Just when I thought that just maybe three or four Republican House members would find a spine and actually represent their constituents and fulfill the oaths they swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, I realize that I only wind up disappointed.
In the middle of the night last night, the traitors who would sell out the people to help the wealthiest of the wealthy caved. As I prepare to go live on the air at 3pm Eastern/noon Pacific, the Democratic Leader in the House Hakeem Jeffries wrapped up a record-breaking speech (Dems are good at that). After 8 hours and 44 minutes, he yielded back so the Republicans could hold the final democracy-killing vote on the big ugly democracy killing tax bill.
Here’s his big finish:
Then some smug, jerk rank and file Republican spoke for a minute or two, and handed it off the the even more rude, nasty, lying Trump sycophantic Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to make some rude and condescending remarks before opening the vote.
Sickeningly, literally, they voted and passed the monstrosity of a killer bill 218-214.
We spent most of the show explaining how they went from five House Republicans opposing the procedural motion to proceed to the final vote, which would have killed it, to somehow coercing all but one to vote in favor of it. Johnson kept the vote open all night to changed those four votes, but they did it. Only Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania held strong.
After that, Jeffries did his thing… and after 8 hours and 44 minutes, the inevitable happened.
In the end, two Republicans joined all the Democrats to pass the piece of shit 218-214. The two who are now on Trump’s shit list are Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie.
Just in time for them to destroy the meaning of Independence Day.
Thankfully, we were able to inject a bit of fun to lead us into an ironic holiday weekend... Spinal Tap is back! There's a new film opening September 12, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. And this weekend for a limited run July 5-10, the original, This Is Spinal Tap returns to theaters, 41 years later... Spinal Tap's bass player, Derek Smalls, better known to most of us as Harry Shearer, joins us at the start of the show.
We talked about the legendary band, the movies as well as Harry’s long, long, long run on The Simpsons, his excellent radio show Le Show, his wonderful and talented wife, singer, songwriter, performer Judith Owen, and of course, the political shit we’re living through…
Tomorrow, I’m taking the 4th of July off. I’ll be doing a special music show that’ll stream at nicolesandler.com all weekend long. Just hit the audio player on the home page and it’ll play for you… or listen here:
I’ll be back Monday, as usual, with
of The Fucking News because life goes on, sort of…Watch today’s show via YouTube:
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