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Who cares is the feelings of these idiot republicans are hurt? Not me
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At that point, Democrats approved the deal on their own with zero Republican votes. The bill now heads to the House, before arriving at the White House for President Joe Biden's signature.
There were, however, two areas of unexpected drama. First, moments before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took Republicans to task for having created this crisis. "In a few moments, the Senate will pass an extension of the debt limit through early December, avoiding a first-ever, Republican-manufactured default on the national debt," the New York Democrat said. He added, "Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game, and I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work."
Evidently, this hurt GOP leaders' feelings. NBC News reported:
"I let him have it," said [South Dakota Sen. John Thune], the Senate minority whip, whose support helped pass the bill, in response to Schumer. "I just thought it was incredibly partisan speech after we had just helped them solve a problem."
That, of course, would be the problem Thune and his party created for no good reason.
wryter2000
(46,130 posts)Or wouldn't that give them an occasion for more grandstanding?
Budi
(15,325 posts)Pitiful that we have to keep correcting Corp Media's bias for them.
Sure wish we had that FAIRNESS DOCTRINE HRC rightly called for, huh.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)It's a personal thing between them.
Hekate
(91,003 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Without, of course, voting for the deal. I mean, there are limits!
Remind me again; these are the same folks who thought those "Fuck your feelings" t-shirts were hilarious and righteous, right?
crickets
(25,989 posts)was mostly a product of their hyper-partisanship. The tortured illogic is unreal.
Hekate
(91,003 posts)
very uncomfortable.
kacekwl
(7,025 posts)I can see this ?
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,140 posts)"Fucking rude" or something similar.
Hekate
(91,003 posts)
speaking in the Senate and apparently giving the opposition what-for. Manchin was seated immediately behind Schumer and rubbing his face with both hands, but when you could see his expression the man did not look at all happy.
Just a little vignette. And if Manchin thought Schumer was being rude, thats just tough. That little trick of Manchins where he said Dems needed to prioritize and choose one of the three legs of Bidens great plan is kind of like looking at a starving family and telling them to choose one meal a day going forward, their choice, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but not all three.
Walleye
(31,146 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)Fuck them and their delicate fee-fees.