2023 Republican House Follies

[Unagi]

Ohhhhh GOODY. :/

“vision of a Christianity-dominated America became entwined with Trump”
That only makes sense if viewed in a “white is right” context.

Before he was coached, he probably couldn’t have named one book of the Bible.

Mathew, Mark, Luke, and Camera

[Isgrimnur]

[Holman]

Two Corinthians.

[Alefroth]

They make the best leather.

[Smoove_B]

Apparently the plan has been revealed and it's already coming under fire from...both sides:

Johnson, the top Republican in Congress, unveiled his stopgap a day after Moody's, the last major credit ratings agency to maintain a top "AAA" rating on the U.S. government, lowered its outlook on the nation's credit to "negative" from "stable," citing political polarization in Congress on spending as a danger to the nation's fiscal health.

...

"My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker to the @HouseGOP cannot be overstated," Representative Chip Roy, a member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, said on the social media platform X.

"It's a 100% clean. And I 100% oppose," wrote Roy, who had called for the new measure to include spending cuts.

Democratic Senator Brian Schatz called Johnson's measure "super convoluted," adding that "all of this nonsense costs taxpayer money."

"We are going to pass a clean short term CR. The only question is whether we do it stupidly and catastrophically or we do it like adults," Schatz wrote on X.

Sounds like a winning strategy!

[Kraken]

I'll take Stupid and Catastrophically for $500, Alex.

[LordMortis]

Johnson is on CNBC this morning and he is worm and a TFG sycophant, who whole heartedly supports TFG because TFG feels he was cheated. He uses feeling on one hand, and rule of law. He likes dropping "Constitutional Republic" as a buzzword as well.

[hepcat]

My new favorite buzz phrase from the right trying to justify their attempts at creating a dictatorship is that they’re trying to save us from “the tyranny of the majority”. I mean…they’re trying to save us from democracy?

[GreenGoo]

What pisses me off is that no one is trying to force them to have abortions or be gay.

Just live your lives like you always have, but without actively working to hurt other people different from you. Problem solved.

[El Guapo]

My new favorite buzz phrase from the right trying to justify their attempts at creating a dictatorship is that they’re trying to save us from “the tyranny of the majority”. I mean…they’re trying to save us from democracy?

Oh, that is 100% what they are trying to do. The GOP elite these days is dominated by Ayn Rand fans who are at best suspicious of democracy, because it allows the "takers" to outvote the virtuous "makers" and appropriate their hard-earned money. Hence you will see the line trotted out a lot that "democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner".

[Smoove_B]

Didn't realize they were going to try to pass the funding bill today. Totally figured it would be something that would happen at 2:30am Saturday morning.

[YellowKing]

What pisses me off is that no one is trying to force them to have abortions or be gay.

The irony is they feel victimized by having this liberal agenda "forced upon them" when they are, in fact, the only ones enforcing their beliefs on anyone.

[GreenGoo]

Hence you will see the line trotted out a lot that "democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner".

So they agree that they are the sheep, then?

[LawBeefaroni]

Johnson is on CNBC this morning and he is worm and a TFG sycophant, who whole heartedly supports TFG because TFG feels he was cheated. He uses feeling on one hand, and rule of law. He likes dropping "Constitutional Republic" as a buzzword as well.

He was also saying that "separation of church and state" isn't a constitutional concept, it's just from a letter Jefferson wrote where he didn't want the state to interfere with the church. But the opposite way, Johnson said, is fine. We need a moral compass and our founding fathers knew we need religion-guided leaders.


With this shit and Agenda 47 and the rest of it, it's all about creating a tyrannical dictatorship.

[El Guapo]

Hence you will see the line trotted out a lot that "democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner".

So they agree that they are the sheep, then?

I suppose so. At least, they would be the sheep if not for their eternal vigilance.

[malchior]

Keep at it boys.

[El Guapo]

Didn't realize they were going to try to pass the funding bill today. Totally figured it would be something that would happen at 2:30am Saturday morning.

