It Is All Our Fault

That is what they are going to say… mark my words.

The clock is ticking toward voting on the stopgap spending bill which the far right Republicans in the House have vowed to block unless their demands are met.

Freedom Caucus rebels against a short-term funding bill with new demands
The new list of policy changes sought by the ultraconservative House lawmakers drew immediate pushback from Democratic leaders, who warned it would cause a shutdown.
NBC News
By Sahil Kapur and Rebecca Kaplan
August 21, 2023

The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus is demanding a series of conservative policy changes in exchange for giving its support to any short-term funding measure designed to avert a government shutdown on Sept. 30.

The Republican rebels insist that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who floated the idea of a stopgap bill last week, impose conditions that the Democratic-led Senate and President Joe Biden are extremely unlikely to accept.

In a statement Monday, the Freedom Caucus said its official position was that its members would oppose any bill unless it includes its preferred language about border security, new laws to address what it calls the “weaponization” of the Justice Department and the FBI and a shift in some of the Dedense Department’s policies — although it didn’t detail all the changes it wants.

“We refuse to support any such measure that continues Democrats’ bloated COVID-era spending and simultaneously fails to force the Biden Administration to follow the law and fulfill its most basic responsibilities,” the statement said, adding that any short-term bill that continues funding at current levels represents a position the caucus “vehemently opposed” months ago.

As they say in the late night TV commercials… But Wait! These More!

The Freedom Caucus added that any short-term spending bill must “end the Left’s cancerous woke policies in the Pentagon undermining our military’s core warfighting mission.” It is unclear which policies it is referring to.

I think we know, as the targets of their animosity. An article in Fortune knows the real reason why recruitment is down.

Don’t blame ‘wokeness’ for the Army’s recruitment woes, says the Army
By Lolita C. Baldor and The Associated Press
February 13, 2023

While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military service says the bigger hurdles are more traditional ones: Young people don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put their lives on hold.

They “just don’t see the Army as something that’s relevant,” said Maj. Gen. Alex Fink, head of Army marketing. “They see us as revered, but not relevant, in their lives.”

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Officials said that based on the surveys, young people simply do not see the Army as a safe place or good career path, and believe they would have to put their lives and careers on hold if they enlisted.

Army leaders said very few say they are deterred from enlisting due to “wokeness.” In fact, concerns about discrimination against women and minorities is seen as a bigger issue, along with a more general distrust of the military.

But the Republicans want to blame all the world’s woes on us.

The NBC article goes on to say,

“Furthermore,” the Freedom Caucus statement continued, “we will oppose any attempt by Washington to revert to its old playbook of using a series of short-term funding extensions to push Congress up against a December deadline to force the passage of yet another monstrous, budget busting, pork filled, lobbyist handout omnibus spending bill at the year’s end and we will use every procedural tool necessary to prevent that outcome.”

Translated from RepublicanThink (Which has it bases in 1984 Doublespeak) that we are worried stiff that we are going to lose control of the House in the 2024 elections.

So we will become the scapegoats for the House blockage of the spending bill. It will be our fault that the country will go belly-up. You make my words.