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A GOP Senate will likely change nothing

46XiJCAB
46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
edited February 2022 in Tug Tavern
There was a vote held in the Senate on an amendment by Mike Lee to the CR on Joey’s vaxx mandates. It was to defund the remaining mandates. Romney, Graham, Inhofe and Burr failed to show for the vote. It failed 46-47. As you know Senators must be present to vote, unlike the House of Reps.

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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    I was thinking this the other day. If we take it back narrowly then Murkowski/Mittens/Collins just become our Manchin and Sinema.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,573 Founders Club
    Romney and Graham (and McConnell) are the most corrupt soy boys on our side of the aisle. Bought and paid for. Just disgusting.
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,771 Founders Club
    Swaye said:

    I was thinking this the other day. If we take it back narrowly then Murkowski/Mittens/Collins just become our Manchin and Sinema.

    True, but the best case is just gridlock. You’d need to 67 senators to really make some moves.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,224 Founders Club
    If the GOP wins in 22 and the premise of this thread is true and they do nothing (again) then DeSantis is going to have to run against the GOPe like Trump

    I understand that many of you prefer DeSantis - younger, smoother, and not yet near as polarizing. Polarizing isn't always bad but that's another thread

    Two weeks ago DeSantis polled better among independents. Trump beat DeSantis in Florida. Both beat Biden but DeSantis beats him bigger

    So how does the GOP Huskies blow this no lose scenario?
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    edited February 2022
    By always being on the defense and letting the DIMS and their corrupt media set the narrative and define you. Of course being cowards is always in play for the establishment GOP. Like we just witnessed on this vote.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,224 Founders Club
    "Disturbing" "Wrote a letter to Biden"

    Warnings that people who are donating to the Canadian vaccine protest convoy could see their bank accounts frozen are "really disturbing" and a "throwback to 2010, when we found our own IRS was starting to target American citizens that were supporting the conservative movement," Rep. Matt Rosendale said on Newsmax Friday.

    "People are having their rights violated," the Montana Republican said on Newsmax's "National Report."

    "They're having their bank accounts frozen because they're trying to do what they truly believe in."

    Rosendale said he has gotten 63 of his GOP colleagues in the House to join in a letter to President Joe Biden to plead with him to work with Canadian officials to "resolve this vaccine mandate hysteria" and bring the protests to an end.

    "There's $695 billion worth of trade that takes place over the Canadian and American border, and 70% of that is transported through trucking," said Rosendale.

    "We've got approximately 16,000 truckers that are expected to go offline because of these mandates and about 22,000 Canadian truckers, at the very time when folks across the nation are seeing our grocery store shelves being empty. We need these people out there working."


    Or they could have got the asshats to show up and vote out the mandates
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967

    "Disturbing" "Wrote a letter to Biden"

    Warnings that people who are donating to the Canadian vaccine protest convoy could see their bank accounts frozen are "really disturbing" and a "throwback to 2010, when we found our own IRS was starting to target American citizens that were supporting the conservative movement," Rep. Matt Rosendale said on Newsmax Friday.

    "People are having their rights violated," the Montana Republican said on Newsmax's "National Report."

    "They're having their bank accounts frozen because they're trying to do what they truly believe in."

    Rosendale said he has gotten 63 of his GOP colleagues in the House to join in a letter to President Joe Biden to plead with him to work with Canadian officials to "resolve this vaccine mandate hysteria" and bring the protests to an end.

    "There's $695 billion worth of trade that takes place over the Canadian and American border, and 70% of that is transported through trucking," said Rosendale.

    "We've got approximately 16,000 truckers that are expected to go offline because of these mandates and about 22,000 Canadian truckers, at the very time when folks across the nation are seeing our grocery store shelves being empty. We need these people out there working."


    Or they could have got the asshats to show up and vote out the mandates

    How does a vegetable read?
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,171 Founders Club

    "Disturbing" "Wrote a letter to Biden"

    Warnings that people who are donating to the Canadian vaccine protest convoy could see their bank accounts frozen are "really disturbing" and a "throwback to 2010, when we found our own IRS was starting to target American citizens that were supporting the conservative movement," Rep. Matt Rosendale said on Newsmax Friday.

    "People are having their rights violated," the Montana Republican said on Newsmax's "National Report."

    "They're having their bank accounts frozen because they're trying to do what they truly believe in."

    Rosendale said he has gotten 63 of his GOP colleagues in the House to join in a letter to President Joe Biden to plead with him to work with Canadian officials to "resolve this vaccine mandate hysteria" and bring the protests to an end.

    "There's $695 billion worth of trade that takes place over the Canadian and American border, and 70% of that is transported through trucking," said Rosendale.

    "We've got approximately 16,000 truckers that are expected to go offline because of these mandates and about 22,000 Canadian truckers, at the very time when folks across the nation are seeing our grocery store shelves being empty. We need these people out there working."


