I don't think I have ever seen a leader fuck himself worse then Kevin McCarthy did last night with his stupid and ignorant 8 hour incoherent rant. If he had shut the fuck up last night the BBB would have passed in the dead of night when no one including the press was watching.

But instead he ran his Trump sucking mouth all night and Americans woke up to Speaker Nancy Pelosi bragging about what is all in the bill to help average Americans while they were having their morning coffee. And then after the BBB passed the Democrats held a press conference to again explain what is all in the bill. And the networks had no choice but to cover them.They were on TV all morning. And they really do have something to brag about.

And for a plus Speaker Pelosi also put on a master class on how to kick the living fuck out of the shit stirring trouble making press. Of course many of them wanted to ask about everything else besides what's actually in the bill to try and steal the Democrat's thunder. And those who tried ended up with Pelosi's high heel kicked up their asses. That actually added to the entertainment value because she was not about to let them change the subject. Smacked them down and went back to what is truly a monumental and transformative bill. It was great TV.

 

Oh, yes, despicables have much to brag about with the passage of these two pig bills. Probably the biggest thing is that they managed to pass two bills of almost pure pork in record time, and in the process give themselves a healthy tax cut. A tax cut the rest of us will be paying for.
What's in those bills?

1. Perpetuates labor shortage: Continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents at a time where there are 10.1 million job openings—more openings than there are people looking for work.
2. Commissions a climate police: Democrats stuffed $8 billion into the bill to commission a cabal of federally funded climate police called the Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) who will conduct progressive activism on taxpayers’ dime (pages 8, 21, and 926).
3. Pushes Green New Deal in our public schools: Requires funding for school construction be used largely on enrollment diversity and Green New Deal agenda items (page 55).
4. Pushes Green New Deal in our universities: Democrats include a $10 billion “environmental justice” higher education slush fund to indoctrinate college students and advance Green New Deal policies (page 1,935).
5. Forces faith-based child care providers out: The bill blocks the ability of many faith-based providers from participating in the childcare system and will lead to many of their closures (page 280).
6. Hurts small and in-home daycares: Requires pre-K staff to have a college degree. (page 303)
7. Includes new incentives for illegal immigration: Illegal immigrants will be eligible to take advantage of Democrats’ new ‘free’ college entitlement (page 92) as well be eligible for additional student aid (page 147) and the enhanced child tax credit (page 1,946).
8. Includes legislative hull for Biden’s vaccine mandate: Increases OSHA penalties on businesses that fail to implement the mandate up to $700,000 per violation and includes $2.6 billion in funding for the Department of Labor to increase enforcement of these penalties (page 168).
9. Gives unions near-total control: The bill includes insane prohibitions that would bind employers’ hands in union disputes and dangerously tilt the balance of power, subjecting employers to penalties that exempt union bosses and officials… among other things this bill would prevent employers from permanently replacing striking workers (page 175). It coerces businesses to meet union boss demands by increasing Fair Labor Standards Act penalties by an astronomical 900% (page 168).
10. Makes unions bigger and more powerful: The bill would subsidize union dues that would only serve to strengthen the influence of union bosses and not American workers (page 2323).
11. Pushes Democrats’ wasteful and confusing school lunch agenda: $643 million for, among other things, “procuring…culturally appropriate foods” (page 333).
12. Furthers radical abortion agenda: Does not include the Hyde amendment and would mandate taxpayers pay for abortions (page 198) & (page 336).
13. Drives up costs on Americans’ utility bills: Issues a punitive methane tax (page 367) and includes a tax on natural gas up to $1,500 per ton that could cost the American economy up to $9.1 billion and cost 90,000 Americans their jobs (page 368).
14. Includes dangerous & deadly green energy mandate: Effectively forces Americans to get 40% of their energy from wind, solar and other unreliable forms of energy within 8 years (page 392). Reliance on these energy sources has proven deadly.
15. Includes kickbacks for the Left’s green energy special interest network: $5 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” (page 377) and another $100 billion in green energy special interest subsidies, loans and other carve outs.
16. Gives wealthy Americans tax credits: $222 billion in “green energy” tax credits will be given to those who can afford expensive electric vehicles and other “green” innovative products (page 1832).
17. Furthers Democrats’ social justice agenda: Includes “equity” initiatives throughout the bill and, in one instance, Democrats inserted “equity” language into a title which should have been focusing on the maintenance of the United States’ cyber security efforts (page 897).
18. Grants amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants: House Democrats have included in their reconciliation bill a plan to grant amnesty to around 8 million illegal immigrants at a cost of around $100 billion over ten years that would largely be spent on welfare and other entitlements (page 901). Trillions more would be spent long term on their Social Security and Medicare.
