Posted on 12/02/2021 11:07:04 AM PST by RandFan
It looks like the Senate GOP have caved.
They only need ONE senator to drag this out by denying consent on Friday.
I suggest we start identifying likely senators.
From The Hill:
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The opposition is significant in the 50-50 Senate, where the filibuster, combined with other arcane rules, empower members of the minority party to stretch a debate for days, if desired. In the case of the continuing resolution, that would push the debate into next week — and cause the government to close down in the meantime.
There were signs on Thursday, however, that such a scenario will likely be avoided. Key Senate Republicans, including Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, have endorsed the short-term funding proposal.
The conservative opponents are signaling an agreement to vote on a vaccine amendment, as long as it needs only 51 votes to pass — a doomed venture that will nonetheless give them political cover to argue they fought the good fight.
And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose party took the brunt of the blame for a 16-day shutdown in 2013, has all but guaranteed there will be no repeat of history this month.
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KEY SENATORS:
Mumbai Mike Lee (UT): He is indicating a hard line on this
Rand Paul (KY): Willing to go rogue occasionally
Ted Cruz (TX): Another who has shown he can go rogue if feeling strongly.
Roger Marshall (KS): For some reason he feels strongly on this and has promised a hard line.
Feel free to post any others you think might be sympathetic.
If you're a constituent of the above let them know you want them to DENY unanimous consent on the continuing resolution (that means NO DEAL for an Amendment that is sure to fail!)
Lets do this!
Hawley in MO says he wont vote for it. Not clear if this means he will deny UC though.
The “Washington Generals” have already been given their script.
They WILL vote to let the “Harlem Globetrotters” win.
(Then they both split the proceeds..)
How many times does Charlie Brown have to go after Lucy’s football???
I’ve said it elsewhere - there is NO NEED to raise the debt ceiling.
The gov’t can do what any company, any family, any person would do when facing monetary problems,
just SELL SOME ASSETS!
The gov’t has square miles of productive land (oil, gas, prime location, ...) it could sell or lease.
Why aren’t Republicans proposing this???
There is NO DEEP STATE!!!
There is only that collection of politicians, bureaucrats and civil servants that we facetiously refer to as OUR GOVERNMENT!!!
It is THE GOVERNMENT that opposes the will of the people, imposes its own will on the people, and attempts to appropriate all that belongs to the people
To continuously say that this person or that is DEEP STATE or that such-and-such an agency is DEEP STATE is like sticking fingers in a dike.
Wake up and realize exactly what and who it is that is trying to enslave you!!!
(end rant)
Yes, Mike Lee the Senator from India. With RINOs like those who needs democRATs?! And we also have backstabbers like Pence and Christie giving speeches and writing books, as if we have forgotten their betrayal. Few Republicans have properly stood up against the scamdemic. Democrat claims about covid aside, the blue areas are faring worse. I saw an article proving it, “Vermont: Highest Vaccination Rate, Record-Breaking COVID Numbers”, and you can give that a look at PJmedia. Florida on the other hand has he lowest case count and the most freedom. The leftists here are following their foreign ‘fellow travelers’, so expect 1) them to restrict access to food, then 2) come for our guns, then 3) camps.
Actually their only chance is standing together (all 50). But we all know they won’t do that.
Mitch wants you to forget now what he said and did then.
Like your summation. Nailed it!
SNAFU
not only should they deny unanymous consent for this, they should also require each and every word of that multi-thousand page budget be read aloud in the senate chamber. All you need is one single senatecritter to object. If no one does, then that means they are ALL in on the deception of the american people. Every last one. It is the same as a vote for the bill.
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