Oh dear. I was feeling a little better Friday afternoon, but now I am losing my voice! Plan A was Thanksgiving with our son at our house on Thursday. Plan B is Thanksgiving celebration on Sunday at our house. Plan C is Wil and Son at Son's house and me joining in via Zoom. Plan D (if Wil comes down with it) is to drop off Son's portion of the meal (cooked here) and Son joining us via Zoom.
I figured this was good enough to copy verbatim. ----Alan
The Perils of a Narrow House Majority November 26, 2022 at 7:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Wall Street Journal: “Resignations are typical in any Congress, and at least one House lawmaker has died during every two-year legislative session of Congress during the past two decades.”
“In 2022 alone, Reps. Jim Hagedorn, Don Young and Jackie Walorski died in office. Six other House members resigned, including to take other politically appointed positions. Since 1997, 37 House elected lawmakers have died either in or before taking office.”
“In one instance, Republicans won a slim majority of just one seat in the 1930 elections. But before the 72nd Congress could convene, 14 elected members died, according to House archives. Special elections held to replace them flipped the chamber in Democrats’ favor.”
And let us not forget the difficulties a GOP leader will have herding the obstreperous members of his or her caucus.
Oh dear. I was feeling a little better Friday afternoon, but now I am losing my voice!
ReplyDeletePlan A was Thanksgiving with our son at our house on Thursday.
Plan B is Thanksgiving celebration on Sunday at our house.
Plan C is Wil and Son at Son's house and me joining in via Zoom.
Plan D (if Wil comes down with it) is to drop off Son's portion of the meal (cooked here) and Son joining us via Zoom.
Never let the Turkeys win!
Darn!
DeleteAnonymous = Alan, who needs a cup of coffee.
DeleteI figured this was good enough to copy verbatim.
ReplyDelete----Alan
The Perils of a Narrow House Majority
November 26, 2022 at 7:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Wall Street Journal: “Resignations are typical in any Congress, and at least one House lawmaker has died during every two-year legislative session of Congress during the past two decades.”
“In 2022 alone, Reps. Jim Hagedorn, Don Young and Jackie Walorski died in office. Six other House members resigned, including to take other politically appointed positions. Since 1997, 37 House elected lawmakers have died either in or before taking office.”
“In one instance, Republicans won a slim majority of just one seat in the 1930 elections. But before the 72nd Congress could convene, 14 elected members died, according to House archives. Special elections held to replace them flipped the chamber in Democrats’ favor.”
And let us not forget the difficulties a GOP leader will have herding the obstreperous members of his or her caucus.
So, you're saying there's still hope...
DeleteWell, at least any GOP Speaker is going to be doing one heck of a dog-that-caught-the-car routine.
Delete---Alan
Does anybody have an update on how many seats each party has currently won? CNN apparently stopped updating once the majority was decided.
DeleteElon Musk and the Narcissism/Radicalization Maelstrom [Click] Twitter is probably doomed (not that it's any loss to me). I hope the adults can control Tesla and SpaceX.
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It’s a colorless, toxic gas. A US woman won $363m after [decades] of exposure [Click] Ethylene oxide. Maybe we should go back to steam sterilization for those things for which it is appropriate.
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‘The sheer scale is extraordinary’: meet the titanosaur that dwarfs Dippy the diplodocus [Click]
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It is certainly strange that a group of them were found in one place, and evidently about the same age as well.
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Russia firing ageing cruise missiles because stocks are depleted, MoD suggests [Click] “Intelligence update said missiles from 1980s stripped of nuclear warheads ‘unlikely to achieve reliable effects’” I had not realized that they are being fired with no warheads at all.
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The less the better!
Delete‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test [Click]
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Hmmm....not really my bowl of gruel.
DeleteGruel gets a bad rap; it can be very tasty, filling, and nutritious. Excellent for quantity cooking to boot.
Delete--Alan
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DeleteHence my saying that this isn't MY bowl of gruel. 😉