U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican effort to win quick approval for a bill providing emergency aid to Israel that passed the House of Representatives last week, but that provides no assistance for Ukraine's war against Russia.
The current GOP plan (which looks a lot like historical GOP plans) is to put up bills full of poisoned pills and then blame Democrats for refusing to pass them. Their donors get to spend a billion dollars on ads saying how Democrats are hypocrits. Cable news / national papers will do a bunch of “Both sides!” view-from-nowhere stories that wax nostalgic about bipartisanship. Mike Johnson will premier a NYT Bestselling book “Jesus Save America”, in which he advocates all liberals be subject to a state-financed exorcism. Fetterman will personally grab up and break a Palestinian migrant over his knee to prove how much the Senate supports Israel. The Government will shut down.
And, after six months of people screaming about how Social Security checks are not going out any minute now, you’ll be surprised to find out how much of this DOA bill gets included in the compromise they eventually settle on.
In surprise to no one, the DOA bill is DOA.
The current GOP plan (which looks a lot like historical GOP plans) is to put up bills full of poisoned pills and then blame Democrats for refusing to pass them. Their donors get to spend a billion dollars on ads saying how Democrats are hypocrits. Cable news / national papers will do a bunch of “Both sides!” view-from-nowhere stories that wax nostalgic about bipartisanship. Mike Johnson will premier a NYT Bestselling book “Jesus Save America”, in which he advocates all liberals be subject to a state-financed exorcism. Fetterman will personally grab up and break a Palestinian migrant over his knee to prove how much the Senate supports Israel. The Government will shut down.
And, after six months of people screaming about how Social Security checks are not going out any minute now, you’ll be surprised to find out how much of this DOA bill gets included in the compromise they eventually settle on.