115th Congressional Dumpster Fire

The purpose of this page will be to compile Fark threads dealing with the dumpster fire that is the 115th U.S. Congress.

This page is for the month of 

For previous months, please see the archive

=Background= This section will provide background information about the members of the 115th U.S. Congress, or their party affiliation, etc. any information to give a basic overview of the 115th U.S. Congress that does not necessarily need a Fark-related thread.


 * date first called into session: January 3, 2017
 * date Americans can first expect relief: January 3, 2019
 * to read about all the legislative crap they're up to click here, for outstanding individual achievements in assholery, click here, for "investigations" click here and for confirmation hearings click here

Congresscritters and how to contact them

 * all members on Gov Track
 * House members
 * Senators

Current Pending Bills

 * all bills on Gov Track

=Fark Threads on the President's Address to Congress=
 * 1) Colbert completed Trump's 'say it to my face' challenge
 * 2) Here is the real democratic response to Trump's speech
 * 3) With a coherent speech for once, Donald Trump may have just had his Bar Mitzvah moment
 * 4) Apparently not having learned their lesson from the past election, Democrats pick the most underwhelming candidate they could find to deliver the Democratic response to Trump. How underwhelming? Even Rachel Maddow panned him as small and stunty
 * 5) President ME has left the building: Trump references self 60 percent less than Obama in first SOTU address. And remember, this is Donald Trump we are talking about
 * 6) Factchecking of Trump's speech exceeds expectations by 17%
 * 7) Of the three bills and two executive orders President Trumpler signed yesterday, guess which one wasn't given a signing ceremony or photoshoot
 * 8) Trump's first address to congress was watched by three billion people, more than any other American President before him
 * 9) We now know Trump is no ballerina, he didn't have a one-night "pivot" concerning his State of the Union speech, so just stop picturing him in a tutu
 * 10) Fox News was the most-watched cable network for Trump's State of The Confederacy speech
 * 11) "The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful"

=Fark Threads on Legislation= To stare into the abyss that is the previous months of this circus, please click here (Don't say you weren't warned)

Repeal of ACA

 * 1) Prelude and/or background
 * 2) Backlash
 * 3) Repeal
 * 4) Replacement
 * 5) A healthcare plan only republicans can see? We are really taxing that "Emperor has no clothes" parable to the limit
 * 6) "We won't know what's in the healthcare bill until after it's been voted on." Of course. Typical libe-what? Rand Paul? RAND PAUL
 * 7) Another day / another leak / another way / to take a peek / at RyanCare version 10.5
 * 8) Finally, House Republicans have released their plan that will replace Obamacare. No, you don't need to know its cost yet, just enjoy the plan. What's that? Who's covered? I SAID JUST ENJOY THE PLAN
 * 9) "Meh, he's a crazy asshole. What did you expect? Don't look at us, you voted for the guy." - The GOP Leadership
 * 10) Why Democrats will eventually come to love Obamacare Lite
 * 11) No one likes Ryancare because it's either A) too evil or B) not evil enough
 * 12) GOP diligently works to reform healthcare by repealing the extremely problematic 10% sales tax on indoor tanning. Maybe if the Great Cheeto doesn't have to pay such high taxes on tanning beds he will layoff the spray
 * 13) "Repair"
 * 14) Recinding coal miners health benefits
 * 15) https://www.fark.com/comments/9500664 Oh, nothing. It's just that 23000 coal miners and their dependents are about to lose their health insurance. I guess they should've just been born rich]

Ending Medicare

 * 1) Poor people don't want health care and Jesus was against helping the sick for free. Apparently we've been doing it wrong all this time

Monitor Russian Sanctions
=Fark Threads on Congressional Investigations= To view the full mess starting from January, 2017, please click here (Don't say you weren't warned)

Trump Campaign contacts with Russia

 * 1) Democrats are finally realizing that Comey knows quite a bit more about Russia and Trump than he's letting on
 * 2) Is Trey Ghowzi a scandal yet?
 * 3) Realizing that their base will still vote for them regardless of what he does, the GOP stays on the SS Trump
 * 4) The Trump-Beltway wars have only just begun
 * 5) Sorry Dems, the whole Jeff Sessions gig you've got going is nothing but fake news
 * 6) And here it is. The stupidest thing you will read all day

Possible Russian Interference Of 2016 POTUS Election

 * 1) And Jeff recuses

Possible Interference with Economic Sanctions against Russia

 * 1) WH ordered to keep all information they have regarding Russia. Presumably for the big bonfire they'll have when Putin has a state visit
 * Senate Judiciary Committee
 * "asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to keep materials related to Trump associates’ alleged ties to Russia"
 * Senate Intelligence Committee
 * "asked federal agencies to keep materials that tie into its investigation into Russian cyber hacking and other efforts to disrupt the election"
 * 1) And.... Here.... We... Go
 * 2) AG Sessions to hold press conference at 4pm Eastern, presumably to tell us that he did not have relations with that country. Or that he did. Either way, grab the popcorn, and here we go, again