19. Opens border even wider: The bill would waive many grounds for immigration inadmissibility, including infection or lack of vaccination status during a Pandemic, failure to attend removal proceedings in previous immigration cases, and the previous renouncement of American citizenship. DHS may also waive previous convictions for human trafficking, narcotics violations, and illegal voting (page 903).
20. Increases visa limit: At least 226,000 family-preference visas would be administered each year (page 905).
21. Grants fast-tracked green cards for those seeking middle-class careers in America: Language included in the bill exempts certain aliens from the annual green card statutory limits and has been described as a “hidden pipeline for U.S. employers to flood more cheap foreign graduates into millions of middle-class careers needed by American graduates” (page 910).
22. Includes pork for Nancy Pelosi: $200 million is earmarked for the Presidio Trust in Speaker Pelosi’s congressional district (page 933).
23. Increases energy dependence on OPEC, Russia and China: The bill prohibits several mineral and energy withdrawals (page 979). It overturns provisions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that authorized energy production in the Arctic that will result in 130,000 Americans losing their jobs and $440 billion in lost federal revenue (page 983) and the mineral withdrawals it prohibits would, ironically, include minerals necessary for renewable energy sources (pages 934, 940, 943).
24. Exacerbates the chip shortage: The bill would mandate the conversion of the entire federal vehicle fleet from internal combustion engines to electric engines at a time when there is a global microchip shortage and crippled supply chains (page 1,043).
25. Democrats’ feckless China bill is included: Concepts from the insanely weak Endless Frontier Act included, including $11 billion in research funding that will likely result in American intellectual property going to China (page 1079 – 1081).
26. Chases green energy pipe dreams: $264 million to the EPA to conduct research with left-wing environmental justice groups on how to transition away from fossil fuels (page 1063).
27. Fixes “racist” roads and bridges: Adds a nearly $4 billion slush fund that would help left-wing grassroots organizations that, among other things, want to tear down and rebuild or otherwise alter infrastructure deemed “racist” (page 1183).
28. Punishes red states for failing to adopt Green New Deal provisions: Mandates “consequences” for conservative states that don’t meet the radical Left’s “green” climate standards while at the same time adding nearly $4 billion for “Community Climate Incentive Grants” for cooperating states (page 1179).
29. Includes new massive, bankrupting entitlement: The new paid leave entitlement would mandate workers get 12 weeks of paid leave and would cost $500 billion over ten years according to the CBO (page 1245). It would apply to those making up to half a million dollars a year (page 1254).
30. Advances a totalitarian and paternalistic view of the federal government: Includes grants for organizations to treat individuals suffering from “loneliness” and “social isolation.”
31. Further detaches individuals from employment and more reliant on government handouts: The bill spends $835 billion on welfare through manipulating the tax code [not including the expansions of Obamacare subsidies] (page 1943).
32. Tax benefits for the top 1%: The bill will possibly lift the SALT deduction cap meaning many of the top 1% wealthiest Americans would pay less in taxes.
33. Tax credit for wealthy donors who give to woke universities: The bill creates a new tax credit program that gives tax credits worth 40% of cash contribution that are made to university research programs (page 2094).
34. Expands worst parts of Obamacare: Obamacare’s job-killing employer mandate will become more severe by adjusting the definition of “affordable coverage” to mean coverage that costs no more than 8.5 percent of income rather than current law’s 9.5 percent of income (page 2041).
35. Increases taxes on Americans at every income level: $2 trillion in tax hikes will fall on those making under $400,000 per year, contrary to what the White House says. Individuals at all income levels will be affected (Ways and Means GOP).
36. Lowers wages for working families: The corporate tax rate will increase by 5.5%, meaning American companies will face one of the highest tax burdens in the world. According to analysis, two-thirds of this tax hike will fall on lower- and middle-income taxpayers (page 2110).
37. Penalizes marriage: The bill would permanently double the EITC’s marriage penalty on childless worker benefits (page 2036).
38. Imposes crushing taxes on small business: Guts the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act small business deductions that reduced pass-through entity taxes to keep them comparable to taxes imposed on corporations (page 2235) as well as hammer small businesses that file as individual tax earners with the 39.6% rate (page 2221) and Obamacare’s 3.8% tax on net investment income.
39. Crushes family businesses and farms: The bill would impose a 25% capital gains rate (page 2226) and makes alterations to the Death Tax including cutting the Death Tax exemption in half (page 2240).
40. Violates Americans’ financial privacy: $80 billion slush fund to hire an 87,000-IRS-agent army to carry out the Biden administration’s plan to review every account above a $600 balance or with more than $600 of transactions in a year. (page 2283).
41. Increases out of pocket costs for those who rely on prescription drugs: The bill repeals the Trump-era Rebate Rule which passes through rebates directly to consumers at the point of sale (page 2465).
42. Imports policies from countries with socialized medicine: The bill includes healthcare policies imported from systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom—all countries that have government-run healthcare systems (page 2349).

