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Senate Republican leader McConnell says Senate will not consider legislation expected to be introduced by House Democrats to end shutdown
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NutmegYankee
(16,207 posts)Lets see if he keep to it even when its all on him.
Zoonart
(11,916 posts)Bring it.
pecosbob
(7,550 posts)They now officially own the shutdown
Maeve
(42,312 posts)Raven
(13,909 posts)what her next move will be.
elleng
(131,414 posts)Goodheart
(5,352 posts)I predict it won't be pretty for him.
dem4decades
(11,322 posts)Would be the first question I'd ask him, right after i asked him why he failed to warn the American people of Russian interference in the election.
With the follow up question, had he ever accepted Russian money.
Where are the so called journalists anyway?
John Fante
(3,479 posts)The msm is dead to me.
dem4decades
(11,322 posts)Especially the TV reporters. And Haberman
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)mitch is obstruction of anything good!
VMA131Marine
(4,159 posts)With a veto-proof majority.
Here's the thing; Trump is doing what Bannon always wanted: crashing the system, "deconstructing the administrative state." I doubt Trump understands that's what he's doing, but there is only so long that people will keep coming to work without paychecks.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MiniMe
(21,724 posts)Dear Mitchie, that isn't how legislating works. The fact that you passed the same bill a week ago shows what a hypocrite you are
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Hypocrite is just the start with this "charming" individual.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)I hope we can fire a lot of GOP Senators in 2020.
RockRaven
(15,096 posts)"... those are our hostages"
That's why Trump and the GOP look like such assholes. THEY ADMITTED they were taking hostages -- but only the ones they felt safe taking -- when they funded 77% of the federal gov separately last Sept and only passed a short-term CR until Dec 7 on the rest.
If you can do 77%, why not 78%? 80%? 85%? everything but DHS where the budget dispute lies? Because federal employees, federal services, and federal assets are just pawns in a game to them.
bluestarone
(17,128 posts)RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)These machinations of McConnell are not coherent. They seem luridly manipulated. And not by Trump.
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)He doesn't need "Kompromat" to stake out an intransigent negotiating position.
See: 2009-2017.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Even more than the Trump kids, although they are running a close third. He has to go by hook or by crook, and it has to be this year. Enough of him. He has willfully enabled the destruction of our democracy.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)he's bringing back the Merrick Garland playbook.
Let's hope it burns him - bigtime!!
0rganism
(23,994 posts)send him a river of C.R. bills. let him own it over and over again until it's clear to everyone that he's an asshole.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)ProgLibDem
(41 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)Send it up and then it blatantly becomes the Trump/McConnell Shutdown.
ProgLibDem
(41 posts)We voted in Democrats into House seats for a reason. We don't want a fucking wall for many reasons.
The only problem is that republicans have no problem destroying our government, just like what the
Russians want for America.
It's a sticky situation, but my take is that Dems need and must hold fast to our issues and policies and a wall is not among them.
The_Counsel
(1,661 posts)That dick would probably have ignored a Democratic Senate takeover had it happened...
coeur_de_lion
(3,690 posts)Political suicide.
Qutzupalotl
(14,344 posts)onecaliberal
(33,012 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Burn mother fuckers Burn.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,739 posts)You have fucked yourself.
DinahMoeHum
(21,839 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)What ass-licking pukes republican leaders are.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)...then it is up to Mitch and the Republicans.
If they wish to use one bill to sabotage the others that have passed, that is their prerogative...
Maybe several of them have something to hide?
In It to Win It
(8,314 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,014 posts)The_Counsel
(1,661 posts)That dick would probably have ignored a Democratic Senate takeover had it happened...
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)should be introduced, so McConnell can go suck Trump's tiny mushroom while whining.
marked50
(1,373 posts)If the historians in the future (-assuming it is one of tyranny-) look back at these times they will see that McConnell was the key.
He is the biggest contributor to the concept of authoritarian rule. Starts with him denying any legitimacy to over 50% of the US population and their support of Obama through his obstruction and overt statements that he would do so. The most direct expression of this was with Merrick Garland and refusal to even have him considered for the Supreme Court. Forget representative government or even our history of democracy.
His enabling Trump for the last two years is just in support of the path to tyranny. McConnell does not believe in Democracy. He is for Authoritarian rule- his actions demonstrate this. Trump is just the tool or the path. McConnell is the method.