First, you admit there is a chance that I'm right, because your sentence could just as easily have said "That’s not necessarily untrue" and it would mean the exact same thing.
If all the Senate got was individual spending bills, as we were on track to do, they would have to fund the ones they wanted...
Now THAT is not necessarily true 😉.
If you recall, the ENTIRETY of ObamaCare was an amended innocuous House spending bill called "H.R. 3590--A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means," submitted by Charlie Rangel (D-NY).
Once it got to the Senate, however, they amended it to completely gut the original contents, turning this "spending bill" into a container for whatever the Senate wanted to further amend it to become. This is how the Senate got around the origination clause of the Constitution to introduce Obamacare and still insist it was a House bill.
Since the Democrats in the Senate already have a history of doing this, it gives my point more credence than yours, which to me is wishful thinking on your part that the leopard has changed its spots. There is nothing that would have stopped the Senate Democrats from taking McCarthy's single spending bill and amending it to keep the spending but insert open borders, or amnesty for illegals, or anything else on the Democrat agenda and force McCarthy to eat it.
In fact, that's what they did to President Trump in 2018 with a "must have" military spending bill. They forced Trump to accept Democrat pork or risk shutting down the government and not paying our soldiers. That's when Trump declared "Never again," but the Democrats did it again the next year and today still point back to that as Trump budget-busting spending.
Keep in mind that the above spending was approved by a Republican-controlled Senate with Pelosi in charge of the House. So it doesn't matter which chamber the Republicans control, the Democrats still ALWAYS end up on top.
All that ended with Gaetz and Johnson.
Keep believing that, and you'll never see the sting coming.
-PJ
My point is simply thar McCarthy was at least trying to get rid of the Omnibus, and to cut spending, whereas Johnson hasn’t even tried. He’s just folded at every last opportunity.
So if you want to keep score, McCarthy far outscored Johnson, on effort and attempt alone. The fact we’re stuck with the guy who won’t even try is very suspicious.