Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA...

[demmiblue]

Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T17:59:29.093Z

Whoa -- he promised to deliver a vote that will do nothing?

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T18:34:19.985Z

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T01:23:17.152Z

[Irish_Dem]

1. Oh for the absolute love of god.

I started cussing in this spot and deleted it.

[Mr.WeRP]

4. Lol I am with you

[ananda]

13. OK, I'll do it for you.

Wirty dord

[Irish_Dem]

18. Thanks.

I am getting tired of cussing so much.

[yellow dahlia]

34. I am running out of words in the dictionary to describe the state of affairs,

so I just keep inserting the F word.

So much for using our words...

[ananda]

40. So we will now have to use mute blasphemy.

He didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)

[eppur_se_muova]

55. Twain noted that cursing sometime provides a relief "denied even to prayer" ...

and felt that each home should have a room devoted only to cursing.

[ananda]

58. Love Twain... bigly!

It might even be fun to make a curse wall
with words like "cockwomble" or
snollygoster.

[Irish_Dem]

45. The only words we got some days are profanity.

What would our English teachers say.

[yellow dahlia]

53. Indeed.

Some days I just start sputtering.

I have also taken to using my MacCaulay Culkin/Scream face often, as I watch the abominable being reported.

[Irish_Dem]

54. This past Trick or Treat I was passing out candy and saw a couple of kids wearing that mask.

They were scary looking!
But yes that is how I feel most of the time. Like the scream mask.

[Celerity]

59. I feel the same

[OrwellwasRight]

2. This is why real negotiations include the House *and* the Senate.

But maybe none of the Congressional leaders even remember what real legislating is like…

[mr715]

56. And, typically, the President. nt

[Autumn]

3. All righty then

[leftstreet]

5. LOL

[CentralMass]

6. A promise from a republican and $1 will buy you a cheap cup of coffee.

[niyad]

17. It won't even buy one the small senior coffee at mc d's.

[CentralMass]

37. I'm in Oregon. On the McD's app they have a daily deal to get any sized coffee for 99 cents.

It is actually pretty good coffee ☕️

[AZ8theist]

33. Not in Dotards America.

I don't but coffee, but it wouldn't surprise me if the price of a cup tops $15 bucks soon........

[Prairie Gates]

7. They really are living in some bygone era

The issue is this: will there be subsidies for the ACA?

The issue is not this: will there be a vote for subsidies for the ACA?

The Republicans framed the whole thing around the second point. The Democrats WE THOUGHT were sticking to the first point, but have turned out to have accepted the second point. The second point is completely useless.

Durbin's great "Whoa!" triumph here is getting a verbal confirmation on the second point, which is useless.

Fuck's sake, we're in the weeds and goddamn sinking.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. Hey, Charlie Brown, er, I mean Sen. Durbin, how does it feel to have Lucy, er, I mean Sen. Thune

pull the football, er, I mean the "promise" of a vote just as you go to kick it?

[Attilatheblond]

52. I have magnetic paper

Thinking a bumper sticker needs to be printed:

"DEMs: Fucking stop playing football with Lucy! "

[quakerboy]

9. His word is meaningless

The deal is NOTHING.

Hi. I would like to buy your house for $1, but you keep the current mortgage debt and keep paying it. In return I will give you a chance to shoot a basketball at a hoop i've conveniently placed on a different continent. If you make that basket, I will agree to pay your mortgage for 12 months. Otherwise, I get the house, and you keep the debt. And If you miss, you still mow the lawn for the next 5 years as well.

He can keep his word, and it costs him nothing, because a vote is meaningless.

[Jspur]

15. What you said reminds me of this scene

from the movie "White Men Can't Jump" I feel Durbin would be Woody Harrelson's character in this scene.

[Fil1957]

10. The Dem politicians just keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results...

[NotHardly]

29. Doing the same thing over & over is called "INSANITY"

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. Wow

[zorbasd]

12. Durbin has always been a feckless, weak

POS.
Yeah, he's retiring with great free Healthcare for the rest of his life...I got mine, so f#ck you all...ha....ha

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

[Duncan Grant]

16. "Fight fire with fire" needs to get from CA to DC.

This wasn’t just criminal incompetence it was a betrayal.

