I'm actually pretty shocked that Congress is so dysfunctional right now. Usually when there is imperialism to be done they can't move fast enough to deliver another 50 billion dollars to the latest war criminal we're aligned with and save all the gridlock bullshit for when the proles get uppity and ask for something.
I was surprised by this as well, I was sure that funding the wars would be the overriding priority that would result in bipartisan action. An yet, it's still an utter clusterfuck.
It just demonstrates that intra-party conflicts of the Republican party. The elites are clamoring to get war funding passed. But the populists are all about America First. And while the populists are a minority, it's clear they have considerable political power despite their clear inability to govern.
He'll step down, next guy will come in and start passing legislation. It'll be another fight over legitimacy, but they'll pass some bill about funding Israel, the Senate will take that one up, Biden will sign it, then we'll effectively never need a speaker again. Israel gets its money, and the government will still shut down on November 15.
Fuck this stupid government, seriously.
I used to be a naive liberal that disliked "gridlock" in the US government.
Considering how many fucked up and horrid things tend to get rubber-stamped by the US government, gridlock is now a welcome thing. Bring on the clown car traffic jam.
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🤡It's whild that McCarthy himself is the one pushing to expand pro tem powers. What the fuck is he thinking? Also- On one hand, McHenry is acting very honorably and I respect that. On the other, his last quote about wanting to elect Jordan really rustles my jimmies. Scalise would have been a better option and I fucking hate that guy