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Enjoyed your three months of speakership, Mike. I'll miss hearing about how you share your masturbation time with your son.
This is the new normal. Every few weeks, passing a short-term bill to avoid shutdown. And republicans voting out the speaker until they find the one that will actually shut down the government.
Remember when they passed annual budgets every year? Good times.
When was the last time an actual annual budget was passed and signed? I honestly can't remember.
Was it under Obama?
I think it was pre-Obama but I don’t remember either.
2016 was the last time they adopted a budget. The last time it was done on time was 1996.
https://reason.com/2023/03/21/the-budget-battle-book/
It's been normal for a while now
Johnson has a lot more spine than I expected, I'll give him that. He's still horrible, though. If we're lucky the spending bill goes through and then he gets removed anyway.
Good for him. I can't think of anything nice to say about him but he has now reached the very low bar of keeping his word.
He hasn't actually acted yet, so it is still just his words.
Good point
Don't be fooled. He's letting a few things slide with cooperation from Democrats to make you believe that he's reasonable and moderate. He'll come to collect on social issues soon.
Can't wait for this idiot to get ousted so that we can go for another twenty rounds of Speaker elections, until some other idiot is finally duped into taking the stand.
It would only take a handful of Republicans to vote with the Dems for Jeffries and then for actual compromise legislation to get the House working again.
But they won't, because the GOP is a cult.
Oh man..
This has been great.
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