November is comingā¦
Gotta admit. Iām more than a bit torn. With a 6 year extension on CHIP I think we should pass the funding resolution. 9 million kids need that insurance and weāll be back to this again in a month.
I want to see the three Republican senators (Graham, the guy from ND and Rand Paul, I think) actually vote ānoā. Because of course, I donāt believe they will - except for Paul.
Looks like the Freedom Caucus drives as hard a bargain as Susan Collins. They sold their votes for a bunch of empty promises. Highly doubtful the Senate will ever pass any of their numbskull ideas.
The DOA House CR billā¦ ROFLMAO
Respectfully disagree. Right now is a point of maximum leverage. Who knows where weāll be in a month? Demand DACA and CHIP now and donāt give an inch until we get it.
The writing was in the wall - the Dems will not take the fall - hey I rhymed. But perhaps the criticism that they control the damn country got to them - or Trump threatened them all with stupid nicknames.
What an incompetent bunch of baffoons.
There was never any real question that the House would pass the CR. Of course they will, it doesnāt include DACA. For them itās a big win if it somehow passes the Senate in that form. Why on earth wouldnāt they pass it?
But now it goes to the Senate. Several GOP Senators have said they wonāt vote for it, including one who might actually stick to that position even if heās the deciding vote ā Lindsey Graham. Sure, Rand Paul says heāll vote ānoā too but as we all know by now (or should) his word means nothing, and if it came down to him being the deciding vote he would almost certainly fold.
But with McCain apparently out of action, Graham supposedly a hard no, and several other GOPers questionable ā and most importantly the fact that a 60 vote margin is needed ā this CR cannot pass the Senate unless a very sizeable chunk of the Democratic caucus folds.
Itās moment of truth time.
Itās stand and deliver time.
There is NO excuse for folding and giving up our leverage.
Vote this sorry piece of crap down.
DACA deal or go fuck yourselves.
Ryan is playing his favorite game; pass a bill that is destined to fail in the senate. This created another chance for Trump to degrade McConnell and call for a change in the senate rules.
To secure the caucusā support, a GOP aide told TPM that Ryan promised Meadows the following: āThe House will take up and vote for a separate DOD funding and caps-busting bill to send to the Senate that fully funds our troops. The House will work on and ultimately vote on a conservative immigration bill to send to the Senate.
And all yāall gets a pony too!
Get yours before the Senate kills thisā¦
DOD funding not int he CR?
There goes that GOP/Trump talking point.
ROFLMAO
My take is that they got on board after they were assured that it wouldnāt pass the Senate. This way it looks as though the Dems caused the shut down. The house gets to look united and they know they wonāt have to own it.
My vocabulary fails me. Loathsome, disgusting, evil, @#$/^&
Yes. There are also a few Democrats who have not yet said how they will vote; apparently, the time has come for them to decide.
That is a word that, in my opinion, does not get used enough.
This gives Dem Senators even more leverage. The house put the whole load on the Senate. They have to pass it, but need Democratic votes to do it. What to do? What to do?
Get em Schumer.
āHouse Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows insisted he had enough ānoā votes in his pocket to block passage of the deal.ā
āSo, is that a ānoā vote in your pocket, or are you just happy to see DACA families torn apart?ā
(h/t Mae West)
Whack-a-mole.
This is one of Trumpās white military people he supports:
It literally made us sick reading it just now.
Ah, but the question is, will our Democratic Senators actually use the leverage. (We must have the largest pile of dry powder in the world, but apparently no cannons in which to use it.) If they choose not to use that leverage, then they might as well go home and stop pretending to be tough or more than marginally relevant. They can write their strongly worded letters from home. Please, Democrats, have a spine this time. Vote NO unless we get something real (ideally a DACA agreement as well as CHIP).