Posted on 03/23/2024 4:32:00 PM PDT by impimp
Why did this budget pass? I thought half the GOP member were opposed to it. Shouldn’t speaker Johnson be fired for pushing through legislation that more than half the GOP members were opposed to?
When will a Speaker with balls come along and gladly shut down the government? They need to embrace it. They have to say “Yes, I know hundreds of thousands of government workers will lose their jobs…I know Veterans will not receive services…I know some American families will be significantly hurt by a government shutdown…but we want to do it anyway. We want to do it because it is in the interests of America and most Americans”.
Money for a gay bondage sex club. I don’t want to hear about Johnson being a Christian anymore.
The short answer, is that since the Republicans get blamed for government shutdowns, whether deserved or not, the GOP is afraid of such shutdowns.
The GOP is worried what the liberals and media will say about them.
Over 85% of government in on autopilot. Very few affected by a shutdown.
What annoys me is the surveys saying “who would you blame for a government shutdown”? It’s a biased framing of the question. Surveys should say something like “who would you blame OR CREDIT with a government shutdown?”
But don’t say that because it shows cowardice…just say you want to shut down the government to reign in out of control spending…embrace the hardship and the suffering.
Has anyone seen a list of the disgusting, half-assed stuff this bill is funding???
It’s probably a couple pages long.
Correction..... several pages long.
Several years ago, there was a shut. I think it was during the Obama regime. The Republicans were winning the media war, but caved anyway. If Republicans just held on for a couple weeks until people realized the world didn’t end with the shutdown, they would win the media war. Truth is, they don’t want to win that war.
The Hastert rule is an informal guiding principle for leaders in the House of Representatives that dictates a majority of the majority party support any measure before it receives a vote. It is named after former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R), who served in the position from 1999 to 2007.2 The speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within their party, even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it. The Hastert Rule is much less rigid than the 80-percent rule held by the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. The rule has received some attention in the press lately, as some House conservatives have demanded that Speaker Boehner not bring up any immigration bill that does not pass this test. The rule is designed to limit the debate on bills that don't have support from a majority of its conference.
The above was reported by Breitbart & posted on 3/22/2024, 12:51:06 PM by ChicagoConservative27
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