How long will the shutdown last?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

Does anyone in particular have to be responsible for filibustering these measures such that they need 60 votes rather than a majority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

More of the GOP is defecting on the Trump shutdown. It's only a matter of time.

GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Nev.) broke rank and voted to advance the stopgap bill, which would have reopened the quarter of the government currently shuttered and funded it through Feb. 8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

More of the GOP is defecting on the Trump shutdown. It's only a matter of time.

GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Nev.) broke rank and voted to advance the stopgap bill, which would have reopened the quarter of the government currently shuttered and funded it through Feb. 8.

More votes for the Schumer plan than the McConnell plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

More of the GOP is defecting on the Trump shutdown. It's only a matter of time.

GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Nev.) broke rank and voted to advance the stopgap bill, which would have reopened the quarter of the government currently shuttered and funded it through Feb. 8.

More votes for the Schumer plan than the McConnell plan.

Unfortunately many more republicans had supported the Schumer plan in December and rejected now on Trump's direction. Shameful.

[Anonymous]

There are 44 GOP senators who will need to explain why they opposed a bill today that they supported unanimously in December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg just vote to reopen without a wall! This is what the majority of Americans want.

The majority of the Senate does not represent the majority of Americans. It’s a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg just vote to reopen without a wall! This is what the majority of Americans want.

The majority of the Senate does not represent the majority of Americans. It’s a problem.

someone isn’t familiar with the Connecticut compromise, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 44 GOP senators who will need to explain why they opposed a bill today that they supported unanimously in December.

They seem to have forgotten their constitutional role is not to blindly do what the President asks them to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 44 GOP senators who will need to explain why they opposed a bill today that they supported unanimously in December.

And the media will focus on Dems cause they can’t bring themselves to ask GOP to break with the king. Media’s expectations of GOP are they obstruct while insist Dems be the grownups and give concessions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are 44 GOP senators who will need to explain why they opposed a bill today that they supported unanimously in December.

They seem to have forgotten their constitutional role is not to blindly do what the President asks them to do.

That’s not their constitutional “role.” Their constitutional role is described in the Constitution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg just vote to reopen without a wall! This is what the majority of Americans want.

The majority of the Senate does not represent the majority of Americans. It’s a problem.

It’s a problem, to you, that each state has two United States Senators?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this would be it. I thought the Senate would reopen the government, for whatever short or long period of time. I thought we'd be done with this stupid stupid shutdown.

Not this week. Two shutdown measures rejected. Maybe next week?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown

Does anyone in particular have to be responsible for filibustering these measures such that they need 60 votes rather than a majority?

I would compel objectors to actually filibuster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg just vote to reopen without a wall! This is what the majority of Americans want.

The majority of the Senate does not represent the majority of Americans. It’s a problem.

someone isn’t familiar with the Connecticut compromise, apparently.

Not surprising, given the generally cartoonish level of knowledge on display.

[Anonymous]

It will never reopen. Mark my words. Until the wall
Is built.