Courtesy of CNBC:Republican Sen. Susan Collins: "Today is a day to celebrate because we have shown that a determined group of senators working together across the aisle can result in positive action" https://t.co/xXFLArURok— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 22, 2018
Senators were optimistic they had the votes to end the government shutdown Monday after leaving meetings more confident about a compromise deal to allow Congress to pass a short-term funding bill.
On Monday afternoon, the chamber advanced a stopgap bill to keep the government open through Feb. 8 by a comfortable 81-18 margin. The chamber still needs to approve its final passage.
"We will vote today to reopen the government," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Schumer said Democrats have received assurances that the Senate will take on immigration issues, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Earlier Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he intends to allow debate on immigration before Feb. 8.
Oh Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, when will you ever learn?
Mitch McConnell is never going to keep that promise, and if he does, he is guaranteed to sabotage the process.
Is there no price to pay for the repugnatcan’s passage of “The Giveaway of America’s Treasury’s To The 1% Act”?
ReplyDeleteMain point is 8 year of CHIP funding, plus taking away the GOP narrative of illegals Vs. children. We don't have a majority, we do what we can.
ReplyDeleteActivists did a great job of holding Democrats feet to the fire on DACA. Last week they didn’t have 41 votes to shut down the government for one second. Need to keep it up.
DeleteAnd the last few days really exposed Trump, yet again, as a pathetic loser, watching TV in his bedroom while adults attempted to negotiate.
Keep slugging away folks. Yep, we do what we can.
Kzoo doctor detained by ICE after 40 years in US
Deletehttp://woodtv.com/2018/01/20/kzoo-doctor-detained-by-ice-after-40-years-in-us/
What fucking bullshit! Way past time we vote out some of these idiots in D.C. Cast your votes wisely America when the time comes (which won't come soon enough in my opinion!).
ReplyDeleteMcConnell, from Kentucky, is the worst!
I'm assuming that McConnell can't wiggle out of this and will have to put it up for a vote or look like a flat-out liar. But what if the looney House Republicans refuse to go along with whatever the Senate passes?
ReplyDeleteMcConnell can wiggle out of ANYTHING. All he has to do is say Humpty Trumpty won't accept it and we're back at square one.
DeleteAnf if the House decides not to go along with it, it is even MORE on the shoulders of the repubes.
And if Humpty Trumpty refuses to sign the bill if it gets to him, it will something he CAN'T lie about. Well, he could - and probably will - but even the base voters he has won't able to claim it's someone else's fault.
Dems rolled over and showed their bellies and once again will be like "hey where's my football Lucy?"
DeleteThis week, two Kremlin Friendly Democrats announced they were running for office.
ReplyDeletehttps://thesternfacts.com/ohio-governor-candidate-is-former-founder-of-house-russia-caucus-6588ef71bb54
" Representative Kucinich started off 2013 by signing on as a Fox News Contributor. He spent the rest of Obama’s presidency criticizing his foreign policy — on Fox News and Russia Today.
DeleteIn April 2013, Kucinich joined the Ron Paul Institute which is a libertarian Republican think tank, and was working on defending the Russian spy Edward Snowden, at the time."
Sanity break - for a good laugh (at trump and friends) and to help us all keep our sanity - check out Randy Rainbow - facebook page link - https://www.facebook.com/RandyRainbowOfficial/
ReplyDeleteAlso on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07F26kHKkpW_qqvXzEGALA
Key Wilbur Ross aide resigns
ReplyDeletehttps://www.axios.com/key-wilbur-ross-aide-resigns-israel-hernandez-163f14f2-dbfa-4fbc-8687-d8ef0c2705e3.html?source=sidebar
Where is Trump? President MIA for nearly 72 hours during government shutdown
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/955507702133817344
New book chronicles MORE chaos in the Trump White House
https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/955488796975534080
Donald loves elegant events, especailly when it is to honor him. He was furious he could not attend his one year inaugral anniversay. After the worst poorly staged photos to show he was working during the shutdown, he disappears. He can electronically 'meet' with Republicans, we need to see the photos. I bet he is at least playing golf somewhere other than the White House.
