Eleven ReTHUGs voted with 50 Dems to move forward with debt ceiling

[malaise]

PHEW!

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. That's why Mitch folded,

[malaise]

2. He folded and CancunCruz was crushed like a bug

[lame54]

6. Like a cucaracha...

It was right there

[malaise]

15. Wish I had thought of that word

[sheshe2]

14. Yep.

[AllyCat]

22. Great gif!

[sheshe2]

23. TY!

[a kennedy]

3. The vote to extended it is now yes: 46 No: 44

Gonna be close…..

[haele]

4. This was to keep the filibuster.

Manchin can now say "see, they'll vote with us sometimes".

Haele

[dweller]

5. COWARDS !!

To which I’m referring to the 39 magat rethugs with their lips still firmly affixed to TFG’s fatass


✌🏻

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Not the final vote. That one passed 50 to 48.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation to temporarily raise the federal government's $28.4 trillion debt limit and avoid the risk of a historic default later this month, but it put off until early December a decision on a longer-lasting remedy.

The Senate voted 50-48 to pass the bill following weeks of partisan fighting.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-republicans-haggle-over-short-term-debt-fix-2021-10-07/

[malaise]

9. Heard that on Chris Hayes

He was speaking with Amy Klobuchar. Ouch!

[malaise]

18. Rachel just explained it

11 allowed the vote to move forward and then they didn't vote for it but it didn't need 60 votes.

[CentralMass]

8. I am of the opinion that the way that the government works is that

that no legislation get passed unless the monied interests, corporations, and wealthy want it to pass. We sometimes fool ourselves into thinking that is that not the case. In this iteration it is Manchin and Sinema that are the vehicle ti stop this full bill from passing. If it were not them it would be some other senator(s). This is no longer a government by the people for the people.

[Blue_true]

11. We never had government by the people.

Monied interests, since the nation’s founding, have controlled national affairs. Today, with organized lobbyists, things are corrosive. There is no real public lobby, Common Cause used to do a decent job, but that organization seems to have receded into the background.

[Rebl2]

12. I have to agree

[tclambert]

13. Republicans folded because their big money donors were looking at massive losses in the market.

"It's good you want to embarrass the Dems, Mitch, but you're gonna cost me MONEY! So knock it off."

[Midnight Writer]

21. I think so, too.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. amen and eggscllent,

can you say,, whew.

[DownriverDem]

17. Big Business

leaned on the repubs to not kill the economy.

[Martin68]

20. So why call them ReTHUGs? They would seem to have a modicum of integrity.

[Lithos]

24. integrity - no

Integrity means they did it for a greater good and rule of law. They did it because of the back pressure they were getting to get this off the table as it was costing them major political points.

From the Republican view point, this was a fighting withdrawal.

L-

[Xolodno]

25. Simple math.

Big Business to Mitch; "You want money for the midterms? Cut the crap out".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. The 11 Rs joining all 50 members of Dem caucus,

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