comment: >
  
  Are there some Republicans who aren't?
context: McCarthy commits that House Republicans will create a plan for a balanced federal budget within 10 years
  
  It only took Bill Clinton 8 years to create a budget surplus. >
  
  Democrats get us closer to balancing the budget, then a Republican gets elected and after 4 years it’s back to square one. >
  
  All this. Except there's almost nothing left to take from those at the bottom. They've already milked that cow nearly dry. >
  
  That's because they don't want a democracy. They really do want to concentrate wealth and bring in an authoritarian New World Order of global serfdom disguised as conservatism and libertarianism. >
  
  From article:
  At some point this year, Congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to prevent a potentially catastrophic default on the national debt. Conservatives want to use this must-pass bill as leverage, to force Democrats into accepting spending cuts they want. >
  
  “We need you to cut healthcare and education spending so we can give Lockheed and Raytheon more contracts and to spend our time creating evidence that backs up the conclusions we’ve already arrived at in investigations against our political opponents k thx bby” -Kevin McCarthy 2023 >
  
  McCarthy actually wants to cut defense spending... >
  
  Maybe he says that. I'll believe it when I see it. >
  
  What do you mean? You're not taking him at his word? >
  
  Who would right now?  Kevin would clearly sell his soul for the House leadership.  Who is left to believe he'd not concede the whole enchilada to Maggie Traitor for a sip of Flavour Ade? >
  
  McCarthy is such a fucking spineless worm. He doesn’t stand for anything other than acquiring  power for himself. >
  
  All he’ll end up with is the empty title. He bargained away any power that might usually go with that title. He will be one of the weakest Speakers in history. >
  
  And next week they will vacate him. >
  
  Yes, right after they get sworn in and get Committee assignments, then the first of dozens of no confidence votes start. >
  
  is that before, after, or between the motions to impeach Biden and the motions to vacate all investigations into Donald Trump and make up a new SuperHonor to bestow upon him? >
  
  They’re going to use the debt ceiling impasse to cut Medicare and Social Security. >
  
  And seniors will still vote for them. I say we let Republicans give them exactly what they appear to want. >
  
  Current seniors won't feel those cuts, Gen-X will. It's generational warfare and we should walk out and revolt if they do it. >
  
  McCarthy: Guys, I physically cant bend over any further.
  Holdouts: Not with that attitude you can't >
  
  Oh they're back to pretending they care about debt again? Better investigate those PPP loans then >
  
  I'm reminded of this interview with Ted Cruz shortly before the 2020 election, where he said that, unlike under Trump, if Biden won then Republicans would suddenly care about debt again. >
  
  Cut$75 billion from a $750 billion defense budget? OMG, the horror the horror; it's impossible! >
  
  I'm all for that. But I want it cut from the right things, not Ukraine. We're in a space race with China and a nuclear arms race with Russia. Now is not the time to give the ball to our enemies and walk away from allies.
  Also, Dems should use the fuck out of this against Repubs who think they're the defense crowd. Cut the military's pay? How awful! Campaign campaign campaign. >
  
  You know that it's 100% gonna be all about Ukraine for them. And that's not a coincidence. The conspiracy/PR pipeline on biolabs and Hunter was built for this. It's pretty obvious what the recurring common denominator is here. >
  
  “McCarthy agreed to committee assignments demanded by the holdouts, including placing Republicans associated with the hardline Freedom Caucus on the powerful Rules Committee.”
  Some of the same Republicans who tried to help Trump overturn a US election will now be in charge of the powerful Rules Committee.  God help us all. >
  
  And thus we may get a speaker compromised by the twenty idiots compromised by Putin.