Winning floor-votes is for liberals, communists, deep-staters, and neocons.
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The schadenfreude over attempts to effect a change in our headlong race to bankruptcy might be fun for opponents of the GOP, but it’s certainly shortsighted.
Back when the debt ceiling was the point of contention, naysayers to the efforts to cut spending at the time said it should wait for the budget debates. Now it’s here.
And to them it’s now all a big joke that people are trying. The overarching message seems to be, “Keep spending us into bankruptcy.”
Of course, all the efforts on the House side are just going to be shot down by the Senate. Just keep spending.
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some righties are advocating for the end of social security.
let the people save it themselves.
do we actually know most of the citizens of the united states are short sighted.
Allan
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So. Much. Losing.
Jamie Dupree
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The House has not been able to pass a spending bill since July 27, because GOP leaders simply don’t have the votes.
Lol he never cared about the “other patriots” but now he’s ensnared, soooooo…
He’s such a laughable, self absorbed boor, and that’s how they like it. 
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It’s remarkable how Dems can always pin shutdown on reps.
It’s like a superpower.
Inflation is a big wildcard this time.
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Trump will be counting on your vote.
Pin it on them? What? Trump is asking the GOP to do this dumb ■■■■■ but the Republicans can’t agree among themselves. Are you following this? Why would it be pinned on Democrats?
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The vote for Speaker of the House truly was a sign of things to come. The GOP, once a thriving party that had a good vision embodied by a Contract With America, is now more akin to a teenage boy who has a young lady agree to a date - then has absolutely no idea what to do next.
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All the wrangling seems pointless. Senate is going to kill whatever comes out of the House – whether it’s McCarthy’s version or some extreme version.
Elections have consequences. GOP failed in 2022 to capture a position of strength. The razor-thin majority is subject to breaches, and we are seeing that today. McCarthy should take the Senate’s version and tack on some symbolic cuts, and since the Dem-led Senate crafted the bill, he would get plenty of Dems from the House to join in and get it passed.
We’ll just keep spending ourselves into oblivion, but when you don’t have the army to fight the necessary battle, charging into a suicide mission is … suicide.
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Sick and crazy.
Middle class America is in big trouble.
It’s also weird to consider that, if not for the Hastert Rule (named after convicted pedophile Dennis Hastert, a Republican Speaker), a bipartisan majority would probably be much more effective and representative at dealing with this.
But in GOP world, bipartisan majorities are always the worst. We must, instead, always cater to the narrow, incoherent whims of cretins like Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and the rest of the minority brainworms caucus.
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Thank Dawg for whataboutism, eh?
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Declaring a pandemic emergency and ruining domestic productivity with people STILL working from home has consequences.
The best thing is those consequences are poised to bring Trump back.
Good job Dems.
“RUINED”? Can you please substantiate your claim about our “domestic productivity” being “ruined”?
Unemployment is a low 3.8%. Oil production is growing.. For a country being totally destroyed by the worst president ever, we sure seem to be surviving. Over the last year, the U.S. economy has added an average of 312,000 jobs a month. Economic growth has been 2.0% or higher in the last four quarters. Inflation was over 8% last year at this time; it’s now 3.67%—again, the lowest in any developed country. Real wages have increased. I am judging by the usual metrics I use, regardless of who happens to be in the white house.
I know the drama of superlatives is addictive and every quanta of reality needs to be forced through the polarizing machine, but you can still disagree with Biden and accept reality. I think Trump’s a toxic domestic and global menace, but that doesn’t require me to deny the stock market gains of his presidency or the successful vaccine, or whatever.
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Have you been to veterinarian since COVID?
Good luck finding one.
Trades and health care are all short staffed.
We need skills not bodies.
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Yes I’ve been to veterinarian multiple multiple times since COVID.
Got cars fixed, hired HVAC and plumbers.
Trades schools are busting at the seams.
Life is good.
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We’ve had our dog to the vet since COVID. Hell, we had two bathrooms remodeled during COVID.
(Although we still have COVID around, just at a lesser intensity and milder strain.)
We are having this issue here. During the C19 ■■■■■■■■ almost all vets stopped taking new patients and put in some pretty ridiculous protocols for those they kept.
Now, some of the protocols have been relaxed but not all, and very few went back to taking new patients. We see people constantly asking for help on FB communities etc. with finding a vet to take their injured critter to, or just trying to be a responsible pet owner and needing spay or neuter services because vets will not take new patients. This was never an issue before and it’s not like they are so super busy they can’t take new patients.
