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.
lich mcconnel got the fuck out of there, once he did decades of damage, and he couldnt control the senate anymore, its oldguard gop vs magat gop. mostly it started with gingrich.
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.