    Or they could have got the asshats to show up and vote out the mandates

    You can't plead with evil. Biden has no soul and will do or say anything to enrich himself and the people who own him. Trump understands the kind of game that must be played to win in this political realm. Not many are willing to take on the powers that are the swamp.
  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,681 Founders Club
    John Cornyn is on the shit list
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,481 Founders Club
    Just like that MelloDoog disapproves of criticisms of conservatives.



  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,004 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    I was thinking this the other day. If we take it back narrowly then Murkowski/Mittens/Collins just become our Manchin and Sinema.

    What else is new
  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,004 Standard Supporter

    If the GOP wins in 22 and the premise of this thread is true and they do nothing (again) then DeSantis is going to have to run against the GOPe like Trump

    I understand that many of you prefer DeSantis - younger, smoother, and not yet near as polarizing. Polarizing isn't always bad but that's another thread

    Two weeks ago DeSantis polled better among independents. Trump beat DeSantis in Florida. Both beat Biden but DeSantis beats him bigger

    So how does the GOP Huskies blow this no lose scenario?

    Simple Trump wins the nomination and instead of going after Joe's record he keeps the stolen vote bs up.
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,793 Swaye's Wigwam
    This is why nothing really changes - only the headlines on and in the media. Foreign policy - nope, immigration - only when Dems in charge (see Ted Kennedy)

    We could make a list of things that don't change I guess
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Goduckies said:

    If the GOP wins in 22 and the premise of this thread is true and they do nothing (again) then DeSantis is going to have to run against the GOPe like Trump

    I understand that many of you prefer DeSantis - younger, smoother, and not yet near as polarizing. Polarizing isn't always bad but that's another thread

    Two weeks ago DeSantis polled better among independents. Trump beat DeSantis in Florida. Both beat Biden but DeSantis beats him bigger

    So how does the GOP Huskies blow this no lose scenario?

    Simple Trump wins the nomination and instead of going after Joe's record he keeps the stolen vote bs up.

  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,224 Founders Club
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,224 Founders Club
    Russian collusion was not just a scam it was orchestrated

    Covid the same

    Everything is a lie but I'm sure that mountain of circumstantial evidence of massive election fraud is nothing

    They wouldn't do it again so let them get away with it
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    edited February 2022
    hardhat said:
    Translation: I have to protect my insider trading and sweet Chi Com deals scam.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,224 Founders Club
    https://newsmax.com/newsfront/spying-john-durham-investigation-democrats/2022/02/21/id/1057712/

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday that special counsel John Durham's investigation still might prove that Democrats were spying on former President Donald Trump.

    "You and I both remember when President Trump said the Democrats are spying on me," Cruz said on "Fox News Sunday." "And the corporate media collectively laughed at him, they mocked him, they said what a ridiculous claim for him to make.

    "Well if what special counsel Durham is alleging is true, what Donald Trump said was absolutely right."

    Cruz, however, said Trump could be proved right.

    "To the extent Hillary Clinton is complicit with this, her campaign is complicit with it, her lawyers are complicit with it, big tech is complicit with it, if this is true, it's a lot bigger than Watergate," Cruz told Fox News.

    "That was a bungled, third-rate burglary. It was wrong. People went to jail for Watergate. And people need to go to jail for this if these allegations are true."

    Nearly five years ago, Trump tweeted that the Obama administration had been spying on him in the White House.

    "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," Trump tweeted. "Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Remember when leftists didn't trust their government?
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    46XiJCAB said:

    Remember when leftists didn't trust their government?

    They were against it before they were for it
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,137 Standard Supporter
    46XiJCAB said:

    Remember when leftists didn't trust their government?

    No.

    I mean, I guess when I was 4 or 5 years old in the 60's but no.

  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    LebamDawg said:

    remember when the government stopped doing nasty stuff because of a college football bored?

    remember when congressional approval ratings were 15% and all of the incumbents lost their re-elections?

    me neither

    I thought the stuff we wrote here had global impact though.
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,171 Founders Club

    https://newsmax.com/newsfront/spying-john-durham-investigation-democrats/2022/02/21/id/1057712/

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday that special counsel John Durham's investigation still might prove that Democrats were spying on former President Donald Trump.

    "You and I both remember when President Trump said the Democrats are spying on me," Cruz said on "Fox News Sunday." "And the corporate media collectively laughed at him, they mocked him, they said what a ridiculous claim for him to make.

    "Well if what special counsel Durham is alleging is true, what Donald Trump said was absolutely right."

    Cruz, however, said Trump could be proved right.

    "To the extent Hillary Clinton is complicit with this, her campaign is complicit with it, her lawyers are complicit with it, big tech is complicit with it, if this is true, it's a lot bigger than Watergate," Cruz told Fox News.

    "That was a bungled, third-rate burglary. It was wrong. People went to jail for Watergate. And people need to go to jail for this if these allegations are true."

    Nearly five years ago, Trump tweeted that the Obama administration had been spying on him in the White House.

    "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," Trump tweeted. "Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"

    Nobody cares. The RATs and the swamp can do whatever the fuck they want to do.