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The Farce in the Republican House
Mike Johnson and the art of kissing ass
It’s two weeks before the government shuts down without a continuing resolution (a temporary fix) to keep it open. And the Republican House is ignoring reality and kowtowing to Trump in the face of yet another embrassing financial catastrophe.
Trump wants a ‘big beautiful bill’ that is really a wish list with no connection to reality. Raise the debt ceiling so he can pass another huge tax bill as a giveaway to the very wealthy, a giveaway that would cost us $4.5 trillion (with a T) over the next five years. This from the great government cost cutter.
It also calls for $880 billion in cuts without detailing where they come from, because it is very likely that they will target Medicaid, which affects one in five Americans. But they won’t talk about that. Actually Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security have long constituted the third rail of American politics and if these goons mess with them they will be in for a shock.
What they passed was essentially a memorandum of intent, not any actual budget work, because the devil’s in the details and they are not good at details. Details are the hard part because their fellow congresspeople will see exactly what gets chopped and they won’t be happy. In other words this big ‘victory’ is nothing more than an empty document passed to give Trump a pretend win. But the clock is ticking fast.
Multiple Democrats have said that maybe we should just let them fail and shut the government down, which would inevitably hit the GOP hard because they are theoretically in power. It’s false power because they need a lot of Democrats to cross over and vote with them and that is not happening, not this time.
Trump and Johnson are working under the delusion that they have a mandate and that this is what we the American people want, both fantasies, not reality. But Trump thinks he still has a reality distortion field but as he gets more and more deranged, and Elon Musk chops off more and more heads, the country is finally starting to realize how bad these people are.
Or are we? That’s the hundred trillion dollar question and the huge gamble they are taking with our democracy, just because they can. It was not broken, the economy…
