House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) dropped his optimistic tone to drop a dollop of reality Thursday: “I’m not thinking” the Senate funding bills will pass, he said.
The Democrats’ House vote counter said that he’s still “hopeful” that his expectations will be proven wrong in the other chamber, but sees it as improbable.
Democrats probably won’t pass the bill that is essentially a version of President Donald Trump’s plan, which would trade some DACA protections for wall funding. Republicans likely won’t defect from the President to pass the Democratic bill which would reopen the government and keep border security at its current funding levels.
Watch Clyburn here:
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I can’t disagree with Clyburn. Just temporarily opening the government will mean Trump will pull the same shit all over again if he doesn’t get his beaded border curtain. It’ll be shut down again, because he and the Grand Old Pearlclutchers (Lindsey Graham, Chairman Emeritus) are too butt-stupid to realize they will be hated even more by the American public, with the great possibility Trump and his Conservative Courtesans will have less popularity than toenail fungus - except on Rasmussen, of course, which will show they are slightly more popular than jock itch and used kitty litter.
But they will keep doing it because, to paraphrase the oft-quoted saw: “Political stupidity cannot be failed! You can only fail political stupidity!”
I keep reading about the ‘Democratic bill’ in the Senate. Isn’t it the Senate bill, the one they passed unanimously last month? If so it should be referred to as such.
Looks like the White House/Trumps bet that the longer this goes on the more people will blame The Dems is totally shot. The longer this goes on the more people blame Trump/Repubs.
Eventually Trump will signal defeat although he will make McConnell take the fall, allow Senate Repubs to vote on a clean bill, which he will Veto and then tell Senate/House Repubs to over-ride, thus throwing them under the bus and he gets to play the victim. I did everything i could Ann! But, those cowardly Repubs in Congress caved!
At least that’s my best guess, it’s his only real saving grace at this point, IMO.
This is just another attempt by the Mainstream Media to present “both sides”. It is total bullshit that they refuse to report that a bill that was passed by UNANIMOUS (I think) Republican support in the Senate is no longer a good idea… since Limbaugh, Coulter, et al bashed it.
Hopefully the fact the the primary intent of the Dem bill is to reopen the government will keep the Trump/GOP poll numbers crashing.