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The 19th – A Duchess and a senator go to dinner<\/a> Wonkette – Special Counsel John Durham Arrests Russian Pee Tape Man For TERRIBLE LIES!<\/a> The Hill – Democrats ramp up filibuster talks after voting rights setback<\/a> Food for Thought – Democracy for America and Robert Reich want you to sign (and share) this petition<\/span><\/a> (and I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to.)<\/p>\n Yesterday, another quiet day, thankfully. Cartoon – Short Takes – The 19th – A Duchess and a senator go to dinner Quote – In a furious dash to ensure a universal paid leave policy \u2014 however small \u2014 makes it into the final version of a care package weaving its way through Congress, the Democratic […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3723,4371,4115,4711,3844,3714],"class_list":["post-45767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-infrastructure","tag-justice","tag-petition","tag-senate","tag-video","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – In a furious dash to ensure a universal paid leave policy \u2014 however small \u2014 makes it into the final version of a care package weaving its way through Congress, the Democratic legislators who have advocated for the policy for years are trying everything \u2014 including working with the Duchess of Sussex.
\nClick through for how this happened<\/a>. I have nor forgiven Gillibramd, but if this helps get it done, that may help. (Incidentally, SOME people are capable of rising above “I’ve got mine” and work to help others.)<\/p>\n
\nQuote – We’re sorry, but does any of that rise to the level of “lied to FBI about secret negotiations with Russian government”? We are just asking, because we are unclear on what the standards are here in Wonderland.
\nClick through for story.<\/a> I don’t know what else you’d expect from a “Special Prosecutor” appointed by Bill Barr. Couldn’t (and shouldn’t) he be replaced with a real person?<\/p>\n
\nQuote – After months of trying to give space for bipartisan discussions on election legislation, Democrats are planning internal talks about what, if any, rules changes they\u2019ll be able to get through on their own. Those ideas include smaller shifts on nominations or amendments. But altering the filibuster \u2014 particularly when it comes to elections bills \u2014 is getting the most attention.
\nClick through for more<\/a> – I should bloody well hope the filibuster’s abolishment is getting discussed!<\/p>\n
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