Kill the Messenger - Part 2

The Washington Post also has the story on the catfight in the GOP backroom.

Republican senators clashed with one another and confronted Vice President Pence inside a private luncheon on Thursday [yesterday], as anger hit a boiling point over the longest government shutdown in history.

“This is your fault,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at one point, according to two Republicans who attended the lunch and witnessed the exchange.

“Are you suggesting I’m enjoying this?” McConnell snapped back, according to the people who attended the lunch.

  WaPo

No. Just that it's your fault, dickhead.

Johnson spokesman Ben Voelkel confirmed the confrontation.

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Aides to McConnell, citing regular policy on GOP lunches, declined to comment on the gathering.

The argument was one of several heated moments in a lunch that came just before the Senate voted on the opposing plans to end the shutdown offered by President Trump and Democrats.

Neither of which passed.

The day ended with some limited signs of progress. After the votes, McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) engaged in a face-to-face negotiation that senators hoped would lead to a solution in the near future.

Very near future. The following day. Helped by a LaGuardia shut down and Roger Stone arrest.

Also during the lunch, McConnell made clear to Pence and others in the room that the shutdown was not his idea and was not working.

So whose idea was it to never bring a bill to the floor for a vote until now?

Ditch Mitch.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 2/22:  Ditch Mitch Fund