Rep. Nadler's "Resolution of Inquiry"
demanding Attorney General hand over “any document, record, memo, correspondence or other communication” pertaining to “criminal or counterintelligence investigations” related to Trump, White House staff or his business"

=Fark Threads on Trump cabinet confirmation hearings= There was a whole lot more than appears here, please check the archive for the full horror show

Carson for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

 * 1) Senate confirms Ben Carson as secretary of HUD. Current plans are to inform him when he wakes up

Perry for Secretary of Energy

 * 1) Rick Perry officially confirmed as Secretary of... uh... Secretary of... wait I had something for this

Bannon for Führer of National Security Council
=Fark Threads on Federal Judiciary Confirmation Hearings=

Gorsuch for Supreme Court Justice
=Fark threads on Trump Ambassadorships= Please check the archive for previous threads on Ambassadorships since there probably won't be any more ambassadors in the future

Palin for Ambassador to Canada
soorry, eh

=Fark Threads on Congresscritters= The only reason why there is an archive for these assholes is so people might see examples of what not to do

General

 * 1) If the Republican party still has a moral center, it needs to find it or face extinction
 * 2) Apparently Republicans have become Russia's b*tches
 * 3) Right-wing House Republicans not happy with slow progress of Obamacare repeal so they're gonna build their own ACA repeal bills. With blackjack. And hookers

Senator Marco Rubio (R FL)

 * 1) Senators who have an office in your home states, please raise your hands. Not so fast, Senator Rubio
 * 2) Marco Rubio turned the other cheek only for the invisible hand of the market to spank him on that one too

Rep. Darrell Issa (R CA 49th)

 * 1) To no one's surprise, Darrell Issa wasn't actually serious about calling for investigations into the Trump administration

Senator Rand Paul (R KY)

 * 1) "We won't know what's in the healthcare bill until after it's been voted on." Of course. Typical libe-what? Rand Paul? RAND PAUL

Senator Joe Leiberman (D CT)

 * 1) Former Senator Joe Lieberman (Quisling-CT) says the Democratic strategy of across-the-board opposition to having people's faces eaten off is "thoughtless" and Dems should "compromise". Maybe just let the leopards eat the nose and ears, for example

Senator Ron Johnson (R WI)

 * 1) Senator Ron Johnson, apparently terrified of actually speaking to constituents, treats them like stalkers and sends them cease and desist letters. Of course, calling 83 times in the space of a week is a bit excessive

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R UT 3rd)
chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
 * 1) Channeling St. Reagan, Jason Chaffetz suggests poors should buy healthcare instead of those Cadillacs they drive to the grocery store in order to buy steak and lobster with their food stamps
 * 2) FEC filings show Jason Chaffetz used over $700 of his campaign donors' money to shop at the Apple Store last year

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R SC 4th)

 * 1) Is Trey Ghowzi a scandal yet?

Rep. Mike Bost (R IL 12th)

 * 1) GOP congressman says holding town halls is like being yelled at in a ritual "that the Orientals used to do"

Rep Nancy Pelosi (D CA 12th)
House minority leader
 * 1) Nancy Pelosi: I never met Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. File photo: Oh yeah? Nancy Pelosi: Oh, heh... did I say never? I meant never one-on-one. Ha, silly me

Rep. Dr. Roger Marshall (R KS 1st)

 * 1) Poor people don't want health care and Jesus was against helping the sick for free. Apparently we've been doing it wrong all this time

Rep. Steve King (R, IA 4th)

 * 1) Congressman Steve King (R-eally Crazy) wants a purge. No, really, he said that

Rep. Paul Ryan (R WI 4th)
Speaker of the House
 * 1) "Meh, he's a crazy asshole. What did you expect? Don't look at us, you voted for the guy." - The GOP Leadership

Senator Mitch McConnell (R KY)
Senate Majority Leader
 * 1) "Meh, he's a crazy asshole. What did you expect? Don't look at us, you voted for the guy." - The GOP Leadership

Senator Chuck Grassley (R IA)

 * 1) Leave it to curmudgeonly Iowa republican Chuck Grassley to oppose a special prosecutor over Russia

