The indispensable D-Day has an update on HR 3808, and it looks like this is more about a pissing match between Congress and the WH than an actual attempt to override the bill.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.
Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.
Democracy cannot function without a free press.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.
the 10% who apparently lack object permanence
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.
Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.
Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.
MikeJ
I’ve got to go with Pelosi. You can’t allow the president to say “no backsies” to anything he doesn’t like.
Mnemosyne
And yet this won’t stop certain people from screaming about how this is all a betrayal and it was a fake veto etc etc.
Linda Featheringill
So this may be more about defending the right of congress to over ride a veto than an actual desire to over ride this particular veto?
The mind reels. Or something.
ruemara
Nothing like the support Black Jimmy Carter gets from the Democratic Controlled Congress. Bully Pulpit!!
Bill H.
They can’t really think they have enough votes to override it? In both houses? Really?
Mnemosyne
@Bill H.:
I doubt it. It’s just another dickwaving contest from Congress, trying to prove that the president is not the boss of them.