Thanks Bruce. What gripes me now is that the Democrats have taken the 60 votes to mean cloture as a standard rule for passing legislation. If it doesn't have 60 votes they won't even try.
All it takes is 51 votes, with Kamala being 51, and they won't even try, and corporate media doesn't call them out.
Thanks Bruce. What gripes me now is that the Democrats have taken the 60 votes to mean cloture as a standard rule for passing legislation. If it doesn't have 60 votes they won't even try.
All it takes is 51 votes, with Kamala being 51, and they won't even try, and corporate media doesn't call them out.
This is why I am an independent and not a Democrat - if they cannot show leadership and some sign of political life, I cannot support the party, even if I support what they want to do. Politically and socially I am with Bernie and AOC on most things, with side trips to the altars to Ed Markey for the environment and Sheldon Whitehouse for fighting government corruption.
I am the same Bruce, But there is one thing that forces me to vote Democratic, without caveats and attempts to blackmail the DNC, and that is the white, Christian, nationalists who are the base of the RNC, Trump and his MAGAts.
I stopped voting in 1964, and didn't vote again until Trump came down the golden elevator.
I find myself forced to vote against, not for. I quit voting because what I saw in our two party system was Humpty and Dumpty, two sides of the same coin, and when it comes to billionaires, the 10% and climate.. all I still see is Humpty and Dumpty, yet I hold my nose and vote Democrat because the alternative is unthinkable.
It did not at all help that the Democrats bought into the neoliberal supply-side economics thing - hell, Bill Clinton signed the law that repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, which had protected us from the worst excesses of the bankers for 70+ years. 10 years later, we had the great 2008 crash and recession because of said worst practices in banking..... I will say though that Smokin' Joe Biden is trying to resurrect the New Deal as best he can with a hostile "other party" and a "do-nothing" House.....
Thanks Bruce. What gripes me now is that the Democrats have taken the 60 votes to mean cloture as a standard rule for passing legislation. If it doesn't have 60 votes they won't even try.
All it takes is 51 votes, with Kamala being 51, and they won't even try, and corporate media doesn't call them out.
This is why I am an independent and not a Democrat - if they cannot show leadership and some sign of political life, I cannot support the party, even if I support what they want to do. Politically and socially I am with Bernie and AOC on most things, with side trips to the altars to Ed Markey for the environment and Sheldon Whitehouse for fighting government corruption.
I am the same Bruce, But there is one thing that forces me to vote Democratic, without caveats and attempts to blackmail the DNC, and that is the white, Christian, nationalists who are the base of the RNC, Trump and his MAGAts.
I stopped voting in 1964, and didn't vote again until Trump came down the golden elevator.
I find myself forced to vote against, not for. I quit voting because what I saw in our two party system was Humpty and Dumpty, two sides of the same coin, and when it comes to billionaires, the 10% and climate.. all I still see is Humpty and Dumpty, yet I hold my nose and vote Democrat because the alternative is unthinkable.
It did not at all help that the Democrats bought into the neoliberal supply-side economics thing - hell, Bill Clinton signed the law that repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, which had protected us from the worst excesses of the bankers for 70+ years. 10 years later, we had the great 2008 crash and recession because of said worst practices in banking..... I will say though that Smokin' Joe Biden is trying to resurrect the New Deal as best he can with a hostile "other party" and a "do-nothing" House.....
I have been buying nose clamps by the gross recently.....sad.