If this shutdown happens will we blame Trump for it like that last one since it's his syncophants causing on his behalf.

Mitch doesn't scare anybody any more now that he's only half there.

Every photo of him looks like he's barely hanging on.

Russia: Republicans! We need help!

Republicans: Best we can do is get rid of all American military leadership and shut down the government.

Pentagon: So, aid to Ukraine is exempt from the shutdown.....

Imagine being considered the less mentally capable party leader when the other guy freezes up in interviews and has to be led away by his staff.

Both of these Mccunts can go Mcfuck themselves.

McConnell got played by fascists and now he’s just stunlocked at every corner because he’s old as a white dog turd.

Conservatives have always been losers and frauds. Fuck them for not growing up.

Just lock them both in a room to look blankly at each other and see who can win the outstaring contest.

I hope they're both miserable.

He's just going to melt. Nothing really matters, just have some quilted Charmin on hand.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

And then when the speaker appeared before his conference on Wednesday morning, McCarthy relayed that same message and later made clear he wouldn’t put the Senate bill on the House floor, underscoring the divide between the two most powerful Republicans in Washington at a pivotal moment for the country and their party.

With just days left until government funding runs dry, the two men are at sharp odds as McCarthy is rejecting the deal McConnell cut with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and still trying to rely on House GOP votes to bolster his conference’s negotiating position.

A number of Senate Republicans and Democrats alike are alarmed that McCarthy is pushing a plan that appears unlikely to pass his own chamber – and has no chance of becoming law – as top GOP lawmakers fear that the divisions within their own party would make it easier for the public to blame them for a damaging impasse.

In recent weeks, Senate GOP lawmakers have been critical of McCarthy’s decision to ignore a bipartisan debt ceiling law the speaker cut this summer that set spending levels for the government.

But under pressure from his right flank, which held the House floor hostage, McCarthy agreed to seek deeper cuts, putting him on a collision course with Republicans and Democrats alike in the Senate who are opposed to that effort.

Unlike when McConnell stayed on the sidelines during the debt ceiling fight and was content to let McCarthy take the reins, the Senate GOP leader worked with Schumer to negotiate a stopgap bill to extend current funding levels for 45 days.

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Why can't they just once try to send a straight forward bill without having to tack some unrelated bullshit to it? We need new rules about fat in bills. I'm all for lending support to Ukraine, but that has exactly fuck all to do with keeping the government of the United States running. There's no good reason that legislation should not be simple, transparent, and single purpose. Got some unrelated shit? Make a new bill. What the fuck are we paying these assholes for? Running a country is not a game. Every one of these pointless obstructionists needs to go against the wall yesterday.