Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Slim Pickens edition

Not much going on over at Freeperville over the last week (other than delight over the Smollett verdicts), so we’re going to have to dip into some older posts. Buckle up!

We’ll start with – Cave In!

Crisis averted as conservatives cave
My Inbox | Dec 3 | BY TARA PALMERI, RACHAEL BADE, EUGENE DANIELS AND RYAN LIZZA

Posted on 12/3/2021, 6:30:40 AM by RandFan

Presented by Wells Fargo

NO SHUTDOWN — Congress avoided a government shutdown after Senate conservatives dropped their demands to nix President JOE BIDEN’s vaccine mandates in the funding bill — and Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER gave them a way out.

All 100 senators agreed late Thursday night to quickly proceed to a bill funding the government through Feb. 18. The breakthrough came after Schumer gave Republicans a vote (with a simple majority threshold) to defund federal vaccination mandates. He did so only because there were two Republicans absent, meaning that even if Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) sided with Republicans, the amendment would be defeated. (And fail it did, 48-50.)

Conservatives will argue they got something out of this drama: a vote on their issue. In reality, it was a face-saving measure. The far-right started out demanding that Congress effectively scuttle the mandates, then reduced their ask to a mere vote they knew would fail, ensuring smooth passage of a continuing resolution a full 30 hours before the shutdown deadline.

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It’s a shame we couldn’t find ONE senator to gum up the works and object.I only hope they got something more than a DOOMED to fail amendment.

This can’t possibly continue.

1 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:30:40 AM by RandFan

To: RandFan

This can’t possibly continue

And why not?

2 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:32:48 AM by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
To: RandFan

“cave”

Hidden in the word “Conservatives” are the words “Vote cavers in”.

6 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:44:33 AM by rightwingcrazy (;-,)

Let me quickly consult my cryptogram decoder :
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Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine
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Hmmm….
To: RandFan

China’s bitch McConnell to the rescue. The ballot box is quickly becoming the other, better box.

3 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:41:30 AM by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we’ve been waiting for!)

Followed by :
To: HYPOCRACY

I’m counting on the ammo box.

15 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:54:52 AM by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)

Box?
Actually, you only need one round.
More older stuff after the jump.

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