Will the GOP be this fractured when it comes to trying to pass bills?
I think they will be! I mean, if no one can whip the votes to become Speaker, they aren't going to be able to pass anything that anyone disagrees on at all.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2023 12:26:51 pm PST #19805 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JZ - Jan 04, 2023 12:29:00 pm PST #19806 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, sj, I'm sorry. That's a lot of good memories, and the promise of a respite and a haven for decades ahead, to suddenly lose.
~ma and comfort to your family, Sheryl. I can't imagine the emotional stress you've all been under, for years now.
I went back to work today, on a very reduced schedule and with very reduced responsibilities, which translated for today into sorting out how very much the folks who covered for me managed to NOT do while I was out, and how they managed to get 99% of what they *did* do wrong.
Mind, they all have strengths that I don't and if I had to cover for them--I literally couldn't. Absolutely couldn't. But the words-and-people-and-puzzles part of my brain is so confused. This is all names and patient histories and there's not even a little bit of math in any of it! How could they possibly have had any trouble with any of this? And yet, they have. All the trouble.
Anyhow, it's something useful to staff and families, and entirely outside my own brain, which is good and much needed, so maybe I should be glad for all the not-doing?
Laura - Jan 04, 2023 12:49:29 pm PST #19807 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh dear, JZ. I hope they didn't muck it up too much.
ION, I clearly need to watch or attend more of our Ft. Lauderdale city council meetings. This one from a couple weeks ago. [link]
Dana - Jan 04, 2023 12:58:28 pm PST #19808 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am enjoying watching the Republicans flail and fail.
sj - Jan 04, 2023 1:01:18 pm PST #19809 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I almost feel bad for how much I’m enjoying it. Almost.
Cass - Jan 04, 2023 1:10:21 pm PST #19810 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think they will be! I mean, if no one can whip the votes to become Speaker, they aren't going to be able to pass anything that anyone disagrees on at all.I think you might be right.
Impressed that the Dems chose a path and are just not budging. That really hasn't been our strong suit.
I am enjoying watching the Republicans flail and fail.Little bit of enjoyment here as well. While watching C-SPAN. Didn't see that coming on Nov 8.
Anyhow, it's something useful to staff and families, and entirely outside my own brain, which is good and much needed, so maybe I should be glad for all the not-doing?
Not glad necessarily but not really mad about it is probably emotionally healthy. Especially when you have specific skills to help people that others do not.
sj - Jan 04, 2023 1:11:30 pm PST #19811 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Plus they can’t even swear in the new House members or vote on anything else until they have a speaker. So nothing is getting done.
Calli - Jan 04, 2023 1:55:41 pm PST #19812 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, sj.
I think they will be! I mean, if no one can whip the votes to become Speaker, they aren't going to be able to pass anything that anyone disagrees on at all.
I think if they pass anything, it'll be by bowing down to the extreme right members of their party. Which means whatever they pass will die in the Senate.
About the only thing likely to get done in the next two years is confirming judges, since I believe that's mostly a Senate thing.
Tom Scola - Jan 04, 2023 2:03:05 pm PST #19813 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
As David alluded to while back in the thread, in the last Congress there were 15 Special Elections to fill vacant seats, and the Dems only need to flip 5 or 6 of them to get a majority. And once George Santos gets kicked out and/or arrested, the Democrats are very likely to flip his seat. And the more incompetent the Republicans look, the easier it will be to flip several more seats.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2023 2:24:03 pm PST #19814 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Picking up from way back:
What I need is a tool that will suck the rigid inflexibility out of pharmacists.
I feel that, properly employed, the Uproot could still be the right tool for this job.