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‘We Are All Afraid’: Republican Senator Admits Colleagues Are Terrified of Being Punished for Criticizing Trump

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  • The fascists won't invite her to their birthdays anymore. It's a real dilemma for Murkowski.

    • James Carville says he might sue ‘contemptible little twerp’ David Hogg for challenging incumbent Democrats

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  • What's wrong with facing a primary challenger? Every politician should have to truly face their base every election. It is the height of entitlement to view primary challenges as something worth bringing a civil suit over.

    If Carville thinks the current crop of old guard democratic politicians are doing the right thing, what's to fear from a primary?

    • p r e s s u r e

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  • Pressure: pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, no man ask for, Under pressure that burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets

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  • The destruction of property while sparing lives is a form on non-violent resistance.

    • The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms

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  • I agree that it most likely is in the best interests for those in power to just drop the assassination story and pretend it never happened, but if it is the best choice it's the best in a series of bad choices for the powerful. Underneath the immediate concern of one of the peonage getting up the courage to kill one of the Princes of the Universe is the general public response.

    Every day the assassin stays free and in the news is a day everyone can see that the American public supports and condones the killing of people in C-suite (and likely beyond C-suite). That is one hell of a permission structure now in place. If the Powers That Be then pretend the killing didn't even happen letting the assassin off the hook, that's them giving carte blanche to copycats to do as they will, nobody is going to stop you. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

    • McConnell appears to freeze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky

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  • I misspoke, unanimous consent isn't required, but it makes the process much smoother, and is considered the "normal" means of ratifying committee assignments.

    • McConnell appears to freeze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky

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  • For Diane Feinstein to resign from the Judiciary Committee and for appointing someone else to the committee right now requires unanimous consent, and the Democrats are not going to get that from the Republicans right now. Regardless, the act of replacing someone on a committee is subject to debate and can be filibustered. If Diane Feinstein were to retire or die, that's it, a 10-10 split in the Judiciary Committee until the next Congress, so long as the Republicans refuse to play ball.