House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline.
They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language.
It’s a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party’s conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline.
I think the correct phrase should be “We can’t govern”.
We are ungovernable makes it sound like this is something that just happened to the GOP
The passive voice is used everywhere to blur responsibility.
“Mistakes were made.” (As pointed out already. This is the go-to) “Problems are hitting us.” “Errors are being worked on.” “Trucks of the GENERIC line are experiencing issues.” “The cake was eaten.”
None of these have an actor. Only an action. No one to take responsibility for the blame.
Passive voice follows a pattern that you can learn to recognize. Its not always meant to be shady. People use the passive voice in natural speech all the time to communicate perfectly clearly.
It follows: [thing] [‘to be’] [action+ing].
Notice these statements in suspicious information to get a feel if they are hiding themselves.
(I know I replied to myself, if that bothers anyone)
Mistakes were made
More like “we are unherdable”
How entirely expected.
It’s just threat of government shutdown on repeat these years it seems. First it was years between events, now we’re on what? Months? Weeks almost. It’s like they can’t come to any form of consensus unless the fabric of the US hangs on them doing so. Like a porn addict that can only cum if he’s watching some deranged shit.
It only happens when there is a republican house and a democratic president.
For republicans, it’s win-win. Either they get what they want, or they get to blame the democrat president for the damage they cause.
Apparently voters have wisened up, because the shutdowns seem to hurt Republicans more than Democrats.
McConnell claimed as much, and I’m inclined to actually believe him since there’s bipartisan agreement and compromise going on in the Senate. He seems to genuinely want to keep the government funded, which suggests there’s truth to what he’s saying.
McConnell may be a hateful, duplicitous ghoul, but he’s not a complete nihilist like his house bedfellows. He knows the game to siphon wealth from his constituents to his donors depends on actual stability and prosperity.
The old guard Republicans know the GOP platform is actually counterproductive. And they know that this new class of true believers and actual fascists are going to bring it all down eventually, either by actually destroying the planet, or sufficiently repulsing too many voters.
I don’t think they care about destroying the planet. In the short term, the bullshit they’ve been pulling has been flipping local elections… And without the ability to gerrymander, Republicans are fucked on a way shorter time frame
Accurate, but I didn’t need that image in my head 🤢
Either there’s a shutdown or Johnson is out by Dec 1
The cabbage hasn’t even rotted yet.
Can we reuse the one from Liz Truss?
Hear me out: If the GOP could just, I don’t know, at least talk to the other 49% of the House, they may be able to get at least some of the things they want.
Apparently I’m really optimistic today.
What I’m getting out of this is these Neanderthals can’t do their jobs.
Neanderthals were very skilled and were definitely able to do their jobs. These chucklefucks, on the other hand…
Hey boss, sorry going to get you that funding, just have to take 6 months off work first and we will revisit this.
Hey boss, still know you want that money, so we need a bit more time, we are going to kick out the speaker then do cocaine until we elect a new one. Thanks bye!
Hey boss, I just sexually assaulted Roe V. Wade, looks like you got a real problem that you are going to have to take care of. Sorry and wish you the best! <3
Hey boss, good news is we elected a speaker, but we don’t like him, so we are going to need 45 days to do the whole “money thing” again. I know you wish you could fire me, but get used to it bitch.
Hey boss, looks like we are coming on that deadline…
/satire
Who would’ve thunk that the speaker is not the root of the problem?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This week, Johnson held multiple meetings with groups of rank-and-file Republicans about a path forward on a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR.
Republicans said Johnson will need to make a call on a CR strategy by Friday to abide by the 72-hour rule, which gives lawmakers sufficient time to read the legislation before voting on it early next week.
Like the financial services measure, several of the remaining House appropriations bills have anti-abortion provisions, which could make it similarly difficult to win the votes of politically endangered Republicans.
The issue has sparked fresh anxiety within the GOP after another poor election night earlier this week in which voters in a diverse array of states punished the party for its hard-line opposition to legal abortion.
Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s salary to $1.
Conservatives also were furious over the failure of another amendment — authored by a key Trump ally, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. — that would have barred funding to acquire property for the new planned FBI headquarters.
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