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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there is nothing new here. They are unserious about protecting water and air quality that keep our citizens healthy. They are simply happy to allow capitalism to run amok regardless of the impact on the health and safety of the citizens.[/quote]

What's not new is the far right wing rhetoric about the EPA and other things.  What's not new is that this current House is doing the same thing with several of the other Appropriations bills.

What's new is that it's gone beyond merely being rhetoric to inflame the base, but that in 2023 they actually took this lunacy and extremism to the House floor.

What's new is just how deeply they are trying to make the cuts, and how insane this whole thing is.

How can Republicans be so idiotically hubristic to think they actually have any chance of passing this garbage?
[b]Don't they realize that they will are still on the hook to pass a real budget (as opposed to this unserious clownshow) to avoid a shutdown?[/b]
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I keep wondering about this too.  Precious few work days left.  On the one hand it’s worrisome. On the other, part of me is hoping we go off the cliff and that the GOP’s constituents get a lesson from the hard knocks school on the value of the government.  [/quote]

Problem is, they won't because there are still grown-ups in Washington who won't do what they probably should do:

Stop paying Social Security
Stop paying Medicare
Stop paying military salaries
Stop paying veterans
Stop paying all government contracts including military
Stop paying agriculture subsidies

24 hours of that and the Republicans would move to reopen the government so fast your head would spin.

But the Democrats won't allow it because, you know, we're not insane.
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The Democrats won’t allow it because they know that it’s always the poorest and weakest who get it hardest from the GOP shutdowns. Children, disabled people, the elderly and so on. The people with the least ability to absorb a few days without heat or food or whatever it is that the government provides them. The GOP just loves the cruelty.[/quote]

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