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Elizabeth Warren corners Trump's Fed chair nominee on who wrote him a $100 million check just before his nomination (Original Post) red dog 1 17 hrs ago OP
Here is a Youtube of that exchange Bluetus 16 hrs ago #1
Thank you. MuX is evil. orthoclad 15 hrs ago #3
Thanks Cirsium 14 hrs ago #5
How do these cretins always get away with refusing to answer orthoclad 15 hrs ago #2
Sticking their tongue out at us? You're too kind. They're flipping us off 🖕 literally, and I'm being kind, too Deuxcents 15 hrs ago #4
Republican chairs Bluetus 5 hrs ago #6
Yep. Failure to act forcibly orthoclad 7 min ago #7

orthoclad

(5,471 posts)
2. How do these cretins always get away with refusing to answer
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 11:58 PM
15 hrs ago

simple, straighforward questions of fact?

Where is the enforcement, when they can just stick their tongue out at us?

Deuxcents

(28,552 posts)
4. Sticking their tongue out at us? You're too kind. They're flipping us off 🖕 literally, and I'm being kind, too
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 12:21 AM
15 hrs ago

Bluetus

(3,471 posts)
6. Republican chairs
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 10:40 AM
5 hrs ago

That allows the witnesses to filibuster their way through the short time allowed each member for questioning. If we retake the House, then the chairs will have the discretion for the chair to say, "Mr. Secretary, this committee will not tolerate your attempts to evade answering legitimate oversight questions. I am stopping the clock and restoring the time that you have tried to stall your way through. And I will not restart the clock until you answer the question directly."

We need to make sure that when we do retake the House, the most important committees will be chaired by people who will not put up with this crap. And Jeffries can't make that happen, then we need to get a different Speaker.

The worst thing we can do is retake the House and then fail to accomplish the kind of change Democrats (and Americans at large) expect to see.

orthoclad

(5,471 posts)
7. Yep. Failure to act forcibly
Sat Jul 18, 2026, 03:43 PM
7 min ago

will drive the country crazy. No more "reaching over", "looking forward", "high road" stuff that got us here.

Appeasing Hitler did not work.

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