Oh, Kevin McCarthy. Not even elected speaker yet and already promising the radio rubes that he'll shutdown the government over pretty much any issue Sean Hannity can name.
Boehner, to his great credit, didn’t feed the media beast that sought to destroy him. McCarthy, before serving a single day in the speakership, handed his gonads over to the most Limbaugh-like personality on Fox News, who happily placed them in escrow.
Hannity isn’t after McCarthy—who isn’t a particularly quotable guest—for ratings alone. He wants regular progress reports on a different promise McCarthy made to him.
Actually, it was four promises: “Defunding Planned Parenthood, defunding executive amnesty and immigration, defunding Obamacare, and this Iranian deal is an unmitigated disaster that will lead to a modern day Holocaust,” Hannity said, rattling off his top priorities. “Will you tell conservative America tonight that you will fight to the end … to defund those issues and use the power of the purse?”
“Yes, the answer is yes,” McCarthy said.
It's the defund those issues part that's key. Since none of those things are things that the current sitting president will agree to—all of them being predicated on different but related conservative conspiracy theories, and that's even before you get to the "modern day Holocaust" bit—the only avenue available to House Republicans is to attach them to must-pass spending bills and demand that both the Senate and the president acquiesce to them. If the Senate and the president don't agree to them?
The government shuts down. Again.
Four times, actually, presuming McCarthy keeps his "promise" to do it over every individual issue. And we already know where it ends up, because we've already done it; no, Obama is not going to "defund Obamacare" or any of those other things in a futile attempt to keep the government open until House Republicans invent a new demand, and no, the Senate is not going to similarly hand over their own legislative powers, installing a hard-right faction of the House of Representatives as the final arbiter of all American laws and policies from here on out.
The must-pass bill will not pass; the government will "shut down," in small part or in larger part; government offices will close, services will be put on hold, and federal workers will stop being paid—again. Eventually the House will have to come to some agreement that the Senate and executive branch can agree to, since our entire system of government requires that agreement by design, and House Republicans will have to cave in and lick their wounds. Again.these could be your new people in gov't over 21 no adults just those over 21 faking it. the real test of an imbecile is knowing those that vote in a primary have proven not to be the general majority but you continue playing their favorite song and not knowing the words to the nat'l electorates song you get stuck with what you said months before and no way to explain it away, you have successfully painted yourself into that proverbial corner and are now legitimate imbeciles.
last time cost Americans 24 billion dollars in loss everything. there is no way to reconcile hostage demands as a good idea to get something you know ain't happening, sorry you're at the wrong house because this ain't that kind a party turn in your hats and horn blowers and try another address. we'll keep the present of his admission of Hilary hunting.
