Today was an important day to be paying attention. In many ways, we seem to be going backward. Only our votes can ultimately change that. Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would have created a federal right to contraception access today. That seems like it should have been noncontroversial. It’s 2024. But it was not. It failed to pass, with Republicans saying the legislation was both unnecessary and government overreach. I suppose it’s only unnecessary if you don’t care about the right to contraception going the same way as the right to get an abortion.
I mean this comes from the House led by GOP who have spent so much time in committee that they have past:
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64 laws, most related to renaming post offices.
As a comparison, the 117th Congress (the last one) which was led by Democrats passed 463 laws including the CHIPS law, the Inflation Reduction law, the Infrastructure bill…
In fact, the 118th is on track to be the least productive Congress in modern history. And it’s not just because of all of the inquires that have gone nowhere the GOP have lead, though that has eaten about 60% of their time on the Hill. The GOP has dealt with massive infighting that prevents even themselves from getting things done.
“too little too late”
Man they could have centuries of time on their hands and wouldn’t even do basic things like pass a budget. The GOP has demonstrated quite well that they don’t have the ability to enact their platform. And mostly because they’re too damn busy posing in front of cameras and trying to score sound bites. Like just the other day Comer was talking about how he’d like to arrest Fauci and the thing is, Comer has a degree in Agriculture and mostly majored in those aspects. He doesn’t even have the functional knowledge to actually indict anyone, much less the ability to maintain the massive amount of litigation.
Like he can say that, but the odds of any kind of successful indictment is slim to none. I mean for fucks sake, he sits on the Oversight Committee ex officio, shit he likely doesn’t even know what that means.
A large part of the modern GOP are people who are horrible at their job and have very little understanding of how Government works. MTG just a few weeks ago was talking about some sort of “law” and what it really was, was a regulatory hearing on review of rule making. Not even new rules or regulatory processes, just the usual self audit. Lady doesn’t know the different between slip, law, bill, and rule. But she’ll be the first one to open her mouth about who is and is not a doctor.
A lot of them are very poorly educated in how anything works. And they objectively demonstrate that lack of knowledge on a fairly regular basis. And they’re pretty unabashed about it too.
So yeah, that “too little too late” that’s some rich bull. You know my Grandfather used to say: “If you are ever worried about professional politicians, just you wait till the amateurs get here.” He made that in reference to a Governor of Tennessee Ray Blanton, but fuck if it doesn’t apply here.
The GOP has demonstrated quite well that they don’t have the ability to enact their platform.
Most of what they want to do is block progress, which is actually quite easy. That can be done with control of any one of the three of president, house of representatives, or senate - which they have had for 20 of the last 24 years.
I mean this comes from the House led by GOP who have spent so much time in committee that they have past:
checks notes
64 laws, most related to renaming post offices.
As a comparison, the 117th Congress (the last one) which was led by Democrats passed 463 laws including the CHIPS law, the Inflation Reduction law, the Infrastructure bill…
In fact, the 118th is on track to be the least productive Congress in modern history. And it’s not just because of all of the inquires that have gone nowhere the GOP have lead, though that has eaten about 60% of their time on the Hill. The GOP has dealt with massive infighting that prevents even themselves from getting things done.
“too little too late”
Man they could have centuries of time on their hands and wouldn’t even do basic things like pass a budget. The GOP has demonstrated quite well that they don’t have the ability to enact their platform. And mostly because they’re too damn busy posing in front of cameras and trying to score sound bites. Like just the other day Comer was talking about how he’d like to arrest Fauci and the thing is, Comer has a degree in Agriculture and mostly majored in those aspects. He doesn’t even have the functional knowledge to actually indict anyone, much less the ability to maintain the massive amount of litigation.
Like he can say that, but the odds of any kind of successful indictment is slim to none. I mean for fucks sake, he sits on the Oversight Committee ex officio, shit he likely doesn’t even know what that means.
A large part of the modern GOP are people who are horrible at their job and have very little understanding of how Government works. MTG just a few weeks ago was talking about some sort of “law” and what it really was, was a regulatory hearing on review of rule making. Not even new rules or regulatory processes, just the usual self audit. Lady doesn’t know the different between slip, law, bill, and rule. But she’ll be the first one to open her mouth about who is and is not a doctor.
A lot of them are very poorly educated in how anything works. And they objectively demonstrate that lack of knowledge on a fairly regular basis. And they’re pretty unabashed about it too.
So yeah, that “too little too late” that’s some rich bull. You know my Grandfather used to say: “If you are ever worried about professional politicians, just you wait till the amateurs get here.” He made that in reference to a Governor of Tennessee Ray Blanton, but fuck if it doesn’t apply here.
Most of what they want to do is block progress, which is actually quite easy. That can be done with control of any one of the three of president, house of representatives, or senate - which they have had for 20 of the last 24 years.