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It was discussed in the comments, but I wanted to put up a post about Pelosi kicking Gym Jordan and Jim Banks off of the 1/6 committee, and McCarthy taking his toys and going home. Even though idiots like Cillizza think this means the end of credibility for the committee, those of us who aren’t overpaid epsilon semi-morons realize that this is actually good news for Democrats. We can have an investigation without a bunch of mouthbreathers occupying the committee’s time trying to drop Fox-worthy quotes. Also, the presence of Liz Cheney, who is apparently out of fucks since she just hinted around that McCarthy isn’t fit to be speaker, makes the committee technically bi-partisan. It will almost be a shame when she’s beaten by a barely sentient MAGA hat in the Wyoming primary.

Following up on John’s post and my post about the Republicans’ sudden change on vaccination, even Ron DeSantis is telling people to get vaccinated. Of course, he can’t open his reticulated piehole without in the next breath shitting on masks — even so, the bat signal was sent by someone, recently.

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  1. 1.

    Anonymous At Work

    I think Death-Santis signed a law ordering execution by firing squad for any statewide official promoting vaccination.  Or was that his plan for a special session?

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Former RNC chair agrees with Pelosi:

    Finally a Democrat calls the GOP bluff. As Kevin pulls nominees & whines about this being partisan, remember he rejected a bipartisan commission which gave him EVERYTHING HE ASKED FOR! Nancy should appoint someone like ⁦@RepKinzinger⁩ & move on. https://t.co/WuWZzbTRYk
    — Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) July 21, 2021

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @dmsilev: Just saw that. Steele is one of the Never-Trumpers I’m most ambivalent about, but he is absolutely right here.

  5. 5.

    sab

    @dmsilev: That link from Michael Steele goes to the coverage on Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show, which was just one long Republican talking point. I expected it from her, but not frpm Garrett Haake.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    @dmsilev: tbf, the usual suspects are making the expected noises about how shamelessly partisan this all is.  Without noting that the GOP was given every opportunity to be an equal partner in the process.  My only concern is how the inevitable subpoena of GOP members of the House will be handled when they refuse to appear.  I do hope that Nancy has the support of US Marshalls or another legal entity to enforce them.

    If HRC can show up for 11+ hours of GOP browbleating regarding Benghazi, then these folks should be able to do the same, then again, we’re likely dealing with widely differing levels of guilt and responsibility here.

  7. 7.

    Brachiator

    Following up on John’s post and my post about the Republicans’ sudden change on vaccination, even Ron DeSantis is telling people to get vaccinated. Of course, he can’t open his reticulated piehole without in the next breath shitting on masks — even so, the bat signal was sent by someone, recently.

    Any stories about the source of this change of heart? Because this is a pretty big deal. It will be interesting to see if the change in tone has any impact on vaccination rates.

  8. 8.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s a grifter who got passed by before he could get in on things.  Doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

    And committee should just start with subpoenas for testimony and documents, leading off with McCarthy.

  11. 11.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Brachiator: Demographics of the unvaccinated and location of them skew as heavily towards Republicans as possible.  Florida’s last governor election was decided by under 1%.

    The infected are also younger than previous waves, so these are the GOP’s replacements for the senior citizens that are dying naturally.

    If DeathSantis loses, he’s a three-term Congressman and one-term ex-governor.  Not enough to run against two-term sitting governors in 2024.

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    @Anonymous At Work:

    Demographics of the unvaccinated and location of them skew as heavily towards Republicans as possible.  Florida’s last governor election was decided by under 1%.

    I agree with all this. Still doesn’t tell me who gave the signal to raise the white flag.

  14. 14.

    debbie

    @dmsilev:

    Is there any GOP Rep who doesn’t follow Trump or Q? If so, they should be added to the panel in place of these bots.

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    @debbie: There were about a dozen GOP Reps who voted in favor of the second impeachment. That’d be a reasonable place to start. It’s only five or six percent of the caucus, of course.

