State. ‘Fred’s politics run a little hot,’ his mother said https://t.co/nCSBQR6VHA
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) March 5, 2021
OK, I’ve kinda tried to stay quiet recently about Glenn Greenwald because he’s mostly a troll. But he’s been headed towards Third Positionism for a while, and seeing him embrace that during an interview with The Daily Caller was just a little too perfect.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) March 5, 2021
Buddy Holly. Btw, televangelist Kenneth Copeland was born in the same town and in the same year as Buddy. Buddy has been gone 62 years now while Copeland is still with us, proving once again that there just ain’t no justice.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) March 5, 2021
re: #18 William Lewis
Depending on how you count “town”….
Susan B. Anthony, George Eastman for the city. (More recently, Lou Gramm of Foreigner?)
For the actual suburb where I live, Kristen Wiig, but she only lived here a few years in high school. (And was painfully shy, believe it or not!)
Just past 7PM here on the West Coast…and Joe is STILL President!
Randall Tex Cobb
Jessica Simpson
Frss Parker
Ann Wedgeworth
re: #21 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Benji and Joel Madden of the rock band Good Charlotte were born in my city.
Beyoncé
Simone Biles
Barbara Jordan
Billy Gibbons
Patrick Swayze
Kenny Rogers
A. J. Foyt
Howard Hughes
Jeff Bezos
David Koresh
We know why North Carolina QAPers won’t censure their little Nazi Pal!
N.C. Republicans censured their senior senator for voting against Trump. But they are silent on Rep. Madison Cawthorn.
But the same QAPers censured Burr…
re: #19 Patricia Kayden
He’s been Third Position since forever. He just feels safe revealing that. I’ll bet he’s been like that since he defended Matt Hale.
Jonathan demme
Taylor Dane
Dee Snyder
body by Jake- oh you said famous
also
Bob Beckwith, FDNY veteran, stood next to President George W. Bush during a speech at the World Trade Center after 9/11
re: #10 The Pie Overlord!
It’s not WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS it is WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH JOE FUCKING MANCHIN?
Uhm, and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KYRSTEN SINEMA?
$1400 won’t even pay rent on a 2 bed apartment in Phoenix.
The clerks earn about $30,000 or so a year. @RonJohnsonWI is forcing them to stay in the Capitol basically all night reading a bill they don’t have to, and that the public can simply find online if they want to, while his $174,000-a-year tax-paid behind is safe and comfy at home. https://t.co/Vt1UPrZZiy
— Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) March 5, 2021
re: #33 mmmirele
Uhm, and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KYRSTEN SINEMA?
$1400 won’t even pay rent on a 2 bed apartment in Phoenix.
Last time I got the Charlie Brown treatment—I got a rock.
That’s why I didn’t expect anything this time…
re: #34 jaunte
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you call for the point of procedure you should damn well have to be there for all of it whatever it is. you asked for it
or they can stop when you leave works for me too
re: #16 🌹UOJB!
For the town I was born in (Richmond, CA): Les Claypool and Larry Lalond of Primus.
For the town I lived in until I was 12 (Concord, CA): Tom Hanks was born there.
Houston, Texas (on and off 1970s-1990s): The current mayor, Sylvester Turner, not just graduated from my high school in 1973, but he was the student body president and valedictorian. Which was quite something in a 96 percent white school district.
Austin, Texas (1980s-1990s on and off): too many people to count.
Salt Lake City (1990s): uhmmm, quite a few people as well.
For the city I now live in (Mesa, AZ): Buck Owens was a resident as a teenager. Also, the disgusting senator from Utah, Mike Lee, was born here.
Santa Monica Goebbels is really very triggered and mad
pic.twitter.com/Zkh3g769fh— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 5, 2021
And on today’s latest episode of STUPID TREK…
Mike Lindell leads a stadium full of people in pillow prayer… h/t @JaredPushner pic.twitter.com/tlfiLkAbWm
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) March 4, 2021
re: #33 mmmirele
Uhm, and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KYRSTEN SINEMA?
$1400 won’t even pay rent on a 2 bed apartment in Phoenix.
They are in red states. If we push them too far to the left we lose those seats and then it doesn’t matter.
