The Senate dance of figuring out what Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will vote for took one other flip yesterday with an announcement that he’d agreed to assist … properly, one thing. The thought of the Senate doing any one thing in any respect, nonetheless, led Senate Republicans to take out their anger on a beforehand widespread invoice that would supply expanded medical look after poisoned conflict veterans. Sure, that is how Republicanism works now. No, no one thinks the Republican base will get disgusted by it.
Elsewhere, the aggressive anti-voting measures taken by Georgia Republicans offended about their residents electing two Democrats to the Senate are having an actual affect, and there is a new tradition conflict afoot as Republican state lawyer generals sue to protect their states’ “proper” to discriminate towards LGBTQ public college college students. However that is probably not a “tradition conflict” factor a lot because it’s simply being mean-spirited assholes for the sake of being mean-spirited assholes.