'The American People Did Not Vote for Whatever the Hell This Is,' Warns House Democrat | Common Dreams
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Rep. Jim McGovern said the House GOP's rules package offers "the clearest window yet into their agenda for the next two years."

Summary

The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.

Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.

Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.

Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If 100% of those states had gone for Biden, it wouldn’t have changed the nomination. He already had it locked in.

    And the 2016 scheme was to have the superdelegates tip the scales to Clinton if Bernie narrowly won the primaries, but he didn’t.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Hillary received the majority of the votes in the primaries. If the superdelegates had changed their votes to support Bernie instead, that would have been undemocratic.

        Biden had a mathematically insurmountable lead when the primaries were canceled.

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          So if it hadn’t gone their way, they would have made it go their way. They had a plan ready to go to disregard the voters and install the candidate they had hand picked. And you’re defending that as fair and democratic.