Posted on 05/22/2024 9:13:54 AM PDT by Kazan
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly gave almost every Democrat an earmark in exchange for their votes for a $1.2 trillion spending bill that was passed despite the objections of a majority of House Republicans.
As Johnson and House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) negotiated two government funding bills, the Democrat leader secured a major victory in exchange for voting for Johnson’s spending bill: a considerable bump in earmarks for Democrats’ home districts.
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The earmarks were tucked well within the Transportation spending bill; a CNN analysis suggested that the earmarks for Democrats went up $616,279 for almost every Democrat member over what had passed out of committee months prior.
The earmarks in the gargantuan spending bill were for “almost every single Democratic member for at least one project,” CNN wrote.
DeLauro told CNN that Jeffries wanted to keep the victory a secret.
“There was no need. He [Jeffries] negotiated. He got what we needed to have. That’s it. It doesn’t always have to be a press conference when you get things done. That’s his style,” DeLauro said.
“Nobody at the beginning of this Congress could have imagined all this shit that has happened here, right? But [Jeffries] has navigated a pathway for Democrats that has made us relevant and effective,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the ranking member on the House Rules Committee, said.
“I saw him take the temperature of the caucus, listen a lot to people and ultimately land in a place that not everyone celebrated, but everyone was comfortable with,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) remarked.
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Thank you sir, may I have another?
Why has no one in DC the courage to stand up to the democrats?
The show of weakness is pathetic. Why would I stand with weakness?
Get it together, you GOP snowflakes. During wartime, cowardice is rewarded in one way.
One is at times tempted to call the Clintons, who undoubtedly are experts in “self-defenestration” when one feels the system has czechmated legitimate options.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
Near-desperate times call for punnishment.
And some here are afraid that vacating the chair would just result in more power for Jeffries.
It’s very easy to give away other people’s money.
Especially when you can send people with guns to get it.
We use our brains and hard work to improve our lives.
The Democrats use government and politics and courts and law enforcement to take from you and improve their lives.
Looks as if Johnson is severely compromised.
Johnson will polish any knob that a dem whips out for a dollar.
The biggest wimp yet.
Mike “Little” Johnson should be so proud of becoming a laughingstock.
The problem is the agenda of establishment Republicans is the same as establishment on multiple core issues (running up debt and using foreign policy to enrich themselves and allowing open borders to pander to business interests).
The perverse, new American dream is running for office so one can get rich.
“Why has no one in DC the courage to stand up to the democrats?”
Because the GOP voters voted in the DNC oversight of conservatives (?) and put in wussies. I don’t fault the liberals for being what they are if they can get away with it. They get what they want no matter what the majority count is every time. A free ride. So here it comes:
Fool me once, shame on you. Twice, shame on me...again, and again...
wy69
Everyone but the slow people have figured out Magic Johnson is compromised by the same DS that got to Lindsey Graham, Sessions, Pence, and John Roberts.
Why has no one in DC the courage to stand up to the democrats?
You think you could stand your ground with the leftist Congress critters, the permanent DC employees and the press all slavering to ruin your name and career any way they can, including your Internet history, your family tree and your high school yearbook?
Well said.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he felt betrayed by President Joe Biden after learning that he is willing to withhold offensive weapons to Israel (May 11, 2024)Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he felt betrayed by President Joe Biden after learning that he is willing to withhold offensive weapons to Israel and accused the president of reneging on the deal they made to pass aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan last month.Johnson also said he hoped that Biden’s threat to cut off American weapons, made in a CNN interview, was “a senior moment.”
Some ancient history:
Now we can add feeble Joe Biden to the list of Democrats who can successfully roll Republicans.
I'll have to add Joe Manchin to the list of suckers from Democrat deals.Schumer suckered McConnell into voting for the CHIPS act, and then suckered Manchin into voting for the Inflation Reduction Act, essentially rolling two birds with one stone.
Schumer reneging on his promise to McConnell to not use reconciliation for the Inflation Reduction act in exchange for passing the CHIPS bill is just the latest in a long history of Democrats breaking deals with Republicans after getting what they want.
It is absolute incompetence of Republicans to keep letting them get away with it.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Thursday that Senate Republicans got tricked into passing a semiconductor bill after believing that a Democrat reconciliation bill was dead.While Republicans were split on the merits of the legislation, most Republicans, including House Republican leadership, did not want to pass the CHIPS legislation if Democrats were to pursue a reconciliation bill to pass climate change, Obamacare, and other leftist priorities.
