Posted on 11/06/2025 6:50:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is dangling another carrot for Democrats. They still aren’t ready to bite.
In his latest pressure tactic, the South Dakota Republican is teeing up yet another vote to reopen the government Friday, the 38th day of the record-setting shutdown. But this time, he is pledging to swap out the House-passed stopgap bill for a new funding patch, likely into January, along with full-year funding for veterans programs, food aid and more.
“It’s what they asked for,” Thune said Thursday night.
But Democrats, stiffened by their party’s big election wins Tuesday that have papered over rising internal divisions, are expected to block a procedural vote yet again, according to two people granted anonymity to describe caucus dynamics, as well as interviews with several potential Democratic swing votes.
They are intent on forcing President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans to cough up a better deal and finally engage on their central demand — an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies that aren’t definitively addressed in the latest GOP offer.
“Leader Thune isn’t doing himself any favors by not coming to the table,” said Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who has been viewed as a possible swing vote but said she would vote no Friday.
Several other Democrats professed unity coming out of a long lunch meeting Thursday — one of several they’ve held this week as they’ve wrangled over an endgame to the long shutdown.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 party leader, said Thursday that Democrats “are as unified as we have ever been,” while adding that “people understand the gravity of the shutdown.”
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Senator Kennedy spoke last month on some of the demands of the Dems/Socialists regarding the shutdown. One of which is keeping Obamacare subsidies for those making upwards of $200K++/yr. Also half a trillion for PBS,
half a billion for vasectomies in Zambia, $3 million for pastry cooking classes for Haitan male prostitutes, $300K for a single pride parada in Lutu, etc etc - basically all the wasteful spending the Reps cut out of the Big Beautiful Bill
start about 13 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyyDvzyK6Q
The Republicans should eliminate the filibuster, vote for the CR, and then reinstate the filibuster. Just go scorched earth and put this nonsense to an end.
What big election wins? Dems won... in BLUE STATES and a BLUE CITY. No big surprise there.
Talk about your mind-numbed robots.
Sure... Trump is vey angry about the pain Democrats are causing Americans but the underlying ecomnomy is strong.
1. 4% Gross domestic product
2. Compared to the national deficit of $1.82 trillion for the same period last year (Oct 2023 - Sep 2024), our national deficit has decreased by $41 billion. Finally moving in the right directi.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/
3. $17T foreign investment building new manufacturing plants & adding to existing manufacturing facilities.
4. Bring back industries that had moved off shore along with good paying jobs and secure supply lines.
5. Trade deals securing access to hitherto closed markets for Ameican good.
That is just a scattering of the evidence of economic prosperity. Democrats are causing short term but acute pain. The Senate needs to impose strict consequences for the Democrat refusal to pass the clean CR. I think the filibuster has become a weapon and needs to be elinimated or time limited to a matter of a few days.
The demoncrats do not need any cover to nuke the filibuster. If not for Manchin & Sisma it would have been gone already. Thune is playing a fool’s game. Any parent or boss knows that admonishing bad behavior w/o consequences fosters more bad behavior & the miscreants lose any semblance of respect for rules and ethical behavior.
Per X
Thune, Cornyn, Murkowski, Collins, Capito, Tillis, Lankford, Curtis, McConnell, Grassley, Ernst, Rounds, Moran, Risch, Crapo.
Not just the Dems the GOP is as well...
Politico, editorializing when the Thune offers a concession: “In his latest pressure tactic”...
The Republican Party, EXACTLY like the UK Conservative Party, runs on a “we’re not THEM” platform, and, just like the UK Conservative party, is headed for extinction.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune...”
The flood tide was January 20, 2017. The Republican Party has done everything they can to stem the tide. Now, the tide is going out. The moment has passed.
As a great American once said, “Too bad, too bad. Oh! Too bad!”
You are right. The Democrats caused the problem but the cowardice and possibly connivance of Republicans is allowing it to continue.
Thune needed to impose consequences re committee positions etc. After a week the filibuster related to clean CR should have been ended. His method allows the Democrats to call the shots and put Americans and USA at risk.
Nuke the filibuster and pass citizenship laws related to election integrity, appropriations bills, Trump nominees, executive order codification and an updated census of citizens.
We need to progress on MAGA agenda at full speed. Only the sight and effects of those changes will keep the Government Republican majority in 2026 and 2028. Once we lose the majority it’s ights off America.
Trump needs to bring down the hammer on the GOP...not sure he will.
Why offer the demonrats anything? 😣
If the democrats give up the healthcare for illegals they know they will lose most of their base.
Let them pay the price of holding up the government they will pay a much higher price for it.
Where are the ‘Open the Government’ rallies?
Why? The continuing resolution now expires almost immediately.
Just two more weeks left in it.
“You are obviously on the wrong site...”
I call it as I see it. A snake is a snake, and if the Republicans know the snake is there and let it bite them instead of stepping on its head, I don’t blame the snake for being a snake.
“Yeah? So you want them to cave to the democRats extortion?”
No, I want them to nuke the filibuster and do everything in their power to save the Republic.
We are in a war for the future and if the panty-waists won’t use the power we have given them to win, people will stay home at the mid-terms and the last chance to fix things peacefully will be lost forever.
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