We need to get rid of riders... Someone propose a "one bill-one item" rule already, and stick that motherfucker on every single fucking bill as a rider until something comes along that'll bait em all into that shit.
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perhaps, but combining bills does allow for good ways of compromise… i’ll pass your bill that i don’t agree with if you pass a change to this other thing that addresses my concerns, etc
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Obama did something like that. It didn't work. All the little add ons are so each politician in a contested district can get something for their voters to justify all the other parts of the bill their voters don't like. Without that nothing ever gets passed.
"We tried" and then go on recess for 6 weeks
And like that you've broken the biggest tool legislators have to negotiate marginal votes into their camp
What if I told you that slime ball Matt Gaetz has already proposed this issue multiple times. Not sure how I feel about that but it’s the only sane thing I’ve heard from his side.
Because it would cause gridlock. That's why Gaetz wants to do it. There are too many things to pass one at a time. There are not enough affirmative votes on most single issues to pass anything. You need the little extra things to pull in the politicians who would otherwise not vote for that one thing because their local base doesn't want it.
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The Putin Caucus at work. (Trump is Putin's lapdog. Tell your friends.)
So I guess Moscow Mitch is back.
He glitched enough times it forced a rebuild of his OS back to Komrad v1.01
Republicans/Conservatives are Russian assets.
As they are paid to do.
Almost as if they where working for china and Russia trying to discredit the us internally but they are or too stupid or too greedy to notice.
Or both
Useless stupid monkeys. Fight Putin. Fuck Israel (assholes & plenty of their own $$/weapons).
Trump moved billions for the useless border wall from military funding without consulting the House.
Just do that and write an IOU to the pentagon. Although I'm sure they won't mind. The more Russians Ukraine blows up are less our troops will have to fight in the future.
I am happy to say that Cornyn (R-TX) hates Israel.
Texas passed a law in 2022 preventing Texas from doing business with companies that "boycott Israel" can we somehow get rid of Cruz and Cornyn for this? https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2271.htm
I hate everyone you mentioned, but Cruz and Cornyn are federal legislators. They don't pass state laws. That's not how it works.
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Honestly best thing Republicans have done in the past 20 years. Don't get me wrong Ukraine needs US support, but this is the fault of the dinosaurs that decided Ukrainian and aid support for Israel's genocide are synonymous.
Ukraine support was already under fire, they tried to push it through by attaching it to the Israel package.
Well I guess in a way they're standing up for their principles? Anyway I just wish Ukrainian aid could just pass without support for Israel's genocide.
This has nothing to do with Israel. Republicans would nuke Gaza if they could.
This is them holding up broadly popular legislation in order to make some stupid demands on "border security" so they can tell their constituents that they basically built a wall.
Yeah I know. I'm just happy they're fucking themselves over at the expense of Israel's genocide, though it's sad that Ukraine got caught up in the mess.
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