The Senate and House versions of the Republican tax bill would reverse efforts to modernize the energy system and reduce greenhouse emissions.

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  • pezhore@infosec.pub
    52·
    1 month ago

    “You cannot have this kind of whiplash,” Etheridge said. “If every four years tax policy changes drastically like this, we are not going to be able to build anything great in this country.”

    No shit.if democrats ever get a trifecta again (highly unlikely) they’d better fucking pass actual laws rather than this budget bill crap.

      • turdburglar@lemmy.zip
        4·
        1 month ago

        does it tho? tommy dumb fuck tuberville single handily shut down military appointments for months. moscow mitch just decided not to have senate hearings for garland.

        the dems need to kick schumer in the balls and while he’s down get some fuken things took care of. they need to figure out how to out-moscow moscow mitch.

        strongly worded letters can get fucked. we need some ‘well what the fuck are you gonna do about it?’

        i used to call myself a dem but that’s just embarrassing now. not sure what i am anymore, you know, aside from pissed and frustrated.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          2·
          1 month ago

          There are things they Democrats should have been doing in addition to what they’ve done, but they can’t actually stop budget bills like this one unless four Republican Senators join them.

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            1 month ago

            Yes. This bullshit where a back-stabbing little “centrist” asshole like Joe Lieberman could raise a pinky finger and shit-can something like the public option [1] is nonsense.

            At least make motherfuckers like him WORK for it. I want REAL filibusters to be required to have such a thing. Not the mere mention of someone indicating that they would filibuster something.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
              3·
              1 month ago

              Ending the filibuster would need to be accompanied by a rapid plan to essentially erase the Republican Party in its current form: mass political education, deep and broad electoral reforms, vast increases in small-d democratic participation, and probably many more radical reforms that would essentially rewrite the country.

              But this would probably also erase the Democratic Party too, so they’d never do it.