Everyone can come in off the ledge. The great fear has passed, at least for forty-five days, while your heroic representatives hammer out a long-term solution. That’s right, the Republicans folded on the spending bill, as everyone knew they would. Not only did they fold, but the GOP leadership plotted with the other party to fink extra hard on the few Republicans putting up a fight. It is a story as old as politics, at least Washington politics.
If the Republican Party was a real party, the House Republicans would have abstained from the whole thing and let the other party do what they wanted. The narrative says the good guys have to beat the bad guys and get everything they want, so the way to beat the narrative is to not play the assigned role and just let the Democrats do what they want. The bill would go to the Senate and that would be the end of it, thus depriving the Hive of the chance to play out the drama.
That is how you know it is all fake. Even the noises made by the few holdouts are all fake, as they surely knew from the start how things would go. If people like Matt Gaetz were honest, he would refuse to participate in any of it. Instead, he plays his role as the “Extreme MAGA Republican” who is attacking “our democracy” like some sort of Japanese monster. The end result is always the same because it is agreed to in advance by all parties.
It is all so tiresome.
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