House and Senate on a collision course toward a government shutdown (again)
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The House and Senate might not be able to agree to terms to fund the federal government by the Sept. 30 deadline, and that's OK to an influential bloc of hard-line House conservatives who are playing an outsize role in both the spending process and the fate of Kevin McCarthy's speakership.
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I take a somewhat harder line.
Failure to pass an on time budget (no CRs) is treated as dereliction of duty and gets every seat in Congress vacated, requiring special elections, with no member so expelled eligible to run or be a registered lobbyist for at least ten years.
So you want the party of "I'd eat my own shit if it meant democrats had to smell it on my breath" to have the unilateral power to remove every single one of their "enemies" for a decade?
How do you differentiate the good actors from the bad actors with this approach? How does it prevent a bumper crop of even more radical shitheads from popping up and then voting in lockstep for the absolute worst proposals you’ve ever seen?
The confusion of a new congress that needs to build coalitions with the ever-present American demand for the government to do something would be a good solution to that.