Standing in the Wings

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By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor

Not necessarily a success story is the list of stand-ins for Senate President Pro Tem succession when Orrin Hatch is gone. The job traditionally goes to the majority party’s senator with most seniority.

Wiki list of Republicans are the Senators Cochran, Grassley, McConnell, Shelby, and McCain respectively. On the Democrat list are Senators Leahy and Feinstein.

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  1. so who would be worse?  pence, ryan, cochran or none of the above?  is this one of those better the devil you know thingies?

  2. meanwhile, across the pond they are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the suffragettes.

    an interesting side story from bbc: Women’s vote: Calls for suffragettes to be pardoned
    Women who were jailed while fighting for the right to vote should be pardoned, say campaigners.
    Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has joined with the Fawcett Society campaign group and relatives of the suffragettes in calling for convictions to be overturned.
    It comes on the 100th anniversary of some women getting the vote in the UK.
    Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she will “take a look at” giving pardons but said it would be “complicated”.
    Theresa May is due to hail the “heroism” of the suffragettes at a speech in Manchester marking the centenary of women’s votes
    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the struggle for equality was continuing, 100 years on from the The Representation of the People Act, which was passed on 6 February 1918 and gave women over 30 and “of property” the right to vote.
    The act also abolished almost all property qualifications for male voters.
    mmeline Pankhurst, a founder member of the Woman’s Social and Political Union and leading suffragettes Emily Davison and Flora Drummond were some of the women jailed during the campaign for women’s votes.
    Ms Davison was found guilty of placing a “dangerous substance likely to injure” in a post office letter box outside Parliament and sentenced to six months in Holloway Prison
    Records compiled by the England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 collection indicate there were more than 1,300 suffragette arrests and many women were jailed.
    [….continues….]

     

     

  4. Patd,  top 3 are McMertle, Shelby & McCain. Looks like McMertle is the one, but right now we’re stuck with Orrin Hatch. Depressing enough for you?

  5. pogo, am visualizing post 2018 election after twit & twit veep are impeached when the choice list will be pelosi,   leahy, feinstein, murray, wyden….. what an uproar that will make. but very fitting to celebrate women getting the vote

  7. also in the guardian:

    Trump-Russia: Steve Bannon refuses to testify before House committee – source
     
    Former White House senior strategist will defy subpoena, citing lack of agreement on scope of questioning, says individual familiar with matter

    and this (which we already knew) from today’s guardian: 

    Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study

    University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter

     

     

     

  9. give ’em hell, tammy

    huffpo:
    Sen. Tammy Duckworth: ‘Cadet
    Bone Spurs’ Won’t Tell Me When To Clap
     
    The wounded veteran bristles at the suggestion that not applauding him is “treasonous.”

    Iraq War veteran and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) criticized President Donald Trump for calling Democrats who did not clap during his State of the Union address “treasonous” on Monday.
     

    “We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy,” Duckworth tweeted soon after he made the comment. “I swore an oath ― in the military and in the Senate ― to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap.”

    [….continues…]

     

  10. x-r, you must be so relieved. god must be too.

    wapo:
    ‘I wasn’t hearing any call from God’: Michele Bachmann opts out of running for Al Franken’s Senate seat
     

  11. My Welsh grandmother emigrated around 1906, I’m not going to dig for the Ellis Island record, to join my grandfather whom she had met while he was on a musical tour. Their single child was my Mom. Fortuitous departure from the Old Sod.

  16. Flatus,  Mrs. P & I visited Ellis Island with LP’s senior class almost 3 years ago.  Mrs. P looked up her relatives who came to the US from Italy – it took about 5 minutes to find them, the boat they came over on, the passenger manifest of the boat…The archive indices are very easy to search.  While NYC and Ellis Island may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s a good excuse for those who need one to go look up arriving relatives.

  19. Bonespur Donnie or is Donnie Bonespur better?

    I like Cadet Bonespur but I think his name should be part of it

  20. True.  Donnie Bone Spurs – sounds like that would be his mob name…or maybe his Russian mafia name.

     

    Paul Ryan is just awful.

  21. I wish Al Franken would run for president.  After all, on those types of allegations SFB has led the way and he’s still playing president on his own personal reality show.

  24. craig, hope that nixon cartoon you posted gets some play on twitter and elsewhere where it will ring a bell with some folks who need their bell rung.  even ronnie must be rolling in his grave to say nothing of teddy Roosevelt and ole honest abe.

    twit’s not only an embarrassment to the gop, he’s making a laughing stock of our nation…. he’s the quintessential ugly, ignorant and arrogant American in the eyes of the world, particularly our allies.

  25. from bbc: Trump: I’d love shutdown if there’s no immigration deal

    [….]
    “If we don’t change it lets have a shutdown. We’ll do a shutdown, and it’s worth it for our country.” he said.
    [….]

    “If we don’t change the legislation, if we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill… if we don’t change it, let’s have a shutdown,” Mr Trump told a White House law enforcement panel discussing gang violence.

    “I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of.”

    [….continues…]

     

  26. “Paul Ryan is just awful.”

    BiD,  I think the wapo editorial board agrees with you:

    Speak up, Paul Ryan
     
    [….]

    As always, it’s difficult — but important — to remember what is at stake. A foreign power interfered with an American election. Rather than help defend the country against future interference, the president is slandering the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Mr. Ryan can abet the slander, or he can help defend the country.

  29. Elon Musk’s Tesla in space & headed toward Mars.   I’m not a fan of creating more space junk to float around out there but…So cool!

     

    Paul Ryan is still just awful.

  30. Ah, Ms Pat, it is a great loss to the world of comedy and to the Smith campaign that Minnesota’s funniest lunatic, America’s funniest republican, and the world’s only funny commie dominionist is failing to run for the US Senate.

  36. I have always admired Senator Tina Smith, who now holds the seat that Al Franken briefly warmed. Caucus night is tonight. I’m picking the straight white guy Jeff Erdmann, a unionist, blue collarist teacher, to run against the officially crack-brained jason lewis. Last time we ran a very nice, gay, business exec, Angie Craig, who outspent lewis 3-1, and was creamed by 5%. Like chipped beef on toast. I love Angie to death, but I don’t think she has the killer instinct that is needed to put the Mussolini-lover away. Erdmann and Craig are both really good people, but I like his aggressiveness.

  38. You may have noticed that it is difficult for a woman to run an aggressive campaign without getting walloped by the shrill and shrewish stereotypes. Somehow, tough characters like Golda Meir, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Ghandi, and Margaret Thatcher avoided that stereotyping. I wonder how.

  42. Oh my trouble in paradise.  Eagles mate for life and get together once a year to renew their commitment to their nest and to raise the new eaglets together.  Mr. P and First Lady are the residents of the DC nest in the Arboretum.   Tonight a young adult female showed up looking for a little action.  Mr. P being the gentleman he is rebuffed her advances, but First Lady is not at all happy with the intrusion.

    Stay tuned …

    https://www.dceaglecam.org/

     

     

  44. Cadet Bone Spurs wants a military parade, complete with tanks.   Jeezaloo. This is not about thanking the military for their service. He seems to be in a race with Lil Kim for most deranged.

     

    Paul Ryan is just awful.

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