Here we go again. It’s not enough they got him to start a bogus impeachment inquiry, now the bomb-throwing, hostage-taking far right want to defund our military. By a chintzy $120B out of the agreed-on $1.6T Omnibus. That’s like, 7% they want to threaten our economy over. And it’s not about abortions, it’s about their stupid insistence on threatening Default just because they can. Never mind Moody’s already downgraded us to AA+.
After McCarthy already sent them the spending caps he agreed to with Joe and passed by the Senate, the Freedom Caucus just threatened not only McCarthy’s job but another shutdown. Now they want to mark up each one of the 12 military appropriations tranches, and send Federal Bonds into an even more Inverted Yield Curve.
Gaetz and others in the Caucus demanded McCarthy revise the bill or they would hostage his Speakership by filing a ‘Motion to Vacate’. This is what happens when you sign your soul over to the guys with the pitchforks and torches. They threaten your job every time you try to do it.
In a closed-door meeting with his herd of rabid cats, McCarthy expostulated: “Go ahead and file the f*ing motion!” To which Gaetz responded: “How about you move the f*ing Spending Bill?” Gracing our House of Representatives with the same level of decorum as the Nixon White House.
Not exactly a Nostradamus mystery behind this particular exchange. Gaetz is pressuring McCarthy to intervene in the House Ethics Committee investigation on Gaetz; surprise, surprise, surprise Sgt. Carter.
Their excuse this time for bringing the economy to a crashing halt is, they want major spending cuts, including aid to Ukraine, a crackdown on the southern border, and Hunter Biden/Joe Biden inquiries unlimited. So instead of doing their jobs they basically are gearing the House into a giant clusterf*ck unto Christmas. What’re we waiting for...Culture Wars?
The White House is rightly pushing back strongly against this rabid incompetence, and Dems are looking at vulnerable R House seats. One would think that billionaires like the Kochs, Mercers, and Waltons would tell their weasels on a leash to quit f*ing with our economy lest their bond holdings tank. But then, one would have to think… a scarce commodity in this Caucus.
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Here’s a link to a House petition to pass a clean budget! Plus great threads by fellow Kossack Joan McCarter: www.dailykos.com/...
Here’s a Reuters link: www.reuters.com/…
And here’s the Hill: thehill.com/...
And Politico, several threads: www.politico.com/...