Isn’t a DEAL contingent upon the agreement being bi-partisan?
The Repubs who sign on to this DEAL need to be tarred and feathered.
Why even go to the trouble when you can simply outvote them, albeit with a handful of the Blue Dogs allowed to vote with the GOP for political cover?
The beauty of a "no contest" plea is that such a vote can be avoided. Plea will be announced this afternoon and penalty will be announced for the Friday news dump to garner the least attention before the weekend.
Given the current political climate, they might even make the penalty so severe as to suspend Rangle for the duration of the current congress so he has to go home and face the wrath of the voters who, as we all know, will promptly reelect him.
Anyone objecting to this wrist-slap arrangement will, of course, be branded as antidemocratic and racist.