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McConnell's Embarrassment: Democrats, Not Republicans, Passed Omnibus Bill
newsmax ^ | March 24, 2018 | By John Gizzi

Posted on 03/25/2018 9:13:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

"All you need to know why this was a bad bill is to look at the roll call," a long-time Republican lobbyist emailed me Saturday, referring to the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending law.

Of course, he's right.

President Donald Trump reluctantly signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill Friday, but a careful review of the crucial Senate vote shows it was Democratic members, not Republicans, that actually passed the bill.

In another major embarrassment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his own Republican caucus opposed the very bill he negotiated.

The omnibus bill passed the Senate by a vote of 65 to 32 (with three abstentions).

Of the 65 "for" votes, 39 Democratic senators supported the bill with only 25 Republicans signing on. Republicans control the Senate with 51 seats.

Of the 32 "against" votes, 23 were Republicans, including stalwart conservatives such as Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Rand Paul of Kentucky,Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Mike Lee of Utah.

Democrats were so excited about the bill's passage, they could not contain their glee.

"We Democrats feel very good because so many of our priorities for the middle class were included," beamed Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York.

Schumer was especially happy because chief among his priorities was the funding for a $30 billion the infrastructure project in New York known as the Gateway program.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; ditchmitch; mcconnell; omnibusbill; trumpbudget
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1 posted on 03/25/2018 9:13:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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McTurtle must go.


2 posted on 03/25/2018 9:15:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Mtich McConnell and Paul Ryan are the best leaders the Democrats have ever had.

Much better than Pelosi, they are all playing for the same team.

3 posted on 03/25/2018 9:16:51 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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And now this: Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) broke from President Donald Trump’s policy to ban most transgender people from serving in the US military citing “gender dysphoria.” Ernst said, “I support allowing those transgenders that can serve I believe they should serve.

Tell me again why I should vote for a ******* Republican?

4 posted on 03/25/2018 9:16:58 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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Of the 32 "against" votes, 23 were Republicans, including stalwart conservatives such as Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Rand Paul of Kentucky,Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Mike Lee of Utah.?

Complete BS, gardner is no more conservative then mccaniac and linda.
5 posted on 03/25/2018 9:18:44 AM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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> "Schumer was especially happy because ..."

Schmuck is not so happy today. Meanie Trump floored him with one punch.

YOU ROLLED ME YOU ... YOU ... YOU ... MEANIE!

6 posted on 03/25/2018 9:22:04 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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McTurtle is not embarrassed. He's happy as hell. A bigger political knife in Trump's back could not have been plunged.
7 posted on 03/25/2018 9:23:01 AM PDT by llevrok (DACA = Democrats Against Citizen Americans)
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McConnell is an embedded tick on the Deep State dog.


8 posted on 03/25/2018 9:23:48 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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...major embarrassment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell....

he’s been an embarrassment for so long he don’t give a furry rats petunia ...he’s making too much $$$$$


9 posted on 03/25/2018 9:24:17 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Was this the hog farmer and veteran that wanted to go to Washington to perform some "castrations?" The only ones that got castrated were the people that voted for her. We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
10 posted on 03/25/2018 9:24:54 AM PDT by Fungi
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Democrats are running as republicans and republicans are breaking new ground on the left for democrats.

They are conducting a $1.3 Trillion dollar mutual-admiration Circle ***k.

And both are battling and undermining President Trump to keep him from reforming the corrupt system they have built to enrich and protect themselves.


11 posted on 03/25/2018 9:25:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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“Embarrassment”?

“Pleased”.


12 posted on 03/25/2018 9:29:26 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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The Turdle is bought and paid for by globalist, lobbyist and DC elites.
He is the Head Swamp Rat in DC.


13 posted on 03/25/2018 9:29:56 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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It’s not an embarassment it’s a defection.


14 posted on 03/25/2018 9:30:01 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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McConnell IS AN EMBARRASSMENT


15 posted on 03/25/2018 9:30:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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An awful lot of republican congressmen are calling it quits this time around. What’s interesting is who on the “R” side are throwing their hats in the ring to replace them in the upcoming elections.

But I agree, the Kentucky fried post turtle needs to go away. That POS and his socialist-democrat buddies actually thought that they boxed President Trump into a corner with this omnibus bill.

And with the epic trolling of congress by President Trump this weekend, in two tweets or less, I’m not going to rush to judgement on what He’s doing.


16 posted on 03/25/2018 9:30:50 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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One Republican Passed it.


17 posted on 03/25/2018 9:31:14 AM PDT by heights
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This game of pretending to be opposed to profligate spending and that there is any real opposition to bigger Government is played out. I’m not buying it anymore.


18 posted on 03/25/2018 9:32:50 AM PDT by Wolfie
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The GOP was the minority in the “Yea” votes and the majority in the “Nay” votes.

So what the GOP grass roots wants to know is why is McConnell still, today, the “majority” leader in the Senate. All he has done with the omnibus spending bill is lead his caucus to defeat and hand a major victory to his party’s opponents.

We need 25+1 GOP Senators who will stand as disgraced by the spending bill to oust McConnell from his leadership chair.


19 posted on 03/25/2018 9:32:54 AM PDT by Wuli
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I thought the House at least claimed they wouldn’t pass bills unless the majority consisted of republicans. Another lie.


20 posted on 03/25/2018 9:33:46 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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