I would very much like to get to a point where men are forced to take birth control and only uterus and ovary having women get a say in matters of reproduction.
Then work to flip a few Senate seats so he won't matter as much. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania can flip. Also work on keeping Senators Kelly and Warnock, who will be running again in 2022, since both were the winners of special elections.
Now respecting how government works doesn't always mean liking how things turn out, but understanding that institutions and their machinery are as they are largely for a purpose, and busting them just to achieve this end or that is a bad idea.
What about machinery that's purpose is to stifle democracy and progress? Nobody has proposed busting the filibuster on a whim. This isn't a petulant tantrum to get a pony. Even if the filibuster was a legitimately useful piece of machinery at one time, the Republicans have abused it so badly that it is now broken and needs to go.
Manchin is Catholic, presumably devout, and not much of a Democrat. In the era of the Roberts Republican Court, betting his own political future on a calculated, Beltway-pleasing charade of "bipartisanship," it's no surprise that he does not respect the concept of a bright line between Church and state. He's no Ted Kennedy.
It's the only option. Manchin and Sinema are betting that they'll do better with Mitch in charge than they are with Chuck in charge. We are running out of time and options.
He chairs Energy and Natural Resources (while sitting on a throne made of West Virginia coal, fer fuck's sake). He sits on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Veterans Affairs.
McConnell was in the minority for decades. Aside from SC picks (which we're past now) he was able to do just as much damage from a minority position.
RE freedom riders, just because you don't have the imagination to envision a scenario worse than 1959 Jim Crow doesn't mean such a scenario doesn't exist.
Really? Do you think the American Rescue Plan Act would have passed if McConnell was Majority Leader? Would there be work on an infrastructure bill? Would Biden even have a cabinet, let alone all the judges? Having Schumer instead of McConnell has already paid dividends.
You'll also need something more convincing than "something bad could happen" for a negative consequence to the Freedom Riders failing.
More than 20 million veterans get health care from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A significant and growing segment of those veterans are people with female reproductive organs who are still of child-bearing age. Hyde Amendment shivs them, too.
Stabbiness increases...
I would very much like to get to a point where men are forced to take birth control and only uterus and ovary having women get a say in matters of reproduction.
Then work to flip a few Senate seats so he won't matter as much. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania can flip. Also work on keeping Senators Kelly and Warnock, who will be running again in 2022, since both were the winners of special elections.
Now respecting how government works doesn't always mean liking how things turn out, but understanding that institutions and their machinery are as they are largely for a purpose, and busting them just to achieve this end or that is a bad idea.
What about machinery that's purpose is to stifle democracy and progress? Nobody has proposed busting the filibuster on a whim. This isn't a petulant tantrum to get a pony. Even if the filibuster was a legitimately useful piece of machinery at one time, the Republicans have abused it so badly that it is now broken and needs to go.
Manchin is Catholic, presumably devout, and not much of a Democrat. In the era of the Roberts Republican Court, betting his own political future on a calculated, Beltway-pleasing charade of "bipartisanship," it's no surprise that he does not respect the concept of a bright line between Church and state. He's no Ted Kennedy.
It's the only option. Manchin and Sinema are betting that they'll do better with Mitch in charge than they are with Chuck in charge. We are running out of time and options.
He chairs Energy and Natural Resources (while sitting on a throne made of West Virginia coal, fer fuck's sake). He sits on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Veterans Affairs.
Maybe the Dems need to lighten his workload.
As an AZ voter, I'm looking forward to my opportunity to make Sinema redundant. Alas, she still has a couple of years before she's up again.
The consequences of failing is losing WV and the senate in the short term. The consequences of not trying are worse.
Wrong group, the question was about the Freedom Riders.
You also left out giving control of the senate to the Republicans and why that is better than having control of the senate.
McConnell was in the minority for decades. Aside from SC picks (which we're past now) he was able to do just as much damage from a minority position.
RE freedom riders, just because you don't have the imagination to envision a scenario worse than 1959 Jim Crow doesn't mean such a scenario doesn't exist.
How did she lose in both? Did she run as an independent in the general?
Apparently you think nothing. But change is coming, one way or another.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Really? Do you think the American Rescue Plan Act would have passed if McConnell was Majority Leader? Would there be work on an infrastructure bill? Would Biden even have a cabinet, let alone all the judges? Having Schumer instead of McConnell has already paid dividends.
You'll also need something more convincing than "something bad could happen" for a negative consequence to the Freedom Riders failing.
More than 20 million veterans get health care from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A significant and growing segment of those veterans are people with female reproductive organs who are still of child-bearing age. Hyde Amendment shivs them, too.