(01-24-2019, 02:56 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(01-24-2019, 01:56 PM)mikesez Wrote: The Seante never actually passed a bill funding the government.  McConnell brought a bill that Trump liked to the floor but it failed.  McConnell's stance has been he won't bring a bill unless the President supports that bill.  If you want to call someone useless or derelict in their duty, I think that's your guy right there, McConnell.  Pelosi and Ryan before her were both able to pass spending bills.  
The founders would have just let the President be the only person to bring bills to the Senate if they wanted the Senate to behave the way McConnell's running it now.
Then again, if Trump was making realistic demands in the first place, maybe it would be OK for McConnell to follow him this way, like a dog on a leash

You sure about that? I bet I can find a Bill sitting in Differences right now that passed both Chambers.

In any case, the House can politically posture and pass as many partial bills as it wants but when it doesn't include full appropriations or even a CR, then what is the point? Funding the DHS is an unrealistic demand?

It goes both ways, dude. The House won't consider bills it doesn't like, and the Senate won't consider bills it doesn't like. Trump's commerce secretary has suggested that government employees should get a loan--a loan that charges interest--to hold them over while their boss of bosses refuses to take any steps that would result in paying them. The man responsible for the commercial/retail side of banking in the United States just told federal workers to go get payday loans.

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