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)
