Can’t the Senate refuse to seat a newly elected member …?
They can and there was talk of that from Republicans a few weeks ago when they thought Moore probably couldn’t get past this. But now that it really looks like Moore will win, the “let the voters decide” approach has taken hold. It was all just talk - they never intended to have to actually go against one of their own. If he wins, I hope he makes their lives even more miserable than they already are with Trump around.
“How the Republicans Broke Congress”
It’s alarming how blind many, if not most, ordinary, garden-variety Republicans are to this dissolution of government. I have some friends and family who do not see it. These are older, middle class people who rely on Medicare and Social Security. Their party loyalty makes no sense to me.
McConnell, “I’m not going to answer a hypothetical.” Or he just blows it off completely.
Again, gives a non answer or refuses to answer.
Short version: pulls his head and flippers into his shell.
That’s due to willing ignorance, eating up right wing propaganda, fear and hatred of anything liberal/progressive, and acting on emotion only without any logic, unless the logic, normal or twisted, confirms to their already held beliefs.
They think they will die before the worst effects are felt, and expected to reap some benefit before that.
But they all have children and grandchildren. (I don’t.)
That always amazes me - that selfish people simply can’t conceive how anyone else could *not *be selfish.
It’s the Ferrengi/Republican way…
“We don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.”
Ever notice how Mitch McConnell only seem to have two facial expressions?
Both of them are backpfeifengesichten.
Chuck Grassley:
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”
After cutting taxes, Orrini Hatch now says there’s no money to fund children’s healthcare.
Those OTC supplements are fairly cheap compared to actual medical treatments. And they line The Dishonarable Senator Hatch’s pockets.
Turns out that in their rush to pass a bill in the dead of night without giving anyone a chance to read it, the Senate Republicans accidentally nullified all corporate tax deductions.
SAD!
I didn’t say it made sense to me, either.
What an unbelievable pack of screw ups. The gall of them criticizing Obama’s leadership for eight years when this absolute clusterfuck is what we get when they wrest all the power.
So what’s next? The Senate re-votes? With all the extra goodies that craven senators, like my very own Susan Collins, got in now taken out? Or does it go right to the house with all the goodies gone? Or do we just say fuck it and break out a Parcheesi tournament in the congressional chambers for all the good they’re doing in there trying to govern?
Of course they do. Why do you think they’ve been targeting the estate tax all this time?
Explain, please.
I’m talking about middle class people who would never come within spitting distance of the estate tax.
They THINK they will. Whether they’re conflating state and federal estate taxes or they think the fed estate tax lower threshold is low enough for them to qualify or they think they’ll be rich enough to qualify by the time they die, they THINK they will.