Well…with the repubs doing their best to telegraph the chaos they are planning when they take over the house in a month, Nancy Pelosi has a parting gift for them since they are planning to hold the country hostage with the cost being cutting SS and Medicare…Nancy and her counterparts in the senate are working on a deal to fund the government for a year so so they will only have a year to screw things up until the 2024 election…now this is something I’ve advocated for in the lame duck session of congress, get everything done you want and that the country needs before the bomb throwers take over and wreck the place…and they’ve started out well with codifying same sex and interracial marriage and I really do hope they get the protection of democracy done by passing a new voting rights act and federal abortion rights…but there really is no time since in the 30 days they have left, they are only going to be in session for half that….so get after it dems before the darkness falls…geez…
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No trump today…
Well….was going to write something about the looming government shutdown but since that has the idiot trump in it I just can’t do it….don’t want to even think about the idiot in chief so I won’t….Oh, I did want to talk about the good news here in Michigan that some repubs finally realized that their lame duck session shenanigans are not a good idea and have stopped them…but only after some damage was done…to them in the next election I hope. While they destroyed the citizen sponsored rise in the minimum wage, the rest of their power grab was stopped this week when the senate approved stripping of campaign finance oversight from the newly elected dem was stopped in the house…and guess why that was proposed in the first place? Yep, typical repub crap….the senator Dave Robertson has been under ethics investigations for years due to campaign finance violations and criminal embezzlement by his former campaign manager…and stripping this oversight from the secretary of state would essentially stop the investigations into Robertson….is there anything more repub than that? At least one repub here has had enough, and I applaud rep Aaron Miller for putting a stop to this un democratic bullshit….