'The Senate has become a Dadaist nightmare.' How to make the Senate 'Great Again.' (Page 2/3)
sourmash FEB 11, 01:38 PM
I've long suspected the reason some are still here, spending years in th OT forum is because the forum doesn't have an ignore feature.
sourmash FEB 11, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Should we, from here forward, add that to your title?

That odious little leftist troll Rinselberg and unofficially, King of Scotland



Rules. You break them daily.
MidEngineManiac FEB 11, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Should we, from here forward, add that to your title?

That odious little leftist troll Rinselberg and unofficially, King of Scotland



DAT vud be "Lord of Scotland"......or at least one square foot of it with a tree right smack in the middle that takes up 6 square feet.

https://establishedtitles.com/
cliffw FEB 12, 07:36 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
NY Times



You lost me at a fake news rag.
rinselberg FEB 14, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:
You lost me at a fake news rag.


Woulds't thou prefer to keep Klein bottled up?



Maybe that's what Trump was messin' with way back in 2017.

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-14-2021).]

williegoat FEB 14, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Woulds't thou prefer to keep Klein bottled up?


That's almost a Jim Croce song.
olejoedad FEB 14, 07:57 PM
Klein writes about the ways the Left has screwed up the House, but somehow blames Bush and Trump.

rinse, are you paying attention? You have much to learn from this odious left wing troll.
rinselberg FEB 14, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by olejoedad:

Klein writes about the ways the Left has screwed up the House, but somehow blames Bush and Trump.

rinse, are you paying attention? You have much to learn from this odious left wing troll.


If that's a reference to the first of the two columns from Ezra Klein that I have put here, then consider how he finishes:

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“Democrats have an opportunity to restore our democracy and deliver on the promises they campaigned on,” the Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding, founder of Truth and Conciliation, told me by email. “But they can’t do that without breaking down structural barriers to progress — that starts with eliminating the filibuster. If we allow the filibuster to block voting rights, gun violence prevention, Covid relief and more, we’re sending a clear message to millions of voters that their votes and voices don’t count in our democracy.”

To be clear, if Democrats will not get rid of the filibuster, it is better that they use budget reconciliation than that they fail the American people totally. But the fact that Democrats are using budget reconciliation at all is evidence that even Sinema and Manchin know the filibuster has gone too far, that the chamber cannot operate under supermajority rules, all of the time.

This is a terrible way to legislate. Enough with kludges. End the filibuster, and make the Senate great again.


So he's calling out the Democrats and putting an onus on them, to bring two of their own into the fold (Senators Sinema and Manchin) and then use Vice President Harris's tie-breaking vote in the Senate to eliminate the last vestiges of the filibuster. To get to a place where they could pass any and all kinds of legislation with just a simple majority vote in the Senate. (Discounting any scenarios involving a Presidential veto.)



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Originally posted by williegoat:
That's almost a Jim Croce song.


That is a reference that is infinitely more esoteric than anything having to do with Jim Croce or any kind of music. Except maybe for some particularly obscure and little known works of Classical Music or a Gregorian Chant accompanied by a Klavier and Flugelhorn ensemble. It's so esoteric that it kind of surprised me when it came to mind, as I hadn't thought of it in many a year. If you "got" it and are just holding back about it... well, I'm impressed!
williegoat FEB 14, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

That is a reference that is infinitely more esoteric than anything having to do with Jim Croce or any kind of music. Except maybe for some particularly obscure and little known works of Classical Music or a Gregorian Chant accompanied by a Klavier and Flugelhorn ensemble. It's so esoteric that it kind of surprised me when it came to mind, as I hadn't thought of it in many a year. If you "got" it and are just holding back about it... well, I'm impressed!


Well, I almost said that it would appear on the surface that you are only looking at one side, but that would have been an observation lacking dimension.
rinselberg FEB 14, 09:53 PM
Genus!