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Re: ann coulter take
« Reply #851 on: January 07, 2021, 07:18:38 AM »
Trump political ? blunders

https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2021/01/06/the-election-is-over-heres-the-truth-about-trump-n2582677

"The usual problem with Trump is that he’s all talk, no action."

  - You lost me there, Ann. Wouldn't it be exactly the other way around? Two people are living comfortably in Palm Beach Florida, both upset about where the country is headed.  One jumps in, changes the electoral map of the country, gets elected, builds a wall, brings middle east peace, stands up to China, stands up to Germany, brings about the lowest black unemployment rate in history, raises national wealth more in a year than his predecessors did in the previous two decades.  The other sits home and complains.  All talk. No action.  She has all the negative qualities of Trump and none of the positive ones. 

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The US Congress; Democrat Article of Impeachment
« Reply #852 on: January 13, 2021, 07:56:28 AM »
Link follows.  Basically the high crime is he said: "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide’’.

Even more inciting was the hundred thousand times the media complex said, "baseless allegations", while acting in lockstep to block dissemination of any information relevant to the basis of the allegations, and the courts refusal to give standing to any American official, citizen or state to present the alleged evidence.

https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hres24/BILLS-117hres24ih.pdf


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a preponderance of the evidence
« Reply #853 on: January 13, 2021, 08:40:05 AM »
obviously shows the  election was stolen and rigged

in my mind it is beyond reasonable doubt

but for people who are naive as to the extent of fraud that could be committed and covered by so many
it is beyond their doubt I guess

people who are too trusting
believe "authorities" "establishment " types "


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Looks like Lindsey wants to be Senate leader
« Reply #854 on: January 21, 2021, 06:01:57 PM »
https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-calls-on-mcconnell-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-against-unconstitutional-impeachment

Graham Calls On McConnell To ‘Stand Up And Fight Back’ Against ‘Unconstitutional’ Impeachment

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what if pat leahy dies
« Reply #855 on: January 27, 2021, 05:16:21 AM »
Vermont governor is Republican

does he name replacement

what a "coup" that would be

of course to be sure ,  I wish pat leahy well 

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Re: what if pat leahy dies
« Reply #856 on: January 27, 2021, 11:08:39 AM »
Vermont governor is Republican

does he name replacement

what a "coup" that would be

of course to be sure ,  I wish pat leahy well

I don't know anything about the Republican governor of Vermont, but it's a pretty sure bet he or she is Republican in name only or wouldn't be Governor of Vermont. Expect a far left Dem to replace Leahy if that happened. Looks like Leahy will be okay for now.
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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #859 on: January 30, 2021, 04:41:39 PM »
OTOH we don't want to sink to their level.  Among other things our people need to have moral superiority to be motivated.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #860 on: January 30, 2021, 05:57:35 PM »
OTOH we don't want to sink to their level.  Among other things our people need to have moral superiority to be motivated.

Ah yes, the Mittens Romney "I will not dignify this assault on my person by stooping to their level and fighting back." strategy.

How's that working out for us?


You think the Sunni states working with Israel don't still hate the Israelis? You think this Israelis don't know that?

We are at war, When it's life of death, you take the allies you can get.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #861 on: January 30, 2021, 08:12:50 PM »
Sorry, if we need anti-semitic crackpot loons like this broad we have already lost.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #862 on: January 30, 2021, 08:15:05 PM »
Sorry, if we need anti-semitic crackpot loons like this broad we have already lost.

Show me the source quote.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #864 on: January 30, 2021, 08:53:34 PM »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9198791/Greene-claimed-deadly-California-fire-caused-space-lasers-linked-Rothschilds.html?fbclid=IwAR2CY2JquOpKCQ9VqjMgG6ijNv8MRaDjjBiD1eU7_9TPrMX64AO0wX9CXOs

There is more, but this is what I could lay my hands on in this moment.

So, mentioning the Rothschilds makes one an anti-semite ?


BTW, I saw Jewish Space Laser open for Nine Inch Nails at Red Rocks in '91...


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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #865 on: January 31, 2021, 04:39:31 AM »
As I mentioned, there is more in a similar vein-- I just don't have the citations handy.

And yes, mentioning the Rothchilds IS a good indicator in my experience as a Jew.


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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #867 on: January 31, 2021, 10:10:22 AM »
As I mentioned, there is more in a similar vein-- I just don't have the citations handy.

