The House shot down a temporary spending deal that would extend government funding for the next six months, sending lawmakers back to square one with less than two weeks until a scheduled shutdown and lapse in federal funding.
Lawmakers rejected House Speaker Mike Johnson's proposed continuing resolution that would extend current government spending levels into late March, leaving it for the next Congress and White House administration to negotiate.
As an incentive, Johnson sought to appease hardline conservatives who are generally against continuing resolutions of any length by attaching the GOP-led SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration.
Because of his slim majority, Johnson can only afford to lose four GOP votes on any given piece of legislation - a margin that was far surpassed on the floor on Wednesday.
Johnson also framed it as a way to put Democrats on the record after nearly House Democrats voted against the SAVE Act when it passed the House earlier this year.
We shouldn't be in a position where the House is trying to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government at a $2 trillion deficit.
Somehow House Republicans, who are supposed to control the purse strings, can't eliminate that funding.
Then you get - once again, as it's been practically every single year this century - to the point where a gun is put to the head of each member of Congress, and they're told they have to vote for a continuing resolution rather than a budget that contains literally trillions of dollars in harmful government spending - funding agencies that have been weaponized against their constituents - or else the world will literally end with a government shutdown.
Give Johnson his due that he at least included the SAVE Act, which would put some teeth into the prohibition against illegal aliens voting in our federal elections, into the continuing resolution.
14 Republicans in the House are so disgusted they wouldn't vote for it.
Either Johnson will strip the SAVE Act out of the continuing resolution, which means a surrender and it will pass with a few Republican votes and every single Democrat, or there will be no continuing resolution from the House side and the Senate will pass one that is almost certainly going to be even worse, and the House will either have to pass it or be solely responsible for a government shutdown about a month before a federal election.
Having Trump in the White House to help will certainly be an asset, but particularly red states have got to start exerting sovereignty again.
How did we get here? How did this imbecile, who couldn't win a statewide contest for secretary of state or insurance commissioner in any purple state, get to be the top of the Democrats' ticket? Yes, I know the answer.
Willie From Slidell I wrote about this Thursday at the Hayride, because unfortunately my state is responsible for this piece of filth: What I said was this: Most of them aren't dumb enough to show their asses on C-SPAN, but it doesn't take very long to smoke out the animus these people have - not just for Trump, but even more for his supporters.
The Fraudsters Fight Louisiana's Abortion by Fraud Act Earlier this year in my home state of Louisiana, the legislature passed a bill that reclassifies two common abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, as Schedule IV Controlled Dangerous Substances.
The Moreno in this story is Helena Moreno, who's a limousine leftist former TV newscaster and state representative now sitting on the City Council in New Orleans and a decent bet to be the city's next mayor.
She's a never-ending fountain of political attention-whoring, and she's trying to get the City of New Orleans to essentially refuse to comply with state law.
Landry's the governor, and he can simply issue a statement that New Orleans' health department is an organ of state government, and it will not be allowed to defy state law.
If it attempts to, it will have its funds impounded by the state and next year it will be disbanded by the Legislature.
It doesn't have the same relationship to a state government that the state has to the federal government.
In our constitutional system, the state is sovereign.
One thing that is especially true of blue cities in red states is that state sovereignty must be enforced downward, and then upward toward the feds.
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