Those Republican Calls For "Bipartisanship"

[Comshaw]

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Now they’re telling Democrats and the American people to “get over” January 6th’s attack on our lives and our democracy, to “move on” and not hold them or Trump accountable for a deadly attempted coup where Trump’s violent supporters killed people and came close to kidnapping and assassinating elected officials like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

Now, the very same congressional Republicans who’ve threatened Democrats’ lives, incited an attack on our Capitol, and tore this country apart are fighting new Capitol building security measures like metal detectors, boasting about bringing guns to Congress, and failing to wear masks around us.
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Let's see, carrying a firearm is for self-protection, right? So what do those who want to carry a firearm onto the house or senate floor need to be protected from? Certainly not their honored opposition because those wussie Libs would never do such a thing. So it must be from an attack from outside, huh? A mob intent on hunting down and harming the members of that chamber maybe? Or maybe they need to be protected from "harmless good people" like those who came to the capitol on January 6th to "peacefully" protest? Really? Why in the world would that be?

Aw, you're slipping. That last post and all of the points you tried to make in it was the worst I've seen from you.

The dems have several opportunities to pass their agenda with only a majority vote, but you already know that don't you?

The dems have learned that the GOPTQ-anon negotiates in bad faith. They will not slow their process this time around. You must be praying that they don't get any traction, it would be a disaster for you if they did anything to help Americans and got more support from voters.

Go have lunch or something.

You do realize you're trying to argue with someone who ignores logic don't you? All that will happen is you WILL get frustrated because he isn't going to pay a bit of mind to a logical, factual argument, preferring his own made of smoke and bullshit. Ignore is your very good friend in this instance.


Comshaw

 

[CornusKousa]

When Republicans are in power they're bullies, they shamelessly abuse their power and piss all over refugees, minorities, immigrants and the American working class.

When they're no longer in power, they play the victim, and they whine a lot.

LOL....^^ ignores the fact that the working class just got fucked for 1.9T, and (D)'s want to institutionalize racism.

Tell them assholes called Democrats to go Fuck themselves.

They don't need us, REMEMBER?

Now come 2023...

(R)'s really should just block EVERYTHING.

You do realize you're trying to argue with someone who ignores logic don't you?


Comshaw

Communism =/= logic comrade.....you really should stop trying to conflate the two.

 

[Lazaran]

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Creeping Cjarlie actually has the nerve to opine on ANYTHING after saying it would "abolish the police" after attacking people for their calls to defund the police???

The irritating weed has zero credibility.

Potted plants are really dumb.

 

[YDB95]

When Republicans are in power they're bullies, they shamelessly abuse their power and piss all over refugees, minorities, immigrants and the American working class.

When they're no longer in power, they play the victim, and they whine a lot.

All bullies are like that. They just don't get that the rules apply to them too.

LOL....^^ ignores the fact that the working class just got fucked for 1.9T

Got fucked for it, or received the lion's share of it? That is rather different.


I could go on at length about my own views here, but I think the best thing I could do here is offer what a card-carrying Republican had to say. Here's Richard Mourdock, the 2012 nominee for Senate in Indiana: "bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view...If we win the House, Senate, and White House, bipartisanship means they have to come our way". (MSNBC, May 2012)

 

[CornusKousa]

Got fucked for it, or received the lion's share of it? That is rather different.


I could go on at length about my own views here, but I think the best thing I could do here is offer what a card-carrying Republican had to say. Here's Richard Mourdock, the 2012 nominee for Senate in Indiana: "bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view...If we win the House, Senate, and White House, bipartisanship means they have to come our way". (MSNBC, May 2012)

Got fucked for it.

Like one of those "Payday Loan" joints next to the liquor store fucked.

He wasn't wrong, that is how democracy works.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He wasn't wrong, that is how democracy works.

If you have a problem with Democracy, may I suggest you return to your ancestral homeland, North Korea? The Totalitarian system seems much moar to your liking.

 

[YDB95]

Got fucked for it.

Like one of those "Payday Loan" joints next to the liquor store fucked.

I'd ask how you figure that, but I don't need another monologue about the IRS beating your door down with guns.

He wasn't wrong, that is how democracy works.

Overlooking your penchant for reminding anyone who will listen that the USA isn't a democracy, he was running in an election where the Dems held the White House and the Senate. Do you think if he'd been elected, he'd have applied that same logic and gone over to the Democratic point of view? (Not if you know anything at all about Richard Mourdock, you don't.)

 

[CornusKousa]

If you have a problem with Democracy, may I suggest you return to your ancestral homeland, North Korea? The Totalitarian system seems much moar to your liking.

Depends on the democracy.......some forms I'm preferential of, others not so much.

