Prickly City by Scott Stantis for January 17, 2023

What? Craven and Feedumdum caucus kick you out?

Your party, Scott.

Your party.

Vote for me, I graduated from Harvard, worked for IBM, for Ford and Chevy, built a rocket I flew to Mars and back, invented paper, was on dancing with the stars…..

Oh, Carmen, you fool. You darned fool.

The all caucasian caucus, what do you think?

OK.

1. It’s the GOP that flushed any chance of bipartisanship down the toilet some 3 decades ago.

2. The GOP is 99% white and racist and Carmen is neither of those.

“Bipartisanship is really only beneficial to representatives who need to appear centrist to the full electorate and who don’t have to worry about being primaried,” he told Vox.

If they make it past their primaries, Kelly and Hassan are among the Democrats expected to face difficult general elections, and could perhaps benefit from any boost a bipartisan record might provide.

Bipartisanship hasn’t just been a focal point in Senate races: According to a 2020 study by the Democratic donor and strategy group Way to Win, House Democrats spent three times as much as Republicans on ads stressing bipartisanship outreach, to limited success.

Democrats overall are also at a disadvantage due to how electoral maps are drawn, according to Kyle Kondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball — and that’s another factor that may prompt them to seek out and emphasize bipartisanship in their messaging more than Republicans do.

“Republicans have advantages on the overall electoral map — at this particular point in time, the median electoral vote, House district, and Senate seat votes to the right of the nation as a whole,” says Kondik. “This is probably part of the reason why the Democrats feel obligated to talk about bipartisanship more than Republicans.”

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Further complicating things, per polling from Vox and Data for Progress, many voters don’t have a clear sense of which bills were bipartisan.

Earlier this year, Republicans capitalized on this confusion to claim credit for the American Rescue Plan, which every GOP senator voted against.

That package also picked up strong support from voters in both parties despite the lack of Republican backing, prompting Biden to describe bipartisanship as support from Democratic and Republican voters, rather than lawmakers.

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//www.vox.com/2021/6/30/22545736/cost-of-bipartisanship-democrats-infrastructure

SIGH

IMAGINE

On May 25, the Senate mustered the necessary two-thirds vote and achieved cloture by a margin of 70 to 30. The next day, the bill passed 77 to 19.

The Senate Passes the Voting Rights Acthttps://www.senate.gov › artandhistory › history › minuteAbout featured snippets•FeedbackPeople also askWhat was the vote count for the 1965 Civil Rights Act?On this date, by a vote of 328 to 74, the House approved the Voting Rights Act (VRA)—a landmark in the long civil rights movement.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | US House of Representatives

McCarthy has said he’ll look into “expunging” Trump’s impeachment. Which is, of course, nowhere in the Constitution.

How can you be bipartisan who people think lying about cheating on your wife is impeachable for a Democrat. But if you’re a Republican, it isn’t impeachable to a) consort with foreign powers to influence an election, or b) to try using violence to stay in power after losing an election?

And, of course, Donnie lied about cheating on his wife, too.

I think it’s Stantis’ weak attempt at bothsiderism.

As far as I’m concerned, both parties are composed of crooks, liars, incompetents and fools. And I blame all you folks for electing the same bunch of jerks over and over again. It’s time to wipe the slate clean and get new people, but, of course, that will never happen as long as the politician are bought and paid for by corporate America.

Hypocrisy, thy name is The Nurse Ratched Brigade

Well, it seems they were very united in kicking her out. . .

You can be bipartisan, or you can be a troll. You can’t be both.

What ever happened to NON-partisanship?