 

New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Support Build Back Better Act
September 21, 2021
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66 Percent of Americans - Including 61 Percent of Independents - Back Democrats’ Transformative Plan
From the Speaker’s Press Office:

An overwhelming majority of Americans, independents, and even four-in-ten Republicans back President Biden and House Democrats’ plan to cut taxes for the middle class, lower costs for working families, create more jobs, and sustain economic growth for years to come.

New polling from Navigator Research shows high support for the Build Back Better Act with support from:

• 66 percent of Americans
• 61 percent of Independents
• 39 percent of Republicans

Democrats believe we face an urgent choice between keeping an economy that serves the wealthiest and biggest corporations – or finally give middle class families a fair shot. It turns out the American people agree.

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92121

U.S. CBO
@USCBO
CBO estimates that the funding for tax enforcement activities provided by H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, would increase outlays by $80 billion and revenues by $207 billion, thus decreasing the deficit by $127 billion, through 2031.

Estimated Revenue Effects of Increased Funding for the Internal Revenue Service in H.R. 5376, the...
CBO estimates that the funding for tax enforcement activities provided by H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, would increase outlays by $80 billion and revenues by $207 billion, thus decreasing the...
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2:42 PM · Nov 18, 2021

 

Of course Americans support this pig bill; the despicables are offering "free shit the other guy pays for".
The reality though is that just about everyone- the rich excepted - will end up paying for this pork. Have you examined the provisions for the SALT limit increase? Nothing but a thinly veiled tax cut for Congress and their toadys and encourages despicables to continue jacking up state taxes.

Mark this spot. These bills will cost despicables the oval office and Congress.

 

This week: Congress poised to go into December overtime



Congress is driving deeper toward the holidays, as lawmakers struggle to make progress on a lengthy year-end to-do list.

Both the House and Senate were scheduled to leave Washington, D.C., for the year at the end of the week.

The House, instead, has formally added a week to its schedule, meaning the lower chamber will now start its break by Dec. 20, while senators are warning they could remain in session right up until Christmas.

Congress passed a short-term government funding bill last week, taking one item off its plate.

But it still faces a legislative slog that could eat up weeks of floor time, with negotiations continuing this week on a sweeping defense bill, President Biden’s social and climate spending plan and how to raise the debt ceiling.

Vaccine mandate

Senate Republicans are set to net a temporary win on Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger employers.

After failing to block funding for the mandate as part of last week’s government funding bill, Senate Republicans are poised to force a vote this week to nix the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s rule under the Congressional Review Act.

All 50 GOP senators have backed the resolution and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democratic senator to say that he’ll vote for it, giving the effort to roll back the mandate enough support to pass the Senate.

“I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses. … I have long said we should incentivize, not penalize, private employers whose responsibility it is to protect their employees from COVID-19,” Manchin said.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who told The Hill that he was talking to a handful of other Democratic senators, added in a statement that he hoped “more Democratic Senators and Representatives will follow Senator Manchin’s strong lead.”

But the effort is expected to run into a wall in the House, where Republicans aren’t able to force a vote.

