119th congress: must be at least 75 to chair a committee!

[aparch]

Might be the easiest vote I'll ever cast.

Quick, someone tell Kepler she's a redhead so he moves to Michigan and votes for her.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Quick, someone tell Kepler she's a redhead so he moves to Michigan and votes for her.

IIRC, he already turned his nose up at her pic despite her ginger tresses.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social)

Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.

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[Kepler]

IIRC, he already turned his nose up at her pic despite her ginger tresses.

I had not seen her before. Admittedly she has more than a touch of Prairie Bovine, which presumably means she is more Iowa than Minnesota.

Mmm. Minnesota.

 

[Kepler]

Damn fine profile, though. I think she just needs somebody to teach her how to appeal to me.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Regardless of opinions on Booker, at least he’s actually trying to do something. Hopefully this becomes the new strategy for the Senate Democrats.

It was mentioned on Bluesky that he has never been below #3 for most liberal in terms of voting.

 

[Handyman]

Admittedly that is a rather low bar...how many actual liberals are in Congress?

 

[Handyman]

David DeWitt (@daviddewitt.bsky.social)

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released an analysis Friday showing the budget resolution Republicans plan to adopt later this month would allow Congress to add up to $5.8 trillion to the deficit during the next decade https://buff.ly/SAsNniC

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Deficit hawks indeed!

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Yeah, when the Senator from Bristol Myers Squibb is the #3 "most liberal", that's an indicator of how few true progressives there are in either house of Congress.

 

[bronconick]

~4 House members and Bernie Sanders. That's the American "Left".

 

[Jimjamesak]

Just had a thought that one of the big things that is missing in Congress right now are the old State/District kingpins, from both parties. The Ted Kennedys, the Ted Stevens’ that were nigh untouchable and truly wielded the power of their respective parties. The ones who someone like Elmo would threaten to primary and they’d laugh in response.

We really shouldn’t have gotten rid of earmarks.

 

[MissThundercat]

No, Tommy, entire teams are not "turning trans," regardless of how badly you want to believe it.

Republican Senator Tuberville Falsely Claims "Entire Teams Are Turning Trans"

The statement was not backed up with any factual references, and was made on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.

www.erininthemorning.com

 

[Jimjamesak]

No, Tommy, entire teams are not "turning trans," regardless of how badly you want to believe it.

Republican Senator Tuberville Falsely Claims "Entire Teams Are Turning Trans"

The statement was not backed up with any factual references, and was made on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.

www.erininthemorning.com

“Entire teams turning trans” is probably his recent PornHub search…

 

[Handyman]

He probably read a team took a "train" but was too stupid to notice the difference...

 

[MissThundercat]

Hasn't it been shown that Tommy boy doesn't really care about women, girls, or the children, much less women's sports?

 

[Slap Shot]

 

[Handyman]

Yeah I am sure they will get right on that...

 

[aparch]

A fun look at the Overton Window shift.

Philip Bump (@pbump.com)

This chart showing 1) when members of Congress arrived on the Hill and 2) where they sit ideologically really sums up why Republicans are rolling over for Trump. Most arrived since the 2016 election and those who are newer are more ideologically extreme...

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[FadeToBlack&Gold]

When you consider how conservative the US historically already was (since a majority of Democrats qualify as centrist or center-right in the context of world politics), the chart is even more ridiculous.

But I'm sure "both sides" are at fault, somehow.

 

[Handyman]

Jeffrey B (@dadnails) (@dadnails.bsky.social)

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: these 4 Dems voted to effectively take away millions of American’s ability to vote! Call and share: ”How dare you vote to make it impossible for millions of women & others to vote!” Golden(ME) 202-225-6306 Perez(WA) 202 225-2531 Cuellar(TX) 202 225-1640 Case(HI) 202-225-2726

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