My ancestral homeland has nothing to do with my actual homeland. Besides, I'm not a "progressive" leftist so N. Korea isn't my ideal government and economic system.

 

[CornusKousa]

I'd ask how you figure that, but I don't need another monologue about the IRS beating your door down with guns.

What did you get vs. what it cost.

Overlooking your penchant for reminding anyone who will listen that the USA isn't a democracy, he was running in an election where the Dems held the White House and the Senate. Do you think if he'd been elected, he'd have applied that same logic and gone over to the Democratic point of view? (Not if you know anything at all about Richard Mourdock, you don't.)

No.

So what? What does this random tangent about Mourdock have to do with anything?

 

[YDB95]

So what? What does this random tangent about Mourdock have to do with anything?

I explained that in the post in which I quoted him. It's a telling example of what Republicans really think about bipartisanship.

 

[CornusKousa]

I explained that in the post in which I quoted him. It's a telling example of what Republicans really think about bipartisanship.

Yea I got that when you first brought it up, I'm just wondering how many times you're going to kick that dead dog.

Bipartisanship has it's limits, at the point the core values diverge there is nothing but obstruction and combativeness, which is where we are at.

The D and R core values are WILDLY different and at odds with one another.

Until that changes there can be very little if any bipartisanship.

I don't think there can be.....the two sides are just so opposed to one another in so many ways.

 

[YDB95]

Yea I got that when you first brought it up, I'm just wondering how many times you're going to kick that dead dog.

Bipartisanship has it's limits, at the point the core values diverge there is nothing but obstruction and combativeness, which is where we are at.

The D and R core values are WILDLY different and at odds with one another.

Until that changes there can be very little if any bipartisanship.

I don't think there can be.....the two sides are just so opposed to one another in so many ways.

So it's a dead dog because I answered your question about it, but you agree with what I said upthread. Got it.

 

[JackLuis]

Tom Cotton pitches fit over filibuster 'rights for the minority' that protects white Republican senators

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday demanded "rights for the minority" in reference to mostly white Republican senators.

Cotton made the remarks during an interview on Fox News Sunday after host Chris Wallace pointed out that Democrats may reform filibuster rules to prevent Republicans from blocking all legislation.

"Isn't there something to be said for more legislating and less gridlock?" Wallace asked.

"No, Chris," Cotton replied. "There's something to be said for compromise and bipartisanship and respect for the rights of the minority in the Senate. These rules have been in place since the beginning of our Republic. And Democrats are engaged in pretty highly situational ethics. You know, just four years ago, 27 Democrats wrote a letter urging Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer to maintain these rules. Now most of those senators have flip-flopped simply because they have the barest of majorities."

Sucks to be a minority, don't it asshole!

 

[CornusKousa]

So it's a dead dog because I answered your question about it, but you agree with what I said upthread. Got it.

Yea, you made a statement, we agree.

You brought it back up....like you were trying to get me upset by bashing some old (R) I couldn't give 2 pumps of rat jizz about.

I'm an ideologue not a partisan, you're not going to get me triggered by (R) bashing. bash away, I don't like the spineless (D)'s from 5 years ago much.

 

[YDB95]

Sucks to be a minority, don't it asshole!

Indeed, but he knows what Fox News' audience wants to hear.

 

[bellisarius]

Bipartisan

Typically the word "bipartisan" is defined as involving cooperation and negotiation between members of two parties.

For instance, a bipartisan commission would involve cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties.

Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an original version of legislation or other proposal.

However, when Republicans use the word “bipartisan” they mean something totally different.

Republicans didn’t cooperate or compromise during the six years when they held a Senate majority.

Quite the opposite.

Mitch McConnell blocked former President Obama’s agenda and judicial nominees, and for the past two McConnell blocked almost all bills passed by the Democratic majority in the U.S. House—including legislation to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

He bragged about the "graveyard" on his desk where bills went to die.

Republicans regularly passed legislation without a single Democratic vote, including when they gave away trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the one percent and big corporations in 2017. Now that we want to invest trillions of dollars in struggling people and families instead, the Republicans have their panties in a bunch.

Republicans in office have been morally bankrupt throughout the pandemic, needlessly contributing to the deaths of over 450,000 residents of this country. Most congressional Republicans sided with Trump and against the American people last month by voting to overturn the results of our November 2020 presidential election. Fortunately, they did not succeed.

Now they’re telling Democrats and the American people to “get over” January 6th’s attack on our lives and our democracy, to “move on” and not hold them or Trump accountable for a deadly attempted coup where Trump’s violent supporters killed people and came close to kidnapping and assassinating elected officials like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

Now, the very same congressional Republicans who’ve threatened Democrats’ lives, incited an attack on our Capitol, and tore this country apart are fighting new Capitol building security measures like metal detectors, boasting about bringing guns to Congress, and failing to wear masks around us.

