Let’s just say that this is one of those cases where I’d be absolutely delighted to be wrong.
5 Likes
Very unlikely. In fact, my guess is that both bills will get perfect, or nearly so, party line votes. So the Democratic bill is likely to fail 47-53 and the Republican bill is likely to get a 53-47 majority but fail because it cannot pass the 60-vote threshold. Almost unthinkable that either bill can get 60 votes right now.
3 Likes
And there’s a good chance that both bills won’t go anywhere.
There’s even a chance neither bill will go anywhere, i.e., that both bills will go nowhere.
1 Like
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address
The conservative pundit scoffed at congressional Democrats’ condition that she reopen the government before being able to deliver the State of the Union.
24 Likes
IDK, McConnell may let it through and make trump veto it.
Seems that he may think that they may lose the presidency anyway. If he can hold the Senate they can block any progress of the next president to get judges through.
At some point McConnell need to try to cover himself and the Senate majority.
5 Likes
Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t.
5 Likes
And there’s Chuck Schumer, throwing Republican’ts a lifeline instead of an anchor. What the fuck is there to negotiate over vis a vis “border security”? Anyone who has two brain cells to rub together knows that THERE IS NO SECURITY CRISIS AT THE BORDER. How about shouting that into every MSNBC camera you jump in front of Chuckles? But no. Chuckie dutifully buys into the GOPosaur Racist Xenophobe framing of the issue because reasons. How about writing a CR that funds the affected agencies at previous levels until the end of the fiscal year, tell the Fat Orange Monstrosity and his taint-licking Turtleman accomplice to take it or leave it and then put that up for a vote? But I guess that would require leadership. Instead, if this miraculously manages to become law, we get to repeat this nightmare shitstorm three weeks from now, all on Trump’s terms again…
2 Likes
It is a good thing it carries a label.
4 Likes
They won’t ignore it - they will pretend like Dems voting against the Trump bill is the same as the GOP voting against a bill they already voted for last month. Both-sidism will prevail again: “Neither side could come to an agreement.”
2 Likes
He might sign it in order to give the SOTU in front of TV cameras in the House chambers on the 29th, and then shut the government down again on the 8th if he doesn’t get his wall funded. I wouldn’t put it past him.
That’s the only thing I dislike about this 15 day extension idea, but at least it defeats the MSM narrative that the Dems aren’t offering “anything.”
8 Likes
2/3rds majority vote in the House (of those present) and 2/3rds majority vote in the Senate (of those present).
2 Likes
What I think it does is it gives Republicans in blue states a no cost vote against Trump and perhaps does the same for Dems in red states.
2 Likes
Schumer and Pelosi are working together, and they see how desperately we need to get the government back open. This is an anchor, because it is highly likely that the Republicans vote for the wall bill but refuse to vote for the other one, despite voting for it a few weeks ago. People will see the hypocrisy (especially if the Dems highlight it), and the Republicans will suffer and eventually cave into opening the government in time for Trump to speak. It’s a good strategy, now it depends on the Republicans doing the right thing…which probably means six more weeks of winter…er, shutdown.
6 Likes
Yertle the Turtle will find a way – to preserve the shutdown at all costs (none of them his).
This is just a stunt by Tooter Turtle to get the government open temporarily so Fat Ass can make his SOTU speech, although I cannot see why the speech would make any difference. I hope Nancy calls them out on this, that the government stays open for good or it’s no-can-do.
Nancy, let them all know: THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRAPINS!!!
15 Likes
Grammar police: Democratic.
7 Likes
Looks like Yertle blinked. Pelosi has bitch in the Senate and one in the WH. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
2 Likes
We need a permanent solution so that there is NEVER a government shutdown EVER again. They are costly, do long term damage to the country and the morale of the federal workforce and there is simply no excuse for them. A law that states- “In the absence of an agreement on appropriations, spending will continue at the previous year’s level.” would do the trick. Also abandon the need to vote on the debt ceiling. We have to fix this once and for all…
24 Likes
Anything that makes the Senate relevant is a loss for Trump, who until now had annexed it as part of the Executive Branch.
11 Likes
Not this Senate! McConnell is so in Trumps pocket or is it Russia’s?
2 Likes