What Repukes told Costa re: end to shutdown

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

1. Until this hurts more than just

federal employees and their families, it won’t end. I agree with this tweet.

[maxsolomon]

2. Lying as usual. It's 100% voluntary by the GOP Senate.

The way out is DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND PASS THE LEGISLATION.

Override President Bullshit's veto.

LIKE IT SAYS IN THE CONSTITUTION.

[Sherman A1]

3. I would hope that something happens

but I don't see an end to this anytime soon. At some point TSA and other unpaid workers will start to leave looking for other jobs to pay the bills and who would replace them?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

8. They better get ahead of it bc Fed Jobs are some of the best and are hard to replace.

[2naSalit]

10. And from what I hear

TSA isn't one of the better agencies to work for.

[at140]

12. If TSA quits/strikes...

Only thing tRump can do is draft military personnel/Reserves to take over the job.
I predicted some time ago that this shutdown will break records.

[guillaumeb]

4. The GOP is the Party of moral cowards.

And racists.

And cowardly racists.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. GOP hates hard working people who do an honest days work.

[C_U_L8R]

6. In other words...

they won't do a thing unless it personally causes them inconvenience.
Republicans. What self-absorbed assholes.

[MontanaMama]

7. Air traffic controllers staying home

might bring it around quicker. If this keeps up, folks are going to be taking other jobs with a more reliable paycheck. I wouldn’t be too keen on working for nothing especially a shitty high stress job like TSA.

[FakeNoose]

9. The rightwingers are looking for a reason to fire the TSA and ATC employees

They're looking for the first chance to bring in private contractors to do the same work. So I'd say nope!
But I'm not employed (shutdown) by the federal government and maybe I'm not being fair. (?)

[Freethinker65]

11. So GOP in Senate is powerless over Mitch to get even an up or down vote???

GOP could replace Mitch with Rubio or Cruz or someone else with Presidential aspirations willing to challenge Trump. There are enough votes to open the government in the Senate, and might even be enough to override a veto.

[at140]

13. If you think McTurtle is bad, Cruz will be worse

As ML.

[Freethinker65]

15. Oh. I totally agree.

But one would think some GOP in the Senate might try to oust McConnell. Face it, any Senate leader can push through conservative nominees now...someone showing a little backbone to Trump could save the GOP from the ultimate grifter. They let Trump/Russia hijack their party to get in power...but are now seen effectively as powerless rubber stamps for whatever the grifter in chief demands.

Going against Trump's lifting of sanctions on Russia and specific Russians is a start.

[mwooldri]

14. I wouldn't object to the TSA singling out a R politician for extra screening.

Especially a certain senator who supposedly represents Kentucky.