Vice President Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump's trade policy

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6. That was supposedly the rationale given for his absence

with a claim that the people would "know for sure" who to blame for the economic impact. Well that's folly since everybody knows already who and what is doing it. So they basically handed the GQP the ability to say "Your complaints are hollow because you had the ability to stop it and you didn't". So the strategy seems to be let it go to hell and hope enough people go with us and vote them out in the mid-terms.

This is ridiculous reasoning because Crumb The 1st and his fascists aren't going let the mid-terms go without massive voter suppression etc. and even if somehow we win both chambers does anybody think they will abide by anything Congress passes. The filibuster will still be there as well as the veto.

Even if we have the Congress and pass the funding bills the fascists have already shown they will cut the funding and force months and months of court cases. It is part of their strategy to cause disruption and delay while they steal the money over to other things. Then if ordered to restore funding it balloons the debt and deficit even further and likewise allows them the propaganda move of blaming the courts and the agencies being funded as being the cause of the problem.

It's like a drunk keeping a responsible spouse locked out of the house while the drunk spends the rent money on booze. Then when the booze is gone the drunk let's the spouse in and the spouse now has to go take a cash advance on the credit card in order to pay the rent. So now their financial situation is even worse but the drunk blames it on the spouse and the credit card advance.

Bottom line is that the drunk got what they wanted and is using something else to deflect responsibility. The House for example was moving a funding bill recently for DHS and it contained $46 billion dollars for border security with over $30 billion of it going to the wall. As Representative Dan Goldman pointed out they included no money for FEMA in the bill but as he said they would all come crying to FEMA for money when a disaster hit. So when they need the money they will point at Medicaid etc. and blame spending there as a reason why they didn't give funding for FEMA. So they get what they wanted initially and then deflect responsibility later.