Wow, what a gem- love Katie Porter. Its amazing when you have a politician that knows what they are talking about and has the courage to hold these execs accountable.
I mean the SNC lavalin stuff was corrupt AF, but I think Harper did a lot more and didn't get caught due to his iron grip on his party... the F35 fiasco that ended in a proroguing of parliament.
Well, that seems to be a solid work around Ronanon's obstructionism.
EDIT: Here is the moment when Ronanon's obstructionism gets slapped aside.....
LOL:
"Is there objection?" and without missing a beat, "there is no objection..."
I remember reading that Zach actually drew that one up and brought it to LaPo. They work on it together and it was in the playbook... I think Zach was more vocal to LaPo about what he can and wanted to do.
Other than Barret's interjection to minimize the stupid... I don't see how this is news... this is exactly how GQP wins elections... not based on policies, but based on voter suppression, gerrymandering and culture wars.
Good God... why would you do this? I think Texas has 6.5% of its citizens vaccinated...
Seriously... wtf is going through his mind? "Well sheeeeiiit, a collapse of our entire power grid not enough to toughen ya up? Freezing homes with no heat in sub zero temps not putting hair on your chest Boy! Water pipes bursting and destroying all your worldly possessions still not enough to make you a STRONG TEXAN? Then how about a Covid super spike to over run the hospitals and raise our death count? That will make you TEXAN TOUGH!"
Seriously... insane...