DeleteMilitary families suffer under Trump's shutdown, Trump's gala guests rage about tacky caviar service
https://twitter.com/dontilla/status/955514393747484672
Donald john drumpf knows he did not win the election, he knows it was rigged stolen, he is a fraud and liar. There was no celebration, there was no victory. He knows it Mueller knows it, the republicans know it, the American people know it. Donald john Trump was put there because he owes the mob millions maybe billions of dollars and he is there in a cage until the mob wants him gone or arrested by mueller. It is pure torture for him to be stuck there in a job he hates. Don't be fooled. Don is a miserable human in debt up to his bleached out hair plugs.
Delete'Media Madness'
Delete"When he left the White House, Bannon told Trump of his plans for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: to 'bring him down,'
Way to go Democrats. Piss all over your base again.
ReplyDeleteWhat specifically do you propose that Democrats do with Republicans controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House?
DeleteUmm, perhaps stand your ground and keep the fucking government shut the fuck down until you get what you want?
DeleteI've heard of a political party whose name begins with the letter "R" that would and have done just that. What is wrong with Democrats?
Ummm.. thst’s not how a shutdown works. Ask Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz how keeping the fucking government shut the fuck down worked out for them. Do you even remember what they wanted? I didn’t think so.
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DeleteHow about they do to the Republicans exactly what they did to them? Like refuse to do anything until you get everything you want. They had leverage and they gave it away for a pipe promise/dream.
McConnell won’t keep his word and Ryan never gave his.
Democrats are simply weak and stupid.
Stephen Miller is now the de facto President of the United States.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/oust-stephen-miller/7527/
When is miller going to get his Mueller time?
DeleteThis is how bannon is keeping his finger on the wh,his in house nazi.
Dude is 32 years old, not even old enough to run on his own for POTUS, that's what makes it so funny that he is running our country now.
DeleteYou guys should TOTALLY believe everything from the Palmer 'report' LOL.
DeleteDemocrats end Trump Shutdown, force Republicans to vote on DREAMers
ReplyDelete...But on Monday, Schumer struck a deal with Republicans to provide enough votes to reopen the government, in exchange for a promise that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring an immigration bill up for a vote.
Democrats also secured six years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Republicans allowed to expire last September, and which they subsequently held hostage in the shutdown negotiations.
The deal — passed by an 81-18 margin — funds the government until Feb. 8, at which point the Democrats, and the Republicans who also initially opposed a deal that didn’t include a fix for DREAMers, will have the opportunity to test McConnell’s promise. McConnell had been unable to get even his own party to agree to last week’s failed bill.
Schumer made the results of that test explicit. “The Republican majority now has 17 days to prevent the DREAMers from being deported,” he said.
If McConnell fails to honor his pledge, Democrats will once again have the opportunity to hold fast for DREAMers, while Republicans will be forced to put their money where their mouth is and provide the fix for DACA they have said they want.
The onus is now on Republicans to keep their commitments, and to keep the government open past that Feb. 8 deadline.
https://shareblue.com/democrats-end-trump-shutdown-force-republicans-to-vote-on-dreamers/
I sure hope he got it in writing,turtleheads word is worthless
DeleteThey didn’t force squat. McConnell agreed to ALLOW them to DEBATE. Big fuckin’ deal.
DeleteCourt smacks down GOP’s scheme to rig elections in Pennsylvania
ReplyDeleteCourt smacks down GOP’s scheme to rig elections in Pennsylvania
By Matthew Chapman |
JANUARY 22, 2018
Gerrymandering was just dealt a fatal blow in Pennsylvania — in time for crucial midterm elections.
(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Amid wall-to-wall coverage of the shutdown negotiations, one massive Democratic victory has gone largely unnoticed.
On Monday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling that the Republican-controlled state legislature illegally gerrymandered congressional districts — and furthermore, that the maps must be redrawn in time for the midterm elections.
