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Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
I have joined Professors Claire Finkelstein (@COFinkelstein) and Richard Painter (@RWPUSA) in filing a complaint against Senator Lindsey Graham with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. https://law.upenn.edu/live/files/11121-ethics-complaint-against-senator-lindsey-o-graham
11:21 AM · Nov 18, 2020
sandensea
(21,595 posts)"If I let this through - why, you realize - next thing you know they'll be investigating one's in-laws!"
Baitball Blogger
(46,676 posts)It's obvious that one asshole can shut down the entire Congressional body.
sandensea
(21,595 posts)2020 was our big chance to flip the Senate - and as you know, we came close but no cigar.
Yes, there are the two Georgia races - but given what happened in '08 (amid an epic collapse under a widely-hated GOP president, no less), they're a longshot at best.
central scrutinizer
(11,635 posts)??
sandensea
(21,595 posts)While Massachusetts' Paul Kirk was in office, basically.
Got a lot done in those brief 4 months (ACA, Dodd/Frank) - but not enough, naturally.
Baitball Blogger
(46,676 posts)I think many of us realized that Democrats like Lieberman were not really Democrats. And Democrats that are afraid to upset the applecart, once they are in leadership positions, don't really understand that time is fleeting to make the necessary changes.
From what I have seen, there is so much disinformation spread by the other side that sometimes you have to ram something in so people can actually see the benefit it provides them. Only then will there be public support.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)but fuck Lindsey Graham anyhow. Sideways.
crickets
(25,951 posts)efhmc
(14,721 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)and it is better than nothing. At least there will be a record of the complaint.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)And laughing fodder for Lindsey and his cohorts over some tax payer funded lunch.