Vacate Watch - Speaker Mike Johnson (R - LA)

[Bn2f]

You shouldn’t display your ignorance in such gaudy fashion.

I don’t mean to pick on only you. Your friends who comment here on Christianity are similarly clueless.

Leviticus says a lot of crazy regarding hair, menstruation, and shrimp. Most idiots pay attention to ONE thing.
YOU need to explain your reasoning for being here, as a Christian, if you’re not here to tell others to repent and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
GFY

 

[Bn2f]

How can one not love the House Bill? It wants to cur 14.3 billion from the IRS to pay for Israel. Guess what that adds to the US deficit in 10 years...28.8 billion.

If you want to cut the deficit...which needs to happen...the way not to do it is to reduce the effectiveness of your ONLY INCOME SOURCE

Edit: Oops...26.8 billion. My bad
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/politics/israel-aid-irs-funding-deficit/index.html

Why? Why is it that seemingly sensible people look at the spending audit sheet of the American government across all administrations and parties and not try to make reasonable cuts to the by far biggest spender of our tax dollars?
And there’s a difference between advocating aid to Israel and calling for taking a fiscal magnifier to defense spending.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You shouldn’t display your ignorance in such gaudy fashion.

I don’t mean to pick on only you. Your friends who comment here on Christianity are similarly clueless.

You got anything to refudiate anything I've posted above?
Tell us what you believe is "ignorant" about anything I've said.

You're not "picking on me"....you're having a hissy fit because you know what I said is true and you don't have one G-d damned fact to offer in rebuttal.

 

[Dribble]

No. The question was directed at YOU.
YOU proposed dems voting back in McCarthy. I asked YOU what…
Oh, nevermind.
Johnson and his caucus of crazy are, eventually, going to have to cave to Biden’s executive pen and the sensible (haha) republicans in the Senate.

No...I proposed NOT VOTING HIM OUT WITHOUT A FUCKING PLAN. Do try to keep up

 

[ll74]

No...I proposed NOT VOTING HIM OUT WITHOUT A FUCKING PLAN. Do try to keep up

Republicans voted him out without a plan.

 

[Dribble]

What Bnf doesn't understand...Democrats shot themselves in the foot by voting McCarthy out. The Republicans will NEVER work on a bipartisan piece of legislation with the Democrats again. Ever. Such a stupid way to care about our country...let's vote out the Speaker. Get someone worse...and pretend it will magically make a difference in 2024. Oh...it will make a difference. A fucking landslide lost

 

[Dribble]

Republicans voted him out without a plan.

I strongly suggest YOU LOOK AT THE VOTE. Eight Republicans voted him out. How many Democrats joined in?

 

[Bn2f]

Oh, I get it.
I’m sorry that my comment has allowed you to repeat this craziness for the hundredth time.
I’m sorry that weakness shown from democrats in the past leave you now suffering from a type of Stockholm syndrome. Fortunately, no democrat today has entertained your pleas to lead from behind.

 

[ll74]

I strongly suggest YOU LOOK AT THE VOTE. Eight Republicans voted him out. How many Democrats joined in?

I know the vote and your idiocy continues.

 

[YDB95]

The Republicans will NEVER work on a bipartisan piece of legislation with the Democrats again. Ever.

Once again, you imply that is a new development. The truth is, they haven't done that in 30 years. If you think that would have changed if the Dems had saved McCarthy, you're an even bigger fool than you've been playing throughout this thread. And the Dems did have a plan: elect Jeffries speaker.

I asked you what concessions you would expect dems to get for helping republicans. I don’t recall an answer coming that I saw in that thread.

Couldn't swear to it, but I think I recall Dribble saying they shouldn't have asked for anything whatsoever in return. Which, to be fair, is exactly what we should expect from the Republicans.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Once again, you imply that is a new development. The truth is, they haven't done that in 30 years. If you think that would have changed if the Dems had saved McCarthy, you're an even bigger fool than you've been playing throughout this thread. And the Dems did have a plan: elect Jeffries speaker.

Lets not forget this, the Republicans now know that if there is another "vote to remove a speaker" by one person's motion, that it will be an other shit show trying to coalesce around another person. So the chances of the motion passing again are slim.

 

[ll74]

What Bnf doesn't understand...Democrats shot themselves in the foot by voting McCarthy out. The Republicans will NEVER work on a bipartisan piece of legislation with the Democrats again. Ever. Such a stupid way to care about our country...let's vote out the Speaker. Get someone worse...and pretend it will magically make a difference in 2024. Oh...it will make a difference. A fucking landslide lost

So when they do work with Democrats, will you come back and apologize for being wrong? Or will you just ignore it like your prediction of McCarthy being speaker again?

He's already working on a continuing budget.resolution with Democrat support.