According to the seven-member court, the GOP’s redistricting plan “plainly and palpably violates the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
Under the order, the legislature must redraw the map, with the approval of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, and submit it to the court by Feb. 15. If they do not redraw the map, or if the governor rejects it, the court will pick from several proposed maps drawn up by “all parties and intervenors” involved in the case.
https://shareblue.com/court-smacks-down-gops-scheme-to-rig-elections-in-pennsylvania/
Reporter nails Ted Cruz for flat-out lying about shutting down the government in 2013
ReplyDeleteMSNBC's Kasie Hunt didn't let Cruz get away with trying to rewrite his own history: "Sir, that's simply not the case."
https://shareblue.com/reporter-kasie-hunt-nails-ted-cruz-for-flat-out-lying-about-shutting-down-the-government-in-2013/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013
Delete'Ted Cruz (R-TX),
Deletethe senator who had a leading role'
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16921166/ted-cruz-2013-shutdownsays-he-has-consistently-opposed-shutdowns
BREAKING (VANITY FAIR): Trump, Whose Approval Rating Is in the Mid-30s, Insists to Friends It's "In the High 50s"
ReplyDeleteThis is scary. Take a moment to process the level of self-delusion required to believe this, let alone say it out loud.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/955535778171510785
I honestly think Democrats didn’t have any other choice. They were beginning to lose their political capital that they had going. Maybe better to give in now and sweep the elections in 2018.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans' plan to steal Texas in future presidential elections has begun. Texas is turning blue, and the GOP is terrified that when Texas goes blue the party is done. Hence, more racist voter suppression.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/955537616170045440
Trump election fraud commission bought Texas election data flagging Hispanic voters
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/955497456841748480
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules state congressional map unconstitutional
Deletehttp://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/370127-pennsylvania-supreme-court-rules-state-congressional-map-is
Supremes put redistricting in North Carolina on hold so they’ll be using the old racist gerrymandered map for 2018.
DeleteThese idiots are still not doing their job. Hiw many months have they had to pass a real bill to fund the government and all they can accomplish are these stopgap bills so another emergency will come around shortly? They should be charged with contempt of the American people and dereliction of duty and be thrown in jail.
ReplyDeleteLine them all up and let them all have it (Republicans in Congress) for being anti-American and committing treason! Begin with McConnell and Ryan.
DeleteSomeone needs to take sarah huckaliar down a notch,i saw her little speech about Schumer doesn't know anything about legislation and the WH will give him some lessons.
ReplyDeleteThis was on CBC,so all of Canada knows what a mess the WH is and fools are running it.
She's fat, ugly, christian, has terrible fashion sense and has a wonky eye, hasn't her "god" already punished her enough ;-)
DeleteNot one cent to that stupid wall. They have one week to get the CHIP program back up and running. They have one week to get daca in order. And for icing on the deal. End tax exemption for all religious organizations. And overturn Citizen United now!! This alone will help American's.
ReplyDeleteYeah, right. Good luck with the second half of your idea.
DeleteLOL one week or what?
DeleteThe Dreamers may lose in this but the best part ,the very best part is that the Deplorables will be the true losers as they will lose CHIP, SNAP, Welfare and Medicaid but at least we'll actually finally be rid of them as the anchor around this country's neck.
DeleteThey are the great tradeoff in the tax bill, although they have no idea what is coming to get them.
Makes me smile, it truly does.
Gonna be fun to watch them starve, sicken and die, them and their abundance of white trash children that they couldn't afford to have.
Ahhh, "choose life" they say, well guess what toothless fuckers and your irresponsibly bred spawns, you guys are going down and our country will be so.much.stronger.without.you.
I hate it that the DREAMERS will lose what they are so much more deserving of, but a couple million of you dirtbags suffering and leaving our population is a fair tradeoff.
The best part of all this is trump's party was ruined over the weekend,i bet he is more angry that they didn't come to a deal on friday so he could leave town than he cares about the shutdown.
ReplyDeleteGrab her by the democrats.
ReplyDeleteGOD LOVES Trae Crowder and So do I!