  18. 18.

    smith

    @Anonymous At Work: The infected are also younger than previous waves

    Not really true. The only phase of the pandemic in which infections of older people predominated was the first surge in Spring 2020, probably because nursing homes were hit so hard, and testing was limited to severe cases only. Since then, the highest infection rates have always been among 18 to 39 year olds.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Jake Sherman @JakeSherman
    PELOSI’s response to McCarthy saying she’s playing politics. “Perhaps you mistake me for somebody who would care about that.”

    We need… new blood?

  20. 20.

    MattF

    There was a moment, not so long ago, when it seemed that Cillizza’s head might be emerging from his ass… But no.

  22. 22.

    Patricia Kayden

    Dear Savvy Political Journalist Twitter:Even by cynical nihilist standards, McCarthy mis-played this. The cycnical, nihilist move would have been to keep appointing crazier and crazier Republicans, forcing additional Pelosi vetoes, and THEN pull the plug.— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) July 21, 2021

  26. 26.

    Howard Campbell's Soup

    While many people are understandably fascinated with the possibility of the anti-vaxxers leading a GOP die-off,    I personally wonder if there’s a super-secret poll out there that showed that the “RESIST ALL PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDELINES !!!” caucus would be blamed for the current resurgence of the virus and then punished brutally at the ballot box.

    It seems to me that folks like de Santis are more likely to react to that kind of old-fashioned political calculation more than morbidly gaming out who’s more likely to die and how that will affect their electoral coalition vs their opponent’s.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    Excellent Twitter thread by Brian Beutler on how “Republican bad faith has become the background assumption in so much journalism, rather than a set of behaviors that can and should be questioned.”

    Baking the presumption of GOP bad faith into everything, rather than treating it as a series of choices by human agents, creates a kind of impunity (through exhaustion or savviness or whatever else) where it isn’t even worth pressing them on their conduct.

    Worth reading the whole thing.

  28. 28.

    Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix

    @germy: She might win if the re-districting puts a few more Dems in Stefanik’s district.  I don’t have a lot of hope for that, but there’s a chance.

  29. 29.

    germy

    Team Elise statement regarding the third Far-Left Socialist Democrat and second Far-Left New York City Democrat to announce their campaign for NY-21:

    Welcome to the North Country! pic.twitter.com/Kygtd9loZR

    — Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 21, 2021

    You don’t know me. You don’t speak for me, my beliefs, or the decades I lived here before you moved up to run for office. I am happy to talk with you any time about my experiences at BOCES and Saratoga High, and you can tell me all about attending the Albany Academy for Girls.

    — Bridie Farrell (@BridieForUs) July 21, 2021

  31. 31.

    realbtl

    I kinda wish Nancy Pelosi would nominate 2 or 3 pro-TFG  reps who are most at risk electorally.  Make them publicly turn it down.

  33. 33.

    piratedan

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: depends on if you’re speaking figuratively or literally I suppose…..

    a good many of us are still in Nancy’s Smash corner and feel that she’s up to what needs to be done, she’s just moving with caution because the work that needs to be done is delicate.  While I would enthusiastically greet faster responses and more fire and ass-kicking, I understand that the playing field is not designed for fairness.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Prime example from a Politico writer:

    Pelosi’s move to reject GOP picks for the 1/6 panel is going to be a gift to Kevin McCarthy in the long run.

    He wanted this panel to look partisan and political. Now it’s definitely going to look partisan and political.

    — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) July 21, 2021

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Watching MSNBC and Tara Palmieri of Politico, late of the Washington Examiner (who once tweeted the words “Meghan McCain nails it, as usual”), is scolding and warning Nancy Pelosi.

    David Jolly, ex-Congressman and ex-GOP (and like Michael Steele, someone whose past, pre-2017 statements about say, voting rights I would like to review) says Nancy Pelosi did the right thing

  40. 40.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    “Both parties are terrible and are ruining America while enriching entrenched, corrupt politicians. This is why I’ll continue voting Republican in every election like I have for the past 50 years.”

    – by an independent conservative

  41. 41.

    germy

    @sab:

    Stefanik started out as a typically bland but evil Republican operative.

    After the rise of Trump she changed her style.  She imitates him.  Exclamation marks, insults, nicknames for her opponents.

    Early in her career when she was under Karl Rove’s wing, she must have internalized the strategy of trying to appear normal, but now she’s decided to let her freak fly.

