Having stripped the Office of Congressional Ethics of any real power to discipline them and securing 3 seats on the Rules Committee, the nihilist caucus seems to have all the power in the House for the next couple of years. This includes a pledge by powerless Speaker My Kevin McCarthy to hold the country hostage in the debt ceiling debate coming soon to a cable station near you.
Many pundits feel the Republican majority is planning to tear what remains of the social safety net to shreds by gutting Social Security and Medicare. this is seen as a prelude to what a Republican trifecta in 2024 can accomplish. For some reason they think the American public will somehow embrace this masochistic prescription. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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