TLDR: Mike Johnson hates proxy voting in congress. Some republican wanted to allow new parents to be able to use proxy voting. One of them is trying to force a vote on it

Mike Johnson tried changing the rules to not allow that, but 9 republicans joined dems to block his attempt. He’s pissed about it and canceling tons of votes because of it

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    51 minutes ago

    As ashamed as Democrats should be of their performance and platform last election,

    Yeah. It’s the Dems’ fault. They should have run a senile old fat white serial rapist felon with a written plan to destroy the country; then they would have had a 50-50 chance, right? Foolish Dems!

    So I don’t need to read the rest of your piece. And I’m sorry you wrote all that, but we don’t stay for the tenor if he can’t even clear his throat.

    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
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      You think they did a good job of building a platform and communicating a message? Energizing their base? Pushing back against the GOP’s instanity rather than normalizing it? They didn’t even have a competitive candidate until the 11th hour for fucks sake.

      I actually liked Kamala. And I thought Joe did a good job of appointing and trusting competent people in general during his tenure and letting things normalize. But really, they ran a piss poor election and shouldn’t have let Biden ever claim candidacy for re-election.