After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

A short-term funding measure to keep government offices fully functioning will dominate the September agenda, along with emergency funding for Ukraine, federal disaster funds and the Republican-driven probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Time is running short for Congress to act. The House is scheduled to meet for just 11 days before the government’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, leaving little room to maneuver. And the deal-making will play out as two top Republicans, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, deal with health issues.

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    1 year ago

    I’m 100% on board with a compromise of an impeachment inquiry for a passed law funding the government. I don’t think Biden did anything impeachable, but I think voters are smart enough to parse that. They didn’t vote against Democrats in the Clinton midterm.

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      If Biden didn’t do anything wrong, and he didn’t, then he shouldn’t be impeached, you’re just enabling our abusers and letting them get away with subverting democracy with their bullshit political theater attempts, and wasting our tax money on it.

      This is just more Benghazi level bullshit from the Republicans.

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        If the alternative is a government shutdown, I don’t care about bullshit political theater. Newsflash, there will be bullshit political theater regardless.

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          I’m with you on this. If the cost of avoiding a shutdown were just an inquiry I’d take it; I’m worried we’ll give away something more valuable. They’re so inept I think the most likely outcome of an inquiry is that they embarrass themselves anyway.

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            It’s not surrender to make a compromise. It’s politics, deals have to get made. In this case it isn’t even really the Democrats giving anything up since the Republicans have the power to open the impeachment inquiry without even voting on it, Pelosi did that for Trump.

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              In golf, if two players decide to allow cheating then both are disqualified. There is no compromising in such a situation because to do so, when one side wants to allow cheating and the other side agrees, is a flawed compromise that ruins the integrity of the game.

              You’re suggesting that we should allow cheating, but in this case the cheating is violating the tenets of democracy in order to allow for a tyrannical ideological push to happen. Compromise looks like giving and taking on the details but working towards a common goal. Hyperpartisan stonewalling just 'cuz you hate the other guys is not behaviour of compromise. That is hostility.