but yeah, he does look "shook"

why does he always walk around with like 12 people forming a phalanx around him? Scared of the reporters?

He must have forgotten that Republicans hold the majority in the Senate and all of them voted for the bill as well.

proposed passing it on unanimous consent and republicans jumped at it, because with unanimous consent your vote is not recorded.

Unanimous Consent is what the senate normally uses to clear things the House sends them, that they have to do something with, but otherwise don't care about (renaming a post office in Cousin Fuck, Nebraska as an example).

In THIS case, the senate looked around the room and said:
'Wait a sec...is there anybody in the room that actually wants to spend the next 6 months arguing over who's gonna DRINK this poison?
No?
NOBODY?
LAST CALL...OkDoneNextTHANK YOU!

This shit is so toxic that they didn't even want the bill in the chamber, lest some window-licker of an intern have the chance to do or say something so stupid that not only could it not be walked back, but ruins a career in the process.

Fuck yeah HouseElf Mikey is shook, HE thought he was gonna get the Senate to drink this poison to save his own ass; he passed the chalice and Thune dumped it out on the floor LIKE A SMART PERSON lol.

and explain their vote or talk about it at all.

I guess they're on the hook for not voting yes, but that's a hell of a lot smaller a hook than openly voting NO...

they found the softest place to land between a rock and a hard place. not much courage abounding. not much conviction, or attention to doing the right thing.

Besides. Speaker Mike thought he was gonna send this over there to die and he could go back to trump for a tummy-rub..he knows now he's just as likley to get disemboweled, and it's fun watching him run from it lol!

Thune ratfucked him good on this one, and I'm here for it.

horrible people do, nothing they do is genuine.

The only genuine thing about them is their effort to gain Christo-fascist authoritarian power.

Which renders false their ostensible patriotism and reverence for the Constitution established by America's founding fathers.

Until the little, fucking porn addict has to pay for his own security.

Watch Lawrence O’Donnell last night. He discussed the process. The Senate wanted nothing to do with this. Wanted to hide the fact that all but 2 voted against releasing the files in September.

... and TACO and Chuck Schumer lit the fuse.

Schumer publicly stated what he was doing hours before the dinner
Lawrence played the clip.

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