Monday Stuff

Maybe I should be jumping up and down and saying, “Woo Hoo! Wow, Nancy Pelosi sure is Queen Of The Beltway Now, Huh??(!!)”

Well, yeah – it’s great that the shutdown is over, though it sickens me that it’s only for three weeks and we could end up playing this whole stoo-pid game again before long (love to be wrong on that). What matters to me (and I’m sure a bunch of others too) is that hard-working Americans are back on the job providing important services for us that we need and supporting themselves and/or their families again (and hopefully nobody died, was severely hurt, got terribly ill or was evicted from where they live while the shutdown lasted). And I give Nancy Pelosi enough credit to recognize that.

If anybody “won,” it’s the government workers. Everything else to me is Beltway/corporate media/”Drudgico” kabuki and nothing more (and who gives a damn about Ann Coulter? What, did this year suddenly morph into 1994 all of a sudden? I guess I missed that memo).

Though, to be fair, I think we should summarize the nonsense that just took place:

U.S. Senate Republicans vote Yes on a bill with no wall funding – goes to U.S. House still under Repug control, and that disgusting bastard Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv doesn’t even schedule a vote (because he knew it would have passed, but he wanted a cudgel to beat the Dems with as opposed to actually solving a problem).

U.S. Senate Republicans vote again on the same bill and say No – goes to the U.S. House now under Dem control, and they try to get the Dems and Pelosi to support a bill with wall funding to get the Dems to own that goddamn wall, and the House Dems stand tall (and let’s not underestimate how important that was, by the way – good luck if the Senate under Schumer had been put in a position like that).

Now realizing they’ve hopelessly lost the battle for public opinion on this, U.S. Senate Republicans vote AGAIN on the SAME BILL without wall funding and vote YES, and House Dems follow suit and Generalissimo Trump signs off.

With that admitting boring preface out of the way, I thought this was good commentary from the TYT folks…



…and I have to admit that I haven’t given a lot of thought to Dem U.S. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, but boy, did he stand up tall against “Tail Gunner Ted” here (more like this – LOTS more!)…



…and it’s pretty damn hilarious to hear the Gropenfuhrer supposedly caring about the “radical left” of the Democratic Party, as Kyle K. tells us (mildly NSFW)…



…and RIP Michel Legrand.