Wait. Der Dotard recently declared that he doesn't need the Dems to pass his budget. What happened? What happened were Senate rules that the GOP, despite their fawning compliance with everything else their fat orange leader has told them to do so far, will not change. So long as 60 votes are needed, the Dems have a say. Chuck Schumer is probably the wrong person to negotiate with the GOPers, because Chuck (sadly) still thinks this is the 1980's, when some civility was the order of the day in the Senate, and in dealings with the president. What is needed at this time is talk like that from Marsellus Wallace:
"I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' -------, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."
Meanwhile this weeks auction of leases for coal mining in Montana was a disaster, resulting in the cancellation of lease sales in Wyoming. This result begs the question of why doesn't anyone want to mine for beautiful clean coal? Asking for a badly dressed fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat ...