The Republican’t Conundrum: How do I serve my constituents a giant shit sandwich and convince them that it’s Filet Mignon, while still retaining my corporate campaign cash and invitations to all the best D.C. cocktail parties?
At the end of the process, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will offer an amendment that cleans up whatever mess is made with the open amendments, and it will serve as the vehicle for the final bill the Senate votes on.
Magical thinking.
This is like watching the sausage factory operate in reverse. When it is all done, you’ve got a pile of intestines and all the parts of a carcass that nobody would touch if they were served as-is.
Because Republicans are seeking to use a complex legislative process called “reconciliation” that allows them to avoid a Democratic filibuster, there is an open amendments period where members of both parties offer measures that mostly serve as show votes.
Ah ffs it’s 2017, stop it with the powdered wigs already. Let public broadcasting folks perform shows with taxpayer money; legislators should be researching facts and deliberating
ottnott you win the internet for today - that is an effing brilliant metaphor on many levels!!
I hope Josh has Tierney covered with comprehensive insurance. I can’t imagine what kind of strain her (I suspect) constant eye-rolls is putting on her extraocular muscles.
The only question is whether “carcass” remains a metaphor.
Not that I didn’t know that they were lying, hypocritical, phonies – but good on Dems for exposing them all as trumpers.
Damn, that sounds like a lot of work. Am sure that would not be my favorite part of the job.
So when it came time to put his money where his mouth was, John McCain proved not quite the hero he appeared to be last evening.
Of course, the same is true for Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Shelley Moore Capito, Dean Heller, and Mike Lee. Mitch cracks a mean whip. In the end, we see they are all just his slaves. Any appearance otherwise is just Republican kabuki theater.
Republicans banned facts from their universe along about the time W was elected. Remember their disdain for the “reality-based community” and the statement from one of the Bushies that “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”? Facts are so 20th century!
A vote that proves once again McCain is just as much a degenerate liar as Trump.
If it needed underlining. I thought yesterday pretty well established that.
McCain is one of the GOP’s faithful sheep.
I’m beginning to think the GOP has no idea what it’s doing. This is all starting to make sense.
The whole process is offal.
Double secret underlining?
Donnelly be trolling and that is awesome
Yea, the praise McCain is getting for his “speech” on this is enough to make me want to vomit.
He’s a RINO in name only.