House Republicans Called Emergency Meeting On Cheese As Shutdown Approached

[packman]

Source: Huffington Post

As the federal government was heading for a shutdown Friday night, House Republicans called an emergency meeting.

Plot twist: it was about cheese.

During her broadcast that evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow appeared astonished while reporting on the gathering, which was arranged so that lawmakers could discuss the Curd Act, a proposal to allow some cheeses to be advertised as “natural” despite having artificial ingredients

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) was clearly irked, feeling the timing was pretty inconvenient.

“This is an emergency meeting that we’re having here and I’ve seen some surreal things around this place, but this is really something,” McGovern said. “Vital parts of our government are about to shut down in just a few hours, and the Republicans have called an emergency meeting on cheese.”



Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shutdown-cheese_us_5c1e1dd9e4b08aaf7a892887

[SummerSnow]

1. What a cheesy thing to do

[Beakybird]

2. What about the real Kurds?

[calimary]

4. No whey.

sorry.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Groooooooaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn!

[calimary]

14. .

[keithbvadu2]

16. One that's so bad it's worth repeating while bragging how bad it is.

[OhNo-Really]

17. Hilarious Calimary. Spit coffee 😂😂😂

Had to leave lurking to compliment your witty response in light of.... well, ya know.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

🎄

[DRoseDARs]

35. Cheesus Christ, gouda you refrain from the puns?

Sorry, not sorry.

[jpak]

3. They "Cut the Cheese" while the shutdown loomed

[OhNo-Really]

18. Old farts emergency meeting

and I'm old so no ageism here.

[trusty elf]

30. ....

[Deb]

5. Vital parts close down over cheese

I've heard of that. Time to clean house.

[Major Nikon]

11. Pete Sessions is already on the way out the door

He lost to Colin Allred(D). On his way out he's trying to give a parting gift to Big Dairy®(not small businesses) who lobbied him extensively.

[Codifer]

6. They probably thought that it was Cheeses of Nazareth.

[OhNo-Really]

19. 😂👍😂

[Xipe Totec]

7. Blessed are the cheese makers. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. ....for they shall be called the children of Kraft Foods.

(excerpt from the Republican Bible)........

....... ........

[Xipe Totec]

33. ...

[KY_EnviroGuy]

37. +1. Love that movie.

Appropriate for this time of year.

Everyone needs to go to Walmart and pay penance to Republican Jesus.....

[Gore1FL]

8. Before the context of the article I just assumed "Cheese" meant "Trump."

The article sort of works for both for a while.

[smb]

9. No, If It Was About Trump...

...it would have been called "The Turd Act".

[blugbox]

32. Hahahaaaaa

This one got me good!

[flibbitygiblets]

21. As in, Government Cheese Goebbels...

As the Ferret often refers to him

[JudyM]

10. As usual, they bleu it rennet's necessary to get something done.

[DesertRat]

12. I had to check to make sure this wasn't Borowitz or the Onion

[Nitram]

15. Cheese Whiz! Can't they do nothing right? Morans!

[adVance democracy]

20. Definitely not a gouda use of Congressional time and energy

Forgive me!

[LiberalFighter]

22. They were trying to say it was important for small businesses.

Well I have a thing to say about that. Fuck THOSE small businesses that are pushing it. We don't need them if that is what they want.

[edhopper]

23. Follow the money

[dlk]

24. Good Riddance to Pete Sessions - Glad He Was Voted Out of Office!

Tone-deaf is an understatement when government workers are deprived of paychecks just prior to arguably the biggest holiday of the year and all Sessions can obsess about is a bill to protect chemical additives in "natural" cheese. Ideally, there should be a statute that provides when the government shuts down, Congress and the White House forego their paychecks for the duration. It's legislative malpractice and borderline criminal to let them get away with depriving hundreds of thousands of workers of much-needed paychecks, while they can party for the holidays, unscathed.

[empedocles]

26. For the group photo, say, [you guessed it], . . . 'SAY CHEESE'.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. They will go to any extreme to support business interests.....

but not an extra penny for basic food support or health care for everyday Americans.

They're appropriately celebrating the birthday of Republican Jesus........

[dameatball]

28. To Trump's base, any way to poke the government in the eye is a good thing. Even when it turns

around and bites them in the ass.

[uppityperson]

29. Maybe they are confusing Curd with Kurd?

[KT2000]

31. Rachel had fun with it

and she really had fun with it. The R rep started talking about the wall and the Dem rep came at him with "cheese wall."

[marble falls]

34. Its good to know the GOP has some interests that are harmless to the nation ...

as a whole, though I'm sure there's an out of work curd grader somewhere who will dispute that.
The timing is awkward as was the Texas Rep chairing the meeting trying to gin up some dunder over any questioning of the issue and the timing on Rachel last night. They didn't turn off the shot until he clammed up. We need to quit giving them soundbite opportunities, we need to show them flat footed and blathering once they get past the 10 sec script. Ask hard questions and be prepared to answer them ourselves.

cheetolini will be gone bye/at 2020. We'd better be thinking about getting back as much Senate as possible. And there's even more Republican seats coming up in 2022. This is about more than ridding cheetolini, its about clearing out those who enabled him and abetted him.

Next 10 years is tough domestically and internationally. But we can do it. We have an amazing amount of talent in the wings. Lets get all of them in office. I don't know of anyone from any list of 10 candidates for POTUS by any of us on DU that couldn't beat cheetolini and/or Pence. We need to be concentrating on all other state and federal offices as hard as possible. In 2024 we could be facing Mitt Romney. A solidly Democratic Congress would be very helpful.

[yellowcanine]

36. Wisconsin, home state of Paul Ryan produces a lot of cheese.

Coincidence? I think not.

[Marcuse]

42. Sore losers were thrashed by Wisconsin Democrats.

[Cha]

38. Nothing fucking "natural" about

Artificial.. stupids.

[Vinca]

39. Must have something to do with Don mistaking Kurds for curds. LOL.

How is it possible to have natural artificial ingredients??

[dembotoz]

40. velvetta sold at whole foods? is there no end to the madness

[dogknob]

41. More "owning the libs"

futility, circular arguments, flagrant disregard for logic and reason.

When are we going to wise up to this shit? They do it on purpose. Even their base are hip to it. That cop who couldn't wait to beat up protesters is on tape saying "It's gonna get IGNORANT tonight!" People tricking out their cars to spew black smoke. Shooting and decapitating seals in Washington state.

It is all just about "owning" us.