The congresswoman quipped that in attempting to avert a shutdown Republicans were “run[ning] around the House like a Roomba, until they found a door that House Democrats opened”

  • clearedtoland@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I know I’m stepping into murky waters here. I do believe McCarthy is a weak speaker because he can’t keep his party under thumb.

    But I’m also struggling to reconcile that they came up with a bipartisan bill (granted, not a longterm one). No one gets everything they want. Isn’t that what we want balanced and working government to do?

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      1 year ago

      But I’m also struggling to reconcile that they came up with a bipartisan bill (granted, not a longterm one). No one gets everything they want.

      They only did it at the 11th hour, and probably only because their donors were leaning hard on them because a shutdown would fuck up their money, along with another possible credit rating downgrade

      Isn’t that what we want balanced and working government to do?

      Yes, but functional and working governments do so with reasonable deadlines and well ahead of the “fuck, we’re literally out of money” point. Problem is, the republicans thrive on dysfunction and are more than willing to burn things down to hurt people, go back on agreements, and explicitly state how they don’t want a functional government.

      • jumperalex@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I’m of the opinion that waiting until the last possible moment is an intentional feature (in general) and NOT an accident or indicator of incompetence. Bare with me here, because I DO agree there’s a lot of incompetence, but also …

        They are constantly testing the political winds, the media coverage, the social media reactions, and very much so, their donor’s reactions to all of the other reactions. So they float balloons, see what happens, adjust, rinse repeat.

        Or said another way, the public and private outrages are a feature, not a bug. How else would they know how far they can push things. It fucking sucks, and is a horrible way to govern, and my take makes them even scummier.

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        feels like you have stockholm syndrome here… they managed to not shut down the government at the 11:59 mark by actually working together, and will now go back to bickering. yes, this is what people want, but in general, not only when they’re about to screw everything up.

        • Unaware7013@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          Sounds like you’re trying to naively see bipartisanship in a situation where they only came together under the threat of massive economic disaster, instead of seeing a completely disfunctional government that threatens long term economic growth by fucking around until the last possible second to actually do their goddamned jobs.

          Don’t pretend this circus is what the people want, because this circus is hurting people so political terrorists can do their thing and pretend ideology is more important than their constituents.

    • SaltySalamander@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m also struggling to reconcile that they came up with a bipartisan bill

      That’s because they didn’t. They decided to extend last year’s bill 45 more days.

    • diablexical@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Congress already passed the budget. This is just the party of “government doesn’t work” trying to prove it can’t work by breaking things.