Originally published at: No End in Sight to DHS Shutdown After House Refuses to Get Behind Senate Deal - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Department of Homeland Security-specific government shutdown is now the longest in history after House Republicans on Friday refused to get behind the Senate-passed bipartisan package that would have restored funding to all of DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the Republican…
Soooo…. Waiting Til Tuesday ? Gotta wonder about that…..
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Legally dubious, likely not to fix anything, and, I am guessing, may make things worse with the presence of ICE while Republicans leave for vacation.
Just another day in a Republican controlled government. Heck-of-a-job there GOP.
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the house hasn’t refused the Senate deal. Mike Johnson has refused to bring it to the floor.
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I gotta think that Micro Johnson is planning to steal the midterms for the crook.
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[Republicans] effectively made sure the shutdown will continue for the foreseeable future.
“Debt? What debt?”
–House Republicans
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And now it’s obvious that the Dems have little to no responsibility for any of this since Mikey is the one that brought the deal to a halt.
Behind some members’ backs? Receipts, or it didn’t happen.
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The US is sending in Special Forces, which raises a number of possible narratives. The first is a super-soldier who can use his wits to kill anything and complete the mission as in Arnold Schwarzenegger as “Dutch” in the first Predator movie. Nobody was rooting for the predator in that film. Stanley Kubrick, who would be 98 this month, would have likely reversed the view to that of the people confronting the Special Forces, supposedly the top predator among global militaries (and Hegseth will back me up on this). The US Special Forces, as top predator, creates prestige for those that can hunt and take one down. Iran has its own special forces as do its allies Russia and China. No doubt all these countries realize this war presents a rare opportunity to test the mettle of each other’s best soldiers without declaring war on each other. And there is a testing of approaches. One side could rely on overwhelming force, while the other might use hybrid war and disruptive defensive tactics to throw off the enemy.
In any case, war movies usually ignore the clean-up part afterward (say the mess created in Guns of Navarone or any James Bond movie). After WWII, many of the institutions the US has decoupled from were created precisely to prevent such messes. When new messes came along, other institutions were bolstered to smooth trade or movement, harmonize rules and prevent beggar-thy-neighbor policies. Trump seems to think the Iranians, like a mortally wounded predator, will just blow themselves up, and he can chopper back to the golf course. In reality, no matter how this war goes, we are looking at trillions in clean-up costs and inadequate institutions to mitigate those costs.
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Tiny Johnson is a paragon of mediocrity who gets a warm feeling from sucking up to the fucktarded orange shitgibbon. His dark suit makes the wet spot less noticeable.
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Sometimes I can’t control my thoughts either. S’OK.
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Dobby The House Speaker can only do what his master tells him.
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Another reason TSA needs to be eliminated and reconstituted: its an open and systemic security risk to employ agents so close to financial ruin.
I understand things are hard for everyone right now, but a security guard that is one paycheck from losing their home is a VERY EASY target for bribery or other corruption.
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Mike Johnson makes Kevin McCarthy look like a skillful Speaker of the House! Witness, the incredible, shrinking Speakership! Weenie Mike, go, and never darken our towels again!!
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File under “other corruption”
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And the predictable market manipulation arrives right on schedule…
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I thank Dog for President Trump and the daily opportunities he provides to make money shorting the market.
My hobby account has doubled in the last month thanks to the GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER!
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As a type one diabetic who has been at the mercy of people who don’t understand or care, I want somebody to be facing SERIOUS JAIL TIME for this. This is also why I will die fighting any attempts to take me into federal custody. I am armed to the teeth for this eventuality.
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Got the Trump-in-my-head disease. Read “beggar-thy-neighbor” as bugger-thy-neighbor.
Segueing to the Biggest Dick chest beating warring, Iran has a real, experience military, battling with Iraq for 6-8 years. American Special Ops or 3,000 Marines won’t mean shit. I think the Marines are coming from Japan, which will take about a month. Let’s hope TACO comes and we put the sabers away. Could Trump live with the LOSER label? Like you say, the mess will be in trillions. Maybe even like in Apocalypto. How cool would that be!
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Is anybody surprised???