GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges

Still I understand why they hesitate. It basically drags our government permanently into shitty behavior. This is why they don't start this stuff but reluctantly utilize it. You don't want to be known as the guy going for the balls but if that is how the opponent is going to fight whelp then I guess we are ballers.

Hear fuckin hear my friend! It's about damn time!

The GOP leadership consists of extremely manipulative sociopaths; they will say literally anything to benefit themselves or hurt others. They will weaponize anything with no shame and no hesitation. Everything they do is in bad faith.

Equality? They understand it but don't want it. Equality and fairness is the opposite of what they aspire to. They view themselves as better and therefore rules should benefit them and hurt others, to paraphrase the well known quote.

They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.

It's literally just the "so much for the tolerant left" crap with different words.

They absolutely understand this isn't an equality issue, but they see this as a cynical way to pander to their voters by claiming, once again, that Republicans are the victims of the big bad Democrats.

I think from that point on I would refuse to call him any thing other than Mr Cotton, and always in a drawn out child-story like way.

Mr. Cotton: "How dare you use Mr. Cotton's dirty tricks against Mr. Cotton!"

Mr Cotton is getting upset!

George is getting upset!

I can't. It seems like an oddly specific trait of his.

Doesn't donnie do that all the time?

Though I wonder if he does it from habit due to all those years pretending to be John Barron, etc...

Cotton's pronouns are Cotton and Cotton. I wonder how Teddy feels about that.

To be fair, you'd get a bit confused if you killed fiddy men too.

once you assume that everything they say and do is about manipulating the system to gain as much power as possible, then using that power to reward loyalists and inflict violence on people they don't like, everything starts to make sense. at this point the republican party is an attempt at a junta in the US.

Once you realize that they don't give a damn about the rules you know how to deal with them.

Vote all of them out.

They just have no morals only self enrichment. They aren't butt hurt, they are evil.

Republicans generally count on news media missing the point of their shenanigans.

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Clarence is trying to fuck around without finding out. I hope he finds out.

This is awesome.

My takeaway here is: never go full petard

Wait, peter is the verb 'to fart ' in French? Oh man. I know a couple of Peters and don't like either. This is great.

Petard also means fart. It means smelling your own fart.

I understand the point but man I’m having a hard time reading the 4 frames of comic. That sentence makes no sense no matter what order I read it in.

Putting all pieces and cards back in a hurry and taking the monopoly box home kind-of political strategy.

I was saying the other day we need a neutral third party the hangs around Congress and every time they do something unconstitutional or stupid, the whole class room has to watch Schoolhouse Rock episodes about civics.

Every time.

It sounds like a noir, private eye name. Dick Armey is weirder though.

He’s like, evil Rick Rubin

Could have been worse. Could have been turbine

Same, actually. He's the only office I've gotten a response from that shows my letter was actually read. Everyone else just sends the generic canned reply back.

Bringing a gun to a gun fight isn't wrong.

Why should Dems follow all the rules when repubs don't? If anyone cares about the rule, they should have punished the previous committee leaders even though they have an R by their name.

Well...a wrong is a negative thing. Two wrongs would be a double negative. A double negative is a positive and a positive thing is a right. Therefore two wrongs do in fact make a right. (Please note: I don't believe this and an just using words recreationally)

I doesn't make me happy either, it's also the right thing for them to do in the circumstance. They can't pretend as though things didn't change, as consequences of the recent decades of Republican treachery.

It's tough to see a way out.

Now the representatives are abandoning their structure and tradition because the other side did, too.

So the Democrats should just keep adhering to rules that allow the Republicans to block their every move despite the fact that the Republicans ignore those rules whenever they see an advantage to doing so?

That foolish mindset is why we now have the judicial cluster fuck which is putting our very Democracy is at risk. We are in a fight for our lives and freedoms and you don't go into such a fight with your hands tied behind your back. It is long past time the Democrats should have come out swinging.

US American parliamentarianism

USA does not have a parliament.

the leader, the person in The Office Of The President

The POTUS specifically is NOT the leader. That’s the whole point of checks and balances; the three branches of government are equal in power and can veto each others. This very different of other countries with a Parliament system.