{"id":200493,"date":"2021-03-24T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/24\/its-called-doing-your-job\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:51:00","slug":"its-called-doing-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/24\/its-called-doing-your-job\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Called &#8220;Doing Your Job&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Mitch McConnell is now   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mconnell-filibuster-nuclear-winter-scorched-earth-senate-7850cb51-3661-41ce-8f90-b686e2d45740.html\">threatening to make Senators stay in town if there are any meaningful     changes to the filibuster<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>  We pay Senators $174,000.00 a year in salary, and they are in for 3 days a   week. <\/p>\n<p>  If they have to stay near for a quorum call or the like, they still are not   the most overworked blokes out there. <\/p>\n<p>  Also, one of the proposals requires that the people supporting a filibuster,   i.e. Mitch&#8217;s evil minions\u2122, would have to stay in town, not the Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Muck Fitch:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A Senate operating in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/23\/mitch-mcconnell-senate-filibuster-reform-nuclear-winter-democrats-republicans\">nuclear winter<\/a>&#8221; Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promises if the filibuster is       eliminated is one in which lawmakers face incessant roll calls and other       inconveniences turning their comfortable lives into a living hell.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b>Why it matters:<\/b> In employing apocalyptic language to       warn about a       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/filibuster-senate-abolish-manchin-sinema-mcconnell-0eb3aed7-02e2-4443-8d77-fa3335e3bd61.html\">&#8220;scorched-earth&#8221; response<\/a>, the Kentucky Republican is trying to scare Democrats away from the tool       they&#8217;re considering to break through the GOP&#8217;s own political       obstinance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, dear, making it so that Senators need to remain nearby.<\/p>\n<p>What a f%$#ing horror. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch McConnell is now threatening to make Senators stay in town if there are any meaningful changes to the filibuster. We pay Senators $174,000.00 a year in salary, and they are in for 3 days a week. If they have to stay near for a quorum call or the like, they still are not the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}