Posted on 05/22/2015 6:07:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Two senators have a plane to catch to Cuba, others were hoping to impress Republican presidential primary voters and then there’s Sen. Lamar Alexander, who is slated to deliver a sunset piano performance of “Ol’ Man River” on the banks of the Mississippi.
The Senate’s slow-motion amble toward Memorial Day break threatened all that.
“It’s not the weather, it’s the Senate that’s the problem,” said Alexander, the Tennessee Republican and former governor, as he waited out the impasse in his office Friday. On a borrowed Senate piano, he tapped out “The Memphis Blues,” with a wink, eager to head home for the performance Saturday with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He’s got seats on two separate plane flights home booked for Saturday.
“I,” he resolved, “will be there.” […]
At issue Friday were extending the expiring provisions in the Patriot Act that give the National Security Agency its surveillance power, extending transportation funding for two months and giving President Barack Obama authority to negotiate a sweeping trade agreement with Pacific nations. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., deployed a well-used trick: threatening to stay in session until the remaining issues are resolved, even if that means taking a bite out of the weekend. …
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Cry moar, RINO scum.
As if the Boy King has ever been denied anything he wants ever at all.
I am quite sure that you scurrying rat bastards will find a way to get just enough votes to give him everything he wants so he can screw us all where the sun don’t shine.
These guys are so useless, Emperor Sans-cullotte should just dissolve the Senate.
He’s ruling by decree and getting away with it anyway.
SOBs, all of them.
The results of electing lesser evil speaks for itself.
They are not acting in our best interests!!!!!!Didn’t those asshats take an oath?
Its Frog and scorpion. You can’t blame the scorpion for being what it is. Just the frog for being a moron.
Voters in KY should have held their noses and voted for Grimes. She would have been the lesser evil.
I read the linked article.
Everyone noted has a gripe.
It’s not like they actually work in OUR interest or actually work at all.
I’ll wager only one or two have actually read what they’re voting for or against.
(Mike Lee and Tom Cotton)
Yup. But they believe in the unicorn power of the Magic R and are now responsible. Along with all the morons DEMANDING we support the GOP “No matter what”.
All this is on their heads. It wasn’t the Dems that ran around here and everywhere else demanding lesser evil/no matter what nonsense. Just wait until Iran nukes Israel because Mitch and Jonbon are all for approving Barry’s ‘treaty’. Hopefully none of these ‘patriots’ will ever sleep again.
Well, I feel like a moron for thinking they would try to do something good for our country.
Just learn from that mistake. Vlad Putin cares more for America than these idiots. They are agenda driven. And it’s Barry’s agenda driving.
The federal government needs to be cut in half. Maybe by 3/4.
These parasites are pathetic.
Payback is a beotch...passed TPA you idiots...too bad
Awwww. Poor little cretins. Gotta stay in Wasington eating kobe beef and drinking Dom Perignon.
But not to worry! I’m sure they’ll come to a deal that screws the midfle class royally. All in the spirit of bipartisansip, dontcha know.
I did not support McConnell (haven’t for years). He is only a shade better than Reid
Wouldn’t THAT be a dream job?
I’d never vacation.
Bipartisanship: the polite way of saying “We will rape you vigorously instead if simply raping you casually for the good of us both.”
I don’t see how his record is better actually. What Less had Mitch given Barry than Reid did? These people are worse. They are the enemy within. At least Reid stuck the knife in our faces.
We have to fact the facts of this. And they ARE facts. The GOP is on the other team.
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