Not sure why we can’t get that through our heads. We can’t steam roll them until we win a couple more seats. So it’s play this game now… or go back to Majority Leader Moscow Mitch.
Just wait till Dominion and Smartmatic nail this crook…
re: #42 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
They are in red states. If we push them too far to the left we lose those seats and then it doesn’t matter.
Not sure why we can’t get that through our heads. We can’t steam roll them until we win a couple more seats. So it’s play this game now… or go back to Majority Leader Moscow Mitch.
Yes, but their calculus seems to not take into account that the stimulus is popular even among Republicans in their states.
re: #42 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
They are in red states. If we push them to far to the left we lose those seats and then it doesn’t matter.
Not sure why we can’t get that through our heads. We can’t steam roll them until we win a couple more seats. So it’s play this game now… or go back to Majority Leader Moscow Mitch.
Agree 100%. It was good to see Lawrence explain tonight the disaster that can befall a party if they push a “moderate” too far: the Senate elected in 2000 was 50-50, with the GOP running things because Cheney was VP. The GOP was not interested in accommodating lifelong Republican Jim Jeffords, who soon left the party to caucus with Democrats and give them control. It’s crucial to keep Manchin and Sinema happy. If McConnell regains control, not a single piece of legislation will pass and not a single judge will be confirmed.
re: #45 Belafon
Yes, but their calculus seems to not take into account that the stimulus is popular even among Republicans in their states.
Name a policy position. Any policy. It’s popular with many republicans. Tell them it’s a Democrat idea, then all of a sudden they hate it.
They support the ACA, but not Obamacare.
There’s a pattern.
Manchin’s (and likely Sinema’s) actions are pretty easy to understand. With the filibuster intact, the only bill they’ll likely have to take a liberal stance on for the next 9-10 months is the Rescue America Bill. And the fact that Schumer needs their votes on that bill means they have oversized leverage to “moderate” it to make them look more “centrist” to voters in six years.
After it passes, they can spend the next years hemming and hawing about how they’d love this bill or that bill to pass, but insisting such can only happen through “bipartisan” means and responding to criticism about the filibuster by standing on “principles” that translate as “Any vote I don’t have to take is one less one I have to face criticism for in 2026.”
re: #47 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Name a policy position. Any policy. It’s popular with many republicans. Tell them it’s a Democrat idea, then all of a sudden they hate it.
They support the ACA, but not Obamacare.
There’s a pattern.
True, but they know this is a bill from Democrats. It’s not like anyone has been hiding it. It’s not the ACA, where it has some catchy name associated with the black man in office, since there’s no black man as president.
As a Texan, I understand (I just realized I don’t know who my rep is since I don’t think Ratcliffe ran for office). But they’re not exactly engaging with their constituents. Also, it seems that Manchin has a financial interest in not supporting the minimum wage.
re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
In the last few seconds he taxis past a C47 from the 1940s.
I went to go look up who now represents me in the House, and this tells you all you need to know about him:
Thanks @SteveScalise for the Randazzo king cake to keep my energy up for these late night votes! pic.twitter.com/4cw7dFR9nS
— Pat Fallon (@RepPatFallon) March 3, 2021
Saturday morning, while everyone was asleep, House Democrats wasted a golden opportunity to show bipartisanship and instead rammed through $1.74T in pork and pet projects. At least they included $160B for Coronavirus. Read my full statement: https://t.co/9UxIgYtn1B
— Pat Fallon (@RepPatFallon) March 1, 2021
My town—not “from”, but inseparable:
Jonas Salk
Roberto Clemente
Fred Rogers.
Andy Warhol, if you must.
re: #49 Belafon
True, but they know this is a bill from Democrats. It’s not like anyone has been hiding it. It’s not the ACA, where it has some catchy name associated with the black man in office, since there’s no black man as president.
As a Texan, I understand (I just realized I don’t know who my rep is since I don’t think Ratcliffe ran for office). But they’re not exactly engaging with their constituents. Also, it seems that Manchin has a financial interest in not supporting the minimum wage.
