Flotsam and Jetsam - Senate Votes to End Schumer's Schutdown

Stacy McCain says Senate Ends Filibuster; Democrats Immediately Form Circular Firing Squad. He doesn't mean they repealed the filibuster rule, just that the Democrats finally found enough votes to break it this time. Ace, Eight Democrats Vote for Cloture on CR Bill, Securing Only Minor Concessions Fox, Democratic lawmakers reel after Senate votes to reopen government: 'Republican-made healthcare crisis' "Senate Minority Leader Schumer voted against continuing resolution as Sanders warns 15M could lose Medicaid." CNN, Senate votes to end government shutdown, sending funding bill to the House. Misty Severi at JTN reports Senate passes resolution to reopen government through January, sends legislation to House "The government has been shut down since Oct. 1 and became the longest on record last week after it surpassed the 2018-2019 record of 35 days. It has now been shut down for 41 days." Supposedly, the paperwork will take all week, making the prediction of Nov. 15 even closer.

NewsWeek, Chuck Schumer Faces Democratic Fury After Government Shutdown Deal At PJM Matt Margolis sees Shutdown Fallout Throws Democrats Into Chaos and Stephen Kruiser sees Schumer's Shutdown Did Not Go Well for Him. I Am Leah @Bossy_Leah, "All of the Democrats who called it a “Republican shutdown” seem pretty mad that 8 Democrats voted to open the government." Jared Taylor Swift @DemsRealRacists, "After spending weeks insisting the Republicans caused the shutdown, the entire base is enraged that Democrats aren't continuing to cause the shutdown." At Hat Hair, Here's What Capitol Hill Dems Are Saying About Shutdown Chuck: 'Should Be Replaced', John Sexton reveals Here's What Bluesky is Saying About Chuck Schumer, and a couple of videos, Harry Sisson Explodes After Senate Votes To Reopen Government. This Moment EXPOSES Everything and Johnson, Trump Steamroll Schumer's Government Shutdown: Dems Demand Exile. Althouse finds "This is an embarrassing deal, a deal to basically settle for nothing. It’s particularly galling..." ""... since it comes only days after Democrats crushed Republicans in races across the country. Election Day not only showed that Democrats had payed [sic] no price for the shutdown. It also confirmed the already abundant evidence that it has been deeply damaging for Donald Trump. But even with all this, I think the overall situation and outcome is basically fine [because]... Democrats fought. They held out for 40 days.... And that’s a big deal... It’s a big change in the direction of the fight we need in the years to come that just didn’t go far enough. Yet." Writes Josh Marshall, in "A Quick Take on Team Cave's Big Win."" At Da Caller, Hakeem Jeffries, Progressive Dems Rage Against Deal To End Shutdown. Amy Curtis at TownHall sees Tim Kaine Lets It Slip Why Democrats Drew Out the Shutdown Until Now. To keep the base riled for the elections.

Scott McLallan at TownHall watches Schumer Retreated Mid-Questioning When Pressed on Written ACA Fix. At ET, Trump Urges Senate Republicans to Redirect Federal Health Insurance Money to Americans. "The president has previously floated the idea of direct payments to taxpayers in other areas." Dave Strom at Hat Hair says It's True That Nobody Wants to Fix Obamacare. From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Elon Musk On The Homeless Industrial Complex. At LifeZette, Trump Floats $2,000 Tariff Dividend Checks for Working Class Americans. PJM's VodkaPundit, Dear Young Americans: I'm Begging You Not to Take Trump's 50-Year Mortgage.

Twitchy, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Trump Takes in an NFL Game and Lefties Lose Their Ever Lovin' Minds. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "JUST IN: Liberals boo as Trump swears in U.S. Military members at the Commanders game. Absolutely disgusting. Democrats have no respect for our brave troops who put their lives on the line to protect our country. Democrats hate America." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "No, he is deeply unpopular wherever vast numbers of unelected, bureaucratic, tyrannical, rent-seeking, corpulent, blood-sucking federal workers congregate. Like at a football game in Northern Virginia. Here in America, we love President Trump." Quote Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas "Donald Trump is deeply unpopular across America. x.com/Acyn/status/19…"

NYPo reports NYPD already losing officers with morale plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares to take reins. From Fox, Why Mamdani will serve two terms no matter how bad NYC gets, "Brooklyn victory party pricing hints at expensive policies ahead for Gotham . . . Socialist Zohran Mamdani's NYC victory party featured $13 Bud Light". Michael Goodwin at NYPo predicts Financial penalties for Mamdani election by GOP could cause irreversible damage to NYC. Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder, "We need young, smart, well-spoken, passionate voices on the Right who can mobilize young Conservatives to turn out and vote like Mamdani did for the Left. Oh wait, we did have one. But the "tolerant" radical Left assassinated him. And celebrated it. Because that's who they are."