JV Team
executive director, Congressional Leadership Fund Queens' Community Board 4's transportation committee member
 * 1) Arizona state Legislature
 * 2) They'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dumb watchdog. SCOOBY DOOBY DOO
 * 3) state water officials for Michigan
 * 4) Flint residents must start paying for water they still can't drink without a filter, because fark you, that's why
 * 5)  Corry Bliss
 * 1) New Republican ad attacks Democratic congressional candidate for... dressing up as Han Solo in college?
 * 2) Texas GOP
 * 3) Texas GOP message of the day: gay people only have rights when Democrats are in charge
 * 4) Indiana state Legislature
 * 5) Indiana doesn't care what medical science says, the LAW says you can reverse an abortion. Now put it back in
 * 6) Ann Pfoser Darby
 * 1) Community Board member promises that NYC won't need bike lanes once all the immigrants are deported
 * 2) state Rep. Rick Saccone (R, PA, 39th)
 * 3) Why does 'god' need a starship? er...senate seat?
 * 4) Alabama Department of Corrections
 * 5) In Alabama the state prison system is at approximately 180 percent of capacity, the number of correctional officers required is dangerously low, and the fire alarms don't properly work
 * 6) state Rep. John Bennett (R, OK, 1st)
 * 7) If you are a Muslim teen in Oklahoma you must answer a survey before meeting this representative
 * 8) Arkansas state House
 * 9) Bill just filed in the Arkansas State House, would "allow public school teachers to teach creationism and intelligent design as theories" alongside actual science. Surely, no one will notice this time

WTF?
WTF!?

Senator Claire McCaskill (D MO)

 * 1) Claire McCaskill: Jeff Sessions should resign because as a senator he once talked to the Russian Ambassador...you know just like me and every one of my hypocrite DNC colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D FL 23rd)

 * 1) In a great confluence of political cross currents of nothingberger, the story that DWS failed to recognize SEAL's widow turns out to be fake, or was it?

Senator Chris Coons (D DE)

 * 1) After railing against Republicans for throwing a government shutdown tantrum, Democrats plan to throw a government shutdown tantrum

JV Team

 * 1) state Senator Mark Chelgren (R, IA, 41st)
 * 2) Republican Sen. from Iowa claims a business degree from Forbco Mgt. School. WTF is Forbco U. you might ask? Spokesman for the State Republican party says it's the Sizzler steakhouse version of a certificate from Hamburger U. at McDonalds
 * 3) Iowa politician with degree from Sizzler University denies he "mischaracterized" his background as he continues efforts to undermine state universities
 * 4) former governor Steve Beshear (R?, KY)
 * 5) Apparently not having learned their lesson from the past election, Democrats pick the most underwhelming candidate they could find to deliver the Democratic response to Trump. How underwhelming? Even Rachel Maddow panned him as small and stunty

Rep. Keith Ellison (D MN 5th)

 * 1) It's almost as if two adults, who agree on most things, can sit together and work after they compete

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D CA 12th)
House Minority Leader
 * 1) Dems to Sessions: GTFO

Rep. Adam Schiff (D CA 28th)

 * 1) Democrats are finally realizing that Comey knows quite a bit more about Russia and Trump than he's letting on
 * 2) Adam Schiff says that Session' explanations for his meetings with the Russian ambassador "make no sense"; tells Jack McCoy to have detectives Briscoe and Green bring him in and go over his statements again

Senator Lindsay Graham (R, SC)

 * 1) Dems to Sessions: GTFO

Senator Al Franken (D MN)

 * 1) Sorry Dems, the whole Jeff Sessions gig you've got going is nothing but fake news

Senator Chuck Schumer (D NY)
Senate minority leader
 * 1) Chuck Schumer to Trump: I'll talk about my Putin meeting under oath. Will you?

Rep. Ted Lieu (D CA 33rd)

 * 1) Congressman points out to Trump that if his TT phones were tapped, then he's in deeper poop than he imagined because the tap would have required a warrant, which in turn would have required Probable Cause in front of a FISA judge

Senator Tom Cotton (R AR)

 * 1) Even Sen. "Tehran Tom" Cotton isn't willing to hop aboard Trump's latest crazy Train

Senator Ben Sasse (R NE)

 * 1) "Meh, he's a crazy asshole. What did you expect? Don't look at us, you voted for the guy." - The GOP Leadership

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D RI)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Tom Udall (D NM)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Ron Wyden (D OR)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Jack Reed (D RI)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Tom Carper (D DE)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D CT)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D MD)

 * 1) Senators push to force Southern White House to obey regular White House open records laws

JV Squad

 * 1) Kansas state Supreme Court
 * 2) Supreme Court of Kansas orders school funding hike, as voters wonder if there is something... anything at all, that lies within their power to bring about some kind of change to the government which so consistently fails to represent them
 * 3) Alabama state Legislature
 * 4) Let this sink in for a second: ALABAMA lawmakers may be showing more of a commitment to ethics and good government than the United States Congress right now, as the GOP-dominated legislature meets to discuss impeaching their Republican governor

=See Also=
 * Drumpfster Fire
 * ALECworks
 * the archive for this page
 * Defying GOP's Wet Dream of One Party Rule of U.S. Government