The same day that the Senate passed the CHIPS bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced a deal on the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that would aim to reduce the deficit, raise taxes, and boost climate change and Obamacare spending.
Announcing the deal immediately after Senate Republicans backed the CHIPS bill left many GOP lawmakers with egg on their faces.
"We got our ass kicked. It’s just that simple. Looks to me like we got rinky-doo’d. That’s a Louisiana word for 'screwed.' And we got our ass kicked. That’s the way my people back home see it," Kennedy said...
McConnell also lost to Schumer on a debt ceiling fight in 2021, which led to a debt to temporarily create a carveout for the legislative filibuster. One former senior GOP aide said the deal was to save McConnell’s "ego."
Here's an oldie post of mine from 2009 on Harry Reid's history of reneging on promises:
...McConnell got Reid to agree to hold a high-profile debt-limit vote next month -- just before the president's State of the Union address...Specter suggests Reid reneged on word.
Newly-turned Democrat Arlen Specter today hinted that that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reneged on his word to allow Specter to keep his seniority on committees on which he sits. "Sen. Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments, and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980," Specter said in a written statement today.Reid Bows to Far Left as Rs Rank Judges Issue #1.
And they undoubtedly have the Rasmussen survey results in the back of their minds as they consider their reaction to Majority Leader Reid's broken promise to confirm three appeals court nominees before the Memorial Day recess, as well as Reid's sure-to-be-broken earlier promises to meet the historical average (17) for appeals court confirmations in a president's final two years. With just a couple of months left in the confirmation window, Reid is less than halfway to meeting that average.[snip]
"A good GOP Senate source reports today that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the entire Republican Conference -- about the judge-fight issue. McConnell is said to have been very insistent that he would not let Majority Leader Reid's broken promise go unpunished. He would not tell the Conference exactly what action he was planning, but he did say it would be very firm, and that all concerned would know it when we see it." --Quin Hillyer (5/21/08)
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While Sen. Lott overcame numerous obstacles to get Paez and Berzon confirmed, Sen. Reid has looked for excuses to renege on his pledge.
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GOP senators are understandably angry that Sen. Reid broke the golden rule of senatorial honor by reneging on his commitment.
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Democrats Target Coburn's Holds
To ease passage of the public lands measure, Reid promised Coburn the chance to offer a limited number of amendments.Reid: No Vote On Lifting Drug Import Ban Before Health-Care BillBut after the majority leader objected to a Coburn proposal that would have eased restrictions on firearms in national parks, the package stalled for months, prompting Coburn to charge that Reid reneged on their agreement.
Coburn eventually got to offer four amendments -- all of which were defeated but not the guns measure.
Republicans accused U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., of reneging Tuesday on a pledge to allow a Senate vote on a measure lifting an import ban on pharmaceutical drugs before lawmakers take up health-care legislation.The development, supported by major drug makers, comes as the Senate is moving to craft the politically delicate compromises needed for the broader health care overhaul bill.
In a letter to a bipartisan group of senators that have been pushing for the import ban to be scrapped, Reid said there wouldn't be time in the busy legislative calendar for full consideration of legislation lifting the long-standing prohibition now.
"He did commit to us and obviously that commitment is not going to be kept," Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday evening.
Recently...
AFL-CIO Boss to Harry Reid: Go Nuclear
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) accused Republicans of trying to "disable the administration by blocking the appointments, though he stopped short of saying campaign donations are directly attributable" for GOP opposition. Merkley received $1.2 million from labor groups since 2010, including more than $275,000 for his 2014 campaign.Merkley defended President Obama's recess appointments while the Senate was in session because "functionally we were out of session." He also accused McConnell of violating a pair of "gentleman's agreements" to confirm President Obama's nominees without "obstruction" from the minority.
Obama and Reid reneged on a labor truce of their own when the Democrats re-nominated Block and Griffin to the board, according to a top Republican aide.
-PJ
Imagine this ever happening in the reverse, where a Rat congress gives away earmarks to EVERY Republican district.
It would never, ever happen. Period!
But the Republicans have been rolled, time and time again. It makes you wonder if they are in fact, democrats themselves. /spit
I always ask them to recite the list of conservative wins under Johnson’s leadership but it’s just crickets.
And people wonder why we think he has to go.
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