Almost like the guy House Republicans finally settled on to help them force the other 2/3rds of the government involved in passing legislation to do what they want sucks at it.
Well, Iâm sure it will be different in a week. Or 3 weeks. Iâm sure they wonât have to do yet another CR, or two, or several.
A one-week stopgap bill, seriously? Can this guy not do anything meaningful?
Itâs almost as if prioritizing loyalty to Trump over competence in the selection process isnât a good idea.
Not sure it is his fault. The worldâs best cat herder looks like an idiot most of the time i would guess, and some of those folks arenât as intelligent as cats.
He knowingly took the job, I have no sympathy if the job is too hard for him.
Itâs Johnsonâs choice to be beholden to Trump, rather than the shrinking adult wing of the Republican party.
Plan is to vote on the CR in the early afternoon, and then call it a week at 2:15. Fortunately there arenât any important deadlines coming up next week.
Remember back in January when the Rs were adamant that McCarthy promise they wonât do this thing where the leaders get behind closed doors, work out a deal, then drop this huge bill in everyoneâs inbox and say âwe have to pass this tomorrowâ?
Looks like they are headed that way again.
I still donât understand what the point of the 2-tier approach was or how that was supposed to get Democrats to cave and go along with everything House Republicans wanted. Maybe someone who understands 38n-dimensional hyperquantum chess can explain it.
It was to force concessions on immigration, which they got. Then the Orange Cheeto sunk the deal they got because it might hurt his elections chances. Proving that Trump doesnât give a flying fuck about the country, only whatâs good for Trump.
Playing the long con, i mean, game
I think you had it right the first time
Was it, though? Because the original deadlines were January 19 and February 2; those got wiped out by a CR to avoid a shutdown on the 1st date that moved everything to March 1 and 8, and they had nothing on immigration or anything else (which is what had the Freedom Caucus pissed).
My recollection was that the immigration deal was tied to talks on funding Israel and Ukraine, and Republicans in the Senate refused to pony up for foreign aid without border enforcement or whatever the hell it is they want - and then that got blown up over FOMT.
Yep, the border demands were to be linked to foreign aid, they just didnât expect an actual deal to emerge.
The two phased CR was to prevent a single omnibus bill and get back to passing each funding bill individually. Months later, weâll prob just have two minibus bills. TBD whether thatâs going to trigger a motion to vacate.
Donât we all agree that electing Trump is good for the country? Trump is simply doing a service for his countryâŚ
The impact this seems to actually have had, is every 2-4 weeks we see âRepublicans scramble to avoid another government shutdown, yet againâ followed by âDemocrats and some Republicans agreed on a short stopgap bill, Congress goes on vacationâ.
Eh, Iâm being a little facetious at the end there, I havenât kept close track of which stopgap bills had Republican support and which ones squeaked by on compromise, ultra-right be damned.
House passed the first bill. Do I understand correctly that for this first part which is âmostly non controversialâ that ends the kicking the can down the road for the rest of the GOV fiscal year which runs through 9/30? It still needs to pass the senate and be signed.
There is another looming deadline on the larger bill which is more contentious that needs to be ironed out by 3/22 to avoid a partial gov shut down.
What I donât get is my understanding is that the 9/30 deadline was originally floated by the Freedom Caucus because they want the option of shutting down the government right before the election to hurt Biden (some reporting says that thatâs an actual paraphrase). So Johnson gave them that and yet still ended up with a bill that the conservatives all said no to?
The freedom caucus hates everything. As I understand it, itâs pretty much what Johnson agreed to months ago and the freedom caucus hated it then too.
