GOP Senators meltdown after Senate Democrats Pass Covid Aid Bill

[UCmeNdc]

Link to tweet

[RKP5637]

1. Like the GOP would never do this, the One Side party. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

39. Yep. It highlights their assholery. They could board the train or wait at the station. They waited.

[DownriverDem]

45. Yep

Watching the Dems pull this off only confirms for me that experience is way better than putting in inexperienced folks just because they are young.

[RKP5637]

46. It is, there's a lot to be said for experience especially in times such as now. n/t

[BlueAJ]

63. Didn't they do just exactly this with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

From what I remember, it was passed through reconciliation on a party-line vote with a much much bigger price tag. The main difference is that it did not have massive support from the general public.

[RKP5637]

70. Yes, I think so. n/t

[Cha]

72. I remember the picture.. they Cheered

their damn Fool heads OFF.. Helping the RICH & Screw Everyone else!

[soothsayer]

2. Nice try, GQP

[brewens]

3. If they had any great ideas that would really help people that were left out, write it

up. It should sail right through.

[CaptainTruth]

55. +1000 They have no good ideas & they don't want to help people!

[Dave in VA]

4. Fuck your feelings

snowflakes!

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[usaf-vet]

27. To quote my cousin a USN veteran and a Plank Owner of the Nautilus the first Atomic Sub.....

.... Quoting D.C. Wheeler. "Fuckem if they can't take a joke."

[Dave in VA]

32. Plank Owner

Growing up in the Naval Capital of the World, I know the significance of that piece of paper!

And yes, fuckem!

[ChazInAz]

33. I'm afraid I don't.

What does it mean?
Signifies being a member of her first crew?

[malthaussen]

37. Yes.

Usually, plank owners also help work-up a ship before commissioning. There are a lot of details to attend to before a ship can sail. Plank owners are kind of like the "parents" of a ship.

-- Mal

[usaf-vet]

61. EXACTLY!

[tirebiter]

56. My grandfather was a machinist at Mare Island

And helped build the boat.

[usaf-vet]

62. He did...Good!

[pecosbob]

74. USS Nimitz (CVAN-68/CVN-68) 1975-1976

Plank owner and shellback.

[malaise]

5. The sad truth is that ReTHUGs only recognize their party

and assume that bipartisan means caving to them. The vast majority of Americans support the Relief bill - fuck them every which way.

[Wounded Bear]

29. Repub bipartisanship: Be reasonable, do it MY way!

[malaise]

31. That simple

Their way or no way

[True Blue American]

49. Portman received a long email from me this morning.

Sherrod Brown was practically jumping for joy, all over the stations.

Portman was whining they had not considered their bill.

Joe Manchin said he actually got a few things for the other side. He is for $11 an hour with COL built in so this will never happen again.

[malthaussen]

38. Not so much an assumption, a demand.

An assumption can be innocent ignorance. The GOP are innocent of nothing but integrity.

-- Mal

[malaise]

42. Nicely put

[magicarpet]

7. Is that a photo of Mitch having a bowel movement at the podium ?

Did they serve prunes at the CPAC luncheon event ?

[MineralMan]

54. US Senate Bean Soup.

Served in the Senate Dining Hall on a daily basis.

[colsohlibgal]

8. Go To Hell Turtle Man

He was fine ramming things through when he had a slight majority....and even broke precedence by stonewalling Merrick Garland from being appointed to the Supreme Court for a year while ramming through Barrett 6 weeks or something like that before the 2020 Election.

So he is a total hypocrite.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I forgot. Did Republicans allow Democrats to "water down" the Trump Tax Cut?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Suck it!

[Iliyah]

11. I saw an article wherein the GOP . .. ..

are now complaining that the Democrats are going to "over heat" the economy.

[NewHendoLib]

12. If only they would truly melt down. Into a gross, steaming pile of bile.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Not many folks are listening to their whining these days. Everyone is busy trying to survive.

Their stone-cold attitudes toward those who are starving, who have lost family and friends to COVID, who are without healthcare or a job and those evicted from their homes is beginning to backfire.

We can only hope it backfires big-time in 2022 and 2024......

[irisblue]

14. on Twitter the Senate GQP social media teams did a push w/"individual comments'

there was a lot of Twitter push back.

[eShirl]

15. Not our fault they half-assed it.

[Hotler]

16. Still waiting on that (perfect) health care plan the orange one said was coming in

2-weeks four years ago. The only things repugs have to offer is tax cuts.

[Traildogbob]

21. Exactly

Every time a pundit asks about unity and bipartisanship, Dems need to say “it’s coming in 2 weeks”. The likes we’ve never seem. It will be cheaper and perfect. Everyone will get bipartisanship and unity. 2 weeks away.

[True Blue American]

50. I noticed this morning that sincere

Jake Tapper kept beating that bi partisan drum. So did the woman on Stephanopolus.

[Traildogbob]

65. FFS

Is CNN trying to up Thuck Chodd for asshole of Sunday’s? No of them hammered this shit during the 10 years McConnell held America hostage. If Obama would have used those first 2 years as it looks like this Admin plans, the world would be better.
We took out the min wage AND changed check requirements, and still Zero Repiglican support.
And Hawley has approved ZERO cab members.

