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EarlG

(21,967 posts)
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 12:53 PM Feb 2019

Pic Of The Moment: This Kinda Says It All...



McConnell says bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday is a ‘power grab’ by Democrats


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Maraya1969

(22,497 posts)
2. How are the Democrats in congress going to get any legislative bill through the Senate if turtle
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 01:22 PM
Feb 2019

blocks everything?

Maybe they can attach bills like this to ones that have something that the r's want??

friend of m and j

(220 posts)
3. Another defining moment for McConnell and the Republican Party was...
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 01:26 PM
Feb 2019

was when after 35 day government shutdown the first bill that McConnell introduced was not a bill to authorize payment to 1.2 million federal contractors who were not paid during the shutdown but was a bill to eliminate the federal estate tax that mostly benefits his wealthy supporters.

 

DirtEdonE

(1,220 posts)
14. You wouldn't believe this stuff
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 07:16 AM
Feb 2019

if you saw it in a B movie. But crazy is the new real thanks to traitor trump, traitor turtle and the rest of the pubican traitors.

Tax breaks for the rich worked out so well last time. Has America completely forgotten 2008 when the "voodoo economics" sent us careening toward another great depression? The consequences for their greed based economic decisions haven't changed.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
5. I like what I read on a DitchMitch email I got today.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 01:49 PM
Feb 2019

"This is a power grab. It’s the American people grabbing back power from self-serving, career politicians like him".

Under the name Ditch Fund - they want to ditch Mitch.

sandensea

(21,665 posts)
6. So, I take it cracking down on drug trafficking ship owners is off the table.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 01:55 PM
Feb 2019

Can't have that can we.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
7. How can we get rid of the bastard that isn't illegal?
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 02:01 PM
Feb 2019

The only answer is vote a straight Democratic ticket.

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
9. Election day a federal holiday..........yay!!
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 03:24 PM
Feb 2019

I detest this man and I hate DJT, both of them are pure evil. What are either one of them doing in our government. Anyone that has buckets of money should automatically not be allowed to represent the rest of us!!

Silver Gaia

(4,546 posts)
10. Pelosi KNOWS that the Senate won't pass a bill like this,
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 03:41 PM
Feb 2019

but she (and the House Democrats) did it anyway. This is smart. It shows voters that Democrats will work to FIX this mess. It's something every Democrat running in 2020 can campaign on, and it's not a pie in the sky promise, it's concrete, real, actual legislation. I love it! It's a win-win for us.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
13. Good. I posted about this in early January. The bill was introduced on Day One by the Dems.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:18 PM
Feb 2019

Some reps had been working hard behind the scene, out of the glare of the media, so they could hit the ground running with important bills! Great work!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. I really fucking hate Mitch more than anybody right now.
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 08:59 AM
Feb 2019

I think even more than Trump at this point. This man has to go. There has been almost nobody more destructive to our democracy than Mitch McConnell. I hope he burns in hell and soon.

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
16. It wouldn't have taken more than any ONE of those items in the bill for Turtle to stop it....
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:25 AM
Feb 2019

ANYTHING that makes voting easier,fair and LEGAL is something Republicans detest and never want.

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