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Jeff Roush Profile picture
@JeffRoushPoetry
May 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I’ve seen a lot of reporting and commentary trying to find “balanced” blame on the debt ceiling battles. So sure, folks, let’s look at all sides of the problem. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
1. The House GOP. The @HouseGOP want everything, no compromises, in exchange for the chance to demand more next spring. No specific demands, just broad cuts. They just want to tear it all down.

thehill.com/homenews/house…
2. House democrats. The @HouseDemocrats want a clean debt limit increase, and every member agreed on this. They feel budget bills should be debated and passed in Congress, not demanded as ransom in exchange for a semi-functional government.

thehill.com/homenews/house…
3. Biden. @POTUS wants the government to pay its bills, and has probably offered more than he should have to try to reach a compromise. House republicans are intransigent, so our President should probably ignore the debt limit entirely.

thehill.com/opinion/financ…
4. Kevin McCarthy. @SpeakerMcCarthy desperately wants to remain Speaker. He stands for nothing else; he is a pusillanimous weakling, a simpering fool of no inherent worth or value. He sent the House to recess because he ranks the gavel above the country.

businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy…
So, in the interest of balancing all sides… nope. The GOP is a reckless, nihilist domestic terrorist organization willing to burn it all down for the sake of claiming immediate, temporary power. That’s what this is about.

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Jeff Roush Profile picture
May 27
The US Constitution took effect on March 9, 1789. Its Preamble lays out the goals for the nation that would operate under it. And if you read it, it’s clear the current GOP is working against every one of them. (Thread)
#ResistanceRoots
#LiveBlue Image
1. To “form a more perfect Union” requires learning from past and present to come together more perfectly. Republicans are attacking history and current factual information to divide us.
2. To “establish Justice” is to create and defend our laws and institutions in ways that are just. Republicans are fighting reform efforts, supporting murderers and insurrectionists, and attacking our federal law enforcement agencies.
Read 9 tweets
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May 27
As Ohio’s GOP ramps up its assault on democracy, #FridayLimericks take notice. #LimerickRhyme
While the national GOP strives
To bring chaos and shake up our lives,
In Ohio they seek
To make voters’ rights weak—
And these ghouls are still sharpening knives.
This is not a new push from these jerks;
It’s a power grab long in the works.
They’re a party that’s marred
By a deep disregard
For the folks they like less than their perks.

publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…
As they look to hold everyone back,
Education is under attack.
They would change all the rules,
Send less money to schools—
And yet still knock the budget off track.

wtol.com/article/news/e…
Read 9 tweets
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Apr 30
There are good reasons Americans don’t trust our government institutions. We’ve moved from a “trust, but verify” model to a “just trust us and shut up” model. And this may feel pie-in-the-sky right now, but we could change that.(Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
1. Congress. We need a new Voting Rights Act—in part because the Supreme Court gutted the one we have, but also in part because some of the threats have changed. The way districts are drawn has turned the ideas of democracy and representation into punchlines.
We should demand fair districts in every state. This doesn’t just mean balancing democratic and Republican districts against each other, but creating more competitive districts. Representatives aren’t accountable to their districts because they are designed to go to one party.
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 29
There are many problems with conflating religion and politics, but one of the biggest is it covers up all matters of nuance and, at times, reality. (Thread)
#ResistanceUnited
#LiveBlue
I was raised in a Christian, Republican home. And at the time, I learned and bought into the idea that those two terms were virtually synonyms. Republicans were “good,” and Democrats must therefore be evil.
This covered all manner of sins, so to speak. The notion that a Jimmy Carter was somehow immoral or evil, and Reagan a beacon of goodness, seems almost laughable when you look into the lives, actions, and policies of the two.
Read 9 tweets
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Apr 29
Tonight’s #FridayLimericks go to Samuel Alito, with all due respect—and no more. #LimerickRhyme
Judge Alito is claiming to know
The Dobbs leaker, the source of his woe.
This conspiracy game
Will work best with no name,
While he celebrates killing off Roe.
wapo.st/3HnkSg1
This guy never thought much of our rights;
We all knew well before Senate fights.
It was never that hard
To see Sam’s disregard
For the gains he’d soon put in his sights.
civilrights.org/resource/oppos…
“Please respect us,” we heard him beseech—
During a naked political speech,
Where the man bared his clause
For conservatives’ cause
At the Heritage folks spend and leech.

afj.org/article/justic…
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 28
A bit of local democracy in action to share. Last night I attended a school board meeting—something I don’t do often enough. The topics included a series of proposed policy changes, two of which in particular seem troubling. (Thread)
#ResistancePride
#LiveBlue ImageImage
The proposals were put out to address changing federal and state definitions/interpretations of “sex” in Title VII and Title IX. Specifically, they were deleting the parenthetical that defines prohibited discrimination to include the bases of gender identity and sexuality.
The problem in a nutshell: Ohio is challenging the federal definition as applied to Title IX. But with the definition in flux, the board chose to eliminate the language in question—and leave LGBTQ students feeling unsupported, written off.
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