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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 06:56 PM Jan 2019

Republicans distance themselves from shutdown tactics

Senate Republicans on Sunday described the freshly ended 35-day partial government shutdown as an ineffective and harmful tactic deployed to secure funding for President Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border.

Fresh off a Friday vote to reopen the government for three weeks, lawmakers described the shutdown as an exercise in futility that harmed Americans, and expressed optimism lawmakers could hammer out a legislative compromise in the next three weeks.

“Shutdowns are never good policy, ever,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on CBS's “Face the Nation." “They are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal no matter how important that goal may seem to be."

“Prior to the shutdown at a meeting with the White House, I conveyed to the president my belief that he should not pursue this route,” added Collins, one of six GOP senators who broke with their party and voted last week for an ultimately unsuccessful Democratic measure to reopen the government.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/427160-republicans-distance-themselves-from-shutdown-tactics?userid=229233

Too late. You have Trump's and McConnell's stink on you.

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gratuitous

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8. Sen. Collins really doesn't think her constituents are very smart
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 08:43 PM
Jan 2019

Once the Trump Shutdown is safely over, she bravely scampers out from under her desk to denounce the whole sordid spectacle. Who does she think she's fooling?

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