Good grief. Apparently since fixing a couple of style-and-form vetos from Governor Noem tomorrow isn’t enough to keep themselves busy, some Republican legislators are trying for a third time to use their taxpayer-funded trips to Pierre to throw mud at Congressman Dusty Johnson.
Senate Resolution 7, sponsored by Trumpist Senators Lance Russell, Phil Jensen, Lynne DiSanto, and Stace Nelson, was filed March 11 to rebuke Congressman Johnson for voting to revoke Donald Trump’s fake border emergency declaration. Congressman Johnson has since voted to override Trump’s veto of that measure, so maybe Senator Russell will move to amend and double-dog rebuke Dusty.
SR 7 was supposed to go to Senate State Affairs on March 13, the last full day of Session, but since the Legislature stayed up past midnight to pass its blizzard bug-out budget, that hearing never happened.
But every bill and every time-wasting resolution gets a hearing, so Senate State Affairs has to trundle in at 10 a.m. tomorrow to hear certain Trumpists recite their grievances against fact and evidence, as Trumpists must to preserve their insanity.
Senate State Affairs and House State Affairs already had an opportunity to hear such grievances in SR 4 and HR 1005. Both measures were tabled—i.e., set aside without debate… or, as Congressman Johnson says, they “went down in a flaming heap of rubbish.” He suspects Senate State Affairs will do the same tomorrow, but like Melania, Dusty doesn’t really care:
If I wanted to be popular, I should never have run for the United States Congress…. I didn’t take an oath to my political comfort; I took an oath to the Constitution of the United States. There are going to be some days that makes me popular, and there are going to be some days when it makes me less popular [Congressman Dusty Johnson, interviewed in “SD Legislative Committee to Consider Resolution Rebuking Congressman Dusty Johnson,” WNAX, 2019.03.27].
Someone get Dusty a latté and a Me Ne Frego t-shirt… or wait—maybe those go better on the Trumpists behind SR 7.
Cory,
Why don’t you and Dusty sleep under a bridge and then tell us if there is an emergency or not?
Border Patrol holding migrants under Paso Del Norte bridge
Processing facility in EP at 395% capacity
https://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/border-patrol-holding-migrants-under-paso-del-norte-bridge/1062830341
Must be total shock for wingnuts to discover one of their own has a conscience- to one degree or another.
Not sure what Nelson’s beef is, hell wingnuts hate him anyway. If he had a conscience he wouldn’t be despicable deplorable wingnut.
Troll, the border calls you and wants yer assistance in shooing away all these migrants. Put up or shut it.
Oh, I agree, Jason. There is an emergency under that bridge and an emergency in our hospital emergency rooms and an emergency in gun violence, and an environmental emergency. There’s probably an emergency in education funding and an emergency in our crumbling infrastructure. For farmers, there is an emergency in our trade wars which have screwed up our markets. For wall street investors and bond traders, there is an emergency in our skyrocketing national debt. For environmentalists, there is an emergency. For war hawks, there is an emergency. For ambulance companies, there is an emergency because of too few emergencies. Emergency, emergency, emergency!
Never let a good emergency go to waste!
There are real emergencies. We’re seeing some in the Midwest this spring. Flooding seems to be a problem in multiple states and reservations, and spring has just begun. We have no indication that the Trump Administration cares to address these real emergencies. They are too busy creating emergencies to deal with the real thing.
States have to act, because the federal government under the current regime is run by a cabal of corrupt incompetents. Wisconsin’s Governor pulled all our Guard troops from the border because he knew they might be required to address real emergencies in Wisconsin, given the federal government is too busy with the delusional ones that the Trump cult dreams up.
So overpopulated detention facilities constitute an emergency? Next dem president should declare an emergency and release all non-violent offenders from Federal prison.
Yet another toothless resolution? That’s “Grandstand Stace” for you. Always sponsoring and co-sponsoring non-serious junk. Taking such nonsense to the very last day should surprise nobody.
You know what this is really about? Jealousy. Each of those sponsors pictures him/herself as a member of congress and believes that seat should be theirs. This is “the green eyed monster” resolution.
Jason, if you really are that scared and worried about the fake emergency, take the advice of our empty suit senator John Thune —- get low!
The GOP hates gov’t overreach, abuse of power, and pretend they love and abide by the constitution.
Dusty abides by the constitution and his vote means to keep abuse of power by the president in check. And they beat him up for it. Crazy.
Dog and pony show, is what this is about with these senators. This isn’t governing. This is schtick. This is carnival barking. This is ridiculous.
Good gosh!
The link Jason post posted shows a real need to assist people seeking asylum in the US, which I can agree is an emergency. Building walls, however, doesn’t address that problem.
