The Crumbling House …

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I remember a time not all that long ago when members from both parties in Congress took their jobs and their oaths of office seriously.  Some still do, but within the Republican Party those are few and far between … hidden well in the recesses between the loud rampant voices of those whose only goals are personal power & wealth.  As we rapidly approach a crisis point in just 32 days when the government funding will run out and the government will shut down without congressional action, we effectively have no Congress to act.

The House of Representatives is hamstrung by the radicals in the Republican Party who cannot even be bothered to work a 40-hour workweek, let alone into the weekend to attempt to resolve their differences.  Instead, the person (and I use that term loosely) who wishes to be the next Speaker of the House spent the weekend making threatening, harassing phone calls to his peers in order to intimidate them into voting for him.

If just four House Republicans could dig around and find their conscience, put country and people ahead of profit and party to reach across that wide aisle and work with Democrats to elect House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to the speakership, the squeaky wheels of Congress could once again turn.  Are there four Republicans with conscience in the House?  Thus far it doesn’t look like it.  Meanwhile, we cannot help Ukraine, we cannot help Israel, we cannot pass a single appropriation bill of the twelve needed by November 17th … the hands of the entire Congress are tied … hobbled with duct tape that is seemingly stronger than the call of duty, than the lives of people.  Hang your heads in shame, Republicans, for you have brought shame to a nation you call ‘great’ and every day that you sit on your fat arses, you are endangering peoples’ lives.

Voters … remember this when you head to the polls in just 386 days.  As long as the current set of greedy buffoons are in office nothing will change, at least not for the better.  This nation is heading rapidly toward third-world status thanks almost exclusively to the Republican Party … VOTE. THEM. OUT!

Back in January, Steve Schmidt who writes a blog on Substack titled “The Warning”, wrote a piece about the longest-serving Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, a man of integrity.  I hope you’ll read his piece and then compare Sam Rayburn to the likes of Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and the bully Jim Jordan.

A Man Named Sam  by Steve Schmidt

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  3. If I were American I would read it. But being Canadian, where we do things differently, I would prefer not to know how to screw up a government. To the best of my knowledge government in Canada cannot be shut down by Parliament. I see no reason to even make such a thing possible. Government needs to work, or what’s the point of having one!

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      • Our Conservative parties are trying hard to change that, and our Liberal Party is not fighting them hard enough, but so far we are hanging on. Scottie just told me that Florida passed a law making it legal for their police force to go into other states and arrest parents who are taking their children out of Florida for gender-changing surgeries. Who the hell does he think he is? Pardon me, but I wish someone would get rid of him. He must be so afraid of his own homosexual tendencies that he is willing to do anything to make himself look like a heteroxexual hero! He’s an effin’ jerk! Please pardon my language but I am angry as hell at the moment. I won’t say what I’m really thinking, though…

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        • It’s not just on this side of the globe, either. The “populist movement”, which translates into a bigoted fascist movement, is spreading around the globe, even in some of the most democratic nations. There’s a history to it that can actually be traced to the effects of climate change in many places, leading to the Arab Spring movement, but that’s a story for another day. As for the law Scottie refers to, I’ll have to look into that. The other states would have to agree to it before a Florida trooper could just walk in and arrest someone in another state on a state charge. I’ll check it out tomorrow. I’m angry too, rg … I see so much wrong and getting even ‘wronger’, and nobody seems able to do anything to counter it. Sigh.

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              • And I hope your nation comes to its senses, Jill. I want so badly to have a sane nation as neighbours. Not that we in Canada are not insane ourselves, but we are not as insane as thise in the USA who would vote in thugs and hooligans to the point of giving them a majority. Where is sanity?

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                • I hope so too, but don’t hold your breath. You Canadians don’t come close to the insanity happening here in the U.S. today. I see it only getting worse here before it gets better … half the people are too ignorant to see what is before their faces, and part of the other half just don’t seem to care. Sanity? It flew away …

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  6. Jill, great post. Nancy Pelosi and Tip O’Neill deserve some propers. I was not a huge fan of Pelosi’s, but she knew how to count votes and get things done. Keith

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    • Yep, they are not big fans of working long or hard, are they? I really dread the next year … I think chaos will reign in this country until and even after next year’s election. Can I come visit you in Germany??? xx

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