NDAA

The House is expected to take up a final deal on a sweeping defense policy bill this week after hitting speed bumps in the Senate.

In a sign that House and Senate negotiators are close to a final agreement, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) put the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on the schedule this week for a vote.


Leadership on the House and Senate Armed Services committees have been informally negotiating a final agreement as the Senate has struggled to get its version of the defense bill across the finish line. The House passed its initial version of the NDAA in September and typically the two chambers form a formal conference to work out the differences.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) hasn’t formally announced that he’s pulling the Senate’s defense bill even as he pivots to other business.

But the Senate’s bill is stuck amid a standoff between Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and the House over his legislation, which would ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region, where administration officials have accused Beijing of carrying out genocide against Uyghur Muslims.

Rubio has been blocking votes on roughly two dozen amendments to the Senate’s defense bill unless he either gets a vote on his proposal as an amendment or the House agrees to take up the bill.

With no quick resolution in sight, senators instead expect the House to pass a deal worked out informally between Armed Services Committee leadership and send that bill to the Senate.

It would need at least 10 GOP senators to help it clear procedural hurdles and get to a final vote. Republicans initially blocked the Senate defense bill because of a disagreement over amendment votes.

Senate leadership is also discussing linking the debt ceiling to the defense bill, which is garnering pushback from House leadership and Senate Republicans. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that lawmakers have until Dec. 15 to raise the nation’s borrowing limit though outside groups have predicted it could be pushed into January.

Build Back Better bill

Senate Democrats are continuing negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better legislation as they try to get it through the upper chamber in a matter of weeks.

Schumer has vowed that he wants to pass the bill by Christmas. It’s an ambitious timeline, given a packed year-end agenda and lining divisions within the caucus, and both Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have been privately skeptical that they’ll be able to meet the self-imposed deadline.

In addition to negotiating with each other, Democrats are expected to keep meeting with the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, as she weighs in on whether pieces of the bill comply with rules that outline what can be included in the spending legislation because it's being passed under budget reconciliation.

Democrats are waiting to find out if MacDonough will sign off on their latest immigration plan, which would grant 6.5 million foreign nationals a temporary parole status that would give them five-year work and travel permits, while also ramping up meetings with her on health care provisions of the bill.

Nominations

The Senate will start the week with votes on Biden’s nominees, including an initial vote on Monday evening on Jessica Rosenworcel’s nomination to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

After Rosenworcel, they’ll turn to Deirdre Hamilton’s nomination to be a member of the National Mediation Board and Chris Magnus’s nomination to be commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/584442-this-week-congress-poised-to-go-into-december-overtime

 

Neither will I. You do not get to turn traitors against the United States of America, our Constitution and everything the country has ever stood for to stage a deadly insurrection, an attempted coup, and refuse the peaceful transfer of power after a free and fair election and have that forgiven or forgotten.

Once a traitor always a traitor and we need to never forget that.

Pelosi says she'll 'never forgive' Trump, lackeys over Jan. 6
By Caroline Vakil - 12/08/21 01:08 PM EST 1,713
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Wednesday she would “never forgive” former President Trump and his “lackeys” for the "trauma" that Capitol Hill staff experienced during the Jan. 6 riot.

A mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol that day as a joint session of the House and Senate considered the Electoral College vote, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers. The event led to Trump's second impeachment.

“I'll never forgive president — former president of the United States and his lackeys and his bullies that he sent to the Capitol for the trauma that he — that wasn't what was exerted on our staff."

"These are young, largely younger people who come with the idealism to work in the Capitol on either side of the aisle and whatever it is. And for us to sign up for this when we run for office, it's bad enough for our families to see the danger we're in,” Pelosi said during her news conference.

The riot and its fallout continues to shadow Congress, as a special panel formed by the House investigates what led to the storming.

Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff under Trump, on Tuesday indicated that he would not be appearing before a scheduled deposition in front of the Jan. 6 select committee.

Members of the panel have signaled they will move to hold Meadows in contempt.

“There is no legitimate legal basis for Mr. Meadows to refuse to cooperate with the Select Committee and answer questions about the documents he produced, the personal devices and accounts he used, the events he wrote about in his newly released book, and, among other things, his other public statements,” the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said in a letter to Meadows’s attorney on Tuesday.

