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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • If I were that guy that actually scored the goal, I would be super pissed. Putting in all that work, then losing teeth earlier in the game but still playing, then gutting out that last play, only to have the President pretend to be him without putting in all that work.

    Now that I think about it, though, it is a direct allegory for Donald Trump’s life. Always taking credit for the achievements of others, and putting his name on buildings he did not build himself.








  • The modern fillibuster is a general agreement to let other Senate business happen while a particular vote is postponed. But Republicans want to enforce some of the older rules that mean that when a filibuster is happening, no other business can take place.

    Thune is smart to proceed cautiously. There are a lot of other things that Republicans want to get through the Senate, including the DHS funding bill, and the Senate’s HR role of approving appointments. Given the state of the current rules, Democrats can hold up the voting bill without stalling all that other stuff. Once they pull the trigger on this, that all changes. Schumer will start reading names out of the Park Slope phone book for weeks on end, and all that other stuff doesn’t get done.





  • Partisanship is such a driving force in our politics that even someone who only bucks their party 4% of the time is considered “bipartisan”. I’ve seen reports in the media calling a vote “bipartisan” if it only gets two or three votes from the other side.

    And yes, it depends on that person’s reputation. Since Collins is seen as a moderate, all it takes is her support on a bill to call it “bipartisan”. OTOH, Senator Rand Paul frequently votes against the Republican party line, but only because he is a batshit crazy libertarian. He can vote against a Republican bill, and nobody calls that “bipartisan”, I guess because both sides think he’s nuts.