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"The purest form of love can be found in the relationship between Chris Murphy and a camera"
'Stunning and brave': Dem senator mocked after hyping all-nighter stunt in protest of Trump nominee
Sen Chris Murphy was attempting to block the nomination of Office of Management and Budget head Russ Vought, who was ultimately confirmed
Dem. Sen. Chris Murphy was ripped on social media on Thursday morning over a post where he explained how he stayed up most of the night drinking Red Bull because democracy is "on the line" if Democrats do not stop Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts.
"After taking the 2-5am shift on the Senate floor last night for our overnight protest, got 2 hours of crappy sleep on my office couch and right back at it today," Murphy posted on X. "We don’t rest. Keep going. Democracy on the line."
Murphy, whose post was accompanied by a photo of a Red Bull energy drink and video explaining his cause, was on the Senate floor late Wednesday night attempting to block the confirmation of Office of Management and Budget nominee Russ Vought until the "crisis" of Musk’s DOGE crackdown "passes."
Murphy’s post on social media was widely mocked by conservatives who questioned Murphy’s motives on the Senate floor.
"So brave," Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe sarcastically posted on X.
"Area man has to work overnight one time," New York Post reporter Jon Levine posted on X.
"Stunning and brave," the Trump White House rapid response account posted on X.
"Imagine bragging about doing something that basically every college student has done at some point," conservative journalist John Hasson posted on X.
"Men used to go to war and now they cry about working overnight and post their little sugar free red bulls like they’re battle scars," conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair posted on X.
"The purest form of love can be found in the relationship between Chris Murphy and a camera," former Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X.
"Overwhelmed at your level of Heroism for ‘democracy’ while your constituents in CT have $1300 electric bills," radio host Tony Bruno posted on X. "You're a worthless clown!"
Despite efforts from Murphy and his fellow Democrats, Vought was confirmed as the new White House budget chief late Thursday night.
Democrats Pull All-Nighter But Fail Test [Updated]
Chuck Schumer, who puts cheese on a raw hamburger before grilling it and believes we import most of our beer from Mexico, is perhaps the unlikeliest street fighting man in America. Yet the Democrats are so desperate that they send Schumer into the streets to rouse rabble, inciting violence against Republicans. (Something for which, by the way, he is now coming under investigation.)
But more broadly, just as the Trump administration is in overdrive, doing too much for anyone to follow, the Democrats’ hysterical responses are too numerous to keep track of. Thus, the Democrats stayed up all night in the Senate chamber, doing an old-fashioned filibuster against a Trump nominee, and hardly anyone noticed. I certainly didn’t. But the New York Times was there:
There was no nursery rhyme reciting nor phone book reading. No cots wheeled out for senators to catch naps in between speechifying.
But one by one on Wednesday night and into Thursday, Senate Democrats flocked to the floor for an all-night talkathon to protest the confirmation of Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office and an architect of his ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda.
Amazingly, the Times is still peddling the idiotic Project 2025 narrative. This was a project of the Heritage Foundation, which has been putting out such policy documents since 1980, and was never Trump’s–“his”–policy agenda at all. That said, it contained a lot of great ideas.
… Several senators swigged caffeinated beverages. One arrived straight from a black-tie banquet. The eyes were bleary but the outrage was fierce as Democrats took turns railing against Mr. Vought, who has orchestrated many of Trump’s moves to go around Congress to dismantle and defund the federal government.
It’s a heartwarming image.
They had no hope of stopping Mr. Vought. Consigned to the minority, Democrats lacked the votes to block him or any other Trump nominee so long as Republicans continued to largely hold together in support.
The Times admits that the Democrats’ sleepover in the Senate chamber was futile:
[T]he all-nighter was a chance for members of a party that is under intense pressure from its base to push back more strongly against Mr. Trump to at least try to show they were trying.
It is always fun to see Democrats reduced to impotence. But I confess that I had no idea who Russell T. Vought was, so I looked him up. He is Trump’s nominee as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It is a position for which he is obviously qualified, as he was Deputy Director of OMB from 2018 to early 2020, Acting Director of OMB in 2019, and Director of OMB–the position for which he is now nominated–from March 2020 until the end of the first Trump administration.
It is not clear why the Democrats have it in for Vought, as their opposition has nothing to do with his ability to run the Office of Management and Budget. He is an “out” Christian and a vocal opponent of Critical Race Theory, so I suppose that accounts for the Dems’ hatred, although those views are irrelevant to his service as Director of OMB. In any event, Vought is going to be confirmed. The Democrats can’t stop this or any other Trump nomination, because they are a minority party.
Which is why they are calling for violence in the streets.
UPDATE: Vought has been confirmed, 53-47.