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The Do-Nothing Congress Is Coming Back To D.C. From Holiday To...... (Original Post) global1 Sep 2019 OP
Do-Nothing *republican Congress UncleTomsEvilBrother Sep 2019 #1
I think this framing needs to change AZ8theist Sep 2019 #2
It's needed to change for the last quarter-century JHB Sep 2019 #6
Just one quibble - I'd go with the "Do-Nothing Senate" to be more accurate. NT Bleacher Creature Sep 2019 #3
"Senate and President finalizing list of what not to do next! struggle4progress Sep 2019 #4
Making their inaction plan JHB Sep 2019 #7
"Can you think of anything else somebody might want to do? Put it on our list!" struggle4progress Sep 2019 #8
Do nothing ... REPUBLICAN ... congress. uponit7771 Sep 2019 #5
The Democratic house has passed a lot of bills Progressive dog Sep 2019 #9
The one person bdamomma Sep 2019 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author struggle4progress Sep 2019 #11

AZ8theist

(5,495 posts)
2. I think this framing needs to change
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 10:12 AM
Sep 2019

By saying "Congress", it implies the entire congress. Implying the House is "do nothing" is simply not true. They've pushed out legislation on multiple fronts only to see it die in the Senate due to the treason of Moscow Mitch.

We need to clarify the message: The DO NOTHING SENATE.

(brought to you via courtesy of the traitorous turtle himself, Moscow Mitch)

JHB

(37,162 posts)
6. It's needed to change for the last quarter-century
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 10:36 AM
Sep 2019

So far, every attempt has been snuffed out by "both sides" dogma.

Norman Ornstein (a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank) used to be a staple on talking head shows on TV and radio (including Al Franken's Air America show, back in the day).

But after he and Thomas Mann published their 2012 book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, which squarely placed the blame for "Washington dysfunction" on the Republicans, he was completely blackballed. The same shows that had him on almost weekly suddenly wouldn't give him the time of day.

It's taken years (and the Republicans getting exponentially worse) to bring back into focus what lazy cynicism and nonsense it is to pretend both parties act the same way.

Progressive dog

(6,918 posts)
9. The Democratic house has passed a lot of bills
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 10:39 AM
Sep 2019

that the Republican Senate won't bring to a vote. The house has also held multiple oversight hearings to which the Republican president has blocked testimony of executive branch officials.
The house judiciary committee was going to return early to work on more gun control legislation. (There are aleady three gun control bills passed by the house waiting in the Senate for the NRA's own Moscow Mitch.)
One house of Congress has been working and will continue to do so.

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
10. The one person
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 10:58 AM
Sep 2019

who needs to go is Mitch McConnell "Moscow Mitch" which he hates to be called why is that Mitch, is it because it is the truth.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/mitch-mcconnell-really-doesnt-like-it-when-you-call-him-moscow-mitch/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1343

just a snip of the article:

The Senate majority leader reiterated his claim that the “Moscow Mitch” insult is “modern-day McCarthyism.” And he told Hewitt, “This is what we’re up against with the hard left today in America.”


the hard left????? WTF??? rather stupid comment isn't it.

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