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Mary Nelson (marynelson8@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:18:44 JST Mary Nelson

"The House GOP is a circus. The chaos has one source.
Republicans spent two years sabotaging the U.S. House. Another two years would be ruinous."
Opinion by Dana Milbank
#GiftLink #USpol #USpolitics #House #GOP
https://wapo.st/47vZUrg

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  Mary Nelson (marynelson8@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:30:35 JST Mary Nelson
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  Lest you consider much of what the GOP voted to do during its most recent term in the House as mindless blather, consider this irresponsible vote, which went nowhere in the Senate (thank goodness): With the power of the purse, they ignored what would need to be abolished, and voted mindlessly for this unbelievable proposal.
  Need I say it? We need to vote these irresponsible people out of office.
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  1. House Republicans promised to balance the budget in 10 years without touching Social Security and Medicare, or cutting defense spending or veterans’ pensions, or allowing the Trump tax cuts to lapse. To accomplish all this, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Republicans would literally have to eliminate everything — everything — else the government does: No more Homeland Security, no more Border Patrol or FBI; no more Coast Guard, air traffic control, or federal funds for education or highways; no agricultural programs; no housing, food, or disaster assistance; no cancer research or veterans’ health care; no diplomacy or space exploration; no courts — and no Congress. House Republicans passed legislation that would have slashed most domestic spending by 30 percent and eliminated all green-energy tax credits. (It went nowhere in the Senate.)
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  Mary Nelson (marynelson8@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:30:36 JST Mary Nelson
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  Excerpt from the Washington Post piece above, regarding the most recent leadership by the House GOP:
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  1. Today, Johnson’s run looks anything but heaven-sent. In the first 18 months of this Congress, only 70 laws were enacted. Calculations by political scientist Tobin Grant, who tracks congressional output over time, put this Congress on course to be the do-nothingest since 1859- 1861 — when the Union was dissolving. But Johnson’s House isn’t merely unproductive; it is positively lunatic. Republicans have filled their committee hearings and their bills with white nationalist attacks on racial diversity and immigrants, attempts to ban abortion and to expand access to the sort of guns used in mass shootings, incessant harassment of LGBTQ Americans, and even routine potshots at the U.S. military. They insulted each other’s private parts, accused each other of sexual and financial crimes, and scuffled with each other in the Capitol basement. They screamed “Bullshit!” at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address. They stood up for the Confederacy and used their official powers to spread conspiracy theories about the “Deep State.” Some even lent credence to the idea that there has been a century-old Deep State coverup of space aliens, with possible involvement by Mussolini and the Vatican.
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  Mr. Bill repeated this.

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