2 Spineless, Roadblocking Democrats

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Donald Duck promised to trash the entire executive branch, and did a pretty damned impressive job. What part of "Half the country wants to destroy our government" did you not comprehend? Obama saved our economy, only to be replaced by Donald Duck promising to destroy our government. I seriously doubt if half the damned country gives a crap about democrats producing results.

What they will care about, is when members of congress and Donald Duck are brought up on charges of sedition.

 

well, i understand what you mean.

What I'm saying is, true - he's doing well. But according to what standard?

My expectation can be unrealistic - I want green new deals rolling out as soon as AOC and Greta think of them...

The one thing that I feel the strongest about is embracing our knowledge... Is not our leadership college educated?

I feel that just because a majority wants something more traditional/moderate, we're ignoring the social sciences that inform our politics... Where's the sociology?

The only time I feel empowered is when an AOC or an Ilhan Omar says something that rings true to the knowledge I have become familiar with.

It's not that I dislike President Biden. It's that I'm concerned his policy is lacking integrity. It's backed by tradition, but if you ask me it's time to truly change. I'm for bigger change.

 

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Спасибо

 

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Several Senate Republicans voted yes on the $1.5 B Infrastructure bill. Progressives are holding it back in The House.

The larger Bill concerns Human Infrastructure.

 

They're testing the market for new infrastructure on Wall Street. Anything to keep stock prices going up! Between Donald Duck and Biden, Wall Street has all their bets hedged.

Democracy in action, a choice between selling out to Wall Street or jumping over a cliff.

 

For those who in recent posts said REPUBLICANS will block EVERYTHING .......... correct!!!!!!!! There actions stand before them - and they're TELEVISED !!!

I've posted this FACT before - Obama made a nationally televised speech before both houses of Congress where he said, "We should take some of that money and put it to work here in THIS COUNTRY - putting American workers to work at good-paying jobs." (Obama was speaking about our U.S. infrastructure needs). NOT ONE REPUBLICAN applauded that proposal - the TV cameras documented the REPUBLICAN side of the chamber - unwavering, stone-faced manakins.

But when T**** was prez, and Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House (sitting right behind T**** as he made HIS address to Congress - T**** used the SAME WORDS as Obama had made in his speech, almost to the letter verbatim - and Ryan jumped up to lead a standing ovation by the entire REPUBLICAN SIDE of the chamber. Apparently THE REPUBLICAN SIDE thought it was a bad idea when Obama proposed it ......... but when T**** opened his copying, plagiarizing yap - it was all of a sudden a big hit.

This is the book definition of HYPOCRISY. For GOD's sake - look it up if you don't know what hypocrisy is. No one can claim to be FOR something .......... and then actually vote AGAINST that same thing. The "truth" they claim by voice - is proven FALSE by their actions.

So how many more years of unattended infrastructure were added on by THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL to back what the U.S. really needed (when Obama made his proposal)?? How many good-paying American jobs were non-existent, when they could have been filled and workers could have been contributing to our U.S. economy??? How does this sort of self-serving behavior help our U.S. economy and our woefully-neglected infrastructure needs??

How A-N-Y-O-N-E can support a self-serving, LYING, HYPOCRITICAL political party such as THE REPUBLICAN PARTY has become ......... is totally beyond me. The Republican party of the past is ............ GONE.

 

You' are so, so, SO right. When I listen to some of my own friends and acquaintances speak ............ WOW!! And the people of "the base" when they speak on TV ......... OMG!!! They seem to think that just by the act of their saying something - or hearing some bit of verbal drivel by a political hack - it stands as fact!!!

I listened with amusement ......... and some sadness, when TV reporters asked T**** supporters (on various occasions) what actual PROOF they had that the election was "stolen." Their answers were mostly the same in every instance ........" Well - everybody knows it." That's NOT PROOF ..... it's gossip and hearsay ...... but they don't even realize that fact. Community repetition of a falsehood doesn't transform it into a truthful fact. Refusal to believe a fact doesn't make the fact a falsehood. It's called being stubborn, intransigent.

The recent uptick in the VERY public displays of poor education is a bad sign for the future of our country and our democracy. How does one make a well thought out case for anything to folks who HATED SCHOOL , studying, and learning - and couldn't wait to get out?? They didn't apply themselves while they were in school. And today, many people who actually have a good degree of intelligence are ridiculed as "know-it-alls" or "Mr. / Mrs. smart guy" by those who were SLACKERS in school. More division and tension.

Easy pickin's for a slick-talking salesman / huckster / fraud like T**** ............. and many others.

"Our best tool is an uninformed electorate." - Adolf Hitler

 

In effect, there's an attack from many sides on this country now. The intentionally evil, fascist leaning , anti American legislators who are riding the wave of half wits who are the useful idiots of the extreme right wing and the right wing media--Fox, The Post, Wall Street Journal ,owned by that Australian bastard and his family that are harvesting the hard earned money of the Trump know nothings. All to the detriment of all the folks who believe that "we are all in this together" in this experiment in self governance instead of those who have used the super rich as their way into government and in turn reward them with laws that are amenable to their continued dominance of the monetary system. It's now obvious that the right wing / republican / conservatives are going to do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING to win elections to keep and maintain the present inequitable systems in place and in fact I can foresee the day when all politicians will be republicans and to speak out will be as dangerous as it is in Russia--China. It's not that far off with the now emboldened party that has ALMOST --the senate---ALMOST the house and definitely the supreme court under their control.

 

^ ^ ^ So true, Scratcho. And the price - to the whole country and our democracy - of having a very poor education by sooo many, is they're actually unwitting / unknowing pawns in the political unravelling of our country. Add the fact that Russia and China are using social media to add their propaganda to what poorly-educated 'muricans gorge on every day ........ and we see our free society democracy disintegrating without a shot being fired. Curiosity killed the cat??? S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y is killing our U.S. democracy. Autocratic fascism is SLOBBERING to take over. I pity our kids and grandkids. Never in all my life did I think I'd live to see this. WW I, WW II, Korean War, Viet Nam vets must be shaking in their honorable graves.

 

Correction: Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, not Rupert Murdoch as I said in post 31.

 

Perhaps the naysayers want to keep the fiscal powder dry. They may want to keep Medicaid & Medicare solvent. Keep Social Security solvent. Perhaps they are concerned that America's public pension crisis will need to be dealt with. There may be genuine principals behind where they stand. Are they really super villain's ?

 

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The republicans are always just outraged at the national debt and use that as one of their excuses to vote down ANYTHING the democrats attempt to do. That is until they see a good reason to give the super rich some tax breaks in one way or another. It's a symbiotic relationship The super rich / corporations give the repubs the money to get elected in exchange for the laws that help their benefactors to avoid taxes. Pretty slick. Unless you're a middle class citizen that gets stuck making up for the non paying elite. Ho hum-- Another day in paradise.

 

Well I'm glad that our President finally got his infrastructure bill passed. The $1T billion bill passed the Senate back in August. Only 13 Republican house members voted for it. Looks like six member: The Squad, voted Nay.

Build Back Better is still out there, under negotiation. Some legislators want to increase the SALT cap for local taxes; Those "super rich" people are Blue State Democrats who want a full exemption for real estate taxes. Like here in Jersey.

Meanwhile those who expect a pension for a career in public service are under a threat of underfunded state pension plans.

 

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Oh, dear, there are so many different kinds of hate in our country and the world today, aren't there? But surely it's a misuse of language to call legislators "spineless" when they stand up for what they believe is right against intense pressure from their own party--whatever that party may be, and whatever they may think is right.