    I hope she gets voted out.

  42. 42.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Steeplejack: Wilson Valdez has a long memory (thread)

    Centrism Fan Acct  @Wilson__Valdez
    Sorry your sources aren’t going to get to serve on the committee, Rachael. I’m sure you can find some other crazies to leak to you, like you did during the BENGHAZI fervor that you were the main MSM conduit for.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    @piratedan

    Gonna be an interesting Congressional baseball game (rescheduled for late September).

    “Game temporarily called in order for Cyber Ninjas to test bats and balls.”

    //

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    ABC News @ABC 1h
    “I agree with what the speaker has done.” Rep. Cheney addresses media after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejects Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan for the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

    long before anonymous sources told us to ignore trump’s claims of voter fraud in November, because he just needed to tire himself out and then he would calm down and take a nap, a staple of Broderist punditry was that Republicans didn’t really believe the nonsense they spewed, but that they had to do it for “the base”, and it was up to Democrats to look the other way and figure a way to work with Newt Gingrich, then Tom Delay, then Bush-Cheney, then Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor, and finally with trump himself. Politico still wants to dance in that circle. I’m very glad Nancy Pelosi is ignoring them.

  49. 49.

    Kent

    @Bluegirlfromwyo: @Steeplejack: Benghazi looked partisan and political. It was also effective.

    The whole Hillary email scandal came out of the Benghazi investigations.  Without them we likely would have never heard about Hillary’s emails.  Arguably Trump might never have won.  And we would likely have a liberal majority on the Supreme Court.

    So yes, politically the Benghazi hearings may have completely altered the future course of the country.  Hard to have more impact than that.

  50. 50.

    piratedan

    @NotMax: probably would be best to drop all pretense about the game by now, the GOP might offer up the Dem team as a sacrifice to their mob….

  51. 51.

    Fair Economist

    I remain most stunned by how fast and abruptly the entire Republican noise machine shifted to pro-vax. Fox, Newsmax, the Congressional leadership, and multiple governors changed their tune, in ONE DAY.

    Evidently the puppet strings are very short.

  52. 52.

    bluehill

    @Fair Economist: They have had years of practice at message discipline. Also makes me wonder what else is going to happen. Hard to believe that this isn’t the first move of a series of moves.

  53. 53.

    The Pale Scot

    Mike the Mad Biologist has what I think is a very good article

    Should Democrats Embrace the Culture Wars?

    Ask yourself this: Why is it that Democrats spend far more time denying lies — that they want to indoctrinate your children with white shame and send jackbooted government thugs to kick down your doors and force vaccines on you — than Republicans spend denying any of those charges against them, which are true?….

    ..I’ll be the first to admit this isn’t the most elevated stuff in the world; there are a lot of smart people in Democratic politics and most of them don’t want to spend their days contemplating how to outmaneuver Republicans in the realm of brutish messaging. But there’s no less honor in that than in clinging to the belief that politics is an elevated calling, only to lose elections when Republicans decide to make them about outlandish, in many cases fictional things.

    It’s summation of Greg Sargent’s article on a Brian Beutler piece.

    Don’t take the gloves off, load them up with lead shot

  55. 55.

    trollhattan

    Cannot recall what a congressional hearing without Trey Gowdy’s hair is even like. It will be a reeducation for me.

  62. 62.

    Dan B

    In religion (nasty) news Monsignor Burill who delivered the results on whether to bar Biden from communion has been revealed to have been on gay hookup site Grindr almost daily from 2018 through 2020 and the GPS on his phone shows he visited gay bars on his frequent trips.

    Seems hypocritical.  What do you all think?

  63. 63.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Brachiator: A few pollsters behind the scenes crunching Census data and COVID infection data that’s been released and verified, I imagine.  2016->2018->2020 isn’t a great trendline for predicting anything more than “water tends to be wet” but it would possibly show that Republicans are losing grounds in some states and aren’t surging far ahead in others, like Florida, such that the infected can die without electoral complications.

    Also, not sure how you’d do this legally (and it wasn’t done illegally) but comparing 2016 and 2018 voters to 2020 voters either affected by or in proximity to those with died from COVID might have some interesting implications.

