I keep seeing the words "political expediency" thrown around... and it makes me chuckle.
https://twitter.com/1IronMan2018/status/941080049868042240
The fact that the GOP has decided they won't wait for Jones to be seated, despite demanding the exact same thing less than a decade ago. The fact that they refused to even hold hearings on a SCOTUS nominee because they didn't feel a legitimate and sitting President should get his constitutional right in his last year in office, yet are pushing through some of the most unqualified fuckwits as fast as possible for a "President" that is about as obviously illegitimate as possible without a military coup. The fact that The GOP are tying bits and pieces to undermine the ACA, Social Security, Medicare, et al to bills that have nothing to do with them...
It isn't a matter of expediency. It's a matter of morality; to wit, it is a fairly classic "trolly car" question - out of control trolly car is barreling towards a crowd of people, who will surely die when they are struck. You can flip a switch to divert it onto another track, killing one person instead. What is the "right" decision, when there is no "good" decision?
I would say the one that does the least damage and the least harm over the greatest period of time.
But, alas, our neighbors don't agree - they would prefer their short term, shortsighted, and utterly irrelevant "victories", while allowing the country to slide back into the dark ages with a group that has a proven track record of "party over country" and "party over duty", a proven record of simply ignoring their constituents, and a proven record of doing untold damage to the economy at the whims of their corporate masters.
I think a song is appropriate here...
I guess my question at this point is... when are we going to say enough to this Animal Farm bullshit? All are equal, but some are apparently more equal... and right now, as the hold the government hostage, Conservatives are demanding special dispensation that nobody currently holds the power to prevent and hold them to task.
Even better, they are betraying members of their own party, making promises they have no intent to keep in order to get their agenda passed... what possible reason do we have to expect that they will hold the best interests of the most vulnerable among us to heart?
So far, nobody has been able to answer that question...
Oh well... I guess Democracy truly does die in darkness. I only hope that this schism forming thanks to Moore's defeat continues to grow, because obviously the best hope is for them to fall apart from the inside, since we can't rally well enough to put up a united front.
https://twitter.com/1IronMan2018/status/941080049868042240
Mitch McConnell, John McCain and MANY other Republicans were clear in 2010 when Scott Brown won a Senate Seat. They waited to vote on the ACA until Brown was seated. Doug Jones should get the same. Call your Republican Senators
The fact that the GOP has decided they won't wait for Jones to be seated, despite demanding the exact same thing less than a decade ago. The fact that they refused to even hold hearings on a SCOTUS nominee because they didn't feel a legitimate and sitting President should get his constitutional right in his last year in office, yet are pushing through some of the most unqualified fuckwits as fast as possible for a "President" that is about as obviously illegitimate as possible without a military coup. The fact that The GOP are tying bits and pieces to undermine the ACA, Social Security, Medicare, et al to bills that have nothing to do with them...
It isn't a matter of expediency. It's a matter of morality; to wit, it is a fairly classic "trolly car" question - out of control trolly car is barreling towards a crowd of people, who will surely die when they are struck. You can flip a switch to divert it onto another track, killing one person instead. What is the "right" decision, when there is no "good" decision?
I would say the one that does the least damage and the least harm over the greatest period of time.
But, alas, our neighbors don't agree - they would prefer their short term, shortsighted, and utterly irrelevant "victories", while allowing the country to slide back into the dark ages with a group that has a proven track record of "party over country" and "party over duty", a proven record of simply ignoring their constituents, and a proven record of doing untold damage to the economy at the whims of their corporate masters.
I think a song is appropriate here...
I guess my question at this point is... when are we going to say enough to this Animal Farm bullshit? All are equal, but some are apparently more equal... and right now, as the hold the government hostage, Conservatives are demanding special dispensation that nobody currently holds the power to prevent and hold them to task.
Even better, they are betraying members of their own party, making promises they have no intent to keep in order to get their agenda passed... what possible reason do we have to expect that they will hold the best interests of the most vulnerable among us to heart?
So far, nobody has been able to answer that question...
Oh well... I guess Democracy truly does die in darkness. I only hope that this schism forming thanks to Moore's defeat continues to grow, because obviously the best hope is for them to fall apart from the inside, since we can't rally well enough to put up a united front.