“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrzxW0rsD1Q

When it's going great:

Even all the guys at Fox are like, “This asshole!” https://t.co/Tfo0W1buT1

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 19, 2021

"Part of the uniqueness of patheticness is that it’s bottomless. There’s always something even more demeaning to be done, always something that can be performed with even less grace, always sometime that’ll shame even more ancestors. And when thinking about Ted Cruz, the only other thing that approaches his abject pathetic is Wile E Coyote—who, like Cruz, was put on Earth to collect failures the way a staircase collects dust.”

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/after-throwing-his-wife-his-dad-his-state-his-countr-1846299212

Why didn't he go to Mar-a-Lago instead? The grovelling sycophant warms himself twice.

I still don't think this is going to affect Cruz in any substantive way. Being a perpetual nozzle is the surest route to boundless success in today's GOP. It's what the voters want, nay demand.

- goes to cancun in the middle of a statewide cold-weather emergency

cruz thinks - how can i make this worse

- flies back after literally one day, making it obvious the trip was not necessary, and that he was now only cancelling because of public outcry

cruz thinks - yes but - how can i make this worse

- says it was his daughters' idea

no, not really completely bad enough yet - think ted, think

- say he was just doing what any texan would do

yep, we're getting there! getting 'warm', ted!

yeah this is cathartic for posters, I guess, but to be a GOP satrap in 2021 is to be lauded for being a sack of rotten mayo.

sack of rotten mayo

I know, I know, it's serious

lol

If he was a really good 'dad', he'd abandon his family and let mommy's new friend take over.

Anderson Cooper's having a field day with this, with "Flyin' Ted" across the bottom of the screen.

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Part of the uniqueness of patheticness is that it’s bottomless.”

as bottomless as Donald Duck

Ted Cruz: Pathetic, Moist, Bottomless

Haven't I hurled enough today?

Gotta hand it to him, he unifies Americans across the political spectrum.

honestly i'm sorta amazed he's even attempting to show contrition. in his own off-putting way.

that's no way to win the GOP nom in 2024, Ted

BREAKING: President Biden just issued new ICE guidance wholly abandoning his pledge to halt deportations. ACLU says this is "a disappointing step backward from the Biden administration’s earlier commitments to fully break from the harmful deportation policies" of Trump and Obama.

— Colin Kalmbacher (@colinkalmbacher) February 18, 2021

Cruz probably won't face any consequences but there's a slightly higher chance today than last week of a grief-stricken person shooting him so keep your fingers crossed.

lol remember the fawning stories, uh, two weeks ago about how shockingly progressive Biden was turning out to be?

Yes!!

Pennsylvania State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta is announcing his run for U.S. Senate. #TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/Ewc8lGZHJp

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) February 19, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898

I mean he’s joe biden

I guess you could say he’s Biden his time on this one.

“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group

That sounds a lot like he really wants this in there but it just doesn't look like he can do it because of reconciliation.

xposts

Biden hasn't stopped deportations, but he's cut them back a lot. My local sheriff's department has essentially ended its 287(g) program because they've been told by ICE not to call unless they have someone who's a convicted violent felon or a terrorism suspect.

Which is not to say his policy's great. But it's better.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/ted-cruz-flees-texas-for-cancun-ditches-family-poodle.html

re HEidi's leaked texts -- so was this some petty fake friend drama with the Cruz's lol

xxp

His comments drew pushback from fellow Democrats, who have argued that raising the minimum wage isn’t just necessary for an economically-battered country but is sound politics as well. They have urged the White House to find avenues for making it reconciliation-compliant, to push party members skeptical of a major minimum wage hike to get on board and to consider the procedural nuclear option of having the party—with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote—overrule the parliamentarian.

That sounds a lot like fellow Democrats have proposed ways of doing it despite reconciliation.

“Given the makeup of the Senate, this is our best opportunity and the right moment in the midst of this pandemic, to give millions of workers a long overdue raise.”

That sounds a lot like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the progressive caucus chair, thinks the best opportunity of achieving it comes now, rather than biden their time for later.

Biden didn’t push back on Hogan’s point at the time. Nor was there a protracted discussion on the minimum wage. The conversation simply moved on.

