Posted on 01/10/2024 11:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I seem to remember it was Margaret Thatcher that said “compromise is the absence of leadership.”
Leverage and votes is two different things. It has to get through the Senate..and signed by Hiden’ Biden.
RE: But it constitutes making a deal with both sides of the aisle getting a legit amount of what they want.
The question is — WHAT IS LEGIT?
I would NOT have compromised on adding 87,000 new IRS agents to the Federal payroll to harrass taxpayers, but McCarthy did. I don’t think it’s legit.
The problem is the word “legit” has different definitions to different legislators.
I am at a loss as to how he could justify abandoning border security as a provision in this bill. Even the democrats are feeling the heat about the border, would have been a doable tradeoff for the other crap.
“Republicans had significant leverage to demand spending concessions from Democrats but let them increase spending in the latest deal anyway.”
Republican politicians have always been notoriously bad negotiators. Compromise always seems to favor the left. Moderates are squishy by definition. Think Boehner, Ryan and McCarthy. Johnson appears to be no different.
He must know something that most of us aren’t privvy to. If not, and our nation collapses under debt, I will be the first at his front door for an explanation. I hope there’s a very long line.
Has Johnson ever released all the J6 videos unedited yet?
I figure he hasn’t. Probably never will.
The Speaker doesn’t govern. He herds cats. And he’s barely the speaker, anyway. The GOP has something like a two-seat margin in the House, so any jackass with one or two partners can block any bill.
If you have not done the budget numbers yourself, you know nothing.
I can assure you, the writer of the article above knows nothing.
Conservatism has nothing to do with taxing and spending.
Conservatism is Drain the Swamp and Build the Wall, so this article writer is just trying to drum up Swamp-think with his (erroneous) layout of budget this and that.
(BTW, stop thinking there can be a solution. This walks back into Swamp-think. There is no solution to $34T in debt.)
CHRISTIANS DONT FOLD TO SATAN !
+1 000 000
The same scam works over and over.
I lurked here long enough ago to remember TRUST STARR
Conservatism is Drain the Swamp and Build the Wall,
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
Conservatism is many things to different people.
Folks, read the above repeatedly. It is the philosophy, a way of thinking, it is what is behind actions.
” They’ve outright aided and abetting a full foreign invasion, and the PEOPLE want action, not words, including burning it all down, if necessary, to make it stop.”
We have seen that States like Texas and Arizona have (finally) tried to take action on the border. And the Federal government has stopped them.
The only way the invasion ceases is if the DC Globohomo Regime collapses, and the States enforce their borders.
my newest theory...
they take the honest ones into a room
introduce them to a principality of the air, i.e. fallen angel or nephiliam
show them some truly scary impossible magic type shit
the honest one loses their preterist xtian “ faith”
then shit their pants
then lose and abandon belief in their
preterist xtian faith
and submit and agree to play the script they are given.
what else can adequately explain how an honest person can cave so quick ?
/\////\ Or maybe he's just a complete fraud like so many others.////\ \/ i think he honestly thought he was a Christian right up to the point he shat his pants in fear...( after demanding victory in the name of Jesus )... only to hear the satan soldier say " Peter i know , Paul i know,, i dont know you and Jesus said He doesn't either and ive been given permission to sift you like the chaff you really are ". .
“ There is no solution to $34T in debt.”
Right now, today, the entire U.S. economy is not in full-on depression only because of the Heroin of massive, constantly escalating, federal debt spending. None of these office holders want to be there holding the bag if/when that stops. When it stops, the entire nation collapses, it’s the only thing holding it above water. There is no way out of the box: they drive it off the cliff at 100 mph, or the ground underneath collapses and you plunge in that way.
Old Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won’t stop going, no way to slow down.
Unless they throw the rats a bone. Then the 2-3 republicans don’t matter. That is even worse.
“Your banks are safe, your ATMs are safe, there’s plenty of cash in the financial system and there’s an INFINITE amount of cash at the Federal Reserve”
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President
He speaks. Bills are the voice. He puts bills on the floor that says what thr people want it to say. The right way to play the role of speaker is yonrefuse putting things up for a vote and only put things up for a vote when they say what the people want. The power comes in the decision of what to bring to the floor. He could grind the country to a halt if he decides the people have nothing to say.
I don’t know why anyone should be surprised. Congressional Repukes are nothing but gutless wonders. Always have been, always will be.
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