Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.
Well, if he won’t negotiate, why does he expect the democrats to rubberstamp it?
Ratchet effect has worked out great for them thus far
Because that is historically what they have done. Republicans know that can take advantage of Democrats “weakness” of being able to compromise. The illegal firing of furloughed workers is metaphorically the Republican terrorists executing hostages until their demands are met. They don’t care about the damage they are doing, but they know their opponents do. They have also historically used the tactic successfully.
They expect it has worked in the past. They will keep executing their hostages and they will keep blaming their own willful destruction on those who won’t just give them everything they want. What they are too stupid to realize is that many of their hostages are their own people, and the only thing that makes a rightist reconsider their sick ideology is when it comes back to bite them personally.
The dems are happy to concede after making a show of a false struggle since it lets them off the hook from delivering the campaign-only promises their donors don’t want them to follow through on
Because party Democrats are fucking cowards who fold the moment they face a moment of resistance. If I were the Republican party, I would have considered it to be a safe gambit.
It’s good that the Democrats are refusing to give in now, but they really could have started doing that up to a year ago.
Yeah, Chuck Schumer basically gave the Republicans everything they wanted earlier this year on the first CR. He’ll be willing to cave again once he gets fed up with all the calls from his corporate donors
He thinks they can force their hand by saying it’s the Democrats that are preventing the military from getting paid.
So, basically, if Mike Johnson was your dad and (after he spent all day tracking your internet habits) you were abducted, you’d be a goner and he would go around blaming the abductors for refusing to release you for free.
That aside is so distracting, but most excellent.