ReplyDelete'Something insanely cool happened to me yesterday evening. Something so cool I don’t even have words for it.'
https://twitter.com/traecrowder
THAT ^
https://twitter.com/traecrowder
Stained Glass Elephant$:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/internet-points-symbolism-senator-throws-designated-talking-stick-meeting-breaks-glass-elephant/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/speechless-susan-collins-scoffs-ted-cruz-claiming-hes-consistently-opposed-shutdowns/
ReplyDelete"Republican Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and others then demanded a delay of or change to the Affordable Care Act in exchange for passing the resolution. On September 24, 2013 Cruz gave a 21-hour speech in the Senate to draw attention to his goals."As the shutdown loomed on September 27, The Washington Post reported that several Republican members of Congress made public statements expressing approval of the impending shutdown. Rep. Michele Bachmann said "We're very excited. It's exactly what we wanted, and we got it. People will be very grateful." Rep. John Culberson said "It's wonderful. We're 100 percent united!"" In an interview with Fox news host Sean Hannity, Bachmann said that she believes there has been "strong unity" between conservatives on almost every budget vote. Bachmann said: "This is about the happiest I've seen members in a long time, because we see we are starting to win this dialogue on a national level.""
DeleteNo, the Democrats didn’t cave on the shutdown today. Trump and the Republicans did.
ReplyDelete...Polls say that Americans blame Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown by a clear margin. So why didn’t the Democrats simply let the shutdown drag out and make the other side look even worse as it went on? The GOP still had one card up its sleeve: the race card. In its desperation to temporarily get the lights back on today, the GOP gave up that card.
The Republicans have been holding two groups of Americans hostage. The first are undocumented immigrants who have lived their entire lives here and are protected by DACA. The second are children of low-income families who rely on CHIP for health care. The GOP has been trying to frame this as a false choice, arguing that the Democrats are willing to let the (largely white) CHIP recipients suffer while prioritizing (non-white) undocumented immigrants. The GOP was hoping to use this argument in the 2018 congressional elections, in order to pander to racist and xenophobic voters. But now the party just gave that away.
Today’s Senate deal fully funds CHIP. Assuming this legislation makes it through the House and gets signed by Trump, CHIP is now officially off the table. That means the Republican pitch about Democrats choosing “illegal” (non-white) people over “legal” (white) people is out the window. Now the budget impasse is solely about DACA. The Republican majority now has three weeks to get DACA done, or else the government gets shut down again.
This leaves Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump with a no-win situation. They can either pass a clean DACA bill that they don’t like, and hand a major victory to the Democrats in the process, or they can refuse to do DACA and find themselves having to explain to the American people why the government has been shut down twice in three weeks on their watch.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/cave-shutdown-democrats-trump/7531/
'Looking at the smiles and backslapping among these Democrats, one couldn’t help but wonder: Do they have the faintest idea how pissed off the Democratic base is?'
ReplyDelete'“I do not see how a vague promise from the Senate Majority Leader about a vague policy to be voted on in the future helps the Dreamers or maximizes leverage the Democrats and American people have over the Republicans right now,” Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the most vocal advocate for Dreamers in Congress, said in a statement. “You’ve got to start trusting each other and working together at some point,” Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth said. “I have no trust in the Republican leadership, but I’m going to take a deep breath and show some trust in my moderate Republican colleagues who were willing to step forward on this.”
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey—who argued that McConnell made not just a promise to Senate Democrats, but “to the country”—said “I don’t know [McConnell] enough to say that I trust him, but I do trust the people who were in [Collins’ office] the last couple of days.”There is no compelling evidence that rejecting McConnell’s offer would have resulted in a better outcome for Democrats. Polling would have drifted further to Republicans’ side, and McConnell would have waited patiently to accept Schumer’s unconditional surrender. It is surprising that McConnell even offered a handshake agreement, and may have only done so to bring Flake and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham back on the team. Democrats chose to save face by accepting a less-than-“ironclad” commitment"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/democrats-caved-on-the-government-shutdown.html
...and watch Lucy jerk the football away again.
ReplyDeleteALLOW debate?
ReplyDelete*DEBATE*?
That is going fucking no where.
Plus Paul Ryan is in no way obligated to do diddly squat about DACA or immigration.
But thanks for playing.
*This* is why I am no longer a member of the Spineless Dumbass Party.