  65. 65.

    Anonymous At Work

    @bluehill: Shouldn’t.  DeathSantis’s lawsuit is about CDC over-reaching their mandate under regulatory law.  An admission that COVID is serious or that vaccination is something to encourage  wouldn’t be a big deal in that context.

  68. 68.

    MomSense

    The majority of people in my state are vaccinated.  Those that aren’t are largely from sparsely populated, rural counties that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the last election.

    That having been said, I’m dealing personally with the parents of my youngest kid’s friends who will not vaccinate their kids.  Some of them are generally anti-vax but some are just anti Covid vaccine.  Ugh.  They are drinking their stupid elderberry syrups, burning sage, and whatever the fuck else they think will protect them.  I’ve gotten into it with a few of them and they’re mad at me because I have said that it is not just about personal choice, that refusing to be vaccinated causes harm to others and is selfish and irresponsible.  I’m a very bad person who refuses to dialogue, blah blah blah. At this point I want the schools to refuse their kids if they refuse vaccines.

    fuckem

  69. 69.

    RSA

    @Steeplejack:

    Pelosi’s move to reject GOP picks for the 1/6 panel is going to be a gift to Kevin McCarthy in the long run.

    He wanted this panel to look partisan and political. Now it’s definitely going to look partisan and political.

    Right, this is a clueless take on Bade’s part. As if the alternative, having Jordan and Banks on the committee, would not have created the impression of partisanship and politics? Please.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @WaterGirl: Oops!  NotMax is right – with an apostrophe in your screen name, we will have to manually approve every comment.

    You could drop the apostrophe, and we wouldn’t judge you for that :-) or you could substitute an * for the apostrophe.

    I didn’t catch that when I approved your comment.

  74. 74.

    Mallard Filmore

    @realbtl:

     

    I kinda wish Nancy Pelosi would nominate 2 or 3 pro-TFG reps who are most at risk electorally. Make them publicly turn it down.

    A few weeks ago McCarthy demanded of his caucus that all assignments go through him. The pro-TFGs would hide behind that.

  79. 79.

    Mallard Filmore

    @The Pale Scot:

     

    It’s summation of Greg Sargent’s article on a Brian Beutler piece.

    Don’t take the gloves off, load them up with lead shot

    Start with snatching babies from refugees at our southern border. After World War 2, the allies executed people for doing that.

  80. 80.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    This sounds like another GoP trying have it both ways, now they can scream about the committee is partisan and because Cheney is on it, take credit if the committee digs up something serious.

  81. 81.

    trollhattan

    @debbie:

    “I’m just going to have a nice little rest right here, if that’s okay.”

    I remember a video of a goldie tackling an agility competition only to stop in the middle to eat other dog’s treats off the floor. Total goldie.

    Spouse went paddleboarding today and somebody brought along her dobie, who got on the board and was a passenger around the lake. IDK how that even works, but the pics are adorable.

  82. 82.

    Dan B

    @rikyrah: Good for them and very sad for them.  Biles forfeits her chance at more medals that she would very likely won with ease.

  84. 84.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Brachiator: From where I’m at in Florida I think it is a combination of things.

    1. Florida is now responsible for 1/5th of all new infections in the US and, while the data is lagging because of DeSantis’s orders, the bulk of those are Delta.
    2. Florida is lagging in vaccinations. I don’t think there’s a county that is much above 50%. Pretty much everyone who wants to be vaccinated is and everyone else most likely won’t be.
    3. It was reported yesterday that DeSantis badly screwed up the initial phases of the vaccinations. That contrary to the publicity his team put out and that got gobbled up by Politico and other places, Florida has the lowest number of those living and/or working in nursing homes and assisted living facilities vaccinated. So he’s got a huge, at risk population that he defied the CDC guidance to give priority to for vaccinations and still didn’t get them vaccinated while holding everyone else in the state hostage to his “I know better” timeline.
    4. Mayors and county administrators are starting to call for new mask mandates, new distancing mandates, new restrictions on occupancy in businesses, etc. DeSantis has, by executive order, made any of these efforts by municipal leaders and officials somewhere between non-binding/having no force of law and potentially civilly actionable under Florida law.
    5. An appeals court just reinstated the CDC’s requirement that all cruises lines that depart from Florida are authorized to require proof of vaccination for all guests and refuse to book and/or accommodate non-vaccinated guests.
    6. DeSantis wants to be reelected governor next year so he can immediately start running for president. If Florida becomes a charnel house of Delta and other variants, which will crash the tourism industry and the rest of the economy, he’s done.
  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MattF:

    There was a moment, not so long ago, when it seemed that Cillizza’s head might be emerging from his ass… But no. 

