The 118th United States Congress

[chasfh]

This strikes me as a pretty brazen effort to crash that part of the welfare state that doesn't benefit the people who vote for them.

 

 

[oblong]

They are pretty tone deaf if they think they can win that battle.  

[mtutiger]

38 minutes ago, oblong said:

They are pretty tone deaf if they think they can win that battle.  

They'll also be out on an island as well... Mitch and Co. appear to have zero interest in another debt ceiling fight 

[mtutiger]

Good spot for him. Did you all know that Dr. Santos single-handedly invented the integrated circuit?

Edited January 18, 2023 by mtutiger

[chasfh]

On 1/14/2023 at 9:19 PM, oblong said:

They are pretty tone deaf if they think they can win that battle.  

These particular Republicans are not working for the people. They’re working for The Man.

Edited January 18, 2023 by chasfh

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Good spot for him. Did you all know that Dr. Santos single-handedly invented the integrated circuit?

Santos obviously has a BS in science.

[Motor City Sonics]

12 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Good spot for him. Did you all know that Dr. Santos single-handedly invented the integrated circuit?

I understand this.  He was part of the Apollo 22 mission and he did invent the modern computer. 

[Tigerbomb13]

If this is true, this is as low as you can go

[mtutiger]

For the Kubrick fans among us lol

[1984Echoes]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Santos obviously has a BS in science.

From where I'm sitting, it looks like a:

BS in Life.

[chasfh]

Even this guy gets it:

 

So strap in ... here we go-o-o-o-o--o ... !

[CMRivdogs]

I'm becoming very afraid. I tend to agree with Walsh a lot of the time.

I still prefer the one who play guitar.

[mtutiger]

 

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

 

what does it mean to 'reduce' a dog?

[CMRivdogs]

Waiting for him to address this. especially since the GOP seems hung up on cross dressers purportedly grooming kids.

 

 

[casimir]

 

[mtutiger]

40 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

what does it mean to 'reduce' a dog?

A sign that I watch too many cooking shows: I hate that "dog reduction" makes me think of The Great British Baking Show lol

[pfife]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

 

[mtutiger]

More of this in the Democratic Party. And in Congress.

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, mtutiger said:

More of this in the Democratic Party. And in Congress.

Oh, Jesus, for the first time, I can envision a path for those loonspuds.

[smr-nj]

Of all the lies, mis-leading statements, accusations of theft and fraud   -  both here and in Brazil, ….. why is it that the story of the theft of the “GoFundMe” $$$ set up for that homeless veteran’s therapy dog’s cancer care…. Why is this the story that makes me want to rip his arms off and beat him with the bloody stumps?  
 

I honestly don’t understand how his constituents can’t start a petition to recall him. After all, I think we could probably see and understand how they would be willing to acknowledge that the man they pull the lever for it’s not the man is sitting in that seat in Congress at the moment. That man doesn’t exist, and was just a lie built upon a lie built upon a lie. Could we call him as an actor in bad faith.  Might as well not wait for the actual law to be investigated as far as his perpetrations of fraud, that he may have enacted go. That would take too long. I say as a constituent, they should be able to haul his ass back from Washington.
 

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Of all the lies, mis-leading statements, accusations of theft and fraud   -  both here and in Brazil, ….. why is it that the story of the theft of the “GoFundMe” $$$ set up for that homeless veteran’s therapy dog’s cancer care…. Why is this the story that makes me want to rip his arms off and beat him with the bloody stumps?  
 

I honestly don’t understand how his constituents can’t start a petition to recall him. After all, I think we could probably see and understand how they would be willing to acknowledge that the man they pull the lever for it’s not the man is sitting in that seat in Congress at the moment. That man doesn’t exist, and was just a lie built upon a lie built upon a lie. Could we call him as an actor in bad faith.  Might as well not wait for the actual law to be investigated as far as his perpetrations of fraud, that he may have enacted go. That would take too long. I say as a constituent, they should be able to haul his ass back from Washington.
 

I with you on the anger, but I would bet that most of the people who voted him in thinks he’s just dandy because they love slurping the lib tears being shed over it.

[chasfh]

I think George Santos has become a huge distraction from this Congress, and based on what I know about the current iteration of The Party, I can’t say for sure that it’s not on purpose.

[gehringer_2]

Krugman's list of some possible end arounds for the debt ceiling if the dems want to get creative:

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Democrats could seek a “discharge petition” to force a vote on raising the debt limit despite opposition from G.O.P. leaders. This would both take time and require support from a handful of sane Republican House members.....

it’s probably possible to use financial engineering to bypass the debt limit. The most famous proposal calls for minting a platinum coin with a face value of, say, $1 trillion, depositing that coin with the Federal Reserve and spending out of the bank account thus created. Believe it or not, this would almost certainly be legal......

issuing “premium bonds” when existing debts come due — bonds whose face value is the same as that of the bonds they replace, so that they don’t officially increase the debt, but offer high interest rates, so they sell for much more than their notional value.....

constitutional options. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says that the validity of public debt “shall not be questioned,” which might be construed as a reason to ignore the debt ceiling rather than default on payments.

 

[gehringer_2]

10 hours ago, smr-nj said:

I honestly don’t understand how his constituents can’t start a petition to recall him.

There is no mechanism to recall a member of Congress at the state level. The House could have refused to seat him - if there had been anything like leadership present there interested in preserving the integrity of the institution.

...OK - I did laugh as I typed those last 4 words.

Edited January 20, 2023 by gehringer_2