Posted on 01/10/2024 11:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: If Democrats want to filibuster that continuing resolution in the Senate, i.e., shut down the government because they want to bust through the spending caps negotiated not nine months ago, then let them.
So, that’s the choice everytime? Either negotiate or if you don’t get your way, shut down the government?
Isn’t there any other way out of this dillemma?
I don’t know why he took the job. You have to govern. And compromise. And the base wants nothing short of burning it down. It’s a kamikaze mission.
Everytime the national budget is being debated, the choice has always been MORE spending or shutting down the government. I’ve yet to see serious proposal for A BALANCED BUDGET come up. This is being ignored REGARDLESS of who the Speaker is.
The only pne I remember who successfully did it was Newt Gingrich over 25 years ago.
Johnson , the forth Stooge
That was not a compromise it was a submission.
“However, there still is another way. Johnson can — and should — put a continuing resolution on the floor. But this one should fund the entire government at current spending levels through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. Passing this type of continuing resolution would allow the spending cuts included in the debt limit bill to take effect — i.e., the outcome Johnson claims to support.”
Start making calls.
The GOP circle jerk continues...
No, you don’t have to compromise.
The only reason for compromising is keeping the corrupt government open and spending. The only reason.
Opus?
Can we manage to drag President Trump over the finish line this Fall if we are on the merciless, relentless target of the MSM and all Dems in power for wanting to starve old people and hurt the underprivileged with our draconian budget cuts, in an election year? The lies are unfortunately effective and if we don’t win we cant do anything much to improve our nation’s path. Change my mind? Comes back to Buckley saying vote for the most conservative candidate that can win.
These days, those are synonyms.
The 3 most useless things out there:
the UN
The EU
Congressional Republicans
Any comments on this are just blowing smoke unless one knows how many of the weak links in the caucus have told Johnson privately that they will vote with the dems unless he strikes a deal.
If Johnson had the power to bind the caucus, it’s a different discussion. But he doesn’t control the caucus. If the last year has proved anything at all, it is that no one, and no faction, controls the caucus.
We have a faction on either end of the caucus that seems perfectly content to hand control to the dems. Try to manage that.
What is our notional margin down to now? Two votes? Three? Four? Heck yeah, let’s run more ritual purity purges.
Elect a 40 vote Republican margin, and these problems all go away. Elect a 20 vote Republican margin, and two thirds of them go away. But on what planet is that going to happen?
Yes, you do have to compromise if 40 Rinos have told Johnson privately that they will vote to pass the democrat budget if he doesn't cut a deal.
“...the base wants nothing short of burning it down. It’s a kamikaze mission...”
^THIS^
That’s where Jug Ear’s anti-American regime has taken the country. 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.
Wonder if they caught him in one of those $25,000 a night brothels.
Or maybe he’s just a complete fraud like so many others.
Easy to hide among 200+ POSs and pretend to be something you’re not.
“Isn’t there any other way out of this dillemma?”
There is. But it constitutes making a deal with both sides of the aisle getting a legit amount of what they want. But the liberals are not going to give anything and the conservatives aren’t going to argue about it. That is the habit of a few generations at this point in history when Trump wasn’t in office. He stood up for the people.
wy69
So do the will of the RINOs, who are indistinguishable from the Democrats. That is compliance rather than “compromise”.
If the alternative is to shut the leviathan government down, do it. It was shut down several times during Reagan’s time in office and never hurt the country any.
There is no such thing as “both sides of the aisle”.
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