And yes, mentioning the Rothchilds IS a good indicator in my experience as a Jew.

Howabout Soros? Can we mention Soros, or is that anti-semitic as well? Media Matters, funded by Soros and the source for the story you posted likes to push that as well.

As far as believing "conspiracy theories including QAnon, which centers on former President Donald Trump making moves against a Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, child sex trafficking ring filled with Democratic politicians and prominent liberals"

https://filmdaily.co/news/epstein-prince-andrew-staff/

UN-Possible! Right?

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Jewish Space Laser Agency; This is all MISHIGAS!" (LOL)
« Reply #868 on: January 31, 2021, 10:17:40 AM »
Jewish Space Laser:


https://forward.com/opinion/463295/the-jewish-space-laser-agency-responds-we-didnt-start-the-fire/

FWIW I don't hate Soros , Bloomberg, Zuckerberg and the Wall St and  Democrat lawyer mob because they are Jews
but because they make me disappointed in my fellow Jews and sometimes ashamed of being  Jewish.

Justified. - someone else can psychoanalyze me but that is how I feel.






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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #869 on: January 31, 2021, 10:25:41 AM »
As I mentioned, there is more in a similar vein-- I just don't have the citations handy.

And yes, mentioning the Rothchilds IS a good indicator in my experience as a Jew.

Howabout Soros? Can we mention Soros, or is that anti-semitic as well? Media Matters, funded by Soros and the source for the story you posted likes to push that as well.

As far as believing "conspiracy theories including QAnon, which centers on former President Donald Trump making moves against a Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, child sex trafficking ring filled with Democratic politicians and prominent liberals"

https://filmdaily.co/news/epstein-prince-andrew-staff/

UN-Possible! Right?

https://www.insider.com/jeffrey-epstein-private-island-temple-2019-7

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It is bad enough when Repubs vote against the Party
« Reply #870 on: January 31, 2021, 10:56:26 AM »
but why do they ALWAYS find it necessary to go on an enemy news outlet and give us another back stab;

give fodder for the likes of Chuck Todd or Stephanopolous ?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kinzinger-claim-im-possessed-devil-172843081.html

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Re: It is bad enough when Repubs vote against the Party
« Reply #871 on: January 31, 2021, 11:01:10 AM »
but why do they ALWAYS find it necessary to go on an enemy news outlet and give us another back stab;

give fodder for the likes of Chuck Todd or Stephanopolous ?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kinzinger-claim-im-possessed-devil-172843081.html

It's the republican wing of the DC Uniparty. As long as they get invited to the right cocktail parties they are happy to pontificate about their "values".

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #872 on: January 31, 2021, 12:56:06 PM »
C'mon GM, you've seen me after Soros plenty and Glenn Beck, #1 enemy of Soros has his own thread on this forum.

"FWIW I don't hate Soros , Bloomberg, Zuckerberg and the Wall St and  Democrat lawyer mob because they are Jews but because they make me disappointed in my fellow Jews and sometimes ashamed of being  Jewish."

OTOH going after "the Rothchilds" reeks of the hoary worst of the old hatred.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #873 on: January 31, 2021, 02:59:59 PM »
C'mon GM, you've seen me after Soros plenty and Glenn Beck, #1 enemy of Soros has his own thread on this forum.

"FWIW I don't hate Soros , Bloomberg, Zuckerberg and the Wall St and  Democrat lawyer mob because they are Jews but because they make me disappointed in my fellow Jews and sometimes ashamed of being  Jewish."

OTOH going after "the Rothchilds" reeks of the hoary worst of the old hatred.


https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/04/uc-davis-student-newspaper-declares-criticism-of-the-chinese-communist-party-is-racist/

https://www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/becks-second-day-soros-attacks-features-more-anti-semitic-stereotypes

See how the tactic works? Now, if Rep. Greene were tossing around slurs or saying "6 million wasn't enough", that's different.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #874 on: January 31, 2021, 03:10:56 PM »
"going after"the Rothchilds" reeks of the hoary worst of the old hatred.
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Going after them without even a hint of any other reason to even bring them up is what makes it at least look anti-semitic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-expressed-support-for-assassinating-democrats-cnn-2021-1
In 2018, Greene wrote on Facebook that "the stage is being set" to hang Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In 2019, she liked a Facebook comment suggesting Nancy Pelosi get a "bullet to the head." 

