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Post by DotRen on Jan 4, 2023 23:43:49 GMT
lani , My husband or someone in the media said the Democrats all have popcorn and have pulled up their chairs to watch. I've seen a few Dems posting pictures of themselves with the popcorn. KM has lost six votes now. Adjourning till 8PM Eastern time when they will reconvene. Not surprising, watching the GOP implode and all.
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Post by luanne on Jan 5, 2023 1:09:40 GMT
Here is a good series of updates about the vote for Speaker. I especially like the one about the nuclear option.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 5, 2023 15:48:55 GMT
I wanted to share this somewhere and figured this would be okay. To start the Israel Intelligence Agency is known as the Mossad. The Palestinians have accused the Israelis of putting cameras and recording cameras on cows. My husband says it was done by the "Moossad" and he hopes the Palestinians don't milk the story.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 5, 2023 17:28:42 GMT
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Post by luanne on Jan 5, 2023 23:57:50 GMT
Fin asked why the House keeps voting. Maybe this explains it.
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Post by finreporter on Jan 6, 2023 6:50:18 GMT
So they’ll just keep wasting time and not governing. If only they could do the plurality option.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 6, 2023 14:24:02 GMT
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Post by lani on Jan 6, 2023 21:28:08 GMT
I don't know if any of you check out the GDT proboard from time to time. Our political mavin who corrals all things government related, died. Her handle was @ebellej. She last posted on Jan. 2 - just said she was feeling under the weather.
Aside from being a wonderful person, she gathered so much information every single day. It's like Politico went down or something.
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Post by finreporter on Jan 6, 2023 22:32:53 GMT
Lani, that's so sad!
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 7, 2023 0:29:02 GMT
lani, Sorry to hear the news. Such a shock.
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Post by birdgal on Jan 7, 2023 4:38:57 GMT
That's so sad. I am sorry to hear that.
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Post by lani on Jan 7, 2023 16:16:26 GMT
McCarthy gets the votes. The video of a congressman being physically restrained away from Matt Gaetz is priceless. Democrats chant "Be civil!" The acting chair says "why does the gentleman from Minnesota wish to rise?" He replies, "the gentleman from Minnesota wishes to rise to say "Wow!"" And sits down. I may be paraphrasing here; doing it from memory.
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Post by luanne on Jan 7, 2023 17:32:19 GMT
McCarthy gets the votes, but he has weakened the Speakership and the House. Will they be able to get anything through? It seems all they want to do is investigations, oh yeah and maybe try to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.
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Post by finreporter on Jan 7, 2023 19:27:08 GMT
I really wish we’d gotten our collective act together and voted in high enough numbers so as to make the gerrymandered efforts not have mattered. Then we’d have kept the house and the maga house rats’ shenanigans could not have been allowed to happen. They are such a disgrace. My other wish is that it would have been nice if 6 more centrist republicans would have thrown their vote to Jeffries and ended this ridiculousness on day 1.
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Post by birdgal on Jan 7, 2023 19:50:51 GMT
They are a disgrace. That's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me Goddess.
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