Mitch McConnell announces the death of bipartisanship in the Biden era

 Manu Raju of CNN: “...McConnell has privately informed associates that he plans to target President Joe Biden's agenda, with a push to unify Republicans on the grounds that it amounts to liberal overreach, another sign that he sees Trump as in the rearview mirror.”

Democrats should no longer be touting bipartisanship if Republicans intend to repeat the obstruction of the Obama years.

New Poem 310,095

 cannot cancel weddings

 will not close restaurants

 must reopen strip clubs

 fear makes people dance to death

 wearing economic panic like an Elizabethan Collar

 as Steven and Mitch slice a pittance of personal stimulus in half

>

 watch glossy old fashioned Christmas on Hallmark

 stay home, wait for your vaccination turn

 think of loved ones for the rest of the year

 instead of joining the covidiots determined to

 stay on the ocean liner, denying it is sinking

 

Donald Trump’s Impeachment Summatized

Last night’s pre-acquittal debacle was brought to you by Nancy Pelosi’s dithering, Mitch McConnell’s cynical machinations, John Roberts’s cowardice and Donald Trump’s autocratic de-evolution of the presidency.

And let’s not forget the DNC and RNC, who each have their preferred candidates and (especially with the DNC) are maneuvering towards primary/convention results that will have little bearing on the will of the people who aren’t cheated (RNC) out of the right to vote in a 2020 election which appears likely to be the most vituperative/volcanic of all.

Finally, progressives/centrists should stop fantasizing about John Bolton showing up on the Senate floor to become a profile in courage. It won’t happen.

New Poem: 2020 FORETOLD

both parties have paid almost two years of rent

on the National Electoral Battlefield

so let the cable news speculation run rampant

and allow the online and print media to join in

with lots of chatter about electability

also please don’t impeach the President

because it messes up the timetable

> 

brush away any Green New Deals

plus talk of Medicare For All

not to mention Free College Tuition

keep Incrementalism alive by

dry repeats of “how do we pay for this”

> 

smash the hopes of young voters,

children and teens taking Civics classes

and the yet-to-be-born

> 

teach them how the concept of Change

doesn’t mean real change for the better

> 

instead, it’s merely a shiny buzzword 

used by a minority party

as a giant crowbar 

to separate power

from the majority party

Wisdom from Matt Taibbi that won't be listened to/heeded by most people on the Left.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/obama-doesnt-want-a-progressive-deficit-deal-20110711

Two key passages from Taibbi's blog post:
 "The blindness of the DLC-era [the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council] "Third Way" Democratic Party continues to be an astounding thing. For more than a decade now they have been clinging to the idea that the path to electoral success is social liberalism plus... laissez-faire economics – in other words, get Wall Street and corporate America to fund your campaigns, and get minorities, pro-choice and gay marriage activists (who will always frightened into loyalty by the Tea Party/Christian loonies on the other side) to march at your rallies and vote every November."
and
"I simply don't believe the Democrats would really be worse off with voters if they committed themselves to putting people back to work, policing Wall Street, throwing their weight behind a real public option in health care, making hedge fund managers pay the same tax rates as ordinary people, ending the pointless wars abroad, etc. That they won't do these things because they're afraid of public criticism, and "responding to pressure," is an increasingly transparent lie. This "Please, Br'er Fox, don't throw me into dat dere briar patch" deal isn't going to work for much longer. Just about everybody knows now that they want to go into that briar patch."