Bidens Handlungen/Resultate als POTUS

Zitat von Wemir

Aller guten Dinge sind drei, richtig?

In dem Fall nur, wenn man es genießt zu verlieren:

https://www.reuters.com/world/…yzed-us-house-2023-10-20/

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Republicans drop Jim Jordan's US House speaker bid after third failed vote

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan's quest to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ended on Friday as his fellow Republicans revoked their support following a third, failed vote on the House floor.

Ist noch Zeit auf der Uhr und Onkel Sam hat allerlei Überbrückungstricks im bürokratischen Ärmel, aber das ist angesichts eines brodelnden Nahostkonflikts schon eine arge Regierungskrise:

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That means that the House until at least next week will remain unable to respond to President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion national-security package including military aid for Ukraine and Israel or take action to stave off a looming Nov. 18 partial government shutdown.

Nächster Shutdown-Termin jetzt noch einen Monat entfernt.

Auslandshilfe...

...hilft bei der Ordnung und Regelung des Auslands.

GenocideJoe > SleepyJoe

Wat schon vorbei?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/1…te-republicans/index.html

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Trump ally Mike Johnson elected House speaker three weeks after McCarthy ouster

Hauptsache er bleibt der Politik seines Idols und politischen Führers treu und stellt sich ganz klar in uneingeschränkter Solidarität an die Seite der Israelischen Regierung.

Die Dekosoldaten, die in den Schauerbäumen hängen, sind auch sehr überzeugend.

Ich finds toll, dass die das machen. Die beiden haben bestimmt lange an dem ganzen blöden Klimbim gebastelt.

Btw: Wer braucht eigentlich hierzulande dieses gekünstelt inszenierte Konsumfest?

Was die US-Regierung an Zinsen auf ihre Schulden zahlen muss:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news…-a-cool-1-trillion-a-year

Das kann nicht allzu gut sein.

Zitat von Wemir

Was die US-Regierung an Zinsen auf ihre Schulden zahlen muss:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news…-a-cool-1-trillion-a-year

Das kann nicht allzu gut sein.

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https://twitter.com/LindseyGra…tatus/1722446680878899684

Black helicopter time!

Meint Lindsey mit "our own border" die erweiterte Grenze des Imperiums auf der arabischen Halbinsel?

Ne, ich glaube der denkt schon an die mexikanischen Araber und andere Südvölker.

Es ist schon wieder shutdown-Zeit, noch sechs Tage. Sieht so aus als würde der neue Sprecher eine weitere kurzfristige Vertagung anstreben:

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-shutdown-idCAKBN32604P

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Republicans are due to unveil a stopgap measure on Saturday aimed at averting a government shutdown, the latest in a series of standoffs that contributed to Moody’s lowering its outlook on the nation’s credit.

Freilich bringt uns das an die gleiche Stelle, die seinen Vorgänger den Job gekostet hat:

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Some House Republicans have called for a “clean” continuing resolution, or “CR,” that would keep funding at current levels and contain no partisan policy riders such as immigration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border that Democrats view as “poison pills.”

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Johnson, who won the speaker’s gavel less than three weeks ago, could put his own political future at risk by opting for a clean CR that can win enough ready bipartisan support to pass through Congress quickly.

Nun:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news…ering-risk-of-us-shutdown

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The risk of a US government shutdown on Nov. 18 eased as House Speaker Mike Johnson proposed a compromise temporary funding plan without insisting on deep spending cuts that ultraconservatives have sought.

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The proposal would extend funding for some government agencies to January and others to February, lawmakers and aides said Saturday. While the two-step idea risks Democratic pushback, it is more likely to pass the Senate given lack of immediate spending cuts.

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Republican leaders plan a House vote on the plan Tuesday — which could end Johnson's brief honeymoon period with conservative rebels in the party.

Hardline conservatives have demanded that Johnson attach immediate spending cuts and changes to US migration policies to any temporary funding to keep open the government.

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Johnson will almost certainly need Democrats to pass his plan through the House over these objections.

Ich nehme an die Regel, dass ein Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses genügt, um ein Misstrauensvotum loszutreten, wird unter Johnson nicht wieder eingeführt. Insofern vielleicht ist das jetzt kein Problem mehr.

Jedes mal das gleiche Theater

Na, schauen wir mal.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/1…ernment-budget/index.html

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[Johnson] may soon find himself in the position that doomed his predecessor Rep. Kevin McCarthy — needing Democratic votes to keep the government open.

