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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: ges ✧❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Senators used to have honor
Date: 02/05/24 9:53 AM
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Chuck Grassley

So it’s all just out in the open, huh?

This is going to sound wild, but the Surge is beginning to question whether our elected officials belong in polite society. Just the way they’re acting these days. Members of Congress and senators used to have honor, and honorable legislating entails lying about opposing or supporting something on policy grounds when, really, it’s all politics. We’ve seen an epidemic of shady truth-telling about election-year politics of late. We’ve seen senators discuss how working to fix an overwhelmed border would take away the overwhelmed border as a political talking point for Trump. We’ve heard Texas Rep. Troy Nehls say it explicitly. “I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” Nehls told CNN in January. “I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man’s dismal approval ratings. I’m not going to do it. Why would I?” This week, we heard the same rationale from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley regarding a small tax deal the House passed this week that would, among other things, modestly enhance the child tax credit. “Passing a tax bill that makes the president look good—mailing out checks before the election—means he could be re-elected, and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts,” Grassley told reporters this week. This sort of loose talk is nothing short of ungentlemanly. Let us please restore order and resume lying about policy as the root of disagreement.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/slate/

Yes, left leaning but mostly factual.
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