Anyone else note the timing of this, in terms of ongoing chaos in Congress?
No sooner is there a fix in sight for the looming shutdown, caused by a specific group of legislators who have no interest in legislating, than another crisis is just as artificially created by one of those same non-legislating legislators, one that will bring US government yet again to a screeching halt while everyone enjoys the show.
I want to know how much these assholes are getting paid to be Putin’s crisis actors, because it’s not even remotely deniable anymore. Their sole purpose in government is to ensure they stop as much of it from happening as possible, and the means by which they gain and now hold office – right-wing emotive propaganda – is paid for by Putin as well.
While everyone else is enjoying the show, I’m sitting here wondering how much of it is a foreign-based test run for something else.
I don’t doubt that putin’s interest is in creating disruption in the US, but I think the much louder call is coming from inside the house. American corporations and the wealthy benefit greatly from a congress that is too crisis-ridden to regulate them.
I hear you, but Corporate America has been playing that same game non-stop since the Reagan administration, and the 1%ers still have to have some level of functional governance to get their tax breaks and federal handouts when they want them. It’s a louder call maybe, but not an emergency dial like the artificially created shutdown was and this new speaker drama is.
This specific level of constant crisis/open non-governance is pretty new, IMO.
However, it does look like the current House rules provide for an immediate speaker pro tempore, who will act until the beginning of the January session and an actual vote taking place, so this is not as much of a crisis as I thought it was going to be, with a replacement vote held immediately.
It’s still not good, though. The shutdown was not averted, only postponed for 45 days. Cthulhu help us.
Anyone else note the timing of this, in terms of ongoing chaos in Congress?
No sooner is there a fix in sight for the looming shutdown, caused by a specific group of legislators who have no interest in legislating, than another crisis is just as artificially created by one of those same non-legislating legislators, one that will bring US government yet again to a screeching halt while everyone enjoys the show.
I want to know how much these assholes are getting paid to be Putin’s crisis actors, because it’s not even remotely deniable anymore. Their sole purpose in government is to ensure they stop as much of it from happening as possible, and the means by which they gain and now hold office – right-wing emotive propaganda – is paid for by Putin as well.
While everyone else is enjoying the show, I’m sitting here wondering how much of it is a foreign-based test run for something else.
I don’t doubt that putin’s interest is in creating disruption in the US, but I think the much louder call is coming from inside the house. American corporations and the wealthy benefit greatly from a congress that is too crisis-ridden to regulate them.
I hear you, but Corporate America has been playing that same game non-stop since the Reagan administration, and the 1%ers still have to have some level of functional governance to get their tax breaks and federal handouts when they want them. It’s a louder call maybe, but not an emergency dial like the artificially created shutdown was and this new speaker drama is.
This specific level of constant crisis/open non-governance is pretty new, IMO.
However, it does look like the current House rules provide for an immediate speaker pro tempore, who will act until the beginning of the January session and an actual vote taking place, so this is not as much of a crisis as I thought it was going to be, with a replacement vote held immediately.
It’s still not good, though. The shutdown was not averted, only postponed for 45 days. Cthulhu help us.