[usonian]

19. When will they ever learn?

[bluestarone]

20. Yep, and all the time Thune was thinking, "I can't believe Dick is falling for this BULLSHIT"

Holy fuck!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. And then Lucy moved the football

[bpj62]

23. Vote will never happen

If you think that Thune will expose Senate Republicans to a vote that will put them on the record for opposing the continuation of the subsidies, then I have a bridge to sell you. No way Thune will allow a vote to happen and create campaign ads for Democratic Senate candidates.
Thune did the math and realizes that all he has to do is wait out Durbin until next November and wait for the Democrats to remove Shumer either through a no confidence vote or a potential primary from AOC. Thune will be rewarded by Trump for being a good boy. However, Trump will still demand that the filibuster be removed because he has a laundry list of legislation that cannot be passed via reconciliation.

The Democratic leadership got played and Trump knows he holds all the cards.

[CentralMass]

27. ☝️

[swong19104]

24. The way to negotiate with conservatives

is to whisper in their ears, “You feel that tickle? That’s a shiv. It’s there until the votes are in, in our favor. If there is any problem, well, you can live with one functioning kidney. Assuming you don’t bleed out.”

They have no honor. We’ve seen that time and again. So don’t expect them to honor their words.

[miyazaki]

25. What a Dick.

And now the usual wrong conclusion DU'ers making the lecture circuit.

[malthaussen]

26. If we stipulate that Mr Durbin meant this...

... then I suggest that it is more evidence that we need these fossils out of government (and for the record, I am a fossil myself). They are playing by rules that have been obsolete for twenty years at least. We need realists in the Democratic Party who understand exactly what it is they are dealing with, not old cronies who think the world still operates under their old-boy unspoken rules.

-- Mal

[lees1975]

28. This is exactly how they play the game.

It's called, "Lying through their teeth." Durbin, one of the Senators from my state, just bought into exactly another lie.

[rubbersole]

30. This vote was extremely calculated.

It just seems that every "too clever by half" moves the Dem politicians make ends up being more of an advantage for the wealthy rather than for working folks. Having the government shut down benefited project 2025 more than anything. Federal workers need to get back on the job before Russell Vought's destruction gets any easier.

[dem4decades]

31. Democrats apparently think we're in a Senate of gentlemen, not back stabbers.

Damn.

[maxsolomon]

32. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Senate

Comity Tonight!

[mjvpi]

36. I like that. Nice one!

[maxsolomon]

46. It was on the Tee Vee this weekend

Stuck in my brain

[sop]

35. Thune, Johnson and their fellow Republicans take their marching orders from Trump, he doesn't keep promises.

[Sneederbunk]

38. Doesn't matter if Thune keeps his word.

The House will not allow it to be brought to the floor.

[fujiyamasan]

39. I guess we all do age differently

Bernie sanders at 84 gets it.

Durbin at 80 simply does not.

[BlueKota]

41. What Bernie said!

[NewHendoLib]

42. Good grief, Charlie Brown...Lucy... Football. Yet again

[ffr]

43. Taking thune or any republican on their word for anything is completely foolish!

How many times have they gone back on their words? How many times have they screwed this country over after saying they wouldn't? How many times will it take before people take republicans for the liars and cheats that they are? They are not people who are capable of shame from their shameful actions.

And I can kind of see why they are so shameless, when democrats fall for the same bullshit over and over again. All they have to do is lie to the media and the American people and democrats cave. Sigh!

[Emile]

44. So sad

[Bettie]

47. He said they will have a vote

they will and the subsidies will be voted down....wow, what an ask, give them the very thing they want.

Will those 8 vote no on the subsidies as a favor to Thune? Maybe.

[Javaman]

48. What a fucking sucker.

Fuck you durbin, this is what you will be forever remembered for.

You should have retired BEFORE the vote

For fuck sakes. Have they not yet cleared the bullshit out of their eyes from the last time the repukes promised them???

[LuvLoogie]

49. Jeezuz Fucking Christ Dick - Head Whip - Durbin.

Your constituents, women are getting shot, dragged out of their cars, and abducted in the streets of Chicago by armed, masked racist militia hired by Shit Mouth. I hope your pension gets deleted.

[DFW]

50. Note to Dick Durbin:

Marie Antoinette stuck her neck out, too. It was the last thing she ever did.

[FHRRK]

51. Took a hide last night blasting this crap

So I will say thank you Durbin, you did an excellent job negotiating from a position of power and all of the Centrist Dems should be thanked profusely for taking care of their constituents.

[Clouds Passing]

57. Thune may keep his word knowing the rest of Republiterrorists will not. Lucy pull out that football again!