(TriceEdneyWire.com) – House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. needed Democrats to narrowly avert the government shutdown that loomed large if congressional budget legislation was not passed by Saturday, March 23. Many Republicans did not vote for the budget legislation; Democrats saved the day.& Some Republicans would rather shut government down, inconveniencing if not disabling millions of people, than to do their job and work with their colleagues across the aisle to pass legislation. What is wrong with these ridiculous Republicans! Why are they so opposed to doing their work.
Republican dysfunction has been a byproduct of the 45th president’s confusion. He still keeps insisting that he won the 2020 election, when it is clear that he did not. His intransigence led to the violent insurrection of Jan. 6, and has apparently split the Republican party. There are those who believe in the Constitution and compromise, and these are those who believe in disruption. The worse of that pack is Marjorie Taylor Green, the Georgia Republican who seems better suited for a circus than the halls of Congress. She is loud, rude and out of control yet, with the support of a handful of her colleagues, she can bring congressional activities to...
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