#senate
The New Know-Nothing Party
♲ br00t4c - 2024-07-12 18:35:00 GMT
Senate Republicans On Project 2025: Huh? Project What Now?#gop #senate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/project-2025-trump_n_66915d81e4b04f47125d7459
The Great Senate Scandal: William Blount
A Wicked Man Who Made History For His Wickedness
#History #USA #Senate #HighCrimes #TheHistoryGuy #Scoundrel #Constitution
Mitch McConnell Is Older Than Duct Tape: 9 Politicians Born Before the Invention of Everyday Tech
Source: https://gizmodo.com/mitch-mcconnell-is-older-than-duct-tape-9-politicians-1848279729
The U.S. currently has the oldest ruling political class in the #history of the country. Joe Biden is 79 years old, the oldest #president ever, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 81, and #Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is 79. Sens. Diane Feinstein and Chuck Grassley are both 88.
The former Prez IS an effin' civilian, bonehead.
♲ Nonilex - 2024-07-02 00:06:33 GMT
#ClarenceThomas argued that the #SpecialCounsel’s office needs to be established by #Congress & confirmed by the #Senate. He said he tacked on his concurring opinion to the #immunity ruling to “highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure.”
“If there is no #law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a fmr President.”
The way the starts are aligned right now, if we lose no states in the #senate (aside from WV which we will lose, the best we can do in the senate is gain 11 seats at the end of the 2028 #election. That's being generous and treating NC, OH, LA, KS, IA and TX as purple states. The #filibuster has to go or this complete stalemate will never end. At our luckiest in 2024 we will keep the senate with the VP acting as the tie breaker. That's only if we lose WV and swap out Sinema with a real democrat. NC is the state most likely to flip. OH, KS, LA and IA have surprised us here and there with their senators and governors, and TX demographics are shifting slowly but not organizing enough to the latino vote, too many who do are ones motivated to vote for Trump. America's political system is complete broken and getting worse as 17% of Americans control 50% of the senate and that percentage keeps dropping. every year.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/whats-the-matter-with-west-virginia-culture-war-or-class-war
What’s the Matter with West Virginia: #Culture War or #Class War?
LES LEOPOLD
Jan 09, 2024
..."If the #Democrats had taken a real interest in the plight of coal country, it would have been relatively easy to work out a New Deal-like plan for redevelopment. The region needs improved physical infrastructure, stronger schools, and better healthcare facilities. The area could truly benefit from an increase in environmental reclamation jobs funded by the federal government. West Virginians care about the rivers, streams, and forests in which they hunt, fish, and hike. The reclamation of the local environment should have created strong connections between the local population and national Democratic environmentalists. But it didn’t happen. Instead, the Democrats wrote off the state. Good riddance.
As the Republicans continue to press cultural issues, as Tom Frank described, they leave the door open for Democratic solutions that could stop mass layoffs and create sustainable jobs from the millions who have been left behind. The Biden Administration’s bipartisan infrastructure program and green-energy Inflation Reduction Act, as currently conceived, won’t put the people of Mingo County back to work. Furthermore, these voters remember that Frank’s list of anti-working-class economic policies—deregulation, cuts in capital gains taxes, monopolization, and runaway inequality—all had the strong backing of the Democratic Party leadership.
It turns out that what’s the matter with Kansas or West Virginia is the wrong question. What’s the matter with the Democrats is what we should be asking.
#ZachShrewsbury in #WestVirginia and #DanOsborne in #Nebraska are answering that question as they run for the U.S. #Senate as unabashed working-class #candidates. (See Steve Early’s excellent reporting.)
Osborne, a former local union president who led a successful strike against the WK Kellogg Company in 2021, actually is leading in the polls against three-term Republican Senator Deb Fischer. For the first time in decades, the voters in these two states are hearing a progressive populist message from senatorial candidates, and it is ringing true.
The Democratic Party should listen carefully to what Shrewsbury says West Virginia needs.
