This is a political trap being laid by @SpeakerJohnson. He wants military aid passed for Israel and NOT for Ukraine. First the House will pass separate bills. Then these new bills have to go back to the Senate to be voted on again. Senate Republicans will then pass the House version of aid to Israel, but then filibuster the stand alone Ukraine aid bill. If Ukraine aid can't get 60 votes to end debate in the Senate, then it is dead. The last vote for aid to Ukraine (with aid to Israel) already had 30 Senators vote against it. If Donald Trump can call and threaten 10 more Republican Senators and twist their arm to join a filibuster, then a stand alone aid bill to Ukraine will never pass. Or... if Senate Republicans manage to amend a single thing in the bill, it would have to go back to the House to be voted on again and Speaker Johnson could just never allow a vote on the amended version of the bill kicked back to him. Senate Republicans of course would amend nothing in the Israel bill to make sure it doesn't need another vote in the House. Biden will only get the Israel aid package sent to his desk and then have to decide if he vetoes it or not without Ukraine aid (spoilers - he won't veto it).
@RealJakeBroe @SpeakerJohnson @RealJakeBroe It is so difficult for me to understand a great country like the United States, which is our guarantor of freedom and democracy, is led by a single religious fanatic who g’ets afvises from above, and a criminal ex-president. Is there not an adult present anymore!
@SorenLudvig @SpeakerJohnson Nope. The grown-ups have all left or are about to leave the Republican Party. Trump has kicked them all out to consolidate more power for himself. Trump is driving this pro-Russia party and nothing will change unless he loses the November election.
Hmmm, your analysis seems to have an ideologically driven blindspot ... if all House Democrats would sign the Discharge Petition, only a couple of Republicans would be needed and the Senate Bill would undoubtedly proceed to the House Floor for a vote. And it would pass. Problem solved. So, where's your excoriation of Far Left Democrats for preventing this from happening? Both parties have been overrun by their respective lunatic fringes ... UltraMAGA on the Right and The Squad et al on the Left. Until moderates in BOTH parties ostracize their unhinged extremists, the madness will continue. Scroll through my comments and replies ... I'm practicing what I preach. Are you?
@QuillFirePoetry @RealJakeBroe @SorenLudvig @SpeakerJohnson So what you're saying is that even though ALL the moderates on the Democratic side have signed onto discharge, and NONE of the moderates on the Republican side have signed on, both sides are at fault. Only one side is actually blocking discharge, and it's not the Democrats.
@QuillFirePoetry @RealJakeBroe @SorenLudvig @SpeakerJohnson The GOP moderates - assuming there are any - are all too afraid of their extremists. The Dem moderates are doing the right thing DESPITE their extremists. These are not the same thing, and your attempts to "both sides" it are stupid.
Scroll through my comments and replies to see if you can detect fearfulness. Feel free to link anything you consider cowardly. If anything, the situation in the Democrat party is even more maniacal than in the Republican party ... you guys can't even figure out how many genders there are or, for that matter, define what a "woman" is. People who live in glass houses ...
@QuillFirePoetry @cowboyinbrla @RealJakeBroe @SorenLudvig lol…you dudes always have to go that extra step and out yourselves. You pretend to be “independent” or “moderate” but at the first hint of pushback all your extreme conservative prejudices jump right out of your mouths.