The Post reports that most GOP Senators are digging in. Curiously, they all seem to have the same excuse:
“I’m not contemplating anything that the president hasn’t indicated he would sign,” said Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm for 2020. Asked about a compromise bill, Young repeated himself, word for word.
On the prospects of a wall-free funding bill, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) put it this way: “The president won’t sign it. Why would we work on it?”
“I’m ready to vote for anything that the president agrees to sign,” added Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), the third-ranking Senate Republican. “And once we get that, I’m a ‘yes’ vote.”
Kennedy, Rubio, Ernst, Cornyn: All offered variations on the same theme. Would that they carried pocket copies of the Constitution! Fortunately, Archives.gov is functioning, even though it’s not being maintained during the shutdown. Here, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate GOP, is the salient section:
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it,with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.
See, you don’t need his signature. You just need the numbers. Maybe if journalists started asking you if you would be willing to override a veto, we’d get somewhere. [Edit: At a minimum, we’d expose you as the pompous, lying asses that you are.]