Having completely abrogated their responsibility to pass a new spending bill that would keep the government running beyond October 1, House Republicans headed home for the weekend and will have five workdays to get legislation passed that will keep the federal government from shutting down.
Clown show? Yes. Clusterfu*k? Most definitely. Typical bullshit from the GOP. Yep.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is sick of the incompetence and Republican recalcitrance, all of it for nothing more than political posturing.
Appearing on CNN, Swalwell was asked by host John Berman if there would indeed be a government shutdown, to which the congressman responded:
“There shouldn’t be. … Democrats are ready to give the votes to keep the government open. But right now Republicans, they have failed to protect, they’ve failed to fund, and they’ve failed to govern. They are the failures.”
Swalwell: Democrats are ready to give the votes, to keep the government open. But right now Republicans, they have failed to protect. They failed to fund. And they failed to govern. They are the failures. pic.twitter.com/DlGOrNwYC9
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Swalwell added that most of the blame can be laid at the feet of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“He needs to choose competence over chaos. He needs to choose for the first time in his life to be a leader rather than a spectator speaker.”
McCarthy and his minions in the House caucus are indeed failures, and they’re willing to shutter the government to please another failure: One-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, who is desperate to change the subject from his multiple indictments and 91 criminal charges.
The shutdown doesn’t have to happen. But as long as the GOP remains in control of the House, it probably will. Why? Because failures only know how to fail and losers are destined to lose.
