osxmatt

So I did a very brief read on cloture, and it’s a rule that allows you to break filibuster. But if you need 60 votes to break filibuster, and you need 60 votes to pass cloture, to move on to a final vote, what is the point of cloture? Just to call a vote and hope things play differently? Shut up annoying people reading phone books?

It sounds like I need to look up the word cloture, because that’s a step in the legislative process I didn’t even know existed. I always thought it was debate -> vote.

Can you expand on this a bit? I always assumed most legislation needed just 50 (+1) to pass, and the reason sometimes a 50+ bill is “defeated” is because it’s understood the President will veto, and you need 60 to override the veto. So while the Senate did pass the bill, it’s demise is inevitable, so media and politicians just frame it as “defeated” right now because it saves time and face.

Mitch McConnell is going to call a vote early next week on Trump’s proposal. He really is a special kind of shitbird.

Going down with the ship.

Well shit.

Trump can't even come up with spite on his own.

Continuing to do God's work:

Still unsure who that may be though.

If it's what you say, then I love it!

Odds Trump declares a state of emergency at the border tomorrow?

It's all in the recent Roger Ailes documentary Vice.

I have feeling that tonight and/or tomorrow morning's tweet storm will argue that he didn't direct Cohen to lie, because Trump was a private citizen and free to pursue any business interests he wanted.

Nixon was literally impeached for this.

William Barr believes President Trump committed obstruction of justice.

There was a time when I felt it was all too good to be true, that nothing was actually going to come from the Mueller investigation. I’m starting to believe again.

I really hope this #WheresMitch thing sticks. How he's been able to go this long unscathed is incredible. He's able to retreat and hide like no one else I've ever seen. It's almost reptilian.

Bill? Bill who?