Republican senators are growing increasingly alarmed at Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) inability to pass spending legislation over the staunch opposition of a small group of conservative rebels, and fear a government shutdown may be days away.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who’s had to deal with the political fallout of government shutdowns in 1995-96, 2013 and 2018-19, warned Republican lawmakers on the other side of the Capitol on Tuesday that shutdowns are “a loser for Republicans, politically.”
McConnell made his comments after House Republican leaders canceled a key procedural vote on a stopgap funding measure that was scheduled for 2:30 pm Tuesday amid opposition from disgruntled conservatives.
Our cousins out in bumblefuck elected their ‘Pub clowns and are surprised they’ve got a circus.
The chaos that they caused, you say?
Oh right - the chamber that could have twice removed the guy who started a lot of this shit but chose not to.
Time to deal with the same frustrations that we have for years now because of these people and your enabling of them. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Edit: is that thumbnail from when McConnell had one of his freezing episodes? What an odd choice for this article….
Makes sense. It’s the perfect image to depict a government shutdown. Can we make that his nickname, mitch “shutdown” mcconnell?
Ole malfunction mitch
Hard to tell, his face has been the same expressionless Moscow-made latex mask for 30 years.
I think he’s more beholden to China than Russia. His wife is the daughter, and cousin, of prominent CCP members.
All I know is the name “Moscow Mitch” bothered him so that’s what I’m gonna call the bitch that ruined legislation as long as I can remember.
Imagine if Congress was this Twinkie.
Okay McConnell says government shut downs are a loser for republicans politically. Why though? I assumed at this point they could do whatever they wanted and no one in their party would care. Are their doners getting money from the government or something?
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States and the hardcore R base isn’t big enough for them to get away with pissing off people on the margins. Sure, the true believers will blame democrats. But if a relatively small percentage of Republican voters get pissed and don’t bother voting, they’re not only not going to win the White House, they could easily lose the house and their shot at controlling the senate. And what pisses people off more than not getting paid?
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A strong House Speaker might work with the Democrats to come up with something that both the Democrats and the saner-by-comparison Republicans could support. Then, when the Freedom Caucus had their toddler temper tantrum, they’d be overruled.
But McCarthy instead gave all the power to a handful of our people whose goal seems to be “give me everything I want - even the things I think up on the fly - or I’ll burn down the government. Also, I might just burn down the government anyway.”
doners
No, the government doesn’t sponsor kebabs because they are foreign influence.
Mmmmm, Doner Kebabs
Great. Now I’m hungry and want to visit Germany again.
Can’t believe the FEC has been ignoring the real threat this whole time
lots and lots of people don’t get PAID when the government shuts down… this upsets just about everybody… not getting paid for work…
Because they’re infighting in public. If they had these discussions behind closed doors, and publicly blamed the democrats, the turtle wouldn’t have said anything.
Sounds like the taste of your own medicine is bitter indeed.
he’s not really trying to explain politics to these chimps
Hey! Don’t insult chimps they are smart social creatures. Unlike this pack of degenerates.
chimps are actually pretty nasty, and natural killers… they’re not as ideological about their hostility toward their own kind in the wild, as their counterparts in the Chimpublican Party in Congress are toward us…
Go ahead and shut it down. It’s not working correctly anyways. Shut it down and let’s boot up a new one.
Why isn’t it working correctly?
You don’t get a new one without a lot of violence.
If the right people are getting hurt, sign me up. Tired of this shit.
That’s the thing. The right people are always the last ones to get hurt.
Source: every war in history, ever.
That’s the thing. The right people are always the last ones to get hurt.
Source: every
war inpart of history,everalways.
In Australia when the government shuts down we fire the lot of them. You should do something similar.
This I completely agree on. Should force a snap election.
You need to separate politicians from average government workers. This hurts civilians trying to do a good job more than any of these politicians.
What exactly do you mean? And what do you think I mean?
A shutdown has nothing to do with elections and largely doesn’t impact those elected. It just stops the everyday work government does that makes our lives nicer. The boring quiet stuff done by government workers. This isn’t the same as replacing all the politicians. A shitdown would have nothing to do with firing the politicians. That requires term limits and such. When some people think of “government” they are mostly just thinking of the politicians, and they are ignoring almost the other stuff that keeps modern life running smooth. There are 2 million civilian feds who are just working a job trying pay bills and feed their families. This affects them more. It affects citizens who need access to various government services more. It delays all kinds of work on things that overall make our lives nicer in society. Shutdowns also cost everyone more money in total. It’s more expensive to stop and restart the machine.
If you all are talking about also firing all government workers, then that’s just asinine and childish. Arguments can be made as to whether certain parts of government are necessary or not to the level they are. But fire them all is a massive loss of institutional knowledge and disruption to things your average citizen doesn’t realize makes their lives nicer every day as they rant against this vague enemy they deem “government.”
As far as I am aware, a snap election in response to a government shutdown only replaces officials in elected positions.
The every day government workers are just people who make things function well and are not the same as the dysfunctional politicians. People are too stupid to realize what good that government does every day to make their lives better.
That’s not how it works.
What is the bill for exactly? I read the article but didn’t see anything unless I overlooked it
Government budgets essentially. If they don’t approve a budget, then no one gets paid, programs don’t get funding, i.e. Government Shutdown.
That’s my understanding at least.
Aww, sounds like they’re not liking all those chickens coming home to roost.
Says the guys who can’t approve military promotions because of one guy.
I believe they finally said fuck it and approved many of them today.
Suck it Tuberville
Schumer preempted it too, Tuberville was going to try and force the votes to happen. Schumer managed to blunt any victory that could be claimed.
I wonder if this’ll end up making things worse for Tuberville too. Holding individual votes highlights how long it would take to do every promotion manually, and Democrats can point out that Tuberville is specifically hurting the lower rank people.
“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
Turns out, when your party’s platform is breaking government, you shouldn’t be surprised when your party breaks the government.
Bold of you to assume she can cry with no face.
The tears are stored in the balls.
Literally every single person who ever watched the orcs killing each other in Lord of the Rings could have predicted this.
As a LOTR fan I love this.
“looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!” Says Republicans as they stab each other.
I’m impressed Mitch is moving and speaking again. What a specimen. We’re in good hands.
when was the last time he said anything that a GPT-Mitchbot wouldn’t… we could keep his exact joie de vivre going indefinitely with current levels of digital horseshit…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who’s had to deal with the political fallout of government shutdowns in 1995-96, 2013 and 2018-19, warned that
buhhhhhhhhh and then teetered over onto his face.
