The goal would be to place the blame for a shutdown squarely on 10 Democratic senators up for reelection this fall in states won by Donald Trump in 2016, and make them the face of a government closure.The strategy is risky for Republicans, considering that they control the White House and Congress. Should funding lapse at midnight Friday, McConnell would keep the Senate in session and try to force Democrats to repeatedly vote against funding for children’s health care money and government spending.
Well, that's kind of blown now, isn't it? (See previous post.)
On Thursday morning, McConnell sent his GOP members an email imploring them to stick together and assign blame to Democrats. Several Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Rounds of South Dakota have said they will oppose a House spending bill that could be voted on Thursday night.
That doesn't help his plan to blame Democrats.
The whole country would benefit from a suddden loss of Mitch McConnell in the halls of the legislature.
Republicans have 51 votes in the Senate and are hoping to expand their majority this fall, when a host of moderate Democrats are up for reelection.
That's not looking like a good possibility at this point.
“They will own this shutdown and we will take these votes over and over so they are on record. General polls [about] how [Republicans] suck do not matter. We are looking at the Trump states where we need pick up seats. And we will go after them aggressively,” said a senior Republican aide working on party strategy.
Fuck the country and the budget AND those kids. Priority number one is keeping US in power.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPUPDATE:
Aaaaand, there it is: the requisite Trump correction.
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