Shut down averted (for now)

There's a better chance of Liz Cheney voting for Trump in 2024 than any Republican Representative voting for Jeffries.

 

All jokes aside, look how the Dems are going at Bob Menendez. We just don't see that on the other side. I mean... the fact that they didn't try to push George Santos out is a prime example.

 

Well, for starters, let’s all wait for the President to sign before we celebrate. He has threatened to veto, and I haven’t heard any definitive word that he will sign this version.

Government Shutdown: Biden Threatens to Veto House Republicans' Stopgap Funding Measure

Second, it was a Squad, not this time a MAGA, loon who literally pulled the fire alarm, trying to make a shutdown happen. He says it was an “accident,” but — whoops! — caught on tape.

Bowman pulls fire alarm in House office building but says it was an accident | CNN Politics

Both sides need to stiff arm their loons and embrace the center.

 

Once again leave it to the Democrats to clean up the GOP mess

 

Cute. Just understand nothing improves when you excuse that kind of behavior. Speaking for self, I have nothing but contempt in my soul for MTG et al. There’s nothing cute about anything they do to obstruct the business of this government.

 

I agree. I am not a fan of doing things like that

 

That fact more than any other should tell one all one needs to know about today's GOP.

 

"obstruction of an official proceeding"

If it were J6 he would have gotten years for that.
Would have pretty much been an open and shut case.

 

I usually think the government does better with divided government. One party having the presidency and maybe the house. The other having the senate but things have changed and not for the better. The middle should be where we find compromise not at the looney fringe of either party.

 

Catastrophic shutdown averted as McCarthy sides with Democrats over far right in his own party | The Independent (the-independent.com)

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a funding resolution and keep the federal government open on Saturday after Speaker Kevin McCarthy ended his attempts to work with far-right hardliners and instead cut a deal with Democrats.

After several weeks of negotiations and pitched battles in GOP caucus meetings and the press, Mr McCarthy took the most likely option and averted a government shutdown that would have likely cost the US economy millions of dollars and have been politically damaging for his own party. Now, he faces the prospect of governing over a Republican House caucus where his authority is weaker than ever before.

Dozens of Republicans opposed the measure but were unable to clear the 1/3 margin necessary to defeat the resolution under suspended House rules. Conservatives in his caucus were fuming openly to reporters while their Democratic colleagues celebrated during the vote. The final tally on the 45-day measure was 335-91 in favor of the measure; more Democrats than Republicans ended up supporting it in perhaps the clearest view of Mr McCarthy’s tough spot.

The measure must be passed by the Senate before it is signed into law by the president and officially halts the prospect of a shutdown. But the Senate is likely to do so without incident, with funding for Ukraine’s defence being the only sticking point (and one that will likely be addressed in the coming days).

 

There's no funding for Ukraine in the stop-gap bill at the insistence of Rs. Biden should probably go ahead and sign it though

 

I agree. It befuddles me how the republicans have become allies of the Russians. Useful idiots comes to mind.

 

Useful?

 

They are not allies of the Russians. Look at what the money is going to. Weapons and defense is fine but we are paying for salaries for government officials, their pensions, small businesses, we are basically funding their entire economy. It's so bad Zelenskyy's wife is only able to go to Paris once a month or so for shopping. Let's help with the defense part but why are we paying for everything else with basically no audit trail.

 

To Putin.

 

So we give billions of aid all over the world and it’s the people who are fighting off our greatest enemy of the post ww2 era for 5 percent of our annual defense budget that you want to make sure it’s not being wasted.