Keep it up, Newsom — and all good Democrats!

And ask Johnson why it took him so very long to swear in Grijalva.

Does he get to vote at his own Senate trial?

one of its own members. It takes a 2/3 majority vote of the Senate to expel one of its members. Apparently it has happened 15 times in the history of the U.S. Senate: William Blount in 1797, 11 in 1861 and 3 in 1862. There were also 18 other times when expulsion peoceedings were held but did not result in an expulsion.

Expelling an 83 year old long-time Repuke Senator over their machinations is just as pie-in-the-sky.

Only certain members of the Executive and Judicial branches are subject to impeachment.

DUers call for the darndest things!

Turner died in March and his replacement will not be named until Jan 31

I keep getting emails telling me to contact my representative. I have no representation. Today is the first day of early voting for this seat.

one was Hastings old seat and I forget what the other one was.

That's over a month longer than the California District will be vacant.

That means the seat will have been vacant for 332 days by the time the election is held. Who knows how long after that before Johnson swears the winner in. That California District will be vacant for just over 200 days before the election is held.

He is just so very smart!

Is he still around? I thought he retired or something. Oh well. For someone whose last name means "Jesus" in Arabic, he sure is an un-Christlike figure.

I can remember when he was in the news almost daily. He certainly keeps a low profile these days.

in the seat formerly held by Duncan Hunter père et fils. 'Nuff said. The dumbass folks back in the hollers there love being "represented" by republican criminals.

I used to live in his district so know whereof I speak.

Yes, unfortunately Darrell Issa is MY representative…Temecula (southern Riverside County) down to southern SD county. When prop 50 goes thru next ballot, his district will change. We use to have Ken Calvert who’s completely incompetent along with DI.

If he had complained about a Democratic seat, maybe someone would have listened. But he complained about a “Democrat seat” and only native speakers of Republicanese would have understood exactly what he was whining about.

Maybe Newsom should remind Issa that he was invoking the “Garland rule,” initiated by his Republican pal, Moscow Mitch, some ten years ago.

Still drives me nuts.

glorious leader's golf game

Brava Governor - the GOP is at war with the country and we need to fight back using the tools we have

too bad, so sad !

to never miss a chance to call Issa an ASSHAT. I rarely hear his name anymore, but I couldn’t let it pass!

Ohio is so gerrymandered that the congressional races are over before the 1st vote is cast and that
gerrymandering is why they have the majority in the House too. RNCC Hudson can shove his
complaints up his ass.

And being prompt about replacements is the fair thing to do. But the GOP has played dirty and outright cheated to get what it wants, over and over, in the most deplorable, in-your-face way. This is but the smallest bit of pay back and they thoroughly deserve it.

in normal times I would detest this kind of game-playing.....but these are NOT normal times

Looks like Gavin just kicked em in the balls with this one.

FAFO MAGOT Mike!

Also, they can all fuck off

Kinda reminds me of an electee not getting sworn in for an extended time...

gov left vacant for almost a year.

Let them complain, fugg em.

They squeal louder than a wounded hyena when they get a taste of their own medicine, don't they?

Might want to get MAGA Mike on speed dial about that one.

Perfect description of the GOP and their Orange Potato.

We finally have an example of "both sides do it"
just what is needed

Having to swallow their own medicine

The American public should start flooding gqp offices with knee pads.

I don't ever, ever want to hear a whiny, bitchy word from the repigs again. They have brought this country to the brink of ruin, and they had no problems at all with P*$$Y-Grabber's bag of tricks.

It is a sad day though when we have to do undemocratic things just to get our fair share of votes in Congress. When can we all behave like we really want to live in a democracy? I'm not holding my breath.

Those same whiny Republican hypocrites should think long and hard
about the kind of executive and majority party behavior
which they have been doing their best to 'normalize'---

because the political pendulum always swings back eventually,
and they will find themselves on the wrong side of that political shift
and the new Democratic Department Of Justice !!!


(Of course Democrats won't try to prosecute Republicans
just for being Republicans--- unless an actual crime is involved---
((and there are so many of those, where do we even begin))

---- although the West German treatment of NAZIs after WW2 might be instructive,
especially the fact that they made the party itself illegal after the war !!!)


Cards on the table--- as far as I'M concerned,
the modern Republican TRUMP party is a criminal enterprise and domestic terrorist organization
of pedophile protectors, as well as a treasonous criminal conspiracy
masquerading as a political party----

and if there are eventually legal consequences for all those things
to many of the individual political actors, well---
it would be ABOUT GODDAMNED TIME !!!!!

Republicans don’t like it when they get beat at their own game.

…we can stop fighting them. Until then, they can fuck off.

Cry me a river.

fuck those assholes let em clutch their pearls