Weird, since 1/2 them are trying to ban Plan-B.

I did not anticipate GOPers defending Menendez, but I guess that's part of the price of blindly supporting Trump.

Nice SCOTUS

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Oh, and T-5

Up to 7 Dem senators against Menendez. It’s a shame it’s not more by now.

What's the rule on the Senate expelling a member? How many votes do they need?

I'm telling you. He is a Republican by next week.

2/3 according to the Constitution I think

So if enough Dems decide to expel him, do the GOPers vote along with it?

The #bothsides caucus really wants him to stay in. But even the American media would have to note it if the reason he stayed was because of GOP votes, right?

(Rhetorical question. Of course they won't have to note it.)

Senate unveils short term funding deal. Apparently has Senate GOP support.

McCarthy has done, I think, a much better job than people have given him credit for.

But if the Senate GOP is (effectively) telling him to ditch the Looney Toons caucus, then he needs to do that.

Yep. Hasn't happened in modern times though; they've all resigned before going through the indignity of being expelled.

Some more details on the Senate deal

Just a moment...
Below sounds promising. I read in another article McCarthy will bring up border security but no details on what he is proposing.


I hope McCarthy cuts a deal with Biden (including Democrat support for his speakership). I want to see the GOP extremists try to remove McCarthy, pretty interesting to see how that all plays out.

Best bet is they won't do much and sulk back to their corners. They may try but with Dem support, it'll prove them toothless. Wild card is where Trump will put his support.

Can't a guy catch a break?

I'm guessing he'll be dishonorably discharged. Don't think he'll face anything else other than public humiliation for the rest of his life. Maybe he should try Russia ...

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Up to 26 now.

He will serve some time in a military prison, or more likely a military hospital.

I don't see Democrats supporting McCarthy. If I were a Democrat I'd be asking why we would cover for Republican problems with their own infighting. I don't see a good answer to that.

Because if I was Joe, Schumer, and Jeffries I'd be thinking ...

1) McCarthy's replacement could be worse
2) Cut a backroom deal with McCarthy and say "you need us to support you for Speaker, you support us on X ... here are the rough parameters e.g. Immigration reform or whatever

Yeah, and it looks like some Democrats are in favor only if McCarthy makes concessions such as dropping the Biden impeachment inquiry and adhering to prior spending agreements.

nvm.

T-4. The game of chicken continues.

A rather fascinating (but not surprising) poll from HarrisX:

53% of republicans believe Trump is a man of faith. While only 35% believe Romney is and 23% believe Biden is.

Matt Gaetz and company want a shutdown so we're likely going to get one. It's a chance for their little group to get in front of the cameras and make soundbites they can put in reelection ads and use to build their name for statewide races.

Where, exactly, McCarthy draws the line with them will be interesting because he could give them everything they want right now and they'd move the goalposts to get a shutdown.

My boss is retiring at the end of this week and I move into her spot managing our hospital's Help Desk and Customer Support IT Branch on day 1 of this shutdown. Should be good times.

How many in the House would vote for the continuing resolution passed in the Senate with 77 votes if only McCarthy would allow it to come up for a vote.

You can't work with these terrorists because the deal you struck yesterday won't matter to them today.

There really should be a threshold to automatically trigger a vote from the other chamber when a bill is passed.

It makes no sense that 15 members of the house can effectively block a bill that overwhelmingly passed Senate and would easily pass in the House if the Speaker would bring it up for a vote.

The CR would get 300+ votes but more from Democrats, similar to the debt ceiling vote. The whole thing is just so stupid.

I'm 50/50 on this impeachment inquiry ending with the GOP impeaching Hunter Biden.

The Senate has passed a bipartisan bill that the President will sign. And the GOP in the House won't even put it to a vote.

Seems like a pretty simple message for the Dems to repeat over and over and over.

T-2

Looking pretty inevitable now. Question is how long will it last.

No idea.

"Defund prosecution of Trump" is a non-starter, but I am not sure what else the hardliners would accept.

35 days is the record during Trump. Next is 21 days during Clinton.

I'm guessing < 2 weeks.

Just a frivolous thought. Won't happen but they should put some portion of social security in jeopardy (say 20%). I bet that will really, really get them to focus.

Focus isn’t the problem

kool aid is


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Well I guess that's one way to get her to retire...


Senator Feinstein has passed away at age 90

It's amazing that a few assholes that represent the tiniest fraction of people in the middle of nowhere can grind the entire country to a halt based on nothing. It's not like they want anything real. We need to change the rules so that a small number of crazies can't decide the fate of the entire country.

She voted yesterday... so let's see if she votes today just to make sure.

A practical problem with that whole change the rules idea is that it requires a constitutional amendment, which is an even higher bar. Thing about it is, a handful of people can do nothing if they don't get others to go along with it. Those others is where energy is more productively spent IMO.

Well Halloween is right around the corner...Regardless of what happened towards the end of her career, she certainly a trailblazer for women in politics and should be remembered for that,

RIP Dianne Feinstein. You were a pretty bad Senator who was wrong on just about every issue over the past 50 years. My condolences to the family and the people who were voting in her name the past few years.

They should lock the staffers who perpetuated the fraud for a decade in her tomb like the Egyptians did.

McCarthy got a procedural vote on a DOA short term funding bill through 218-210, after which they cut his balls off shooting the actual bill down 198-232.

LOL

I was told today our hospital has enough to make at least 1 more payroll. So hopefully this doesn't drag out.

Yup. One more paycheck then lol

Mayor Adams clearly put out the word to NYC government officials to praise him by name. They are all saying, Mayor Adams' administration..." before praising the response to the flooding.

FEMA is almost out of money, apparently, so best of luck to New York and any potential hurricane landing spots.

T-1

As to be expected, some backroom maneuvering going on.

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I hope Democrats don't take the bait, as history has shown that shutdowns end up hurting the GOP politically (IIRC all shutdowns have been happened during GOP control of the House).

Or if they make a deal, do it for real & lasting concessions. Something unprecedented like voting control over several committees.

45 day extension with raises for Congress (fuckin' seriously?) and stripping out Ukraine aid.

“The damage to our nation’s reputation and critical programming, and chaos for America’s families is because of a small group of [Republican] peckerheads in the House,” Fetterman said on Saturday. “This national upheaval is inflicted by choice over nothing except Fox News face time and tributes to the lunatic fringe from their district.”

McCarthy (mostly) blinked. 45 day CR with no additional funding to Ukraine. 91 Nays from his own party, but it passes with Dems voting en masse to support it (reluctantly)

We're going to spend 45 days with the hard right going after McCarthy, I expect at least one attempt to oust him imminently.

Gaetz tried to do it right away but the McCarthy ally holding the gavel ignored him and adjourned

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/stat...92162536391106

nvm. Reset the clock to T-1+45

All things considered, an acceptable compromise. GOP don't get their border security, Dems (and GOP) don't get Ukrainian funding. And the Dems can't justify a government shutdown to the public because of $6B to Ukraine.

Yeah, let see the vacate the speaker process. I like this to come to a head and have it settled one way or another. I'm still betting McCarthy will do backroom deals with Dems if he needs their support.


EDIT: ... and what the heck was Senator Bowman thinking? I want see a picture of the fire alarm handle. If its anything like the standard fire alarms I've seen, it's a ridiculous excuse.