As Twitchy reported earlier, Sen. Rand Paul had finally finished printing the 2,232 pages of the omnibus spending bill and began tweeting his objections starting with page 207 — $6 billion to the “ever wasteful” National Science Foundation.
Paul made it through 600 pages Thursday before giving up:
I shared 600 pages tonight. I’m done tweeting them for the evening. If they insist on voting, I will vote no because it spends to much and there’s just too little time to read the bill and let everyone know what’s actually in it.
Thanks for sticking with me.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
Uh-oh; if Paul is going to vote no, that might mean a repeat of February, when Paul kept everyone up until the wee hours by stalling a bipartisan budget deal reached by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.
Slate is on it:
Senators terrified that Rand Paul will make them work the weekend: https://t.co/ClR8Ou55t2 pic.twitter.com/eUHTCc0SHR
— Slate (@Slate) March 22, 2018
The American people seem … less terrified.
https://twitter.com/EscapeVelo/status/976926254405431296
Senators terrified that they'll have to do their jobs https://t.co/9aHDdqoIrA
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) March 22, 2018
They're terrified people will have time to read the bill. https://t.co/kIPkHOsNGj
— CavsKermit (@JbkJbk1234) March 22, 2018
imagine working weekends like the rest of us https://t.co/tOx4O2xcjE
— Caleb M. Morrison (@cmichaelmorr) March 22, 2018
Gawd this guy with his holier than thou read the bill crap https://t.co/Y9kNPnj2Yf
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) March 22, 2018
Geez. Can't believe he wants them to actually read the bill. What a jerk. https://t.co/BaQAHYzZtf
— Atop Greene's Hill (@atopgreeneshill) March 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/976923723742752769
The struggle is real. ✊ https://t.co/YMMaytHcnC
— Civic_Thoughts (@Civic_Thoughts) March 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/976918309055680512
Bonus points for the Loverboy reference.
Related:
HOT GARBAGE: Rand Paul reveals INFURIATING details in 'terrible, no good, rotten deficit spending bill' https://t.co/4VFzDSjqp4
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 22, 2018