Martin Longman looks at the chaos surrounding the defense appropriations bill. Basically, the House passed a lunatic bill with all sorts of culture war nonsense in it, the Senate has passed a (mostly) clean NDAA, and now the House will....what exactly?
The ever shrinking margins for the House GOP means that their margin for error is miniscule. If the Chaos Caucus is opposed to more or less everything, then you have to get Democratic votes. So the only way the NDAA gets passed in the House is an up-or-down vote on the Senate version.
This dynamic will also make passing some sort of budget nearly impossible by the shutdown dates early next year. What will be really interesting is that the House Morons seem intent on an impeachment of Joe Biden, because Trump told them to. However, I could see that failing, which would be hilarious. The Chaos Caucus has made themselves so odious to whatever remains of the institutional Republican Party that I can see a handful of GOP Reps voting against this spurious impeachment bullshit. The resulting finger pointing should be hilarious.
UPDATE: It passed. That didn't take long.
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