Had anyone ever fucking heard of this position before Brandon took office?
I remember it as a tiny tiny tiny footnote in civics class lmfao
the dems uncovered a low risk low reward tuning knob on their cruelty machine. turn the knob it a little bit for some
:vote: inspiration
The consultant that came up with the idea to present the parliamentarian as some unstoppable arbiter of what congress can and can't do must have gotten a serious promotion.
The Democrats absolutely love trotting this person out every time they get the chance to possibly do something good, they just do it all the time now. It gives people time to cool down on Manchin and Sinema, the more rotating villains the better.
no but I hadn't heard of reconciliation either. Because Obama didn't even try to pass things after Dems lost the 60 seat majority
I did parliamentary procedure club competitions in high school and I'd never heard of the senate having a parliamentarian before Brandon needed another excuse to pass zero popular pieces of legislation
the bush tax cuts involved firing one of these wastes of life, so yes, but I don't think it's ever come up so frequently
What unfathomably evil people. Part of me believes that this person/post never existed until 2016
Not true, actually the Parliamentarian was fired by GW Bush in 2001, because he wouldn't approve Bush's shitty tax cuts for rich people, and hired a new one that would do what they wanted. (Which shows you that "but the Parliamentarian!!" is not a real excuse, lol)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/08/key-senate-official-loses-job-in-dispute-with-gop/e2310021-0f14-4667-a261-54e6c033207c/
Republicans always show that they can govern better than the Democrats
Some of you may die, but that's a small price to pay for legislative norms.
To be clear even if this passed it only counts for insured diabetics. And if you didn't meet your deductible the difference in cost falls to the diabetic at the end of the year. It was basically a bill to protect pharma profits and let the dems pretend they did something.
Poor people in the US didn't have health insurance and the Democrats' solution was to force them to buy health insurance.
if you're poor enough it's free but fuck you go die if you're between these arbitrary lines.
i hate it here
Didn't the ACA prevent insurance companies for charging more or refusing coverage for preexisting conditions? Not to defend that trash that should've been single payer from the jump, but I do remember that being a decent improvement over the previous status quo
They kinda are. I mean, this shit has all the individual components of a joke:
- They did it just to fuck with you
- It was designed to catch you off guard (and say "oops! i guess rules are rules!" then move on)
- They take none of it seriously
- They clearly find it funny
- They're nervously monitoring your reaction to make sure you approve
...yet it's 100% serious
A Senate office that is literally just a Rules Nerd there to tell senators exactly how many norms and how much civility their legislative actions will breach but is literally an advisory position that can be straight up ignored and also literally outright replaced at the discretion of the majority party but the Democrats just pretend that isn't the case and throw up their hands saying "rules nerd says we can't govern sowwy" and somehow liberals don't figure out the trick and demand their politicians' blood
Edit: also she's paid over $150,000 per year
lord that salary isnt even like, that high. Like, its a lot but its like upper level engineer shit. You just think these people with all this power would getting more than that.
the real money comes after the public sector job, where you are rewarded with sinecures after you've shown you'll play ball
That's the thing they don't have any power at all, they're like an assistant manager in retail basically. Their true function is to be a scapegoat/punching bag between the people with actual power and the public/workers.
George Bush literally fired the parliamentarian when it disagreed with him
Hey, Bolton, you might want to replace "fail" with "chose not to" in your headline
Sorry Jack the rules based order says you've gotta die a painful death by ketoacidosis :biden-troll:
Could replace the parliamentarian, could change senate rules with a simple majority, or they could even just ignore/threaten the parliamentarian.
None of these things will happen because they don't actually care about these policies.
Sanders still going to rubber stamp this bill and act like it's doing something
