Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday that she will not vote to weaken the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold, bucking her party leaders yet again and dealing a major blow to Democrats' election reform effort. The comments, which match Sinema's long-held stance on the filibuster, are effectively the final nail in the coffin of Democrats' longshot effort to pass two elections bills over unified Senate GOP opposition.
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"There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There's no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy," Sinema, D-Ariz., said. "This week's harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year."
This is just nothing short of piling on. Dementia Joe has already had to give up on his BBB plan and was pinning some hope on the idea that they could pass an extremely unpopular bill to allow them to continue to cheat their way to victory. Now it looks like the 2022 and 2024 elections will have some semblance of fairness, although there are still few topics of discussion that need to take place.
Meanwhile President 35% approval still seems confused by what is going on, telling people just today that he wasn't sure if they could pass the bill in the Senate. Did he really believe that he has 10 Republicans on board with this nonsense? Perhaps instead of passing major legislation that nobody but the far left wants, he should implement that fool proof plan and put an end to Covid as promised? Or perhaps he could explain why opening up ports for expanded hours was ever thought to be a plan to curb inflation?
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This president is lost. I don't know 5hat he will last another 3 years.
I think that the day he signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, he should have immediate started working on HR 1. And very carefully designed it to get a few Republicans, who had participated in historical civil rights and voting rights act. Or just like he almost had with the two Senators you called Real Democrats in the true spirit of the Party.
Like the two Real Republicans Cheney and a dozen other real Republican, unlike Scott Johnson.
It's not over yet.
And the Alky ran from the other thread
Roger is good at running from his posts.
July and Roger will be marrying his 3rd wife.
It's not over yet, Roger said.
Biden Invites Manchin and Sinema to White House
January 13, 2022 at 7:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 296 Comments
President Biden is expected to meet with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Thursday evening about voting rights as the president looks to find a path forward to passing legislation, The Hill reports.
Much if the country doesn't like the fuckin bill. Accept it and move 0n.
They won't be intimidated by that feeble old man.
Plus I just saw this she is highly respected and educated and she will be in charge of addressing inflation rates.
President Joe Biden will nominate Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the Federal Reserve’s next vice chair for supervision, arguably the nation’s most powerful banking regulator, according to people familiar with the matter.
Biden will also nominate Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson to serve as Federal Reserve governors, according to the people, who asked not to be named in order to speak freely.
Each nominee will in the coming weeks face questioning from the Senate Banking Committee, the congressional body in charge of vetting presidential appointments to the central bank. Should the Senate confirm their nominations, Cook would be the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board while Jefferson would be the fourth Black man to do so.
That committee on Tuesday held a nomination hearing for Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom Biden chose to nominate to a second term. The committee held a similar hearing for Fed Governor Lael Brainard on Thursday, whom Biden picked to be the central bank’s next vice chair.
In choosing Raskin for the vice chair for supervision post, Biden looks to make good on Democrats’ promises to reinforce laws passed in the aftermath of the financial crisis and restore aspects of a rule named for former Fed Chair Paul Volcker that had restricted banks’ ability to trade for their own profit.
Raskin has experience at the Fed and served as a governor at the central bank from 2010 to 2014 before serving as deputy secretary of the Treasury under the Obama administration. She is married to Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
Powell and Brainard are both expected to clear the Senate without fanfare and with bipartisan support, but Raskin, Cook and Jefferson could see tougher confirmation odds. Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, the ranking member of the Banking committee, was quick to pan Biden’s latest choices.
“Sarah Bloom Raskin has specifically called for the Fed to pressure banks to choke off credit to traditional energy companies and to exclude those employers from any Fed emergency lending facilities,” he said in a statement Thursday evening. “I have serious concerns that she would abuse the Fed’s narrow statutory mandates on monetary policy and banking supervision to have the central bank actively engaged in capital allocation.”
I think that the day he signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, he should have immediate started working on HR 1.
He did... and it was a non-starter because they wanted to put an end to voter-ID, make ballot harvesting legal, make it mandatory to send out mail in ballots to everyone... etc, etc, etc... things that no right-minded person on the planet would believe has anything to do with election integrity.
