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House GOP Sneaks Pay Raise for Themselves in Shutdown Bill
(www.meidastouch.com)
Fucking assholes
Assholes can actually pass shit unlike these guys.
This is my new favorite analogy.
can the democrats please stop playing by the fucking rules or acting like they're bound by the rules or by honor in any meaningful way? the other side doesn't give a shit, by not actually competing you're fucking losing and making things worse for everyone
The current goal of the right is the erosion of state power to cede control to a corpo-feudal model. It would be playing into their hands.
What they need to do is enforce the fucking rules. Literally just letting Reich wankers get away with anything because they're scared of retaliation or don't want to set a precedent of enforcing the law on the political class.
Edit: Ok so Jamal Bowman (D-NY) might have read your post.
When they don't play by the rules, they make it a game where nobody else should play by the rules.
“MAGA is not a government of, by, and for We the People: instead, it is a government of, by, and for the most wealthy individuals and powerful corporate interests in the nation, seizing power by pitting the people against each other, inflaming political, racial, and religious conflict for political gain.” - https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-biden-take-on-trump-and-the-maga-310
The main reason why is because the democratic base want their representatives to have the moral high ground, even if it means losing major bills in Congress. It's deeply frustrating because many of these people would rather Democrats "meet in the middle" and "negotiate". What has made the right, and to a larger extent the alt-right, so powerful is that they know this about Democrats.
So Republicans can say with a straight face "I'll put in just the tip" and then when push comes to shove, go in balls-deep and say, "mEeT Us iN ThE MiDdLe!"
Republicans have a base that doesn't care about decorum. Democrats do.
If we could just pass some form of term limits, we should see less of this.
Let's burn the world to the ground, we offer free marshmallows to anyone who join us.
Will there be punch and pie?
Let's make it a potluck bonfire.
I'll bring the chocolate bars and torches.
Oooh s’mores
I'll get the graham crackers then
If anyone is interested in the bill
Edit: i dont see anything on any adjustments to congressional compensation. Let me know if you see anything.
They omitted language blocking an automatic cost of living increase which was present in the Senate bill. This is explained in the article.
Uhhh.... is that how that works? I would imagine you cant do a bait and switch where you pass one bill and propose another when it gets to the senate.
The bill already passed through the house.
The Senate produced their own bill, which McCarthy did not bring to the floor for a vote. This bill from the house now goes to the Senate to die.
The senate had been working towards voting on (because a group of republican senators were delaying it) a bill that was almost identical to what just passed the house.
You could just read the article, it says so in it!
This issue was quickly raised by Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro, ranking member of the House Appropriations Democrats. In a text to House GOP lawmakers, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer denied the accusation, writing, “That is NOT TRUE.” He did not comment about the actual text of the bill, which says otherwise.
Of course they did. Shameless bastards. Every single one of them.
Isn't that against the 27th amendment to the consitution?
I was wondering the same thing. But it appears that cost of living adjustment is not considered a pay raise in the context of 27th amendment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Conservatives can't count that high.
I'm not fully sure how this should be set up but they shouldnt be able to vote on their own pay.
I'd love to be able to vote on my own pay. When do we all get that privilege?
I was dumb and didn't proof read and had should instead of shouldnt
Unfortunately the tally was 1 for and ~300 million against.
Optics anyone?
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