There s a deeper question at play there, though. we ve got this radicalized, i would say, largely nihilistic house republican caucus, the majority of whom, let us never forget, in the last congress, voted for donald trump s coup. at the very beginning of this congress, they extracted punishing concessions from kevin mccarthy in the most humiliating election for speaker in over a century. the deal that we have before us is not the deal you would ve guessed that group would make. the deal is basically a, quote, unquote, normal, bipartisan budgetary deal. then the question becomes, how did we get to that outcome? and more crucially, what does it tell us about this brand of maggot conservatism at this very moment? to answer that, i think you ve got to look back at what has changed since the last time we do this in 2011. when we were in the midst of the same fight. at that time, republicans were working with kind of two disparate groups in the party. they had the base, which was
Since i ve been in washington, d. c.. what did republicans get? i can t answer that. mccarthy, biden proposed or even slow down deficit spending. this bill is un-american, it defies conservatism. tomorrow s bill hands biden blank check. this bill keeps all of joe biden s policy, all of joe biden s spending, intact. no republicans should vote to validate and own biden s agenda. and that is what this bill does. now, it s notable to me, their complaints tend in the mean to be about the fact that republicans got outplayed, which i think shows how conservatives tend to see everything, through the lens of, are you owning the lives or are the lives owning you? there s a deeper question at play there, though. we ve got this radicalized, i would say, largely nihilistic house republican caucus, the majority of whom, let us never forget, in the last congress, voted for donald trump s coup. at the very beginning of this