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First GQP Filibuster Test Today: What Will Sens. Manchin and Sinema Do When They Learn There Are Not 10 Republican ‘Patriotic Senators’?

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

On Thursday, Senate Republicans are expected to filibuster the bill creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, which left five dead and about 140 police officers injured, CNN reports. Dana Milbank writes today, McConnell focuses ‘100 percent’ on blocking Biden — and zero percent on America: … Read more

Time To Put Up Or Shut Up For These Prima Donna Senators: Time To End The Senate Filibuster Rule

May 26, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

These pathetic prima donnas simply will not concede that they are wrong about their mystical powers of persuasion with Republican senators. Pride goeth before a fall. They are now reduced to begging Republicans to preserve their self-delusion. Joe Manchin And Kyrsten Sinema Beg GOP To Support Bipartisan Jan. 6 Commission: The two Democrats who oppose … Read more

The Party Of Trump Is A Criminal Enterprise Led By A Third-Rate Mafia ‘Don’ Trump

May 26, 2021May 25, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

kakistocracy /kakəˈstäkrəsē/ noun: (1) government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. (2) a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. This is what the MAGA/Qanon personality cult, the Party of Trump, has to offer Americans. Think of the 2006 science fiction comedy film Idiocracy, a dystopian world … Read more

The January 6 Commission Could Be What Finally Ends The Senate Filibuster Rule (Updated)

May 25, 2021May 24, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

The New York Times headline today: As Talks Bog Down, Hopes for Bipartisan Deals on Biden’s Priorities Dim. The Washington Post headline today: Biden’s agenda imperiled as his priorities stall in Congress and a debt fight looms. Hmmm, I’m sensing a theme here from the media villagers. The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Senate Minority Leader … Read more

Preventing The GQP Seditious Insurrection Sequel On January 6, 2025

May 23, 2021 by AZ BlueMeanie

The MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021, one of the darkest days in American history, is a date which will live in infamy. But the MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Trump is already laying the groundwork in state legislatures, and blocking reforms at the federal level, plotting a sequel on January 6, 2025. Forewarned is forearmed. … Read more