politics

The GOP has used the threat of a government shutdown many times to hold this country hostage. And when it comes to remembering who's at fault for it, most of the U.S. electorate has the memory of a crack-addled ferret. But if you have a government shutdown THIS close to an election, some of them just might remember who caused it.

Is she trying to break out?

BBBB Broke ranks? Unbelievable

Never give them what they want in exchange for them doing the bare minimum. The Dems just need to send flyers to government workers whose representatives got them furloughed.

Something smells fucky. She's in a gerrymandered district so re-election isn't a concerned. Presumably Trump is in too much of a froth to realize this might be a political mistake and would love the theatrically of it. It will fire up the base and keep immigration central in the election discourse.

I don't quite get it. But my speculation is that this is an early volley and positioning to try to get rid of Johnson soon by 1) calling him out and making him look weak, 2) forcing him to capitulate to the democrats "just like she said he would," and 3) or he doesn't work with the dems, and then she's tied him more concretely to the government shutdown. Following this, I assume the crazy crew will start undermining him in the media, and then they'll eventually vote to try to get him removed and install one of the crazy crew.

She is absolutely too rabid to be doing this for civic-minded reasons, so something has to be going on.

Either there's writing on a wall or she got hit by a brontosaurus bone and thinks she's a functioning Congressional member...

Pretty hopeful news actually.

MTG is among the most seemingly dedicated to being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit, and yet even she is recognizing that a platform of being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit is no longer serving her.

Fuck her forever. But I'll take this specific brand of opportunism as a positive sign.

She's seeing the potential writing on the wall and is attempting to come across as moderate all of a sudden so that when the Republican party purge of MAGA begins, she can hopefully be overlooked by it.

Her voter base of Joe Rednecks don't have a passport, and stopped paying attention to the wherabouts of their birth certificate once it got them their first gun.

Voter suppression suddenly doesn't feel so good, when it puts your seat on the line...

OK, I'm selling everything and moving to a cave in the mountains, because if MTG is going to act sane for 5 minutes in a row, then some serious shit is coming down