They Came. They Squawked. They Squandered Their Leverage.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In November, a characteristically impassioned Texas Rep. Chip Roy unloaded in a House floor speech about how lousy a job House Republicans were doing.

“One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing—one!—that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!” he shouted, inviting anybody hanging around listening to “come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides ‘Well, I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats.’ ”

Roy is policy chair of the House Freedom Caucus, the group of a few dozen far-right Republicans whose rigid demands and relentless threats to oust GOP leadership have mired the House of Representatives in dysfunction. Its members include Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, and Chairman Bob Good; Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are kindred ideological spirits. (Greene was a part of its ranks until she was booted last year, for being too mean to other caucus members.)

Five months after his epic rant, Roy and his chums have the same amount to celebrate—basically nothing—and a lot more to complain about. The House finally passed into law government-funding bills for the rest of the fiscal year at levels far too high for the hard-liners’ taste. It also finally pushed through security assistance for Ukraine without any border security reforms or changes attached, and without any corresponding spending cuts.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/far-wing-congress-squandered-leverage-094500055.html

[usonian]

1. It's not about the money. It's about the recipients ... the "wrong" people

Just as it was about "welfare mothers" and CRT and DEI.

There was never too much to give to the wealthy, and not a penny for the { fill in your out-group }

All they had to offer was "I Share Your Rage", and that's all they've got and all they ever will have.

Even in my philosophical discussions, I pound the table: Ideology is Bullshit [1]; What you do is who you are; it's your religion.

When your entire being is engaged in channeling media-induced hate, at some point, the emptiness sets in.

Their revolutionary leaders are failing, even to put a crowbar in the wheels of government, with the most leverage they've ever had: a cowardly bunch of lemmings-lators scared of their howling and threats.


[1] Things are said in context. Context changes. Meanings change. Good works are always good works. Speech matters, but is easy to misinterpret, accidentally or deliberately.