An anonymous House Republican left this afternoon’s big super-important caucus meeting ahead of Friday’s big super-important Budget Committee vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill” and texted Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman to tell him simply “We’re cooked. Speaker let this get out of control.”
Which kind of tracks with a Politico story that says Johnson can only afford to lose two Republican votes on the committee. Three assclowns – Ralph Norman, Josh Breechen, and Chip “Colonel Sanders” Roy – are already saying no, but as of this printing the committee vote is still on.
Once again, again: If anyone can fuck something like this up it would be House Republicans BUT still operate under the assumption they will get something done, even as impossible and messy as it seems and as incompetent and fractured as they are. There’s still Trump there to threaten to support MAGA primary challenges against them and find other ways to make their lives miserable.
Maybe the question is whether there are too many of them who won’t play along for the fat bastard to crush. He’s kind of busy accepting bribes, pretending to lead the nation, and posting stupid shit online so he might just stop caring and give up if he thinks it’s too much work to whip all of them.