Translation: They've already decided to replace the current Dem plant with another Dem plant and don't want to be accountable for the coming disaster. McConnell is gonna have his hand up the new guy's ass and continue botching things.
I have a feeling the Evil Uniparty Turtle is going to win this one. The only way to thwart it is for J.D. Vance to exercise his position as President of the Senate make Cornyn sit at the kiddie table.
It'll be tedious but we need to break the uniparty's back once and for all.
This is the influence of Mitch McConnell in action; quite a few names in the Senate owe their office to McConnell, so they will do McConnell's bidding when their strings are jerked.
The GOPe machine badly, desperately wants one of their own as Majority Leader, because this is how they insulated the Deep State from Trump last time. McConnell was the architect behind why many of the things Trump wanted to do didn't get done.
Because they didn't think they'd need to add any exceptions when writing the part of the Constitution that gives both chambers of Congress authority to set up their own rules and procedures.
Th Founding Fathers made several assumptions about future politicians that were unfortunately unrealistic in hindsight. First, that the world wouldn't evolve to a point where being a politician could become a full time job for life. They were all farmers, land owners, businessmen, military leaders, inventors, etc. And it took weeks to take a carriage to hold a Congress, debate some stuff, and then go home to tend to their real jobs. They didn't envision that Philadelphia (later DC) would become the nexus for people wielding power over a continent that can be enacted seconds from when the decisions are made.
They also envisioned that personal or group ambitions would keep each other in check. Separation of powers was designed with the assumption that the President would want to keep power away from Congress and the Court, Congress would want to keep power from the President and Court, and the Court would want to keep power from the President and Congress. In addition to individuals Congressmen and Presidents wanting to amass personal power, which others wanting to do the same thing would try to stymie them. Gridlock was supposed to be a feature built into the system.
In that same vein, they also didn't picture the idea of States no longer being separate political and cultural bodies to be something that would or could happen. They saw Virginians as Virginians, New Yorkers and New Yorkers, etc and imagined that the representatives from the several States would always seem themselves a citizens of their State first and foremost. They didn't picture all of them deciding that they were actually one big group of elites, and the people of all the States were equally all of their enemies. We can thank the tyrant Lincoln for destroying the idea of State identity and sovereignty.
Lastly, and most simply, many of them were just better men then the stock we have around now. Religion was an intrinsic part of their lives, yes that includes all the so called deists and agnostics that many of the Founding Fathers have now been retconned into being. The idea of personal honor, moral fiber, a Higher Authority holding them accountable, were all things that were part of life for them. And even for the elite back then, life was still hard. The wealthy Virginian plantation owner was still shitting outside in the cold like the rest of the population. No running water, no electricity, no antibiotics, no artificial heat or cold, and so on. Life was brutal and involved a lot of manual labor and pain no matter how rich you were. That sort of life breeds an appreciation for hard work, personal reward for personal risk and expenditure, a respect for nature and fellow man. Our politician class is composed almost entirely of Ivy League socialites from old money families with connections who haven't been exposed to hardship a day in their lives. It's one of the things they hate about Trump so much. Being sent to military school, having to make or break himself in the world of business, never having been part of the Harvard or Yale clubs, etc. He's had to work, fail, been screamed at by superiors and all the rest. Still unimageable luxury compared to the rest of us, but he's downright plebian in the eyes of the Harvard and Yale types.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
The modern US is neither of those things. The system must break down.
The true destruction of States being separate political entities came when the Senate was changed from appointed, to directly elected. The States no longer have federal representation as an entity, now it's just the people (House), and the people, but smaller (Senate).
While that is a major issue, you are incorrect about the true destruction of States as being separate political entities being that. It was the Civil War and when it was decided you can't leave. Being a separate political entity directly implies self determination, and the most fundamental choice of all in that is whether to associate with the others in the first place. Every other choice a State makes as a member of a larger Union is downstream from the decision whether or not to take part in that Union to begin with. Once that decision, whether you take part in the Union, is taken from you, all other self-determining decisions downstream from that aren't really self determining anymore.
In order for a replacement for the republican party to occur, the republican party must be destroyed. You aren't gonna destroy them by voting for them.
Stop voting for evil, and you might actually get some good.
The simple math is you voting for republican puts people like Trump, Nixon, Regan, McConnell, and Graham into power.
There are only two good republicans that I know of, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie. That is 2 out of 270 republicans in Congress and the Presidency. Less than 1% of republicans are worth a damn. There is your simple math.
Translation: They've already decided to replace the current Dem plant with another Dem plant and don't want to be accountable for the coming disaster. McConnell is gonna have his hand up the new guy's ass and continue botching things.
I have a feeling the Evil Uniparty Turtle is going to win this one. The only way to thwart it is for J.D. Vance to exercise his position as President of the Senate make Cornyn sit at the kiddie table.
