Athletes are not slimy hypocrites like politicians and respect each other....also its.just a game. Kevin gave away power to fucktards like Gaetz and Broebart.. imagine if AOC was given power to control rules and what laws get passed... he deserves no praise.
That's the problem with fascistic GOP'ers. They think democracy is a motherfucking game and cheating by stealing an election is just "a genius play".
You might want to sit down for this, but it's sort of starting to look like the House GQP won't be particularly good at governing for the next two years. McCarthy's struggles point to troubles ahead for his office, his party and Congress NPR - https://tinyurl.com/yc5dkw3d
EDITORIAL Editorial: Fight delivers speaker, hopeful change The Detroit News The concessions demanded of new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, by the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus may, as speculated, weaken his position as leader of the chamber. But it also produced some reforms that could actually make Congress more deliberative and responsive. Over the course of a contentious week, Republicans took 15 votes for speaker before finally pushing McCarthy over the top late Friday. The roughly 20 far-right members who were opposing his selection held out for significant changes in how the GOP caucus will operate. Some of the concessions demanded by the dissenters stand out as clear improvements to the status quo. For example, McCarthy agreed to hold separate votes on the 12 appropriations bills, rather than bundling them together in a giant year-end package, as was recently the case with the $1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill. Approving spending will become a longer and more arduous process, but it will also allow for more scrutiny of outlays and hopefully encourage Congress to set priorities for how it spends taxpayer money. McCarthy also promised to give House members 72 hours to review bills before they come to the floor. It's hardly a radical notion that representatives should know what's in a bill before they're asked to give it their vote. And he promised not to use his Congressional Leadership Fund to influence the outcome of open primary seats that are considered safe for the GOP. This will make it harder for him to stack the caucus with loyalists. The House will now be required to vote before raising the debt limit, which offers the possibility, albeit slim, of bringing fiscal discipline to Congress. Other concessions are off of the far-right wish list, including a new committee to investigate government investigations. Promises to hold votes on congressional term limits and border security and capping domestic and defense spending at pre-Biden administration levels have little chance of coming to fruition due to Democratic control of the Senate and White House. There's no question McCarthy will have to work harder than his predecessor, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, to hold his caucus together. Among the promises he made was to add more Freedom Caucus members to the House Rules Committee. That's bound to give him a perpetual headache. He also accepted a demand to reinstate "motion to vacate" rules that will allow a single House member to start the process of removing the speaker. That could hamstring McCarthy, but it is how the House operated throughout most of its history until the rule was changed by Pelosi. Weakening the iron grip the speaker has on the caucus offers some hope that representatives will stop falling into the party line and feel safer voting according to their own views and the needs of their districts. Certainly, the week was awkward for Republicans. But it was also a useful civics lessons for Americans who got the rare opportunity to see inside the closed rooms where such arm-twisting and horse-trading usually play out. In the end, chaos was averted, Republicans got the speaker most of them wanted, and it produced at least some changes that should make Congress better. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www...-delivers-speaker-hopeful-change/69788381007/
That leaves about 250b in private citizens hands....Money spent by the citizen is more efficient then spent by Government
The Republicans are basically foreshadowing a debt ceiling showdown. As is, $31 trillion of debt is a talking point, not a problem. It's actually really poor economics to have a balanced budget, because often times the spending pays for itself through growth. However, the projected $150 trillion in unfunded liabilities could break us. We can't have too large of a percentage of our population collecting Social Security/Medicare and not contributing much in taxes. Really the only thing the only the government must pay for is interest. Everything else could theoretically be borrowed. If the interest exceeds tax revenues (or the world expects that it will) we will have an economic disaster. Interest rates would skyrocket higher as our treasuries would become junk bonds and countries around the world would push to remove us as the reserve currency. The government would either face an inflation crisis or default. The easiest/smartest way to address this in the near-term is to increase immigration in order to get a higher labor force participation rate and more workers paying taxes.
What percentage of the Democrat base actually pays taxes versus the Repulican base? How about Independents?