This is a clown show by the Republican Freedom Caucus Clowns.House Republicans are supposedly in charge but they don't know how to govern so it is an absolute clown show, They only know how to do political theater. They do stunts instead of governing. That is why so many Republican politicians constantly go to the Mexican border. They can't do anything there but it is political theater with a scenic backdrop.
Their investigation committees are all theatrics to avoid governing.
But now it has come down to producing budgets, actually governing.
It should be easy, all the Senate budgets got done following the Biden-McCarthy agreements that ended the threatened shutdown earlier this year.
But the crazier-than-ever Freedom Caucus members are in charge of many committees as part of the deal to make McCarthy Speaker. They refuse to honor the deal and are drastically cutting a lot more and adding conservative wish list items that have no chance of passing.
Even fellow Republicans are despairing of their extremist colleagues. The Freedom Caucus announced they would be glad to shut down the government if they don't get their way and they have several ways to do it. Mainly not passing budgets or continuing resolutions.
They offered McCarthy a way to avoid that shutdown: impeach President Joe Biden, although there is no evidence the president has committed any “high crimes and misdemeanors” required for an impeachment.
McCarthy folded under pressure from them and Trump.
But... Representative Ken Buck (R-CO), himself a member of the Freedom Caucus, said: “The time for impeachment is the time when there’s evidence linking President Biden—if there’s evidence linking President Biden to a high crime or misdemeanor. That doesn’t exist right now.”Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) summed up recent events “So let me get this straight: Republicans are threatening to remove their own Speaker, impeach the President, and shut down the government on September 30th—disrupting everyday people’s paychecks and general public operations. For what? I don’t think even they know.”
Senator Fetterman just laughed at them in response to the announcement of an impeachment hearing. He is much less crazy than the clowns on the extremist Right.
It doesn't look like they have the votes to get a majority for impeachment in the House, let alone the two-thirds they need in the Senate to remove Biden. This is just more political theater instead of governing.
It is just more theatrics. We will see if we get a budget but right now the Republican clowns are stuck in the clown car.
Some of the above with less clownishness is from my smart political historian: Heather Cox Richardson.
By the way, do you know that despite the claims from the extremist Republican clowns that there is too much government spending and we are becoming a communist state - the federal discretionary spending share of the economy has stayed the same since 1954? What has gone down is the share of taxes paid by the corporations and the wealthy.
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