It'll be tedious but we need to break the uniparty's back once and for all.
This is the influence of Mitch McConnell in action; quite a few names in the Senate owe their office to McConnell, so they will do McConnell's bidding when their strings are jerked.
The GOPe machine badly, desperately wants one of their own as Majority Leader, because this is how they insulated the Deep State from Trump last time. McConnell was the architect behind why many of the things Trump wanted to do didn't get done.
Why is this even legal?
Because they didn't think they'd need to add any exceptions when writing the part of the Constitution that gives both chambers of Congress authority to set up their own rules and procedures.
Th Founding Fathers made several assumptions about future politicians that were unfortunately unrealistic in hindsight. First, that the world wouldn't evolve to a point where being a politician could become a full time job for life. They were all farmers, land owners, businessmen, military leaders, inventors, etc. And it took weeks to take a carriage to hold a Congress, debate some stuff, and then go home to tend to their real jobs. They didn't envision that Philadelphia (later DC) would become the nexus for people wielding power over a continent that can be enacted seconds from when the decisions are made.
They also envisioned that personal or group ambitions would keep each other in check. Separation of powers was designed with the assumption that the President would want to keep power away from Congress and the Court, Congress would want to keep power from the President and Court, and the Court would want to keep power from the President and Congress. In addition to individuals Congressmen and Presidents wanting to amass personal power, which others wanting to do the same thing would try to stymie them. Gridlock was supposed to be a feature built into the system.
In that same vein, they also didn't picture the idea of States no longer being separate political and cultural bodies to be something that would or could happen. They saw Virginians as Virginians, New Yorkers and New Yorkers, etc and imagined that the representatives from the several States would always seem themselves a citizens of their State first and foremost. They didn't picture all of them deciding that they were actually one big group of elites, and the people of all the States were equally all of their enemies. We can thank the tyrant Lincoln for destroying the idea of State identity and sovereignty.
Lastly, and most simply, many of them were just better men then the stock we have around now. Religion was an intrinsic part of their lives, yes that includes all the so called deists and agnostics that many of the Founding Fathers have now been retconned into being. The idea of personal honor, moral fiber, a Higher Authority holding them accountable, were all things that were part of life for them. And even for the elite back then, life was still hard. The wealthy Virginian plantation owner was still shitting outside in the cold like the rest of the population. No running water, no electricity, no antibiotics, no artificial heat or cold, and so on. Life was brutal and involved a lot of manual labor and pain no matter how rich you were. That sort of life breeds an appreciation for hard work, personal reward for personal risk and expenditure, a respect for nature and fellow man. Our politician class is composed almost entirely of Ivy League socialites from old money families with connections who haven't been exposed to hardship a day in their lives. It's one of the things they hate about Trump so much. Being sent to military school, having to make or break himself in the world of business, never having been part of the Harvard or Yale clubs, etc. He's had to work, fail, been screamed at by superiors and all the rest. Still unimageable luxury compared to the rest of us, but he's downright plebian in the eyes of the Harvard and Yale types.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
The modern US is neither of those things. The system must break down.
The true destruction of States being separate political entities came when the Senate was changed from appointed, to directly elected. The States no longer have federal representation as an entity, now it's just the people (House), and the people, but smaller (Senate).
While that is a major issue, you are incorrect about the true destruction of States as being separate political entities being that. It was the Civil War and when it was decided you can't leave. Being a separate political entity directly implies self determination, and the most fundamental choice of all in that is whether to associate with the others in the first place. Every other choice a State makes as a member of a larger Union is downstream from the decision whether or not to take part in that Union to begin with. Once that decision, whether you take part in the Union, is taken from you, all other self-determining decisions downstream from that aren't really self determining anymore.
UPenn is an Ivy League school, but I get your point overall that Trump didn’t come from old money
IIRC, the Senate was originally appointed not elected.
When the whole foundation of thing is about patronage, you aren't as concerned about transparency and voting records.
The only reason to do this is to vote for a Swamp Crookodile.
They don't want Ron Paul running the senate, but that's exactly who needs to be there.
You get what you vote for. You voted for the lesser evil, you get evil.
What is even the point of this comment besides being smug?
Who did you vote for?
JEB!
Unfortunately, you don't vote for the lesser evil, you also still get evil, and even more of it.
So... Vote for the greater evil? That gets even more evil, my friend. Simple math there.
In order for a replacement for the republican party to occur, the republican party must be destroyed. You aren't gonna destroy them by voting for them.
Stop voting for evil, and you might actually get some good.
The simple math is you voting for republican puts people like Trump, Nixon, Regan, McConnell, and Graham into power.
There are only two good republicans that I know of, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie. That is 2 out of 270 republicans in Congress and the Presidency. Less than 1% of republicans are worth a damn. There is your simple math.