Thursday Stuff

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Farron Cousins tells us that “Curtsy Kyrsten” is on the side of Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao when it comes to taxing the rich to pay for infrastructure (Sinema must have saw dust between her ears if she thinks this is a winning strategy for re-election and/or anyone is going to forget about her antics)...



...and Rachel Maddow presents a clip of Dem U.S. House Rep Tim Ryan quite rightly freaking out over all of the members of the “party of Lincoln” in that body who opposed forming a bipartisan commission to look into the 1/6 insurrection; yeah, good luck getting any kind of a “compromise” with these life forms (to his credit, though, I need to mention that Bri-Fi was one of the 35 who supported the Dems on this as noted here)...



Update: And of course, since we’re talking about the U.S. House Repugs and Bri-Fi, they tried to get back brownie points with their wingnut base by opposing additional funding for Capitol Police as noted here...and I respect the principles of “the squad” in their opposition, but I also think they chose the wrong vote upon which to make public their dissatisfaction, though the statement at the end of the Intercept story makes good points I'll admit.

...and speaking of the squad, this clip from More Perfect Union presents Dem U.S. House Rep Cori Bush speaking up for the unemployed in her state, in contrast with Missouri’s fat-headed white guy Repug governor trying to cut these people off at the metaphorical knees...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us about AOC introducing a bill to stop the sale of about $735 million in bombs to Israel to try and get that criminal Netanyahu to agree to a cease fire at a minimum in the latest conflict between Israel and Palestine (selling so-called JDAMs)...



...and Sam and Emma V. tell us that there are actually 35 states where you can be denied a government contract if you support the BDS movement (here); on the other hand, Italian dock workers are supporting the Palestinians – I didn’t see the Tom Cotton clip, and rest assured that I don’t care to...



Update: It should not have taken all of this carnage to get a cease fire, but yeah - progress (here).

...and I’m afraid the title of this tune describes what will happen to the Dem congressional majority if they seriously think the GQP party will be honest actors in trying to do ANYTHING to help this country, as Tim Ryan forcefully pointed out.