""In the end, the outcome could depend on whether Republican hard-liners like and trust Johnson — one of their own, after all — sufficiently more than they liked and trusted McCarthy, who never seemed like a true believer in the MAGA cause. He may also benefit from the fact that even the nihilists and bomb-throwers in the House GOP conference aren’t thrilled at the idea of another decapitation of their party leader in the chamber followed by an endless and embarrassing struggle to replace him. The changed circumstances from the days before McCarthy fell may be just enough to enable Mike Johnson to keep the federal government open." source Intelligence report
VOTES?? will the R's repeat the Mccarthy massacre?...THIS is becoming a cluster f--k.
Massacre? Such hyperbole! The shutdown goes like this. Non essential government workers get a few weeks off for the holidays. Essential workers stay in place. Then the non-essentials get their back pay. This is just theater so that politicians get more airtime right before the 2024 elections.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
