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McConnell's Embarrassment: Democrats, Not Republicans, Passed Omnibus Bill
newsmax ^ | March 24, 2018 | By John Gizzi

Posted on 03/25/2018 9:13:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

"All you need to know why this was a bad bill is to look at the roll call," a long-time Republican lobbyist emailed me Saturday, referring to the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending law.

Of course, he's right.

President Donald Trump reluctantly signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill Friday, but a careful review of the crucial Senate vote shows it was Democratic members, not Republicans, that actually passed the bill.

In another major embarrassment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his own Republican caucus opposed the very bill he negotiated.

The omnibus bill passed the Senate by a vote of 65 to 32 (with three abstentions).

Of the 65 "for" votes, 39 Democratic senators supported the bill with only 25 Republicans signing on. Republicans control the Senate with 51 seats.

Of the 32 "against" votes, 23 were Republicans, including stalwart conservatives such as Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Rand Paul of Kentucky,Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Mike Lee of Utah.

Democrats were so excited about the bill's passage, they could not contain their glee.

"We Democrats feel very good because so many of our priorities for the middle class were included," beamed Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York.

Schumer was especially happy because chief among his priorities was the funding for a $30 billion the infrastructure project in New York known as the Gateway program.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; ditchmitch; mcconnell; omnibusbill; trumpbudget
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To: frog in a pot
the supreme judge of the law of our land

There is no Supreme Judge, there is a chief justice but he is answerable to the Congress. This idea of Judicial Supremacy is a fairly new idea beginning with Marbury but just because they made a decision does not make it infallible. The President can challenge their authority and so can the Congress, I doubt they would have much luck in todays climate but sooner or later they will have to, ala Jackson.

121 posted on 03/25/2018 3:26:53 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Agamemnon

More will see it I think. Schumer and Pelosi think they outsmarted him. They will really be unhappy when they figure it out. Maybe they can pull another hooker or two that they have been keeping in their nap sacks. At some point, they will run out of them.


122 posted on 03/25/2018 3:39:07 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Psalm 73

you still haven’t done the reading to learn your bias makes you think wrong.

The President’s men in congress wrote sections that provided him a wall


123 posted on 03/25/2018 3:55:50 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: itsahoot
There is no Supreme Judge...

Your intellectual dishonesty continues...I did not argue Supreme Judge, rather I referred to the USSC as the supreme judge of our nation's laws.

Furthermore, your characterization of the Marbury decision as "a fairly new idea" is laughable. Marbury was decided in the 27th year of our 242 year history.

Nonetheless, a President can challenge that court's decision but he does so at significant risk to his office.

You can have the last word, for whatever that is worth.

124 posted on 03/25/2018 4:13:14 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Obama's "Remaking of America" continues apace in the absence of political opposition.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Has anyone laid eyes on Ryan or McConnell since this bill passed? Hiding in the hills.


125 posted on 03/25/2018 5:03:03 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: KC_Lion

Yup.

Figured it out when Ken Starr gave a useless bone to the masses, allowing Clinton to escape real crimes.

The internet later confirmed my gut: Starr shut down Vince Foster murder case, later conspired with Henry Hyde to shut it down - along with other murder investigations - again (the day after 1998 midterms).

Starr is a Swamp Creature: Bad Cop to poor pitiful Billy and Hilly’s Good Cops.

Our government is an organized crime cartel.


126 posted on 03/25/2018 5:16:44 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: KC_Lion

Yup.

Figured it out when Ken Starr gave a useless bone to the masses, allowing Clinton to escape real crimes.

The internet later confirmed my gut: Starr shut down Vince Foster murder case, later conspired with Henry Hyde to shut it down - along with other murder investigations - again (the day after 1998 midterms).

Starr is a Swamp Creature: Bad Cop to poor pitiful Billy and Hilly’s Good Cops.

Our government is an organized crime cartel.


127 posted on 03/25/2018 5:16:44 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Wolfie

Trump forced them into the open.


128 posted on 03/25/2018 5:18:55 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Wolfie

Trump forced them into the open.


129 posted on 03/25/2018 5:18:55 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Hostage

I appreciate what you say.

But I haven’t seen anything the President necessarily tweeted.

What I’ve seen is what other people say he has tweeted.

Remember this exchange, if you will. And if President Trump does come out swinging and allocating substantial portions of the spending bill money as he sees fit, drop me a reminder and I will contribute an extra $50 to Free Republic this coming quarter.

Here’s hoping!


130 posted on 03/25/2018 5:45:33 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: frog in a pot
You can have the last word, for whatever that is worth.

More than yours. Just because you have accepted the stupid notion that The Supreme Court is Supreme is not my fault. Marbury certainly encouraged the court to begin eroding the Constitution and Congress has let them. Now district courts have defied all logic and assumed to issue district decisions to bind the whole United States and all the politicians. Guess who has allowed that? The same corrupt Court that you deem superior.

They are only Superior so long as the President and Congress allow them to be. The Superior Court was one of Jackson's biggest fears. Five Judges have assumed the power to do what it takes Two Thirds of Congress and two thirds of the States to do.

131 posted on 03/25/2018 6:41:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: richardtavor
The Corpse, as Obama referred to it

That was the Marine 'Corpse' and its Navy 'Corpsemen'.

132 posted on 03/25/2018 7:22:53 PM PDT by xone
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To: Jim Robinson

Ryan and McConnell are trying to do what Mueller failed to do....


133 posted on 03/26/2018 3:14:02 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Jim Robinson

As long as the GOP has “leaders” like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, the GOP will continue being Dem lite horse crap.


134 posted on 03/26/2018 4:04:31 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (vote GOP? Why? McConnell and Ryan are horse shit, gop is dem lite)
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To: xone

Corpses is Corpses, I say...


135 posted on 03/26/2018 4:14:01 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: richardtavor

They are indeed.


136 posted on 03/26/2018 6:27:56 AM PDT by xone
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