The Biden Presidency

Jaw said:
Ted Cruz had a bill before the Senate today to sanction Russia. It failed, with only 55 votes. While 55 is enough to pass, it wasn't enough to defeat Senator Schumer's filibuster of the bill. I expect to hear the President denounce the Senate Majority Leader as a Bull Connor, Jeff Davis, Jim Crow scalawag on the evening news tonight for standing in the way of the majority.
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Such performative bull**** from Schumer and company. Cheers to the 6 Democrats who voted Yea. It’s sanctions for Russia over an oil pipeline, Dems should have been tripping over themselves to approve them.
 
sturg33 said:
Ahh that's right... They used to new rules put in place by Harry Reid when he couldn't get his way years prior
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That’s why I included Reid in my original response. Reid specifically excluded SCOTUS nominations, and McConnell added SCOTUS to the mix when Republicans were in charge.
 
General Sir John Hackett wrote a novel about a Warsaw Pact vs NATO Cold War gone hot in the early 80s. His purpose was to splash water on the UK political class before they became overly fond of the arms control movement.

In it, the Soviets were struggling so they nuked a British city to try to force NATO into a cease fire. NATO's response was for the UK, France, and the US to each nuke one Soviet city.

The Reid-McConnell filibuster changes have always reminded me of that exchange, even down to being called the "nuclear option." Reid dropped the first bomb when things weren't going his way. McConnell's options were to go full global thermonuclear war by killing the filibuster entirely, take it laying down and hope the Dems didn't interpret that as weakness, or return fire to show the consequences of killing the filibuster in part or whole. I think he struck a nice balance.
 
Cause obviously the system has collapsed and we are killing each other for the dwindling resources that are left

Duh
 
sturg33 said:
Sucks when you're proven a fool. I'd be embarrassed too
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No doubt

Everywhere I walk in

Empty shelves. Nothing to be had anywhere

And since, I never go anywhere ever, it’s like that everywhere I go

I hope when I’m in Charlotte in a few days I have enough resources with me to survive the trip there
 
Jaw said:
General Sir John Hackett wrote a novel about a Warsaw Pact vs NATO Cold War gone hot in the early 80s. His purpose was to splash water on the UK political class before they became overly fond of the arms control movement.

In it, the Soviets were struggling so they nuked a British city to try to force NATO into a cease fire. NATO's response was for the UK, France, and the US to each nuke one Soviet city.

The Reid-McConnell filibuster changes have always reminded me of that exchange, even down to being called the "nuclear option." Reid dropped the first bomb when things weren't going his way. McConnell's options were to go full global thermonuclear war by killing the filibuster entirely, take it laying down and hope the Dems didn't interpret that as weakness, or return fire to show the consequences of killing the filibuster in part or whole. I think he struck a nice balance.
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It still causes the pearl clutching about the filibuster to ring a bit hollow, in addition to finding the whole analogy concerning. If what Reid did was like dropping a bomb, then the correct response would remain not bombing in response. We’re so conditioned to treat politics as a team sport that we forget that these people have an obligation to lead. I’m not saying what McConnell did was any worse than what the Democrats did, but I think that the greater point to the filibuster debate is how broken our political system is. That’s why it would have felt more apt for the Bee to make a point about the state of our political divide than the easier target of Dems being “woke.”
 
mqt said:
It still causes the pearl clutching about the filibuster to ring a bit hollow, in addition to finding the whole analogy concerning. If what Reid did was like dropping a bomb, then the correct response would remain not bombing in response. We’re so conditioned to treat politics as a team sport that we forget that these people have an obligation to lead. I’m not saying what McConnell did was any worse than what the Democrats did, but I think that the greater point to the filibuster debate is how broken our political system is. That’s why it would have felt more apt for the Bee to make a point about the state of our political divide than the easier target of Dems being “woke.”
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Our politics being so divided is exactly why the filibuster is so necessary
 
sturg33 said:
Our politics being so divided is exactly why the filibuster is so necessary
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I think that’s a fair argument, but I also think it’s why the filibuster doesn’t work as intended. When things are so divided that practically nothing ever gets done, it defeats the whole purpose of having legislators in the first place. Damn near everything gets done through reconciliation because the party in power uses the loophole it has. I’m not sure what the best solution is to that, but I think term limits could play a part.
 
"Biden is absolutely irrelevant. Nobody will talk about him during his presidency if he ends up winning.

Everybody knows who is actually in charge."


Hows that prediction working out for you?
 
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