The House has a new Speaker, and he is truly awful. He represents the worst of MAGA extremism, and there’s turbulence ahead on the budget and Ukraine aid. But zooming out, his election could also be a HUGE problem for the GOP. How so, in today’s piece. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
But “he’s a very nice guy.” Truly sad and discouraging. Hold your Reps accountable, peeps.
Dude does look like he's dressed up as Colbert for Halloween.
Cute stuff, but what y'all fail to understand is a government shutdown is *not* a deterrent to Trumpists, it's an incentive: It shores up their claim that the system they broke is broken and they're the only ones who can fix it, slows Trump's trial, and helps them to sow chaos ahead of the election.
They luv their nutzis over in the GOP.
once he makes government funding dependent on a nationwide abortion ban, things will get much clearer
Well they had to do something...
Would only take a single moderate GOP senator to raise a motion to vacate to force another vote.