Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

    • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It didn’t read that way to me. This could be the end of McCarthy as speaker because he worked with Democrats. Did you see the paragraph:

      Jim McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts, offered a simple commentary as he left the floor following the vote: “We won.”

      • thisisthelastonebtw@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The headline made it sound like the Republicans avoided it; that’s all. You know most Republicans don’t read anything more than a headline. :) I’m mostly frustrated with that is all. The context almost always leans differently.

        Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

        Any Republican who reads that, what do you think they read? I know what I think, and, unfortunately, as an observer of those people’s reactions, I’m positive that’s how they’ll read it.

        • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Well Republicans control the house so it was factually a Republican who sided with Democrats over the Republican freedom caucus.

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      1 year ago

      Not my take away from the headline at all. Makes the GOP sound like they don’t have their shit together so McCarthy had to go hat in hand to the Dems seeking actual adults capable of governing.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair, while most of the GOP might have their shit together, they have a crazy faction blocking them

        In a way, it might just be possible that this marks a realization that they will have better results working in a bipartisan manner than trying to appease the nutjobs.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      Well technically they did work hard… at blocking anything possible to stop this shutdown, because a shutdown is good for a very few rich assholes