After failing to pass a stopgap spending bill because of opposition within his own party, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has bowed to the inevitable:
Pressed closer against the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline — and mired with disputes within his conference — Johnson brokered a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Democrats to dodge what could have been a politically costly outcome.
....The arrangement sets up a frenzied week in Congress: Johnson will likely need to rely on support from Democrats rather than his own party to pass the measure; the Senate will need a bipartisan agreement to expedite the bill’s passage and beat the shutdown deadline.
"Likely." Sure. As in "Kevin is likely to eat some chocolate tomorrow." You can go ahead and bet the ranch on it.
It probably wouldn't have mattered anyway, since the Senate is in Democratic hands, but the Republican opposition to Johnson's bill accomplished nothing except to eliminate the chance of Republicans getting anything. So a Republican speaker will once again have to pass a budget bill with something like 200 Democratic votes and 40 or 50 Republican votes. It's tough times in the GOP these days.
/s Tsk. You hate to see it. /s
So Johnson isn't really Speaker, he only plays one in his dreams. In his real life he should expect trump to be shit-talking him for, like, 6 or 7 weeks, or when trump loses, to be lumped with Mark Robinson as the reason why. You really do hate to see it . . . well, some may, but I won't.
There remains a majority of Republicans who still think shutting down government is leverage enough to extract concessions, irrespective of who controls of the House. There was zero chance this would move forward without at least some drama. They, the majority of Republicans, were always willing to sacrifice their most vulnerable.
No, it’s a minority of Republicans who think threatening a shutdown will be taken seriously. But once a clean CR is on the floor, a majority of the GOP Reps will vote against it, knowing that (almost?) all Democrats, and Republicans representing non-nutty districts, will pass it. Meanwhile, the ‘No’ voters will record ads touting their vote against ‘runaway government spending’.
I think it's a majority of GOP, by way of the size of the Freedom Caucus, but your reasoning is solid.
The cognitive dissonance that Mike Johnson has is astonishing. He seems to take his responsibility as Speaker seriously somewhat seriously, but his party is fully incapable of responsible governance. Still, he wants the people who can't govern to have full control of the government. How many times does it have to happen before he realizes that the problem is on his side of the aisle?
Party above country, and Me! above party …
Johnson has honestly done a pretty decent job of kicking the Freedom caucus in the balls compared to them having Kev-chan by what passes for his.
Only until 12/20 when they will do it all again. I wonder what they will demand then? Trump appointed president or shut down the government!
Johnson dragged this out until the Republicans didn't have time to do anything else.
So, why are you framing this in a negative way? Where's the downside?
Because they get to do it again in a few months. They won't have to worry about a presidential race then. They might just do it out of spite if Trump loses. I don't think Johnson will be able to controll them then.
I guess this is what happens when either party goes too far.
MAGA is now a noose around the republicans neck. Not capable of compromise. We used to see negotiations now we have brinksmanship.
Either party? In what Universe? This is the Republican playbook. Not the Democrats.
Theoretically if the Democrats got taken over by some irrational far left subgroup they’d have the same issues, but that’s just theoretical because it’s never happened and unlikely ever to happen.
Although I would tend to agree with you, I always say never say never. I never thought Trump could be elected president once. But here we are.
Bipartisanship! Miracle!!! God made it happen and Told Johnson While He Slept.
Next up: a daily working consensus, Boebert and MTG kiss, make up and sing Kumbayah together.....
dennis hastert didn't groom the house rules just to see some smarmy punk from louisiana bypass them.
Their dear leader thought a shutdown would work to his advantage. This is how profoundly stupid he is. Of course Johnson wasn't going to let it happen. Will Trumps cult members in congress give him the Mccarthy treatment now?
No but the voter will in November hahahahah. I predict that the Democrats will retake the House.
From your mouth to fates ears. 🤞
I read this situation differently. Johnson knew he never could get his, proof of citizenship bill passed. Rather, proof of citizenship generally polls well. Johnson got to talk about the concept, the Democratic opposition, for a few weeks...
Proof of citizenship as an abstract concept polls well, but as is usually the case with things that are just feel good phrases the actual details to implement it are onerous, expensive and/or impossible to actually do.
As they say, the Devil is in the details.
Proof of citizenship for what?
For voting.