Hint for you Roger: you can name a bill that puts everyone in jail the "freedom bill" and it still is putting people in jail regardless of that you call it. Just like having a bunch of people who never built a thing in their lives put together a bill called build back better.
I seem to recall a day when Roger, Reverend and that other person who types bwaaaa all the time said that passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill would set his Presidency back on tracks and he would become popular.
When it happens you will go crazy with desire.
LMAO goat fucking kputz
Has anyone seen a BBB hat? I still see MAGA hats
You have become a segregationist.
You believe the big lie.
Alky can you explain how the Donks could gerrymander McKinney’s district that included the BLACK areas of ATL, traveled 200 miles east down I20, to include the BLACK areas of Augusta, take a right turn and go 100 miles to the BLACK areas of Savannah and this wasn’t racist
But if the R change a district now irs solely based on racism
Or are you that big of a fucking hack?
Don’t bother answering everyone knows the truth
You have become a segregationist.
And you have always been a C+ student who scored 400 points lower than me on your SATs.
Roger blamed "weather" for Biden's mismanagement of West Coast ports.
And this is like the 55th time you’ve been shown this ain’t and never was Gingrich’s district
Has anyone seen a BBB hat?"
Nope.
All you ever needed to do, Just make sure it's really diluted with water, and you swish and spit.
As with most viral respiratory illnesses, the primary entry point into the human body is through the nose. Once in the nasal passages, viruses propagate exponentially on nasal mucous membranes. With COVID-19, this rapid growth is especially prolific, leading researchers to seek means to decrease the nasal mucosal viral load. A recent podcast (1) between Joe Rogan and Dr. McCullough that "went viral" mentions this research and makes some recommendations for nasal lavage — saltwater and antiseptic options to rinse out the nasal passages. This simple, cheap, and available hygienic maneuver should be added to our therapeutic armamentarium, along with antiseptic gargles.
Probably the most transparently wrong choice that our federal government/CDC/Dr. Fauci/mainstream media made during the past two years has been the desire to shut off, and even demonize, discussions about therapeutic options to treat COVID-19. They did this so we would focus instead on the vaccine as the end-all and be-all "cure." Unfortunately, because COVID-19 is much like other respiratory viruses, mutating too frequently for vaccines to catch up, and because the mRNA "shortcut-to-cure" spike protein-centric vaccine is tremendously less effective than naturally acquired immunity (2), it is past time to focus on therapeutic measures. (Then again, herd immunity from the less deadly omicron variant might make this article moot.)
Part of the reason for all the blowback from the public about how this plague has been handled is the irrational demonization and politicization of available treatment options. We'll never forget the ridicule President Trump received from the mainstream media when he suggested that gargling with a type of bleach could slow down the transmission of COVID-19 and even might shorten the illness. It turns out that some dentists have been using sodium hypochlorite for many years for oral pathogens (3), and it helps! Just make sure it's really diluted with water, and you swish and spit.
There is a multitude of studies now that confirm the efficacy of "doctored" saline nasal sprays. The easiest to obtain, with proven >99% success in eradication of discoverable nasal viral load, is a mixture of over-the-counter saline nasal lavage with added povidone iodine (4). Just adding a tablespoon of this liquid, dark brown antiseptic to six ounces of saltwater irrigation for the nose has been shown both to shorten the illness and decrease the transmissibility of COVID-19 (5). (Interestingly, all strengths of the iodine/saline solution worked in their studies, so being an accurate chemist when mixing is less of an issue.)
Instead of arresting you for not following Trump
You scored 1991
. If your SAT score is 1591, then less than 1 percent of people would be able to choose before you and more than 99 percent would choose after you.
We divided all the universities and colleges in The United States into 6 tiers. The higher tier school you can get into, the better the education, the teachers, the chance of graduating, the post college starting salary, your lifetime earnings, and so on.
Tier 1: Best Schools
Tier 2: Almost Best Schools
Tier 3: Above Average Schools
Tier 4: Average Schools
Tier 5: Below Average Schools
Tier 6: Worst Schools
If the SAT score was the only criteria used to determine what school you would be accepted into, then we think that an SAT score of 1591 would get you into a Tier 1 university or college.