Joe’s constituents voted for Needi Amin by over 20 points against Biden. So in a bill that’s being seen as key to Biden’s presidency, he would actually get more positive responses back home from fucking over his own party. Hell, I imagine they’re already pleased that he helped put the kibosh on raising the minimum wage for another decade.
Really? You haven’t been listening very well. Maybe you should & follow the advice of these business leaders. “Previous federal relief measures have been essential, but more must be done to put the country on a trajectory for a strong, durable recovery,” https://t.co/l553E7AuSN pic.twitter.com/Sddf9pHyZx
— Terrence Zarnick (@tdzarnick) March 5, 2021
A law firm took a no-bid federal contract and “devoted five partners, six associates,” more lawyers, “seven paralegals, three case assistants, 14 other timekeepers, and 11 ‘outsourced attorneys’” in a failed effort to find dirt on people the CEO disliked. https://t.co/dGg2DhmTB2
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) March 5, 2021
re: #58 Dave In Austin
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Meanwhile, 500,000+ Americans are dead from CV-19.
Which means (surprise, surprise) that the media is spending none of the time it spent last year promoting the idea that CV was “no deadlier than the flu” talking about how the flu is practically non-existent this year.
re: #53 Decatur Deb
My town—not “from”, but inseparable:
Jonas Salk
Roberto Clemente
Fred Rogers.Andy Warhol, if you must.
My kids attended the same Elementary School as Salk. Richard Rodgers also attended and it is now named after him. PS 89 in Manhattan.
re: #51 Decatur Deb
In the last few seconds he taxis past a C47 from the 1940s.
With the rondel of the Indian Air Force.
Probably a Hump Jumper (Think I can, I think I can! [I hope to dog I can!]).
re: #58 Dave In Austin
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Gee, it’s almost like if you close schools and make people wear masks, kids and the olds don’t get the regular flu.
Hunh!
Who woulda thought?
Maybe this masking and separation is much more effective against a novel corona virus than the R’s will admit!
After nine hours of reading the substitute amendment to H.R. 1319 (American Rescue Plan Act), the Senate clerks are on page 537 of 628.
— Senate Periodicals (@SenatePPG) March 5, 2021
re: #51 Decatur Deb
In the last few seconds he taxis past a C47 from the 1940s.
Just over 70 years separate the Wright Flyer from the F-16.
re: #62 austin_blue
Gee, it’s almost like if you close schools and make people wear masks, kids and the olds don’t get the regular flu.
Hunh!
Who woulda thought?
Maybe this masking and separation is much more effective against a novel corona virus than the R’s will admit!
It’s clearly effective against the flu. Maybe we should adopt masking as a standard practice during the flu season.
re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s clearly effective against the flu. Maybe we should adopt masking as a standard practice during the flu season.
Or at least take up masking if someone has symptoms. You can transmit flu before you have symptoms, but not easily, so masking would make a big difference.
I see brain-dead people. https://t.co/kgyNbYJm4H
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) March 5, 2021
I asked Gen. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, about the Biden team and national security. Words he used: “disciplined,” “thoughtful,” “deliberative,” “inclusive,” “rational” and “mature.” He didn’t mention Trump. He didn’t have to.
my column: https://t.co/97l3MkzZCb— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 5, 2021
re: #64 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Just over 70 years separate the Wright Flyer from the F-16.
And in the 42 years since the F-16 went active, we have built the F-35, which, like the previous TFX Wonderplane, the F-111 (a piece of shit), is also a piece of shit $100+ million airplane.
You would have thought we would quit trying to build round TFX planes to fit into numerous non-round holes, but we haven’t. We are the idiots of the procurement world.
Night all.
I hope those poor interns in the Senate get some sleep. Poor bastards.
re: #69 Semper Fi
You’d think the pilot was lifting weights the way he’s breathing during some of those stunts.
He was, essentially. Several G’s easy in those maneuvers at the speeds a F-16 can do them. Here’s a 9g maneuver:
re: #69 Semper Fi
You’d think the pilot was lifting weights the way he’s breathing during some of those stunts.
Pushing blood into his upper body. If you depend just on your g-suit (aka “speed jeans”), you are going to pass out, crash, and die. He was pulling 7+ Gs for quite a bit of that flight.
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