A B.S. Deal Reached To Raise The Federal Debt Ceiling – We’ll See Whether The Sedition Party Honors The Deal (Updated)

The Hill reports, Senate reaches deal on short-term debt hike into December: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that he had reached an agreement with Republicans to extend the debt ceiling into December. “We have reached an agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early December,” Schumer said. The agreement, according to … Read more

Do Not Look Now but the Party of America’s Enemies is Threatening to Shut Down the Government Again

If you are a member of any of the governments of America’s enemies and strategic rivals like Russia, China, or Iran, you are probably buying stock in the former Party of Lincoln aka the Republican Party. Arguably since the Reagan Era, Republican economic, foreign, and cultural policies have made the United States less united, safe, … Read more

Tyrant Trump Ends His Temper Tantrum, Signs COVID Relief Bill And Averts Government Shutdown

On December 21, waiting to the eleventh hour, Senate Republicans finally dropped their blockade of a COVID-19 economic relief bill and tied it to the omnibus appropriations bill to keep the government open after today, in order to pick up Republican votes. In 2016, Donald Trump defrauded voters by saying he would “negotiate the best … Read more

CDC eviction moratorium only ‘kicks the can down the road’ to January

Federal, state and local governments approved eviction moratoriums during the course of the coronavirus pandemic for many renters, but those protections have been expiring rapidly. The Washington Post reports that “As of Tuesday, only 17 states and the District of Columbia still have any such eviction protections for renters in place,” including Arizona. A recent … Read more

Appropriations bills break down in Senate over GOP poison pills

I warned you at the end of July that The budget deal does not avert a government shutdown this fall. Congress still has to pass the appropriations bills to fund the government by September 30. Already, “Senate appropriators had barely begun work on Tuesday before the process blew up, mired in disagreements over abortion-related “poison … Read more