"Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth Macdonough is either a heartless bureaucrat, the type who likes to make the trains run on time, or she's a straight-up Republican plant." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"In 2001, the GOP fired the Senate Parliamentarian to get tax cuts after Bush lost the popular vote in a contested election. In 2021, the Dems could fire the Senate Parliamentarian while the majority is on their side, but they refuse." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"VP Harris can and should overrule the Senate Parliamentarian. She can and, morally, she must. People are hungry for strength and leadership and it is far past time for the Dems to show some strength and leadership." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"People are like 'But the VP hasn't overruled the Senate Parliamentarian since 1975!' You know what else happened in the mid-1970s? Accountability! Watergate hearings. Nixon's resignation. The Church Committee. The Pike Committee. Bring the 1970s back!" patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"The mid-1970s investigations of government corruption were meant to ensure that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past and that we do not have bureaucracy functioning as a cover-up for extreme crime." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"The way the Dems try to dodge accountability is through this veneer of respectability: 'We can't rock the boat.' Well, the boat is sinking. And we're on the boat. And when you act, you won't be rocking the boat -- you'll be steadying it." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"Also: who the hell is going to back the Parliamentarian?! Most people didn't know she existed. They're appalled that this unelected rando is hanging out in the Senate, calling balls and strikes while we're out here casting our votes, battling a plague..." patreon.com/posts/parliame…
"Democrats are happy hiding behind the Parliamentarian's so-called 'rulings' (which are not actually rulings, they're recommendations) because they don't want to anger their corporate donors." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/parliame…
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