And then we never heard from them again? The Dems were like, "oh no, blame that damn Parliamentarian who you've definitely heard of before, and who has a totally legit position that overpowers everyone, especially Harris and Biden." That was great.
The parliamentarian is also someone who the Senate can unilaterally fire.
Republicans did it when the parliamentarian got in their way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/08/key-senate-official-loses-job-in-dispute-with-gop/e2310021-0f14-4667-a261-54e6c033207c/
Dove angered Republicans, especially Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), with at least two recent rulings that effectively made it harder for the GOP to push President Bush's budget and tax cut proposals through the evenly divided body.
And people will just keep falling for this shit because :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah I remember discovering that too. The Senate Majority leader can just dismiss them, no vote or anything required
Wonder who the Senate Majority leader is if the Senate is majority Dem...
:who-did-this:
Schumer was there when they did it. He watched them do it.
Democratic voters are gullible morons
They don't need to fire the parliamentarian, since their OPINION is non-binding.
guessing the same reason it exists today, to eliminate things that are popular so that elected officials dont have to take that popularity hit
Congressional shit is uselessly byzantine and complicated so rather than the rotating cast of goons being counted on to know all the rules they just have a designated guy or gal who does all that stuff for them.
Its, really interesting from a historical perspective how much social malpractice has to build up in this system before it starts to implode.
I thought it was Sinema who killed that one, not the parliamentarian.
Sinema did her so-quirky thumbs down and McConnell backslapping in regards to an amendment Bernie had proposed to the reconciliation bill that basically said "fuck the parliamentarian, raise the minimum wage anyways".
Even better, do you recall how the Senate passed Permanent Day Light Savings?
In a totally allowed for procedure, the Chair let Marco Rubio ask for consent to pass the resolution via unanimous consent, and no one was really coordinated enough to notice that no one was designated to vote it down. So it passed the Senate. Why can't we just try wacky shit like that?
Wacky gimmicks only work on wacky gimmick issues like DST. Capital doesn’t really care one way or the other on that issue
I support increasing the congressional wackiness levels by some 60-70%. Zaniness, even
Wait did that actually pass? Or just pass the senate and die somewhere else?
It passed the Senate, but got shut down by the house, if i recall correctly.
Damn that was literally what Joe campaigned on. That was his entire presidential agenda and they just killed it, those bastards
The parliamentarian only matters when doing budget reconciliation bills. Which does not happen that often. And can happen at most once per year.
The neoliberalism gnome coming once every year, taking away your wage increases and replacing them with austerity measures and means tests, be sure to leave out some crude oil and gold for him before you go to sleep
hahahaha "neoliberalism gnome." Please turn that into a comic strip character!
Would it be possible to rule lawyer your self into non existence? I guess we about to find out :centrist:
The parliamentarian was just a stenographer that started doing clerk shit in the 20s and they made his position official in the 30s. He retired in the 60s. And that's why we can't have a higher minimum wage.
When the senate jaberwocky emerges and sees its own shadow it means 8 more weeks of Dem powerlessness.
