After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
A short-term funding measure to keep government offices fully functioning will dominate the September agenda, along with emergency funding for Ukraine, federal disaster funds and the Republican-driven probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
Time is running short for Congress to act. The House is scheduled to meet for just 11 days before the government’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, leaving little room to maneuver. And the deal-making will play out as two top Republicans, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, deal with health issues.
Impeachment for what?
“We’ll figure that out afterwards”
The Republicans from districts which voted for Biden must be several drinks deep already. Either they buck the party line and become reviled, or they give into the obvious far right bullshit and become reviled. Either way, their careers are done. It’s the sort of unenviable position that’s only possible when you sell your soul to be a Republican.
Even better, the plurality blames Republicans for the debt ceiling crisis. Leadership is aware that these childish stunts are a net negative for them. Combining a shutdown with a frivolous impeachment is throwing water into an oil fire.
Ive heard false death knells for republicans way too many times over several decades. After Trump, theres no amount of depravity conservative voters arent willing to overlook.
If anything, I feel like ditching Trump might help them. He goes to prison, it’s the deep state democrats. Oh, we’re you in the Republicans Against Trump group? Well he’s gone, so we can being in people who sat the same things, bur sounds smarter sometimes. Hello fellow kids. I’m a cool radical liberal, much like you! Now that the orange man(Ha! Remember that meme!) is gone, we can totes relax and hang out with our bros, instead of worrying about politics!
Luckily I think a lot of people have realized it’s much bigger than Trump, but they just need enough people to fall for it.
Gotta treat every opportunity like it’s the one that’ll be the death knell. We won’t get to it unless we do.