At WJ, Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Launches Her Own Political Career, Announces Run for Office in California. But atop Da Hill, Christine Pelosi passes on bid for retiring mother’s House seat. 

RCP cites Carville: Democrats Will Win In 2028, Congress Will Increase Supreme Court Justices From 9 to 13. Jonathan Turley In Vino Veritas: Punch-Drunk Pundits Reveal Plans to Pack the Supreme Court. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius "The Democrat Party as we know it today would cease to exist if the following three measures were implemented: 1. Nation-wide voter ID with in-person, same-day voting except for true absentee situations. 2. End tax exempt status for ALL 501(c)(X)s (even religious, because if we leave that they will abuse it). 3. Continue Trump's enforcement of existing immigration laws until we have rolled back all damage done over the last ten years. Seriously, literally all we need to do is these three things, and America will be transformed back into the Constitutional Republic it was always intended to be. It's just that easy."

Christian Toto @HollywoodInToto, "The biggest laugh of the week (yeah, it's early, but it'll be tough to beat)" Quote Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC, "NEW: Cheryl Hines almost makes Bill Maher *SPIT OUT HIS DRINK* after saying she was reading Kamala Harris' book MAHER: "What, did you lose a bet?"

Vicky Taft at PJM, The Flood of Stunning New Evidence That J6 Was a Fedsurrection Can't Be Ignored. Misty at JTN reports the House J6 subcommittee chair requests interviews with Kamala Harris' security detail on DNC pipe bomb, "The FBI has been stumped over the suspect who placed the pipe bomb, who still remains unidentified, even after it dropped several surveillance videos of the suspect who was in a gray hoodie and wore Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers and a mask," and Florida AG launches investigation into JP Morgan Chase for its targeting of Trump Media in FBI probe. "Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes on Sunday tore into Smith and JPMorgan for its efforts to obtain the company's bank records and emphasized that the company did not exist in 2021, when the January 6 riot occurred."  Mark Hemingway @Heminator, There's been no meaningful accountability for major media spreading damaging nonsense about Russia collusion, Biden's mental state, Hunter's laptop, COVID etc. And that is not unrelated to this. Not being able to trust "legitimate" media is a big reason this stuff flourishes." Quote James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki "People underestimate just how many flat-out lies MAGA influencers put out every day. The tweet on the left invented a quote from Karoline Leavitt to claim she said Gavin Newsom is under investigation. She did not. The tweet on the right is completely invented: there was no Appropriations Committee hearing yesterday, John Kennedy did not speak for 47 minutes about Obama, and Obama did not erupt in anger. Both tweets have hundreds of thousands of views, and neither has been Community Noted yet. It's just a nonstop flow of disinformation." Sundance at CTH is pretty happy Lawfare Embeds Quit DOJ Jobs as 30 Subpoenas Sent in FL-Based “Russiagate Conspiracy” Investigation but less happy that Republican Senators Include Provision in Shutdown Bill That DOJ Cannot Subpoena Senators Phone Records – You/Me, No Such Protection. 

Pop Times, Trump Grants Sweeping Pardons to Dozens Targeted After 2020 Election. Capt. Ed, Perfect Timing? Trump Pardons the Kraken on Steroids. Nick Ballasy at JTN, Deputy AG Blanche rejects notion Trump DOJ is weaponized after Biden years: 'Batsh*t crazy' “When I read now that we’re weaponizing, I feel like I’m being gaslit, because we’re doing exactly the opposite.” Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias, "Trump doing January 6, surviving politically, winning in 2024, and then pardoning all the co-conspirators means we are constantly living on the brink of total disaster as a country." Quote Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney, "BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin >>> x.com/EagleEdMartin/…" The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial, "Sounds more like he’s dismantling the remaining abuses of the failed color revolution that tried to tear apart our nation and hold us hostage during the Biden regime." Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Or you know, referring to a man as a “woman,” which your network does every day as a matter of course. You have no moral authority to talk about exact definitions, and the reality is that alternate electors is a valid constitutional theory that was used in the 1960 election." Quote Jake Tapper @jaketapper, "Calling them “alternate electors” is like referring to counterfeit bills as “alternate cash.”"

Ben Whedon at JTN, Supreme Court agrees to hear case over counting ballots that arrive late. "The court agreed to hear the matter after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law in 2024." The Manhattan Contrarian on Federal District Judges Running The Executive Branch: Even Justice Jackson Draws A Line. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Fellow Judge Was 'Uncomfortable' With Judge Dugan's Actions. Misty, Federal judge rules West Virginia National Guard to remain in DC. Ace, Enough! Sixth Circuit Rules That Schools May Not Punish Students for Referring to Other Students By Their Biologically-Correct, Original, Real Pronouns. WUWT reports Federal Judge Clears Trump Administration to Revoke MA Offshore Wind Project Approval. 

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