Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    Also - the GOP already fired the parliamentarian at least once. They did so during the Dubya administration.

    MacDonough’s decision is likely to be fateful.

    There’s a much higher likelihood that Santa Claus and his flying reindeers are real.

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    Holy mother of fuck. If the writer was a recent college grad nepobaby - I might overlook some of the stupidity. I, myself, was an idiot in my 20s. But the writer dipshit has been writing for pollitics for at least a decade.

    By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015

    I googled him. He’s gotta be at least ~60. Good grief.

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      If I was a political columnist and I was structurally held back from pointing out the obvious reality of how a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie worked for decades, I too would end up thinking the Parliamentarian mattered.