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Botany

(70,656 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:57 AM Jan 2019

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Does anybody remember when President Obama shut down the Federal Government because ...

... Mitch McConnell would not let a vote go forward for Merrick Garland to be
a justice on the Supreme Court*?

* Something that is granted to the POTUS by the US Supreme Court but
Trump has shut down the government because he lost the last election?

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Does anybody remember when President Obama shut down the Federal Government because ... (Original Post) Botany Jan 2019 OP

Good point. calimary Jan 2019 #1

No, but thanks for reminding me what an a-hole McConnell is..... Shell_Seas Jan 2019 #2

He did shut it down. Chipper Chat Jan 2019 #3

Bueller, Bueller, Bueller? ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2019 #4

calimary

(81,608 posts)

1. Good point.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:58 AM

Jan 2019

Shell_Seas

(3,340 posts)

2. No, but thanks for reminding me what an a-hole McConnell is.....

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:58 AM

Jan 2019

Chipper Chat

(9,708 posts)

3. He did shut it down.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 12:02 PM

Jan 2019

I remember hearing about it on Fox News.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,899 posts)

4. Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 12:06 PM

Jan 2019

Me neither.

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