“The Select Committee is left with no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which Mr. Meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution,” he added.


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/584917-pelosi-says-shell-never-forgive-trump-lackeys-over-jan-6

 

So, Nancy Antoinette and the power rangers continue their star chamber proceedings.
No surprise there.
Great photo ops, you see.
But, what, exactly, has come out of her star chamber proceeding?
Couple of contempt of Congress charges.
No surprise there, Lots of Americans have contempt for this despicable witch hunt congress that hops between pig bills and witch hunts.

Has the star chamber checked in with the FBI/DOJ, to see what they might have to say about January 6?
No?
Huh.

Gotta ask, Shooter just has to ask;
Has congress done any investigations of their princess and her sketchy dealings back in San Francisco involving Hunters Point?
No.
Anyone check to see, how much of the biden pig bills will end up building light rail in and around Hunters Point?
No.
Huh.

Stumbler must be ecstatic. More evidence America is just a "shithole country", eh?

 

Senate Democrats raise debt ceiling after filibuster deal
By Jordain Carney - 12/14/21 05:00 PM EST 1,458
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Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted to raise the debt ceiling, bypassing a GOP filibuster as part of a deal struck by congressional leaders.

Senators voted 50-49 along party lines to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion. Though GOP senators supported legislation last week setting up the simple majority vote, none voted for the bill to increase the debt ceiling.

“As I have said repeatedly, this is about paying debt accumulated by both parties, so I’m pleased we came together to facilitate a process that has made addressing the debt ceiling possible,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said ahead of the vote.

“Responsible governing has won on this exceedingly important issue. The American people can breathe easy and rest assured there will not be a default,” he added.

The House is expected to vote to raise the debt ceiling as soon as Tuesday. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has given lawmakers until Wednesday to increase the nation’s borrowing limit and keep the government solvent.

Democrats unveiled the legislation to increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion hours before Tuesday’s vote. Senators estimate it would set the next debt ceiling cliff for sometime in 2023, getting Congress past the midterms.

The agreement to set up a one-time exemption to the filibuster sparked pushback from GOP senators, who believe that Republicans should have stuck by their months-long demand that Democrats raise the debt ceiling on their own through budget reconciliation.

But GOP leadership argue that the deal was a win because it accomplishes many of their goals: Making Democrats raise the debt ceiling on their own to a specific number and a fast-track process that lets them pivot the focus back to the Build Back Better legislation, which they view as a more promising target.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) knocked Democrats on Tuesday, linking the vote to the spending legislation and high levels of inflation.

“Every Senate Democrat is going to vote on party lines to raise our nation’s debt limit by trillions of dollars. If they jam through another reckless taxing and spending spree, this massive debt increase will be just the beginning,” he said.

“More printing and borrowing to set up more reckless spending to cause more inflation to hurt working families even more,” McConnell added.

Tuesday’s vote largely brings to a close a rolling debt ceiling fight that has lasted for most of 2021.

Congress previously passed a short-term debt hike in early October, but it was an agonizing, down-to-the-wire affair with Republicans spending hours rounding up the 10 GOP votes needed to advance the debt ceiling bill.

McConnell vowed in a letter to Biden afterward that “I will not provide such assistance again if your all-Democrat government drifts into another avoidable crisis.”

But McConnell and Schumer started negotiating last month to try to find an off-ramp, keeping the talks closer to the vest with GOP senators, including McConnell allies, saying at the time that they were largely in the dark.


They initially floated tying the debt ceiling to a sweeping defense policy bill, but that sparked pushback from both House leadership and Senate Republicans.

Instead, they linked the legislation setting up the filibuster-exemption to preventing Medicare cuts in a bid to shore up GOP support.

The passage of the debt ceiling hike kicks the borrowing limit into 2023, potentially setting up a massive headache for Biden if Republicans win back the House or Senate. But Democratic senators said they settled on the debt ceiling increase amount as part of an agreement with Republicans.

Some Democrats are talking about trying to abolish the debt ceiling altogether, an idea that has been floated by lawmakers in both chambers but struggled to gain enough support to pass.

