As expected, today's dual vote on the Trump shutdown was unsuccessful in ending the nation's longest government shutdown. The Rethug version was nothing more than a capitulation to demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump's demand that he get funding for his manhood wall. The Dem version would have opened the government immediately, with no mention of border wall funding. Interestingly, more Rethugs voted for the Dem proposal than for their own.
As reported in The Hill, apparently empty suit and fundamentalist hypocrite Vice President Mike "Dense" Pence was at the Senate Rethug luncheon today, and he may have gotten a bad case of indigestion from what his frustrated Senators told him:
"Lawmakers vented their irritation to Pence shortly before six GOP senators defected to vote for a Democratic-backed bill that would open the government without funding Trump’s proposed border wall.Pence reportedly asked the Senators to stay with Rump's losing gambit, which is cratering Rump's poll numbers as well as theirs.
One GOP senator said lawmakers told Pence 'the shutdown needs to come to an end, this is not a strategy that works [and] we never should have had a shutdown in the first place.'”
Pence was present, sitting stone-like with a deer in the headlights look, when Rump proudly embraced the shutdown as his own on December 11 in front of Speaker Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Schumer and the nation. The next time he has lunch with the Rethuglican Senators, he may be the one on the menu.
(photo: Pence practicing the loving look he gives Rump)
2 comments:
Pence, as you said, is an empty suit. During his stint as VP, he has had no policy brief (the way other recent VPs have) because the Trump Administration is just an exercise in massive corruption and treason so Pence's only role is to be the dutiful sycophant to Trump. His only real personal agenda is hatred of the LBGTQs and reproductive rights for women. Even in conservative Indiana, he was toxic before he got plucked by Manafort to be Trump's VP. (Think about that.)
Pence will never be President, of course. Even when Trump flames out because of disability/death, impeachment or other reason, the nation's electorate has changed. Pence will be radioactive (even in the unlikely event that he succeeds a Trump resignation).
Jimbo -- As you point out, he was headed for political oblivion after a failed job as Governor. I hope we find out more about the VP selection process that involved Manafort. Clearly, Pence has no core.
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