Tuesday, November 20, 2018

I Hope The New House Brings This Up Right Away Next Year

One of the things I advocate that Democrats in control of the House do this year is to make life as hard as possible for Republicans in the dishonestly controlled Senate and gerrymandered state legislatures by passing lots and lots of popular bills which the Senate will not take up or kill or, them giving in on those, Trump vetoing.   

The first day of winter last year, The Hill posted this piece on Susan Collins' pose which she would use to vote for some of the most putrid Republican-fascist legislation, a pose she repeatedly used to do her phony little dance of indecision before she inevitably did what she wanted to do and was always going to do, vote with the worst of Republicans. 

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will be a crucial swing vote for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) next year, but it may be tougher to strike deals with her after McConnell failed to fulfill a pledge on health care.  

The moderate senator told reporters this month that she had an “ironclad” commitment from McConnell and Vice President Pence to pass legislation by the end of the year to stabilize ObamaCare premiums. She wanted that assurance before committing her vote for tax reform. 

But that vote has now been delayed until January due to opposition from House Republicans. 

Collins isn’t accusing McConnell of breaking his pledge, but she is disappointed in the outcome, according to sources familiar with the negotiations on health-care legislation.  

Those sources added that Collins might think twice the next time GOP leaders promise her something

Well, any number of us could have told them then but it is undeniable now that behind Susan Collins' pose of "moderate Republicanism" there is just more pose. The woman is a lying fraud and always has been.  

With the election in which Republicans up and down the ticket, who had been fighting the ACA - Obamacare - voting literally dozens of time to kill it were running scared, denying to people who watched them try to kill it, that they supported the ACA, they gave Democrats a huge tool to wield with which they should batter and slam and attack the damned Republicans every time they can, they should vote more than 60 times to put the protections and corrections of the ACA into law and let the Republicans vote it down, they should attach that and other popular things to every single bill they pass, even the ones to keep the government open, and let the Republicans be the ones who have to crawl to them to beg them to give them a clean bill.   They should stick that into Susan Collins like Butterball sticks a pop-up timer into a turkey and turn up the heat. 

Democrats need to be responsible and one of the things they have to do is to make Republicans pay, including Republicans in states that maintain a Republican-fascist gerrymander in House and state governments, they should do them no favor that Republicans don't pay in full.   Under the disastrously bad anti-democratic Constitution, made worse by recent Supreme Courts, this is one of the few things which Democrats have to fight against Republican fascism when they can.  It's worth risking anything for to fight against this.  I wouldn't give states which are the worst offenders a single thing, except disaster relief.  If their delegations had opposed giving relief in other disasters, maybe they shouldn't even get that.  

I would advocate they find ways of making life harder for the Republican-fascists on the court, too.  They should make it known that they are investigating Kavanaugh with a possible eye towards his impeachment for perjury and other crimes.  Hold that lying sex criminal's feet to the fire, too. 

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