The less-insane wing of the republican party knows that a shutdown just makes the republicans look even more inept
Unfortunately the maga part doesn't care
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less-insane wing
Are there any left in that wing? Last I saw they all were drunk as fuck on the Kool-aid.
They like to dress up and cosplay as “less-insane” from time to time but make no mistake there is no Republican Party anymore. It’s MAGA rot all the way down to the core.
McCarthy needs to talk to the house Dems to override the maga wing. He has the votes to bypass the asshole wing of the party, he just has to have the stones to go against the trump wing to get the job done.
But this is McCarthy we're talking about, so competently doing his job isn't even on the list of possibilities. He'd be unable to pour piss out of a boot unless the maga wing told him to check the heel for instructions.
Part of his concessions when he was gathering votes to become speaker was that any member of his caucus could trigger a vote to boot him. So if he did try to work with dems, we'd get yet another round of speaker voting. I just wish there were a handful of gop reps who'd cross the aisle and vote for a dem speaker.
If he were to work with the Dems on real issues, I would bet they'd be willing to vote for him for speaker when maga tried that. Especially if it pissed off the maga wing and ripped away some of the hold the crazy fucks have over the Republican party.
Unfortunately? It's a good thing they're letting everyone else know how inept they are. The only better thing would be for them to, ya know, not be conservatives.
I’m not so sure. I’m actually worried that Republicans gain politically from a shut down. I am not at all confident that voters will blame the GOP instead of “both sides” or “Biden because it’s ultimately the fault of the leader”.
Trump's been indicted like a hundred and fifty seven times, Republicans got nothing else, the government WILL be shutdown, 100% absolfuckinlutely guaranteed
Indicted four times, hundreds of felony charges I think.
Fitch called it a month ago. You can't have a credit rating if you can't agree to pay the bills.
Half of them probably have early onset dementia and think it's the 80s. WTF is Mitch still doing working, he should be in 24/7 care.
Honestly, I think he probably would be if Trump weren't ever elected. Say what you will about the horrible, selfish, greedy goblin, but I think he does care about the future (power) of the party. He doesn't want to see it go down and his legacy ruined. I don't think he's been successful at reigning things in, but I do think he's trying.
Idiots. I am so tired of this.
Didn't we just do this a few months ago?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senate Republicans are signaling that they’re in no mood to back conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus who are demanding major concessions from Democrats in the annual spending bills, raising the odds of a government shutdown this fall.
Senate Republicans stood firmly behind Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year when he demanded spending cuts and other reforms in exchange for raising the nation’s debt limit.
He said Senate Republican leaders likely view some of the bold demands being pushed by the House Freedom Caucus that have no chance of becoming law as “fundamentally ridiculous.”
“The leverage doesn’t exist” to substantially reduce the top-line spending number Biden and McCarthy agreed to earlier this year, or to add a House-passed border security bill or to crack down on the Department of Justice for prosecuting former President Trump, Cleary said.
from adding language to the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill requiring the Supreme Court to adopt a judicial code of conduct, something that would have been a nonstarter with Republicans.
Senate Republicans are worried that adding policy riders that are nonstarters with Democrats to the spending bills will only delay them, leading to a backlog of legislation in December.
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Only 11 congressional working days to straighten this out.