Summary
Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) halted the House by pushing a bipartisan bill allowing new parents to vote by proxy for 12 weeks.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tried blocking the vote with a special rule, but nine Republicans joined Democrats to defeat it.
Luna and Pettersen’s move paused GOP legislation and forced Johnson to cancel votes for the week.
Johnson argues proxy voting is unconstitutional, while Luna accused GOP leaders of using threats to stop the bill. The measure will likely return for a vote.
I guess when it finally overlapped with her personal experience Anna Paulina Luna decided to have a conscience.
She’ll reverse course once her kid is old enough, just watch
This is what it means to be a conservative. There are no fundamentally conservative values. Each conservative gets to redefine what conservativism is based on their own identity. It’s never about achieving anything more than a personal win.
No it bloody isn’t. There are legitimate concerns that would lead one to be a conservative. The republicans aren’t conserving shit. They are self serving idiots who don’t care about anything past making money.
Rewriting precedent doesn’t conserve anything - it throws us back in time.
Ignoring best practices doesn’t conserve shit.
The proper conservative response to Roe v Wade is to leave the precedent in place.
Christian extremism is not conservative.
Bullshit. Conservativism has always been a carefully constructed narrative built around the identity of the contemporaneous conservative leadership. Twas always thus, and always will be. Step 1: Define the self. Step 2: decide if the status quo benefits the self. If it does, then it must be conserved in the guise of stoicism, tradition, or precaution. If it does not, then it must be changed to prevent the collapse of civil society.
Abortion is an excellent example of exactly this phenomenon, and I’m glad you brought it up. Christian nationalism is another example of a version of conservativism that is tailor-made to fit the identity of the Christian conservative. There isn’t any sort of conservative that doesn’t pick and choose their priorities based on who they are and how they are directly affected.
No true Scotsman, ultimate edition.
As a former fiscal conservative, it sure was fucking annoying how the Democratic plans were more efficient in the long run.
I mean, democrats are conservative…
I use uppercase “Conservative” to indicate Ia.talking about the modern brand name vs. the lowercase “conservative” to talk about the actual political term.
By defeating the special rule, Luna and Pettersen temporarily blocked Republican leaders from bringing up other House business, leading Johnson to cancel votes for the rest of the week. That will delay Republican-sponsored bills that would restrict courts from issuing national injunctions and require Americans to prove their citizenship in order to vote.
So the actual headline is “Johnson shoots himself in the dick, blames women” and npr just went with the women-blaming part.
Classic npr
Ok taking bets! Five day spread. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
What day will a Republican tell the media “This is why women should not have the right to vote or run for office.”
