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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAYBE 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
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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
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...
through my brain.
Sometimes those flashes turn out to be farts.
Usually I'm a godamned genius. My friends call me Forest.
Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)2. Mitch won't allow votes
Until the grim reaper comes for the grim repub.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)4. I'm hoping for that $200 raise in my Social Security