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Dead ceiling lifting day or whatever the hell it is. Yes, the house past the dead ceiling lift bill is a majority of Republicans and looks like a majority of the Democrats are still voting on it now.

I'm not completely surprised shocked or really all that interested in it. It's like getting pissed off at somebody who broke some of the fine China on the Titanic after it was already sinking.

You know, let's go out and blaze it. Glory, let's do this thing. Let's do this thing. Pulse and a wall go full bore. Everything we got. Let's at least go out drunk with the, you know, the biggest rager the world has ever seen. Now I'm partially joking, but only partially. I really am sick of this stuff because it's Kabuki theater.

You've got my town hall calling today. Touch is about this, but it have to be a freaking book to talk about how ridiculous these Republicans are.

So I'm going to go off on a little bit of a rant here because you're going to see a whole lot of posturing. There's going to be a whole, and there probably is right now a whole line of people dancing a little conga line over to Fox News.

They'll be talking to whoever is on, Hannity, Ingram, whatever, not gut felt because he recorded earlier today. He can't be bothered to stay up late.

But they will all be out there. He lives with a horrible bill. Speaking McCarthy's a disgrace. Blah blah blah blah. Where was your deal? Did you know that the House Freedom Caucus, which loves to go on television and tell conservatives how horrible things are offered no piece of legislation.

Piece of legislation to deal with this issue. None. They issued a list of demands. They put out a list of this is what we want and then did absolutely nothing to secure it.

Oh, they sure as hell made sure there was a press release out there and that stories were written about what the House Freedom Caucus really wants and what is only going to. It's just this is all that is acceptable to them.

Then they took their ball and went home. Now I say this is somebody who supports the House Freedom Caucus in concept. But in execution, it's worthless. It's absolutely worthless. They need to spend their time putting their money where their mouth is and making a case and trying to argue and convince Republicans and maybe even some Democrats to their way of thinking or shut the hell up work in the primaries against the Republicans that they don't like.

Bus their ass and make a difference to the point that they get to have their say but it starts with writing pieces of legislation that lists the demands. Roll call wrote on March 10th, 2023.

The headline is Freedom Caucus lays out debt limit spending demands. Oh, they're demands.

House Freedom Caucus members want to cap non-defense discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for the next decade arguing Republican should use the upcoming debt limit fight to force Democrats to agree to steep spending cuts that they say would save $3 trillion.

The group of roughly three dozen ultra conservatives held a news conference Friday a news conference to announce their spending demands, which also includes rescinding unspent pandemic funds, repealing mandatory spending and Democrats climate, tax and health laws and blocking President Joe Biden's student debt relief executive action at the Supreme Court is reviewing.

The Freedom Caucus also wants to impose work requirements on various federal benefits programs like Medicaid, which they estimate would produce 30 billion in savings a year and enact legislation to curb government regulations and spur domestic energy production.

Now, it sounds an awful lot like what McCarthy is running around telling everybody that they got in this deal. I don't believe anybody when they talk about what they got in this deal or what isn't in this deal or how they love this deal or they hate this deal.

I know they're all posturing for the cameras and that's what pisses me off.

You issued a list of demands, House Freedom Caucus. Why didn't you write a piece of legislation? Why didn't you write the bill? Why didn't you submit the bill through regular order through a committee?

This is back at March 10th, March, April, May, we're entering June, three months give or take. You had to do that. See, if you submit a piece of legislation, the Congressional Budget Office can score it, can lay out what they predict, they're horrible at this, just like all economists are, but what they predict, this piece of legislation to cost or save.

If that's, that sometimes that score doesn't give you what you want. Sometimes all your posturing and peacocking and figuring doesn't work out the way you want it to, the way you're selling it as.

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