Reflections on a day of self-parody on Capitol Hill.
: “If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine,” he vowed, “then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.”
Putting aside what might be the first known use of the word in an official statement by a U.S. senator, it seems safe to say that Fetterman probably won’t have to put that suit on. But he sure had a point: it’s silly season once again in Washington, as various nihilistic Republicans in the House of Representatives—Fetterman’s jagoffs—careen the country toward a government shutdown when funding runs out at the end of September. Stopping U.S.
The feckless House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, has been trying to thwart them but with such notable ineffectiveness that by midweek thehad become conventional wisdom in Washington, the presumed political costs to Republicans notwithstanding. “We always get the blame,” Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho complained.
Within hours, the ex-President—on whose watch, in 2018 and early 2019, the longest government shutdown in history occurred, ending with Trump having achieved none of the goals he sought—publicly demanded that Republicans flout McCarthy and press ahead. “Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponized Government,”.
On Thursday, with McCarthy’s would-be breakthrough stymied by his party’s actual leader, his rebel caucus rebelled yet again, joining with Democrats to vote down for the second time a rule to govern floor consideration of the annual defense-appropriations bill. “This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,”
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