Conference fails to approve procedural motion to take up defense spending bill as government shutdown looms
The House Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, was dealt his second humiliating defeat of the week on Thursday, when his conference again failed to approve a procedural motion as members continued to clash over government spending levels with just days left to avert a federal shutdown.
With no clear path forward in Republicans’ negotiations, the House concluded its work on Thursday without any stated plan to reconvene on Friday.
“Discussions related to [fiscal year 2024] appropriations are ongoing,” Congressman Tom Emmer, the House Republican whip, said in a statement. “Members are advised that ample notice will be given ahead of any potential votes tomorrow or this weekend.”
Really Kev?
Please go on about how impossible it is to work with incorrigible dipshits who don’t care about functioning government.
That must be so hard to deal with! Their refusal to negotiate in good faith must be soooo infuriating, huh Kev? It must be so frustrating to try and get a deal done and then have legislative arsonists burn the whole fuggin’ thing down.
Right Kevin?!
The cult of Reagan complaining how the cult of Trump won’t work with others. The missing subtext being the cult of Reagan refusing to work with anyone not in a cult. A tale as old as 2016
Man politics has gotten so silly and commercialized that it’s closest analog to me is professional wrestling. All of American politics is basically rich people trying to sell the kayfabe that their audience wants.
Libs pretend they’re the good guys (face), and that they are here to save all the poors from the villains. But because they’re all old rich people, it just seems fake and boring.
Conservatives get to do all the fun and cartoonishly evil (heel) shit. And because they’re all actually evil fucks, it all sells as more authentic
My theory is that because there’s a lot of Republicans trying to out heel each other, and because their kayfabe is more closely aligned with their political reality, a lot of them have forgotten that it’s all kayfabe, or have grown up with it for so long they don’t even know about the kayfabe.
I’d compare it to religion and sports.
I mean, I think that’s kinda what the WWE is to some people.
A religious sport?
Always have.
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Can’t complain about how the government doesn’t work, if the government works.
“I should know, I’m one of them!”
Republicans are learning what it’s like to deal with Republicans, and surprise, they don’t like it.
Well yeah they campaigned on it. Is he new here?
Tell me you just read the Republican Party Platform without saying you just read the Republican Party Platform.
You invited them into the house and let them shit in your bed. Now lie on it.
Sadly they also shat in all of our beds. We’re all going to be harmed by their actions. Sure, the republican party is going to face some large political issues, but all of us are going to be hurt by them.
Yeah, no kidding Kevin. That’s your entire fucking party, though. Even the so-called “moderates” want extremely radical policies that are designed to ruin what this country is supposed to be about.
What is the country supposed to be about?
Helping citizens prosper and making sure no one starves. That’s about it.
McCarthy, you made your bed, and you made it out of anti-personnel mines. It’s time to lie down in it. You’ll get no sympathy from anyone. This was entirely predictable.
McCarthy is the weakest speaker this country has seen in a very long time.
No shit, he’s just figuring that out, huh?
McCarthy, included. The piece of shit wouldn’t even allow himself to be photographed with Zelenskyy and is playing straight into Putin’s hand. Disgusting.
That’s it. I am headed to DC with a ripe avocado in one hand, a piece of toast in the other, and a knife between my teeth.
The nihilist party.
They’re the contrarian party. They exist in a perpetual state of doing the opposite of Democrats and being angry about it.
Nihilists? Fuck me…I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude. At least it’s an ethos!
They’re a reboot of the Know-Nothing Party
No shit, so ignore then like the crazy people screaming on the street corner you fucking idiot.
