117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

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[aparch]

Heres something that should be on every newspaper frontbpage and on every TV cable news chryon: "Senate Republicans Refuse To Do Job They Were Hired For."

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[S]ome Senate Republicans feel they probably should spare them from the burden of having to govern.

[Kepler]

However, given that the 2024 Senate map is not great for Dems, he may have a point.

This may not matter. No incumbent of either party who stood lost in 2022 (for the first time in American history). It doesn't matter if you have 10 targets or 20, if you're gonna flip 0% of seats.

No, I don't want to depend on that either, but let's not write off the Senate (again) so quickly.

[Kepler]

a polarized purple state belching out its last gasp from rural Pennsyltucky Boomers.

Do you promise? Cuz from where I'm sitting (2 states away), PA looks like OH 2.0. Everyone with an ounce of grey matter leaves the day they turn 18, leaving behind a perennial poor white underclass of meth addiction, wife beating, Jesus jabbering, and straight ticket Republican voting. Just as Cleveland couldn't hold off the orcs forever Philly may eventually lose its grip too.

[LynahFan]

I'm sure it will be blamed on Dems...

Well, clearly the Democrats would do it (despite evidence that they actually did not), so the Republicans really had no choice but to do it (first).

[Handyman]

It will be ok for republicans to break it because reasons

I'm sure it will be blamed on Dems...

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

It will be ok for republicans to break it because reasons

[sagard]

Really Toomey. As if the filibuster isn't dead immediately next time we have a Republican senate and president. Doesn't really matter now. No legislation until 2024 at the earliest.

[dxmnkd316]

Old wasn't the most precise term.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

To be fair Toomey is only 61, so a spring chicken by Senate standards. That said, he was lucky to ride two red waves into office (2010 Teabaggers and 2016 MAGAts) in a polarized purple state belching out its last gasp from rural Pennsyltucky Boomers. Toomey's just trying to help his corporate paymasters cling to the gridlock status quo and should probably be ignored. However, given that the 2024 Senate map is not great for Dems, he may have a point.

[dxmnkd316]

Shut the **** up. God. He's so ****ing old we should be burning his refined corpse in our cars.

[Kepler]

You can't make this stuff up.

[bronconick]

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[Handyman]

That is fair.

[psych]

Why they gerrymandered it the courts got in the way. The Dems who ran also sucked but that is a different issue.

For sure, but they were given another opportunity to draw the map. It is entirely possible they could have drawn a less gerrymandered map that passed muster, say 18-9 D instead of 22-5 D, but they passed on the opportunity, leaving it up to the special master appointed by the court. Not saying it would have turned out that way, but the lack of an attempt to me is dropping the ball.