The tables have turned for House conservatives.
Six months ago, emboldened by a new GOP majority and armed with new rules designed to rein in government spending, Republican deficit hawks stormed into the 2024 appropriations debate hoping to secure steep cuts and threatening to take on anyone who stood in their way.
When their Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), cut one too many spending deals with President Biden, they booted him from power.
But Congress last week wrapped up the 2024 spending battle with bipartisan votes to approve a massive, $1.2 trillion government funding package — and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) survived the biggest fight of his short, five-month tenure
I’d say the real losers with this “spending battle” are the innocent children living in Gaza…
Fuck anyone that takes AIPAC money, I can’t “hold my nose” anymore.
If you take AIPAC money, you’ll never get my vote again.
Keep dreaming of a “fair” world; it’s a fantasy. Your principles will leave the country with a guy who just said, “You have to finish up your war. You have to finish it up. You’ve got to get it done,”.
“Get it done” means finish the extermination, if you have trouble reading between lines.
Yeah, I hate that I have to compromise on things, but when it comes down to it, I’d rather have more rights and have to watch Palestinians die than have fewer rights and have to watch Palestinians die.
Its a fucked situation anyway you slice it, but there it is.
Choosing between two elderly men that may die before the end of their term is a fundamentally horrible situation.
We’re on a rough political timeline.
Bruh, what do you think Biden’s been telling them?
We know what Biden is telling Nyet N Yahoo. You are simply spreading misinformation. Very transparent.
You do you buddy! A principle is worthless untill you actually have to suffer for it.
Just know that all the people rabidly against your best interests are all die hard republican voters that will turn out in droves.
And the children of Gaza will continue to suffer, but the MAGAts will Stack all brown children at the border on that mountain of suffering.
So you are clearly showing you are willing to make more people suffer for your convictions… fight the power… rage against the machine!
Or… maybe… nah… too much work … amirite?
Biden has zero chance of winning my state, like he does with lots of states.
I’m not selling out my morales for nothing in return. I don’t think the DNC will give a shit, they’re going to keep doing whatever the fuck they want.
But I do now understand why Biden’s most feverent supporters have been imitating ostriches and wanting to ignore problems. I wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror either.
Are you talking about what Obama started, trump continued, and now Biden is still doing?
Just another example how “not a Republican” isn’t enough and voting “blue no matter who” fucks us all.
Have standards besides a D next to someone’s name or we’re all fucked.
Hey that sounds like what they said about Georgia in 2020
And what they said about Trump in 2016
I remember…
Biden won his election saying he can work with a Republican Senate.
GA runoffs got donations from all over, even me.
We got both seats for a Dem Senate…
And Biden promptly told us it changes nothing because he can’t even change a democrats mind so it would be pointless to try…
If you’re trying to get people to vote Biden, you should stop mentioning that homie.
Nice goalpost shift.
How pissed off do Republicans get at other Republicans who work with Democrats? Could agree to give them everything they want and they will refuse because Democrats want it.
If you want people capable of working with others that’s not Republicans.
So…
Why did Biden say he could work with Republicans?
After he got a Dem Senate, Biden said he couldn’t work with Democrats…
So, uh, maybe you need to get stricter with you’re requirements than “not republican”.
Because in case you haven’t noticed, when that’s our standards, we end up with a lot of Dems who act like Republicans.
Hell, Biden had to wait over 30 years before the bar was lowered enough after his first presidential primary.
Maybe in another 30 Eric trump will run as a Dem and you’ll be telling people to vote for him because he’s better than Ivanka and she’s running as the Republican…
Personally, I think if we don’t start demanding more, we won’t have elections in 30 years.
Hell yeah, we won’t when we won’t listen to the guy who says he’ll be a dictator on day one, arrest his political rivals and sick the national guard or DOJ on members of the wrong political party. The one arguing in the multiple courts across the country that nobody can be a President if they have to worry about laws…