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.
I only hope they got something more than a DOOMED to fail amendment.
This can't possibly continue.
And why not?
China’s bitch McConnell to the rescue. The ballot box is quickly becoming the other, better box.
I voted against it - before I voted for it.
McConnell is more of a problem than I thought and he seems to hold sway over the senators.
I’m surprised there wasn’t one defection.
Like I said I hope they secured more than this stupid amendment which was never going to pass.
“cave”
Hidden in the word “Conservatives” are the words “Vote cavers in”.
He is my worthless senator and was the final catalyst that got me to finally leave the worthless GOP last January.
“Conservatives” have conserved NOTHING.
republicans caved....again.
Actually you found three, Manchin voted no, But by then two of the Vichy Republican finest decided to start Christmas Vacation early and simply went home.
Apparently the Republican Party is really burning the midnight oil coming up with reasons for people like me not to vote for them. They seem to love that minority status, where they can complain and whine and raise money, but are responsible for nothing.
ML McTurtle is the penile version of SOTHOR Pig-lousy.
And the icing on the cake is, every republican who allowed this to move forward to a simple majority vote will be crowing about how they voted against it when it didn’t matter. With representation like this, why do we even need an “opposition” party?
The Deep State (AKA...Government) theater just rollin’ along.
This often happens in the Senate where they vote to advance and then vote against it so they can crow.
Total frauds and hypocrites!
Some of them are serial offenders at this. Usual suspects.
However on this consent I’m surprised they didn’t get one defector.
Disappointing.
Manchin voted against the amendment. The vote was 48-50. He now says he will vote for the stand alone bill to defund the mandate, but that doesn’t have a chance or either passing the house or Biden signing it.
Perhaps you should see what actually Happened instead of getting your news from social media?
I’m counting on the ammo box.
Why even vote for these pretenders.
With all the same players and all the same motivations, we should never expect anything different from them. It’s not the Uniparty by accident. It takes a lot of work to screw over the country so frequently and thoroughly.
Who are these “conservative” I keep hearing about?
Whoever they are the don’t sound like fighters.
Correction:
Whoever they are they don’t sound like fighters.
Actually, they SOUND like fighters.
When it come to actual representation they are self serving traitorous weasels .
When was the last time they actually passed a budget? I mean actual, full-throated annual budget? 2010? 2006? We’ve been living off of CRs for over a decade, IIRC. They’ve figured out how to game the system, and it works so incredibly well for the left.
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