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Schumer: Democrats will not show up for Judiciary Comm, so no quorum
#11
Keep the issue all about COVID and force the Senators to report their test results - under oath.
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#12
RgrF wrote:
[quote=S. Pupp]
This strikes me as the same sort of dirty politics the Republican party plays.
I don’t want her as Supreme Court judge, but we won’t win any ethics awards by playing dirty.

That would presuppose that one set of politicians is ethical while the other set is not, neither are and pretending that one may be is folly. All's fair in love, war and politics.
My stubborn ethics nearly lost me my job when I wouldn’t go along with the local VA administration’s corrupt policies. I refused, even on the veiled threat of “I have the power to destroy your career!” I would not do well in the real world of politics.
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S. Pupp wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
[quote=S. Pupp]
This strikes me as the same sort of dirty politics the Republican party plays.
I don’t want her as Supreme Court judge, but we won’t win any ethics awards by playing dirty.

That would presuppose that one set of politicians is ethical while the other set is not, neither are and pretending that one may be is folly. All's fair in love, war and politics.
My stubborn ethics nearly lost me my job when I wouldn’t go along with the local VA administration’s corrupt policies. I refused, even on the veiled threat of “I have the power to destroy your career!” I would not do well in the real world of politics.
Sure you would because you are a Democrat.
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S. Pupp wrote:
This strikes me as the same sort of dirty politics the Republican party plays.
I don’t want her as Supreme Court judge, but we won’t win any ethics awards by playing dirty.

F___ that. Democrats will never catch up to the Republicans when it comes to dirty ethics.
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AllGold wrote:
[quote=S. Pupp]
This strikes me as the same sort of dirty politics the Republican party plays.
I don’t want her as Supreme Court judge, but we won’t win any ethics awards by playing dirty.

F___ that. Democrats will never catch up to the Republicans when it comes to dirty ethics.
It's about tactics, not ethics. Since Nixon & Watergate & Elliot Richardson & Archibald Cox and company, it's almost never been about ethics. Democrats had better not decide to die on the hill of ethics, it'll only prove them as hypocritical as they'd have you believe the others are.
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Sarcany wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
I'm wondering if he means they won't show up for the floor vote. They can't vote without a quorum. Sen. Ernst is not on the Judiciary committee. I think she wants every member of the Senate to be tested before returning to the chamber.

McConnell can amend the rules to allow proxy-voting if he can get a majority to sit for any period of time. He's already said that he doesn't care who has the virus. He'll have them dragged in from their death-beds if necessary.
A change to the Senate rules requires a 2/3 majority for cloture, so he can't practically change the rules unilaterally during the session.

A quorum in the Senate is a majority of the body, according to the Constitution (not subject to rule changes).
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