Um, what? Does he call his wife “Mother” or does he mean his actual mother? And if his wife does that mean she’s sending a message, “Don’t even think about getting frisky with me, loser”?
Check spelling of account name :-)
The trick is to contain an adversarial agenda within the pre-approved rules of the game.
It’s like if a defense attorney shot the judge, or one chess player bludgeoned the other one with a bishop.
Stuff like Merrick Garland IMO seems to shade outside of the rules in a similar way, although I’m sure there are examples all through U.S. history. The procedural meta-game (parliamentary shuffling, gerrymandering, and so on) is like a behind the scenes ghost that is too complicated and arcane for most people to be able to follow.
Hey, can somebody more knowledgeable in the arcane minutiae of reconciliation say whether this Reddit post is accurate?
"I’m not sure if it’s really being appreciated just how comprehensively the Republicans were just fucked over.
See, the Republicans have been trying to pass these godawful healthcare bills through a process called budget reconciliation, which, among other things, protects the bill from being filibustered in the Senate and only requires a simple majority of 50 votes (rather than 60, which the Republicans don’t have).
The thing is, the Senate can only consider one budget reconciliation bill per topic per year. Of course, if the bill dies in committee and never comes to an official vote, it doesn’t count- which is why they’ve been able to keep hammering away at the issue.
This bill, though, was allowed to come to the Senate floor, because the Republicans thought they’d secured the votes. Collins, Murkowski and the Democrats would vote no, everyone else would vote yes, and Pence would break the tie. And then McCain completely fucked them. And it was almost certainly a calculated move; he voted to allow the bill to come to the floor. Had McCain allowed it to die in committee, McConnell could have come back with yet another repeal bill; but he let it come to a vote, and now they can’t consider another budget reconciliation bill for the rest of the fiscal year. The Senate needs 60 votes to pass any kind of healthcare reform now.
So now they’re caught between a rock and a hard place. Either they concede defeat on the issue and try again later (causing a big, unpopular stink that could damage elections if they try it before the midterms, or risking losing the slim majority they already have if they wait) or they actually sit down with the democrats like adults and write a halfway decent healthcare bill.
This is amazing."
This seems correct:
Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year (unless Congress passes a second budget resolution). Consequently, in the Senate there can be a maximum of three reconciliation bills in a year, one for each of the basic subjects of reconciliation.
This rule is most significant if the first reconciliation bill that the Senate takes up affects both spending and revenues. Even if that bill is overwhelmingly devoted to only one of those subjects, no subsequent reconciliation bill can affect either revenues or spending because the first bill already addressed them.
If McCain did that intentionally to outflank McConnell, that actually significantly raises my opinion of him based on the Motion To Proceed vote.
Oghier
1957
“Please proceed, Mr. Majority Leader.”
I’ve seen speculation on this over at reddit, too. I’ve yet to read anything from a source knowledgeable in Senate procedures.
It’s plausible, but based on the 11th hour press briefing McCain gave with Graham, Johnson, and Cassidy, I don’t think this move was that well plotted out.
Paul Ryan January 2017
“Welcome to the dawn of a unified Republican government!”
Paul Ryan July 2017
♫ Lake Huron rolls, superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered ♫
I guess the Trump honeymoon period is officially over. Things might start getting hard from here onwards.
Seems like Lightfoot’s “Sundown” might have been a more appropriate choice:
Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin’ again.
Worth noting that by placing the bill back on the calendar immediately, it’s still open for amendments if they want to try to revise.
More plausible, however, is that it now does need bipartisan cooperation.
KevinC
1963
I was curious what foxnews.com’s front page looked like. I was not disappointed.
You have to jump down the page a little to see a tiny headline about the vote last night.
They do realize that STRIKES BACK pretty clearly puts them on the side of the bad guys right?
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is the one where the bad guys win
THE REPUBLICANS STRIKE BACK is the one where the bad guys win
KevinC
1966
And what are they striking back against? They won 2016.
Beating Killary just made her more powerful than they could possibly imagine.
please stop making me do these ;)
ShivaX
1970
I mean it was fake… except that he actually does call his wife mother.
Stop me before I kill again
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