Posted on 12/03/2021 4:30:40 AM PST by RandFan
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NO SHUTDOWN — Congress avoided a government shutdown after Senate conservatives dropped their demands to nix President JOE BIDEN’s vaccine mandates in the funding bill — and Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER gave them a way out.
All 100 senators agreed late Thursday night to quickly proceed to a bill funding the government through Feb. 18. The breakthrough came after Schumer gave Republicans a vote (with a simple majority threshold) to defund federal vaccination mandates. He did so only because there were two Republicans absent, meaning that even if Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) sided with Republicans, the amendment would be defeated. (And fail it did, 48-50.)
Conservatives will argue they got something out of this drama: a vote on their issue. In reality, it was a face-saving measure. The far-right started out demanding that Congress effectively scuttle the mandates, then reduced their ask to a mere vote they knew would fail, ensuring smooth passage of a continuing resolution a full 30 hours before the shutdown deadline.
Another reality: Their shutdown threat was never going to give them what they wanted. Schumer was all too willing to embrace the showdown over vaccines amid the threat of the Omicron Covid-19 variant. Plus, fellow Republicans blasted their demand as irresponsible and pointless.
One thing the right did get out of it was attention. Their protest was front and center for days and will be again next week when Sen. MIKE BRAUN (R-Ind.) forces another vote on the issue. They also demonstrated to other members how to leverage year-end deadlines for votes on their pet issues — a precedent Schumer warned against before he acceded to their ask.
THE STEP BACK: Despite Thursday night’s movement on the funding bill, it’s been a week from hell for Schumer, who has multiple crises on his hands. The National Defense Authorization Act is still stalled amid GOP opposition, though it appears Democrats are discussing a possible workaround that could break the impasse in the coming days.
This is why I no longer trust nor will fund Republicans. I am tired of being stabbed in the back while listening to their false excuses. As I’ve stated before, “ There are more crooks in Congress than most jails.”
Idiots. The only thing the CR was about, is out of control spending. The commies were supposed to have a budget passed by 1 October. They have refused to even start working on it. Instead, they spent all of their time investigating the GOP and passing 1T in wasteful spending to benefit the commies and the commies only. How did they do it? They passed a CR a few months ago and then immediately worked on passing the 1T bill.
What are they doing now? The CR was to move the debt ceiling off the table to they can focus solely on investigating the GOP and passing the 5T Bankrupt America Bill.
The Senate GOP is completely worthless. They make the Washington Generals look like a serious basketball team contending for a championship.
There is only one political party - the State’s.
There is a fallacy in your premise. You project conservative political power that doesn’t exist
They have no problem shutting US down.
But the gvmnt? Perish the thought.
Mandate all you want, but come at me with a needle and I’ll shoot.
Anyone who thought the GOP would let the government shut down for even 10 minutes isn’t paying attention.
CONservatives cave and fail to fight, what a surprise!
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Communists cheer while fools tell us to vote for RINOs.
To hell with that!
Manchin threw a wrench into the Dems plan and the two Vichy Republicans threw a wrench into yawl’s plan.
Now what did I miss?
Apparently you like so many, read only what you want into any post and forget to think. Then try to virtue shame anyone that doesn’t toe YOUR line. Well this old boy cannot be virtue shamed and really does not give a rat’s patoot what super virtuous conservatives think. OKay?
I don’t think you know what those words mean.
I’m merely pointing out that you made a claim that was incorrect. You said that Manchin voted for the Amendment and then tried to blame the two republicans who were away.
Manchin didn’t vote for the amendment. With that, it didn’t matter what the GOP did. All 50 could have missed the vote. Once the Democrats get to 50 they have what they need.
Manchin claims he will vote for the GOP’s stand alone bill to defund the mandate. The problem with that is that it will need 60 votes, not 51. Manchin knows this. He’s playing fools for a fool.
Stupid phone auto correct.
It should read: “You said that Manchin voted no on the Amendment but then tried to blame the two republicans who were away.”
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