Why do they call him the ‘45th’ speaker?
Do they?
I haven’t personally seen it but there are plenty of things I don’t notice.
Total WAG but perhaps a way of associating him with Trump (45th POTUS), since Johnson is the 56th SotH
Geez, man, stop making them all confuzzled with facts!
Its making the rounds on the nutbar circuit - but I see it was part of his introduction here -
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Steve Scalise, eh? As a former candidate for the position and long-time member of the House, you’d think he’d know better.
But yeah, less of a WAG and now more of a reasonable G is they’ve all got ‘45’ on the brain now and it will never leave. Won’t go so far as to say it’s a deliberate slip but it would also not be shocking if it were
That’s what I thought as well, either a ‘slip’ or just plain stupidity - hard to tell with this lot.
I’ve read that the brave new speaker is willing to fund Israel, alone, not Ukraine, if only everything that is spent funding Israel is taken away from funding the IRS.
I thought he was in favor of helping Ukraine, it’s loss would encourage the Chinese to attach Taiwan.
Maybe they meant “45th’s Speaker”, referring to Trump?
I’m on my phone, and am technologically impaired.
Did this link work?
Link works fine for me.
What a bunch of game-playing assholes.
This is new?
No. But sometimes I just have to say it again.
Cutting funding from the IRS is the dumbest way to “save” money. How that party got a reputation for being fiscally responsible is beyond me – hasn’t been true since the 80s at the latest.
Regarding the import of this new Speaker, it’s the US taking one more step towards a Christian Dominion. This guy is a religious nutball and has a ton of power.
“Mouthpiece…?”
Maybe they meant the 45th Speaker of the 118th Congress (which it looked for a little while like we might be getting).
Yeah. But politically, this is a smart move. One of the primary goals of any Speaker is to force votes that unify your caucus while dividing the other party’s. Almost every Republican can get on board with increasing aid to Israel and slashing funding to the IRS. It’s a much tougher vote for Democrats – vote no and risk being labelled as against Israel, vote yes and undermine one of the Administration’s important achievements in revitalizing the IRS.
Of course, the House plan will be DOA in the Senate, but it doesn’t help that Schumer seems to be having trouble pulling together the Senate’s aid package to include Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and whatever else he has to stuff into it to get the votes. He needs to find nine Republican votes, and it’s apparently proving tougher than expected even though support for Ukraine is higher in the Senate.
This will be a piece of cake vote for Democrats because the proposition is glaringly ludicrous.
Democrats already folded once on this – the debt ceiling extension deal repealed $20 billion of the $80 billion that had been previously approved to modernize the IRS. One reason why the funding is so vulnerable is because Democrats and the Administration have been terrible at messaging why the additional IRS funding is a good thing.
Well the rich tax cheats that own most of the media don’t want that messaging going out. So there’s that…