Posted on 02/08/2018 1:02:25 PM PST by huldah1776
Not only did Mitch McConnell just give Schumer everything he wanted on budget and health care, he ensured that for the remainder of the year, Democrats can get everything they want and conservatives will not pass a single priority. Not one.
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McConnell is planning to introduce debate in the Senate on immigration next week by putting forth a blank bill with nothing in it. He will then allow anyone to offer amendments, and, in his words, “whoever gets to 60 wins.”
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The GOP platform has become a free-for-all. The only ones who don’t get blank checks are conservatives. While cutting a deal with Schumer to raise the debt ceiling and increase the debt to unthinkable levels, McConnell has agreed to prevent conservatives from making any push to pass a single good piece of legislation this year. Section 30103 of the McConnell bill treats the budget caps for FY 2019 as if they are the official annual budget, which means that there will be no budget reconciliation this year. As we warned last month, without budget reconciliation, there is no way to pass conservative health care priorities or welfare reform. And that is exactly the way McConnell wants it.
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However, he is well aware of the fact that this framework eliminates the only vehicle Republicans would have to do anything with welfare and entitlements.
Every special interest in this deal gets funded. The only priority that is not addressed is defunding a private group that kept aborted babies alive to harvest their organs.
Nobody is even speaking about defunding Planned Parenthood.
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His bills have to pass the House, and if passed as sent, signed by DJT
Don’t spending bills have to start in the House?
what a maroon.
Nope, I think you’ve got it all. sigh.
Ahhh. THAT makes sense.
Infuriating.
I am pulling for article V but I think this ends in war.
“He is doing this so they will accept the immigration deal with a wall and citizenship for 1.8 million?”
I don’t know what to think. I had an illegal tell me just last week that the only reason we don’t want them here is that they will have a vote and they’ll vote for democrats.
Also told me the true number of the DACA schemers is more like 10 to 12 million.
No bunch of good one in the Senate, he was just the bad one with the most Seniority.
But, Marbury, Marbury, Marbury.
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