Posted on 01/10/2024 11:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Maybe they should have gone with Scalise, the other LA candidate for Speaker.
LOL yeah…and if the infinite ever becomes less than infinite…the crash will be something epic.
One of these days we are going to have the cajónes to shut puzzle place down. But I won’t hold my breath.
If a dog in the manger faction of RINOs votes with the dems, the democrat budget passes in the House. How many would it take, given that the dems are a monolith? Two? Three?
The Speaker cannot control this. He is the wrong person to blame.
If you want to go the shutdown route, fine — but since the dems control the Senate, that means the Senate repubs, at least 41 of them, would have to stand solid on a filibuster.
I myself am actually in favor of a long, brutal, burn the house down filibuster. But that is a battlefield that has to be prepared far in advance. The position should be taken on Day One of a new Congress and articulated nonstop. The message should be, “we don’t want a filibuster and a shutdown, but we are headed for bankruptcy. This has to stop. If the dems don’t come to terms on a constructive plan, we will pull the plug. The default option is an across the board budget freeze, with no exceptions.” Or something along those lines — but it has to be clear, simple, and supported nearly unanimously by the caucus. Message constantly that we don’t want this, but if the dems won’t deal, we will.
Then do it, and take no prisoners.
When Reagan was president, there were still Blue Dog democrats who would make a deal.
Read nothing of that link, clearly associated with academe — the foundation of the Swamp.
If he can make the government shut down, that’s enough control. Otherwise compliance is countenance.
Republicans - the Origami Party. Democrats can fold them into any shape that they wish.
Just as always the republican party has not accomplished anything during there term in congress. Mike Johnson has not changed that. We have committees investigating everything, but nothing ever comes from that either.
Johnson can’t make the government shut down. That would take a near-unanimous Republican caucus, and he doesn’t have that. He would lose at least 40 squishes. I wish it weren’t so, but there it is.
41 Republican senators would force a shutdown through a filibuster, but that is outside Johnson’s control.
But what about Newt, Boehner and Ryan? Biden wasn’t in the WH then.
Oh? He’s got to get a bill that will make it through the House, with varying degrees of needs and interests but also the Senate and WH. He’s got to herd 535 cats and a president.
REGULAR ORDER FOR FY 2025 MUST HAPPEN! 1 BILL AT A TIME!
Once again, Blackmail achieved its purpose.
New boss same as old bosses.
Don’t worry you will still get your Social Security checks.
As another Freeper said in a recent post, that’s surrender.
“...But what about Newt, Boehner and Ryan? Biden wasn’t in the WH then...”
There’s always been an influx, but NOTHING like it is now under this regime. It’s a wide open border with no restraint letting in thousands at a time.
I didn’t think it was either. But remember what I said:
“the conservatives aren’t going to argue about it.”
wy69
“There is no such thing as “both sides of the aisle”.
Oh there is. There are the ones that want something done and the other side that lets them with no argument. Otherwise they wouldn’t get anything done at all wrong or right.
It all has to do with the pronouns pro and con being opposites. Meaning pro-gress and con-gress.
wy69
what else can adequately explain how an honest person can cave so quick ?
And another question begs another question:
How do we know he’s that honest and God fearing?
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