The source here is lousy.  Odds are there was something more to both of these.  The first one is arguably just words.  We don't hang people anymore even though Democrats are currently accusing Trump of treason, implying he should be hanged  The second one is stupid.  The words are visual and violent.  Neither is worse than what the opposition does often.  Both I assume were from before she was a candidate.  None of that makes it okay.  We operate in a double standard world.  I doubt she advocates taking power via assassination, and then runs for office.  Still, you can't 'like' over-the-top rhetoric and be a leader or hold public office - as a Republican.

I don't want N.P. to get a blank to her blank; I want her voted out - democratically, peacefully and patriotically - and live a long, happy and healthy life in retirement with all her ill-gotten riches.

Republican in name only:  The Republican label means something important to me.  Crafty's definition of American Creed sums it up, something about free markets, free minds and free people.  When politicians lips move and they aren't 100% focused on advancing exactly those things, they are hurting the cause. 
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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #876 on: January 31, 2021, 04:47:36 PM »
The double standard is a feature, not a bug. A fact as clear as a stolen election.
A Republican could not pal around with Louis Farrakhan.

Imagine if the sides were reversed on abortion.  If Republicans wanted to build baby killing factories in black neighborhoods, and wanted taxpayer support to thin the herd of the unwanted unborn five times more likely to be black than white.  Abortion would be 100 or 1000 times more cruel than slavery and we would be destroyed.

Keith Ellison represented Louis Farrakhan unapologetically for a decade before running for office.  He became national party vice chair with all this in his background, and was elected congressman of Minneapolis and Attorney General of Minnesota where he still serves.  Ilhan 'it's the Benjamins baby' [Jewish lobby slur] Omar, not her real family name, was elected to replace him in Congress.  If you watch "Blackhawk Down" with her, she is pulling for the other side.  She's with the terrorists dragging dead Americans through the street for the imperialist crime of trying to bring humanitarian relief to her native Somalia.  She faced a primary and general election challenge this year and won both with wide margins.  Scott Johnson of Powerline called both of them out on all this a hundred times as the Minneapolis StarTribune yawned and published hate Trump cartoons daily.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/louis-farrakhans-br-first-congressman

That doesn't mean Republicans can do it.  Just the opposite.  One mis-speak, retweet one bad tweet and you're out.

Hollering unfair works only one way.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #877 on: January 31, 2021, 05:05:40 PM »
The double standard is a feature, not a bug. A fact as clear as a stolen election.
A Republican could not pal around with Louis Farrakhan.

Imagine if the sides were reversed on abortion.  If Republicans wanted to build baby killing factories in black neighborhoods, and wanted taxpayer support to thin the herd of the unwanted unborn five times more likely to be black than white.  Abortion would be 100 or 1000 times more cruel than slavery and we would be destroyed.

Keith Ellison represented Louis Farrakhan unapologetically for a decade before running for office.  He became national party vice chair with all this in his background, and was elected congressman of Minneapolis and Attorney General of Minnesota where he still serves.  Ilhan 'it's the Benjamins baby' [Jewish lobby slur] Omar, not her real family name, was elected to replace him in Congress.  If you watch "Blackhawk Down" with her, she is pulling for the other side.  She's with the terrorists dragging dead Americans through the street for the imperialist crime of trying to bring humanitarian relief to her native Somalia.  She faced a primary and general election challenge this year and won both with wide margins.  Scott Johnson of Powerline called both of them out on all this a hundred times as the Minneapolis StarTribune yawned and published hate Trump cartoons daily.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/louis-farrakhans-br-first-congressman

That doesn't mean Republicans can do it.  Just the opposite.  One mis-speak, retweet one bad tweet and you're out.

Hollering unfair works only one way.

This is why IDGAF about Greene's screwball posts. Enough of the circular firing squad and purity tests.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #878 on: January 31, 2021, 05:31:53 PM »
Agreed.  I don't care either.  Republicans are 'forced' to respond and no one even knows exactly what the tweets were or what was meant by them.  There is a presumption, that if she said it, we all think it, when she probably didn't even say it and certainly didn't mean it.

Who said, "If they bring a knife, we bring a gun."



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bringing-a-gun-to-a-knife-fight/

Endorsed twice by the NYT, Wash Post etc. and elected twice AFTER saying that.

