https://www.joemygod.com/2024/12/gop-reps-son-denies-shes-living-in-dementia-facility/
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Scottie
GOP Rep’s Son Denies She’s Living In Dementia Facility – Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/12/gop-reps-son-denies-shes-living-in-dementia-facility/
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
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You know, I saw a headline somewhere yesterday on a phone, that she is exhibiting diminished capacity and hasn’t been present on the floor for months. I didn’t read the story; I’m sorry for her ill health.
But would giggle a little at Speaker Johnson’s diminishing majority!
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Hi Ali. You are a wonderful caring person, but in this case you may be missing the point. Who is casting her votes? Her staff? She has a disease that means she can not do her job. And has not showed up for work in months. You had jobs in your life, ever have one where your boss / company paid you for not showing you for four months? Strom Thurmond was over 100 years old and not conscious but wheeled in to the Senate to vote which was cast by his staff, and the vote was always the hard right line, the maga of the day. Dianne Feinstein cost the democrats many possible lifetime judgeship positions that tRump can now fill because she was absent so much and couldn’t remember which side she was on often. Her dementia was kept hidden but came out after she hugged Graham after the Barrett hearing. My point is this is elder abuse by keeping them in positions of power and it is abuse to the country as well. We need the leaders of our country to be healthy and ready to do the best thing for the people. Pelosi managed to stop AOC from being the lead on the oversite committee in favor of 73 year old man with throat cancer. He is going to be a strong voice for the democrats on that committee isn’t he. Much better than that vibrant young woman. Hugs
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If she’s not present, she’s not voting. At all. That’s what I meant about the Speaker’s majority.
I can’t speak to why diminished older people stay in their seats; others can’t make them do it, but others also can’t keep them from doing it, unless/until there’s a court proceeding. So, in Feinstein’s example, likely Dems are too nice to tell her she needed to go. In Republicans’s examples, well. Do we really not know that the party is in it for the power, and as long as the seat says “R”, they’re not rocking any boats?
Pres. Biden’s recent judgeship confirmation count-I saw it last week and am not keeping tabs-was 253. So we’re still doing OK. I just wish there was something to be done about the Supreme Court, but here we are.
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Hi Ali. Seems you are correct. The remote voting that was established in 2020 seems to have been rescinded. Which is a good thing. Still being wheeled on to the floor with barely any idea what is going so your staff can vote the party line robs the voters the representation they need from their elected officials. As for the judgeship count, in this case more by our side is always better. tRump is placing right wing ideology that do not rule on the law but on ideals of their party or church. Even if it was a small number she cost us, it shouldn’t have happened. As for the SCOTUS, sadly right now you are correct. All we can hope is that in two years the democrats can take back the Senate which will put a stop to tRump judges and legislative damage he can do. But Ali, we have to stay with a progressive positive message, if we retreat to a mythical center trying to be republican right, we will lose. We know what the people want, they want a European / Scandinavian style country where the wealthy don’t walk like gods over the rest of the population and everyone has a chance to live in comfort and security as who they are, living their own lives freely.
Oh and in case I don’t find the energy to write to you before then, have a grand New Year’s Eve and a wonderful new year. Hugs
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I thought I should check to see if my recalled info is still valid (under our nutty Republican majority!) and I found this .pdf:
Voting is an individual right and responsibility that cannot be delegated or exercised by anyone
else. In response to concerns about the possibility of “ghost voting,” in which a Member would be
recorded as having voted even when there was evidence that he or she could not have done so, the
House voted in 1981 to add what is now clause 2 of Rule III:
(a) A Member may not authorize any other person to cast the vote of such Member or
record the presence of such Member in the House or the Committee of the Whole House
on the state of the Union.
(b) No other person may cast a Member’s vote or record a Member’s presence in the House
or the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
(So far, so good.)
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Hi Ali it is always good to check. For example I knew that the house had allowed remote vote casting and I think at one time allowed proxies voting starting in 2020 because of covid. But I looked into it and it appears that those things were allowed to die and not be renewed some time in 2023 it appears. I can give you the links but I closed the pages already. You can look up remote voting by the US house and it will give you the stories I read. Hugs
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