http://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/02/06/sen-chris-murphy-shows-off-red-bull-can-after-30-hour-filibuster-against-omb-nominee-n2407968
It wasn't very long ago that the Democrats were very publicly, very stridently proclaiming that the filibuster in the U.S. Senate needed to be eliminated. Now, they're staging a 30-hour filibuster ... a highly impotent filibuster for sure, but it's still a filibuster. They're making it hard to keep track.
Sen. Chris Murphy has been very vocal since the election, but only because he knows he and his colleagues are all that stand between democracy and totalitarianism. He posted the other day his promise of "no complicity" and "fierce opposition." It's nice that Murphy has finally moved on from two weeks of jabbering about Elon Musk's "Nazi salute" on Inauguration Day. Now the bogeyman is Russel Vought, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget. You see, Vought was one of many, many contributors to the 900-page Project 2025, which we were assured would grant Trump limitless power.
The Senate Democrats decided to stage a fruitless 30-hour filibuster to delay his confirmation, and Murphy was there on the front lines, taking the 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. shift. He even posted a can of Red Bull energy drink. There was some bull all right.
Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) ~ After taking the 2-5am shift on the Senate floor last night for our overnight protest, got 2 hours of crappy sleep on my office couch and right back at it today.
We don’t rest. Keep going. Democracy on the line.
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1887527818269020418
So, how'd it go?
Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) ~ Just finished 3 hours of speaking on the floor - I took the 2-5am shift in Democrats’ effort to hold the floor all night in protest over OMB nominee Russel Vought.
My voice is shot but I’m going on IG live right now at @senchrismurphy to talk about why tonight is important.
Awww, Chrissie thinks he is being SO courageous!
Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} Nobody cares.
Catturd â„¢ (@catturd2) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT}
Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} No one cares, you’re a loser. November 5th ring a bell?
Florida Dad (@Corona3743) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} I was told we had to eliminate the filibuster to save democracy. Still think so?
Laura Kaye (@NonsenseEnd) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} You realize this changes nothing.
Ah, Chrissie ... fully rested Republicans came into the Senate chamber after you were done with your little charade and stuffed your empty can of Red Bull right up your ass.
Russell Vought confirmed to head government's leading budget office after Dems hold 30-hour protest
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/russell-vought-confirmed-to-head-governments-leading-budget-office-after-dems-hold-30-hour-protest
Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} What a waste of time. Typical Democrat.
Josiah Lippincott (@jlippincott_) ~ {Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT} We had an election and you lost. That was Democracy in action.
There's some mass formation psychosis going on among the Democrats in Congress. Trump is proceeding along with his agenda, and Democrats find themselves pro-government waste and corruption.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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