Why does the GOP have so much of a problem with keeping members in line? Pelosi never did, They voted as a solid block with no defections. What's the difference?
Answer is simple...there are members of the GOP with integrity who want NOTHING tangible. They cannot be bribed with a quid pro quo of "you give me money for this and I give you money for that"
They do not want "stuff", they want the opposite of stuff...they want a balanced budeget and to shut down agencies. They want to NOT spend money. They want to balance the budget.
It is hard to sway somebody who wants nothing.
Democrats can always be bribed, they will always say..."Hey, I think your project is a total waste of money, but if I vote for yours, will you vote for mine?" And the answer is always "yeah, sure" and it results in 1500 page CR's
And for the Democrats/Left/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Communist/Woke, there is always a deal to be made...because they never worry about the money or how much they spend...because it is not their money...it is the taxpayers money...or worse...they believe the government can simply print money and there will be no consequences.
I technically don't have a problem shutting down the Government...AFTER...they get Trump in office so he can start using the Executive Branch's power to slam closed the Border.
C'mon boys and girls. Accept Johnson and then have your fight.
The shit is gonna hit the fan today.
From "The Minnesota Daily":
“March Against Minnesota Fraud,” organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang, is planned for Saturday at 12 p.m. at Minneapolis City Hall.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Rep. Mohamud Noor said he is fearful of the protest moving to areas with high Somali populations, such as the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Activists also expect the protest to travel through the University of Minnesota campus.
The protest, which Lang broadcasted on X, calls to “take back” the state from Democrats, following President Donald Trump’s recent scrutiny of Minnesota’s Somali community. The “crusaders”, as Lang called the members of the protest in his X post, plan to start at Minneapolis’ city hall.
The Minneapolis Police Inspector Bill Peterson told Minneapolis residents Tuesday in a monthly community safety meeting that the city has prepared for the event, adding that they are “hyper-aware” that the ...
Gruss moaning, all good people. I greet you well.
We've only just got the house back to ourselves, though we'll lose it again late next week, Friday having been set as the day of my brother-in-law's funeral. I wasn't close to him, incidentally - he's my wife's loss, though he wasn't particularly familiar with her. He moved away decades ago, and we scarce heard from him or saw him since. He never married, though, so there's only us - my wife being the oldest sister - to take care of his affairs and see him burried.
All the bustle and commotion this past week has been far too distracting for me to digest such news as there has been, and so I have nothing worthwhile to post in that regard.
I do have something, of my own, which I proffer as my gift and apology to you.
Now, to give you the wider context, some time very close to Christmas in 1971, I was on one of those old back-loading open platform double-decker busses that were still, at the time, to be seen in great numbers on British roads. These busses had a sort of bench seat along the width of the bus, behind the driver, so anybody sitting there would be facing everybody else on...
