Republicans have long been mired in chaos and confusion, but now outright civil war has broken out among them. I am not going to attempt to give you all the details.
But I will give you some of what happened yesterday morning from 1 AM onward as the House Rules Committee debated the Big Beautiful Bustup, aka the Big Bad Bogus Billionaires Bill, with Democrats on the Committee calling out the Rs’ lawless cruelty, stupidity, hypocrisy, and insanity at every turn. That process took all day, with floor votes in the House again occurring in the dead of night this morning.
This is not the full catastrophe for them. This is just a few Republicans complaining that they have gone way too far, while others, notably Chip Roy, complain that they haven’t gone anything like way too far enough. It’s going to get much worse for them before this is over.
The final vote was scheduled as a five-minute vote at 6:55 Eastern. The final result was 215-214 at 6:55, passing the bill by the narrowest possible margin. Now we go on to the Senate.
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them
The latest disaster is the House Rules Committee debate on the Big Bad Bogus Billionaires Bill, which started yesterday at 1 AM, and continued until , mostly with the execrable Rep. Virginia Foxx presiding.
I can’t list all of the issues on which this bill proposes disastrous policies and demonizes regular people, nor the arguments Democrats made against them. All of them get reported on with great frequency. Similarly for the amendments offered by Democrats, which won’t make the news so much because they won’t go anywhere.
Let’s just consider some of the consequences.
- Increasing the national debt by 4 terabucks/$4,000,000,000,000
- How much $$Real Money$$TM each and every item in the bill will cost
- Not content with cutting $880 billion from Medicaid, they now want to cut $500 billion from Medicare, contrary to constant promises not to
- The polling disasters for Rs on every issue
- How many lives will be lost from cutting Medicaid and destroying research
- How many ultra-Red states will go bankrupt without FEMA during hurricane and tornado season
See also my post from yesterday, Diabetes News: The Cruelty is the Point
And also yesterday, the maladministration sent a group of convicts to South Sudan, where there is a long-running and brutal civil war, in defiance of a 9-0 Supreme Court decision. These people have served sentences in US prisons, and are under deportation orders, but the courts do not allow them to be sent to unrelated third countries.
However, the bond market is coming to our rescue, as international borrowers pull back and rates on 20-year Treasury bonds rise sharply. This development is much more powerful than fears of inflation and recession.
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