Posted on 09/27/2016 5:55:29 AM PDT by Brilliant
Retaking the Senate no longer seems like the cinch that Democrats imagined...and now they’re responding with budget obstructionism that could end with a government shutdown. If they can’t win on the merits, they can attempt to provoke a fake crisis.
The last budget deal runs out...and the Senate will vote Tuesday on a “clean” continuing resolution... The bill also includes $1.1 billion to fight the Zika virus... funding for the recent heroin and addiction bill; and $500 million in disaster aid for Louisiana...
This is exactly what Democrats...said they wanted. “If they want to get out of here,” Democratic leader Harry Reid said... "Do a clean CR and they can leave in 10 minutes...” Naturally, Democrats have responded to a clean CR by synthesizing outrage about something else.
The new wild goose chase is that the bill is...against Flint, Michigan, because it doesn’t include disaster relief for that lead-water crisis. Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow pronounced the measure “unacceptable”...
But wait... Sept. 15, Ms. Stabenow...put out a press release declaring that “I am extremely pleased that the Senate has finally passed urgently needed help for families in Flint.” Yes, the Senate has already passed—95-3—a $9.4 billion bill...the House will pass this week, with at least $100 million earmarked...for Flint...
Democrats have gone from demanding no vexatious riders to opposing the bill because of the lack of a multiyear policy rider that is about to become law anyway. Their calculation is that a gridlock scenario will heighten voter antipathy to incumbents...
If that’s the calculation, they shouldn’t be so transparent... Montana’s Jon Tester [said] that his strategy is to “show the fact that the Republicans really haven’t done anything.” What he means is that if they can make Congress look dysfunctional, maybe low-information voters will reward Democrats for promoting the dysfunction.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
You have to remember that when you play a game with normal people, you lose, or you win.
When you play a game with Democrats, you lose, or they knock over the table, spill the game board on the floor, and then have the MSM declare them the winner.
Majority leader Harry Reid will get whatever he wants out of the Republicans.
Harry Reid is one of those old guys in the balcony on the Muppets”
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