How long have these clowns had to solve this problem. What makes them thing another three weeks is going to make a difference?
Y’all just keep kicking that can down the road; what could possibly go wrong? I always dreamed of living in a banana republic.
Josh, please stop wasting hard earned money and valuable news space, and dump the AP feed already.
Many news organizations, particularly NYT and WAPO, seem to be serious about making amends for their foolish gullibility and journalistic malpractice last year and in some cases (NYT) back to the start of Clinton/Obama Derangement Syndrome.
But AP happily continues to churn out its consistent false-equivalence drivel day in and day out and uses its historic reach and credibility to foist this crap on the public in publications large and small across the world.
What set me off in this article is the “Democrats scorched a White House meeting” line. (Because I suppose the polite and correct thing to say in response to Trump’s Twitter scorching of them would have been “Thank you sir may I have another?”). But it’s just one example of the consistent tone of every AP article on this administration - that no matter how unprecedented and disgusting and dangerous our lying eyes tell us things are, we have to act like everything is normal and sane and ok. Because we have to be nice and play “fair.”
Josh, if this site really seeks to differentiate itself from that kind of nonsense masquerading as journalism, its time to call BS and pull the plug on the AP.
all good points magician, I urge you to write the same to the mainstream media outlets of your choice - they need to know you’re paying attention
As predicted, there is simply too much on their plates, for Ryan to get anything done. The telling point here is, he knows he can’t pass another CR with just republican votes, yet at the same time, he is outright lying and berating the Democrats he needs to get on board to buy him time.
There is no DACA plan. There is no CHIP plan. Hell, there is no budget plan. Ryan broke every promise in the Ryan-Murray framework this past year and passed no appropriations bill by regular order. So instead he just shoved through a CR that is coming due soon, and he wants ANOTHER extension on that for a few weeks, so he can ask for ANOTHER extension on that for another month.
Now the Dems have very real issues that they want Ryan to deal with, and the HFC is growing increasingly angry with this “kick the can” approach. Ryan is about to squeezed hard from both sides.
Oh yeah…and he has the presidential buffoon making comments that he WANTS a government shutdown.
Ron Fournier really broke the AP. It has never recovered from his tenure…
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/07/22/the-ap-has-a-ron-fournier-problem/144113
House Democrats — whose votes will be needed to pass any omnibus spending bill next year —
Because why, AP? The republicans are in a majority. Unless you report on the fact that several dozen republicans are certifiably insane and holding the speaker’s job hostage, you’re not telling us what we need to know. It’s like the whole obama administration when magically 60 votes had always been needed to pass a bill through the senate.