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<\/p>\nYesterday, I felt much better than I did Monday. Even my back – I only needed about half of the TENS time I customarily use.<\/p>\n
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PolitiZoom – MTG Likens Republicans in The House to The Mafia\u2019s \u201cFive Families\u201d<\/a> Letters from an American – September 18, 2023<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, I felt much better than I did Monday. Even my back – I only needed about half of the TENS time I customarily use. Cartoon – Short Takes – PolitiZoom – MTG Likens Republicans in The House to The Mafia\u2019s \u201cFive Families\u201d Quote – As Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Kindergarten caucus veers toward default and the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,5601,5391,3736,3734,3746,5600,4619],"class_list":["post-53088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-disorganized-crime","tag-gop-abuse-of-power","tag-gop-greed","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-malice","tag-shutdown","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\/53088","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=53088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – As Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Kindergarten caucus veers toward default and the wrecking of a now thriving American Economy (which is probably their ultimate goal ahead of next year\u2019s election) MTG posted a tweet comparing the GOP to the Mafia\u2019s Five Families…. Marge\u2019s idiotic comparison is so far off the mark because\u2026 number one\u2026 organized crime was, you know\u2026 organized. The Republicans in the House are much more like The Gang Who Couldn\u2019t Shoot Straight, and if they are allowed to have their way it just might be our American experiment with democracy that ends up dead in the barber\u2019s chair.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> This may be the closest that Empty Green has ever been in her life to speaking\/writing the truth.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Headlines this morning said that \u201cCongress\u201d is in crisis. But that construction obscures the true story: the Republicans are in crisis, and they are taking the country down with them…. Over the weekend, six Republicans from five different party factions offered a plan for a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. Designed to appeal to the extremists, the plan goes back on the deal McCarthy struck with Biden…. It includes the border measures the extremists want, and provides no money either for Ukraine or for disaster assistance. It\u2019s not clear that Republican House members will vote for the bill, and if they do, the bill is unlikely, encumbered as it is, to make it through the Senate.
\nClick through (Substack) for the full letter<\/a>. She is right – and particularly about the inaccuracy of the reporting. You know, even getting big money out of politics will not help us to keep our Constitution from being trashed if we cannot also get big money out of journalism.<\/p>\n
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