Anonymous
11/16/2023 15:10
Subject: Re:Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
And of course, what Chip Roy is disappointed about in terms of not having any accomplishments to tout on the campaign trail is that the GOP hasn't yet been able to declare a win on gutting the IRS (and along with it our ability to go after tax cheats), gutting the NIH, EPA, CPSC and other agencies whose mission it is to protect citizens including his own constituents, gutting public education and replacing it with sham private for-profit colleges and technical diploma mills that are far worse than any university where it comes to cranking out junk degrees (that is, if they don't just bankrupt and then abandon their students first). Or that they haven't yet impeached Biden or put him in jail for imaginary corruption or hand Ukraine over to Russia.
There isn't actually even a single positive or productive thing that they've proposed let alone made any progress on.
Anonymous
11/16/2023 07:31
Subject: Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
Anyone who votes republican is brain dead
Mtg is the face of the party
How about that religious right telling women to stay home barefoot and pregnant
Hello bread lines Jesus Americans wake up this is not going to end well
Mtg is the face of the party
How about that religious right telling women to stay home barefoot and pregnant
Hello bread lines Jesus Americans wake up this is not going to end well
Anonymous
11/16/2023 07:15
Subject: Re:Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
November 15
Heather Cox Richardson (historian and news analyst)
Extremist Republicans today shut down House business by refusing to pass a procedural vote to take up a spending bill, as they had threatened to do in retaliation for the passage yesterday of the continuing resolution to fund the government into the new year. This is the fourth time the extremists have defeated special rules in the House this year, and as deputy chief of staff for Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) Aaron Fritschner pointed out, their doing so is highly unusual. In the previous 20 years the House voted down no such measures at all.
Although they were in the middle of a 17-vote series, the Republicans then recessed the House until after Thanksgiving.
Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus made it clear they are angry that their own demands are not being met. “We’re sending a shot across the bow,” caucus chair Scott Perry (R-PA) told reporters. “[W]e are done with the failure theater here.”
Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) angrily said to his colleagues: “One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. One! Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’”
In contrast, the Democrats with the same slim majority in the last Congress passed a series of sweeping bills that are already changing the country. Today marks the second anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act that invested $1.2 trillion—$550 billion of it new spending—in roads, water systems, electrical grids, broadband, bridges, and so on.
So far, that act has seen the start of more than 37,000 projects across the country. Bridges, airports, and supply chain projects are underway, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. The Democrats today emphasized that they are delivering on the things that make people’s lives easier, and the White House listed a number of Republicans who voted against the measure only to boast of the benefits of the infrastructure investments to their constituents.
“And,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a video in which he echoed the tagline of the administration: “the great news is, we’re just getting started.”
The investment in infrastructure is part of what has created a booming U.S. economy. Growth is far better in the U.S. than in Europe or China, where a property bubble and local government debts have led to deflation.
That economic strength is standing behind President Joe Biden in San Francisco, where he traveled yesterday for a summit of the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum (APEC groups economies, not nations). APEC economies make up almost half of world trade and about 62% of global gross domestic product.
Heather Cox Richardson (historian and news analyst)
Extremist Republicans today shut down House business by refusing to pass a procedural vote to take up a spending bill, as they had threatened to do in retaliation for the passage yesterday of the continuing resolution to fund the government into the new year. This is the fourth time the extremists have defeated special rules in the House this year, and as deputy chief of staff for Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) Aaron Fritschner pointed out, their doing so is highly unusual. In the previous 20 years the House voted down no such measures at all.
Although they were in the middle of a 17-vote series, the Republicans then recessed the House until after Thanksgiving.
Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus made it clear they are angry that their own demands are not being met. “We’re sending a shot across the bow,” caucus chair Scott Perry (R-PA) told reporters. “[W]e are done with the failure theater here.”
Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) angrily said to his colleagues: “One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. One! Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’”
In contrast, the Democrats with the same slim majority in the last Congress passed a series of sweeping bills that are already changing the country. Today marks the second anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act that invested $1.2 trillion—$550 billion of it new spending—in roads, water systems, electrical grids, broadband, bridges, and so on.
So far, that act has seen the start of more than 37,000 projects across the country. Bridges, airports, and supply chain projects are underway, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. The Democrats today emphasized that they are delivering on the things that make people’s lives easier, and the White House listed a number of Republicans who voted against the measure only to boast of the benefits of the infrastructure investments to their constituents.
“And,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a video in which he echoed the tagline of the administration: “the great news is, we’re just getting started.”
The investment in infrastructure is part of what has created a booming U.S. economy. Growth is far better in the U.S. than in Europe or China, where a property bubble and local government debts have led to deflation.
That economic strength is standing behind President Joe Biden in San Francisco, where he traveled yesterday for a summit of the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum (APEC groups economies, not nations). APEC economies make up almost half of world trade and about 62% of global gross domestic product.
Anonymous
This Democrat seems to be enjoying it.
Anonymous
11/15/2023 17:05
Subject: Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/30/house-gop-demands-irs-budget-cuts-pay-israel-aid/
They just resumed their political hostage taking. In this case: defund IRS or Israel doesn't get aid.
This actually would cost the US treasury around $30 Billion because the IRS is revenue positive. So overall, the GOP deal is forgo $30B in income and spend an additional 15 billion dollars for Israel.
Yeah, this is terrible coming from the "fiscally responsible" party (cough, cough).
Remember when the called the Dems the “tax and spend” party? Seems responsible unlike the GOP! The GOP is just the “deficit spending” party.
Anonymous
11/15/2023 16:46
Subject: Re:Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
I meant as an ad for Dems. Obviously Chip isn’t going to give up his lucrative grift. Nobody else would employ him.
Anonymous
11/15/2023 14:31
Subject: Re:Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
Anonymous
11/15/2023 14:03
Subject: Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
Anonymous
11/15/2023 13:56
Subject: Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/30/house-gop-demands-irs-budget-cuts-pay-israel-aid/
They just resumed their political hostage taking. In this case: defund IRS or Israel doesn't get aid.
This actually would cost the US treasury around $30 Billion because the IRS is revenue positive. So overall, the GOP deal is forgo $30B in income and spend an additional 15 billion dollars for Israel.
Yeah, this is terrible coming from the "fiscally responsible" party (cough, cough).
Anonymous
Anonymous
11/15/2023 12:35
Subject: Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?
The FC is all bluster and no balls. They won't oust Johnson because they have no replacement and it just shines a brighter spotlight on how utterly unserious they are. Hate to love to see it.
Anonymous