Now Perticone brings Twin Peaks references! He needs his own pop culture newsletter.
Johnson's choice to string together "This is not a time for petty politics" and "House Republicans will continue to work in good faith" is a staggering display of bad faith pettiness, made exponentially more staggering when juxtaposed with his addition of "even as we continue to insist that our own border security must be addressed immediately." Reading it made me feel like I was slapped unconscious, and when I awoke I was involuntarily standing and clapping in awe of this display of unbridled assholery. Mike Johnson wins the dooshnozzle of the week award, hands down.
I can only hope that God will fill Mike Johnson's thoughts and prayers with images of Bucha, Mariupol theater and Azovstal steel plant if he does not shepherd a funding bill for Ukraine. I hope he has endless flat tires for demanding a border bill that he will not put up for a vote. I hope he loses his healthcare when he does not vote to avoid a shutdown.
"Heitkamp didn’t outright claim that Rosendale is guilty of what she alleged she heard..."
Doesn't that have such a familiar ring? People are saying... I've heard people saying...Many people say so... I don't know why it wouldn't be true...and so on.
Though at this point I don't know why a married man impregnating a 20 year old staff member would be considered a bar to holding office. In fact by Republican standards these days it would almost be considered a qualification.
Talking about your own (or your team’s) “good faith” effort is like talking about how humble you are. Good faith, like humility, is manifested in how you behave, not how you try to explain or excuse yourself.
Enjoy all your work and insight, but the reference to the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano was an apt and elegant reference. Hat tip from a native of that part of Orange County.
So Mike Johnson says the House has been "working nonstop". Then why did the House bug out of Washington for two weeks?Just spitballing here but I think the real leader of the House is Donald Trump.He now has the taste of telling Mike Johnson what to do on anything.TFG says Jump and Johnson replies; how high?
Somehow it is super encouraging that the Air Force was able to put together "resiliency teams." It seems like even a few years ago that would have been inconceivable. Minds do change and good things do happen! Now if they could just bottle that and sell it, maybe we could spike the water supply.
"Despite the counterproductive rhetoric in Leader Schumer’s letter, the House has worked nonstop, and is continuing to work in good faith, to reach agreement with the Senate on compromise government funding bills in advance of the deadlines. . . .
This is not a time for petty politics. House Republicans will continue to work in good faith and hope to reach an outcome as soon as possible, even as we continue to insist that our own border security must be addressed immediately."
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I do believe that speaker Johnson must think that the American public writ large is as gullible the average MAGA knuckle dragger. Does he really think that a majority of Americans have forgotten the sick games being played by the ironically named House Freedom Caucus: "give us this and we'll be happy," and once they get it they will either insist that it's not enough or tank the entire deal. We've witnessed them shooting down a bill that included almost every demand that they made for two reasons: the Mango Malignancy wants to use immigration as a cudgel against the Dems in the general election and because there is absolutely no way that they will pass anything that will give even an inkling of success to those on the other side of the aisle. Until MAGA Mike gets a spine, and also grows a pair, *no* border security legislation will make it through the House -- the Fulvous Flatulence's bomb throwers will stand in the way. It is obvious, imo to a majority of Americans, that Johnson is taking his marching orders from the MAGA oberste Fuhrer, and the possibility of meaningful legislation, bipartisan legislation, is inconceivable.
The disfunction in the House, and the growing disfunction in the Senate, is due to the Peach[tree dish] Pestilence's sycophants and proxies carrying out his perverted wonts rather than the needs of their constituency. This terminal disease can only be cured when the Cadmium Orange Cancer and the MAGAdroids are either isolated or completely excised from the American body politic (option 2 is my preferred option).
Oh, and one more thing: Johnson's pronouncement that"[t]his is not a time for petty politics" would ring considerably truer if he wasn't already playing petty politics. IMO, the definition of "petty politics" are acting within political theater, and/or gaslighting the voting public that you are actually accomplishing something, and/or obstructing legislation that has bipartisan support because it "violates one's ethics and morals" -- both sadly lacking in a preponderance of the party (the "O" in GOP once meant "Old," in today's New GOP it stands for "Obstructionist").
I was gobsmacked when I heard that rumour on Talking Feds this morning, but even more gobsmacked that there has been nothing about it in the NY Times, WaPo, Politico etc. This is the first place I’ve seen the rumour repeated.
This morning, a friend reminded me that Feb 29 is the 4th anniversary of COVID in Seattle -- the day she first heard of a COVID death in the hospital where she worked as a nurse serving people living homeless. She is one of the many who ultimately burned out. A hopeful thing she also told me about was working to support others in the use of meditation to ease the effects of trauma. I sent her the link to Will Selber’s piece about the ART--another set of intersections that promote the health of people who most need help and--until pretty recently--were the least likely to get it. Joe, your updates are always worth reading, but this one was a standout. Thanks.
The Republican conference is such a shitshow. Rinse and repeat.
I just don’t get it. HFC demands stuff they will never get. The process plays out as everyone predicts with a bunch of twists, turns and maybe a few shutdowns. And agreement was made at exactly the same terms it was before hfc drove off the cliff. HFC gets big mad and yells and screams about “the uniparty, RINOs, communists, socialists, etc.” then elections happen and these same people get elected again even though they have accomplished nothing.
"robbing Comer to pay Gaetz, if you will."
Haha! I will.
From this federal employee, I really appreciate you keeping us up to date on what's happening with the potential shutdown Joe.
Now Perticone brings Twin Peaks references! He needs his own pop culture newsletter.
