The clock is ticking. We’re less than 11 days away before the government funding lapses. Appropriations bills continue to flounder in the House. And the chaos and dysfunction of House Republicans, as many lawmakers — both Democrat and Republican — describe it, is leading the country directly to a now-almost certain shutdown.
Tick tock, and I don’t get the thrall these politicians have with the game.
It will be a Republican shutdown but not sure how much it will hurt them in November 2024.
I know it’s fun to paint mainstream Repubs with the MAGA brush, but if that stops working, I’d start floating the line that there are two separate parties on the right, and asking who’s in the real Republican Party.
Reveling? I just read the article. I didn’t see any reveling. I read worry and concern and frustration.
It’s always a Republican shutdown and as Mitch McConnel said, it never helps. What’s that saying about expecting something different but doing the same thing?
Slow day at work so able to watch live. What a display - the Rs under Gym come off poorly - like they aren’t or haven’t paid attention to each other’s line of questioning, repeating the same crap over and over, causing Garland to repeat the same answer. Dems are using their time to point out the waste of time this is, when there are far more pressing issues that matter to the American people (i.e. avoiding an unnecessary gov shutdown). This time and energy Rs are putting into Hunter and Biden’s impeachment (over nothing) is going to bite them in the ass in the end. Good lord, now they’re moving onto guns. WTAF?
I don’t think that’s unfair – clearly, there are GQPers who aren’t onboard with the tea partiers’ enthusiasm for banging the whole thing into a wall at high speed.
I suspect the feared electoral consequences are as much of what keeps that party together as they are what wedges it apart on issues like passing government funding for next year.
The most salient thing McConnell said was that he has never seen a shutdown result in any policy change or any other positive outcome for Republicans:
"They never have produced a policy change and they’ve always been a loser for Republicans politically,”
You need to be an adrenaline junky and love to hear your own voice. I’m speaking about Republicans.
I thought that headline was a bit hyperbolic as well. But even if they aren’t reveling in public, I’m sure they are enjoying the Republican meltdown privately, even while genuinely concerned for the cost of their antics.
This is what happens when people elect a House with a majority from Monty Python’s Silly Party.
Chaos going no where. Sounds like the usual GOPp to me.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did what Matt Gaetz does best on Wednesday, plunging a House Judiciary Committee hearing into chaos by relentlessly steamrolling Attorney General Merrick Garland with questions curated from right-wing media. After mocking Garland for expressing concern about North Korea while peppering him with allegations about China, bribes, and President Joe Biden, Gaetz posed a conspiratorial questionabout the Capitol riots. “So did the FBI lose count of the number of paid informants on Jan. 6?” Gaetz wondered, only for Garland to attempt to address the Republican’s prior claims. “I only get five minutes. You’ve already—sort of, I think—screwed the pooch on China. On Jan. 6, did you lose count of the number of federal assets?” Gaetz shot back, leading ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to note the far-right congressman’s time had expired. Given a final chance to respond, Garland commented about China, resulting in Gaetz again ridiculing the attorney general for not answering his Jan. 6 question. Erupting in outrage, the committee’s Democrats fumed that the Trump-boosting lawmaker was “badgering the witness.”
Please accept my humble gratitude for your sacrifice. You are a Saint!
I believe that the GOP has only a 2-3 seat majority at this time.
Can a DEMOCRAT put forward a motion to vacate or is it just the GOP?
I’d prefer to see Quevin squirm.
My understanding is the rules permit anyone in the House to create a motion to vacate, but the Dems are more interested in trying to get things passed than political games here. Any actual attempt to force McCarthy to vacate the Speaker’s chair would grind all attempts at progress on passing the spending to a halt and either result in his immediate reinstatement (until the next vote), or it would drag on through another grueling 15+ round vote-a-rama with no resolution other than McCarthy taking the gavel (it seems extremely unlikely to me that any GOP members would defect to Jeffries).
Wouldn’t it be great if we got a Dem house if various GOP congressmen who were at the Willard Hotel were arrested for ‘fomenting insurrection’ because THEN they lose their votes until they are acquitted.
Oh I would love that.
Indeed, it’s not like they were capering while Rome burned.
OT. We started to listen to the Garland hearing this morning. We got about three minutes into Jordan’s opening remarks then couldn’t take it any longer. His voice is set at permanent whine. It’s way past annoying.