This is what a party looks like that sees its potential loss of power and doesn’t know what to do about it.
Republicans control the entire federal government. Republicans have decided not to work with Democrats to get the votes needed in the Senate to keep the government open.
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Republicans in the House and Senate are angry because they got themselves into this mess by unilaterally deciding to end Obamacare subsidies. Republicans under the leadership of Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and John Thune thought that financing tax cuts for the richest Americans by eliminating health care for tens of millions of people was a wonderful idea.
The Republicans made this political choice. So when Democrats decided to use their influence to force change, Trump’s party responded by trying to force Democrats to vote for a continuing resolution that they found unacceptable, and when that failed, Republicans shut down the government.
Because Democrats are more united and sending a better message, Republicans have become angry.
This anger erupted during a press conference on Friday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune refused to overturn the filibuster aimed at reopening the government because he claimed that if he did, Democrats would return to power, there would be abortion on demand and two new senators would be in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
However, it was Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) who went well beyond Thune’s typical Republican scaremongering about Democrats, and delivered his own theory on why Democrats won’t do what Republicans want: “It’s one thing and one thing only to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is about to hold up so that Leader Scalise just commented on a Hate America rally in Washington next week.
Emmer’s video:
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