There’s a bit of “strange bedfellows” involved here. Two women, one D and one R, realized they and anyone like them could lose their opportunities to vote on legislation (ie do their job) if childbirth or neonatal complications kept them away from the Capitol Building. So they sponsored this bill.

Democrats like it because it makes the job fairer to women. I presume some of the Republicans feel it fits their pro-birth agenda, and helps against women’s tendency to vote more left than their spouses.

They may also like the part that Johnson hates, which is that it opens a door to further proxy voting. Which he says is bad because legislators need to be in the same building interacting with each other, (which we can all see isn’t doing shit for bipartisanship) but mostly that rule is used for partisan gamesmanship, timing votes according to who will be present. He doesn’t want to have to learn how to work with a change in the rules.

Three bills got linked together as part of his shenanigans, so now all three are stuck until at least Monday.

It’s just a rule they can’t vote on it until Monday. Which was the original schedule until Anna Paulina Luna used the arcane rule to move it up. She probably did that because nobody comes to work on Mondays and she didn’t think they’d have the votes. She worked with a Democrat to create the bill and had a baby just a few months after being elected. She left the Freedom Caucus over it.

The 9 Rs didn’t like being pushed around.

Or, just maybe, some of them (plus her) are the ones that some of the more quietly persuasive Democrats need to be talking to off the floor…

Edit: Either way, I’m happy for anything that messes with the GOP pushing through their hate agenda. Delay, Deny, Defend us against tyranny!

Eh, at least they put some effort into it.

Love the edit, and respect the attitude. The schoolmarm in me is fine with sarcastic choices. Appreciate your correcting the name, shows you didn’t misspell it to insult her.

I realize you’re worked up, and I hope those who voted for the 🐆 🐆 🐆 suffer the most (very possible given that food bank users are mostly white etc) and actually turn their politics to the left (sadly much less likely, as they are idiots).

But it’s Kamala not Kalama, and that sentence ends with too, not to.

I guess that attention ain’t happening now

Just wait a week.

Unfair to possums AND opossums

And don’t forget, one of those phones was in Moscow!

JG got the texts for free but he’s probably gonna need someone watching his 6 now. And I’m pretty sure a lawyer is billing for helping them figure out how to publish the details and still avoid getting trapped into anything illegal, like naming the CIA agent.

Land ownership

“She’s just driving me, because of my cataracts, officer!”

I have only one objection to the otherwise very welcome criticism of the incompetence and deliberate misconduct, as well as the highly entertaining memes:

It’s been all too distracting from the question of why we were even bombing Yemen in the first place.

And the air traffic controllers…

(Next!)

Ackshully we’re all braced for it

Makes a lot more sense than ASTROnesians, as spelled above, which makes them sound like aliens. Which is silly, because everyone knows aliens only land in either densely populated metropolitan areas (NYC, Tokyo, etc) or in the desert near Area 51.

It completely not, obviously. But it’s unreasonable to ask the not-yet-disappeared poor Latinos to draw ICE attention to themselves, and those already caught in the orphan-crushing machine can’t access social media.

These legally-documented scientists are the people who CAN speak out, and the loss of whom might matter to those whose worldview is entirely transactional. They too are now unsafe but at least they probably have lawyers looking for them.

The AARP has already started publicly lobbying against this move, and the for-profit institutions and their investors are probably doing so as well, but more privately because they don’t want to rub their leechiness in everyone’s face. So there is some small hope.

See also: COVID-19 response under Trump

A Socialist party would not only not have a chance in hell, the votes it would siphon off would lead to a resounding victory for the Reich Wing. A strong Socialist candidate (or several) in the Democratic Primary wouldn’t win either, but would drag the debate to the left and force/enable the more moderate candidate to support the kinds of goals and programs that used to define the Democratic Party in order to win, without being labeled and dismissed as “Socialist” by swing voters. However, we’ve already seen what happened when leftists decided to sit out the General election because nobody was good enough for them.