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ret5hd

(20,495 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:50 PM Mar 2020

MAYBE the republicans (some anyway) are purposefully giving the Dems (and themselves) a way out:

Call in sick and give the Dems a majority.

"Hey, we're tired of this shit too, but we ain't got the balls to vote on it directly, so for the next couple weeks you got the reigns."

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MAYBE the republicans (some anyway) are purposefully giving the Dems (and themselves) a way out: (Original Post) ret5hd Mar 2020 OP
I think there's a reason more GrOPers aren't self-quarantining, it's b/c they've hit their limit RockRaven Mar 2020 #1
Yeah, you all are probably right. Just a thought that flashed... ret5hd Mar 2020 #3
Mitch won't allow votes Cartoonist Mar 2020 #2
I'm hoping for that $200 raise in my Social Security Walleye Mar 2020 #4

RockRaven

(14,972 posts)
1. I think there's a reason more GrOPers aren't self-quarantining, it's b/c they've hit their limit
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:53 PM
Mar 2020

of still keeping a majority. The early birds got the worms. Everyone else is going to be pressured into not quarantining.

McTurtle would do anything, endanger anybody, even bodily drag one of his senators on a ventilator into the chamber, in order to keep his majority at all times.

ret5hd

(20,495 posts)
3. Yeah, you all are probably right. Just a thought that flashed...
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:56 PM
Mar 2020

through my brain.
Sometimes those flashes turn out to be farts.

Usually I'm a godamned genius. My friends call me Forest.

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