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The Magistrate

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4. I Know. It Ought To, Though

Reply to onenote (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 11:59 AM

Dec 2021

It's flat ridiculous to pretend rules and such apply at this point. Nothing but raw power and the will to use it counts today. Leadership which does not realize this and act on it will lose, and not just themselves, but the country.

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It isn't just Joe Manchin standing in the way of the social spending bill [View all] brooklynite Dec 2021 OP

Sounds Like They Need A New Parliamentarian, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2021 #1

Not going to happen. onenote Dec 2021 #3

I Know. It Ought To, Though The Magistrate Dec 2021 #4

Yep, take a page out of the last guy's playbook madville Dec 2021 #7

Yep, eventually someone will just do as they are told MichMan Dec 2021 #9

I don't think the voters are buying that excuse Walleye Dec 2021 #2

Nor Should They, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2021 #5

:)The kind of people who think we have excuses Hortensis Dec 2021 #10

True, some have been treating the pandemic like it's an excuse Walleye Dec 2021 #12

The Republicans are committed to Hortensis Dec 2021 #14

That, As they say, is the long and the short of it Walleye Dec 2021 #15

Page 750 of the bill has a placeholder for the SALT exemption. lapucelle Dec 2021 #6

And appeasing Manchin will create a new hurdle in the House madville Dec 2021 #8

Not likely to be an issue karynnj Dec 2021 #13

Parlimentarian rulings are technical procedural issues Deminpenn Dec 2021 #11

I don't remember voting for Parliamentarian. maxsolomon Dec 2021 #16