They don’t get to talk about “healing and unity” in their attempt to escape accountability.

While the vast majority of Americans want to see Donald Trump held accountable for his actions, the Republicans want Trump to get off Scott Free. While the vast majority of Americans want a large stimulus bill to help Americans who are suffering and to help jump-start a stalled economy, the Republicans are opposed to doing anything that will help the American people. While the vast majority of the American People favor facemask mandates and social distancing to limit spread of a deadly virus, Republicans refuse to wear masks and try to equate going maskless in public is somehow an expression of “freedom”.

When the Republicans call for “bipartisanship,” they mean they want to continue to fail to serve the American people, and they want the Democrats to back off so nobody can hold the Republican Party accountable.

Good Lord, were you born yesterday? Under a rock?

"Bipartisanship" is the go to catch phrase of whichever party is in the minority. It's been that way for centuries now.

Further, your comments re. "the vast majority" are just so much hyperventilating horse shit.

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Republicans have told President Joe Biden that they're ready, willing and eager to negotiate with him on the spending and funding of his landmark infrastructure plan. The problem, however, is that they won't negotiate with Biden on the spending and funding mechanism of the plan.


Writing for the Washington Post Sunday, columnist James Downie noted that the GOP claims that it wants to be part of the solution, but only if it means they get everything they want and Democrats don't get anything.

https://www.rawstory.com/republican...ng-negotiation/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[AvgGuy01]

democratic bipartisanship... LMFAO! There is no greater contradiction in terms.

Anyone who believes that that is a thing, really does need to stop spending so much of their life immersed at Disney Word, get away from slobbering over and believing everything their favorite talking news head or hollywood actor/actress tells them they should believe, and come on back to reality... even though that might scare the shit out of them

 

[YDB95]

democratic bipartisanship... LMFAO! There is no greater contradiction in terms.

Anyone who believes that that is a thing, really does need to stop spending so much of their life immersed at Disney Word, get away from slobbering over and believing everything their favorite talking news head or hollywood actor/actress tells them they should believe, and come on back to reality... even though that might scare the shit out of them

You DO understand there's no point in trying to compromise with people who have zero respect for you and absolutely no common ground with you, don't you? Just how are the Dems supposed to reach bipartisan consensus with a party that thinks they hate America and want to tax everyone to death?

 

[coati]

How do you negotiate with Republicans who encouraged insurrection to overturn an election that elected most of them, but did not happen to elect their cult leader?

I mean, that just fuckin' happened! What, you only call for bipartisanship after your insurrection fails?

 

[OldJourno]

Lol. Oh, you think that there was no legitimate reason for the Ds to call for the impeachment of Trump?

How cute.

One of the "reasons" to impeach Trump, the death of the peace officer, wasn't caused by the so-called insurrection. So there goes the key reason many had for impeachment.
I'd say that witch from California, Maxine Waters, has far exceeded Trump's rhetoric many times when it comes to impeachable offenses.

 

[YDB95]

I'd say that witch from California, Maxine Waters, has far exceeded Trump's rhetoric many times when it comes to impeachable offenses.

Yeah, if only she'd go to the back of the bus...no doubt the FoxNewsMax crowd would love that.

 

[phrodeau]

One of the "reasons" to impeach Trump, the death of the peace officer, wasn't caused by the so-called insurrection. So there goes the key reason many had for impeachment.
I'd say that witch from California, Maxine Waters, has far exceeded Trump's rhetoric many times when it comes to impeachable offenses.

Did Maxine Waters call up and threaten any Secretaries of State to get them to change election results? Trump did, and he was impeached for it.

 

[Rightguide]

Republicans have told President Joe Biden that they're ready, willing and eager to negotiate with him on the spending and funding of his landmark infrastructure plan. The problem, however, is that they won't negotiate with Biden on the spending and funding mechanism of the plan.


Writing for the Washington Post Sunday, columnist James Downie noted that the GOP claims that it wants to be part of the solution, but only if it means they get everything they want and Democrats don't get anything.

https://www.rawstory.com/republican...ng-negotiation/?utm_source=push_notifications

Don't be silly, bipartisanship to a Democrat is "shut up and support our issues."

 

[RobDownSouth]

Did Maxine Waters call up and threaten any Secretaries of State to get them to change election results? Trump did, and he was impeached for it.

Why no, no she did not. That's just a typical example of "both sides-ism", part of the bad faith questions routinely asked by Republicans nowadays.