Well you just rock on Senator Thune!
Keep lookinâ for them "dials you can twist to try to attract support.â
âOnlyâ 63,700 people will lose coverage in South Dakota.
You and South Dakota deserve each other.
If Turtle had brought this bill to the floor the best estimate of the vote would have been 95-5. Five Rs voting no wouldâve brought Turtleâs career down. Thatâs why it was pulled. Now they have to for 50 or so R converts.
âIt is a function of just trying to figure out that sweet spot where we can get the 50 votes you need to pass it "
No, itâs a function of how big a tax cut your donors want and how many Americans you kill or bankrupt along the way.
Translated : youâre going to need a bigger bribe to get my vote
Actually, Senator Fuckstick, there are 22 million issues to be addressedâŚ
Funny that there were more than five Senators on the âsecretâ committee that wrote the bill. Public sentiment is so firmly against this, even some of the authors were ready to vote against it.
Really bad optics for McTurtle.
Little tweaks, Senator Thune - that go in direct opposite directions. We all watched this performance in the House. We know what you end up with after tweaking will be even worse, and even less popular. Itâs called Dancing with the Devil, Senator Thune.
With only 17 percent support for the current GOP bill, it seems as though more than âa couple of issuesâ need to be addressed in order to achieve public support.
Shorter Thune: Hey, Iâm from North Dakota. Please notice me⌠Anyone?
Or letâs try whatâll actually happen, Senator: you depart DC knowing 83% of the country dislikes what youâre dreaming of, knowing that more valuable time has burned off the calendar, AND knowing that your partyâs leader will be golfing away the 4th and couldnât care less about your dreams.
Happy 4th asshole.
âIt is a function of just trying to figure out that sweet spot where we can get the 50 votes you need to pass it and of course the assistance of Mike Pence, the vice president, and the chair if necessary,â he said. âWe will get there.â
right. the âsweet spotâ isnât insuring people, bringing down premiums, looking out for the general welfare like the constitution says weâre supposed to be doing.
the âsweet spotâ is âgetting to 50.â
i.e., party over country, yet again.
No, itâs the OTHER Dakota. ND has itâs own problems but accepting THIS guy is not going to cure any of them.
âWe will get there.â
I like this quote. Course itâll take another seven years.
83% of the people thinking the thing is about as useful as a screen door in a submarine is one of the â littleâ issues.
Sorry about that. A function of posting before the caffeine kicks inâŚ
a couple?!?!
how about 22 million?
Hey. People not knowing there even IS a North Dakota is a common problem. Years ago, when I was a college student. I went to a conference and after asking where I was from, a guy from California mused, âNorth Dakota. Iâve heard of that. [Like the state is a fucking planet in a distant galaxy or something.] Dylanâs from there. Hubbing?â
âHibbing. And thatâs in Minnesota.â
Here, Max. This is the main junction in Murdo, S.D, the town where Thune is from. To the left of this picture is the most ramshackle museum I have ever seen with about a MILLION billboards covering it up. How it stays in business is one of the 20 top mysteries in America.
Anyone who has ever BEEN in Murdo will laugh. It doesnât even have 500 people in it but it does have TWO freeway interchanges. To this day I cannot figure out what for. My in-laws were once trapped in Murdo during a spring blizzard and had to sleep on the floor of the high school. They still think they would have been better off wandering in the middle of the cold, snow-swept prairie and this comes from a man who was in a Nazi labor camp. Jesus. Murdo.
âIt is a function of just trying to figure out that sweet spot where we can get the 50 votes you need to pass it"âŚgood god you twit. The âsweet spotâ where you can screw 22 million Americans MOST of them poor and elderly? What kind of monster ARE you?
Really hate that ni(CLANG!) donât you?
The water tower in the background would suggest they have indoor plumbing? Very progressiveâŚ