With a government shutdown four days away, thanks largely to House Republicans’ inability to stop fighting amongst themselves, far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert thought it important to focus on their pet grievances on Wednesday.
Greene successfully used the Holman rule to attach an amendment to a short-term defense spending bill to reduce Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s yearly salary to $1. Austin, the first African American Secretary of Defense, was “destroying our military” and had allowed recruitment to fall to “crisis levels,” Greene huffed.
The move was purely a stunt: She previously said she’d vote against the defense bill anyway because she objected to its inclusion of aid for Ukraine.
Not to be outdone, Boebert successfully inserted an amendment to reduce the annual salary for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Shawn Skelly, who is transgender, to $1.
In a transphobic rant, she accused Skelly of espousing “wokeism” that had caused “significant harm to our military readiness and troops’ morale.”
Democrats didn’t bother asking for a roll call vote on Greene’s amendment, which is almost certainly dead on arrival in the Senate. She still predictably gloated about it on social media afterwards.
While House Republicans managed to advance the defense bill on Tuesday night, as well as three other spending bills—part of ultraconservative members’ demands to consider 12 individual funding bills rather than one sweeping continuing resolution to keep the government open—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has made zero progress on thwarting a shutdown.
He is reportedly planning to bring a short-term funding bill to the floor on Friday that cuts spending and includes border security measures—but at least eight hardline Republicans are still vowing to kill it. According to Politico, they are Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ), Eli Crane (AZ), Cory Mills (FL), Matt Gaetz (FL), Tim Burchett (TN), Andy Ogles (TN), Wesley Hunt (TX) and Matt Rosendale (MT). Boebert is also likely to join them.
“We are going to pass 12 appropriations bills before I will consider a [continuing resolution],” Ogles said.
If I submitted obviously bunk shit at my work I’d be fired. With lives literally on the line, why do they get to be the loudest clowns in the circus? I’m watching two people with room temperature IQs fuck a country.
room temperature IQs
This has to be my new favorite insult. I am absolutely going to use this and pass it along, stranger.
Even more savage if you live somewhere that uses celsius
So like, most of the world?
I mean, I didn’t want to be the one to say it, but, yes
I’ve always been partial to saying “about as sharp as a pound of wet liver”. It just seems more visceral.
Unfortunately as the years go by, it will become less of an insult.
They were never hired to govern.
I hate them so very very much. It’s terrible that the minority in this country has such an outsize influence.
And this is what conservatives consider politicians.
“Huuur she’s fightin’ fer what I believe in.”
Progress doesn’t matter. Only optics.
Only winning. And zero sum game. :/
I say we bring back dueling and let those 2 hash it out colonial style.
I’m not convinced MTG and Boebert aren’t just the same domestic terrorist that occasionally changes wig color and adds or removes a pair of glasses.
There’s a Tina Fey/Amy Poehler film somewhere in there.
Amy Poehler is gonna need to nearly overdose on HGH assuming she’s playing Marjorie
I guess this is kind of an off colour narrative to partake in but I have wondered for a while, if Michelle Obama is perceived as overly masculine in appearance (and we are all aware of the awful commentary on that topic that I won’t repeat here) then how can we look past Marge over here who literally looks like a World Gym ad circa 1990?
She looks like micky rourke.
They look like a couple of howler monkeys
So I lived in Flores Guatemala, known as the jumping off point to Tikal and other Mayan ruins.
It is also Howler monkey central and you could expect to hear them howling away every day and night, especially in the rain.
Howler monkeys scream with emotion and passion. Politicians are incapable of being that earnest and honest.
That’s insulting to howler monkeys.
you know why they have that stupid look on their faces? its because theyre stupid.
This is not trolling. This is terrifying. I have so much more to say but can’t find the words.
It would be funny if not for the damage they are causing
That poor man sitting in between those two…
He’s tired, boss. Tired of all the bullshit they slingin’.
I’ve never thought to ask this before, but is seating for congress preassigned? Or is it a “first come first serve” deal?
I would assume it’s assigned seating, could be wrong. Man’s looks like he would have moved if he could have.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has made zero progress on thwarting a shutdown.
What an odd line, especially since he killed a bipartisan bill That was introduced specifically to prevent a government shutdown. That statement implies that he is working toward avoiding a government shutdown when in reality he’s working very hard to ensure one.
Wait, i live in Montana. Let me harass that pos for a min
Double pos isn’t my district and requires a zip code from his own dipshit district to send an email
59101
I picked some museum in Billings as an address and told him to pass a fuckin budget
If Mccarthy gave any fucks for the country, he’d bring an omnibus bill forward and convince a few other Republicans to vote with democrats. Let the cards fall where they will with his speakership.
Y’all live in glass houses dudetts… shouldn’t be lobbing stones.
Is Boebert gonna get handsy?
