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beb's avatar

If we disqualified all the House members who participated with insurrection from running again....

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Gary. Altogether too much fuckery of the absolutely worst kind going on on that side of the aisle.

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William Donnell's avatar

They'd be better off - and more palatable - if they stuck to what they're good at: cheating and theft. At least that's intelligible, something you can rely on. But no, they ALL think they're special, that they're the FIRST ONES to dredge up these defective ideas and and an Instrument of God. Fuck.

At least with straight up corruption you know where you stand.

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Demodocus's avatar

I don't think they mean "federal employees shouldn't eat at all once their meager savings runs out" when they suggest you fast for Lent. But hooray for today, anyway.

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Ron Spangler's avatar

Boston Globe gave Mike Johnson a cookie for this. If it were a Dem in the Speaker chair the headline would have been "Democrats in Disarray blah blah blah."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/18/nation/speaker-johnsons-job-appears-safe-for-now-despite-shutdown-deal/

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SethTriggs's avatar

I do want to see if Americans *will* punish Republicans for their treachery on abortion and start electing Democratic challengers to these Senate seats, not to mention flipping the House back. Unfortunately because there are more of these Republican-controlled states, the net effect will be a more conservative Senate at the very least.

It is nice to see the nihilists get spanked though.

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Ron Spangler's avatar

The so-called liberal media blames "Congress" for the dysfunction, not the House GOP. "Radicals on both sides of the aisle." Nothing's gonna change if the story keeps being told that way.

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SethTriggs's avatar

That is part of the mechanism by which Murc's Law works and how McCain's law ends up following from it! Because then as the Democrats are the only one actually doing something positive or deterministic, they also get all of the blame. Part of why generally in MSM you get the calls for *Democrats* to compromise.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

It’s almost like republicans aren’t serious about governing.

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Opalescent Riddles's avatar

<< The whole standoff has also led to some hilarious Kubler-Ross-level stages of grief from various conservatives >>

This is simply brilliant, next-level analysis. Really. Fucking brilliant. It's exactly what is going on.

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marxalot's avatar

This is why I keep "gov't shutdown" on my bingo card. It's just as bad as "California wildfires sue for statehood" and I don't want it to happen, but the odds are very high.

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Resource NW's avatar

So far rethugs are actually making progress holding the budget hostage. Fewer IRS agents are the main give away I can see, despite the fact that they are already proving their worth. Still MAGAts must perform.

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Liminal's avatar

>“But the House majority ought to count for something.

The House repos don't seem to be able to count anything, least of all votes.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Do you know how long counting votes takes away from Covenant Eyes?

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Jeff, still got my guitar's avatar

Apparently half the GOP doesn't give a shit what the lunatic caucus and MTG think.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Doesn't matter. They're so terrified of getting death threats from the MAGAts that they march in lockstep.

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Liminal's avatar

You'd think even a maroon like Mike Who? would have realized by now that when they every time they make us repeat this circus, the House speaker eventually sees some reason and agrees. And every time he agrees he gets pummeled from the right and eventually kicked out of the leadership. Why not go for a BIG boot, kick it all the way into next year. Make it the new congress's problem. It would be a bigger hit this time, but he wouldn't have to fight for his life every 6 weeks, a fight he will lose sooner rather than later?

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Phried Ω's avatar

Good idea only it can't be kicked passed Sept. 30. New fiscal year means continuous resolution can kicking indefinitely and just in time for voters to start noticing before the election.

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Liminal's avatar

Yeah, I was wondering about that.

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Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

House vote at 3. Speaker defenestration to follow.

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Khavrinen's avatar

They need to pick a much higher window. Defenestration doesn't seem to be working very well as a deterrent, yet.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Putin better show them again, how it is done!

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

“But the House majority ought to count for something. We should get at least half of what we want, shouldn’t we?”

Sorry, Bob. But with the barest of bare majorities, you are one half of one half of Congress. That means that if your logic actually meant anything - and it doesn't - you get one quarter of what you want. Which, for all I know as I'm not troubling to find out further, may be exactly how it turned out.

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clairence's avatar

I don't get this, as I'd thought the whole point to dividing the appropriations was to enable for longer-term budgeting. Are Republicans not really interested in long-term budgeting? Do they instead like the conflict and drama they keep creating? I think they do.

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SethTriggs's avatar

The chaos is good for hampering the functioning of the federal government, which is the last bulwark against their state-sponsored terrorism. Anything that makes federal government less effective also is good for justifying privatization of vital services.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

They call it "leverage."

Normal people call it "extortion."

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

🎯👍

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