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Do-Nothing!!!!!!
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)eom
AZ8theist
(5,495 posts)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)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.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)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)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 were up against with the hard left today in America.
the hard left????? WTF??? rather stupid comment isn't it.
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