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The Deplorables have the votes to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a shutdown.
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DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2017
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dsc
(52,173 posts)1. this isn't the debt ceiling its the budget
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)2. They have the votes to pass a budget too.
dsc
(52,173 posts)3. we can filibuster
and probably should.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)4. They can just blow up the filibuster to avoid a shutdown.
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)5. Odds are that they'll kick the can down the road
again, just in time. That seems to be SOP recently.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)6. That like half the political discussions I have online all the time.
Bookmarked. I will bust it out on some of my state and local GOP morons in the near future.