“This last round has made it clear that this is a tool of politicians, for politicians; it defies common sense,” Wyden said. “It needs to go.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/585807-senate-democrats-raise-debt-ceiling-after-filibuster-deal

 

Its gonna take deplorable control of Congress and the oval office, and a concerted push by Americans to get the debt under control.

 

This is about all they can do once Manchin betrayed everyone and lied to President Biden and other members of Congress. But I think he handed President Biden, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the winning strategy for the 2022 midterms. The solution to help American people and provide them with the things they want as well as save our democracy is to elect more Democrats.

Schumer Vows Vote on Build Back Better Bill Despite Manchin’s ‘No’

Despite a disappointing blow from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has promised to forge ahead with a vote on an updated version of the Build Back Better Act, President Joe Biden’s $2.2 trillion climate, tax, and spending plan.

On Sunday, Manchin announced in an interview that he wouldn’t support the policy plan in its current form after months of one-on-one negotiations with the president over the bill. Schumer and other top Democrats have been frustrated by Biden and Manchin’s inability to compromise and make the Christmas deadline that Schumer had attempted to impose.

Schumer plans to call a vote early in 2022 and expects senators to take “the opportunity to make their position known on the Senate floor, not just on television.”

Read it at New York Times


https://www.thedailybeast.com/despi...ans-to-bring-spending-plan-to-a-vote?ref=home

 

Let the demonizing begin...

 

The first House Speaker I started watching was Lyndon Johnson. He's the one that showed me you can be president if you want but the real power is in the Speaker of the House. If you want anything passed it has to get past them. In fact Johnson never gave up being speaker of the House. He was still trying to be Speaker 0f the House all the time he was president. He just did it from the Oval Office. And in all that time I have never seen a better House Speaker than Nancy Pelosi in every single aspect of the political game.


Pelosi has 'run circles' around Kevin McCarthy and his attempts to fight House Select Committee: CNN's Bakari Sellers

Matthew Chapman
January 03, 2022



Kevin McCarthy on Facebook


On CNN Monday, former South Carolina state representative and civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers broke down how House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) put himself in an unnecessarily bad position by boycotting the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots.

"We had reporting from Jamie Gangel a few minutes ago saying that there are Republicans on Capitol Hill who think that Kevin McCarthy's decision to pull all of the Republicans that he wanted to put on the committee, to pull them off entirely, that that was unwise," said anchor Jake Tapper. "He did that because Nancy Pelosi didn't want to put two of them on the committee. One of them, Jim Jordan, is probably going to be a witness. And anyway, there are a lot of Republicans who think that was really unwise because McCarthy has no visible hint into what's going on. He doesn't have any allies to push back or leak and keep him informed as to what's going on."


"As much as I talked about the messaging of the Democrats and Liz Cheney coming out of this committee, the fact is, there's no messaging that will have any credibility pushing back against them," said Sellers. "And a lot of times you know this better than I, Jake, you have minority reports developed from these committees. In this case you'll not have that."

"Again, it goes to the fact that we know that Nancy Pelosi versus Kevin McCarthy is not really a fair chess match, in terms of their leadership tactics," said Sellers. "She's run circles around him even on this. But the fact remains, this committee has to come out with something strong, sound messaging and preventing this from happening again, or else it's going to be drowned out by COVID, it's going to be drowned out by inflation, it's going to be drowned out by the problems of today."

Watch below:



https://www.rawstory.com/nancy-pelosi-kevin-mccarthy/



https://www.rawstory.com/nancy-pelosi-kevin-mccarthy/

 

And bidens the best president this "shithole country" ever had, eh stumbler?

 

Big Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Groups Fund Schumer’s Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally

Fine-tune Our “Senate,” the obscure outfit leading a coalition of 70 liberal advocacy groups backing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) anti-filibuster drive, is a left-wing “dark-mazuma pop-up,” according to a political non-profit finance expert.

Fix Our Senate may present itself as a standalone, grassroots activist group, but it’s genuinely a front for the SixteenThirty fund, itself part of a $1.7 billion left-wing ‘dark- mazuma pop-up’ imperium run by the shadowy consulting firm Arabella Advisors,

verbalized Capital Research Center (CRC) Senior Investigative Researcher Hayden “Ludwig.”

We call these fronts ‘pop-ups’ because they’re websites, which pop into esse, run attack campaigns, and vanish in an instant and virtually never reveal their connection to Arabella or its nonprofits,

Ludwig told The Epoch Times Jan. 4.

