They keep doing shit like voting for some of Trump’s appointees and voting against trans rights. They both voted for the Laken Riley act. Warnock, the pastor at Ebeneezer, decided to go to the inauguration rather than be here in ATL for MLK day celebrations. I voted for both of them, and up until recently, I’ve been proud that they represent my state. I’m very unhappy with both of them right now and feel like they need to show some spine in the face of fascism. I get the whole idea that they are trying to appeal to the middle, which in a purple state like GA makes some sense. But the right wing is so far to the right that they violate the very ideals they both purport to support by doing so right now.
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I read that last night, and my only objection to it was the line about how Trump got Bibi to the table for the ceasefire agreement… which, that’s… just not true. Biden did not do enough soon enough and he failed there, but Trump didn’t do anything for the ceasefire except send one of his guys before he took office. He then blurted out straight support genocide in Gaza…
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Items 1. and 2. Follow the money;
- They’d rather have peace with the billionaire tech bros—see Jeffries’s recent Silicon Valley visit to “mend fences”—than wage a struggle to get their money out of politics, have campaign finance reform, and, for the love of God, tax their obscene and unearned wealth.
2.A wing of the Democratic Party actually supports the substance if not style of what Musk is doing, accepting the argument of bureaucratic excess and the need to stop “waste.” Several put themselves forward to join the entirely made up, extra-constitutional operation known as DOGE
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In the last 10 days, the House Republicans have been pulled and pulled harder by the hard right, whose votes they need in order to pass a Republican-only budget plan. The hard right wants not only massive tax cuts but also massive spending cuts to match them. Especially to Medicaid. This is why the Senate Republicans are resisting them, pushing for their two-bill process: precisely to avoid this mess, right now, over tax cuts and spending cuts. The Senate Republicans want a smaller bill, just to fund increases in defense spending, border bullshit, and energy crap. (And that border bullshit is no joke: Trump’s immigration asshole, Homan, is begging for money; otherwise, ICE and the BPD can’t make their arrest and deportation numbers, which are lagging, go up.) Anyway, to the hard right is where Johnson and the House Republican leadership were lurching. Till tonight. When eight House Republicans, all representing very Latino districts, sent a public letter denouncing the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and Pell grants that the House Republican leadership wants as part of that one big beautiful bill. They noted in their letter that 30 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid are Latino; they will be “expected to bear the brunt of these reductions.” They added, “For many families across the country, Medicaid is their only access to healthcare.” “Slashing Medicaid would have serious consequences, particularly in rural and predominantly Hispanic communities where hospitals and nursing homes are already struggling to keep their doors open.” So that’s where we’re at. And of course, this doesn’t even begin to touch the vote on increasing the debt ceiling which is just a few weeks away, and which there is no way the Republicans can pass without getting some Democratic votes.
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Primary all collaborators
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Fuck all of you.
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Are they hoping there is enough time for voters to forget that they betrayed us? Or that there will be so much other shit that it will get lost in the morass. Fuck them and their quisling attitudes either way.
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Darn, I thought it was an obit.
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One would hope… but I thought he said he wasn’t going to seek re-election a year or so ago?
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If women had not voted, Republicans would have won every damned election since 1920. Think that’s not part of the plan? Gilead, here we come.
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Five democrats voted in favor in the house…
Here is everything about the bill…
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8281
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We seriously need the rage/tears/puke reaction emojis. Maybe one that does all those?
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