Subject: Re: Democrat Bob Menendez Indicted
It's perhaps worth mentioning that back then, New Jersey had a Republican governor. Now it has a Democratic governor.

There will be very different pressures on Menendez today than there were back then.

Hadn't thought of that. That's another sign of how corrupt this entire system has become.

Assuming Menendez at the time wanted to stay, did the Republican Governor find it preferable to allow a corrupt Democrat to twist in the wind to taint the wider Democratic Party? Or did the Democratic Party NOT push Menendez to resign knowing that a Republican could appoint a Republican to fill the vacancy? Could be both.

Meanwhile, we sit with a House paralyzed to pass any legislation or finalize a budget, threating benefits to American citizens and national security by delaying / jeopoardizing decisions on military aid to Ukraine. And while the House does nothing, the Senate has failed to process nominations for 300+ military promotions, because ONE Republican Senator with the IQ of a college football coach is objecting to a procedure that allows all confirmations to be approved en masse. And Democrats in the Senate, wanting to make a point of THAT level of instrangency and obstruction are essentially rewarding it under the claim that reviewing appointments individually would take up too much of the Senate's precious time... Precious time they could be spending passing legislation that STILL won't become law because the House cannot pass ANY legislation. Precious time they could be spending haggling over dress code issues cuz one Democratic Senator wants to wear shorts and hoodies. (***)

We are living in dangerous times and these are the issues occupying our so-called leaders.


WTH

*** For the record, shorts and hoodies in ANY government setting is inappropriate attire. Clearly, Fetterman has some other "neuro-atypical" issues with clothing that predate his stroke and post-stroke recovery. If he was bringing to the Senate unique, insightful solutions that only an "outside-the-box" thinker would be willing to state that were being taken up in debate and moving the government off dead-center towards solutions -- in ANYTHING -- I would have no problem with his attire. To m knowledge, he has NOT brought that kind of "out-of-box" thinking to the floor or in any committee. And dressing like you're on after-school pickup duty for the kids is not "out-of-the-box." I think there's some value in putting on adult clothes before showing up for work in the US government. Maybe doing so provides an internal reminder each time that you're not just stepping up to the mic at a PTA meeting, you're voting on issues costing trillions of dollars and affecting billions of lives -- not just those in the US.