The IRS funding vote
There have been are a lot of things happening in the House recently – so many that I missed this on Monday, the day it occurred. Of course, it won’t be passed by the Senate, and even if it were … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Politics
The GOP House majority gets with the program
Did you miss this? It’s another victory: The House of Representatives passed a new rules package Monday that overhauls the way it functions by putting up more barriers to congressional spending and creating a more deliberate process for passing legislation, … Continue reading →
McCarthy keeps another promise…
…and tells Schiff, Omar, and Swalwell to say “buy-bye” to their powerful committee positions. Pelosi set the rules, as McCarthy reminded them: McCarthy said, “‘It’s not like it’s anything new. Remember, this is what Nancy Pelosi – this is the … Continue reading →
Speaker squeaker: on the battle behind and the battle ahead
One thing I can say about last night is that it certainly was dramatic. Another thing is that nearly every article I read points out that McCarthy is now weakened. He’s certainly weakened by the rule change that allows a … Continue reading →
Tonight’s vote for Speaker [scroll down for UPDATES]
I thought I’d put up a separate post for this, in case this one really ends up electing McCarthy. I make no predictions about that. They’ve released a rules package. Here it is, all 55 pages of it. I haven’t … Continue reading →
Hating Republicans: why not look it up?
It’s very common for me to see a question – sometimes rhetorical and sometimes otherwise – that can be answered rather easily with a simple search. Most of the time I don’t mind doing that search, but I wonder why … Continue reading →
Is the House Speaker impasse coming to an end?
I certainly hope so. The end might just be that the rebels have extracted enough concessions – some of them improvements on business-as-usual – and McCarthy gets elected. The latter is something that’s okay with me although not ideal because, … Continue reading →
Let’s have a little House Speaker Gedankenexperiment
I’m no Einstein. (I thought I’d get that out of the way first.) However, I’ve always liked that word: Gedankenexperiment, otherwise known as “thought experiment.” I’ve got one for you about the current brouhaha over electing a Speaker in the … Continue reading →
The conflict in the House continues
I hope it isn’t a case of he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind – the “he” there being the right, and the house being the GOP in the House. Then again, the next line is and … Continue reading →
GOP discord in the House
The GOP margin is tiny, and a small portion of the conservative wing in the House sees its chance to wring more concessions from would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy. At least, I hope that’s what’s going on, because no realistic alternative … Continue reading →
The omnibus bill and Republican betrayals
Yes, they passed it, and just about everyone on the right is angry and shrieking “Betrayal!”: Despite the outcry, though, Republicans in the US Senate soldiered forward to stab their voters in the back, and now, we have their names. … Continue reading →
On doubting everything
This is a recent bald-faced lie told by the Biden administration: The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact … Continue reading →