This just keeps getting stupider and stupider, and yet they just won’t shut up. Right now it’s the House, but the verbal farts in the GOP Senate are stealing all their thunder. Right now the GOP led House is in minute 105 of a procedural vote that was originally scheduled for a 5 minute vote time. The score is 213-212 with 218 votes needed for passage. You’ll love this. This apocalyptic thing they’re voting on right now is something called the Amendment to agree to the amendment. No sh*t, these are your tax dollars at work. If it fails, then Trump’s tax boondoggle is dead. And if it passes, there’s still another procedural vote before they can finally bring the bill to the floor, equally uncertain.
When it came to the Senate vote, I must admit, I had it bass ackwards. Based on past conduct, it’s always been Susan Collins of Maine who has always talked a great fight before buckling and voting with Trump. Murkowski is the one with spine.
But this time it was Collins who got a spine from Amazon and rammed it home, and Murkowski who made a big show of rattling her saber all over the place before finally just scratching her ass with it. And she made it even worse by trying to get cute and explain away a simple, straightforward act of political prostitution. They never know when to shut up, do they.
When you listen to politicians for a living, you get their groove. When they think they’re talking to gullible reporters, they blow sunshine and pixie dust up their asses. When they have intelligent reporters, they pick one positive selling point, and repeat it all the way down the hallway. And for aggressive reporters, they lower their head between their shoulders, and plow forward, swinging their briefcases for the nut.
Murkowski, with world class arrogance, and gold medal ignorance did neither of those. Instead she flashed back to Louis XIV and told everybody to shut up and eat cake. She patiently explained, as to a dim puppy that She had voted for the bill because it was good for her constituents, but in its total context it is terrible for rural communities, and she hopes that the House votes it down.
WTF?!? I have no idea of what Murkowski was trying to say, but she pissed into a fan whichever direction she was facing. To a disinterested listener it came off like, Hey, don’t look at me. I don’t paint up and roll around anymore, I just make the deals and take my cut.
But to people with an actual stake in the outcome of this, like her constituents, or rural families, it’s a cold, unfeeling disaster. To her constituents she’s saying, I voted for this thing in your name, just to get El Pendejo Presidente off of my ass. But personally I hope it goes down in flames. And to rural lower class families she’s saying, Hey! I got mine. The hell with you and yours.
This is what has happened to The Party of Lincoln. Even the more sane, non Trombies in the GOP have spent so much time drinking the yq-yq juice that their brains have turned into poi. Four score and seven years ago has turned into I voted that way because I’m a craven chickensh*t. Leave me alone. And sadly, it only gets worse from here.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
In the Australian series Mr Inbetween…there’s a scene where the main character, Ray, a professional hit man, is in a store with his young daughter, and the daughter of his friend. Short version, his friend’s daughter gets snatched, Ray’s best friend, Gary, finds the pedophile ring who has her. When the tables get flipped and the gang is zip tied and put into the secret room, one turns and blithely says…hey…we didn’t do anything to her. We just sell them. Gary punches him. Later Ray comes down the basement stairs stripped to his shorts, with his short handled shovel, with sharp edges. It turned out badly for the ring. Lisa, who turned and said hey, I don’t like it, but all I did was sell my vote, so what if millions of children, disabled, elderly, poor, and sick folks will get hurt or die. All I did was sell them to the devil. OK Judas…I get it.
Murkowsky a MADAM? Naw…. I’m pretty sure she’s just another GOP/MAGA WHORE. She’s lost any respect I ever had for her.
Murkowsky sellout
What Lincoln thinks of DON THE CON, CORRUPT CRIMINAL who has taken over THE PARTY OF LINCOLN.
Lincoln to tRump