Anything but what they need to do

Maybe one day they’ll realize what true governance requires… instead, they’re just smelling their own farts.

Isn't that the game your side plays?

the House comes back to work.

We can easily win the optics of that position. And as a result, Adelita Grijalva will be seated and we can get the bill requiring the DoJ to publish the Epstein files. And that puts Trump in a box because then it will be possible to link the government shutdown with the Epstein files, to get a twofer any time the media asks why the shutdown is still happening.

Our position would be, simply:

They're all just spit-balling until Republican leadership is willing to at least TALK
to Democratic leadership, which probably won't happen until Trump says it is ok to 'talk'....

This is what happens when your party is ruled by a Highchair Hitler in diapers

As in:

those are for POOR hungry people), are all too busy watching pedophile porn
on Epstein's or Vance's couch (sorry, can't recall which) or maybe BOTH couches--

too busy to cum to work! Meanwhile they keep collecting a paycheck,
because congressional members don't lose their paychecks
during government shutdowns, and they have no 'work requirements'.....
amazing how that works, isn't it?


Possibly we should start calling this
"the EPSTEIN FILES shutdown" !


(I read one article today, talking about how one Republican House member
theorized that the Republican House could actually stay closed all the way through the 26 midterms,
because they don't want whatever is actually IN those files, about Trump, to "cum" out!)

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You have seen this story?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-admits-republicans-epstein-files-162130218.html

(somewhat surprised to see Mace's name on the list of GQPs,
but she might have some personal reasons, LOL)


Pedophile Protector Speaker Mike Johnson obviously has HUGE motivation to PREVENT
any vote on that "discharge" petition coming to "pass".....
since if it came to a vote, it WOULD pass with significant GQP support...


SO, he continues to kneel before his anti-christ with his mouth open.....
holding up a magnifying glass....

He may already accept that the discharge would happen, but he figures Trump's personal Department of Justice would stonewall and block any substantive release.

Maybe the real concern is that so many GOP Reps have seen some of the evidence and more than 4 are bailing out. If he held the vote and 25 Republicans joined all the Dems, that would be almost as bad for Trump as having to release the files. And if 25 GOPpers voted to release the files, it would be very difficult for Trump to stonewall that.

It is hard to believe that 100 GOP reps would join, unless they have all taken some kind of blood oath to walk the plank together.

and the GQP Senate is not serious about anything.

...terrible at their jobs.

On Fox News on September 30th, 2013, during the government shutdown under the Obama Administration, Emperor Tangerine said:
"It always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. And the president's the leader and he's got to get everybody in a room and he's got to lead. And he doesn't do that. He doesn't like doing that. That's not his strength."

I don't think even the three of them have been in a room to discuss the shutdown and how to negotiate a way out of it. All three seem to just have their fingers in their ears saying, "la la la la la la la."

The hallmark of this shutdown has to be the ineptitude of those three "leaders."

Hopefully the American people will see it somehow....

Those deep red welfare states will be hurting for sure.

discuss whatever changes they want to make. As it stands now, you've most likely got people in the middle of cancer treatments who won't know if they will be able to finish it. Republicans are putting lives at risk. They've been talking about replacing Obamacare since 2016 and have done nothing. Anyone in a state with GOP legislators needs to hound them to death.

They have been talking about replacing it since it passed in 2010, when Democrats were blown out in the election that year, and the attempts began as soon as (R)s took the House. By 2017, there had been more than 70 attempts (Wikpedia even has a page with the running count up to 2017 - here)

It mainly got passed because the first part was passed in 2009 when we had 60 (D)s in the Senate and that was a straight approval (achieving cloture), but when we lost Ted Kennedy and Scott Brown (R) won the special election, we had to do the 2nd part (as a correction to the original) by reconciliation because of the 60 vote (cloture) threshold, and doing it by reconciliation only required a simple majority.

You got the shout-out in the EarlG "Anniversaries and Posting Milestones" thread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182244641

The happy dance!

out of their rattholes running in circles,
screaming and shouting.

While ideas fly around their heads like
flies.

seemed extremely reasonable to me--- while many on the left called it a "cave-in",
but Senate Majority Leader Thune immediately rejected it out of hand.

Republican leaders won't even talk with Democratic leaders.
Trump's "Art of the Deal" was always a complete sham, as he now demonstrates.

There IS no possible compromise with Republicans which doesn't include
at LEAST another year of breathing room on health insurance costs for the American people!

Thune assumed Democrats would just cave in and didn't recognize they painted themselves into a corner. Irony, Schumer offered a reasonable option and they outright rejected it. On the Democratic side, we got nothing to lose and everyone is blaming the GOP. We can sit this out, they can't and obviously didn't have a plan B. Closer we get to the holidays, the more hell they will have to pay.

These people must not be allowed to continue to earn money while they hold us hostage.

Yeah.

Does anyone have any information on the ratio of feudally funded projects in Democratic states as opposed to Republican-held states?

I bet it is more red than blue. But, he wants to raid the smaller fundings rather than the bigger ones?

Every single one of them should remember that the time is going to come when they will not be the power in control.

Is there a 'Nuremberg' somewhere in the US? That should be the location of the trials that will follow.

History and all that.