Instead, the obvious goal of a wall is to lock familes in need out of the US. A wall is a tool used to deny safety, freedom and economic opportunity, not to mention an urgent need for food, water and shelter, to families and children in dire need of help from an affluent and caring country.
And that seem to be the real emergency, premised in large part upon another emergency – the immediate need to stop Trumpists from their attempt to transform as many residents of the USA as possible into a selfish and greedy people that will use the law to prevent caring Americans from even helping some of the neediest people on earth survive who only seek freedom, safety, and economic opportunity.
I firmly believe much of this unprecedented crisis is Drumpf self induced because he has no idea what he is doing and doesn’t listen to those who do. These bridge people entered at a legal point of entry and should be allowed to stay and seek asylum if that is their choice. Isn’t that the whole ball of wax wingnuts have whined about to begin with?
Jason is a confused little boy, he should have learned by now that trolls like him live under bridges.
The US has enough $ to meet the needs of each of the “emergencies.” We just need a truly representative/nonGOP government to force the wealthy to join the rest of us in paying their fair share.
if one had read the book written by john stockwell,former marine & a CIA associate during the reagan & bush years they might better understand the policies of the US.in regards to some of our foreign neighbors. an excellent book titled “the praetorian guard” a study of the US.role in the NEW WORLD ORDER
Good point, Ror. Unless resolutions are putting a measure on the ballot, convening an interim committee, or taking other concrete policy action, resolutions are a waste of time, legislators playing at Congresspeople and debating society instead of doing the real work they’ve been elected to do.
We don’t need our elected officials to vote to express displeasure with other elected officials for us; we can do that ourselves, by calling the office and by showing up to vote contrariwise next time.
Debbo is very ignorant about who pays taxes in the US.
Here is a quiz that she and no other Democrat on this blog will answer.
What percentage of taxes do the top 1% of individual income earners pay in the US?
Here is another quiz for Debbo and whoever wants to answer.
The US Debt is around 22 Trillion.
What is the unfunded liability for the US taxpayers right now?
How much did the wealthiest 1% get in tax breaks from Trump?
Less than they paid in tax Roger C.
Any more dumb questions?
Hey dumb dumb, that wasn’t the question.
Try again.
Hey dumb dumb. You didn’t answer my original question.
I will post it again.
What percentage of taxes do the top 1% of individual income earners pay in the US?
The top 1% pay a smaller % of their income in taxes than the rest of us. Same for big corporations.
Jason’s questions are skewed to get the answers he wants, but don’t get at the gist of the problem. Jason, I don’t give a damn what your questions are, nor do I care what you think of me for ignoring them. You’re welcome to ignore my comments entirely, or even ignore DFP. I doubt anyone will mind.
Debbo didn’t answer the question.
Why is she not answering it?
Debbo,
Any intelligent person reading this blog knows the answer to my question.
I really don’t care if you are ignorant or just dumb.
I have the facts and you don’t.
What are the facts, schoolmarm?
[The post was about Congressman Dusty Johnson’s confident dismissal of criticism from the South Dakota Legislature as a “flaming heap of rubbish.” It is not about income tax or the federal debt. None of Jason’s midnight insults or responses thereto are relevant to the discussion of the merits of Johnson’s political stance or the merits of Senate Resolution 7, which was hoghoused into a resolution asking Johnson and our U.S. Senators to get us more federal money to deal with our March blizzard. Do not let Jason pull you off-topic to the things he’d rather shout about. Make him start his own blog to raise his own preferred topics.]
Ha: check out the audio from Senate State Affairs Friday: the committee allowed Senator Russell to repeat the Newspeak of the Trump Administration, speaking of “the emergency at the border” as surely as other fantasists might speak of unicorns or the Moral Majority. Senator Russell himself noted that Senator Heinert had brought him the hoghouse before the hearing to address the flooding in South Dakota; he called the hoghouse a friendly amendment and vaguely painted his Dusty-shouting as a good thing because it provided the Senate a chance to speak on flooding as well.
Senate State Affairs minutes indicate that Black Hills right-wing noisemakers Florence Thompson, Barb Landers, and Mike Mueller showed up to speak in favor of SR 7. Thompson tried to speak to immigration but got point-of-ordered by Senator Bolin for not speaking to the hoghoused resolution. Landers and Mueller also lost their chance to cry about Dusty’s smart vote on Trump’s fake emergency. Mueller managed one sly off-topic dig: “both issues in this resolution pertain to out-of-control flooding”—still off-topic, since there were not two issues in the resolution as amended, only one.
Senator Bolin noted that the Legislature had already taken concrete action flooding by diverting more money to emergency response in the actual budget.
For what it’s worth, I would have voted against SR 7 even in its hoghoused form, because it referred to the March storm as “Winter Storm Ulmer,” affirming the absolutely silly practice of giving snowstorms names.