From Brian Beutler at TPM, the long-predicted Republican comeuppance has arrived, with a THUD:
Republicans have dealt with some embarrassing moments on the House floor over the past year, but none so revealing or damning as today’s [July 31] snafu, when they yanked a bill to fund the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development [THUD]. Even the recent farm bill fiasco wasn’t as significant an indictment of the GOP’s governing potential.
It might look like a minor hiccup, or a symbolic error. But it spells doom for the party’s near-term budget strategy and underscores just how bogus the party’s broader agenda really is and has been for the last four years.As Beutler goes on to point out (please read the entire piece), once appropriations bills started rolling out and decisions had to be made about where the deep cuts would come from, the low-brow fakery that was/ is the "budget" produced by media-anointed numbers wonk Rep. Paul "Lyin'" Ryan (R-Galt's Gulch) has become clear for all sentient people to see. The Rethuglican posturing about shrinking government through draconian budget cuts has finally hit the reality wall.
(P.S. -- The schadenfreude, it tingles!)
