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Democrats Join McCarthy In Celebrating Budget Stopgap—And Taunting MAGA Wing
Forbes ^ | 9/30/2023 | Brian Bushard

Posted on 09/30/2023 3:57:42 PM PDT by Javeth

In a post on X, progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called the bill a “win-win” for allowing federal employees to continue to receive paychecks, and for riling far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who she says “threw a tantrum.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also celebrated the vote, saying “all extreme right-wing policies have been removed” from it, arguing in a post that “MAGA Republicans have surrendered.”

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; kevinmccarthy; rino; shutdown
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To: Javeth

They’re the ones who will have blood on their hands as the war escalates and draws our troops in. UK already sending some in.


61 posted on 09/30/2023 5:45:13 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Owen

Again there’s no way to spin this as a win except by the most delusional and desperate kind of coping, because ALL of our priorities and essential goals were stripped out in the continuing resolution, and we got nothing. Practically nothing at all, especially for the top priorities of border security and restraining Biden’s tax goons and other extreme spending. It’s just weak coping to bring up anything with Ukraine because that’s so incredibly low on the priority list of anything, most Americans just don’t care either way on that and the amount of funding there is comparatively just drop in the bucket. (And it’ll come in anyway by the tens of billions of dollars in the Pentagon black budget, that’s the real source of it)

The overwhelming priority for conservatives and for the country in general are for border security because without this, we don’t have even have a country that survives and none of the other policies matter at all. We lost 99 percent of what we were seeking with Mccarthy’s back-stabbing and ALL of the most important priorities, especially with the border, even the one little bone Cowardly Kevin is trying to throw at us is basically irrelevant and not a victory at all. All the while thousands more criminals and drug pushers flood through the border every single day and literally invade our homes and communities.

So yes sadly, this is a loss, a huge embarrassing loss for true conservatives and anyone who actually believed the Republican leadership would fight for Americans, and resist the cheap labor lobby. And the main culprit is none other than Speaker of the house Kevin Mccarthy. We had a strong position and he gave away the farm just like on the debt ceiling, not because mean scary Democrats “bullied” him into doing it but because he himself is a fully sold out pawn of the cheap labor lobby. And is on board with AOC, Jeffries, Schumer and other Open Borders Democrats.

The one and only consolation for us is that the continuing resolution if it does get through a Senate filibuster, just postpones the fight for another couple weeks and we get to re-join the fight again. The media was trying to say it was for around another 40 days or so but one of the budget officials just now came right back and said it actually might not be for more than around 20 or 30 days, that’s how fast the deficits and national debt for America are rising up. And since these budget negotiations take weeks, it means literally at the end of this coming week or next, the budget fight will pick right back up again.

Sadly during those next couple weeks it’s going to get even uglier and more painful for Americans being overrun by this ongoing invasion that Mccarthy so cowardly gave into. We needed the border security now, not a few weeks from now, and in failing to even stand up for our priorities, Mccarthy just guaranteed that dozens or hundreds more American neighborhoods will start getting overrun. The invaders are coming in from everywhere now, not just the gang and cartel countries but huge armies of migrants from West Africa and Muslim countries now pouring over the border every single day, then just disappearing and bleeding us dry with even more welfare and crime. And fentanyl and meth are literally flooding in now, just last month we got news not far from our hometown that a young kid, around 10 years old, overdosed and is still having to get detox because fentanyl somehow even got in the school cafeteria! That’s what we’re facing, and in even just around the 3 weeks before we get to fighting about the budget again, that’s going to be over 100,000 new invaders pouring into the US and overwhelming our communities even more.

That’s the real price of Mccarthy’s betrayal and back-stabbing. And when the budget fight starts up again in October, and probably in no more than a couple weeks, we can’t have a traitor like him in a position of leadership, preparing to back-stab us on the most fundamental issue for the survival of our nation, the heartland and the Constitution. He needs to go.


62 posted on 09/30/2023 5:47:54 PM PDT by Javeth
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To: Javeth
He needs to go.

So who would replace him, and have enough votes to take the job?

63 posted on 09/30/2023 5:55:37 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: All

Senate votes to pass House’s stopgap funding bill, averting government shutdown

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-votes-x-x-pass-houses-stopgap-funding-bill


64 posted on 09/30/2023 5:56:01 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Timber Rattler

GFY!


65 posted on 09/30/2023 5:57:22 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: bankwalker

“Is Matt Gaetz still holding McCarty’s feet to the fire?”

Neither is Trump who gave us McDemocrat. His boy is mocking MAGA and nothing but crickets from The Donald as well.


66 posted on 09/30/2023 5:57:23 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Javeth

I lost all respect for MTG.


67 posted on 09/30/2023 6:05:33 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: LegendHasIt

True we were coming in with low expectations already, it’s just amazing that Cowardly Kevin managed to dash even that dismal low bar


68 posted on 09/30/2023 6:07:01 PM PDT by Javeth
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To: imabadboy99
..... I bet the Republicans will unify together in a similar manner to insure the next president is a Republican ......

........ BWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAhaaaaa ....

.

69 posted on 09/30/2023 6:07:38 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: roving

Same. MTG has been way to wishy-washy where it really matters. She’s coming off as like the sorority girl for the conservative movement, she’ll huff and puff and make a lot of noise. But at end of the day, all she cares about is being with the popular crowd, and with RINO traitors like Kevin Mccarthy at the helt, that means ultimately she also will just take marching orders from the Chamber of Commerce, Gates, Soros and the cheap labor lobby.


