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Democrats Have Lost Their Majority in the Senate (For Now) and That’s Kind of a Big Deal; But Will Republicans Be United?
PJ Media ^ | 02/07/2022 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 02/06/2022 9:43:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Last week, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) suffered a stroke and underwent brain surgery. He is currently hospitalized in Albuquerque. He is expected to return to the U.S. Senate in four to six weeks, assuming there are no further medical complications. However, during his absence, Democrats no longer have a majority in the Senate—Republicans have a 50-49 majority.

This means that until Luján returns, a united GOP can block the Democrats’ agenda and there’s nothing the Democrats could do about it.

This is actually a big deal. In addition to blocking the Democrats’ legislative agenda, Luján’s absence could potentially impact Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nomination.

Biden has said he plans to announce his Supreme Court nominee at the end of February, and the average time from nomination to confirmation in recent decades has been 41 days. If Lujan’s return to the U.S. Senate is delayed, it could change the timeline or the outcome of Biden’s Supreme Court nomination.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: benraylujan; bloggers; democrats; lujan; majority; newmexico; scotus; senate
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To: tennmountainman

We’ve all seen this movie before and know all to well how it ends.


21 posted on 02/06/2022 10:00:16 AM PST by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
you know darn well the rats would do it.

Yep. I know that all too well.

As well as I know that the republicans won't.

22 posted on 02/06/2022 10:00:27 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: Skywise

“Here would be the PERFECT time to launch new bills and legislation... but McConnell will do, NOTHING.”

Which would have ZERO chance of getting past the house or signed by Biden.


23 posted on 02/06/2022 10:04:19 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: SeekAndFind

What stops the Dem Leadership from having a little chit-chat with him, he steps down with the promise that he’ll be taken care of later for his loyalty, Grisham picks another Dem to fill in and the majority continues rolling along?

And now I read an article that Manchin seems to be ok with the Democrat attempt to go after the Electoral College stuff.

And folks thought he would switch sides. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


24 posted on 02/06/2022 10:04:23 AM PST by qaz123
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats Have Lost Their Majority in the Senate (For Now) and That’s Kind of a Big Deal; But Will Republicans Be United?

I doubt it, as many if not most are just as ignorant if not outright mentally challenged as the liberals/socialists. The only way people will change is, if and when it severely hurts their pocketbooks or impacts their health, but we are not quite there yet. But if our government continuous dishing out all that crap we may reach this point before too long.


25 posted on 02/06/2022 10:08:13 AM PST by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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To: SeekAndFind

Will republicons be united? Sure they will... with the democrats


26 posted on 02/06/2022 10:09:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: BobL

Voting for Romney in the primary would have been bad, but voting for him in the election was the right thing to do. I couldn’t stand the man, although I will say that he gave a stump speech in my town in Florida and he was actually quite good. Probably didn’t mean any of it, but even Rush liked him.

And, bad as he was, Romney sure would have been better than Obama and his evil minion horde.


27 posted on 02/06/2022 10:11:07 AM PST by livius
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To: SeekAndFind
He is expected to return to the U.S. Senate in four to six weeks, assuming there are no further medical complications.

He could die, and it wouldn't matter. Like Biden, the Dems will have him suffused with drugs, use high voltage electroshock, feed him baby's blood, satanic incantations - anything to keep his corpse alive for a short press conference.

28 posted on 02/06/2022 10:11:34 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15
From a RINO perspective, a Democratic victory is a Republican victory.
29 posted on 02/06/2022 10:17:09 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BobL

So why does he go along with them?

Remember, he voted to confirm Merrick Garland as AG. That is on him alone.


30 posted on 02/06/2022 10:18:14 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: TexasGator

So long as it grinds the Democratic agenda to a halt, it would be worth it.


31 posted on 02/06/2022 10:19:07 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin


32 posted on 02/06/2022 10:19:43 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: TexasGator
“Here would be the PERFECT time to launch new bills and legislation...

Like making vaccine mandates illegal nation wide,

But McConnell will do, NOTHING.”

Get ahead by banning fossil fools, like McConnell, Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.

33 posted on 02/06/2022 10:21:43 AM PST by spokeshave (Get ahead by banning fossil fools, like McConnell, Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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To: tennmountainman

Until Lujan returns, Mitt Romney and Susan Collins have volunteered to bat for the other team . . . as usual.


34 posted on 02/06/2022 10:26:54 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: BobL

Nope, Virgil Goode was the only credible candidate in 2012. Willard the Rat was there to assure Zero’s “reelection.” He was horrible on judges in MA, BTW.


35 posted on 02/06/2022 10:44:05 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Republicans have a 50-49 majority.
Maybe now they can vote to convict Trump, at long last! /s

36 posted on 02/06/2022 10:50:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TexasGator

Yep. It’s not that they can use this time to do stuff, but rather, that they can use this time to stop stuff. When you’ve got a Democrat house and a Democrat president all the Senate can do is keep things from happening - not cause things to happen.


37 posted on 02/06/2022 10:51:21 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I can’t believe you did either. The governor of MA runs for Senator from UT? Ok, well carpetbagging like that’s been done before. But I don’t approve.


38 posted on 02/06/2022 10:52:01 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: cuban leaf
The one thing that Republicans can cause to happen is offer amendments to bills that the Democrats have to reject.

It helps to set the narrative for the upcoming mid-term campaign.

-PJ

39 posted on 02/06/2022 10:52:53 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: UNGN
I would be livestreaming how I’m feeling from my Hospital bed... unless I couldn’t.

He is doing fine, but after the stroke, he has amnesia and thinks he is Mitt Romney and is now a Republican. They are fine with him thinking that he is Fred Sanford but it may take several weeks to convince him that he is not a Republican.

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40 posted on 02/06/2022 11:08:45 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. So, try to remember Ephesians 4:2.)
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