What I'm getting at is that so many of these wonderful Democrat Party *ideas* are written into thousands of pages. Why? it takes months of non-stop reading even get through that many pages! These bills mean well, of course, but they are loaded with many other totally unnecessary and unrelated political "wishlist" items that get a free ride on the elegant intent of the basic thrust of the idea. These yummy items are hidden inside these hundreds and thousands of pages. Not fair! This practice also makes the GOP look bad in the headline-based news media we all inhabit (and which Dem Party likes.) "GOP appears to be rejecting the Dems grand idea!"when in fact many are objecting to the masses of little unrelated stuff within the huge bill. Stuff that ultimately costs all of us a lot of money, stuff that is complicated and specific to so many other unrelated issues and is also hard to manage. Inflation comes naturally when we need to print out more money than we have. It's all debt anyway so heavily tax, ultimately cost us more in interest.
I'm desperately afraid of the new GOP Taliban forming around so-called "ProLife" yet am worried sick that the Dems will do it again with Roe.
In this climactic moment they SHOULD be quickly passing a lot of short tight bills, 15 pages that even a few GOP's can branch over to. Start with something simple like "protect the rights of people to buy contraceptive medicine". Then add another short sweet bill like abortion illegal unless "death of the mother" (one tiny bill) or how going on the offensive with an idea to include men in the various punishments. Seek shared responsibility for the creation of an embryo, register all the DNA of people whose sperm fertilizes the act (privacy laws now mean nothing! Use it against them.)
But no. I am already seeing the 100% reliance on female outcry, petitions, protests, and donation requests (that donate to what exactly?)
Back to length of DP bills: Complicated bills are hard to monitor and afford. The most recent example was the Covid relief bill where something $163billion went unaccounted? That's what the Washington Post reported a month ago. No one is spending 3 months reading these vast treatises except people looking for loopholes and new ways to make a sneaky buck. What do you expect?
100%, Gunny. These bloated omnibus bills are horrendous. I cannot for the life of me understand why the Democrats do not push any number of small, simple, single issue bills that have widespread support. Let Medicare negotiate drug prices, make the age of 21 the minimum to buy a rifle, require universal background checks for gun purchases, allow abortion up to 15 weeks with an exception for the life of the mother past that, raise taxes on people making over a million dollars a year, etc, etc. They might be able to peel off enough Republican votes to actually get something done and, if not, have popular issues to run on against them in the next election.
So, the length of the legislation was the problem? That means she authored a shorter version and put that on the floor?
Why did she vote to confirm Judtices who were openly hostile to the Votibg Rights Act? It's almost like she only wants some people voting
What I'm getting at is that so many of these wonderful Democrat Party *ideas* are written into thousands of pages. Why? it takes months of non-stop reading even get through that many pages! These bills mean well, of course, but they are loaded with many other totally unnecessary and unrelated political "wishlist" items that get a free ride on the elegant intent of the basic thrust of the idea. These yummy items are hidden inside these hundreds and thousands of pages. Not fair! This practice also makes the GOP look bad in the headline-based news media we all inhabit (and which Dem Party likes.) "GOP appears to be rejecting the Dems grand idea!"when in fact many are objecting to the masses of little unrelated stuff within the huge bill. Stuff that ultimately costs all of us a lot of money, stuff that is complicated and specific to so many other unrelated issues and is also hard to manage. Inflation comes naturally when we need to print out more money than we have. It's all debt anyway so heavily tax, ultimately cost us more in interest.
I'm desperately afraid of the new GOP Taliban forming around so-called "ProLife" yet am worried sick that the Dems will do it again with Roe.
In this climactic moment they SHOULD be quickly passing a lot of short tight bills, 15 pages that even a few GOP's can branch over to. Start with something simple like "protect the rights of people to buy contraceptive medicine". Then add another short sweet bill like abortion illegal unless "death of the mother" (one tiny bill) or how going on the offensive with an idea to include men in the various punishments. Seek shared responsibility for the creation of an embryo, register all the DNA of people whose sperm fertilizes the act (privacy laws now mean nothing! Use it against them.)
But no. I am already seeing the 100% reliance on female outcry, petitions, protests, and donation requests (that donate to what exactly?)
Back to length of DP bills: Complicated bills are hard to monitor and afford. The most recent example was the Covid relief bill where something $163billion went unaccounted? That's what the Washington Post reported a month ago. No one is spending 3 months reading these vast treatises except people looking for loopholes and new ways to make a sneaky buck. What do you expect?
100%, Gunny. These bloated omnibus bills are horrendous. I cannot for the life of me understand why the Democrats do not push any number of small, simple, single issue bills that have widespread support. Let Medicare negotiate drug prices, make the age of 21 the minimum to buy a rifle, require universal background checks for gun purchases, allow abortion up to 15 weeks with an exception for the life of the mother past that, raise taxes on people making over a million dollars a year, etc, etc. They might be able to peel off enough Republican votes to actually get something done and, if not, have popular issues to run on against them in the next election.
So, she opposed massive spending bills and tax cuts by Trump?
Cheney is in the House. The House does not vote to confirm Justices.