House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vows to "drain the swamp"

[pearl]

To me the most problematic for the future is that the House holds the purse strings. And the target of this House will be the attack on 'Entitlements', plus continued funding for Ukraine. And all that following the political revenge. Macarthy has given to the same ilk that was the downfall of both Ryan and Paul Boener.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I am just reading titles until the coffee kicks in:

Great news! So how does he propose to get rid of at least half of the Republican Congressmen, himself included?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I am just reading titles until the coffee kicks in:

Great news! So how does he propose to get rid of at least half of the Republican Congressmen, himself included?

Do you think the problem only resides on one side?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Do you think the problem only resides on one side?

I would say that it is far worse on one side than the other. I would like to see about 90% of them tossed.

And I mean 90% of the total number, which would obviously involve both sides.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I would say that it is far worse on one side than the other. I would like to see about 90% of them tossed.

And I mean 90% of the total number, which would obviously involve both sides.

I'm not sure it's worse, in terms of systems and processes.

To be clear, my politics sits more comfortably on the left, but the systemic issues appear bi-partisan in nature.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I'm not sure it's worse, in terms of systems and processes.

To be clear, my politics sits more comfortably on the left, but the systemic issues appear bi-partisan in nature.

I know that I am getting old. I miss the days of Bill Clinton. He was a pathological liar, but he could work with the opposition. His best years were when he as a Democratic President had a Republican Congress.

 

[Valjean]

To "drain the swamp" we'd have to get the money out of politics. According the the Princeton study we're already an oligarchy.

Big business and multinational corporations pour huge sums into covert campaign contributions, on lobbyists -- who now outnumber the politicians -- and politicians' pet projects. It's the corporations that decide what legislation they want, and ALEC that writes it. Congress just submits it for ruling.

I'd like to see 100% public funding for elections and ranked choice voting.
That would probably send SZ's 90% running for the hills, and might also reëstablish democracy by putting The People back in the driver's seat.

 

[Ponder This]

The irony.

Speaking of swamp creatures, a telling revelation of the J6 committee was the email exchange between former Counselor to the President Hope Hicks and former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump on January 6th from within the White House during the rioting.

The women were dismayed that Trump would not call off the insurrectionists, but not because the lives of Capitol police and congresspersons were jeopardized, and not because it was a coup attempt that almost toppled American democracy. They were furious about something else.

Here's an article, "Hope Hicks Vented That Trump Left His Team 'Unemployable' on Jan. 6: 'We Look Like Domestic Terrorists Now'"

Hope Hicks, a former White House aide under President Donald Trump, was among the staffers who complained that the Capitol riots may harm her career, recently revealed text messages show.

As a group of Trump supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, his own employees were frantically communicating with one another behind the scenes — openly questioning why the then-president wasn't denouncing the violence and wondering what the quickly unraveling scene might mean for their careers.

In a series of text exchanges between Hicks and Ivanka Trump's chief of staff, Julie Radford — which were made public by the committee investigating the Capitol riots — the former aide writes, "In one day [Trump] ended every future opportunity that doesn't include speaking engagements at the local Proud Boys chapter."

"And all of us that didn't have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I'm so mad and upset," Hicks added. "We all look like domestic terrorists now."

Hicks continued: "This made us all unemployable. Like untouchable. God I'm so f---ing mad."​

You think it was a "telling revelation" of the Jan 6 committee that Hicks thought public perception of the riot would hurt her career?

 

[Twilight Hue]

I am just reading titles until the coffee kicks in:

Great news! So how does he propose to get rid of at least half of the Republican Congressmen, himself included?

Until half of the Democrat congressmen has been rid of.

Then downsizing can proceed.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Until half of the Democrat congressmen has been rid of.

Then downsizing can proceed.

No, you have to go after the biggest part of the problem first. Right now that would be the Republicans. You have your order backwards. Perhaps you could try to apply some critical reasoning to your politics. You might be surprised.