The party needed all of its members in town for the vote in order for it to pass, but Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) was in South Korea for a conference, putting them a vote down. Leadership knew about his trip for weeks ahead of time.
“I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “We weren’t sure how the votes would come down, but we knew there would be absences.”
“It was a win-win either way. If we won the vote, it was a good win like we won the Canada vote,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Thursday.
Here’s the motion if anyone’s curious: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00226.htm
Every D voted in favor of lifting the tariffs, to be fair. McConnell is a soon to be corpse that everybody knew wasn’t gonna vote. This was a fuckin shoo-in. However, out of the blue, Whitehouse decided to go chill in a PC Bang somewhere in South Korea. Somehow, super conveniently, Democrats didn’t have enough to get this shit to pass. By 1 (one) vote. Democrats aren’t just useless. They are just useless enough.
Gang, if you still don’t believe that Dems are controlled opposition, I don’t know what to tell you.
I’m a little confused. If the resolution was to terminate the national emergency and stop the tariffs, why were Dems voting Nay and Republicans voting Yea?
Cuz it’s a motion to table a motion to reconsider terminating the national emergency by which Donny introduced the tariffs. Lots of double negatives here.
If I were as consistently incompetent at my job as they are, I’d be permanently unemployed. At this point I’m ready for the Martian ambassador to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress.
“I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes,”
Nothing went wrong except the most plainly important thing to go wrong. Further something that could have actually gone right if they just planned better around one of their members.
“It was a win-win either way.
Losing is ok because the Republicans will get blamed… Except this very article where they actually had enough Republicans to get a win and they still boffed it. A rare opportunity for substantiative progress to prove that even as a minority party they can drive common sense legislation and they totally screwed up.
It was a win-win either way. If we won the vote, it was a good win like we won the Canada vote,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Thursday. “But we knew if we lost, every single Republican — including those up for election — was the single vote that kept … these onerous tariffs on the backs of the American people.
This fucking loser, again. “If we won the vote…,” except you didn’t win the vote, you simpering weasel. Once again, you snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and somehow feel smug about it. Framing easily avoidable losses as positives is why America has been stolen by MAGA Nazis.
This fucking hump loser has got to go. It’s not enough to decide not to run for reelection, the Dems need to reject him from power, and force him to resign in embarassing and humiliating fashion. Let AOC have his seat, and find someone with some spine to be the Senate Minority Leader.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “We weren’t sure how the votes would come down, but we knew there would be absences.”
Bro it’s literally your job to know. What the fuck dude?
Isn’t that the purpose of the whip, to keep the party in line?
Yeah it’s literally his main job within the Senate.
“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I am a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
