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Mitch McConnell Rejects Trump Call for ‘Nuclear Option’ to Fund the Wall
Breitbart ^ | 21 Dec 2018 | by Sean Moran

Posted on 12/21/2018 10:07:28 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rejected President Donald Trump’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 115th; aliens; borderwallfunding; cheaplaborlobby; cr; globalist; gope; kentucky; leadermcconnell; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; nuclearoption; obstructionistdems; partialfunding; reject; rino; senate; wall
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You know what's sad?!!! Even McConnell uses the Nuclear Option, we DON'T EVEN HAVE 50 VOTES NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IDIOT REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!

141 posted on 12/21/2018 1:55:25 PM PST by KavMan
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To: BTerclinger

Stop bashing McConnell.

He can’t change the rules without 51 votes. He can’t pass the bill without 50 votes, if he first changes the rules. If he can’t change the rules, then he needs 60 votes.

It’s all mental masturbation. He’s not even close to 50 votes. And the new House would never pass such a bill to begin with.

If he builds the wall without an Act of Congress, or rather if he starts to, he will be impeached and removed.

If he orders the military to arrest the Congress, they will refuse.

This is the bottom line: The People have elected a Congress which is fiercely opposed to President Trump, fiercely opposed to a wall, and which supports with significant majorities unlimited illegal immigration.

Your problem is not with President Trump, and it is not with Mitch McConnell. The problem is Congress, and the people who elected them.


142 posted on 12/21/2018 1:55:36 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Jim Robinson

Turtle might as well go ahead with the “so called” nuclear option.

Get stuff done. If the RATs get control again, they will go with the nuclear option from day one.


143 posted on 12/21/2018 2:03:23 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: ManHunter; Jim Robinson
And once again, Mitch McConnell shows off his tiny little ‘nads for all the world to see

And if McConnell had bigger nads, or better, if you were Senate Majority Leader your own self, how would you get Flake, Murkowski, Collins, Corker, and Hatch to vote "yea" on a rule change?

And understand, in the GOP caucus, the Resistance to Trump is much bigger than those 5. If Corker switches to "yea", Burr will vote "no". If Colllins switches to "yea", Thune will vote "no". And so on.

It's in all of their interests to make you believe we are THIS CLOSE to victory, and if only Trump wouldn't have mentioned pussy grabbing (or whatever), you would be rewarded for your loyalty to the GOP with real changes.

Unfortunately, this is not true. The number of closet liberals in the GOP caucus isn't 3, or four. It's closer to 20-25.

And on one point, they are united - Trump must be humiliated and seen to be failing, so they can get on with removing him.

Just wait until Romney is sworn in. You ain't seen nothing yet.

144 posted on 12/21/2018 2:05:25 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: deks

Yes, Pence can’t vote on rule changes.


145 posted on 12/21/2018 2:05:55 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: COBOL2Java

Actually, Mitch knows that politics is the art of the possible.


146 posted on 12/21/2018 2:07:54 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: mass55th
“There used to be a time when Senate leaders would take the problem members of their party into the cloak room and read them the riot act, threatened them, and did whatever needed to be done to ensure they voted the right way.

“I doubt anything like that goes on any more”

Oh sure it does, but with the deep state running things now, it's the Patriotic Constitutionalists members that are threatened.

And their wives, children and relatives too.

Corruption runs deep

147 posted on 12/21/2018 2:10:56 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Syncro
“There used to be a time when Senate leaders would take the problem members of their party into the cloak room and read them the riot act, threatened them, and did whatever needed to be done to ensure they voted the right way.

It is obviously done by Pelosi & schumer as their subjects vote in lockstep.

148 posted on 12/21/2018 2:13:39 PM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: Jim Noble

The number of closet liberals in the GOP caucus isn’t 3, or four. It’s closer to 20-25

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We will have a list after the recorded vote is done about coming back into session tomorrow at noon.

Looks like about twice that number will need to be primaried.


149 posted on 12/21/2018 2:15:31 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Jim Robinson

He could just get rid of the two-track option for filibusters, which radically increased the frequency of them from about once a year to dozens of times a year.

But, apparently, the Senate is to dumb to return to such a sane time.

Chuck Schumer reading Beastie Boys lyrics in the well of the Senate to stop wall funding would look good only in the eyes of his warped base.


150 posted on 12/21/2018 2:39:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Of course he did.


151 posted on 12/21/2018 3:35:48 PM PST 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: YogicCowboy

The GOP RINOs still don’t get it, we sent them there to save the country from what the socialist left are planning. It’s no longer about old rules and not going nuclear because that’s not they way things have been done before; blah,blah,blah..

It’s about getting our agenda through. If the democrats ever have a 1 vote majority in the senate, they will use the “nuclear” option on every bill they want passed. We should be doing the same thing, 51 votes it’s done.


152 posted on 12/21/2018 6:14:20 PM PST by Beatthedrum
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To: Jim Noble

Your argument assumes that McConnell has no role and no leverage, which is not true. Furthermore, it ignores the fact that every damned one of them is compromised in some way.

The composition of the Senate on the GOP side of the aisle is largely a function of McConnell’s “leadership”, his management of the NRSC and his choices as to which candidates to endorse and support financially. McConnell and the NRSC have consistently endorsed and supported people like Flake, Murkowsky, Collins, etc., and, in some cases, actively campaigned against conservative candidates when they succeed in spite of him.

So, to answer your question, if I were Senate majority leader “my own self”, I wouldn’t be anything like McConnell. Knowing that they’re all compromised in some way, I would wield my leverage like a sledge hammer in much the same way that Pelosi and Schumer do; I assume you know that not every single Democratic member of the House and Senate are in absolute lock-step agreement on every policy issue. Our problem is that McConnell is far more closely aligned to Pelosi and Schumer that he is to Trump.


153 posted on 12/21/2018 6:30:18 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Beatthedrum

“We should be doing the same thing, 51 votes it’s done“

But you don’t have 51 votes.


154 posted on 12/21/2018 6:40:10 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Jim Noble

I don’t think I was bashing McConnel.


155 posted on 12/22/2018 4:08:23 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would have thought Schumer’s (all Democrats’) fave lyrics would have been from Two Live Crew, describing how they like to “do” America with their policies:

“Face Down... “


156 posted on 12/22/2018 4:10:09 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Jim Robinson

Now that the commies have the House, the RINOs in the Senate are going to turn on Trump faster than you can nuke North Korea.


157 posted on 12/23/2018 4:30:19 PM PST by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: Jim Robinson; All
McConnel OWES us a wall for helping the create this invasion problem in the first place because he went along with the expansion of socialism that illegals enjoy. McConnel is in arrears and we need to COLLECT.
158 posted on 12/23/2018 6:25:26 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Jim Robinson

McConnell is either a coward, incompetent, a fool, or loser, or any combination thereof.

He makes an Oscar Meyer weiner seem like a Sequoia compared to him.


159 posted on 12/23/2018 10:36:02 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Signalman

#3. It should be “Remember Mitch, No GUT, No Nuts!


160 posted on 12/23/2018 10:36:41 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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