The House passed six appropriation bills a little while ago—a $1.2 trillion package—to avert a government shutdown. It funds the federal government until the end of the fiscal year on September 30. It includes defense, homeland security, financial services and general government, labor-HHS, the legislative branch, and state-foreign operations. The package essentially codifies the invasion of the country by criminal aliens. There is a lot of military spending and some truly goofy social engineering items in there. Understand that the threat of government shutdown is propaganda to force uncritical passage of a continuing budget. It now goes to the Senate.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Johnson. It’s the motion to vacate Republicans used to remove McCarthy as Speaker. If you remember, McCarthy’s removal enjoyed bipartisan support. I expect the same for Johnson. Suffice it to say, I like the rules of accountability the populists negotiated when Republicans assumed the majority of the House. It is a periodic reminder than those who are handed the gavel are those prepared to do the bidding the establishment.
I find it interesting that leaders of the Republican Party otherwise loathed by Democrats enjoy a strange good will from progressives when rank-and-file Republicans turn on their leaders. The good will is manifest in a lack of joy at their removal (even while participating in it) and charges of party dysfunctionality, even though this is what democracy looks like. Democrats take pride in their lockstep approach to governance. They don’t eject leaders who do the bidding of the power elite. Democrats are fully integrated with the power elite.
A case in point is the recall of Wisconsin’s Robin Vos, the 75th Speaker of the Assembly and the longest-serving speaker in the state’s history. If you’re not plugged into the populist-nationalist movement, you probably didn’t even know this was happening. If the Democrats were behind it you would. But it is rank-and-file Republicans who are. Vos’ argument against the recall petition is an ironic one. It depends on rationalizing the Wisconsin Supreme Court December ruling overturning GOP-drawn legislative maps. The Vos camp says in its challenge of the petition that a recall cannot occur in Vos’ district because it is not the same district.
Freedom and Reason will be watching both the motion to vacate and the Vos recall. Stay tuned.
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