Thanks for the clarification with that painting LJ. I saw Trump on Real Americas Voice tonight with that painting in the background, but noticed he wasn’t moving his head much to allow us to see what was in the middle.
Pretty dry here in Michigan BTW, praying for some rain for both crops and lawns (and reducing fire hazard). Looks like we can expect some finally Sunday into Monday.
Believe it or not, that’s not comms for a “Storm Inbound”. Sometimes you do just need some rain!!
Oh, and before I forget, just ran across this. The Challenger Shuttle astronauts are alive?? Pretty convincing, or is this fake??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqhU6nEy6c
I dont know who I should ping to stuff... I guess just ask if you want random pings? This is GOOD news.
‘HOLD THE FLOOR!’ Gaetz, Freedom Caucus tell McCarthy ‘there will be no rule votes’
For the second straight day, members of the House Freedom Caucus blocked legislation from advancing on Wednesday, in protest of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) disastrous deal with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling.
“When Speaker McCarthy and House GOP Leadership couldn’t hold the line on spending, they surrendered the ability to exclusively hold the floor,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tweeted on Wednesday. “We are going to #HoldTheFloor and refuse to allow their failure theater to continue to play out.”
Gaetz appeared on News Nation and noted that both his friends and his critics are calling the move by the Freedom Caucus a “revolt” against McCarthy.
“We want to see recisions, more spending cuts,” Gaetz explained. “We think that McCarthy and his negotiators got rolled by Biden and the Democrats, and now House Conservatives are flexing our muscle.”
“We want to see a return to the normal budgeting process,” he continued. “We want to see review of individual bills come forward. And we’re very disappointed that we just underwrote four trillion dollars in debt over the next two years.”
“Eleven Republicans broke with their party to vote with Democrats, and the rule fell short on a 206-220 vote — the first rule vote to fail since November 2002,” The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. “We took down the rule because we’re frustrated at the way this place is operating. … We’re concerned that the fundamental commitments that allowed Kevin McCarthy to assume the speakership have been violated as a consequence of the debt limit deal.”
“We’re not going to live in the era of the imperial speaker anymore,” Gaetz said, according to The Post.
Gaetz and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room on Tuesday to discuss the takeover.
“It hasn’t happened in 21 years,” Gaetz said. “We are very upset about how the debt-limit deal came together. Kevin McCarthy ceded the authority that he had been given by the House of Representatives.”
[Much more at link, the technical details of how the House is run are complicated to Madame Brain Damage]