The CRC is a conservative non-partisan substratum that specializes in tracking trends among the most influential charities, non-profits.

https://political-viewer.com/2022-0...-fund-schumers-secretive-anti-filibuster-ally

 

So...if Schumer changes the rules as all hack fucks have done in the past...could it be more likely that a GOP majority in the Senate after the '22 election could actually get Crime Boss Biden impeached?

I doubt the GOP gets a 60 member Senate majority in '22....but one can still hold out hope.

Schumer tees up vote on rules change if voting rights legislation is blocked

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed the Senate will forge ahead on voting rights legislation and will vote on changing the rules of the upper chamber by Jan. 17 if the GOP once again blocks the bill.

"We must adapt. The Senate must evolve, like it has many times before," Schumer wrote in a Dear Colleague letter Monday morning. This message is his strongest to date suggesting that changes to the legislative filibuster are necessary.

"As former Senator Robert Byrd famously said, Senate Rules 'must be changed to reflect changed circumstances,' " he said. "Put more plainly by Senator Byrd, 'Congress is not obliged to be bound by the dead hand of the past.' "

Schumer is tying voting rights legislation to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob
In an effort to make good on their promise to take up voting rights legislation this month, Senate Democrats are linking the upcoming anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol with what they see as increasing threats to the right to vote enacted by various Republican state legislatures.

"Much like the violent insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly one year ago, Republican officials in states across the country have seized on the former president's 'Big Lie' about widespread voter fraud to enact anti-democratic legislation and seize control of typically non-partisan election administration functions," Schumer wrote in the letter.

Democrats say last year's insurrection was propelled by former President Donald Trump's false claims that the election was stolen from him and that election fraud was rampant, allegations that spurred Republican state legislatures to implement new voting restrictions.

Democrats' biggest push for voting rights fails with no Republicans on board
Democrats argue passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would, among other things, ensure that states have early voting, make Election Day a public holiday and secure the availability of mail-in voting, are necessary measures to combat the actions taken by some state legislatures.

The GOP is expected to once again reject the bills, arguing they're a form of federal overreach. In a 50-50 Senate, Democrats need 10 Republicans to join them to advance the legislation because of the 60-vote threshold required under Senate rules. But uniform Republican opposition has led voting rights advocates to urge Senate Democrats to abolish the filibuster, or carve out an exception for voting rights legislation.

 

Stefanik Torches Pelosi on Eve of January 6 Anniversary: Speaker ‘Bears Responsibility’ for Capitol Riot





Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asserted on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shared blame for the riot that occurred on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Stefanik, who serves as House GOP Conference chair, released a statement on the eve of the Capitol breach’s anniversary, thanking law enforcement for their work to control the riotous behavior but condemning Pelosi for ultimately being the one “responsible” for leaving the Capitol prone to attack.


The New York Republican called it “unacceptable” that despite Pelosi’s nine-person investigatory committee — comprising seven Democrats and two of the most outspoken Never Trump Republicans in Congress, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — persisting with its probe into the riot, “one year later the American people still do not have answers as to why the Capitol was left so vulnerable.”

“Rather than focusing on improving the security of the Capitol and adopting all the recommendations from the U.S. Capitol Police, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are instead using their illegitimate partisan sham of a committee to shred Constitutional precedent and punish their political opponents,” Stefanik said in reference to the committee targeting former President Donald Trump and dozens of his closest allies with subpoenas.


Stefanik led a call with reporters on Monday in which she and three others, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Jim Banks (R-IN), and Rodney Davis (R-IL), emphasized their stance that Pelosi’s January 6 committee is in fact a “cover-up” for Pelosi’s own transgressions.

They pointed to a letter Davis, the House Administration Committee ranking member, sent to Pelosi on Monday in which he accused the speaker of obstructing records related to security preparedness of the Capitol from the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the House General Counsel, all of whom, Davis said, report to Pelosi.


Stefanik on Wednesday also reiterated that the January 6 committee has essentially deemed Pelosi exempt from blame for the riot, despite Pelosi’s history of overseeing security-related actions of the Capitol like installing magnetometers, holding a briefing on security preparedness ahead of a September 18 rally, and limiting Capitol visitation because of coronavirus.

