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The Con is fucked (Original Post) malaise Dec 2018 OP
That will be a supreme humiliation cilla4progress Dec 2018 #1
It is illegal malaise Dec 2018 #2
Great! cilla4progress Dec 2018 #3
Hope this Senate nose count, is more accurate than the last House nose count. empedocles Dec 2018 #4
I'm HOPING some cast that vote because they knew it wouldn't pass in the Senate. deurbano Dec 2018 #8
Art of the Deal on display. Sneederbunk Dec 2018 #5
Beaaaaaah malaise Dec 2018 #6
or of the Happy Meal. nt spooky3 Dec 2018 #11
He hasn't got a clue.. Stuart G Dec 2018 #35
Yes, and he said repeatedly in his meeting with Pelosi and Schumer elocs Dec 2018 #7
He also said he would get bluecollar2 Dec 2018 #9
Yes he did although Pelosi said he didn't have the votes. n/t elocs Dec 2018 #12
Apparently many senators left town after their straight-up CR Taraman Dec 2018 #10
Veto MagicPond Dec 2018 #13
Send him a bill that the Senate will have enough votes to overide his veto. ooky Dec 2018 #17
Worried MagicPond Dec 2018 #18
Of course. So the Senate will need enough votes to make it veto proof. ooky Dec 2018 #19
Two Thirds MagicPond Dec 2018 #21
Yep. BTW welcome to DU. ooky Dec 2018 #25
Thanks MagicPond Dec 2018 #33
Yes, but it's only 2 weeks. Volaris Dec 2018 #22
Are we confident that every single Senator with a D after the name PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #14
The GOP plan to pin this on the democrats might make that a reality. Chakaconcarne Dec 2018 #15
What about this? ewagner Dec 2018 #16
That's too rational for the lunatic n/t malaise Dec 2018 #20
I'd add WH support for DACA, just to make a point. Volaris Dec 2018 #23
What makes this so frustrating is JuJuYoshida Dec 2018 #24
That is why the US needs to build a giant bubble. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #27
Precisely. Fixed fortifications (including steel slats) are USELESS. VOX Dec 2018 #31
If he were, guillaumeb Dec 2018 #26
ROFL malaise Dec 2018 #28
Thank you. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #29
Yep malaise Dec 2018 #30
Maybe he needs one of those robotic sex dolls. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #32
I couldn't say it better than those 4 words..k and r. Stuart G Dec 2018 #34

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
1. That will be a supreme humiliation
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:07 PM
Dec 2018

Which will supremely gratifying to see.

Of course, he will blame everyone else.

What time is the vote? At some point he'll get bored and just want to go to Mar-a-lago to golf.

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
8. I'm HOPING some cast that vote because they knew it wouldn't pass in the Senate.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 02:55 PM
Dec 2018

Like, just to keep their rightwing nut case (but I repeat myself) constituents at bay for the holidays...

elocs

(22,578 posts)
7. Yes, and he said repeatedly in his meeting with Pelosi and Schumer
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:59 PM
Dec 2018

that he knew he did not have 60 votes in the Senate, so he already knew that was his problem with getting a wall.

Taraman

(373 posts)
10. Apparently many senators left town after their straight-up CR
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:14 PM
Dec 2018

and are scrambling to get back to DC, esp. Western ones. I'll bet they are overjoyed.

ooky

(8,923 posts)
17. Send him a bill that the Senate will have enough votes to overide his veto.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:50 PM
Dec 2018

Probably the most likely scenario to re-open the government. The big baby will continue holding his breath with his face turning turning colors.

 

MagicPond

(26 posts)
33. Thanks
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:19 PM
Dec 2018

I discovered this place in 2015. Just recently registered so I could do more than just read

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
22. Yes, but it's only 2 weeks.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 07:07 PM
Dec 2018

Yes it's two weeks over Christmas, but let HIM own that, and let Nancy fix this shit in January (for even more WH humiliation).

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,861 posts)
14. Are we confident that every single Senator with a D after the name
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:25 PM
Dec 2018

is not going to vote for?

If a single one does, well, I'm not allowed to say what I really think, but I guess I just want to say that would be pretty pathetic.

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
16. What about this?
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:35 PM
Dec 2018

Amend the House CR to eliminate the $5B

Compromise with McConnel

add back in $1.6 for "border security" but not wall

Keep the disaster relief funds that the House included

Pass it through the Senate and send it back to the house.

House has to pass it or take blame for shutdown (Republican Shutdown)

or

The House passes it and Trump can either "eat it" or veto it in which case he and he alone is responsible for the shutdown

I think the key is that McConnell is evil enough to do this

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
23. I'd add WH support for DACA, just to make a point.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 07:12 PM
Dec 2018

On Edit: is it possible that McConnells evil can be used for our own Good ends, instead of just his own Ego?

I'm not saying don't take it, mind you, but fuck what a predicament for King Yertle of the Senate hahahaha!

JuJuYoshida

(2,215 posts)
24. What makes this so frustrating is
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 07:23 PM
Dec 2018

They don't jump the damn wall to get into the US, they go underground or in caravans in cars. Smuggled. No stupid wall is gonna stop that.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
31. Precisely. Fixed fortifications (including steel slats) are USELESS.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 08:32 PM
Dec 2018

Given the dimensions in which we exist, there are four ways past the wall: over, around, under and through.

45 can toss billions of taxpayer dollars into this INSANE idea, but that won’t touch going under it and or around it.

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