Cutting Off One’s Nose To Spite One’s Face
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22 responses to “Cutting Off One’s Nose To Spite One’s Face”
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Of course they want it. Democrats manufacture crises like viruses from a Chinese lab.
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Apologists will chime that elections have consequences. Sad, when such partisanship injures the public interest. This spat reflects the abyss of discourse in the politisphere. Both sides are to blame.
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Full sentence by default.
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It is like playing basketball. The ball is in your court but no one makes a basket.
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Both parties seem to be behaving like little brats.
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So where is the leadership from Gov Youngkin who spoke so elegantly about unity and cooperation?
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Your Dems were the ones who decided to respond with Tweets about brick walls and stopping putting a hold on the gas tax. Then no parole board. There’s more but you get the idea.
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On my first draft, I included a suggestion about Youngkin stepping in to broker a compromise, but I thought better of it. The Democrats would not trust him and, if he proposed anything favored by Democrats, the Republicans would see it as betrayal. This is a family fight, and, like most families, they would not appreciate outsiders butting in.
If the governor gets the chance to appoint SCC and Supreme Court judges, he would be wise to consult leaders of both parties and try to nominate people both sides can live with. Otherwise, the Senate Democrats are likely to refuse to confirm them next session. After all, the memories of Republicans recently refusing to confirm a McAuliffe Supreme Court appointee and a Northam SCC appointee will be fresh in their minds.
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Good advice for the Gov. I am waiting to see if the Senate goes into recess if Youngkin refuses to consult with both leaders. That would be a real failure of his leadership in my mind.
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Hall-Sizemore has found the silver lining in the dark cloud cast by democrats in the Senate. Thanks for brightening my day. Reminds me of that old joke about democrats and firing squads. They always stand in a circle.
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I think Steve Haner has made the same observation about Republicans.
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dueling firing circles!
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Quoting Klingons? Dick, I’m impressed. I always love to see the law of unintended consequences in action. It hits General Assembly actions regularly (yes, Mr. McCarthy, both ways). Are those salaried positions? Like the ABC board? Where’s my resume…
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Yep. They are salaried positions. Very good salaries. The law authorizes three full-time members and two part-time members. The salary for the vice-chairman is $121,394 and for the other full-time member, $119,014. The part-time members usually get half the full-time salary.
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Bennies for PT?
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I don’t think so.
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Drats! Oh well, maybe just a reimbursed fact-finding mission to Norway to study their low recidivism rates…
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TY. It is also impressive that the level of discourse has not yet been marked by name calling and snarky insults. Then, it may be early days as the Brit detectives are fond of saying.
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Apparently, there are more, uh make that less, bloody ways to denasal…
https://cdapress.com/news/2022/mar/10/elephants-room/ -
“. . . .until the Parole Board has additional members some offenders will not be
granted parole and accused parole violators will remain in jail,
awaiting a hearing.”So you’re saying that the DEMS have in effect, stopped letting criminals out of jail EARLY? Damn – I’ll vote for each and every one of them next go round!! Twice in fact, like a good Democrat does.
Peace on our streets and in other’s neighborhoods!
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Fire ’em!
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“The party that rejected 2nd look, rejected sentence credit, won’t stop solitary confinement, won’t end using dogs on people and doesn’t want returning citizens to VOTE. But now, the last few hours of session, they claim to care about criminal justice reform.”
https://twitter.com/candikingforhd2/status/1502603346946969603?s=21
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