The funny thing is that they're getting indigestion from the moderate republicans now. Duarte won my district by 200 votes, and he knows it, so he's been pretty moderate for the most part. There's a few other deeply threatened republicans that are refusing to play ball with the freedom caucus, and I'm here for it.
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yawn Oh . . uh, shocked! Yes, shocked we are that the government will shut down due to republiQan malcompetence YET AGAIN. The party that hates government was elected to government and is now shutting down government.
I mean, on one hand, the system works! On the other hand, the only way we're in this scenario for the 50th time is that corporate news has utterly failed at every level. Uh, also shocking.
Technically speaking, they love government, just not the kind where they have to compromise with anyone or do anything purposefully good for the common people.
I would also love a free check for doing noting but being a shithead.
Yeah, this happens literally every few months. There seriously can't be any people still surprised by this. It's literally just a regular occurrence of the US government these days.
The hard liners are setting up another January 6. "Where we go one we go all."
And they call the rest of us sheep!
Edit: Damn you autocorrect!
This guy looks like he'd struggle to control a fidget spinner ..
Sadly this is no longer a problem that can be fixed in the House. As long as republicans are scared of getting primaried by MAGA voters they’ll constantly tiptoe around what those 10% keep spewing. If they knew their seats were safe, you would have seen more of a bipartisan “fuck you” to the hardliners.
Hopefully there would have been some change after this months elections, but really one of the few ways I see left is if the democrats try to work with enough republicans who don’t have to worry about maga primaries to form a majority coalition.
4 days to go and Republicans are lacking 6 votes. Speaker has to notify of vote 72 hours in advance
This is the best summary I could come up with:
New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
A funding deadline of Friday night means Washington again faces a wild ride of shutdown brinkmanship caused by extreme GOP lawmakers who either cannot or don’t want to help run the country.
It has already wasted every week of the House majority party’s term since the summer and threatens to further weaken the key swing-district members critical to the GOP’s hopes of keeping the gavel in next year’s election.
(Johnson did pass $14.3 billion in aid for the Jewish state but offset the funding with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service to appease hardline conservatives, making it a futile gesture the Senate won’t accept.)
Facing alarming poll numbers — including a survey last week showing Trump beating him in key swing states — Biden is keen on the comparison to the ex-president’s extremism that helped him win the 2020 election.
Trump spent the weekend making Biden’s point for him, vowing in language resonant of demagogic autocrats to root out “radical left thugs that live like vermin” if he wins a second term and targeting special counsel Jack Smith and his family.
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Putting fresh lead paint on a turd doesn't change it's flavor for the better.
Lead actually does taste sweet. Pretty unfortunate that a sweet tasting thing is poisonous. Maybe a better metaphor is irradiated paint on a turd. Kills the bacteria in the GOP turd so as to nominally make eating it less sickening, but the truth is that the irradiated rightist paint is quite a lot more cancerous in the end and there are election antibiotics to get rid of pathogenic GOP bacteria contracted from the turd but if the rightist cancer metastasizes then you’re too far gone for treatment because you’ve lost your democracy.
The tortured screams of this poor abused metaphor will continue to haunt me.