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

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BassAle said:
as a single earner, I wouldn't have gotten anything with the previous round of stimulus, but as a family with dependents, I still got around $700 (reduced from $1600) out of the $600 check stimulus.

I thought it was dumb I was getting a stimulus check, because it literally made no difference in my life or spending habits. But now I'm annoyed we'll be left out of the $1400 checks :P
(I was probably going to use it to subsidize a $20K solar panel install, but it's not like whatever reduced amount I got would make that much of a difference)
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Who is doing your solar install?
 
Kepler said:
Yep.

We are terrified that if we use nukes the Nazis will use nukes.

The Nazis will use nukes.
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why didn't Mitch nuke the filibuster to kill the ACA? The only reason they lost McCain and Collins is because they had to do the "skinny repeal" through budget reconciliation, right? If they nuked the filibuster, they could have replaced the ACA with whatever shitty plan they came up with and Collins and McCain would have voted for it.
 
BassAle said:
If they nuked the filibuster, they could have replaced the ACA with whatever ****ty plan they came up with and Collins and McCain would have voted for it.
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Rs don't want to get near health care. If they'd had the brains and the stones to replace the ACA with something as good or better, they'd have done so in '17 and '18.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
McConnell reportedly communicating with KY GOP over a state bill that would move power to appoint a mid-term replacement from the governor (currently a Dem) to the state executive committee of the party who held the Senate seat.

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1367506482800062469?s=21
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I saw this a couple weeks ago. Not surprising. Although badass Beshear will veto it, only a simple majority is required to override governor’s vetoes in Kentucky.

Positives: McConnell might leave in 2022 if they don’t retake the Senate.

Negatives: Daniel Cameron versus Charles Booker won’t be an open seat battle should McConnell choose to retire. Not that Kentucky Democrats have much chance in federal election years anymore. The main reason we hold the Governor’s office is because 500,000 Republicans don’t bother to vote in odd-numbered election years.
 
psych said:
I saw this a couple weeks ago. Not surprising. Although badass Beshear will veto it, only a simple majority is required to override governor’s vetoes in Kentucky.

Positives: McConnell might leave in 2022 if they don’t retake the Senate.

Negatives: Daniel Cameron versus Charles Booker won’t be an open seat battle should McConnell choose to retire. Not that Kentucky Democrats have much chance in federal election years anymore. The main reason we hold the Governor’s office is because 500,000 Republicans don’t bother to vote in odd-numbered election years.
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What’s the point of a veto if you can pass it a second time without ever needing to pick up additional votes?
 
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/politics/capitol-riot-investigation-lawmakers/index.html

Federal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists, according to a US official briefed on the matter.

The data gathered so far includes indications of contact with lawmakers in the days around January 6, as well as communications between alleged rioters discussing their associations with members of Congress, the official said.
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FBI collection of phone metadata and geolocator data -- permissible under federal law -- was the subject of multiple lines of questions this week by some senators who pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray to reveal what investigators were doing with communications and financial data. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri suggested at a hearing Tuesday that the FBI could be overstepping its authority by scooping up communications data.
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Yeah, Hawley, Lee and Cruz seemed awful concerned about what information the FBI might have collected about phone data from that day.
 
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Handyman said:
People in Arizona are sending Sinema videos asking her to reconsider nuking the filibuster.
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Good.

Sinema is not Manchin. She has a conscience; she can be moved by appeals. Her heart's in the right place. The math just needs to work.

Manchin, though, is really a Republican whose affiliation is misspelled. He can't flip to R because he'll just get primaried by somebody 100x more lunatic, so he's stuck (and god bless him for saving the seat) but he can't be moved. He is riding a red, red state of vicious morons and if he rocks the boat even a little he will capsize.
 
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