Informative post from BSky. I just followed them over there.

vote on it".. brilliant!

The Senate Betrayed Traitor by Not going option.

Mahalos, lapucelle!

Why would Dick Durbin (who is in leadership) be voting "yes" when he's already announced that this is his last term?

Also on the list are vulnerable Democratic senators, including Jon Ossoff. It all makes sense as strategy, but not as policy.

and evidently Ron Flipkowski(who I like but not this) is saying. ins essence that Sen Schumer is Voting No but "it doesn't wash his hands of it".. SO?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220788404

It pisses me off.

Anyone believing Congressional Dems will suddenly grow a spine next time is smoking crack.

If the Senate passes anything other than exactly what the House sent it, the House will need to vote on whatever the Senate passes. If the House change what the Senate passed, it will have to go back to the Senate for a vote.

And when the House reconvenes, Johnson will have to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. She'll be the final vote on the discharge petition, and the Epstein files will be released.

The bill to release the files will presumably pass the House, but it would still need to be passed by the Senate and signed by Trump before it becomes law. So it's not going to get the files released. What it will do is force Republicans to all go on the record as either supporting Epstein's victims, or supporting the pedophiles named in the report. Believe me, many of them DON'T want to be forced to do this.

and the Epstein files will be released.

Enjoy your donut.

You're letting logic stop the pile on!!

I hope that armor suits you.

Yes, but all those mines are being laid in the ground for Republicans to step on as we speak.

Thune would not have agreed to any of this if he didn't already have buy-in from Johnson.

They literally fucked Democrats sideways on this and won everything they wanted with no strings attached.

Was, according to our Democratic elected officials, about healthcare and we got absolutely nothing. They failed and made people suffer in the doing. They are monsters.

That’s Republican messaging.

Like I said, I don’t promulgate Republican talking points.

This is all being too cute by half.

It’s over, if Republicans are really determined to strip voters of their ACA subsidies, they can deal with those repercussions at the polls next November.

Democrats do all they could, but ultimately we are not in power, and we can’t fight until the last federal worker has their house foreclosed on.

Not sure of rules, but this is important.
Thx. lapucelle.

return and vote to approve whatever the Senate comes up with... and then we get Adelita!!!

Thanks for posting these posts from Bluesky!