GOP senators read Pence riot act before shutdown votes
Source: theHill
By Alexander Bolton - 01/24/19 06:34 PM EST
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Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), warned the vice president that prolonging the shutdown is not a smart political strategy, in hopes of sending a clear message to President Trump that he needs to resolve the crisis as soon as possible.
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One GOP senator said lawmakers told Pence the shutdown needs to come to an end, this is not a strategy that works [and] we never should have had a shutdown in the first place.
Pence in turn told them that the president is interested in striking a deal, according to the source.
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One of the most remarkable moments during the Senate luncheon came when McConnell told Pence that shuttering the government to try to secure funding for a border wall was not a smart approach.
McConnell talked about how we need to bring this process to a close; we should never have had a shutdown; they dont work; Ive said this numerous times; I dont know how many times Ive told you theres no education in the second kick of a mule, said a GOP source familiar with the meeting.....................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426896-gop-senators-read-pence-riot-act-before-shutdown-votes
Mitch complained before the shutdown that it was a wrong move---then he remained steadfast to Trump and now he is complaining to trump.
Link to tweet
Gore1FL
(21,158 posts)It's remarkable.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)The President will also probably get a primary challenger from both the left and right as a result of it.
underpants
(182,950 posts)It already passed a board in the RNC.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)He's 72 and eats McDonalds for 2 out of 3 meals a day.
JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)Wendy's?
And what about second breakfast?
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)They_Live
(3,241 posts)for a snack.
brush
(53,924 posts)obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)NNadir
(33,574 posts)The word for it is "slavery," and to Mitch, his boss, the Czar of modern Russia, Czar Putin, and his boss's lapdog, Puppy Trump, slavery/serfdom is a great way to be "great again."
yardwork
(61,715 posts)NNadir
(33,574 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)It's slowly spreading. As well it should. Mitch lives in the back pocket of one of Oleg Deripaska's buddies. A wholly-owned subsidiary, bought and paid for. And he's hardly alone. Second paragraph nails several more.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns
NNadir
(33,574 posts)If so I may have missed it.
It certainly deserves one.
It figures. The historic flag waving party of recent years proves to be filled with traitors beholden to a foreign power.
What happened, to use their locution, to their abhorrence of the so called "Evil Empire?"
I guess it was easily bought out.
No surprise. These are venal, cheap, empty men devoid of real principle. They will not live to see the contempt with which history will record them, but regrettably they lack even that shred of integrity to allow them even to care.
calimary
(81,527 posts)Check out Dirty CONS... https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211657130
Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)You show 'em, shithead!
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)This shows how inept the Repblicans are. Tryong to get action by talking to a doorpost because none of them have the nerve to tell the Thief in Chief to his face. Maybe they've been living in their own echo chamber so long that they think this will make them look strong and forceful rather then what they are-gutless. So afraid of master. Reminds me of Clint Eastwoods lame chair routine.
yardwork
(61,715 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)sheshe2
(83,964 posts)No wonder he can't get anything done. He died and does not know it yet.
noneof_theabove
(410 posts)Gawd stole his soul for lying, so he is just "soulless zombie" ghost.
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)until he lets the hostages go or in other words the government gets opened and the workers get paid and that means a clean spending bill is passed for the the next 2 full years and then we talk about other things.
Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Came on Friday nights and near prime time too if I remember.
What was the turbaned name of the Hindi kid with the Muslim name? Hadji?
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)And Mike Dense couldn't carry Race Bannon's jock.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)I only remember watching it as part of the "later-in-morning" Saturday morning cartoons in the late '60s.
(along with Clutch Cargo in syndicated re-run)
(they could be twins... )
DeeDeeNY
(3,356 posts)As Trump was bragging to Pelosi and Schumer how he would OWN the shutdown, Pence sat at that meeting in a sort of trance.
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)The first is that he can ride out his time in office while avoiding any potential criminal charges for things like perjury.
The other is he is probably hoping that if the Repugnants do decide to impeach Trump or use the 25th amendment to remove him that its done this year so he can have time to build momentum for the election because he knows otherwise that he is toast.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)For dang sure! Ya know - the sun rises in the east. Duh!
HOWEVER, rather than just telling Two-Pence, Moscow Mitch TOTALLY needed to look in the mirror and say to HIMSELF
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
theres no education in the second kick of a mule
AND ACT ON IT LONG BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE SH*TSHOW of today while hundreds of thousand of WORKING folks are forced to stand in food lines and even go to homeless shelters. THE DISGRACE.
BUT the repukes own it, from the top down.
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)They could not be more morally and intellectually bankrupt if they tried.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)but mini-poodles with vocal cords removed when it comes to Trump.
forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)than a two-year-old having a tantrum.
Hassler
(3,393 posts)yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)STFU Mitch.
hatrack
(59,594 posts)Blahblahblahblahblahblahblah . . .
They can all go and fuck themselves, starting with McConnell.
modrepub
(3,503 posts)Senate work is notoriously slow. It could be another couple of weeks for another vote and who knows what the orange sh!#-throwing gibbon will do. If this drags on much longer the wheels are really going to fall off.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)It is only wrong politically.