The House has barely rejected a Democratic-backed resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to Venezuela.
I have seen ‘barely defeat’ a dozen times in Congress. If it was gonna pass, they would start pulling in favors from Democrats. Rather than close I would say it had no chance of passing.
To defeat the resolution Thursday, Republican leaders had to hold the vote open for more than 20 minutes while Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt, who had been out of Washington all week campaigning for a Senate seat in Texas, rushed back to Capitol Hill to cast the decisive vote.
Maybe but the last year has also been a nearly bipartisan split with the Republican party United no matter what and some bootlicking Dems even joining the Republicans.
It could be performative theatre but a tie with a Republican majority isn’t a a united front.
They didn’t have the votes to defeat it so they made a Republican who wasn’t in the room get there as fast as possible and refused to close the vote until he got there.
I have seen ‘barely defeat’ a dozen times in Congress. If it was gonna pass, they would start pulling in favors from Democrats. Rather than close I would say it had no chance of passing.
Maybe but the last year has also been a nearly bipartisan split with the Republican party United no matter what and some bootlicking Dems even joining the Republicans.
It could be performative theatre but a tie with a Republican majority isn’t a a united front.
The public needs to believe that it was possible to keep them passive.
They didn’t have the votes to defeat it so they made a Republican who wasn’t in the room get there as fast as possible and refused to close the vote until he got there.