On Tuesday, the Home authorized a $40 billion assist bundle for Ukraine by a large 368-57 vote. You possibly can’t get 368 votes to rename a publish workplace in DC today, and nonetheless the Home voted overwhelmingly in favor of spending the cash, even topping up President Joe Biden’s funding request by $7 billion.
“As China, Iran and North Korea watch our response, we should present the world that America stands agency with its allies and can do what is important to guard our pursuits overseas,” Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the rating Republican on the Appropriations Committee advised the AP.
It is a no-brainer: Democrats help the unfold of democracy and stability in Europe, and Republicans need to be seen as projecting American energy internationally. Because the the Submit‘s Leigh Ann Caldwell notes, it should get bipartisan help within the Senate, the place Senators Rand Paul and John Kennedy are at the moment being dicks and holding up the vote — ‘trigger it is a day that ends in Y.
So who’re the braindead dipshits within the Home that voted towards it?
Effectively, it is precisely who you suppose it’s.
Or, as Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego put it on Twitter, “If there was a Venn diagram of the GOP members of Congress that simply voted towards assist for Ukraine bc ‘we have to deal with the USA’ and the GOP members of Congress that voted towards infrastructure it could make an ideal circle.”
That will be a response to the present Republican talking point that we’re spending more cash on Ukraine than we spent on American roads and bridges final yr. Not that these filthy sumbitches would ever help spending precise cash on enhancing the lives of their constituents. As a result of their home priorities start and finish at waging infinite tradition struggle to maintain the bottom pissed off and ill-informed.
These purists are so doggedly dedicated to opposing something that Democrats help that they are at the moment attacking their very own get together over Ukraine assist. And since Abbott issued a recall of Similac after bacterial contamination killed two babies, the vocabulary phrase of the week is FORMULA SHORTAGE. As in, how can we afford to assist Ukraine fend off a murderous dictator when free market capitalism fails to feed American infants?
Let’s examine what number of of those America First-ers help the president’s proposed increase in funding for the FDA to maintain our meals provide protected. Gonna exit on a limb and guess zero.
Georgia’s nuttiest congresswoman got into it on Twitter final evening along with her fellow Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Rattling that lady for making us agree with Dan frickin’ Crenshaw!
As ordinary, Tucker Carlson is main the cost. Who desires to learn a number of thousand phrases of insane ranting likening the Ukraine assist bundle to watching your dad and mom give your Christmas presents to the child down the road? Oh, no person?
LOL.
[Y]ou cannot afford to fill your truck, however you now get to pay the residing bills of anybody who exhibits up in your nation claiming to be from Ukraine and you’ll. After which as a result of paying off your mates is at all times the actual level of those workout routines in Washington, there are billions extra {dollars} for Lloyd Austin’s former employers within the weapons enterprise. That would come with $72 million for one thing the invoice describes as “analysis, growth, take a look at, and analysis in Ukraine.” Hmm.
Now, do not say biolabs as a result of that is not a lab, however truthfully, that is bizarre. Ukraine is a struggle zone and due to this fact most likely not an awesome place for scientific analysis proper now, however no matter. We’re funding some sort of science experiments in Ukraine. No extra questions from you. And the invoice goes on like this and on and on.
Bioweapons lab. DRINK!
A majority of Home Republicans voted for the Ukraine assist bundle, however apparently it is all Democrats’ fault.
It’s best to know that each single Democrat within the Home of Representatives voted for this invoice. That would come with even Barbara Lee of Berkeley. Now, in the event you keep in mind her identify, it could be as a result of in 2001, Barbara Lee of Berkeley was the one member of Congress to oppose the struggle towards the Taliban. However a struggle in Ukraine is a struggle that Barbara Lee can help. Why? As a result of there is no potential probability that struggle may assist the US.
Additionally, Liz Cheney and Elise Stefanik are besties now, in line with Tucker. That complete enterprise the place Stefanik shivved Cheney and took her job as GOP convention chair is up to now, and now they only braid one another’s hair within the cloak room and speak about how dreamy Adam Kinzinger is.
Now, 57 Republicans did vote towards final evening’s invoice and God bless them for doing it, however many extra voted for it. In fact, there was Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and their pal Elise Stefanik. However there was additionally Republican management, prime management, McCarthy and Scalise. Shameful. And the worst half is that this invoice will virtually actually cross within the Senate, which is far more left wing even than the Home on the Republican facet.
It is hilariously batshit in a let-them-fight-dot-gif manner. And likewise, it is not humorous in any respect, since we’re locked in the home with these individuals and they’re more and more divorced from something like actuality.
There’s just one answer to this downside and it’s … nicely, shit, in the event you determine it out, inform us ASAP!
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