Here we go again with our so-called Maine governor (Trump's "so-called judge" comment is not forgotten ). LePage shouldn't go away mad, he should just go...fuck himself.
Always trying to undermine the will of the people he was elected to represent. Every day. This whining melting snowflake argument is against ranked choice voting, mostly. Because it's not going to help conservatives much up here.

Gov. Paul LePage certified the election results for Maine's 2nd Congressional District after a recount and legal battle dragged out the final result in the race for almost two months, cementing a Democratic victory.
But, LePage -- a Republican firebrand -- made one last jab at the drawn-out process when certifying the election, writing the words "stolen election" next to his signature.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/politics/maine-governor-certifies-congressional-election/index.html

What an asswipe.

I just found these "Who is" videos recently, they're great.

Meanwhile, some anally retentive right-wing fucktard, thought he was going to "discredit" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez politically, by posting a video of her engaging in a spot of dancing during her student years, as covered in this article in The Guardian.

Not only did the Twitterverse go into "let's make this backfire on the twat responsible" mode, but Ocasio-Cortez herself had the perfect riposte, in the form of another dance video shot in the halls of Congress ...

But this incident really shows how utterly fucked up right wingers are. Because some twonk thought it would cast her in a bad light, to be seen behaving like a normal human being.

Yes, that's right. Right wingers are so shit scared of this woman, that they will stoop to the level of a Beavis and Butthead clone posting troll posts in his parents' basement, in a desperate attempt to try and smear her. Excuse me, but how much of a fucking sad bastard does that make you, if you think that a young woman doing what a lot of other young women do when they're having fun, without involving criminality or manifest kapok-brained stupidity, constitutes some sort of political indictment? While at the same time, remaining completely fucking silent about the toxic shit being flung about the political arena by people three times her age, but who manifestly have a tenth of her IQ, and none of her fucking integrity or ethical fibre?

That's even more pathetic than trying to make Beto O'Rourke look bad by posting pictures of his old punk band. Idiots...

Heh, the latest meme doing the rounds is this one ...

Meanwhile, the twat responsible for posting the original video, appears to have fired up a use-once Twitter account just for the purpose, then deleted it.

Which leads me to conclude that he's a hormonally challenged trust fund teen with a rich Daddy, who spends his time masturbating whilst wearing a bedsheet with eye holes cut in it, and whose idea of a good time is to stand on his lawn pointing his armpit at a burning cross.

Republicans are snowflakes.

Graham defends GOP strategy, Dems hurt their feelings

The comments may have been a bit more candid than the Republican lawmaker intended. To hear Graham tell it, as the GOP’s shutdown continues into its third week, his party is reluctant to even propose possible solutions. That’s not an especially sound position given the fact that House Dems have already passed a resolution to the shutdown – the same one that Graham and other Senate Republicans approved of as recently as Dec. 19.

But it was that other line from Graham that stood out for me: “Why would you negotiate with someone who calls you a racist?” So, are we to believe Republicans might work constructively toward ending their shutdown if Democrats stopped hurting GOP leaders’ feelings?


If this seems at all familiar, it’s because we’ve been here before. In 1995, in the midst of the longest government shutdown in American history, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) publicly confessed he’d shut down the government in part because then-President Bill Clinton had seated him toward the back of Air Force One following Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral in Israel.

Graham needs a can of 'Harden the fuck up'.

That one's an actual clown, in the non-literal sense.

Laura Ingram tweets anti wall poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost to make a case for Trump's wall. Then promptly deletes it after realizing how much of an idiot she is.

I saved screenshot for posterity.

Shamefully, the adults could override Trump's veto with a 2/3 majority in both houses but Mitch McConnell is refusing to allow that legislation to be voted on. I'm not versed enough to know why he alone can hold back the whole of congress, but that's something that needs addressing too. Legislation that passed 100-0 previously. So he is also at fault and complicit. For what, the possible harm to his chances of re-election in 2020? So the hundreds of thousands of unpaid federal workers, and untold damage being done to the departments that are barely running, so McConnell can be re-elected ? All those people's lives, he deems as less important than potentially losing a portion of his chance to be a senator again. Even if that's not his motivation, it's still wrong and should be disqualifying to a position of leadership.

Agreed. Senate rules and procedures are arbitrary nonsense for procedural purposes. No one Senator should have carte Blanche authority over the Senate floor.

I'm not sure that a person being able to make a decision about what goes to the floor for a vote is an arbitrary nonsensical procedure. I'm not sure how you'd manage the endless number of things to vote on otherwise. He's undoubtedly abusing his position and showing that he doesn't deserve it, but how would you get around the abuse that would happen if there wasn't someone to make such decisions?

You have an endless number of things to vote on. You go, “alright next bill on the table is Bill #321, written by Senator(s) yada yada, about so and so policy. For those that wish to deliberate on it say yay. For those who wish to move to a vote immediately say nay.

If deliberation happens you may well find yourself bogged in debate or filibuster territory but such is the price we pay for having representative democracies. But we know the bill is being discussed not just ignored because an old man is throwing a tantrum.

Representatives and Senators have enough downtime as it is. The spend a huge chunk of their team worrying about reelection and donors that maybe it’d do them some good to be stuck actually working. Maybe it could justify their wage.

McConnell is to blame. He is out there to cut benefits for two more years and keep USA hurting for weeks more of shut down.
Links to donate for 2020 in blog
http://karireport.blogspot.com/2019/01/ ... -vote.html

What? actual Republicans want gov't to run again? But the gov't does not do anything, except the military. and air traffic control.
Oh, I get it, it cuts down spending 5 billion! Makes sense now.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... mp-1096929

SafeAsMilk wrote:I'm not sure that a person being able to make a decision about what goes to the floor for a vote is an arbitrary nonsensical procedure. I'm not sure how you'd manage the endless number of things to vote on otherwise. He's undoubtedly abusing his position and showing that he doesn't deserve it, but how would you get around the abuse that would happen if there wasn't someone to make such decisions?

the Presitent not signing a law that passed should automatically put the law on the floor again.
does away with the bogged down by loads of shit and only two people preventing a law from passing.

Tero wrote:What? actual Republicans want gov't to run again? But the gov't does not do anything, except the military. and air traffic control.
Oh, I get it, it cuts down spending 5 billion! Makes sense now.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... mp-1096929

“I do see the potential for national emergencies being used for every single thing that we face in the future where we can’t reach an agreement. That’s the slippery slope that I’m concerned about,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top Trump ally, told POLITICO on Thursday. “The administration is well aware of the ability to use national emergency [powers] and the reluctance to do so from House members.”

“And yet, I think the president would find broad support if it’s determined that ultimately he has to do it,” Meadows added.

So, “I’m all for freedom and quite concerned about erosion of freedoms except when it jeopardizes partisanship.” Fucking hypocrites.

That rancid toilet stain Steve King has just been yanked from his committee positions;

Censure motion filed on Steve King

UPDATE
House GOP leaders moved to strip embattled Rep. Steve King from his committee assignments on Monday, part of wave of congressional action over recent racist comments by the Iowa Republican

King will lose his seat on three panels, including the Judiciary Committee, where he served as chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

Another video from the Now This News channel. This one's great too. There is no commentary, as none is needed except McConnel's own. There is a grand finale.