 

[Dribble]

16 days and counting

 

[Dribble]

So when they do work with Democrats, will you come back and apologize for being wrong? Or will you just ignore it like your prediction of McCarthy being speaker again?

He's already working on a continuing budget.resolution with Democrat support.

They (the House) will never work with Democrats. Democrats destroyed that possibility. Ask the Republicans of the ex-Problem Solving Committee why. Or not.

 

[Dribble]

So when they do work with Democrats, will you come back and apologize for being wrong? Or will you just ignore it like your prediction of McCarthy being speaker again?

He's already working on a continuing budget.resolution with Democrat support.

I was right. Go back to my original posts. Or not.

I said the moderate Republicans would cave. If they didn't...then the only path forward was McCarthy.

Who caved?

 

[LLCox]

Poor democraps, damned if they do damned if they don't. Repukes can not even govern themselves.

 

[Veroe]

Poor democraps, damned if they do damned if they don't. Repukes can not even govern themselves.

You're right. No matter how big the Republicans fuck up it's the democrats that get the blame for it. Like with Mccarthy, I don't get why they were blamed for Mccarthy getting ousted and all the shit show after when really all the blame should be on Matt Gaetz.

 

[Lazaran]

You're right. No matter how big the Republicans fuck up it's the democrats that get the blame for it. Like with Mccarthy, I don't get why they were blamed for Mccarthy getting ousted and all the shit show after when really all the blame should be on Matt Gaetz.

"republicans" blame Democrats because "republicans" are gaslighting scum.

Dribble blames Democrats because Dribble is an idiot.

*nods*

 

[RobDownSouth]

Mike Johnson forced a floor vote today to put every representative on record as to whether or not they favored raising the Social Security retirement age to 70. 152 Republicans voted to raise the retirement age to 70 for Gen X, Millenials and Gen-Z. "Fuck anyone not in my demographic" seems to be the order of teh day.

 

[icanhelp1]

I strongly suggest YOU LOOK AT THE VOTE. Eight Republicans voted him out. How many Democrats joined in?

I believe none, democrats in lockstep voted Jeffries. I guess the result is more semantics, a plus vote for one is a negative vote on the other side of the equation.

 

[Lazaran]

Mike Johnson forced a floor vote today to put every representative on record as to whether or not they favored raising the Social Security retirement age to 70. 152 Republicans voted to raise the retirement age to 70 for Gen X, Millenials and Gen-Z. "Fuck anyone not in my demographic" seems to be the order of teh day.

Remember when President Biden, during his State of the Union address, got "republicans " to publicly declare that they wouldn’t touch Social Security or Medicare.



Remember when some "republican" idiot screamed during that same State of the Union address that President Biden was a “LIAR!!!” for suggesting that SOME "republicans" did in fact want to touch Social Security and Medicare.

 

[Bn2f]

I believe none, democrats in lockstep voted Jeffries. I guess the result is more semantics, a plus vote for one is a negative vote on the other side of the equation.

OMG. Say it again, but much slooooower.

 

[icanhelp1]

Regardless of what party says what the facts are the facts;

“Today's Social Security and Medicare Trustees annual report makes it perfectly clear: The clock is ticking for us to act. “Social Security's old-age trust fund is now projected to reach insolvency one year sooner than last year's projection and Medicare will reach that point by 2031.Mar 31, 2023”

To agree to inaction is ludicrous regardless. By 2029 the interest on the 36 trillion dollar debt will hover around $1.2 trillion/ 3.2% of GDP. Sooner or later mandatory spending will be affected by the lack of discretionary funds.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/medicare-social-security-reform-us-debt-deficits/

While current debt ceiling negotiations largely concern ways to restrain the discretionary parts of the budget, any serious proposal to tackle the emerging debt and deficit crisis must also address our largest mandatory spending programs: Social Security and Medicare. Together, these two programs will be responsible for nearly 80 percent of the deficit’s rise between 2023 and 2032, according to Congressional Budget Office (CBO)projections.

Social Security and traditional Medicare (Part A) are both funded by payroll taxes on a “pay-as-you-go basis.” That is, current payroll taxes fund today’s retirees. Unlike discretionary spending, which must be voted on by Congress every year during the appropriations process, Social Security and Medicare spending are mandated under current law. Mandatory spending in its entirety represents over two-thirds of the current U.S. budget.

FICA taxes and retirement age have to increase. Bumper slogans that SS and Medicare are off limits those politicians should be voted out of offer for displaying stupidity on steroids.

 

[Dribble]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-e...oves-cutting-epa-budget-by-nearly-40-percent/

It won't pass the Senate...but THAT is what House Democrats voted for. Reality sucks huh?

 

[ll74]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-e...oves-cutting-epa-budget-by-nearly-40-percent/

It won't pass the Senate...but THAT is what House Democrats voted for. Reality sucks huh?

House Democrats voted for Jeffries.