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While the two-step approach appears to be a concession to the far right — which abhors what it calls “clean” continuing resolutions, or CRs, that keep government open temporarily at current spending levels — Johnson’s approach may already have backfired since it lacks the sweeping cuts that hard-right Republicans demanded even though they have no chance of getting them past a Democratic-run Senate and White House. “It’s a 100% clean. And I 100% oppose,” Freedom Caucus member and Texas Rep. Chip Roy wrote on X, conjuring up exactly the showdown that cost McCarthy his job.

Die Sache ist selbst bei den Republikanern, die McCarthy gestürzt haben, dürfte eine neue Sprechersuche nicht allzu beliebt sein. Ich vermute daher Johnson könnte auf die Stimmen der Demokraten setzen, ohne sein Amt zu riskieren.

https://www.reuters.com/world/…ment-shutdown-2023-11-14/

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WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure to avert a partial federal government shutdown, as wide swaths of lawmakers from both parties showed support for the bill.

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The 336-95 vote was a victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who faced down opposition from some of his fellow Republicans, in the first consequential vote of his tenure

Die Republikaner hatten keine eigene Mehrheit, ohne Demokraten wäre das Gesetz nicht durchgekommen:

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1724561871116603775

Aber, wie vermutet scheint das im Moment keine Konsequenzen zu haben.

Wenn jetzt der Senat nicht austickt, ist erst wieder Anfang nächstes Jahr shutdown time, aber das ist ja auch nicht mehr so lange hin.

Biden und Xi treffen sich. Nachdem wie gut das bisher gelaufen ist, erwarte ich den Ausbruch des dritten großen Ende des Westen-Krieges sobald Xi zurück in China ist.

The Squad Is About to Fight for Its Political Life

The war in Gaza has set the stage for a huge primary battle in 2024.

Zitat von Slate - 15.11.23

[...] The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful, best-funded influence operations in Washington, is planning to go all out to knock the famed “Squad”—the small group of highly visible and popular progressive legislators of color, most of them women—out of office.

The most outspoken and unapologetically leftist contingent of the Democratic Party in national office, the Squad has been vocal in its criticism of Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza following the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas. Members of the group have prominently pushed a cease-fire resolution in Congress; it now has 18 signatories.

Their positions on the issue are hardly radical: A recent Data for Progress poll found that 66 percent of Americans support a cease-fire, as do 80 percent of Democrats. But AIPAC has trained its attention on these members to make an example of them. And it has spent heavily against a few of them before. [...]

AIPAC has a turbulent history with them, and progressives in general. In the 2022 midterms, the Israel lobby became the largest single-issue outside spender in Democratic primaries, pouring in nearly $30 million via the super PAC the United Democracy Project, and millions more via the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC. It was an astronomical amount of money, mostly directed at knocking progressives out of the primaries, largely in open and redrawn seats. Despite there being fewer vacancies in 2024, that money figure is expected to at least triple.[...]

So far, House Democratic leadership has been quiet about all this. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries—who took more money from the Israel lobby in 2022 than from any other group and is featured prominently on the lobbying group’s website (alongside House Republican leadership)—hasn’t tried to dissuade the primarying of these progressive Democratic incumbents. He could easily publicly disavow such spending and make it clear to candidates that accepting such support is against caucus policy; in 2019, House Democrats made it an official policy to blacklist any Democratic consultant or political group who aided a progressive challenger against a sitting Democratic incumbent ahead of the 2020 elections. But so far Jeffries has only managed to say: “Outside groups are gonna do what outside groups are gonna do. I think House Democrats are going to continue to support each other.” [...]

That AIPAC feels the need to spend this much money at all could well be taken as a sign of weakness, not strength. Already, unlimited Israeli militarism is deeply unpopular; a full year of bombings of Palestinian hospitals and mass casualties of children in Gaza could make the AIPAC line even more unpopular still.

In fact, there is a familiar trajectory here. Not long ago, the National Rifle Association was known as a bipartisan organization that Democrats desperately courted for support. But as the lobby became increasingly right-wing and with its leadership becoming increasingly fringe, it embraced highly unpopular positions on the total deregulation of gun violence and pushed far-flung Republican agenda items. Quickly the group drove itself into marginalization. It took only a handful of cycles for Democrats to totally disaffiliate from the organization, its reputation too politically toxic for even the most cash-strapped Democrat. “It could be that in two or four cycles, AIPAC will be totally ostracized, their support plummeting” as well, Farrell said.

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