Johnson's choice to string together "This is not a time for petty politics" and "House Republicans will continue to work in good faith" is a staggering display of bad faith pettiness, made exponentially more staggering when juxtaposed with his addition of "even as we continue to insist that our own border security must be addressed immediately." Reading it made me feel like I was slapped unconscious, and when I awoke I was involuntarily standing and clapping in awe of this display of unbridled assholery. Mike Johnson wins the dooshnozzle of the week award, hands down.
I can only hope that God will fill Mike Johnson's thoughts and prayers with images of Bucha, Mariupol theater and Azovstal steel plant if he does not shepherd a funding bill for Ukraine. I hope he has endless flat tires for demanding a border bill that he will not put up for a vote. I hope he loses his healthcare when he does not vote to avoid a shutdown.
One has to love this:
"Heitkamp didn’t outright claim that Rosendale is guilty of what she alleged she heard..."
Doesn't that have such a familiar ring? People are saying... I've heard people saying...Many people say so... I don't know why it wouldn't be true...and so on.
Though at this point I don't know why a married man impregnating a 20 year old staff member would be considered a bar to holding office. In fact by Republican standards these days it would almost be considered a qualification.
Talking about your own (or your team’s) “good faith” effort is like talking about how humble you are. Good faith, like humility, is manifested in how you behave, not how you try to explain or excuse yourself.
Enjoy all your work and insight, but the reference to the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano was an apt and elegant reference. Hat tip from a native of that part of Orange County.
Consistently one the most informative and best written newsletters around. Plus occasional fashion tips! 👍👍👍
So Mike Johnson says the House has been "working nonstop". Then why did the House bug out of Washington for two weeks?Just spitballing here but I think the real leader of the House is Donald Trump.He now has the taste of telling Mike Johnson what to do on anything.TFG says Jump and Johnson replies; how high?
Somehow it is super encouraging that the Air Force was able to put together "resiliency teams." It seems like even a few years ago that would have been inconceivable. Minds do change and good things do happen! Now if they could just bottle that and sell it, maybe we could spike the water supply.
"Despite the counterproductive rhetoric in Leader Schumer’s letter, the House has worked nonstop, and is continuing to work in good faith, to reach agreement with the Senate on compromise government funding bills in advance of the deadlines. . . .
This is not a time for petty politics. House Republicans will continue to work in good faith and hope to reach an outcome as soon as possible, even as we continue to insist that our own border security must be addressed immediately."
-----
I do believe that speaker Johnson must think that the American public writ large is as gullible the average MAGA knuckle dragger. Does he really think that a majority of Americans have forgotten the sick games being played by the ironically named House Freedom Caucus: "give us this and we'll be happy," and once they get it they will either insist that it's not enough or tank the entire deal. We've witnessed them shooting down a bill that included almost every demand that they made for two reasons: the Mango Malignancy wants to use immigration as a cudgel against the Dems in the general election and because there is absolutely no way that they will pass anything that will give even an inkling of success to those on the other side of the aisle. Until MAGA Mike gets a spine, and also grows a pair, *no* border security legislation will make it through the House -- the Fulvous Flatulence's bomb throwers will stand in the way. It is obvious, imo to a majority of Americans, that Johnson is taking his marching orders from the MAGA oberste Fuhrer, and the possibility of meaningful legislation, bipartisan legislation, is inconceivable.
The disfunction in the House, and the growing disfunction in the Senate, is due to the Peach[tree dish] Pestilence's sycophants and proxies carrying out his perverted wonts rather than the needs of their constituency. This terminal disease can only be cured when the Cadmium Orange Cancer and the MAGAdroids are either isolated or completely excised from the American body politic (option 2 is my preferred option).
Oh, and one more thing: Johnson's pronouncement that"[t]his is not a time for petty politics" would ring considerably truer if he wasn't already playing petty politics. IMO, the definition of "petty politics" are acting within political theater, and/or gaslighting the voting public that you are actually accomplishing something, and/or obstructing legislation that has bipartisan support because it "violates one's ethics and morals" -- both sadly lacking in a preponderance of the party (the "O" in GOP once meant "Old," in today's New GOP it stands for "Obstructionist").
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I was gobsmacked when I heard that rumour on Talking Feds this morning, but even more gobsmacked that there has been nothing about it in the NY Times, WaPo, Politico etc. This is the first place I’ve seen the rumour repeated.
This morning, a friend reminded me that Feb 29 is the 4th anniversary of COVID in Seattle -- the day she first heard of a COVID death in the hospital where she worked as a nurse serving people living homeless. She is one of the many who ultimately burned out. A hopeful thing she also told me about was working to support others in the use of meditation to ease the effects of trauma. I sent her the link to Will Selber’s piece about the ART--another set of intersections that promote the health of people who most need help and--until pretty recently--were the least likely to get it. Joe, your updates are always worth reading, but this one was a standout. Thanks.
party of Putin. Also The Bulwark needs to highlight the plans in Project 2025
"Robbing Comer to pay Gaetz." You can seriously turn a phrase, Joe Perticone.
The Republican conference is such a shitshow. Rinse and repeat.
I just don’t get it. HFC demands stuff they will never get. The process plays out as everyone predicts with a bunch of twists, turns and maybe a few shutdowns. And agreement was made at exactly the same terms it was before hfc drove off the cliff. HFC gets big mad and yells and screams about “the uniparty, RINOs, communists, socialists, etc.” then elections happen and these same people get elected again even though they have accomplished nothing.