Breaking News :6 Republicans break ranks to vote in favor of Democrat-led shutdown bill
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Well, well, well...guess who be showin' up behin' de Senate doh? Six Republicans break ranks to vote in favor of democrat-led bill to end shut-down. (Photo: Chip Somodvilla, Getty Images)
The Senate on Thursday failed to pass two competing bills aimed at re-opening the federal government, as day 34 of the shutdown wore on.
The second bill, championed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Democratic leadership, would have provided backpay for federal employees and funded the government through February 6, allowing the current debate over immigration reform and border wall funding to take place while federal employees are getting paid.
Joining Democrats were six Republican Senators: Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Susan Collins (R-ME).
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The Senate on Thursday failed to pass two competing bills aimed at re-opening the federal government, as day 34 of the shutdown wore on.
The second bill, championed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Democratic leadership, would have provided backpay for federal employees and funded the government through February 6, allowing the current debate over immigration reform and border wall funding to take place while federal employees are getting paid.
Joining Democrats were six Republican Senators: Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Susan Collins (R-ME).
The republicans that voted with the dems will be told that they better toe the republican line and get in line...
Is that a crack in the republican party that I see...seems so.
Uh oh. I guess Romney will now be labeled.
All six of them will be labeled as weak. All six of them are in fairly liberal districts/states.
It's going to be tough on them the next two years....
But they do have a spin already laid out, they voted for both, which means they were voting to open the government any way they could.....
Still weak, but better than claiming they caved....
Utah, Alaska, Tennessee, and Georgia are fairly liberal states? Does a state have to resemble Missiissishitty to be sufficiently conservative?
So it actually wont be very tough on them then.
Thrawn 31 said:
Kavika said:
You both absolutely right, I don't have a clue to what I'm talking about..... No knowledge at all......
I bow to your superior knowledge and wisdom....
Amen brothers carry on....
A sarcastic reply to a comment that asks where in the heck you get that those four states are liberal kind of makes you look rather foolish.
Carry on.
Oh I get that, and I intended it that way. But you know that also. But a little bit of history....
I've been accused of looking foolish by democrats/liberals for decades. Kinda old hat for me.....
Yes sir my friend, I certainly will, same to you as well....
It's a bit strange that only democrats/liberals have accused you of looking foolish. Since you claim to be a centrist one would think that both side would have accused you of looking foolish at times.
Carry on.
Oh I've been accused by republicans of looking pretty stupid also, particularly when I was saying that Obama was going to win a second term.... You don't remember that?
I got the last laugh there also....
It's ok, I get it from both sides......
It's just that both sides seldom want to recognize that......
Carry on..... (you too)
Since you are the centrist it's surprising that you didn't list that in your original comment. You only mentioned dems/liberals.
Nice try, no cigar.
I'm sure that the four states in question will be surprised to find out that they are liberal leaning. Perhaps you can explain it to them.
Well it does happen, occasionally, but not often enough to rate as frequent and they are usually wrong.... which is the rate Liberals/Democrats generally adhere to.....
Well then my dreams of sharing a Havana with ya are out then.... oh well....
Nice tap dance, but when are you going to explain how the 4 states in question are liberal leaning.
Where in the world did you get the notion that Alaska, Utah, Tennessee and Georgia are fairly liberal states....
The GOP has something like 20 seats up for grabs in 2 years and given Trump's historical unpopularity, and the ass kicking the GOP just got in the midterms, many senators up for reelection are worried. As the shut down goes on and the public continues to blame fat ass and the GOP more than anyone else for it, more and more will start breaking with the party.
Wasn't that supposed to happen last cycle?
I guessed I missed it.... but I must have been blinded by this historic swing of the house from minor disadvantage minority party to minor advantage majority party.
HISTORIC! Something we have never seen be..f..o........ oh never mind....
I know we love to speculate, put 2 and 2 together and come up with five.... it's how everyone gets real disappointed when their expectations aren't met......
But I keep seeing it happen...... according to liberals and some democrats, the republicans have been worried about re-election for the last two decades.... yet they seem to have done well. well enough that the liberal agenda has been stopped in it's tracks...
Which is a good thing.....
So I have to put all of the claims of "Worried" in their usual place, the hyperbolic rant department cause the actual history says the opposite....