OMG - Reid just spanked McConnell! [View all]

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OMG - Reid just spanked McConnell!
In this afternoon's edition of "What fun it is to have a unified Democratic Party that knows what its doing," Senate Majority Leader Reid just spanked Senator Minority Leader McConnell...big time.

McConnell brought up a bill that would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally unless Congress mustered a 2/3 majority to stop him. He assumed Reid would block the vote rather than see it go down in defeat.

Instead, Senator Reid said, "Go ahead, make my day" and McConnell wound up having to filibuster his own bill.

“The Republican leader objects to his own idea,” Reid declared on the floor. “So I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill.”
McConnell claimed he never agreed to hold a simple majority vote on the bill.

“What we’re talking about here is a perpetual debt ceiling grant in effect to the president. Matters of this level of controversy always require 60 votes,” the GOP leader said.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) scoffed at that notion that a senator would ask for a vote on a bill in good faith while requiring that it be “filibuster-proof.”

“This may be a moment in Senate history, when a senator made a proposal that, when given an opportunity for a vote on that proposal, filibustered his own proposal,” he said. “I don’t think this has ever happened before.”
If you're not enjoying how badly the Republicans are getting beaten these days, you're not paying close enough attention.

This is a GREAT time to be a Democrat!!!!!!!!


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