“It’s called precedent,” the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
It’s about time Dems started using the same tactics the GOP uses. Whiny hypocrites can’t stand when the tables are turned.
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.
Nope. Same rules should apply for both. They should not be the least bit reluctant to use the same tools the Republicans do. If the Republicans are breaking rules then the Democrats need to break the same rules. If the Republicans don’t like it, they can stop breaking the rules whenever they feel like it.
Holy cow! Is that where the term ballers comes from? I did not know that. I kinda assumed it was about pro basketball players, in reference to their wealth and success.
I get to reevaluate so much pop culture now.
no no. certainly not. I often sorta joke around with use of language, especially in regard to modern terms like that.
When Blackburn said again she wanted to talk, Cotton interjected, “Now I guess Sen. Durbin is not going to allow women to speak either. I thought that was sacrosanct in your party!”
Man, they thoroughly do not understand equality.
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.
I don’t get it: are they saying that their party doesn’t let women speak and now Democrats are acting like them? It seems extremely backwards.
The question is mostly rhetorical, I understand exactly what’s happening, I just can’t help but jackie_chan_face.jpg
They are saying, “women dumb, lololol!” They’re literally just petty children in adult bodies. There is no deeper point.
It’s not about that. It’s about stuff like Clearance Thomas does. He used to be a black panther fighting for black rights(was still a misogynist creep). Then he eventually switched sides, prob for money and power, but claimed the Dems were just as racists as Republicans, but Republicans said it to your face and Dems hid behind a facade.
The right continously parrots this narrative (which definitely has a kernel of truth especially with NIMBYs) in an effort to either discourage voter participation or to get lucky and get Pick Mes like Thomas and Candence Owen’s.
Same reason idiots claim Trump says it like it is; they think everyone really is as racist and sexist as themselves, but that Dems are just virtue signaling while their side is “honest.” They don’t want to change, learn, or hide, they just want their shitty beliefs to be mainstream again.
“Cotton got so mad he started talking about himself in the third person.
“Mr. Cotton says the chairman needs to rethink his decision,” said Cotton, as his name came up in the roll call. “That’s what Mr. Cotton says.””
Lmao imagine getting you mad about the same tactics you supported, that you refer to yourself in the 3rd person.
That’s weird. When the right is gaslighting others about injecting deeply radical activist judges into the system, they claim that judges should just be calling balls and strikes and so on. And now they are screaming about what are most likely center-right judges, LOL.
The butthurt is strong with the GOP, that’s for sure.
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.
This article totally misses the point: they didn’t care about the judges. They were trying to run out the clock to prevent subpoenas of major conservative donors to the Supreme Court from getting out of committee.
