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”
You can do that???
Theoretically, the Senate could overrule MacDonough or even fire her, though she is a respected nonpartisan figure who has worked under both Republican and Democratic majorities dating back to 2012. Ultimately, the same real-world arbiters of deficits and debt that may disregard “current policy” scoring would look very dimly on an open GOP revolt against the budget rules and their referee.
So, yes, MacDonough’s decision is likely to be fateful. At stake is nothing less than Donald Trump’s whole legislative agenda.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/senate-parliamentarian-could-derail-trumps-entire-agenda.html 9 hours ago
how do these people wake up everyday and keep on thinking ‘yep I certainly have the intelligence and gumption to be speaking truth to power journalist’? lmao
Also - the GOP already fired the parliamentarian at least once. They did so during the Dubya administration.
MacDonough’s decision is likely to be fateful.
There’s a much higher likelihood that Santa Claus and his flying reindeers are real.
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Holy mother of fuck. If the writer was a recent college grad nepobaby - I might overlook some of the stupidity. I, myself, was an idiot in my 20s. But the writer dipshit has been writing for pollitics for at least a decade.
By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
I googled him. He’s gotta be at least ~60. Good grief.
If I was a political columnist and I was structurally held back from pointing out the obvious reality of how a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie worked for decades, I too would end up thinking the Parliamentarian mattered.
You can do that???
They’ve done it before
twas a joke
gotcha, carry on
folks how do I automate
posting on every news post im getting tired of typing :pika and clicking on the image every single time 😭NOT THE SENATE PASTAFARIAN!
Oh shit…
Parliamentarian, that’s that show on Disney+ with the helmet guy right?
No that’s the guy in The Matrix sequels
YOU CAN DO THAT???
fuck the parliamentarian coming straight from the underground
Cool. So now that republicans (as always) set a precedent to get what they want. You dems have no excuses right?
Come to think of it, how come democrats never gerrymander? How about the restrict voting in rural white communities just for a start? At least then they’d benefit from job security.
Republicans already set this precedent decades ago. Democrats retconned the power of the parliamentarian.
An april fools joke would be the republicans actually following the “rule of law” and the dems being the ones ignoring it.
😠
What do you mean they dont care about norms??
“Next time around, there’s no going back now”
Republicans have repeatedly overruled or fired the parliamentarian for years and years. Democrats later tried to pretend they were an absolute roadblock for campaign promises.
They will “go back” immediately.
Lmao. Remember when they couldn’t raise the minimum wage because the Parliamentarian said so?
We really wanted to, honest! But the got danged parliamentarianarino said “no” and we can’t 😥Donation money please!
During the Bush admin, conservatives LITERALLY FIRED the Parliamentarian
In 2001, he determined that Senate rules allow only one budget bill per year related to revenue to be immune from filibuster, a process known as reconciliation…Later that year, Dove ruled to remove a Republican provision to allocate over $5 billion in the 2002 budget for natural disasters. Following Republican anger about these rulings, he was dismissed by Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott
This fake ass advisor position serves at the discretion of the Senate Majority leader and always has
These FUCKING LOSERS don’t even know their own rules or they presume we cannot remember more than a couple terms back
Or this is some pathetic attempt at face saving (“we didn’t fire the Parliamentarian when we were in charge because noooorms sweaty”)
They would have fired the parliamentarian if she had blocked them from things they wanted to do, like increase police funding or weapons to Israel
“If we fired the parliamentarian, our jobs report would be negative.”
