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Senate Democrats’ impending choice: Shutdown or surrender
Politico ^ | 3/07/25 | Jordain Carney, Katherine Tully-McManus

Posted on 03/07/2025 4:19:53 AM PST by Libloather

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Sucks to be Hakeem.
1 posted on 03/07/2025 4:19:53 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I Hakeemed up a loogie once. Gross.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 4:36:20 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: Libloather

I hope the GOP has all the clips of the RATS reminding everyone why shutting down the govt and not passing the budget would be bad... bring receipts GOP... be prepared.


3 posted on 03/07/2025 4:42:47 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Libloather

“Sucks to be Hakeem.”

Looking at his face during SOTU, he seemed to be resigning himself to certain defeat of the RATs. He did not look happy or confident. Maybe he’ll start reading the room, and paying attention to polls, and start compromising a bit. Probably not, but maybe.


4 posted on 03/07/2025 4:46:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Libloather

The house can pass a CR if everyone sticks together. It will be the senate Dems who shutdown the government. Trump will beat them like a rented mule if they do.


5 posted on 03/07/2025 5:02:15 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Libloather

I hope the Democrats pick shutdown.

Then Trump can really use emergency measures, cut spending, DOGE so much, as well as Tariff!! The Federal Government will quickly shrink, and then become more dependent on Tariffs for survival.

Another words, the Democrats are going to collapse and go with the Trump budget, because otherwise they give Trump everything he ever wanted.


6 posted on 03/07/2025 5:40:42 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Libloather

Fight in the streets Hakeem!! Fight in the streets!


7 posted on 03/07/2025 5:44:20 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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So, these idiots will protest the potential spending cuts by completely cutting funds.

I guess that makes sense to a party whose main goal is to oppose what’s good for America.

Dems hate this country.


8 posted on 03/07/2025 5:50:14 AM PST by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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I’m not clear why a shutdown is bad and why you have to pass crap to keep going with the senselessness. Trump wants to cut government. A shutdown means Trump gets to decide what is essential and what is not which quite literally seems like something he’s been saying he wants to do since taking office. Craft a perfect bill and makes cuts, let the Democrats block it and let Trump decide what is essential. It doesn’t appear to me that anyone has the stomach to save the country. Maybe not even Trump which disappoints me. I of course still back him and will give him time.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 5:50:22 AM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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Yea but the bill isn’t right enough. I say pass a very right leaning bill and dare the Rats to block it. Stop being mediocre.


10 posted on 03/07/2025 5:51:51 AM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: Libloather

3rd choice: Sing!


11 posted on 03/07/2025 5:52:46 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

“ Republicans need at least eight, assuming more GOP lawmakers don’t join Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has pledged to vote no.”

Is this not a reconciliation bill that only requires 50%? No filibuster?

EC


12 posted on 03/07/2025 5:57:05 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: Libloather

His uncle the racist professor at CitiCollege would be so proud.


13 posted on 03/07/2025 6:25:10 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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“..Sucks to be Hakeem....”

For sure. I just dropped one of those in the comode this morning. It’s well on its way to the septic tank to join its fellow companions...


14 posted on 03/07/2025 6:28:37 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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Fedzilla does not shut down.

Though, under Trump, we might get something pretty dang close.

That’s what Deep State is really worried about.

That the American public, like Mikey, will try it and like it.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 6:31:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: lgjhn23

An ex-pat Cuban colleague called it “sending a telegram to Castro”.


16 posted on 03/07/2025 6:49:20 AM PST by Does so ("The guilty flee when no man pursueth"....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼)
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To: Libloather

Option three. Resign, commit seppuku, and we’ll declare a national holiday.


17 posted on 03/07/2025 6:51:36 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: Libloather

Wonder how Democrat Senators from states that voted Trump think about their leadership’s idea to shut down the Government.


18 posted on 03/07/2025 7:01:55 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Ex-Con777

CRs can be filibustered


19 posted on 03/07/2025 7:02:39 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Libloather

Shutting down the government because the republicans wouldn’t work with the rats was the battle cry during Biden. Now with trump its ok


20 posted on 03/07/2025 7:11:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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