Impending Government Shutdown by MAGA Clowns ...

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by finnbow

... is about nothing.

Matt Gaetz will disagree. He is hell bent on ousting McCarthy and this seems to be his choice of technique. What really bothers me is that the hardliners of the Freedumb Caucus represent less than 2% of US population and they have this outsize power to shut down the government due to intra party squabbling. Yet we believe this is democracy in action.

Anther trivia. Only 86 or so House seats are competitive, so our congressional elections are mostly decided in the primaries in these contested seats, not the general election. Yet another example of democracy in action.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Matt Gaetz will disagree. He is hell bent on ousting McCarthy and this seems to be his choice of technique. What really bothers me is that the hardliners of the Freedumb Caucus represent less than 2% of US population and they have this outsize power to shut down the government due to intra party squabbling. Yet we believe this is democracy in action.

Anther trivia. Only 86 or so House seats are competitive, so our congressional elections are mostly decided in the primaries in these contested seats, not the general election. Yet another example of democracy in action.

The last is why the 'regular Republicans' are unwilling to side with the Democrats to end this BS.