The Goat Pen

Everybody already knew, but Times waits til after trial to make the correction.

https://thepostmillennial.com/nyt-issue ... tinguisher

its what we've come to expect

Anonymous sources....heh.

People in Houston are pussies. It's just a little snow.

will of the people.....


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The Louisiana Republican Party swiftly moved Saturday to censure GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy after he voted earlier in the day to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
"The Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana has unanimously voted to censure Senator Bill Cassidy for his vote cast earlier today to convict former President Donald J. Trump on the impeachment charge," the state party said in a statement.

Cassidy was one of only seven GOP senators who joined with all Senate Democrats in voting to convict Trump -- but the 57 guilty votes fell well-short of the 67 needed to convict the former President. Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined in voting that Trump was guilty of inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.

Cassidy, in a brief statement following his vote Saturday, said: "Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty."

CNN has reached out to Cassidy for comment on the state party's censure.

Cassidy is the latest Republican to face backlash from his home party as the national Republican Party faces its own internal conflicts in the wake of the November election.
Last week, Sasse faced a censure effort by the Nebraska GOP, while at least 10 House Republicans have faced backlash -- including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a lifelong ideological conservative.
Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, fought off a challenge to her leadership post from members of her own party after she voted to impeach Trump.
Louisiana state Sen. Stewart Cathey Jr., a Republican who represents parts of northern Louisiana, said later Saturday that the local Republican anger directed at Cassidy has been quick as many Louisianans "are upset, disappointed."

"We elected Senator Cassidy back in November...and we overwhelming sent him back to DC along with President Trump," said the state senator. "His constituents thought we were sending him there with a lot of those same ideals, so today's vote really caught people off guard."

"will of the people....."

The executive committee of the Louisiana republican party is "the people"? I mean, I assume it's more than one person, so technically it is "people," but I don't think that's what you meant...

Morons

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:04 am "will of the people....."

The executive committee of the Louisiana republican party is "the people"? I mean, I assume it's more than one person, so technically it is "people," but I don't think that's what you meant...

it would be different if there was a huge liberal voting block in the state

DOH!

were Texas republicans the people responsible for pushing clean energy in Texas?

76% of the grid that went offline was coal and natural gas. I thought Cruz hated socialism? Why is he asking for federal help?

eCat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 4:09 pm were Texas republicans the people responsible for pushing clean energy in Texas?

Of course not. Texas republicans are too stupid and dishonest to ever push for clean energy...

I guess you could say McConnell has a chink in his armor....

A+

McConnell is pretty much universally despised in Kentucky but he has an ace in the hole - regardless of who runs against him, Democrat or Republican, if they get elected they'll come in as the junior Senator from the state and they will wield no power with any of the ranking congressman. That spigot of money flowing into Kentucky to the tune of like $1.80 coming back for every dollar put in goes away and the people in Appalachia know it.

He wasn't well liked before Trump, but he was smart enough to pretend to align himself with Trump when Trump carried the state by a landslide, even when they elected a democratic governor.

Why did a democratic governor get elected? Because the republican guy tried to implement austerity measures to enforce disciplined fiscal policies. You guys remember Crotch railing against him and saying he wouldn't vote for him because he was going to do a series of things - taxes, pension cuts, etc to shore up the states pension system. That's a real republican, not McConnell.

Pretend. He had his head up Trumps ass and hand on his dick for over 4 years.

I guess Kentuckians don't like real republicans but I bet most of them consider themselves conservatives and hate liberals, even though, as you pointed out, they're getting back $1.80 for every $1 they put in. Pretty much the same story in most red states. I guess it's ironic that the so-called conservative states are what we refer to as red states. Red as in Soviet communist reds...

It a geographic reality for Kentucky.

If you remove Appalachia from the mix then I would guess that Kentucky's ratio goes back close to 1:1 especially with the manufacturing base it has of Ford, Chevy and Toyota.

And you really can't blame someone for being angry at the idea of their pension being cut. They worked for years, supposedly at below market wages with the promise of a healthy pension, and state politician refused to adequately fund the state sponsored pension plan.

A republican governor who was a strong business man just looked at the economics of it, not the humanity side of it and determined that the state would be in an unsustainable economic position in the near future if they didn't make hard decisions now. For the people that it affected, they didn't care if they were republican or not, a politician was taking money out of their pocket. And of course his democratic opponent, whose father played a huge role in not funding the pensions in the first place, gets elected on the promise of going back to the way things were.