Tag: Senate filibuster
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Those Who Cast the Votes Determine Nothing…
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jan. 14, 2022) — Last Thursday, the Goof went back to the Capitol after learning that the Supreme Court had slapped down his “work-around” edict to OSHA. Speaking of getting slapped around, he emerged – agitated as a wet alley cat – from a Senate Democrats’ caucus luncheon meeting after learning…
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Of Hypocrisy, Demagogues and the Goofball
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jan. 13, 2022) — The distilled hypocrisy and intellectual vacuity of the Goofball at 1600 was in full, flowery display on Jan. 6, 2022. The numbing vacuum of the marionette’s Statuary Hall speech was surpassed only by his anti-filibuster rant five days later in Atlanta. There, he delivered remarks – not…
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Senators Manchin and Sinema and the Cannibals of the Left
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Apr. 11, 2021) – As noted here, Senators Joe Manchin (D.W.VA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D. AZ) continue to weather Al Sharpon’s slander against them for standing firm against the elimination of the Senate filibuster. These two politicians seem to understand perfectly the 1887 admonition of Lord Acton: “Power corrupts. Absolute power…
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Remember What Stalin Said
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Apr. 4, 2021) — Let us cut to the chase: the goal of the Democrats under either and/or both H.R. 1 and S. 1 – both woefully, but intentionally mislabeled by their Democrat creators as the “For the People Act of 2021” –, is not expanded voting opportunities for “people” or…
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The Clyburn Confession
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 This issue was addressed recently by your humble servant, but in the context of race-baiter Al Sharpton’s threat against both Senator Manchin as well as Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D. AZ.) to either “straighten-up-and-goose-step-right” or face being slandered as “supporting racism.” The rest of this post may make more sense if readers…
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A Call to All Paul Reveres Far and Wide
by Jayne Friedman, ©2021 (Mar. 29, 2021) — “One if by land and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and farm,For the country folk to be up and to arm.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In 1775, Paul Revere rode a horse…
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The Sharpton “Racist” Slander
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Mar. 28, 2021) — Well, well, well…, whatta ya know? The Senate filibuster is now labeled by Democrats as a relic of the scurrilous “Jim Crow” era of the nation’s past. Because of that, Democrats have declared that it must be killed. Not only must it be killed, Senators who don’t…