    In what universe?

  86. 86.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: No, we need to transplant Pelosi’s brain into AOC’s body! Frankenstein’s speaker of the House!!!// Or just graft it in there. If two brain lobes are good, four must be better, right?//

    This is not a knock on AOC. I think she’s doing fine.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Adam L Silverman: The Speaker With Two Heads! Get me Zombie Roger Corman!

    ETA: Or do I mean Zombie Ed Wood? When I was younger I knew that sort of movie better

  89. 89.

    mrmoshpotato

    @germy:

    Team Elise statement regarding the third Far-Left Socialist Democrat and second Far-Left New York City Democrat to announce their campaign for NY-21: 

    BOOGA! BOOGA! BOOGA! is fewer keystrokes, Elise.

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    “Both parties are terrible and are ruining America while enriching entrenched, corrupt politicians. This is why I’ll continue voting Republican in every election like I have for the past 50 years.”

    – by an independent conservative

     “I’m an indepeeeeendent!” as bluegal mockingly says on The Professional Left podcast

  91. 91.

    Citizen Alan

    @Anonymous At Work:

    Florida’s last governor election was decided by under 1%.

    I still think Gwen Graham would have won. But Baby had to have his pacifier, and all the Florida “progressives” had to have the guy St. Bernie endorsed even though he had all kinds of ethics issues and, post-election, got caught in an honest-to-god meth-fueled gay orgy, so what do I know.

  92. 92.

    debbie

    @MomSense:

    I’m drinking stupid elderberry syrup AND I’m vaccinated. Even so, I picked up some small bug from not masking up JUST ONCE. Those parents are not being responsible.

  93. 93.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: anything, anything at all to try and kneecap the Biden Recovery & Boom.

    Hey Dems!  Be sure to let the GQP’s big business donors know – PUBLICLY! – that the market shake-up/sell-off/whatever to come is entirely a) unnecessary and b) due to the Repubs’ inability to land a punch on Joe Biden.

  96. 96.

    debbie

    @trollhattan:

    I’ve seen a few owners trying to coax their dogs to get up and continue their walks. It would have been easier to move the Sphinx.

  100. 100.

    Gravenstone

    @Patricia Kayden: I was envisioning Pelosi seating another member, then telling McCarthy he now has four seats to suggest on his second chance. If he falls for it, they’re even more marginalized. If he continues his tantrum, then leave those seats open and get on with the investigation.

  103. 103.

    dww44

    @Kent: Ever since I heard yesterday who McCarthy selected. Ive hoped that Pelosi would not go along.  I agree with Marshall.  Now we’ve a chance that the Select Committee can truly be the serious investigation it should be. Americans deserve a serious reckoning for the Jan o6 insurrection it’s… the perpetrators and the planners.

  104. 104.

    Geminid

     

     

    @Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix: I’ll be interested to see how Albany Democrats handle redistricting. I believe New York will lose a Congressional district. It won’t be hard to make one of the upstate Republicans lose the game of musical chairs. Maybe two: Claudia Tenney won her 22nd District rematch with Anthony Brindisi by less than 400 votes. If Ithaca can be added to the 22nd without endangering another Democrat, Tenney is a goner.

    I voted for Virginia’s new independent redistricting commission last fall. The comstitutional amendment passed 2-1. But if Democrats in states like New York or Illinois want to be as ruthless in redistricting as Republicans in Georgia and Texas will be, I’m all for it.

  110. 110.

    piratedan

    @Gravenstone: just kind of hoping that she’ll leave it there, if she wants to make a point… leave the seats empty, that should be poignant enough.

