Posted on 09/28/2021 10:48:28 AM PDT by Kevin in California
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein missed a Monday vote to suspend the federal debt limit and avoid a government shutdown, which could happen as soon as Friday if a new spending bill is not passed.
Forty-nine of 50 Republicans voted against the bill, which needed 60 votes to pass. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse also missed the vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer switched his vote from "yes" to "no" to preserve a procedural ability to bring the legislation to the floor again.
Feinstein, 88, has missed Senate votes for a week now, and in a statement to The Hill, Forbes and others, her office said she is away "due to a family medical emergency" but "is carefully following the vote situation in the Senate and will return to Washington as soon as possible." The nature of the emergency was not specified.
I don’t think she is going to make it till Dec.
My thought on this mirrors yours.
Did she get the Death Jab?
Maybe she’s busy showing her property in Tahoe?
Whatever is happening with her, her senate vote will be with Schumer and Pelosi and Biden.
The Pelosi-Newsom gang is plotting her “retirement” (in the Blade Runner sense...) and has a suitable non-White replacement lining up right now.
Probably the odious Ted Lieu.
She is on the Notorious RBG 1000 life support system
Yes, it certainly sounds like the “medical emergency” is Feinstein herself. (I wonder if her husband will keep getting his billions in the CA high-speed rail to nowhere construction fees?)
If dead, who will vote her “suddenly valuable to get 50 votes” proxy for the democrats?
McCain, famously, was held on a breathing tube for MONTHS just to get his Arizona seat replacement postponed until just after the closure dates for the Arizona primary had passed.
/F*cking bastard
A few weeks ago, it was rumored that she had died. Has she not been seen since?
https://twitter.com/CartoonsBen/status/1433096685819813893
Maybe she just don’t like Schumer...............
Feinstein, Pelosi, Hillary, and Droolin’ Joe - the Democrat party has turned into the geriatric ward in an asylum for the criminally insane.
Having lunch with Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Has the senate gone to proxy votes like the house has? If Feinstein is physically unable to come to the senate and vote, would that kill the 50/50 dem/repub balance aand shift to advantage repub for the bazillion dollar bills being voted on?
These politicians are a species all their own when it comes to giving up power.
Whoops! Should have read the thread, man!
GMTA!
Frantic search for a body double...
Are we expecting the government to shut down? Or will the GOP help Joe avoid that?
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