{"id":41630,"date":"2024-12-21T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41630"},"modified":"2024-12-21T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:45:58","slug":"its-deja-vu-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/21\/its-deja-vu-all-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu All Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo’s<\/strong><\/em> Dana Milbank caught me by surprise<\/a> in this column concerning the potential, but perhaps voided, government shutdown of tonight[1]<\/a><\/sup>, and the future of Speaker Johnson (R-LA)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

But this is just the first act of what promises to be a four-year circus. Already, a dozen or so House Republicans, angered by Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s inept handling of the spending bill, are now making noises about blocking his reelection as speaker Jan. 3 \u2014 and the defection of even two or three Republicans could doom him. This, in turn, could delay Congress\u2019s certification of Trump\u2019s election victory and possibly create a constitutional crisis over the transfer of power.<\/strong> Even if Johnson (R-Louisiana) gets out of that mess, a few House Republicans are already lining up in opposition to extending Trump\u2019s tax cuts, a core component of his 2025 agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>My bold. Delaying an Inauguration by finding a different manner of imbecility. Bless their hearts, the Republicans do like to shoot themselves right in the nuts in public. As my Arts Editor asked, What happens if there is a delay? Does President Biden remain in office?<\/em><\/p>\n

Democrats are far more subtle when they shoot themselves in the head and then spend months wandering about wondering what happened to them in the election.<\/p>\n

I can’t see such a delay actually happening, but maybe SCOTUS<\/strong> had best stay up late and do some research. And maybe issue a proactive ruling. We don’t need an Army Colonel standing around on January 20th, holding the nuclear football, muttering, “Now who do I give this to?”<\/p>\n

Bad grammar, that. SCOTUS<\/strong>, think, think! Republicans, get your Speaker situation straightened out and save us from televised bad grammar! No, no, I insist. And whoever’s muttering Speaker Musk<\/em>, just stop that right now. Even former Rep and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL), later a convicted pedophile, would be better than Musk. You have better choices, so stop it. Now.<\/p>\n

\n

<\/a>1<\/sup> LATER: Avoided, as a Continuing Resolution (CR) was passed by Congress, and signed by President Biden. No shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WaPo’s Dana Milbank caught me by surprise in this column concerning the potential, but perhaps voided, government shutdown of tonight[1], and the future of Speaker Johnson (R-LA): But this is just the first act of what promises to be a four-year circus. Already, a dozen or so House Republicans, angered \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41635,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630\/revisions\/41635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}