    Then we can actually allow the committee to work, because they DO have work to do… we have to know who planned it, who funded it, and determine who in our government assisted those who assaulted the Capitol.

  117. 117.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    From the recesses of the vault: not the film most people think of when Corman’s name is invoked.

    The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (portrayed by Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small southern town of Caxton in order to incite townspeople to racial violence against the town’s black minority and court-ordered school integration.

  119. 119.

    Jeffro

    @Adam L Silverman: right…but this ‘Delta surge’ is making it quite clear that Florida’s not immune or special; that DeSantis’ “strategy”, such as it is, is not working; and that he is essentially just like the rest of these GQP ‘denialist’ governors.

    No magic to be had.  No “Florida miracle”.  Just under-reported numbers previously, strong-arm tactics against those who insisted otherwise, and now, well…making headlines in the worst way.

  120. 120.

    Geminid

    @Steeplejack: Bade is wrong, and she may not even be arguing in good faith. In the long run she speaks of, the compelling, even devastating, facts that the Select Commitee develops will be much more impactful than McCarthy’s whining about process.

  122. 122.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Florida is lagging in vaccinations. I don’t think there’s a county that is much above 50%.

    Sumter County (aka The Villages) is WAY above 50%.

    edit: and Miami-Dade is at 59% fully vaxxed, so, not doing that badly by US standards. South Florida in general seems to be doing better than the rest of the state aside from The Villages.

    (This is according to the CDC county-by-county vaccination stats, which I am a bit suspicious of since they seem so different from the state’s numbers for the case of Massachusetts and I’m not sure why.)

  124. 124.

    James E Powell

    @SuzieC:

    Stop making me like Liz Cheney.

    I’m not saying I like her, but I’m urging a cease-fire from our side unless and until she says or does something that reminds us of why we never liked her to begin with.

    I’ve haven’t seen any “Republicans in Disarray” or “Republicans Divided on 1/6 Commission” headlines. Did I miss them?

  125. 125.

    Another Scott

    @Brachiator: I’m not sure that much has really changed over the last few months.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+encourage+vaccination

    shows hits from today, and yesterday, and July 5, and April 27, and …

    The Monday 2% drop in the stock market was blamed on “inflation and the Delta Variant” in some reports. Maybe that got some attention.

    Robert Costa used to be regarded as “The Republican Whisperer” in some quarters. I see he’s on book duty now and isn’t on Twitter. I don’t know if there’s someone else who covers that beat the way he did…

    Time will tell if this is meaningful. I’m not yet convinced. If they really are willing to recognize the evidence and not act to make things worse, then great.

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  126. 126.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @James E Powell: I’ll never forget her past, from trolling Obama to trying to jump the line for a Wyoming Senate race based on “Do you know who my father is?”, and throwing her sister, SIL (and I believe their kids?) under the bus in pursuit of said Senate seat, and being a full-on, if muted, trump apologist until the Capitol was actually breached, but credit where due:  the easiest thing in the world for her to do would be to keep quiet and go along till Barrasso retires and finally get that seat.

  127. 127.

    Another Scott

    @rikyrah: Of course they won’t.

    Nancy and Chuck should do the Dick Gephardt deem-and-pass thing.

    Thus was born the “Gephardt rule.” For a period thereafter, the adoption of the conference report on the budget resolution would trigger the Gephardt rule and “deem to have passed” legislation raising the debt limit to accommodate the spending and revenue levels approved in the budget. Presto! Problem solved.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  128. 128.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @Dan B: The women gymnasts haven’t withdrawn from the games, they’ve just relocated to a safer location

    “One of the coaches, Cecile Landi, tweeted on Sunday that the team had made the decision to relocate to safer boarding out of caution. “

  131. 131.

    OGLiberal

    Cillizza just wants the Dems to keep letting the GOP bully say “stop punching yourself” in perpetuity.  Of course, he and his ilk are the same folks who will readily accuse the Dems of not being tougher.  “Tough” in their definition means Joe Manchin inviting Lindsey Graham to play golf and letting him win but calling him out on moving the ball out of the rough a bit on the 15th even though he’s been doing the same thing on every fucking hole.

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    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    @debbie: There’s room here for “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!”

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