While the government is shut down, this is what the Senate is working on today:

[demmiblue]

Thursday: #Senate continues consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of #S109, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, and votes on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at ~4:30 p.m.

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[dalton99a]

1. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211682982

[FSogol]

4. Great cartoon. Make it an original thread. n/t

[mr_lebowski]

7. AND it's the very oligarch that Manafort offered 'private briefings' to about Trump campaign

AND one that he owed $14M to as well. Oleg Deripaska, of course.

Meanwhile he's facing massive time and in major trouble for not cooperating with the FBI in the Russia investigation.

Nice of the Senate to take a load off Manafort's mind by coming through with a hundreds of million$ windfall for Deripaska ... Oleg will probably cut him some slack on the $14M now ...

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Their base must be heading for the exits!

Quick, someone put a wedge (issue) under the door!

[k8conant]

3. I saw that earlier today and it sucks!

[DetlefK]

5. Continue consideration of the motion to proceed with the consideration of a bill.

Damn! I would maybe last a week as a politician!

This is psycho!

[MoonRiver]

6. Those thugs have two years to shove their draconian policies down our throats.

After that they are going down, down, down.

[2naSalit]

9. I think something big

and shocking is about to take place, most of it by mid summer and then some more later in this year but I think we will be rid of many of them, and certainly them being in power, sooner than that.

[MoonRiver]

10. Here's to hoping you are correct...

[2naSalit]

12. Right now it's just a feeling...

but one like those which turned out to actually take place so I'm going on that for present time. We have that full moon, total eclipse coming up Sunday evening so... It's a biggie and I'm expecting a veritable closet of shoes to cascade from the ethers. I can see a tiny bit of light at the end of this sewer pipe... it's what will help me remain hopeful during the darkest hours to come.

We will not be the same when this is over, regardless of who wins this fight. We have to make major changes in our social contract in order to move forward as a nation or we will certainly cease to exist as America.

[bdamomma]

11. perhaps

Don Jr. and Jared getting indictments how sweet would that be?

[2naSalit]

13. Something that big...

could be something else but whatever it is, it better be enough to wake everyone the F* up and fast.
Could be the kids getting indicted and I think Miller needs to be perp-walked asap since he is the obvious wormtongue.

I suspect we will be seeing some stepped up action come next week. This set of conditions cannot stand.

We need to remove the whole cabal from the executive first, immediately. Then we can clean out the other two branches. The sooner this all takes place the better. I think some of it is going to be really messy and painful but the change must come or we die as a nation.

[bdamomma]

14. Not that I'm banking wholly

on Mueller and his report, but Mueller is getting the underlings then go after the head of serpent.

[2naSalit]

16. I'm sure you're right about that.

What I'm saying is that we need a different POTUS now because this one is like that pilot who nose-dived an airliner into the ocean or a mountain or whatever it was. This is the fucker who locked the cabin door and killed everybody, *45 is like that. He has to go as soon as we can possibly get rid of him. And what our Speaker is doing is needling him to insanity and that will accelerate as she keeps nailing him on a daily basis. He is sure to melt down completely as he realizes he can't do anything about her and her power.

I don't know all the answers here and some of my ideas are not within the confines of the Constitution but neither are our adversary's. The change is coming and it won't be long now.

We can't put all our eggs in one basket regarding the SC, he's the investigator, the GJs will issue indictments. I expect a pile of them and soon, I'm hoping next week and surely by the 20th of Feb (for some reason that date sticks in my head). I expect some activity in other parts of the government which will catapult the process to a resolution earlier than we are being told to expect.

[GoCubsGo]

15. I think some of the shit will hit the fan well before this summer.

You can tell just by the way they have been behaving the past few days, and I don't think it all has to do with the government shut-down. I have heard it suggested that this latest trotting out of Guilliani is a set up for throwing Don, Jr. under the bus. If that actually happens, the whole Jenga tower is going to take a tumble. I really hope we'll get to find out exactly how dirty is my Senator, Comrade Graham.

[2naSalit]

17. Oh, I agree.

I am guessing that in the next ten days... much will be happening, wear your plastic poncho and try not to get whiplash!

[GoCubsGo]

18. I'm hoping some of it comes as soon as tomorrow's Friday Night News Dump.

I have my plastic poncho ready. I've stocked up on pop corn, too.

[2naSalit]

19. Yes...

the fireworks should start tomorrow, may be earlier in the day but the big kahuna is the eclipse Sunday night, after that, I'm going to be near a barricade as well.

[spanone]

8. Rust Never Sleeps.

[ck4829]

20. A single senator can shut this down, right?