"Does that mean you just don't want to govern?" House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said of GOP holdouts who are against passing a short-term measure to keep the government open.
Yes. This must be the stop gap bill with all the poison pills that is DOA in the Senate. I don’t understand why Kevin keeps banging his head against the wall over this stupid bill that is going nowhere. Just put the clean CR up for a vote in the House so it can pass and avoid the shutdown. If he keeps listening to the idiot fringe in his caucus he will lose the speakership anyway in 2025. But, what’s really funny is that the “moderates” are already onboard for hanging themselves with this vote, but the recipients of all these toxic concessions are still a “no.”
Like I said, it’s theater. He doesn’t actually want to avoid a shutdown, he just wants to avoid blame for the shutdown. So he’s hoping to pass this bill on purely partisan lines and then, with the help of the right-wing propaganda ecosystem, blame Senate Democrats for not passing the House GOP’s bill and pretend the Senate’s bipartisan bill never existed when the GOP extremists get the shutdown they’ve manufactured.
But not the bipartisan stopgap bill that the Senate already passed, it’s the House GOP’s own dead-on-arrival bill instead.
So this is just theater of pretending to be working to prevent a shutdown while ensuring a shutdown.
Yes. This must be the stop gap bill with all the poison pills that is DOA in the Senate. I don’t understand why Kevin keeps banging his head against the wall over this stupid bill that is going nowhere. Just put the clean CR up for a vote in the House so it can pass and avoid the shutdown. If he keeps listening to the idiot fringe in his caucus he will lose the speakership anyway in 2025. But, what’s really funny is that the “moderates” are already onboard for hanging themselves with this vote, but the recipients of all these toxic concessions are still a “no.”
Like I said, it’s theater. He doesn’t actually want to avoid a shutdown, he just wants to avoid blame for the shutdown. So he’s hoping to pass this bill on purely partisan lines and then, with the help of the right-wing propaganda ecosystem, blame Senate Democrats for not passing the House GOP’s bill and pretend the Senate’s bipartisan bill never existed when the GOP extremists get the shutdown they’ve manufactured.
Hopefully senate R’s vote against it too. So far they’ve been pretty vocally against the house’s approach. Not holding my breath though.
They’ll vote for it knowing it won’t pass. It’ll just help pass the blame game.
Dems should let it pass for shits and giggles.
Also, let’s not forget that he reneged on the agreed upon deal in the first place.
The theater only works as long as peoples’ memories are short.
…and boy are they short.