Posted on 09/25/2024 7:00:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are rushing through a three-month spending bill Wednesday in a whirlwind development that will send Congress home through the election.
The agreement gives Schumer what he has long craved – the opportunity to pass a spending bill in the lame duck session after the election but before the new Congress is seated in January, locking in spending levels and policy priorities before an expected Republican takeover in the upper chamber relegates him to minority leader.
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“... before an expected Republican takeover in the upper chamber relegates him [Schumer] to minority leader.”
How very symmetrical, seeing as how Mike Johnson (thanks in no small part to his own actions) is highly likely to ALSO be demoted into the minority party in the House.
At least Johnson hopefully will be decapitated as “leader” of that gutless minority party, not that there seems to be anyone among the House leadership who actually wants to be part of a majority. Even Jim Jordan is too weak and passive nowadays, and runs away screaming anytime someone boosts him for the spot in the House GOP. So we’d just some other hapless wimp like Scalise.
I actually think I prefer this to the usual BS that always ends the same way after a lot of words and wasted time.
He didn’t cave. He’s doing exactly what he has been assigned to do, i.e., betray America and Americans.
But he’s such a nice guy.
At some point, those “leaders” who capitulate to those who gloat need to made to understand how we feel about it.
Why do people keep saying we have a two-party system?
Remember most Republicans are Democrats but no Democrats are Republicans.
But we do. Us and them.
Which brings up the perennial Question: Why vote for Republicans?
“But he’s such a nice guy.”
😉 So they say. When I see/hear him, he seems to have a stick up his ass. Very robotic; maybe AI. 😉
Polypockets Nonuts.
“Remember most Republicans are Democrats but no Democrats are Republicans.”
Not sure that “most” Republicans fit that description, but a lot surely do.
A corollary to that is:
When Democrats have even 51% control of something (like the Senate now, and very likely the House starting next year) they act as if they have a HUNDRED PERCENT control — because they pretty much do — and rule with an iron fist.
When Republicans have 51% control of something (like the Senate next year) or even when they have much greater control of something, they STILL act weak and timid as if they are barely hanging by a thread. Then add to that the actual quislings who exist only the sabotage from within, and the GOP winds up having “control” of nothing.
Even when there are 51 Republicans and only 49 Democrats in the Senate as of 2025, the Republicans still won’t control a damn thing thanks to people like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Lindsey Graham and others.
And (under the most likely scenario for the future) seeing as how they would be the ONLY thing stopping President Kamulatto and Speaker of the House Hakeem Homeboy from tossing the U.S. Constitution right into the toilet, we’ll be hanging our hopes on a very weak and fragile branch.
Republicans almost always meet expectations...
Speaker Johnson is a gelding voted into office by the Republican geldings.
The Republican electorate is to blame. They keep reelecting RINOs and moderates hoping congress becomes more conservative.
The current Republican congress is less conservative than it was 10 years ago.
The current Republican congress is less conservative than it was 20 years ago.
The current Republican congress is less conservative than it was 30 years ago.
“Big Tent” Republicanism doesn’t work.
“Lesser of Two Evils” Republicanism doesn’t work.
Incumbency is too powerful. The GOP establishment would rather have a Democrat in power over a conservative.
We need a new party.
He has a biblical worldview. In fact it’s exactly the same as Judas Iscariot.
Nothing but wide open spaces where his manhood would normally be. He’s a gelding.
"Speaker Johnson Caves, Moves Three-Month Spending Bill as Chuck Schumer Gloats"
How could the country possibly have survived without the 17th Amendment? /super-sarc
Since Congress and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Also, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
You’re welcome
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