The Republican Party’s war on itself has turned its inoperative House majority into a “clown show” and a “dysfunction caucus” and is handing wins to the Chinese Communist Party – and that’s just what some of its own members say about it.
Days of recriminations between far-right hardliners, moderates, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his nihilistic tormentors reached a new peak on Tuesday in extraordinary scenes of inter-party infighting on the south side of the US Capitol.
The legislative train wreck made clear that more is now at stake than McCarthy’s loosening grip on a job he craved for years and the capacity of the GOP to fulfill the chamber’s most basic function – setting a budget to run the country.
The Republican majority’s farcical self-harm now increasingly appears to be putting America on a path hurtling toward a government shutdown ahead of a deadline for new federal funding at the end of next week. This could mean furloughs for federal workers who provide basic services, that troops could go unpaid and the possibility of severe damage to an economy that can’t afford more knocks if the impasse is prolonged.
They view that as a win-win though. They get what they want: win. They shut down the government: win. As long as they can keep their base voting for them by blaming it on “the Democrats who are evil and didn’t compromise”, they’ll keep doing this.
And the more dysfunctional they look, the more it gives the general appearance that government itself is dysfunctional. They’re making the government as dysfunctional as they say it is.
Except the infighting is so bad they can’t even get to a place where they’re offering a deal to Democrats. That’s almost impossible to spin to the positive except to only the most extreme elements.
Let’s be honest here, they can come up with the most insane reason this is still the Democrat’s fault and their voter base will not think twice about it.
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I am so very tired of these traitor shitcunts. Wish they’d all fuck off to the great beyond, already.
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Republicans want the government dysfunction. It’s their political platform.
What a shit show. It would be funny if there were not wars going.
6 Republicans could solve this by putting the Democrats in charge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives
I think that’ll probably end up happening, a shutdown would not be good politically for the republicans.
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The r’s are eating themselves as they self destruct. It would be funny if it wasn’t hurting america.
Republicans are either going to own the shut down or they are going to own their failure push an insane budget through, maybe both - it’s a GOP style win, win either way
If every federal civil servant pledged to donate one dollar to the opposition candidate of McCarthy for every day of shutdown that would be millions of dollars a day.
Or even better. Use the money to buy the house nextdoor to his house.
