Posted on 08/02/2021 6:57:14 PM PDT by 11th_VA
As Washington prepared for a blizzard of motions and maneuvers in the Senate leading up to a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has just been fully unveiled, news arrived that one of the purported Republican supporters of the deal, Lindsey Graham, has tested positive for COVID-19 (despite being fully vaccinated). He’s having flu-like symptoms, too, and will be in quarantine for ten days. It also transpires that Graham spent part of the weekend on Joe Manchin’s houseboat, and Manchin has tested negative so far. Centers for Disease Control guidelines do not require quarantines for fully vaccinated people possibly exposed to COVID-19 unless they test positive or show symptoms.
In the current environment there is no telling how many senators could wind up sick or quarantined as the Delta variant works its way through the unvaccinated (and to a lesser extent) the vaccinated. So it’s worth knowing that under the rules of the Senate, a cloture motion like the one that will be necessary to move to a final vote on the infrastructure bill requires 60 votes, period, not just three-fifths of those present and voting. This was an element of the compromise that made it possible to lower the cloture requirements from two-thirds of the Senate to three-fifths in 1975.
Yes, 67 votes were cast for cloture on the earlier motion to proceed to debate on the infrastructure bill in a July 28 test vote, but no one should be certain that the 17 Republicans who voted “aye” (including the wily Mitch McConnell) will be available to do the same as final passage approaches. For one thing, there will be votes on amendments that might have a bearing on support (ostensible or legitimate) for the underlying bill...
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The test is unreliable and it could be nothing more than a cold.
God is working.
Lock’em all up and do not let them out until they can prove they are incapable of spreading the infection to anyone else.
“wily Mitch McConnell”
Wiley? What does his chinese wife tell him to do?
The test is unreliable and it could be nothing more than a cold.>>. yes but only us know that. don’t tell um.
Why can’t he have some of his minions just mail in his votes. of course that means the bill would pass 160 to 40 with no questions about the Dominion machine tabulating the votes.
Schumer can just ‘deem’ the bill passed. Worked before.
If one is “Fully Vaccinated” how can one get infected?
[Hint: we have yet to create a “full” vaccine]
10 Senators could step away with the covid anxiety...
Most Senators got the vaccines—which means that they have no protection whatsoever...
Guess they will have to figure that out the hard way—everybody is on their own these days.
Don’t wanna do something? Claim COVID.
After all the leftist virtue signaling about this mild infection how can they publicly harass them into showing up to vote? After all, they could be accused of starting a super spreader event with the Lambda-Gamma-Beta-Tau variant.
The constantly lisp. “We follow the science.” So they must go after them for “faking it” but I do not know how they could even prove that.
“If one is ‘Fully Vaccinated’ how can one get infected?”
Vaccination is a process. Fully vaccinated means he got both jabs of what would have been an mRNA vaccine.
He’s 66 years of age. As one grows old, one’s immune system may lose considerable effectiveness.
I suspect that probably about 2% of the “fully vaccinated” people his age really don’t have good immunity against Covid.
No vaccine is ever ‘full’.
If you’ve routinely taken the influenza vaccine and never gotten the ‘flu despite taking it, you’re in a very small minority.
I only got one “jab” [J&J].
Calling two Jabs “Fully” is bogus NewSpeak.
“No vaccine is ever ‘full’.”
My point exactly.
“Fully Vaccinated” is Big Brother Speak.
I’m not sure, but I think what they mean is that those taking the two-shot vaccines need to have had both shots to be ‘fully vaccinated’.
If I breathe in a Covid particle, I will get infected again, even if vaccinated.
It’s like throwing rabbits into fenced backyards.
Each rabbit is going to run around each backyard for awhile. Each test for a rabbit in each backyard into which one is tossed will be positive.
But in the backyards with 50 rabbit catchers each, a rabbit won’t be running around for very long or be able to nibble at many carrots in the garden.
The vaccines basically put virus catchers in one’s body ahead of time.
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