1990 SAT Score Standings
Out of the 1.67 million test-takers, 126822 scored the same or higher than you. You can apply to 1304 colleges and have a good shot at getting admitted. You have a very low chance of getting into 64 with this score.
Enjoy your jello and your room Alky
No one believes you scored above your original claim of the mid 90s
And Atlas continues to shrug
For most of my adult life, I've been told about Ayn Rand's famous novel — but had no idea what it was about. It was particularly popular among my Libertarian buddies. So I finally ordered a copy...and when it came, I had to update the prescription for my reading glasses, because it's over a thousand pages in nine-point type.
Early on, I was able to kind of get a handle on what it was about. There are basically two kinds of people: problem-solvers or innovators who are constantly trying to make things work better...and cronies, who have an overwhelming sense of entitlement and who ferociously cling to the status quo.
Not much later, the story began to creep me out. Not because of some quirky aspect of the story...but due to our current pandemic. I was seeing Rand's vision of authoritarian cronyism taking place right before my eyes. In the story, first published in 1957, crony bureaucrats assume control of businesses via some kind of vague government policy...and, guess what!...shortages of just about everything started happening. We now call these "supply chain" problems. The story mentioned black marketeers who snuck around under the radar in order to fill in some of the gaps.
Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia. When she was twelve, Lenin got off a train in her city...and zealous cronies took over her world. At the age of 21, she came to America, eventually to become a Hollywood screenwriter. By 1957, she was already an established novelist...and now, it seems, she was also exceptionally prescient. Had I read this book more than two years ago, this may not have occurred to me.
Various concepts are presented in the story. The "Equalization of Opportunity Bill" and "The State Science Institute" are eerily significant. "Who is John Galt?" is at first a non sequitur that is repeated a few times...but then he appears in the flesh as a major character. The main character, Dagny Taggart (who, I assume, represents Rand herself), was heading west on her own railroad when the crew abandoned the train in the middle of nowhere. She trekked to an airport and rented a plane, ultimately to crash land in a remote valley in the Rockies...where she met John Galt.
Later on, Galt seized a radio network and delivered a rant that takes up about 50 pages of the book. In it, he essentially laid out the Objectivist philosophy that Rand is best known for. The primary targets of Galt's ire are mystics...people who rely on feelings and fantasies rather than common sense (objectivity). In our world, public policy is consumed with concern for imaginary problems such as injustices suffered by "people of color", a shortage of "affordable" housing causing drug addicts to live in parks and under freeways and, of course, the "catastrophic" impact reckless humans are forcing on weather and climate. Prescient? You bet.
At first, I was impressed with her immigrant's understanding of America. But now I think her understanding is really of human nature. America is just a setting, providing language and geography. Needless to say, she was a good learner, which is why we still talk about her.
Back to Galt's rant: What is implied is a profound aversion to authority. In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek sticks it to "planners," a typical kind of bureaucratic crony. An obvious problem with centralized planning and control is that the consequences of mistakes are far-reaching, whereas an individual's isolated error is tightly contained, and a valuable lesson may also be learned. At one point, someone calls Galt an "egoist," and he doesn't object. The self is paramount. The cronies are constantly preaching about concern for the community, an amorphous stew of external interests.
But what motivates the crony bureaucrats? Why do they go to all that trouble just to make things worse? They live for power, which allows them to control the rest of us. And a surefire way to hold on to that power is to make it really easy for people to be stupid. According to today's prevailing dogma, stupid people need counselors, also known as navigators — helpers who guide the stupid through their days while strictly conforming to crony dogma. And how is being stupid made easier? By giving people lots of unearned money, all at taxpayer expense, of course.
So who, in the real world of today, might be the equivalent of John Galt? C'mon, the answer is obvious: The Donald. Certainly not a crony, and certainly an accomplished problem-solver. Egoist? You bet. The fictional Galt was certainly a lot less flamboyant, but Trump happens to be a real human, not just a character in a famous novel.
Too Funny how Alky envy those of us that hold a College Degree.
He has lived a life of regrets.
Zero accomplishments.
PPI OVER 9%.
Build Back Broker is working.
Assassinating poor Americans.
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