The party needed all of its members in town for the vote in order for it to pass, but Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) was in South Korea for a conference, putting them a vote down. Leadership knew about his trip for weeks ahead of time.
“I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “We weren’t sure how the votes would come down, but we knew there would be absences.”
“It was a win-win either way. If we won the vote, it was a good win like we won the Canada vote,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Thursday.
The only reason democrats lose is because of democrats. They screw up a good thing more times than I can count.
They do it with such regularity that republicans can now be the boldest of assholes and consistently deliver on their obviously heinous plans.
I think the bicycle/stick meme was based on democrats.
Yup. For decades of watching these dumbass continually snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and abandon every battle the moment it becomes hard.