The House of Representatives have passed a lot of bills this year and it’s made many of its members bark on Twitter about how they’re keeping their promises and saving America, yada yada yada. But most of these are on bullshit like keeping men out of women’s sports, condemning attacks on pro-life facilities, an “abortion survivors” protestion act, preventing the government from selling oil to China, pushing more drilling on government lands, and rescinding the hiring of new IRS agents that was passed last year in the Inflation Reduction Act.

The reason I call these bills “bullshit” is that they’re just noise. They won’t pass the Democratic-led Senate, and even if they did, they’d never get signed on the Democratic president’s desk. In fact, most of these barely even passed the Republican-led fucknut House.

This is why Kevin McCarthy’s House gets a failing report card. They don’t legislate to improve the lives of their constitituents. They only work on dogma and gaslight which they all hope will get them on Tucker Carlson Tonight, and guess what. Tucker’s gone.

Real leaders would read the room, face reality, and work on what they can get passed to improve the lives of their constituents instead of wasting time by being bottom feeders for the lowest common denominators. While the entire House may not be Gaetzs, MTGs, and Boeberts, it’s held hostage by them. Stop catering to the illiterate knuckle-draggers and do your jobs, losers.

Kevin McCarthy was set to become the worst Speaker in the history of this nation before finally winning that 15th vote to become Speaker. He established that he will trade anything for votes and this week, he barely passed a bill to raise the debt limit.

The debt limit authorizes paying the bills Congress has already passed. It’s like paying your credit card bill. Imagine instead of paying your bills, you and your wife negotiate what you’ll pay for next year, and if you can’t come to an agreement, you default on your bills, your lights are turned off, there’s no cable, creditors start calling, and you lose your house and have to move in with your mom and her hairless cat she loves more than she loves you. the creditors don’t care about your drama, your relationships, or the the hairless cat. They just want you to pay your bills.

The best thing to do when you get your bills is to pay them. Not paying on our government debt can send the government into default and totally trash the economy. It can cost jobs. Republicans like to use the debt limit to go back and renegotiate what they couldn’t block in previous congressional sessions. It’s holding the nation hostage. It is a game of chicken, but with opponents who don’t realize what happens in head-on collisions. Republicans are stupid.

But they only do this when a Democrat is in the White House. They passed a debt limit increase three times while Trump was president (sic).

The bill the GOP House is sending to the Senate won’t pass. Kevin knows this and says it’s to “kick start” negotiations with President Biden, who’s rightly said he’ll negotiate future budgets but not a debt limit increase. Congress should pass a clean increase for the debt limit, without the games.

And what the House passed is based on cruelty, because that’s what Republicans do. It adds work requirements to receive Medicaid and welfare benefits while cutting college loan forgiveness, child healthcare, daycare, veteran healthcare, housing assistance, pell grants, environmental protection, train safety inspections…wait.

The House wants to cut train safety inspections? Did I imagine all that noise and blame they were throwing around about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio? They never did blame the company responsible, Norfolk Southern, but they sure went after Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Now, they want to cut those inspections? By the way, has anyone checked on whether Trump is still sending aid to East Palestine beyond that crate of Trump Water he took for his photo-op?

They also want to cut the funding for the IRS to hire 87,000 agents over the next decade. So, they’re not cutting the Trump tax breaks for corporations and billionaires that added over $2 trillion to our debt, but they want to reduce government debt by making it easier for billionaires to be tax cheats. Sure, let’s starve children and cut healthcare to our veterans, but make sure Tiffany doesn’t get hit by an inheritance tax, because she can’t be rolling in royalties from “Like A Bird.“

This is why you should never vote Republican. They’re not serious and they hold the nation hostage. Did we learn nothing on January 6?

What we should do is lock Kevin and his fellow Republicans in a room and force them to hear “Like A Bird” on repeat until they finally pass a clean debt-limit increase. I give it 30 seconds.

Music Note: I listened to Infant Sorrow.

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