[Aviation Pro]

17. Fuck 'em

Fuck ‘em I say.

[11 Bravo]

67. With a barbed wire dildo, and rubbing alcohol for lube.

[spanone]

18. 'DEMOCRATIC WISH-LIST'

piss off reTHUGS

[efhmc]

19. How absolutely adorable. Perhaps we finally learned the lessons that MM tried to teach us for years.

[lookyhereyou]

26. hear hear or is that here here

no more spelunking ( cave ing )

but keep digging up evidence

[druidity33]

76. I prefer Hear Here! Like, 'listen up'... nt.

[Nexus2]

20. Oh No.

[The Jungle 1]

22. They have a plan going to releace it in two weeks.

Just read where the repukes are going to release their COVID plan for America with trumps healthcare plan in two weeks.

[gab13by13]

23. You forgot infrastructure.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. And Immigration!!11!!!!!

[True Blue American]

66. Funny!

[hauckeye]

24. Didn't the Trump tax cuts pass with no Democratic votes?

[Demsrule86]

30. Yes.

[FlyingPiggy]

25. GOOD. They get to know what it feels like. This is straight up a page from their own book.

And now they’re gonna cry about it! The nerve....

[Wounded Bear]

28. Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant...

life sucks, and then you lose your Senate seat.

[Firestorm49]

34. Republicans didn't need to water it down. We have Manchin.

[Jon King]

35. Bidenism or Trumpism, you decide America.

Pass as much policy as possible that helps the most people, fight voter suppression with all we got, and let the voters decide in 2022 and 2024 which direction they prefer.

The American people now have a clear choice seen back to back within a matter of weeks...Trumpism or Bidenism...pick one.

[malthaussen]

36. Two words: fuck 'em.

I am so tired of GOP bullshit. I gather many here at DU share that sentiment. Let us fervently hope it is also shared by the Dems in Congress, and that we will see more examples of them not tolerating GOP crap in the future.

-- Mal

[patphil]

40. Looks like the Democrats out "Republican'd" the Republicans.

Turnabout is fair play.

[Irish_Dem]

41. It's all a game to the GOP, only about winning and losing.

They could care less about the American people.

[cayugafalls]

43. Snowflakes, I never get tired of calling a rethug snowflake, it makes them crazy.

Fucking Snowflakes, all of them.

[Silver1]

44. What's that sound I hear? Oh ... wait ... it's nothing.

[virgdem]

48. Oh, cry me a river, rethugs, you had your chance to sign on and you punted.

No sympathy for you.

[Ligyron]

51. Get used to it bitches.

That is all I have to say.

[DFW]

52. What the Republicans are really screaming is this:

"Heads, I win. Tails, you lose."

"But that's only when WE are in power. How DARE you act in a similar fashion? Who are the Republicans around here, anyway?"

[Oldem]

53. It's lovely to see the turtle squirm and seethe. Why do I have this

foreboding feeling that he'll make us pay? He'll surely try.

When things come to this kind of utter partisan failure to negotiate, there's no denying that our government is broken. We're holding on by having the White House, a narrowing majority in the House, and the most tenuous of margins (thanks, Manchin) in the Senate. If either one of the latter two swings to the repugs in 2022, we can kiss all this jubilation goodbye. Everything depends on voter turnout and thwarting repug efforts to suppress the vote.

[UCmeNdc]

57. The GOP's only power comes from their ability to suppress the Democratic party voters.

That is how the Republican party is planning to take back power.

[IronLionZion]

58. I love GOP meltdowns

I'm here for it

[COL Mustard]

59. Biden Tried To Include Them

They didn't want to be a part of the process, and I guess they expected the process to stop until they got what they wanted, which would be, oh, about the third Tuesday of next week.

Sorry GQP, elections have consequences...or so I've heard.

[FakeNoose]

64. The Repukes will never let Biden have a "win"

... so they'll just allow the entire country to lose instead. That's how insidious they are. We have no reason to cut them in when all they want to do is kill every bill.

Repukes are snowflakes!

[MyMission]

60. If only

[GoCubsGo]

68. They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Typical bullies whining when their own tactics get used on them. They can go fuck themselves.

[Progressive Jones]

69. I would say to the GOP, "Get used to it." nt

[Cha]

71. Rt TY mitch's ugly face is straight out of

Central Casting for Evil POS Gets Beaten!

[peggysue2]

73. Yeah, Ron Johnson is boo-hooing about Dems 'ramming things through'

Can you believe these hypocrites? After 4 years of suffering through Trump and McConnell's shenanigans.



Tiny tears and tiny violins.

[pecosbob]

75. They can't pull their typical routine of obstructing and then later claiming credit

That's why they're unhappy.

[smirkymonkey]

77. Gee, what a shame. I almost feel bad for them.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

79. Lol.

Great gif.

[jimlup]

78. They don't care about what we think so why the hell should we care about what they think?

Seriously, Republican's ...

And what shocks me is how naive the rank and file is. They claim to believe in "freedom" yet they are lead, as sheep, by these authoritarian hacks who have no morals, zero.