Posted on 09/05/2023 3:48:42 AM PDT by RandFan
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to McConnell’s Health and a Potential Government Shutdown
The Senate meets at 3 pm et today for the first time since late July.
The biggest buzz around the Senate centers on the health of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
2) Some senators want McConnell to be more transparent about his health issues as there are whispers in the Senate corridors about his fitness to serve.
McConnell froze up last week during a speaking engagement in northern Kentucky. He had a similar episode in late July.
3) And there was also an issue in the spring. The latter appeared to be a problem with the Leader’s hearing aids.
Questions about McConnell have swirled since he misses several weeks after a fall where he suffered a concussion.
4) Republicans also find themselves in a bind: defending McConnell but wanting to raise questions about the health and age of President Biden.
It is unclear if McConnell will present customary opening remarks in the 3 pm et hour or offer any insight into his health.
5) Many Republicans are rallying around McConnell. However, it would only take five GOP members to demand a special meeting to consider McConnell’s leadership and potentially hold a secret ballot.
However, that scenario does not appear to be in the cards yet.
6) And McConnell would likely prevail in any vote of no confidence.
Other issues before the Senate: government funding.
The government runs out of money on October 1. The House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending measure.
7) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to move a series of spending measures over the next three weeks. But a temporary bill renewing all old funding appears to be the only way out of this cul-de-sac.
The House doesn’t return until next Tuesday.
8) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is floating a one-month interim spending package. But conservatives are balking at that since it simply renews the old funding and does not cut. McCarthy could pass a bill to avert a shutdown.
9) But he may need to do it with mostly-Democratic votes.
Back in the Senate, there is no movement in the impasse over the promotion of the nation’s top military leaders. Chad Pergram @ChadPergram
10) Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) refuses to budge from allowing the Senate to fast-track the mostly non-controversial promotions. Tuberville is protesting the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
11) It would take nearly a month of the Senate working around the clock and considering nothing else to clear all of the military promotions.
At the point when McConnell does a freeze and pees in his pants...all bets are off, and the ‘show’ ends. Course, the governor has said he won’t abide by the Kentucky law, and some challenge via the Supreme Court will occur...taking six months to throw out the Governor’s replacement guy.
Shut the government down. At this point, the US is better off without government.
how about we cut some ukraine funding? Would that be ok?
Time for a Motion To Vacate The Chair.
Shut it all down.
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And deny all of those poor people who want to visit national monuments and national parks?
THE HORROR!
And deny all of those poor people who want to visit national monuments and national parks?
THE HORROR!
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National parks don’t need to be monitored.
“Republicans also find themselves in a bind: defending McConnell but wanting to raise questions about the health and age of President Biden.”
I guess two wrongs sometimes do make a right according to the few. But the real problem isn’t comparing the health, thus capacity, of a person to perform their job. It now becomes the smoke screen of the protection of both from losing that job. And which one is more important and is required to do the things most important to the country without notice?
But the real problem with shutting down the government almost always seem to run with money. So is it the need for more?
In 2022 the federal government collected $4.90 trillion
Or is it the need for how it is being used and what part of the system has taken a loaf of bread from 5 cents a loaf to $2.50? And why is the minimum wage in states so inconsistent but the area in the conus with the highest minimum on the average is in D.C. at $17 an hour?
When does it stop while the inflation rate goes up faster than wages? Easy…when we get a group of people into office that are not more concerned with using tools to make the investment they established in themselves grow faster than their constituents. Vote responsible.
Wy69
McConnell, Pelosi, Feinstein, Biden etc need to go to Canada on a euthanasia trip.
Vacation??? Isn’t that what they’ve been doing?? Mitch is, and has been, slowly losing his faculties right before our very eyes! Now,as with the other dementia-stricken public “servants”(???), he is going to put up a fight about stepping aside!!! Doctor says he’s fine. Doctors don’t lie!!(right??). Is there anyyone reading this who wouldn’t take their beloved father or mother for a second or third opinion? His wife proves how far her love goes for him. Shame,shame,shame on her and anyone else who is allowing Mitch to continue in this cruel, sad place. He is losing every shred of dignity he ever had and will be remembered as a spaced-out buffoon.
Agreed. Let the Governors doe their jobs.
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