• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Fight them, without becoming them!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

People are weird.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

We still have time to mess this up!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Politics / Brooks

Brooks

by John Cole|  May 1, 20058:46 am| 2 Comments

This post is in: Politics

FacebookTweetEmail

On Reid’s filibuster deal:

Frist should have grabbed this offer because it’s time for senators to re-establish the principle that they, not the outside interest groups, run the Senate. Right now, most senators want to avoid a meltdown. It’s the outside interest groups that are goading them into the fight.

Of course the groups want a fight. The activists get up every morning hoping to change the judiciary, dreaming of total victory. Of course they’re willing to sacrifice everything else for that cause. But senators are supposed to know that serving the interest groups is not the same as serving the people: it is serving a passionate but unrepresentative minority of the people. At some point, leaders are supposed to stand up to maximalists, even the ones they mostly agree with.

Finally, it’s time to rediscover the art of the backroom deal. There are two ways the Senate can work. The Senate could be a legal battleground in which the two parties waged all-out struggles to rig the procedures so they got what they want. In this model, the Democrats would go on abusing the filibuster until the Republicans muscled through procedural changes.

Sound familiar?

We know who is realy driving this nuclear option. We just won’t admit it, and there are no adults in the Senate anymore.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « People and Their Pets
Next Post: Also in the Times Today »

Reader Interactions

2Comments

  1. 1.

    Justin Faulkner

    May 1, 2005 at 7:30 pm

    Brooks has some pretty good commentary, and I admire him for not being a rabid partisan.

  2. 2.

    TJ Jackson

    May 1, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Boy what a deal sounds like my kids negotiating over toys, older one- what’s mine is mine, what’s yours we negotiate for. Younger child-duh?

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Old School on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:36pm)
  • JML on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:35pm)
  • schrodingers_cat on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:29pm)
  • Msb on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:29pm)
  • Geminid on Take the Fucking Win (Apr 15, 2024 @ 5:27pm)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!