70 posted on 09/30/2023 6:09:28 PM PDT by Javeth
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To: Javeth

You clearly have it wrong.

Ukraine funding was stripped out. And that is the only thing that allowed him to have a majority of the GOP caucus.

THAT was the only priority in play.

He won’t be booted because he violated no requirement that he not pass it over the majority. The majority of the GOP approved only because Ukraine was stripped out.

That whole war teeters on the brink of erasure. It’s a huge win. Provided — that funding does not come to the floor over the majority preference of the GOP.


71 posted on 09/30/2023 6:16:20 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: Javeth

Read that Emmer is considered a replacement. He’s one of the most RINO members in the place.


72 posted on 09/30/2023 6:17:44 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: R_Kangel

Little surprise the RINO caucus is already moving to undermine Trump and MAGA and make sure any “questionable” votes go to Biden and Harris. And you can be sure all those thousands of illegals crossing the border every day will magically be amnestied and wind up with full ID’s and voting cards by the time of the election. Soros, Gates, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, the Kochs and rest of the cheap labor lobby are already hard at work on it and their appointed traitor on the inside, a certain back-stabbing Kevin Mccarthy is right at their service. As if his latest betrayal on the border and deficit wasn’t enough, he’s even subtly undermining the impeachment hearings before they’ve even started. The GOP doesn’t deserve a single conservative’s vote unless they get their act together, starting with the process to remove Mccarthy as Speaker.


73 posted on 09/30/2023 6:18:47 PM PDT by Javeth
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To: MNJohnnie

Conservatives can get what they want when they elect 218 Members of Congress and 51 Senators.

Right now, they have about 30 Members of Congress and 2 Senators.

They have a way to go.


74 posted on 09/30/2023 6:23:10 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: Digger

This, just talked with a fellow volunteer and fundraiser for our local Republicans and agreed the GOP is dead to us until they initiate and go ahead with the motion to remove Mccarthy from his post. And from there they’d better show some actual backbone in fighting the Dems everything and kitchen sink fight against Trump. Starting by countering the Dems corrupt indictments with indictments by Republican attorney generals and prosecutors of Democrat officials who’ve committed crimes and taken bribes, Menendez is just tip of the iceberg.

That’s the only thing to force these corrupt kangaroo courts, judges and Dem prosecutors from a second and even more brazen theft of an American election. When the hell has even a serial killer or drug cartel leader gotten even 30 different counts in 4 courts and an open theft announced by a tyrant judge in another, let alone over 90 counts? This is the most openly corrupt, disgusting judicial over-reach in American history, and it’s already cost taxpayers over $50 million and counting. They know they can’t beat Trump at the ballot box so they’re desperately trying to use their Communist courts to do it for them. They need to realize that if they can try this against us, we can use it against their’s too.


75 posted on 09/30/2023 6:25:00 PM PDT by Javeth
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To: Da Coyote; All

When will we learn? Dump McRINOcrat into the nearest septic tank and get someone willing to fight.


This, right here, at every single level of government. How many people complain about their city council or county commission ignoring the will of the people? But then go right about electing them again and again and again.

If people paid attention to the maniacs that were able to sneak onto school boards, nary any of these things would be happening in schools.

Damn near everyone will sit around the table with their friends and talk about the need for more folks like Donald Trump, folks willing to fight. Well, Pres Trump proved that you have to be willing to get a little ugly sometimes. Be a bit aggressive. But, who do the people vote for? The “moderate” that can win. The person that isn’t too harsh.

Right now this country needs barroom brawlers, not Country Club Republican’s that look down their noses at the regular folks.

So, when Tim Scott comes up for re-election South Carolina, you need to take a good hard look at whether he’s really representing you. If not, don’t vote for him. Don’t fall for the “if I don’t vote for him, the Democrat will win” crap anymore. Let it be known that he isn’t the guy anymore.

What did South Dakota do this last time? Send, perhaps, one of the biggest pieces of sh*t in the Senate back, again. Knowing that he does nothing but carry water for McConnell and the Establishment.


76 posted on 09/30/2023 6:26:02 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Javeth
make sure Kevin pays for his betrayal, and starts the process to get in a new speaker

Are you sure you won't miss McCarthy?

And what about when you can't win, ever, by universal franchise elections? You are a tiny minority of American voters.

Look at the Declaration.

77 posted on 09/30/2023 6:27:06 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: imabadboy99

“Taunting MAGA wing.” It will be NO laughing matter when the chickens come home to roost. Reckless fiscal policy has consequences: hyperinflation and/or debt default. My grandparents lived in fear of the Great Depression coming back. They would be SO scared right now if the Lord hadn’t already called them home.


78 posted on 09/30/2023 6:28:04 PM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: Timber Rattler
So who would replace him, and have enough votes to take the job?

Hakeem Jeffries.

79 posted on 09/30/2023 6:28:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: Jim Noble

And sadly the GOP’s current “leader” in the House is one of those working the hardest to make sure that conservatives get nothing of substance at all for the next year. As long as he’s in there, every one of our priorities is D.o.A. Especially anything to actual secure the border and protect Americans from the invasion that’s literally bringing in half a million illegals, gang members and drug cartel thugs every 3 months.


80 posted on 09/30/2023 6:35:30 PM PDT by Javeth
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