(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . House GOP continues its revenge agenda this week [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-27 The effort to rescind the Department of Labor rule could see some success, both in the House and Senate thanks. The congressional review act, the procedure that allows them to veto the administration’s rules, takes a simple majority to pass—it’s not subject to the filibuster in the Senate. Sen. Joe Manchin (Big Oil-WV) is already on board with the Republicans because he’s Joe Manchin. A few others—Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Angus King (I-ME)—are undecided. Also, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) remains out while being treated for clinical depression. Biden can and probably will veto the bill if Congress does indeed go there. That would be his first veto. Let’s be clear, though; this is simple toxic partisanship. There’s nothing that’s good for investors—or the pension plans—in it. “It defies logic,” Robert Eccles, a visiting professor of management practice at the Oxford University Saïd Business School, told Bloomberg Law. “If Republicans can somehow tell pension fund managers to override their fiduciary duty for returns and to not take account of material environmental and social factors, these returns are going to suffer.” Which makes what’s happening over on the Senate side Monday ironic. Republican Sen. James Lankford (OK) is going to take on the annual reading of George Washington’s Farewell Address. That’s how the Senate commemorates Washington’s birthday, a nice tradition in which Senators read all the words, and in the case of Republicans, ignore all the warnings. Washington warned the people, and the Congress, of disunity. “You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together,” Washington declared. “The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes,” he continued. “Your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty and…the love of the one ought to endear you to the preservation of the other.” He also warned against putting loyalty to a political party over loyalty to the nation, and sounded pretty damned prescient. He cautioned that a “spirit of revenge” could overcome the spirit of governance, and give rise to “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” who would “usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” ”The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” At the top of Washington’s mind (and that of Alexander Hamilton, who drafted the address) was the idea of some restoration of a monarchy—the U.S. being ruled by a king, the authoritarianism of the day. It’s a warning that Lankford will read and all the Republicans who bother to listen will hear, without bothering to internalize. Without recognizing just what they did in allowing Trump to happen. Without recognizing how they’re continuing on a path to the destruction of the nation, one little bill at a time. RELATED STORIES [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/27/2155247/-Congress-is-back-ready-for-another-week-of-toxic-nonsense-from-the-House Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/