The White House reacted to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) new stopgap funding bill Saturday, calling it “extreme.”
“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop,” a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre read. “With just days left before an Extreme Republican Shutdown—and after shutting down Congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader—House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties.”
“An Extreme Republican Shutdown would put critical national security and domestic priorities at risk, including by forcing service members to work without pay,” Jean-Pierre continued. “This comes just days after House Republicans were forced to pull two of their own extreme appropriations bills from the floor—further deepening their dysfunction.”
There are other conceivable sorts of disagreements that might cause a shut down, some much more reasonable. I think it’s fair to call this particular shutdown out for being the result of extremist elements in the Republican Party making absurd demands.
It’s so extreme that even most Republicans outside of the freedom caucus don’t seem to want a shutdown, to the point where the last speaker sacrificed his career to try to avoid one.
God forbid they compromise with dems, rather than let 8 people stop everything.
Yeah agreed. One scary thing is that, even if some Republicans wanted to compromise, the political incentives are fucked. People get primaried out of their seat for much less than actively supporting the opposing party against one’s own. The two party system is completely broken.
"Extreme Republican Shutdown’ is never going to stick. No news media is going to use that because it’s so obviously partisan. The real trick is to get something that everyone calls it while still obviously framing it on your terms.
I’m thinking something like “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown” would sound fact based while still obviously pinning it on the Republican Comgress.
I disagree, “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown" would pin it on congress as a whole.
There’s a semi-paradoxical fact that most people strongly dislike congress, but have higher opinions of their congressman. They always blame dysfunction on “other people in congress”. I guarantee if you polled republican voters and asked who was in control of congress, a substantial portion would say democrats.
That’s what they tried to do when McCarthy was ousted, blame it on the Democrats. The majority of those who voted to remove McCarthy, do it was the Democrats that did it. Ignoring of course the actual instigators, Republicans.
Exactly! Heck, right before he was ousted McCarthy went on TV and blamed Democrats for not passing a budget, despite the fact that 1) McCarthy’s continuing resolution passed primarily with Democrat votes, and 2) Republicans were the ones unable to agree as a party on a budget.
It’s super important to constantly hammer home that all of this dysfunction isn’t “congress”, it’s congressional republicans.
I think they should just refer to the people themselves as “Republican Extremists” and leave it at that.
It doesn’t make “moderate Republicans” feel bad, and allows them join in hating on the “bad ones” instead of going into full defensive mode. I use quotations because a lot of them like to pretend to be the smart ones sometimes.
It also forces them to mentally associate with other things they hate that are labeled ________ extremists.
Nah, we NEED to drive a wedge between the noncrazies and the crazies. If calling it the MAGA Mess gets the normies angry at the psychos, GOOD!
They’re only making room for more and more harm the longer they retain ANY power. Influence is power. They have less influence if they fail to ally.
Dems suck at messaging because the entire media apparatus does republicans’ work for them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop,” a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre read.
“An Extreme Republican Shutdown would put critical national security and domestic priorities at risk, including by forcing service members to work without pay,” Jean-Pierre continued.
“This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,” Johnson posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Sen. Johnson’s Democratic colleague, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), appeared to have a polar opposite reaction to the CR.
“There’s nothing inherently conservative about making simple things super convoluted, and all of this nonsense costs taxpayer money.”
Speaker Johnson’s fellow House Republican, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) also stated his opposition to the CR.
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