https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-vote-senate-committee/index.html

By Mike Hayes, Tierney Sneed, Ji Min Lee Maureen Chowdhury and Melissa Macaya, CNN

Updated 11:40 a.m. ET, April 4, 2022

How Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation vote is expected to unfold this week
From CNN's Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav

The 22 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are delivering speeches now about their positions on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination before voting.

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, said committee members would have 10 minutes for their statements.

An 11-11 tie is expected in the panel today since no Republican members of the committee appear poised to vote for her. To advance the deadlocked nomination to the floor, the Senate will need to vote on a motion to discharge her from committee, which they are expected to do also on Monday.

Four hours of debate are allotted for this motion. Senators have been advised that a vote to discharge won’t take place before 5:30 p.m. ET, but depending on how long the committee action takes, it could be later.

What happens next: On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to file a procedural motion to break a Republican filibuster of Jackson.

Wednesday will be the required intervening day on that motion when floor speeches on her nomination are likely.

Slowly in, the MAGATS crawl
Fetid COVID fills the hall.
Tiki torches cast a pall
o'er swastikas on the wall.
Builders of the giant stage
thought not of the tyrant's age.
On the ramp to that altar,
Dotard's feet drag and falter.
Up the ramp the sicko pants,
'Huzzah!' cry the sycophants.
MAGATS are a motley crew,
morals rare and brain cells few.
Bikers under helmet pickles
stumble from their motorcycles.
Trucker jerkles drive in circles,
no direction and no purpose.
Meth crazed groupies harbor hope,
here today they might get groped.
At the mic, the traitor scowls,
then begins to flap his jowls.
Beady pink eyes cast baleful glare
upon the huddled asses there.
Endless blather, no decorum,
soon enough, he starts to bore 'em.
But MAGATS, they are not fickle,
Evil words their fancies tickle.

-Alfred, Lord Tennis Shoes

That's why his passport is revoked.


2004: Manafort installs Putin puppet Yanukovych in Ukraine.
2004: Yanukovych is driven out of Ukraine by the people.
2010: Manafort installs Putin puppet Yanukovych in Ukraine.
2014: Yanukovych is driven out of Ukraine by the people.
2015: Manafort, Trump Tower Tenant, offers to work for Trump's campaign for FREE.
2016: Manafort and Trump secretly hack the RNC Platform to remove support for Ukraine.
2016: Manafort and Putin install Putin Puppet Trump in the US.
2017-2020: Trump spends four years trying to destroy NATO, Ukraine's chief ally.
2019: Putin gets Trump to blackmail Ukraine and withhold military aid.
2020: Trump pardons Manafort for financial crimes.
2020: Trump is driven from power by the people.

It started coming off after they exited the station.

It's no coincidence that Trump selected Ukraine as the target of his cockamamie blackmail/"investigation" scheme.

He was acting on direct orders from Putin. The goal had nothing to do with the fake investigation (though Trump might possibly have believed that). It was all about leaving Ukraine defenseless.

We would also need forms of the word for different contexts:

Addressing the leader of the movement: "Your Assholiness"
Referring to said leader: "His Assholiness"
Addressing one of the followers: "Hey Asshole!"

Referring to some of the traits that make up the movement: "Assholistic"

Behaviors of the members of the movement: "Assholery"

Insinuating somebody is on the fringe of the movement: "Assholian"

Members of the media, addicted to supporting the movement: "Assoholics"

John Berman's (CNN) label for the attack on Ottawa and various other cities around the world.

I think it's a good label.

Or maybe he just thinks we are.

In arguments today over the workplace mandates:

Robberts: "The Executive Branch shouldn't act on this occupational safety and health hazard. Congress should authorize it."

Solicitor General Prelogar: "Ummmm... they did. They passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)."

Robberts: "But that law doesn't count anymore; it was passed over 50 years ago. Besides, it doesn't mention COVID-19 by name."

Prelogar: "Ummm... OSHA covers a broad range of hazardous agents introduced into the workplace"

A couple of pro tips for Robberts:

(1) You need a remedial course in Constitutional Law. The Constitution doesn't say that laws automatically expire after 50 years (even if signed by a flaming liberal like Nixon). I know just the professor who can help you out.


(2) Here's how OSHA defines hazardous agents:

"Any biological agent and other disease-causing agent which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any person...will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions...or physiological deformations in such persons or their offspring.

As implied by the plain language of this definition, the phrase "other disease-causing agents" refers to any substance not otherwise covered under subparagraphs (A)-(D) of the definition, which causes death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, etc."

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/1996-11-07

"We Gotta Get You Arrested"

DeJoy, boy, is that you?
I thought your Post Office days were through
Tellin' lies and wrecking lives
Tell no lies
You get wise
I tell you now, we're gonna get you dude
There's only one thing left that we can do

We gotta get you arrested
It's like nothin' else to make sure all the mail gets through
We gotta get you arrested
We better perp-walk him, we're wastin' time talkin' now

DeJoy, boy, you're no friend
We'll say how and we'll say when
Ride this cruiser down the street
Take a seat -
the back seat
We may not ever get this chance again
That angry feeling's just about to end

We gotta get you arrested
It's like nothin' else to make sure all the mail gets through
We gotta get you arrested
We better perp-walk him, we're wastin' time talkin' now

Talkin' 'bout life and how to make you do
decades in prison we will put you through
I got one thing to say, you know it's true
We got to find some time to get this thing together, 'cause

We gotta get you arrested
It's like nothin' else to make sure all the mail gets through
We gotta get you arrested
We better perp-walk him, we're wastin' time talkin' now

Talkin' 'bout things so evil that you've done
You may be stupid, but it sure is fun
to give chase to you while you're on the run
Because we ain't got time to get this thing together, 'cause
We got to get a prosecutor with guts who has been around
One who knows better than to let us down
Let's hope there's still one left in this whole town
And that she'll take some time to get this thing together, 'cause
Get this thing together, 'cause
Get this thing together, 'cause

We gotta get you arrested
We gotta get you arrested
We gotta get you arrested
And when we're through with you
We'll get some Trumps too

-Apologies to Todd Rundgren