“We need leaders that are cut from the working-class cloth," he says. "We need representation that will go toe to toe with corporate parasites and their bought politicians. We need a leader who will not waver in the face of these powers that keep the boot on our neck.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/rick-scott-debbie-mucarsel-powell-florida-senate
Could a #Democrat Beat #RickScott in #Florida’s #US #Senate Race?
Democrats are hoping Debbie Mucarsel-Powell can help them keep control of the Senate in 2024.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY
..."Whereas Scott is one of the wealthiest members of the US Senate, Mucarsel-Powell is an #immigrant who worked at a donut shop for minimum wage as a young teen in America; while Scott arguably made himself the face of the #Republican Party’s effort to gut entitlement programs, Mucarsel-Powell wrote the bill in the US House to expand #Medicare; and as Scott expressed support for federal #abortion restrictions and backed Florida’s six-week ban, Mucarsel-Powell continued to be an outspoken advocate for reproductive rights.
Democrats hope that Mucarsel-Powell is the right messenger for the moment. With the candidate being a Spanish-fluent Latina woman running for US Senate in Florida, Democrats argue that she is uniquely positioned to win back the support of the state’s Hispanic community, which the Democratic Party has bled in recent cycles. “Can Debbie find the money to be competitive, and can she change the numbers among Hispanics? I think the more that she can do [that], the more the money’s going to come,” said Schale, who worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns in Florida. “I definitely think Florida’s trended Republican—I’m not an idiot. But I don’t think it’s gone from a state that Obama won by three or four points, or a state that was basically a dead tie five years ago in the governor’s race, to a 20-point Republican state overnight. It hasn’t happened. And a lot of that top of the ticket has been impacted by the fact that we’re doing terrible with Hispanics here.” ...
#California U.S. #Senate #Democratic Debate in Los Angeles #cspan #video
Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, and Katie Porter participated in a forum for the 2024 race for candidates seeking the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in California co-hosted by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, Roll Call, and Courage California. Among the topics debated were the cost of living, support for unionized workers, and California’s homeless population.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?530982-1/california-us-senate-democratic-debate-los-angeles#
Wow.... in our "upper", more decorous chamber of Congress today... Bernie to the Rescue!
Bernie Sanders intervenes and stops GOP senator from fighting a witness
Meanwhile....
### Bye bye Mitt...
Mitt Romney to retire, with positive memories (overall) and a nod towards refreshing Congress with newer generations.
Maine Senator Eric Brakey’s Passionate Anti-War Speech
For the sake of #America, #Ukraine, #Russia, and the #world — we need immediate #diplomacy, not reckless commitments to prolong the #war in Ukraine forever. That’s why, in the #Maine #Senate today, I called out the #propaganda of the #corporate #media and the #Washington #war-machine.
#senator #ericbrakey #viral #passionate #anti-war #speech #resolution
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls vote on possible subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz over allegations of union-busting
Bernie Is Gunning For Schultz... and we wish him Victory
#News #Starbucks #USSenate #Senate #HowardSchultz #LaborLaws #BernieSanders #TheWarForWorkerRights
SenBernieSanders ~ The State of the Working Class
https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=vcDXL1T1FkI
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-sanders-delivers-state-of-the-working-class-speech/
"Before we can effectively go forward in terms of #economic #policy, it's necessary to know where we are at. And for #working #families in this country, the situation is not good."
#thestateoftheworkingclass #berniesanders #senberniesanders #national-address #speech #senate #workingclass #education #labor #healthcare #prescription-drug-prices #corporategreed
Kyrsten Sinema goes independent, scrambles U.S. #Senate
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said in remarks published at 6 a.m. ET Friday that she's leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent.
Why it matters: It's a political earthquake that will shake up the Senate — just three days after Democrats thought they had secured a 51-49 majority.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Josh Kraushaar: Sinema views activists in the Arizona Democratic Party as extreme as the state Republican Party.
She's up in 2024, and risked a primary from Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on the left.
"Arizonans — including many registered as Democrats or Republicans — are eager for leaders who focus on common-sense solutions rather than party doctrine," Sinema says in an op-ed in The Arizona Republic, her state's largest paper.
"That's why I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington."
