So rather than come back with “we’ll eliminate the filibuster”, they settled for “reading into the record” the statement from GOP Rep. Herrera Beutler. Oooooooo...scary!!!
Senate Republicans apparently threatened to use the filibuster to stop all other senate business -- including COVID19 relief for desperate American families -- if this trial were to continue and hear witnesses. Never before has the GOP stooped so low to defend Donald Trump.— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) February 13, 2021
Senate Republicans apparently threatened to use the filibuster to stop all other senate business -- including COVID19 relief for desperate American families -- if this trial were to continue and hear witnesses. Never before has the GOP stooped so low to defend Donald Trump.
“Total, total shit show,” Joni Ernst says when I asked about her reaction to this, calling it “a tool of revenge” against Trump. Adds: “if they want to drag this out, we’ll drag it out. They won’t get their noms, they won’t get anything.”— Emily Cochrane (@ESCochrane) February 13, 2021
“Total, total shit show,” Joni Ernst says when I asked about her reaction to this, calling it “a tool of revenge” against Trump. Adds: “if they want to drag this out, we’ll drag it out. They won’t get their noms, they won’t get anything.”
Then the Dems should have killed the filibuster. Republicans said "I'm all in with a full house" and Dems folded instead of:A: Calling their bluffB: Remembering they were holding four of a kind anyway.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 13, 2021
Then the Dems should have killed the filibuster. Republicans said "I'm all in with a full house" and Dems folded instead of:A: Calling their bluffB: Remembering they were holding four of a kind anyway.
Republicans are traitors. Democrats are cowards. Rinse, repeat.— Ridley (@RitleySammich) February 13, 2021
Republicans are traitors. Democrats are cowards. Rinse, repeat.
Shameful and weak. No one is fighting for us.