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LetMyPeopleVote

(144,005 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:41 PM Oct 2021

Republicans complain Schumer hurt their feelings in debt-ceiling fight

Who cares is the feelings of these idiot republicans are hurt? Not me




It wasn't easy, but the Senate approved a temporary solution to the Republicans' debt-ceiling crisis last night, offering the country a two-month reprieve. Though GOP leaders acknowledged midday that they were struggling to secure the support needed to pass the idea Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, in the end, 11 GOP senators grudgingly agreed to allow a vote.

At that point, Democrats approved the deal on their own — with zero Republican votes. The bill now heads to the House, before arriving at the White House for President Joe Biden's signature.

There were, however, two areas of unexpected drama. First, moments before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took Republicans to task for having created this crisis. "In a few moments, the Senate will pass an extension of the debt limit through early December, avoiding a first-ever, Republican-manufactured default on the national debt," the New York Democrat said. He added, "Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game, and I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work."

Evidently, this hurt GOP leaders' feelings. NBC News reported:

"I let him have it," said [South Dakota Sen. John Thune], the Senate minority whip, whose support helped pass the bill, in response to Schumer. "I just thought it was incredibly partisan speech after we had just helped them solve a problem."


That, of course, would be the problem Thune and his party created for no good reason.
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wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
1. Couldn't the Republicans simply withdraw their filibuster?
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:44 PM
Oct 2021

Or wouldn't that give them an occasion for more grandstanding?

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
2. K & R Thank You for re-writing that WaPo Headline for then.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:47 PM
Oct 2021

Pitiful that we have to keep correcting Corp Media's bias for them.

Sure wish we had that FAIRNESS DOCTRINE HRC rightly called for, huh.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. "We had just helped them solve a problem"
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 12:49 PM
Oct 2021

Without, of course, voting for the deal. I mean, there are limits!

Remind me again; these are the same folks who thought those "Fuck your feelings" t-shirts were hilarious and righteous, right?

crickets

(25,896 posts)
6. They also neglect to mention that the problem
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 01:22 PM
Oct 2021

was mostly a product of their hyper-partisanship. The tortured illogic is unreal.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
7. Did you see Manchin doing the double face palm while Schumer was talking? Manchin looked...
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 01:25 PM
Oct 2021

… very uncomfortable.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
12. I was in the kitchen getting coffee & flipped on the TV to MSNBC. It was just a clip of Schumer...
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 02:42 PM
Oct 2021

… speaking in the Senate and apparently giving the opposition what-for. Manchin was seated immediately behind Schumer and rubbing his face with both hands, but when you could see his expression the man did not look at all happy.

Just a little vignette. And if Manchin thought Schumer was being rude, that’s just tough. That little trick of Manchin’s where he said Dems needed to “prioritize” and choose one of the three legs of Biden’s great plan is kind of like looking at a starving family and telling them to choose one meal a day going forward, their choice, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but not all three.

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