Are you stupid? Do you really think ALL murders are charged? Have you ever heard of the concept of someone getting away with murder?
WRONG.
American civilian citizens are trapped. And the Taliban is now armed with BILLIONS of dollars of American military hardware. Only a total IDIOT would have brought that about.
When Kevin McCarthy takes Nazi Pelosi’s gavel after the GOP flips the House, TaliBIDEN will be impeached. He has committed enough crimes in office to earn prison time.
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Both Republicans and Democrats are always afraid of loosing power….
Well yeah, all of them. A point we can agree upon……
who is the fat guy? Michelle Obama the Fat Man or another freak that knocked up Kamala harris thats why she is not seen 25 kids
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Yeah, he has blue eyes….
Put Pelosi, Schumer and Harris thier and if Mr. Pillow needs help I and 98 million Americans are available
Isn’t he a clairvoyant!!!
Wow who wants to move to Russia? Four big things are happening at once, all attended by hyperventilation. The White House talks of a “cataclysmic economic threat” if Republicans don’t start cooperating. Republicans assail Democrats for unleashing a "big-government socialist nation.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says: "Insanity and disaster are now the Republican Party line.”
It’s a contest to see which side can bash back better. This is what governing by crisis looks like. It may be the only way anything gets done. The government has essential housekeeping to do this time of year. Yet no deal comes until it absolutely must. Why act at the 11th hour when you’ve got 59 minutes left?
There are a couple of must-do’s. The government needed a law to keep itself open in the budget year that began Friday morning. That happened, with a few hours to spare. It also needs to raise or suspend its borrowing ceiling to cover current expenses and avoid a default on its debt payments over the next two weeks, something that has never happened.
Then there are the want-to-do’s. President Joe Biden, many Democrats and a sizable number of Republicans want to build or restore roads, bridges, broadband and more in an ambitious public works package. Biden and many Democrats, but no Republicans, also want to supercharge social and climate spending, potentially costing upward of three times more than the infrastructure one.
Action on that front came to a halt Friday despite Biden’s visit to the Capitol to try to break the logjam between liberal and moderate Democrats over the two packages and get Congress to move on his overall agenda. He said he was confident his agenda would prevail whether it takes “six minutes, six days or six weeks," though the way forward was murky.
The crises arose, as they typically do in Washington, when one matter was linked to another or another and the things that must be done were held hostage to things lawmakers want done. It may defy logic. It’s also how big change often happens.
A sense of dancing at the precipice persisted all week in a capital with a 50-50 Senate, a closely divided House, a pushy left Democratic flank, obstinate Democratic centrists, gleefully obstructionist Republicans and a president struggling to deliver on his promise to restore competence and normalcy after the Donald Trump years.
In large measure, Democratic moderates want the infrastructure plan, liberals want the ultimate package and Biden wants both. The divisions bared inside the party over this agenda could leave him with neither.
As negotiations with lawmakers proceeded in private midweek, Biden press secretary Jen Psaki joked that the outcome would determine whether the Biden administration was living in an idealistic drama or a farce.
“Maybe ‘The West Wing’ if something good happens," she said. “Maybe ‘Veep’ if not." Republicans hurled their favorite insult with abandon, branding Democrats as wannabe socialists, and leveraged the disarray to try to define Biden as an inept leader.
The House Republican leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, ticked off the “border crisis,” “inflation crisis,” “labor crisis," “China crisis" and “foreign policy crisis” as all converging at once. “Democrats want to enlist a bureaucratic army to achieve their goal of a big government socialist nation,” he said.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, called Biden’s agenda an “accelerator to socialism.” Words were no less heated on the other side. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguing for lifting the debt ceiling, accused resistant Republicans of leaving the country vulnerable to a “cascading catastrophe of unbelievable proportions” that could “damage America for 100 years.” Pelosi, D-Calif., was quoting JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in her House speech.
Partial government shutdowns, though, are a line that lawmakers have been willing to cross. The longest shutdown in history happened under Trump, 35 days stretching into January 2019, when Democrats refused to approve money for his U.S-Mexico border wall. Trump backed down.
Trump’s immigration policy also sparked a three-day shutdown a year earlier. In 2013, a Republican attempt to torpedo money for the Obama-era health law set off a shutdown that lasted 16 days and, as in the other cases, furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
This time, lawmakers sealed a deal in the last hours to finance the government until Dec. 3, when they’ll have to reckon with it again. Instead of defusing the bomb, Stephen Colbert cracked on “The Late Show," “they just hit the bomb’s snooze button.”
Some experts in the workings of government see parallels in the 1983 Social Security showdown — undeniably a crisis because the program was only months from insolvency until an agreement was reached.
This is worse, said Paul Light, a New York University professor of public service and author most recently of “The Government-Industrial Complex,” which tracks the operations and scale of government over the last 35 years.
“Back then, you only had to get the speaker, the majority leader, and the president to the table,” he said. “Now it’s 15 heavy-hitters, chosen or self-anointed, who have to sign off. “These kinds of moments are quite rare,” Light added. “We drift along year after year with declines in the number of bills introduced and passed, but still manage to get the budget done close to on time and occasional bills enacted. This one makes the 1983 crisis seem like child’s play."
Even as the insults flew this past week, stirrings of agreement could be seen here and there, as could weariness over all the posturing. For all his body-slamming of the other side, Cornyn said during the negotiations that ultimately, “Democrats don’t want to shut down the government, Republicans don’t want to shut down the government. That will supply the result that we all expect, which is to keep the lights on." His prediction was correct.
On the Democratic divide over infrastructure and Biden’s even bigger plan, Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii was reaching exasperation. “It’s that kind of thing where it happens when it happens,” Hirono said. “So meanwhile I say, everybody, get real. Tell us what it is that you can support and we can have something to talk about and argue about and come to a conclusion about.”
Yes he is. That clip was posted in newspapers all across the country during the Trump administration….
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yeah that was what people already knew Moron Obama but remember what she says about America we will impeach Biden Harris Pelosi and the Senate President then who is available POTUS Trump
Come on, bring it if ya can….
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Lets see how you Pervert Joe Biden fans address this and notice the DATE Trump touts ‘unity’ in socially distant speech to West Point graduates amid racial tensions, coronavirus fears 6/14/2020 Pervert Biden waits in a corner of the field with Jill Biden 1 Photographer and 1 Police man to represent a service person to show what he would do if he was elected POTUS . Like a baby in a crowd looking for attention, This was 5 months before the POTUS Election. WOW how could the media go along with that when Biden was not POTUS. NO OTHER Democrat, Republican or Independent POTUS Candidate were thier That explains the validity of the 2020 POTUS Election right their. Now the US is in total chaos with Biden 9 months after 1/21/2021 . So tell me why that is and why Americans are so mad at the 1/6/2021 insurrection, I am a successful Operations Manager and I am moving to a different Country I want nothing to do with this Country now YOU Fricking Fake President has a 39 % approval rating. Hope ya all like China they own you . Tell me why I have this wrong?