As we await USDC Judge Paula Xinis' ruling on unsealing the government papers related to Mr. Abrego Garcia's detention in El Salvador. . . we grin -- ear to ear -- seeing that as we predicted, the coalition of banality. . . (Tangerine 2.0) is already breaking, under its own weight (of evil hubris).
This afternoon, Trump's own GOP handed him a stinging embarrassment, by refusing to vote the big budget/tax bill out of committee. Couldn't happen to a nicer jamoke. Here's the story:
. . .Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team will now spend the weekend trying to win over those Republicans before attempting to take that vote again, potentially as soon as Monday. But it will be a tough task to flip the right-wing Republicans, who are demanding more spending cuts from Medicaid and from federal clean energy programs, especially as Johnson must also be careful not to alienate moderates whose votes he also needs with any changes to the bill.
A core of right-wing Republicans had warned Johnson and his leadership team, both privately and publicly, that they planned to oppose the vote in the House budget panel meeting on Friday. But GOP leaders took the gamble, and went ahead with the vote anyway. . . .
It is not at all clear that weekend vote / whip efforts will solve this. It is a fundamental disagreement about what to cut -- and by how much. The MAGA wing doesn't care that it will harm rural whyte children in red states. The moderate GOP (to the extent than anything remains of it!) doesn't want to be voted out, on this score -- come 2026. Hilarious.
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