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.
If I were as consistently incompetent at my job as they are, I’d be permanently unemployed. At this point I’m ready for the Martian ambassador to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress.
Rule of thumb,
the better paid a job is, the less work is needed and less professionalism is expected.
A minimum wage worker can get seriously fucked over a tiny mistake, but a senator can test positive for cocaine after being found out of grooming minors and literally sleeping in their jobs and get applauded for how amazing they are.
Wait, you’re saying that, say, lawyer or doctor or engineer requires less work and professionalism than a walmart warehouse or McDonald’s fry cook?
Google unhelpful walrus learn the definition, then come back here and delete your comment. You absolute numpty
This is a pretty lazy, crappy comment. Senators aren’t even paid that much in the scheme of things - typically not more (or much more) than the professions I mentioned.
They might end up making a LOT more, but that’s usually bribes and corruption, which is a pretty different thing.