January 6 committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) went so far as to say as much in a CNN interview last July. “Well, if you look at the charge that we have in the resolution, it says the facts and circumstances around January 6. I don’t see the speaker being part and parcel to that,” Thompson had said.

Stefanik declared in her statement Wednesday, “The American people deserve to know that the ONLY office that is off limits to this investigation is the Speaker’s office.”


Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on December 15, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“The fact is that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as Speaker of the House for leaving the Capitol so vulnerable despite multiple warnings and requests, and now she is responsible for the cover-up of that fact,” Stefanik concluded.

Stefanik’s office confirmed to Breitbart News that the Republican congresswoman, who serves in the 21st District in the North Country region of New York, would be spending January 6 in her district holding a roundtable with local law enforcement members.


Similarly, Jordan’s office said Jordan, too, would be in his district in Ohio “meeting with local police and business owners who have been impacted by Joe Biden’s rising crime wave and failing economy.”

Meanwhile, Pelosi has arranged for several events in D.C. for the anniversary, including hearing testimonials about the riot and holding a prayer vigil, according to a letter she sent around to her Democrat colleagues.

 

A prayer vigil?
Nancy wants a prayer vigil?
She'll need to be very, very careful.
She could burst into flames.
Surprised she didn't before.

 

Pelosi says she's open to stock trading ban for Congress



Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday appeared to suggest she is open to a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, a shift from her previous stance that members and their families should be allowed to make such financial transactions.

Asked about the hotly contested issue during her weekly press conference, Pelosi said she trusts lawmakers but would be willing to back a ban if it had the support of her caucus.

“I have great confidence in the integrity of my members. They are remarkable. So when people talk about well, somebody might do this and somebody, I trust our members,” she said.

Later in her response, however, she added, “To give a blanket attitude of we can't do this and we can't do that because we can't be trusted, I just don't buy into that. But if members want to do that, I'm OK with that.”

Pelosi’s comments come as she faces pushback for previously objecting to a ban on stock trading in Congress, which has picked up steam on Capitol Hill and among the American public.

“We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that,” she said last month.

Two recent polls, however, have found that the majority of Americans are in favor of banning lawmakers from trading stocks, with one survey finding 76 percent support and another 67 percent.

In the Senate, a pair of Democrats and one Republican introduced competing bills that both have the same objective: to ban members of Congress from trading stocks while in office. The Democrat-sponsored bill would also bar lawmakers’ family members from making such transactions, while the GOP-led bill bans such practices for spouses of lawmakers as well.

Last year, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) reintroduced a bipartisan bill that would require lawmakers, their spouses and dependent children to transfer certain investments into a qualified blind trust while serving in office.

Under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, or STOCK Act, members of Congress are barred from using nonpublic information they receive as part of their job to turn a personal profit. They are also required to disclose any financial transactions within 45 days of them being issued. A number of members, however, have failed to abide by the rules when it comes to reporting trades, according to Business Insider.

Pelosi is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, with a large portion of her affluence coming from the real estate and venture capital fortune her husband, Paul Pelosi, has earned. Financial disclosure forms show that Paul Pelosi trades stocks, but the Speaker herself does not own any. Her office has emphasized that she is not involved in the financial transactions.

The push for stricter stock trading regulations came after news broke that Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) may have broken federal insider trading laws when he liquidated the majority of stock investments in February 2020, shortly after he had received classified briefings regarding the COVID-19. Authorities are investigating.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday said he was against banning members from owning or trading stocks, contending that congressional lawmakers should be afforded the same financial privileges as other Americans.

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Pelosi on Thursday also suggested that the Supreme Court should be held to the same standards when it comes to stock trading, telling reporters, “If we're saying everybody should be living by the same standard then let — so be it. That's OK with me. But I don't think that the court should be let off the hook.”

“So, I say when we go forward with anything, let's take the Supreme Court with us to have disclosure,” she added.

The Hill reached out to Pelosi’s office for more information regarding the Speaker’s stance on stock trading in Congress.



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/590665-pelosi-says-shes-open-to-stock-trading-ban-for-congress

 

Wait.
Nancy Antoinette "trusts" congress members??

Did the old battle axe burst into flames when she said that?