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The Missing Debate — Omnibus killed the House GOP’s First Year
Remember all the omnibus talk from December and January?
That’s why this session of Congress does not feature any conversation about spending. Recall that McConnell rescued the Democrats’ ONE POINT SEVEN TRILLION DOLLAR spending orgy by refusing to let it die — he performed CPR on a dead bill to make sure that this new Republican House majority would not get a chance to vote on the money.
Why would he do that? Because of the slimness of the majority. The same reason that McCarthy had to give up some ground for the speakership. With a narrow majority, the leadership needs every vote, which means concessions. Which means behaving like a conservative, or the crunchycons walk away from your bill.
There’s no talk of budget priorities, of returning to regular order, of shutdowns, none of it. McConnell gave the Democrats a blank check, so that Republicans could not limit the spending — especially not conservative Republicans.
I know that some here pooh-pooh the idea of a GOP war against the Tea Party. Call this exhibit #97.
I spit. The post linked above has a list of people to spit at.
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I’m all in favor of helping Ukraine, but there isn’t much point in stopping Putin’s aggression in Ukraine if we’re just going to implement a Putin-style government here in the U.S., much of which would be accomplished with the RESTRICT bill.
This is probably a marvelous opportunity for many to pivot from support. I may write this up, Great point!
Some of us d9nt need to pivot ;)
If you want people to join you, build a bridge. And this is a recent event of great magnitude. Gives people cover to come in from the cold.