Political Quotes

“today we come to an inflection point in the appropriations process this year. Leader McConnell has scheduled a vote on the Defense appropriations bill, which comes with a certain irony. A bill that is supposed to provide resources for our troops and their families actually steals money from them and puts it toward a border wall that President Trump promised Mexico would pay for. Democrats will not vote to proceed to a bill that steals money from our troops and their families. Republicans know it is a nonstarter. Yet Leader McConnell has scheduled a show vote this afternoon to demonstrate something that everyone already knows: There is nowhere close to the necessary votes in the Senate for President Trump's border wall and, of course, there is not in the House. So this is just a show vote. Leader McConnell, a few weeks ago, got on the floor and railed against show votes. He said: I only want to put things on the floor that are going to pass. But we all know this ain't passing. I understand memories in politics can be short, but the exercise we will go through today is absurd, even by those low standards. Senate Republicans, by pursuing a partisan process, by doing President Trump's bidding on the wall--they know he is wrong, most of them. They are just so afraid of him they just say ``Yes, sir'' whenever he proposes an absurd idea. They repeat the same failed strategy that led to the longest shutdown in our Nation's history.…”