As I said, McCarthy had individual spending bills working their way through Congress, for the the first time since Obama put the Omnibus in place. All that ended when McCarthy was removed, and we are back to the Omnibus again now. Removing the Omnibus should have been the #1 goal for this session of Congress.
McCarthy’s last bill also contained spending cuts, the last bill of spending cuts proposed this Congress. Showboater Gaetz wasn’t happy though, and killed it, and got McCarthy removed, for simply not sharing the proposed bill with Gaetz 48 hours in advance. McCarthy should have, but was pressed for time, and we haven’t seen another proposed spending cut since, that I know of.
We’ve gone 100% backwards under Johnson. Yet Gaetz now sits in his hands. Makes one wonder if he’s the one who’s been compromised, over that ethics probe.
It's not that McCarthy did or didn't (would or wouldn't, could or couldn't) get something done, it's that McConnell is not on the same team in the Senate and he would have undermined whatever McCarthy did to make his own deal to elevate his own ego.
That's why I constantly say that Republicans are being played by Democrats. If McCarthy was on track to get something passed in the House, it was because the Democrats wanted him to, to keep up the illusion of their scam.
Have you ever seen the movie The Sting? It all looks so real to the mark until the sting is pulled off. McCarthy thinks he had Pelosi's support. McCarthy is supposed to get a bill passed in the House. Great, so far.
But then Pelosi and Schumer know what McCarthy doesn't know: they know what they're going to do to that bill with McConnell in the Senate. I can assure you that it will have looked nothing like what McCarthy sent to them. And then McConnell would have pressured McCarthy to take the deal just like he did with Johnson, undermining McCarthy's authority in the House with his own caucus.
It's a win-win for Democrats: they get their agenda bill passed and they damage the credibility of the Speaker in the House, weakening the GOP for the next round of elections.
I've seen this movie before, many, many times. They keep remaking it with new actors, but the plot is always the same.
-PJ