The Senate will vote through the weekend on pending nominations that Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would like to see completed before Christmas — just don’t expect most Republicans to be there for it.
Many GOP senators, still bristling from the rules changes enabling Democrats to proceed on said nominees, are planning to hit the exits for Christmas after Thursday night’s 11:15 defense bill vote. In the minds of these members, as long as one of their colleagues hangs behind to block consent requests from Democrats that would allow everyone regardless of party to go home, they apparently are cool skipping votes they have no power to defeat.
Okay, I just liked the Lebowski reference. It’s more like the Senate Republicans are acting like two year olds. If they can’t win, they’re just going to take their votes and go home. But, of course, they are arranging it so the Democrats still can’t get unanimous consent for anything and they will force all debate time to be used up so the Democrats cannot spend the holidays with their families.
The words for this are not nice words: spite, petulance, revenge, temper-tantrum, whining, sore-loser, joke.
One of the nominees under discussion is Janet Yellin, who is set to become the next Federal Reserve chairman. It’s a pretty important position, but apparently her suitability for the position isn’t worth debating and only a handful of Republicans will be on hand to vote for or against her.
Maybe the Republican senators can give me a Christmas gift and not come back.
I was expecting to read that they were a bunch of pederasts.
So it goes.
Any of a number of things Walter might say about the nihilists would be more fitting: “There’s nothing to be afraid of. These men are cowards.”
Damn, I had to look up that word “pederasts”. And now I wish I hadn’t.
Apparently, that word hasn’t come up a lot over the years when I have been doing crossword puzzles.
Yeah, except in this case, it’s not the eight-year-olds getting fked, it’s everyone else.
They ought to treat the remaining republican like an eight-year-old: give him a wedgie and hang him by the undies in the cloakroom.
They’re acting the same as they were before. Stripping the fillibuster just removed any responsibility from them so they don’t care.
Is there anything other than the last tattered shreds of comity stopping Reid from sneaking in votes on a bill or two this weekend?
There must be something in the stockpile awaiting a floor vote that would be, let’s say inconvenient, for the GOP if it came up while they were all home pouting.
no, because the cloture rule prevents them from ramming anything home.
This is a good week to demonstrate to people that the filibuster is carried out by one senator, not 41, and it is 60 that are needed to stop it.
Get out in front of the cameras and microphones, and make sure you point out just how whiny and petulant these spiteful sore losers are being. Because sure as shootin’, the Republicans will be back in January complaining about all the stuff Congress hasn’t done, and blame the Democrats for all of it. Get your narrative out there now.