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Re: NRO: Manchin should join the Reps
« Reply #880 on: February 07, 2021, 02:54:13 PM »
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/joe-manchin-cant-beat-republicans-so-he-should-join-them/

Agree.

Another crazy idea would be for (author) Kevin Williamson and all of National Review to join the GOP before they invite others in.

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Re: NRO: Manchin should join the Reps
« Reply #881 on: February 07, 2021, 04:17:28 PM »
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/joe-manchin-cant-beat-republicans-so-he-should-join-them/

Agree.

Another crazy idea would be for (author) Kevin Williamson and all of National Review to join the GOP before they invite others in.

KW wouldn't want to rub elbows with all the disgusting flyover country dirt people.


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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #883 on: February 16, 2021, 05:19:33 AM »
Hannity asked Jason Chaffetz if he would run for Romney's Senate seat

good idea
but he probably is too cozy at Fox


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US Congress; McConnell's Speech
« Reply #884 on: February 16, 2021, 06:30:35 AM »
Note that acquittal was done before Mitch scathed.  He had voted to acquit but needed to tell us how guilty Trump was.

Unmentioned by almost all is Mitch's wife, who Mitch used his clout to get Trump to hire, served 4 years without complaint, then left at the last minute in 'protest'.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/15/mcconnells-impeachment-ploy-was-not-statesmanship-but-an-attack-on-the-base-and-republicans-must-remember-it-well/
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Saw Burgess on Tucker tonight
« Reply #885 on: February 16, 2021, 07:48:46 PM »
thought he could take on and beat Romney

but he is too old

age 69 and Romney not on ballot again till NOV. '23

Could Burgess do 6 yr term starting at 72?


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US Congress; Congressional races, GOP to take back 4 Senate Seats in 2022
« Reply #886 on: February 27, 2021, 02:48:23 PM »
Take back the majority!
Sen Rick Scott:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-rick-scott-predicts-gop-will-flip-dem-senate-seats-in-georgia-arizona-new-hampshire-and-nevada-in-2022
Pick up Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire, Nevada.
14 Democrat seats coming up for reelection.

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Re: US Congress; Congressional races, GOP to take back 4 Senate Seats in 2022
« Reply #887 on: February 27, 2021, 05:18:58 PM »
Take back the majority!
Sen Rick Scott:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-rick-scott-predicts-gop-will-flip-dem-senate-seats-in-georgia-arizona-new-hampshire-and-nevada-in-2022
Pick up Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire, Nevada.
14 Democrat seats coming up for reelection.

 :roll:

Are we voting our way out of vote fraud?

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Re: The US Congress; Sen Joe Manchin
« Reply #888 on: March 07, 2021, 07:03:02 AM »
Joe Manchin is on all the shows this morning.  He was the swing vote for the 2 trillion boondoggle and he is concerned about debt.  He worked with his Republican friends on compromises to it, whatever the f that means. 

Apparently he's not a math guy.

He is the fulcrum that decides the fate of the republic in the balance.  He's guessing that a $1400 check to a lot of under 75k people in WV will buy a lot of understanding.

What a moron.  But he's all we have to keep the filibuster from breaking further.

God help us.
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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #890 on: March 29, 2021, 06:45:51 PM »
Good.

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US Senate 2022, 2024
« Reply #891 on: April 06, 2021, 05:27:46 PM »
Biden's popularity will be the key.  Breakeven is 49%, where it is equally likely that either party controls the Senate.

"If he enters the midterms at 45% -- roughly where presidents have been for the last four midterm elections -- Democrats would lose between one and four seats, possibly setting Republicans up for a massive Senate majority after the 2024 elections."
   - Sesn Trende, Real Clear Politics   https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/06/a_senate_majority_if_you_can_keep_it_145531.html
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Dems, Are you SURE you want to end the filibuster?

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The Filibuster made the Civil Rights Act possible
« Reply #892 on: April 12, 2021, 08:34:21 PM »
The Filibuster Made the Civil Rights Act Possible
It prevented Southern senators from blocking debate and created the conditions for consensus.
By David Hoppe
April 11, 2021 4:51 pm ET

Sens. Thomas Kuchel, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, Everett Dirksen and Jacob Javits at the passing of the Voting Rights Act, 1965.
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES



The debate over the future of the Senate’s legislative filibuster has focused on the simple use of majority power to crush the opposition. While the future of America’s bicameral legislature and the balance of power created by the Founders is riding on this debate, many have lost sight of the true nature and value of the Senate, an institution that takes time and requires compromise to find long-term answers to major issues. Critics have linked the filibuster to Jim Crow segregation, but the tactic actually played a crucial role in passing civil-rights legislation and ensuring it was accepted by the South.

