Temper Erupts On Senate Floor Over Impasse In COVID-19 Response | Talking Points Memo

The Senate floor became the site of shouting and angry tirades Monday afternoon, as an impasse over a COVID-19 package frayed the nerves in the “cooling saucer of democracy,” as the Senate has been called.


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When you’ve lost Manchin …

Also,

Also to the also. A little “bothsidesy” here are we? One side is negotiating in good faith. The other side is not.

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Really, I think punching out Mitch McConnell is called for.

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#IHateTheseFuthaFrukers:
May they all end up living under a rock and McConnell’s wife’s ships are all quarantined.

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Schumer and the Senate Democrats know that if they don’t block the bill now, it will be rammed through the Senate. And Moscow Mitch will then adjourn, leaving the House to either accept it as written or deny any economic relief.

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Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor? Is he in Jail? Can he be released early owing to Covid-19?

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The Senate floor became the site of shouting and angry tirades Monday afternoon

And why not?

Why should House Republicans have all the fun?

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Senators McConnell and Collins can FOAD with their “urgency” to give Munchkin a blank check.

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FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT !!!

What I wouldn’t give to see McTurtle get his half-shell knocked off.

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McConnell’s continued lies and insults are completely intolerable.

He is a traitor, plain and simple.

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“Suddenly, the Senate’s serious bipartisan process turned into this left-wing episode of ‘Supermarket Sweep’,”

Maybe I’m too old (too young?), but WTF is this ref about? Also, what’s the right-wing episode look like?

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Go back to regular order – House > Senate > Signature.

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Not always a Chris Hayes fan but this much is certain. Thread

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In the midst of the crisis McConnell went back to Kentucky and now he is calling for immediate action in this emergency?? WTF???

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People talk about wearing gloves.

I say Boxing Gloves.

People will die–millions–if McConnell and these criminals get their way. There will be a crime spree beyond imagination if people are left with the choice of starving or virus.

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Wonder just how Trump thinks he can just order everything back to normal.

States aren’t going to stop shutting down just because he says to.

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Some things are always in order. That’s one of them.

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Another veil slips…

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A legislative history that will live in infamy. (H/T FDR)

ETA. Hard for me to escape the thought that, at heart, McConnell is a nihilist.

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What is ‘unbelievable’ is that the Republicans would STILL try and fk the voter by giving MORE money to the 1% and pretending ‘outrage’. You’ve been caught you jerkwads.

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