Seems like it may pass?

[Smoove_B]

Seems like it may pass?

I can only assume then the GOP did a good job of hiding the rat-fuckery that we'll all find out about in the coming days.

[hepcat]

Keep at it boys.

McCarthy probably found out his teenage kid and accountability partner just realized how MUCH stepmom porn his father was watching....

[GreenGoo]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

[malchior]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

It looked like a lunge towards them as an observer due to McCarthy elbowing him from behind.

Edit: Fixed - hat tip to Isgrimnur.

[El Guapo]

Seems like it may pass?

I can only assume then the GOP did a good job of hiding the rat-fuckery that we'll all find out about in the coming days.

Assuming that this is still the same bifurcated extension plan that Johnson put out over the weekend that splits funding deadlines between different parts of the government, I think he must figure that breaking up government funding will make it easier to conduct legislative hostage-taking next year. That, and/or he doesn't want to fight and this is his way to pretend that he's not doing a clean extension.

[GreenGoo]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

It looked like a lunge towards him as an observer due to McCarthy elbowing him from behind.

Oh, so he was shoved towards the interviewer, perhaps stumbling towards them?

[Unagi]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

He was shoved into the interviewer. It was told with dramatic flair, from the interviewer's point of view, in that split second he didn't realize why Burchett suddenly lunged toward him.

[Unagi]

heh, sorry - sounds like I'm late. I should read ahead.

[Isgrimnur]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

He was shoved into the interviewer. It was told with dramatic flair, from the interviewer's point of view, in that split second he didn't realize why Burchett suddenly lunged toward him.

She/her. Claudia Grisales

[GreenGoo]

Why would Burchett lunge at the interviewer/person talking to him?

He was shoved into the interviewer. It was told with dramatic flair, from the interviewer's point of view, in that split second he didn't realize why Burchett suddenly lunged toward him.

Got it.

[LordMortis]

Seems like it may pass?

I can only assume then the GOP did a good job of hiding the rat-fuckery that we'll all find out about in the coming days.

Assuming that this is still the same bifurcated extension plan that Johnson put out over the weekend that splits funding deadlines between different parts of the government, I think he must figure that breaking up government funding will make it easier to conduct legislative hostage-taking next year. That, and/or he doesn't want to fight and this is his way to pretend that he's not doing a clean extension.

AFAICT, it gets things passed by the GOP house, so their fuckery can re-neg and make cuts later on for the half they didn't want to pass much like they are re-negging now and what they already re-neg on before. Assuredly, the Senate knows this and will reject it and "conservative" talking heads will say the hold up is with the "liberal" Senate not being able to cut spending and service debt rather than with the "conservative" House trying to save the US from defaulting in the only reasonable way (because the rich already pay too much tax)

[Skinypupy]

Keep at it boys.

Tough guy Markwayne Mullin from OK tried to throw down on a witness during a hearing today as well.

Fucking children.

[Unagi]

Tough guy Markwayne Mullin from OK tried to throw down on a witness during a hearing today as well.

(Just FYI) That was shared (and discussed a bit) earlier this morning over in the Videos thread.

[El Guapo]

I suppose this would technically be an example of "2023 Republican *Senate* Follies"

[Zarathud]

Take that beef to the dueling grounds to kill each other like the Founders intended.

Of course, McCarthy might be unable to find a second.

[Daehawk]

Children..settle down. Settle down now. We have Congress to run.

[Smoove_B]

Chip Roy says Speaker Johnson just passed the exact same CR that got Kevin McCarthy ousted as Speaker.

[Blackhawk]

CR?

[El Guapo]

CR?

Continuing Resolution. A bill to continue funding the government, essentially.

[Blackhawk]

Ah. People with deep knowledge of a subject + Twitterspeak rarely leads to clarity.

[Jaymann]

And here I thought he was going all Critical Race Theory.

[El Guapo]

Seems like the Senate will probably pass this?

[Zarathud]

If only McCarthy hadn’t been so bad at politics within his own party.

:tiny violin: