Mitch McConnell Rejects Trump Call for ‘Nuclear Option’ to Fund the Wall

Breitbart ^ | 21 Dec 2018 | by Sean Moran

[Baynative]

DAMN IT, KENTUCKY! Look what you’ve done.

[Amendment10]

"Going on and on to make himself look good but is actually secretly happy he is helping spoil the chances of getting wall funding."

It’s kind of like having your cake and eating it too.

[conservative98]

Mitch is in the house.

[yoe]

During the Ronald Reagan administration, there were three funding gaps leading to shutdowns lasting one day or less. A funding gap in 1990 during the George H. W. Bush administration caused a weekend shutdown. During the Bill Clinton administration, there were two full government shutdowns during 1995 and 1996 lasting five and twenty-one days respectively, based on disagreement on whether to cut government services, leading to furloughs and significant disruption. During the Barack Obama administration, a government shutdown occurred during October 1–16, 2013. The primary dispute was the Republicans' desire to delay or defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare.[1] Under the Donald Trump administration, a shutdown occurred from January 20–22, 2018, and then a funding gap occurred overnight for the first part of the day on 9 February 2018 that did not result in workers being furloughed.[2][3]a,pa.

Government shutdowns have the effect of disruption to government services and increased cost to the government due to lost labor. During the 2013 shutdown, Standard & Poor's, the financial ratings agency, stated on October 16 that the shutdown had "to date taken $24 billion out of the economy", and "shaved at least 0.6 percent off annualized fourth-quarter 2013 GDP growth".[4]

The 2013 shutdown lasted 16 days, beginning on October 1, 2013. During the shutdown, approximately 800,000 federal employees were furloughed for 16 days, while another 1.3 million were required to report to work without known payment dates. The deadlock centered on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014.......this was under Obama....nowhere is his name attached in this article....President Trump can count on his name being attached countless times right or wrongly.

Yeeee Hawwwww

[x]

There used to be a time when Senate leaders would take the problem members of their party into the cloak room and read them the riot act, threatened them, and did whatever needed to be done to ensure they voted the right way.

LBJ could be pretty forceful, but I think it was more a matter of horse trading - promising Senators stuff in exchange for their vote.

During and after the New Deal, Democrats had a lot of stuff they could promise - dams, highways, bridges, bases, etc.

Republicans don't have that much to promise, so they don't get much compliance.

But I don't think Republican senators were much more compliant years ago.

Senators like Javits and Brooke were a lot further off the reservation than today's heretics.

[No Socialist]

“So he’s asking for a nickle when you have $44 in your pocket.

Or asking for five bucks when you have $4,400 in your sock drawer.”

Excellent! Thank you.

[marajade]

I didn’t know that.

[conservative98]

Send a free fax to Mitch!

https://www.myfax.com/free/';

[marajade]

They won’t. Four Republican Senators won’t pull the trigger.

[BTerclinger]

McConnell's office phones are all off the hook/not taking messages.

But he's receiving faxes at ‭(202) 224-2499‬ *

Lets flood his and every Senator's office** with short and sweet faxes:

Dear Senator Majority Leader:

GO NUCLEAR
BUILD THE WALL

- sincerely, Joe
AMERICA

* confirmed here: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/328/contact

** https://www.senate.gov

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[deks]

51 votes are required to effect the “nuclear option” (if the link below is correct).

Retiring Sens. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) all released statements on Friday, opposing the nuclear option to fund the wall (according to the Breitbart article).

So it seems to me that Mitch is saying the votes are not there at this time to bypass the normal 60 votes needed to proceed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

[BTerclinger]

I expected Flake and Alexander, not Hatch.

[marajade]

As long as there are two it can’t be done.

[OKSooner]

Mitch ain’t the Speaker, he’s the Majority Leader of the Senate.

[nikos1121]

If we could go to a majority in the Senate, just think what this country could accomplish.

But no, these elite pompous asshats, think that the Senate is a body that actually does something and speaks for the people. It’s been purely political and partisan for years now...

[AU72]

Best option is no vote until the new Senate convenes is no vote, then do the nuclear option on a new resolution.

[DOC44]

Just saw Flake on Cpan talk to little Bobby Corker and probably telling to vote no also. Corker is gone also thank goodness... but his home has been in Tennessee and that is where it will be uncomfortable for him to come back to after his anti Trump votes and words. Many will not welcome him home... Little short guys sometimes have neapolionic complex.. that’s little Bobby Corker.

[ManHunter]

And once again, Mitch McConnell shows off his tiny little ‘nads for all the world to see.

[Jim Noble]

The next congress can’t be seated until this one is adjourned... which it can’t do without passing a continuing resolution to fund the government

Where do you get that?

The term of every Member of Congress ends at noon on January 3, 2019.

The new Congress can convene immediately.