Posted on 12/21/2018 10:07:28 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rejected President Donald Trumps call to partially fund the border wall with a simple majority vote on Friday, suggesting not enough Senate Republicans support the measure.
President Trump called on McConnell to use the nuclear option, or switch to a simple majority vote in the Senate, to pass the continuing resolution (CR) that would partially fund the border wall...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
DAMN IT, KENTUCKY! Look what you’ve done.
Its kind of like having your cake and eating it too.
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
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.
“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.
I didn’t know that.
They won’t. Four Republican Senators won’t pull the trigger.
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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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
I expected Flake and Alexander, not Hatch.
As long as there are two it can’t be done.
Mitch ain’t the Speaker, he’s the Majority Leader of the Senate.
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...
Best option is no vote until the new Senate convenes is no vote, then do the nuclear option on a new resolution.
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.
And once again, Mitch McConnell shows off his tiny little ‘nads for all the world to see.
Where do you get that?
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