House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is inching closer to passing his $4.8 trillion grab bag on the House floor today, which would enable the House GOP seize the debt-ceiling as a hostage in negotiations with the Senate and White House.
Whatever any GQP representative says, it’s a guarantee that they will all vote for whatever is put up.
The only statement that matters is the response that’s made when their name is called during the vote.
Believe none of them that say they are unswayable. There’s always a price.
I’d bet that when it’s clear there’s really money on the line, this ploy is over, if not sooner.
And, yes, I’m taking account of Qevin’s character and bathrobe tight hold on his caucus.
The Republican Cult Party is willing to put our entire economy in jeopardy, our money in jeopardy if the Democrats don’t agree to serve up more pain and suffering for the poor and homeless and sick. It’s called the Republican/Christian debt ceiling plan.
As Jesus said “harm the poor and the homeless and the sick to enter the kingdom of heaven”. From The Republican Cult Bible.
What a surprise, the Republican wants everyone to pay a buck a gallon more for premium, ethanol-free gas in our chainsaw, lawnmower and recreational small engines, and in every luxury and sports care that is manufacturer-specified to run on premium.
anyone else think that McCarthy’s debt ceiling negotiation is like the kidnappers bargaining for the ransom of Red Chief* 
“…which would enable the House GOP seize the debt-ceiling as a hostage in negotiations with the Senate and White House.”
No it won’t.
Red Chief, but you’re correct on everything else.
Wasn’t it 'Red Chief"?
So “more money for farmers and less money for the poor and disabled” is the cause the GOP wants to destroy the US economy on?
Don’t forget rolling back Biden’s environmental regulations and climate mitigation policies, plus Drill Baby Drill. You know that will be in the final bill, and Manchin will support it.
They’ll get their stupid votes, and frankly the more drama the more it will read - meaning media will inject tons of virtual ink into cyberspace - as meaning something. Might as well pass it today, and move on to the next stage.
Thank goodness I’ll be out of pocket for most of the next two weeks, while the “Why won’t Biden do something to head off financial ruin?” banners spin endlessly. I’m sure Sinemanchin will be on hand to chime in about the failure of leadership, hedging their bets and hoisting the cards they hold, particularly with Feinstein sidelined.
Iceberg ahead, everyone. There’s been no avoiding it since November.
I know it’s a Keystone Kops kinda day in kevin’s House.
Am I picking up a vibe that says it’s already over for kev?
I don’t want to drop my guard with these death-eaters.
Van Orden Says Ethanol Changes ‘Brought Him Along’’
I think the phrase you are looking for is “bought him” not “brought him”
The mighty mouse is coming after DeSatan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/disney-desantis-board-florida.html
Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, has characterized Mr. DeSantis as “anti-business” and “anti-Florida” for his actions. Mr. Iger has also signaled that future investment in Disney World could be at risk if the governor continued to use Disney as a political punching bag; the company has earmarked more than $17 billion in spending at the resort over the next decade, growth that would create an estimated 13,000 jobs at the company.
Disney paid and collected a total of $1.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2022, according to company disclosures.
Not quite. The cause is political domination by the wealthy. Farmers are merely today’s gossamer-thin pretext.
Trumps first campaign ad DeSantis owes it to me to drop out
Trump: DeSantis owes it to me to drop out – HotAir
The Trump campaign is up on TV with this 60-second spot. Airing nationally
— Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) April 26, 2023
This is the first TV ad spending of the 2024 cycle from @TeamTrump pic.twitter.com/UzGxcm2w0d
As JM suggests, the House GOP caucus may be devolving into the “Punch Ourselves Repeatedly in the Face” caucus. “Let’s bundle together all of our extremely unpopular policies in one package, especially the ones where we reach in and take money out of the pockets of ordinary people, and then brag about it publicly as loudly as we can.”
A couple of weeks ago nobody outside Nashville had ever heard of the Justins, Pearson and Jones. Then the dipshit Tenn GOPers, with their enormous supermajority, decided to make the two of them nationally famous for calling out the GOP’s knuckle-dragging racism. The Montana GOP majority may be competing to outdo their Tenn fellow knuckle-draggers. Who had ever heard of Zooey Zephyr (D-Missoula) telling the GOPers they had “blood on their hands” because of their anti-trans policies? Well, if the MT GOP has anything to say about it, everybody in the country will know all about it, just as soon as the Rs censure her.
Hoping for a GOP political death spiral.
Well put.
The fact is the only coherent demand in the Republican proposal or anything they do on any issue and especially the debt ceiling is for Joe Biden and Democrats to immediately surrender all policy and power to Republicans. Other than total surrender and perhaps putting Democrats and Biden on trial of treason and anything else they can think of, McCarthy and Republicans have no serious demands for raising the debt ceiling and everyone knows it.
That is the bill will pass because this is not about policy but power and playing the media.
As the article says, Republicans need to put something on the table, regardless of poisonous or otherwise indigestible it is to the American economy, so they can claim Biden is the villain for refusing to negotiate.
More than anything, the House GOP wants to destroy Biden and any harm to America or Americans is justifiable collateral damage.