In a shock to no one, Cuomo continues to refuse to resign and more women are coming forward.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1369881249452589056?s=21
I hope the NY AG has room in her packed schedule of investigating the former guy to look into this.
Jen Psaki shit-stomping right-wing hacks on a daily basis is fun to watch.
Peter Doocy here proving that the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole.
That guy really puts the South Park dick or asshole dichotomy to the test.
Today the House is set to vote on - and most likely pass - a bill to require background checks for all commercial gun sales.
With the NRA essentially gone, it will be interesting to see how this plays in the Senate. Such requirements have near 90% support with the public.
Even Toomey says there’s not 10 GOP senators that will go along with it. Hopefully it continues the chipping away at the filibuster defense in the recalcitrant democratic senators who insist on maintaining minority veto over widely popular bipartisan-supported legislation that will be needed to pass the voting rights laws.
Manchin may not be a yes vote on this either, but he has expressed support for ending the current fire-and-forget filibuster. Apparently, this includes:
I’d take this as a start. Right now, the minority can send an email to confirm the intention to filibuster and bugger off home, which is why they will filibuster everything. Flipping the onus on cloture, meaning Republicans have to have 80% of their caucus on hand to block cloture votes that Schumer could call at any moment, is going to get old for them very quickly.
Further, it chaps my arse when it’s reported that the Senate “failed to pass” or “voted down” a bill when, in reality, it received a majority of votes but failed to reach 60 for cloture. The classic being the Medicare buy-in option under Obamacare, which got 59 votes for cloture but died when Joe fucking Lieberman voted with Republicans to block it. Requiring a speaking filibuster - like Wendy Davis’ epic effort a few years back - will force them to oppose legislation publicly, and do it in a very physically uncomfortable way.
While Cruz or Paul is grandstanding about something or other, Democrats can be outside talking to reporters explaining how this popular bill is getting blocked on a procedural basis by Republicans. Let them do that on wildly popular things like background checks or infrastructure spending, and we’ll see (1) if they have the mental/physical stamina even to pull it off; and (b) how their phones and email will get blasted with “WTF are you doing?” messages from their constituents.
They should be passing these changes right now.
The bill passed.
…and Biden signed the ARP and Merrick Garland was sworn in as AG by Kamala Harris.
But did he tweet any insults at anybody? LOSER!
Democrats in NY moving to impeach Cuomo. It’s entirely appropriate and necessary, of course, but Cuomo is weirdly providing Democrats with the perfect rejoinder to anyone accusing them of a politically motivated prosecution of Trump.
Letisha James - the NY AG - is investigating both of them. Democrats impeaching both of them. Cuomo was going to be a candidate for President; and now he’s going to be disgraced and potentially jailed.
It’s notable that the only thread from last night’s address on which Fox News et al are pulling, is that Biden is somehow misappropriating July 4.
That’s it. That’s all they’ve got. I guess the truly imaginative and creative shit-flingers have been MeToo’d out of the business.
Amusing and pathetic how Trump and his Fox News sycophants are claiming he is the reason for the three vaccines, and he deserves the credit for his Covid response, not Biden.
Remember Trump insisting that everything open for Easter?
Among believers, Trump is the Second Coming. He owns Easter.
I know you’re being tongue-in-cheek here, but it’s actually somewhat true. The more amazing aspect of it is that he is the most heathen, depraved individual to have occupied the office, and these people still think he’s the greatest.
They don’t recognize the 666 tattooed across his forehead, or maybe they do and think that’s ok.
One of the concerns with the ARP is that it might supercharge the economy, causing inflation. That would be a problem, but a good one to have (and I never saw anyone worried about any of the trillion-dollar tax cut bills being in danger of spiking demand).
That’s because nobody ever thought they would increase demand for anything. Everybody knew they were going straight into stock buybacks and billionaires’ bank accounts. These funds will actually be going into the marketplace where they’ll be competing for goods.
Chuck Schumer is going to bring to the Senate floor for debate:
Republicans are going to block every single one of them. Will they do something about the filibuster then? Will the press report this as “the senate voted down” or as “Republicans used a procedural maneuver to block passage of…”?
Schumer has said, particularly with regard to voting rights protections, that “failure is not an option”. He’s right, but decades of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory doesn’t fill me with confidence in his assertions.
Yesterday, Georgia passed its election “reforms” that take away access to mail-in ballots, close polling stations, limit early-voting and Election Day hours, and make it a crime to give water to someone inevitably standing in line to vote. There are over 250 bills limiting voting access being pushed in over 40 states.
This is an existential moment for this democracy and standing in the way of progress is Joe Fucking Manchin.