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The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned...

Let's see if Biden has the cajones to bypass congress and kill the debt ceiling

Slim margins of legislative victory bring compromise and gridlock which the leadershiop[sic] don't really oppose.

It isn’t incompetence that keeps the democrats from fully realizing their political power. The terrible truth is that they prefer horse trading over the issues of importance to their donor class than they do meeting the needs of the people...

They are always on the side of their donor class and that is why the national leadership aren’t very concerned when republicans control state capitals. They will actually take a dive and then use their own corruption as a fundraising tool, pointing fingers at the republicans they have declared villains while secretly hoping they have to share power with them...

Warnock should have been further ahead but close races are guaranteed when there is no minimum wage increase while inflation runs rampant...

Why are margins so close in the House and the Senate when the people prefer what democrats claim to offer? The democrats are the ultimate cynics. They know what the people want and campaign accordingly, but once in office use the senate parliamentarian, arcane rules, or the bad cops among them to say that their hands are tied.

Just another day...

Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor for carrying out the policies of Liz Truss.

The Brits are the true pioneers

The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.

Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains...

Let's cut to the chase

In the raid's aftermath, the criminal case against U.S. Private Vaults sputtered to an end with nobody sent to prison.

The company went out of business. It was sentenced to pay a $1.1-million fine for laundering drug money, but prosecutors conceded it lacked the means to pay it.

Under a plea deal [*sigh*], the U.S. attorney's office agreed not to prosecute the company’s owners, despite a Justice Department policy under Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland [who?] to hold individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing -- and despite Zellhart telling Kim it was "owned and managed by criminals."

No, really, the chase has an ending, minus the part where perjury charges are filed...

Prosecutors falsely accused the man of fraud, racketeering, conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering. FBI agent Madison MacDonald — who co-authored the raid plan — filed a sworn statement saying the allegations were true.... On March 9, nearly a year after the FBI seized the man's [documents] cash and gold, Scarsi ordered the government to give it back.

Gee, I hope we don't see a repeat.. I mean, the FBI? Lying? Can't believe it, not the FBI.

The following is a preemptive shhh!:

Please note that the ball starting rolling in 2015. I forget who was president then, but let's just agree that it doesn't make a bit of difference

Press blames republicans.. again

Ah well, who cares... it's not going to affect reelection rates, and it might not have been a very good bill anyway. "Dark money" is bipartisan

EDIT:

Heard Biden say on the radio today:

"Just give me two more democratic senators in the United States senate, and I promise ya, I promise ya, we'll codify..."

Uh huh... that will require killing the filibuster.. the Party will find two more to balk, like they did when they had a nine point advantage in 2009

The migrants to Martha's Vineyard were launched from a military base in San Antonio:

Q: And I'll ask you another one quickly, if you don't mind, about, there are some report of tracking -- flight-tracking software of some of these flights that the government of Florida operated taking migrants from the San Antonio area to Martha's Vineyard. There are some fight -- flight-tracking sites that showed that the planes originally took off from Kelly Field at Joint Base Lackland, and I'm wondering if the Pentagon is investigating whether Kelly Field was used to fly migrants, and if there is anything that's being done to look into future uses of Kelly Field or other Defense Department installations in some of these state actions in immigration.

GEN. RYDER: I don't have any information to provide on Kelly Field. I am aware of the migrants that have been brought to Massachusetts, as you highlight...

Uh huh...

So... what did the president know, and when did he know it?

They actually found somebody that's worse??

EDIT:

Didja hear the news? There's gonna be a "Special Master". This oughta bate (ack DB) a few people... Oh well, the dems should be asking themselves how they screwed up so badly to lose that one...

EDIT 02:

Finally! a bone for the democrats...

New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This decision marks the first time since 1869 that a court has disqualified a public official under Section 3, and the first time that any court has ruled the events of January 6, 2021 an insurrection.

See? A simple ruling makes all the difference.. go nuts

"Burn the tapes!"

And the democrats' blame game continues:

Republicans block bill to shield people who travel out of state for abortions... Senate Democrats needed the support of at least 10 Republicans to stop a GOP filibuster of the bill

This is a lie. The democrats are supposed to use their majority status to kill the filibuster.

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators...

Just a little reminder of who is responsible for protecting your voting rights (and of who is failing to do so). Feel free to resume your regular blame game

Reference for those who need one

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Here's a happy one for you...