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McConnell is proud to vote for trump's wall...speaking on the senate floor. (Original Post) spanone Dec 2018 OP
Did you expect anything else? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #1
I-1 has McC by his Russian short and curlies. ananda Dec 2018 #2
#TrumpMcConnellShutdown Freethinker65 Dec 2018 #3
Proudly displaying his blithering idiocy Blue Owl Dec 2018 #4
That's toads, frogs and some lizards. Turtles don't have throat pouches. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #8
The Onion disagrees... Blue Owl Dec 2018 #17
Yes, but that was a frog pouch, not a turtle pouch. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #19
"Tear down this wall." - Ronald freaking Reagan (R) Achilleaze Dec 2018 #5
The need for a beautiful architecturally designed steel slat wall is "AN EMPIRICAL FACT" Miles Archer Dec 2018 #6
Isn't a steel-slat wall more commonly known as a fence? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #7
Have you ever seen Reno 911? Miles Archer Dec 2018 #11
I don't want to put this in writing. WeekiWater Dec 2018 #15
Mitch knows he doesn't have the votes, so he's giving this speech to kiss trump's ass spanone Dec 2018 #9
I don't get why the GOPers are protecting Trump. Pence will give them The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #10
I guess they don't want ru$h limbaugh and ann coulter to go after them? spanone Dec 2018 #12
. They are scared of the deplorables Va Lefty Dec 2018 #14
I've asked the same question many times ScratchCat Dec 2018 #16
Probably Kompromat. The stuff the Russians vacuumed up from RNC emails tblue37 Dec 2018 #18
You know the Russians hacked the RNC rufus dog Dec 2018 #22
To kiss their base's ass. Hortensis Dec 2018 #20
Cannot stand his voice Tech Dec 2018 #13
They will cave to and fund the G after they get scorched for a while. Joe941 Dec 2018 #21
not without edhopper Dec 2018 #23

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
3. #TrumpMcConnellShutdown
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:33 PM
Dec 2018

McConnell pushes the bipartisan bill, it had the votes in the House but Trump threatened to veto.

McConnell now owns any shutdown with Trump.

Blue Owl

(50,393 posts)
4. Proudly displaying his blithering idiocy
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:34 PM
Dec 2018

I'm sure his throat pouch was puffed out in an attempt to show dominance...

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. "Tear down this wall." - Ronald freaking Reagan (R)
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:35 PM
Dec 2018

The russian-backed Latter Day KGOP repubes are pissing on Reagan's grave.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
6. The need for a beautiful architecturally designed steel slat wall is "AN EMPIRICAL FACT"
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:35 PM
Dec 2018

Called any opposition to a need for a beautiful architecturally designed steel slat wall some kind of problem with the "far, far left."

Said there's nothing in the bill that Democrats haven't "agreed to in the past."

JESUS, what an ass pipe.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
11. Have you ever seen Reno 911?
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:41 PM
Dec 2018

Patton Oswalt had recurring roles, including a Renaissance Faire guy who often called 911 when someone broke period "authenticity."

So in one episode he pulls out a cell phone, and the sheriffs call him out over it, and he says "This is a scrobbing device."

That's the first thing I thought of when Trump tried to re-brand his wall as a fence that is still the Mexican-financed wall he promised.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,726 posts)
10. I don't get why the GOPers are protecting Trump. Pence will give them
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:41 PM
Dec 2018

everything they want, so why not just impeach his ass and be done with all the drama?

ScratchCat

(1,990 posts)
16. I've asked the same question many times
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:50 PM
Dec 2018

In fact, I have asked it so many times that it is feeling like the only plausible explanations are in "tin foil" territory. I've got a buddy who has believed since he was elected that him being President is to "distract us from something else". Because what you say is true - everything they didn't get, they could have gotten and can get with Pence as President. Therefore, its logical to conclude that its not the fear of or support of "his base" that is keeping him there. Who knows, but at this point, if they(GOP) don't start jumping ship in droves, I might conclude something weird is going on.

tblue37

(65,393 posts)
18. Probably Kompromat. The stuff the Russians vacuumed up from RNC emails
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 02:08 PM
Dec 2018

has never surfaced, but probably is being used as leverage against them

Also, Mitch, Ryan, and many other Republicans got a lot of rubles laundered through PACs. More leverage.

The Steele dossier suggests that for years Russia has been giving Trump info to hold over others:

A core claim of the dossier is that Russia “had been feeding Trump and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents,” including Clinton, for “several years” before 2016, and that in exchange, Trump’s team fed the Kremlin intelligence on Russian oligarchs and their families “for at least eight years.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/5/16845704/steele-dossier-russia-trump
 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
22. You know the Russians hacked the RNC
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:21 PM
Dec 2018

Instead of lame Podesta recipes they actually have the dirt on the repukes.

Tech

(1,771 posts)
13. Cannot stand his voice
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:44 PM
Dec 2018

Had to turn him off. Mitch, trump, Meagan m, paul Ryan and comrade walker. Cannot stand to even hear their voices.

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