Same song, different verse, a little bit louder and a little bit worse…
The House voted Tuesday to prevent a government shutdown after new Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to reach across the aisle to Democrats when hard-…
It’s basically the same deal McCarthy made except there are 2 different deadlines for different appropriations. So they kicked the can down the road, needed Democrats to help pass it, and included no obvious poison pills. The Chaos Caucus is furious, of course.
Wouldn’t it be nice if they held their breath until they turned blue and then had a stroke? Or resigned in a pique of fury.
The Chaos Caucus thinks “We have about 10 members out of 435. Therefore we get everything we want.” If only the sane Republicans could tell them to pound sand.
In this case the 10 do control the agenda. Dumb, but they did it to themselves. Shame the other 350M of us get to ride along on what the 10 selfish loonies want.
I predict that last sentence will describe much of US politics for the remaining 2-4 decades of my life.
I noticed that, while the vote counts in the two continuing resolution votes were about the same, a considerable number of people changed their votes
No on the first one, Yes on the second:
Aderholt
Babin
Fitzgerald
Harris
Jackson (TX)
Johnson (LA)
Loudermilk
McClain
Moolenaar
Nehls
Pence
Pfluger
Yes on the first one, No on the second:
Alford
(D) Auchincloss
Carl
Finstad
Fischbach
Gallagher
Graves (LA)
Houchin
McClintock
Miller (OH)
Rogers (AL)
Santos
Wittman
Quigley was the only Democrat to vote against both of them.
The GOP only has about a 9 seat majority.
Suppose the Republican majority was 218-217. Would that mean the Republicans would be ruled by the looniest one?
Wondering how many of those who changed their votes heard from their big money donors that they would not be happy if the government shut down again and disrupted their profit-making
But then anyone could be the spoiler making demands. Multiple reps wanting to be kingmaker would start making demands, and possibly not even in the barely unified way the FC is doing now.
Passed the Senate last night 87-11. All the no votes were Republicans except that Democratic Colorado Senator Michael Bennet voted against it for some reason.
For those who may not know, Quigley has made it clear his no vote is because of the lack of funding for Ukraine. He represents a neighborhood in Chicago called Ukrainian Village which has a large number of people of Ukrainian descent.
Not sure if this really true, but it could be the republicans were duped.
Wow. I so hope that’s accurate analysis.
It’s a bunch of bull. Which agencies would be subject to which deadline has been known for days and Defense has been in the second deadline the whole time.
Thats what I was unsure of. Its hard to tell nowadays.
Both of our reps from Montana voted against it. ASSHOLES!
Daily Kos has pulled the story because it’s misinformation. It was never a reliable source, it was an unvetted submission from a random community member.