Posted on 03/27/2020 7:25:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump berated Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Friday, demanding the Republicans throw him out of the party for obstructing the massive coronavirus rescue package.
“WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
…& costly. Workers & small businesses need money now in order to survive. Virus wasn’t their fault. It is “HELL” dealing with the Dems, had to give up some stupid things in order to get the “big picture” done. 90% GREAT! WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2020
The president described the famous Republican libertarian as a “third rate Grandstander” who was obstructing the bill.
“He just wants the publicity. He can’t stop it, only delay, which is both dangerous and costly,” Trump wrote.
Massie is expected to force a roll call vote in Congress on the $2 trillion emergency funding bill, requiring members of Congress to rush back to Washington instead of passing the bill unanimously by a voice vote.
If Massie demands a quorum, 216 members of Congress are needed to return to Washington to pass the bill.
The Kentucky congressman shared an image of text from the Constitution on Thursday, suggesting that he would demand a quorum.
It appears that Massie believes that members of Congress should be required to record a vote on one of the biggest spending bills in the history of the country.
But Trump described him as a “disaster for America” for holding up the vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I’m in the food growing business. Last I checked we were all still working 100 percent. You will get your food, but now we will all pay more.
Well we certainly know now CEOs won’t starve.
Now that we all know the outcome, it was a totally symbolic act that took up about three minutes of the time of the House of Representatives. Pelosi and minority leader Kevin McCarthy worked together to make sure there was a 216 member quorum of Republicans and Democrats in the chamber and had them sit spaced apart so that there was social distance throughout the chamber, gallery and balcony.
Massie’s motion for a recorded vote died for lack of second, his call for a quorum count was heeded and a quorum was ruled present and the bill was passed on a voice vote.
Members then headed back home and the president signed the bill into law about two hours later.
I couldn’t agree more!
I am so tired of these libertarians like Rand Paul who stand on their principles, but never accomplish anything.
That bill was as good as it was going to get with a Democrat House, and I fully support the President on wanting to throw Massie out of office.
Exactly, Nancy Pelosi intervened before the Senate voted but after they agreed on the trillion + package. She had already recessed the House sending members home. She butted in and convinced Chuck Schumer to demand too much spending unrelated to the corona virus.
I agree with Rep.Thomas Massie. House members should be voting in person to pass or reject this enormous bill. I think there should have been a recorded vote as well. Rep.Massie is a hero to me.
He picked a very bad time cry...when the entire society is faced with an existential crisis from the nearly complete shutdown of the pre-eminent economy in the world. A nation can not survive that. It is like the entire country had a massive heart attack and is in a coma. This situation is both unprecedented and terminal unless corrected by emergency means...and even then you are only buying time.
Massie’s protest was ridiculous in its futility. And it was I’ll-timed for unless the panic in the population subsides, there is no other option for the preservation of civil order.
Maybe there’s more to it than we know.
There is always that possibility but this one seems pretty straight forward.
After signing off on the added 2.2 trillion, including the 2.1 trillion in dem goodies not needed for the virus) I am much to my surprise no longer a Trump fan. I guess that was also part of the dems plan, to anger conservatives so much they won’t vote for him. Well, at least in my case, it worked! Joe Biden now stands a chance of winning for the first time. If Trump keeps this up there will be a landslide like he is predicting, only for the dems and not the RINOs Party.
Agreed. What the hell is going on here. Something smells. He did nothing wrong. In fact, I agree with him. This is the first time I’ve seen trump go aginst sanity.
Apparently things are not as they seem.
I never heard of him until today. How "famous" can he be?
So you're willing to give the food away to the people who no longer have an income to buy it eh??? Good Man...
Being called “a third rate grandstander who should be thrown out of the Republican Party” by the president is never a good thing.
So you agree with the Democrats then...They've been saying the same thing...
This is one of the most embarrassing threads I’ve ever seen on FR. So many here willing I see the country die for $1200. This boil should have been flushed down the toilet with Nancy’s ripped up sheets from the SOTU address. Trump should have insisted on removing the socialist pork but he went along with it. I’m truly disgusted by this whole thing.
Really???
Money = Food...
No Money = No Food
Democrats have been in bed with the CEOs for years, that anti-Corporate stuff is just a ruse.
Yep.
That's a little like telling some people injured in an auto crash who are moaning about their injuries, to go kill themselves. (Not good or logical advice.) That's exactly what Joe Biden does -- when a voter disagrees with him about something, he tells them to go vote for someone else. Not very bright.
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