Hogan also urged Biden to help ensure that the package was as bipartisan as he could, a point another official in the room said the president appeared receptive to.

“I really need your help on this,” Biden told the group. “It needs to be bipartisan.”

That sounds moderately like Biden thinks letting this one through to the keeper will preserve his ideal bipartisanship, and that he imagines he's extracting concessions from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, one of four Republicans at the meeting.

(xposts) More "Somehow that’s even more pathetic" from Cruz--abandoning a dog might be the last button he could have conceivably pushed in this story.

(Leaving behind--they didn't abandon the dog.)

urged the White House to find avenues for making it reconciliation-compliant

That sounds a lot like fellow Democrats have proposed ways of doing it despite reconciliation.

To me it sounds like they have proposed that the White House find a way to do it despite reconciliation. iow, they didn't offer any ideas of how it could be done, just that they really really wanted him to find a way.

his dog being named Snowflake is just too perfect xp

To me it sounds like they have proposed that the White House find a way to do it despite reconciliation. iow, they didn't offer any ideas of how it could be done, just that they really really wanted him to find a way.

these are w though

to consider the procedural nuclear option of having the party —with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote— overrule the parliamentarian.

Last One.

Ted Cruz: Pathetic, Moist, Bottomless, Poodle

The 'nuclear' option of overruling the parliamentarian in regard to reconciliation is a back door method of eliminating the filibuster that would have the same practical effect as full, direct elimination, but is much less forthright and somewhat dishonest. Therefore it is likely to provoke an unfeigned anger among conservatives that they can justify from a moral high ground.

The parliamentarian is employed to objectively describe the finer requirements of the rules under which the Senate has voted to operate. Once you begin to overrule their impartial judgment that accords with rules and precedents, the Senate will no longer have any enforceable rules or precedents at all. You may as well fire the parliamentarian, since their job will become superfluous.

This may 'work' in this one case, but it is understandable if Biden and many Democratic senators see it as more risky than a simple elimination of the filibuster, via majority vote.

Anyone else realize Ted Cruz had no problem crossing a border to give his family a better life?

— Rev. Ted Lasso (@tcburkejr) February 18, 2021

the parliamentarian has not ruled yet AFAIK (or been asked to rule), and fwiw the CBO has no objections

Big day for the Biden Administration

minimum wage dodge, new ICE regs +

.@RepKatiePorter, a single mom, tells @KatyTurNBC that the current Biden-Dem covid relief bill gives more money per child to married couples than single parents.

"That makes no sense. There is no discount for being a single parent. If there is please point me to it," she says.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 18, 2021

Just in: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman "to reaffirm the strategic defense partnership" between Washington and Riyadh. Austin condemned Houthi cross-border attacks and committed to assist Saudi "in the defense of its borders."

— Jared Szuba (@JM_Szuba) February 18, 2021

Cool cool cool

Can’t wait for our next invasion this time next year.

folks,,, they gotta win the midterms. and this is how!!!!1

porter has a point IMO, but not if you view the covid relief bill as a stimulus bill rather than relief (which i'm 90% certain i've heard people do on this thread, possibly including you milo).

The government needs to stop legally recognizing marriages but I’d settle for the government not giving extra free money to parents who happen to be in blissful wedlock

Just give the kids money directly so they can buy Switches

xps- i'm not sure i understand the biden ICE thing. he ordered to stop all deportations for 100 days and then a trump-appointed judge blocked it, now this memo instructs ICE not to deport anyone unless they meet public or border safety, which sounds like a return to the obama policy... but maybe that's just something that a judge can't immediately shoot down? or is there something else in between stopping all deportations and this that wouldn't get shut down in the courts? the immigration bill unveiled today has an 8-year path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants with green card in 5 years but basically nothing on border enforcement

I have not described the child tax credit as a stimulus. The direct payments are, but I wouldn’t say most of the other billy and a half in the relief bill is a stimulus, really.

Porter has a very simple solution to the tax credit issue anyway - for that one portion, erase the means testing distinction between single and married.

Which also works if you want to call a tax credit most people are going to deal with in February 2022 a stimulus, giving more single parents money to go into the economy, etc..

seems utterly insane to me that the dems don’t use romney’s family security act, it’s better policy than anything those dipshits have come up with and you can claim bipartisanship. but what do I know