they just approved the budget a week ago and normally the government shuts down if that budget isn't approved by a deadline. that doesn't count the senate though so i am not sure it would have mattered. they could have impeached trump or tried something though
The republicans don't exactly have a great track record for respecting or following norms, procedure, decorum, whathaveyou so I personally think there was probably no amount of trickery they could have used to prevent them from bulldozing their way through it...
But for fucks sake....wouldn't that have at least been great political imagery even for liberals? Isn't that like half of what good guy legal dramas are about? Using all obscure tools and technically legal mechanisms at their disposal against the institution pushing for something clearly unjust while the big bad state says "fuck it, we don't care, eat shit!"
At least they'd look like they were good guys.....
they just approved the budget a week ago and normally the government shuts down if that budget isn't approved by a deadline. that doesn't count the senate though so i am not sure it would have mattered. they could have impeached trump or tried something though
The republicans don't exactly have a great track record for respecting or following norms, procedure, decorum, whathaveyou so I personally think there was probably no amount of trickery they could have used to prevent them from bulldozing their way through it...
But for fucks sake....wouldn't that have at least been great political imagery even for liberals? Isn't that like half of what good guy legal dramas are about? Using all obscure tools and technically legal mechanisms at their disposal against the institution pushing for something clearly unjust while the big bad state says "fuck it, we don't care, eat shit!"
At least they'd look like they were good guys.....
I think they tried the comittee quorum thing, which was promptly ignored. Cause of fucking course it was. On that list they did almost nothing.
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