Posted on 10/31/2023 10:30:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Mike Johnson took the Speaker’s gavel, he set forth a list of priorities that seemed fairly straightforward. Among the first items on his list was passing an aid package for Israel while finding ways to reduce spending. He quickly moved to make good on that, working with the GOP majority to draw up a bill that would send $14.3 billion to Israel while rolling back the budget for the IRS. The ink wasn’t even dry on the proposal before Democrats and their faithful media stenographers began blasting Johnson, accusing him of “politicizing” the proposed aid package. And Joe Biden has already threatened to veto the bill if it somehow makes it out of the House and Senate. (NBC News)
The Israel aid package, which includes proposed cuts to President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, has not been well received by Democrats. They “are already blasting newly minted Speaker Johnson for politicizing a bipartisan cause,” NBC News Correspondent Sahil Kapur reports.
House Democrats on the Appropriations Committee published a statement of their own in response. They hilariously titled it, “House Republicans Delay Support for Israel.” What is not explained in the scolding missive is how the people who just drafted a proposal to send Israel more money than they even asked for are “delaying support” for them.
They go on to remind Republicans that the support of both parties in both chambers will be required for any proposed legislation to pass into law. (Ya think?) They further claim that the Democrats are “ready to work with House Republicans on a package that could quickly be signed into law.” But they’re obviously only talking about a package that they create, addressing their priorities and doing nothing to curb runaway spending.
The game being played by the Democrats is beyond obvious. They’re willing to pass some aid for Israel, but they want it lashed to “humanitarian aid” for Gaza and another huge slug of cash for Ukraine. They are frightened of attaching their names to separate bills because they know how increasingly unpopular some of their ideas are with the American public.
The Democrats also don’t want to cooperate on anything that might reduce or at least freeze spending. That includes cuts to the budget of the IRS. After all, we wouldn’t want them to run short of money to cover travel vouchers so they can drive around and harass blameless taxpayers while using fake names. Perish the thought.
Our crushing national debt is hanging over the collective neck of the nation like the sword of Damocles. The public is increasingly aware of and nervous about this, though it still doesn’t register in polls as a top priority for voters. But with better educational campaigns, they will soon be aware that these chickens are very quickly coming home to roost and it’s going to lead to cuts in popular social programs, including Medicare. By that point, it will be too late. The Democrats could actually do themselves a big favor by signing on to some of these cuts and explaining to their own voters that the gravy train was never going to last forever in its current form.
Even with a Speaker in place, if these jokers can’t even manage to pass a comparatively minor aid bill for Israel while they’re in the middle of a war with terrorists, how do they plan to push through a major spending bill to keep the government open? Someone needs to Remind Hakeem Jeffries and his pals of the same thing they’ve been telling the GOP for several years now. Elections have consequences. While it was close, you lost the midterms and now you have to play ball with the other guys for a while if you want to get anything done.
Can we finally stop this lie? The US House has no Constitutional responsibility to pass bills the White House and the Senate want passed
They are their to represent their voters. If the WH and the US Senate do not like it, too bad for them
The US House is NOT suppose to be the Democrat party’s rubber stamp
Take some of your own advise. “ Don’t”
Could the RINO choir here finally grow a back bone?
The US House has no Constitutional responsibility to pass bills the White House and the Senate want passed
They are their to represent their voters. If the WH and the US Senate do not like it, too bad for them
The US House is NOT suppose to be the Democrat party’s rubber stamp
>> But, but, but… how is he going to overcome a veto?
Ah, you must believe that Johnson’s “job” is to GET ISRAEL FOURTEEN BILLION DOLLARS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. If it needs caving to the ‘Rats, then by gawd that’s what he must do!!!
Whereas I see Johnson’s job as leading the House of Representatives. He has come up with a reasonable plan for getting Israel fourteen billion dollars while not adding to the outrageous debt that endangers the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Remember us? WE, not Israel, are who Mike Johnson works for.
If he skillfully attempts to get that very reasonable bill passed in the House, succeed or fail, I’m happy. IF it passes the House and fails at the hands of the ‘Rat Senate or Rat Biden, so what.
GOOD! THEN ALL THE LEFTISTS JEWS WIL KNOW HE HATES THEM!
Barqy the muslim won’t let him.
BUT-——IF Biden vetoes this bill-—his true colors are on display for ALL the world to see.
tenuous analogy
What? No kick-back for The Big Guy?
I don’t think we’re in Ezekiel 38 because Israel is not currently a people of “unwalled villages,” “dwelling securely,” and “having no bars or gates.”
This is God speaking, through Ezekiel, to the enemies of Israel. It may be that AFTER this war, Israel may enter some sort of treaty with their neighbors which may lead to an era of peace before they’re attacked again.
Ezekiel 38: 8 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. 9 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
10 “Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’
I hope veto bill Biden.
Are you angry McCarthy is no longer Speaker?
McCarthy would have bundled Israel aid with Ukraine aid.
And that would have been another disaster for Americans.
I say great! Will be the last in the liberal jewi$h support of the :current: dem party.
If they kill it in the Senate, they will have to either come up with a proposal of their own, or it will be an issue in 2024.
Do it, R.L. Peters, do it. Then resign.
Because President Retrd wants his Ukrania Landry money attached
Hmmm...Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew.
No aid for Israel? Then why bother with a vote for Ukraine aid?
I hope he vetos it! Will his reason be that Israel can’t win the war unless Ukraine gets 60 billion or will it be that IRS agents need more money to target conservatives?
It’s not a stunt. It has to be paid for. Where should the money from? Considering they ran on getting rid of 87k IRS agents this is pretty spot on.
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