1y ago

GOP privately expects government shutdown

www.axios.com

Just a moment...

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"Expects" is a funny synonym for "ensures."
The Party of "We Can't Learn From Past Mistakes" strikes again.
- It's weird, because they think the military is on their side, but they're going to delay them getting paid and they already delayed a ton of promotions. I don't think those officers, or anyone else who needs the pay, will forget that. The question is if they'll place the blame on the right people.
  
  The weird part of it is they're doing it in an election year. They passed those temporary spending bills specifically so they could appear to be keeping the government running into 2024, but they're gonna dig their heels in now?
  Sounds like a recipe for getting clobbered in an election year, and I'm here for it.
- I mean, they do learn. Just not the lesson you'd think they should learn.
- They've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas
Which is to say, foreign GOP doners want the government to shutdown
- It's not even that nefarious.
  It's an election year. "The Democrats caused the government shutdown because they wouldn't agree to let us shoot every non-white person invading the US at the border!" will be the GOP talking point.
  
  This plan likely won’t work because their party is far from united right now. All it takes is for a few people on their side to call this unreasonable and their excuse falls apart.
  My reasoning for this is that it’s exactly what happened with the recent proposed immigration bill. They killed it despite their party negotiating it. So what are their fundamentalists left to think? Did they negotiate it poorly? Are they incompetent? Did Mike Johnson block a good bill? Seems like any excuse they can give insults the party and highlights division.
  Same thing here. If they can’t manage a unified message, it’ll be obvious what’s happening.
Plans. They’re planning to shut down the government. Call it a plan you cowards. Words matter.
Expects is a funny way to say "causing"
Many Republicans just want to burn it all down.

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