I see that since the Speaker has saved our home appliances he has decide to cave to the warhawks and piss away more taxpayer cash on these damn wars…..
Here are those all important home appliance bills….
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Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
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Liberty in Laundry Act
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Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
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Refrigerator Freedom Act
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Affordable Air Conditioning Act
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Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act
I know I feel better knowing this is happening.
Now that all is safe with our home appliances the Speaker decided to chance it and go for the money needed for our proxy wars (arms industry is happy now)…..
Speaker Mike Johnson’s four-pronged foreign aid package has become five bills, and his job could depend on what happens with the reworked legislation. On Wednesday, Johnson told his Republican caucus that the House will stay in session until it votes Saturday evening on the package with stalled aid for Israel and Ukraine as its centerpiece, the New York Times reports. Success is not certain, nor is his continued tenure in the speakership. Two of Johnson’s members have threatened to file a motion to vacate, which could result in his removal, if he puts aid to Ukraine to a floor vote.
Johnson became emotional Wednesday evening when asked about his decision by a reporter, per the Washington Post. “If I operated out of fear over a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job,” Johnson said. “I can make a selfish decision and do something that’s different. But I’m doing here what I believe to be the right thing,” he added. Johnson will need Democrats’ support to pass the bills, and he won the backing of the most influential one. President Biden strongly endorsed the package on Wednesday. “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed,” Biden said.
Here’s how the bills break down:
- Cost: The total is $95.3 billion, per the AP, same as the Senate approved in February, though the packages aren’t identical; Johnson added some provisions to appeal to GOP opponents of Ukraine aid.
- Ukraine: More than one-third of the $61 billion would go toward replenishing weapons and ammunition systems for the US military, Republicans said. And $13.8 billion would buy weapons from the US. Johnson’s bill has $9 billion in forgivable loans; the president could set the terms or cancel the loans.
- Israel: Aid to Israel and humanitarian relief to people in Gaza account for $26 billion, and $4 billion would go to restock Israel’s missile defenses.
- Indo-Pacific: About $8 billion is intended to deter China’s aggression in the region.
- Assorted: The fourth bill satisfied a Republican wish list of foreign policy priorities. The final wording wasn’t released yet, per the AP.
- The border: The fifth piece is intended to satisfy GOP demands to strengthen security at the southern US border. It might not have worked. “Every true conservative America First patriot in the House should vote against the rule for this borrowed foreign aid bill with no border security,” Rep. Bob Good, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, posted on social media.
Did he put his gig as Speaker on the line?
The Freedom idiots will be gunning for him and that should stall anything happening in the House for the rest of the year.
But we will hardly notice for the House does very little actual work….just slapping retaliation on the Dems in this Congress that is.
That tight rope that Johnson is trying to walk is getting a lot of slack in it….will he survive?
This theater of the absurd is just too fascinating to ignore (at least for me).
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
This House of Reprehensibles in Congress has been doing what the Wisconsin state legislature has been doing for years now, doing as little as possible while pretending to care about the people who elected them. They’ve conducted meaningless “investigations” into voter fraud that doesn’t actually exist, going after the governor’s officials and even trying to impeach some for basically doing their jobs, trying to pass tax breaks for their wealthy owners, trying to do everything they can to prevent the state from clamping down on water pollution that is contaminating drinking water wells across the state… Well you get the idea. Welcome to my world. We’ve been going through this since the grand old pissants managed to gerrymander the state to guarantee they’ll always hold a majority in the state legislature.
Wisconsin sounds a lot like Mississippi and the voters love them…..why? chuq
Johnson will only survive if the democrats help him– The Radical Righties will only survive if God helps them which I do not think He has the slightest idea of doing because He hates evil.
But yet he let them get thi8s far….if you hate evil then it should be from the beginning not the middle of the evil doings. We have to defe4at evil….no one will do it for us. chuq
So much nonsense going on, it reads like a popular comedy show on TV.
Best wishes, Pete.
It does indeed and a great analogy chuq