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[NOT an April Fools] The republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy. [More inside] (www.commondreams.org)

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Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They found a way around the rules of the Senate.

As far as the constitution is concerned, the only rule in the Senate is that the Senate makes the rules. If you hold a majority and the "rules" prevent you from doing something, you can literally just change the rules.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago

The fact that many sitting democrats seem to not understand this is infuriating. I know they’re paid not to understand it, but I do think some of them genuinely do not understand that.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

We seem to have reached some stage of political development where most elected officials are not Machiavellian plotters, but rather, they're true believers. We see the same thing happening with Republicans as they cut government institutions that US power and market stability relies on, simply because they're deep state and woke.