Rule 22, which establishes a procedure called “cloture” to end a filibuster, was created to provide a way to close debate with support of a supermajority in the Senate and move to pass legislation. The rule protected the minority’s rights while allowing a compromise to be achieved that would ultimately result in legislation being passed.


For the first 47 years after Rule 22’s enactment in 1917, there were only five successful attempts to cut off debate in the U.S. Senate. A few senators felt so strongly about their right to extended debate that they vowed never to vote for cloture, even for legislation they supported.

There were several successful filibusters of civil-rights legislation between 1917 and 1964. But after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to make the Civil Rights Act his chief legislative priority. He worked with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to maneuver the bill through the challenges of senators who planned to filibuster.

It began with Mansfield meeting with Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, the leader of the senators opposed to the Civil Rights Act. Mansfield promised there would be no tricks and he would keep Russell fully informed of Mansfield’s actions as he guided the bill through floor debate. Some insisted the bill should be driven through and passed as quickly as possible, but Mansfield treated every senator equally and fairly. He believed legislation should be addressed “not in the seeking of short-cuts, not in the cracking of nonexistent whips, not in wheeling and dealing, but in an honest facing of the situation and a resolution of it by the Senate itself.”


Consideration of the bill, which had passed the House, began in February 1964. Throughout the following months the filibuster continued. Senators of both parties offered many amendments, some of which passed. A total of 543 hours, 1 minute and 51 seconds were consumed by the longest filibuster in Senate history. Most importantly, the Senate and the country saw an open process that allowed the minority every opportunity to debate and offer amendments. They saw the leaders of both parties in the Senate work to gather the 67 votes then needed to cut off debate and pass a bill that extended civil rights to black Americans across the U.S.

Writing in the Atlantic 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Michael O’Donnell observed: “In the years since, the act has been a remarkable success. Its acceptance in the south was surprisingly quick and widespread. In a stroke, the act demolished the rickety but persistent foundation for segregation and Jim Crow.”

Perhaps that had something to do with the way the act passed—not by a simple majority forcing its will on the minority but by allowing the two sides to argue their case at length, by allowing the legislative process of debate and amendment to proceed unhindered, by gathering the votes needed to show the country that it must change the law, by carrying the country along through the months of discussion and compromise, by fulfilling the highest expectations of the Founders, Mansfield, Dirksen and other senators built support for a law the country needed. In the words of Victor Hugo, quoted by Dirksen during the close of debate in 1964, “Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.”

A bipartisan consensus seems like a distant dream in this divided country, but the filibuster is central to achieving it. Ramming legislation down the throats of the minority by a narrow margin or a single vote breeds animosity, distrust and unrest. The filibuster, by slowing down legislation and giving time to build a solid majority, achieves consensus where it seems impossible. By giving the minority time to be fully heard and negotiated with, passage of legislation with bipartisan support creates a path for a more stable, peaceful democracy.

Mr. Hoppe was chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, 1996-2001.

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Dems 218 Repubs 212
« Reply #893 on: April 14, 2021, 09:17:10 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democratic-majority-two-vote-margin-julia-letlow

I didn't realize it is this close  :-o

so the next time CNN tells us there is any kind of mandate for Biden etc. we can all be even ore confident this is fake news .


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Re: Dems 218 Repubs 212
« Reply #894 on: April 14, 2021, 09:55:14 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democratic-majority-two-vote-margin-julia-letlow

I didn't realize it is this close  :-o

so the next time CNN tells us there is any kind of mandate for Biden etc. we can all be even ore confident this is fake news .

Flip 2 votes and a bill doesn't pass.


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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #896 on: April 16, 2021, 10:29:31 AM »
Fetterman - he is still a democrat

the dems seem to find one criticism of him

 he is a white man

 :roll:


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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #898 on: April 28, 2021, 11:18:00 AM »
How do I discover exactly who is my Congressman?  My zip code is 28387 if that helps.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #899 on: April 28, 2021, 08:28:42 PM »
How do I discover exactly who is my Congressman?  My zip code is 28387 if that helps.

See if this is right: 
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NC/2