After a record-breaking 37-day shutdown, Republicans on Capitol Hill are reportedly ready to surrender. They’re ready to bend the knee. They’re ready, willing, and desperate to end the government shutdown crisis they courted by refusing to renew Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies that, if allowed to expire, would skyrocket the healthcare premiums of tens of millions of Americans.
We come to you with a second major breaking news item.
Democrats do not accept their terms of surrender.
Yeah, read that sentence again.
After a decade of being possessed by the pathetic respectability politics of “strongly worded letters” and theater kid bullshit, Democrats have finally found a goddamn backbone.
Yesterday evening, in the wake of this week’s electoral “bluenami,” Politico reported that Senate Majority Leader John Thune told his GOP colleagues he will hold a vote later today to end the government shutdown.
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The faces!
Disrespecting the Fuhrer?On Thursday, Republican senators discussed the idea of adopting a limited change to the Senate's filibuster rules to make it easier to reopen the government without Democratic votes.
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The change would not terminate the 60-vote threshold writ large as there is not widespread Republican support for eliminating it despite the president's recent entreaties to do so.
Republican sources suspected even the limited change under consideration might not even make it to a vote.
CBS
BTW, Nancy Pelosi is finally retiring.
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