Here’s thread for discussing the ongoing CR negotiations
I”m not going to write a post about it right now because the entire thing is in a state of flux. One given, however, is that the MSM is trying to frame this as “Republican meanies shut down the government,” as usual. I’m not so sure the public will buy it anymore.
A very insightful discussion about Musk’s tweets and the implications of it be four tech people, two of which characterize themselves and left-leaning moderates on the All-In Podcast.
They do point out it’s rich for the same party/administration that hid the cognitive decline of the sitting president and apparently ran the government using unelected nameless staffers are being critical of an unelected advisor to a president-elect tweeting about a problematic piece of legislation.
The conversation about this topic begins at minutes 19:04 to 47:59.
“DOGE’s first casualty and the paradigm shifting possibilities”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_glSDyGU
Schumer is now between a rock and the voters. It passed the House, now up to the Dems. If they don’t pass it, then it can (but would it be) be stapled to the Dems.
The Democrats are like crack addicts. They will lie, cheat, and steal to keep on deficit sending out money. Heck, they’ll even ruin Christmas. They spend money like drunken sailors. But that gives drunken sailors a bad name because the sailors are spending their own money. The Dems are spending our money and money we don’t have. Deficit spending whores is what they are.
Why Mike Johnson didn’t try to stand up to them is probably due to his razor thin majority in the house, and an unwillingness to play hardball like Schumer and Jefferies. Still, 1500 pages of spending versus 116 pages in the revised bill. Wow!!
This doesn’t bode well for getting anything meaningful done about the deficit or anything else. Speaker Johnson needs to become as devious and cunning as Schumer is when it comes to maneuvering legislation.
A bill passes the House. Does not look good. All the Democrats voted for it but 34 Republicans voted against.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-backed-spending-bill-voted-down-house-with-government-shutdown-looming
The new bill is still porky but does not raise the debt ceiling. Nice to know there are 34 Republicans not in the Party of Grift… but we shouldn’t let 200 bad apples spoil the whole bunch, now should we?
John Hinderaker’s (of powerline) take
“Let’s call it a win and go forward. This whole story is another instance of how Donald Trump and his team–here, Musk and Ramaswamy–are wielding extraordinary influence even though they are not in office. Starting next year, the new Congress and the Trump administration will have to deal with the potentially-fatal level of debt that we Americans have incurred over a period of decades, through reckless federal spending. Those battles are yet to be fought, but this preliminary skirmish bodes well.”
Hey, it’s Christmas. May as well be opimistic. Let’s see what happens in the Senate
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/house-passes-spending-bill-better-than-the-original.php
Did you realize that Connecticut Democrat Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro was the ranking member of the extremely powerful House Budget committee?*
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KH97OxmcvY
From NBC News:
“Speaking on the Senate floor tonight, Schumer said that the exact timing for a vote on the continuing resolution hadn’t yet been determined but that it would be passed before the 12:01 a.m. ET deadline.
“Democrats and Republicans have reached — just reached an agreement that will allow us to pass the CR tonight before the midnight deadline,” he said.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/government-shutdown-live-updates-rcna184880
Let’s hope Schumer isn’t BSing us.