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The Screeching Eels have

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:16:56 +0000

The Screeching Eels have spoken. Waiting for the Rodents Of Unusual Size (ROUS).

This seems like an

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:21:31 +0000

In reply to What’s in and what’s out of Congress’ $1.7T spending bill

This seems like an unreasonable approach to legislating https://t.co/ya7W89RPHk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 21, 2022

This is the actual issue BTW

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:14:29 +0000

In reply to What’s in and what’s out of Congress’ $1.7T spending bill

This is the actual issue BTW — Senate Rs want a Title 42 provision that House progressives won’t swallow, but House Republicans won’t vote for the bill even if it includes the Title 42 provision so for now it’s stuck. https://t.co/LcwZPd73jn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 22, 2022

Exactly - Dems get pummelled

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:29:59 +0000

In reply to good general reminder:

Exactly - Dems get pummelled while GOP gets to go on budget breaking freak shows. Took Obama how long of careful budget mgmt to recoup the Bush crash, and then Trump comes along and blows it up again, woops, start the process over...

Yet Ed & Julian still hurt

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:26:56 +0000

In reply to Snowden

Yet Ed & Julian still hurt the country, all the self-righteous nous aside. And he helped enable the Putin regime that's invaded Ukraine, even tho he's tried to stay silent since the invasion/mass destruction began. But sure, he can scold us about our budget. Enjoy your new life, Ed - dead to me.

good general reminder:

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:26:19 +0000

In reply to What’s in and what’s out of Congress’ $1.7T spending bill

good general reminder:

https://t.co/JDlC3Fd07t
Under Donald Trump's Watch, the National Debt Increased by $7.8 ... pic.twitter.com/e8oNhOJZ2f
— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) December 20, 2022

I realize, but in $1.7trill

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:00:48 +0000

In reply to p.s. again Proxmire built a

I realize, but in $1.7trill they'll find their $800 toilet seat somewhere no matter how safe. And all the politicians who got COVID r lief money but it mostly hurts them none. So, i just don't really care, sorry. Hoping they don't cut Ukraine's money, hoping there's largely good stuff, and yeah, hope the Dems largely win the food fight even if they but in stupid stuff. I agree with you on a lot of cleaning up NYC, having an adult like Bloomberg, etc. But the politics in the Capitol is too whack to expect too much sanity

Snowden

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 06:00:18 +0000

In reply to What’s in and what’s out of Congress’ $1.7T spending bill

Snowden

The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible.

A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money.

And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it.

Sounds legit.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 20, 2022

Why do you care about Congress anymore? You're a Russian citizen.
— Anshel Sag (@anshelsag) December 20, 2022

On the off-chance you were genuinely misled by some garbage headline, I am in fact still an American citizen. As it turns out, you can collect citizenships like Pokemon cards.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 20, 2022

p.s. again Proxmire built a

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:08:37 +0000

In reply to It's not about if you like it

p.s. again Proxmire built a lifelong career on this, and he was enormously popular nationwide and I know for a fact that this is what some Wisconite swing types like about Johnson, overriding his nutsy downsides. Feingold had a reputation for being watchful about Federal spending too, (especially special interests, i.e. McCain-Feingold act). I think you underestimate how much the "tax and spend liberal" derogatory brand is attached to the Democratic party and how much it hurts them - the whole Woke thing just adds another layer. My own father, for example, was a lifelong "for the little guy against the professional politcians" member of the Democratic party and worked in personnel for the city. He could get outraged, truly outraged, if tax money went to like the Milwaukee symphony, he felt "if rich people want a symphony, they should get the money for it elsewhere". It gags people like him to see people scrimping and scraping to get by while tax money is going to an LBGTQ museum, it just riles like nothing else, doesn't matter if its a comparable pittance, to them it's the principle of the thing.

It's not about if you like it

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:25:47 +0000

In reply to Well, John "Claghorn Leghorn"

It's not about if you like it or not, it's about understanding why so many vote for anyone who advocates less money and power in the federal government. Seems to me nothing angers so many politically active people than this. They consider it unfair, dishonest, and against the whole democratic project among many other reasons. Where the best local lobbyist wins! Not what is best for the whole country, as the federal government ideally is supposed to be.

At least this time they've put in a rule that an earmark can't benefit relatives of the congressperson - they didn't have that the last time. Says nothing about political donors, though?