Prima Donnas Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema Make No Sense At All In Their Defense Of The Senate Filibuster Rule

Update to A Creative Solution To Democratize The Senate Filibuster Rule. I posted about a creative solution to the anti-democratic Jim Crow relic Senate filibuster rule that even Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema would be hard pressed to argue against. Don’t eliminate the filibuster. Democratize it. They proved me wrong this past week. I suppose … Read more

An Impeachment Trial Unlike Any Other in History (Updated)

The Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump will take place in February because the defendant has only now been able to secure a lawyer, one referred by Trump Fluffer Sen. Lindsey O. Graham. For the impeachment trial, Trump settles on a South Carolina lawyer arranged through Lindsey Graham. Former President Donald J. Trump’s … Read more

Deal, no deal on federal government shutdown

In December, the Senate approved unanimously by voice vote a spending bill that had been approved by party leadership to which President Trump had agreed.

But then racist polemicists Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter told the president that he was done with his white nationalist racist base if he did not build the “big beautiful wall” on the Mexico border that Mexico was going to pay for, as he had promised his gullible MAGA supporters. Trump then reneged on the deal he had agreed to with his party leadership.

House Speaker Paul Ryan dutifully substituted a bill which contained $5 billion dollars for a border wall, a round number which Trump simply pulled out of his ass, which the lame-duck losers of the Republican caucus who had just been tossed out of office by the largest Democratic landslide since the post-Watergate 1974 election voted for the bill on their way out the door. Good riddance.

The new Democratic majority Congress that took office in January passed the Senate bill to which President Trump had previously agreed (before reneging on his deal), and sent it back to the Senate where it should have been a no-brainer to pass (it already passed the Senate unanimously).

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