Musk Posted. Republicans Listened.

The Atlantic ^ | 12/19/24 | Russell Berman

[DallasBiff]

Elon Musk was born a South African, so he’s ineligible to serve as either president or vice president of the United States. But he is swiftly showing, by dint of his enormous wealth and growing influence with the person Americans actually elected as president, that neither of those titles are necessary to dominate Washington.

Over the course of a few hours yesterday, Musk may have singlehandedly tanked a carefully negotiated bipartisan compromise to fund the government for the next three months and provide billions of dollars in aid for disaster relief and farmers. The deal was the work of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who, like Musk, is (er, has been) a close ally of President-Elect Donald Trump. To secure support from Democrats—who still hold the Senate for another few weeks—Johnson agreed to add a host of unrelated provisions, including a long-sought but politically dicey pay raise for lawmakers.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Musk Posted. Republicans Listened."

New media doing the job of old media: holding politicians accountable.

[eyeamok]

Why aren’t they hyping this up and Parading around Musk for being a Proud African American with so much influence and power?

[WASCWatch]

What the Rinos are Learning is that Musk can fund primary opponents to a much greater degree than Big Pharma and all the other huge interest groups combined.

[GOPJ]

The Atlantic’s part of the MSM...

[BDParrish]

"The line item veto would be a step in the right direction. When a bill that is pork laden arrives at the president‘s desk, he could just delete the pork and approve the rest. All bills should be evaluated by this standard: does it help, or does it do harm? Followed by who does it help and who does it harm?"

So should be also evaluated the question of the line-item veto and the question of term limits for Congressmen. Neither of these two procedural changes would address the critical problem within our government, the imperial bureaucracy. Rather you will hinder at least, or stifle at most any reform efforts directed at the permanent power of the Executive branch.

Freegards JimRed!

[wardaddy]

It’s the new talking point they all say in chorus
There will be more
Trump is Hitler is so last season