Musk Suddenly Realizes He Has No Clue How to Govern

@#2 ... Mikey says there will be a vote today... ...

Johnson reengages with Dems after failed Plan B
www.axios.com

... House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told his members Friday that he and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have reopened negotiations on a government funding deal, sources familiar with his comments told Axios.

Why it matters: The restarted talks come just hours before the government is set to shut down at midnight Friday.

- - - After backing out of a deal he negotiated with Democrats, Johnson tried and failed to pass a revised bill Thursday.

- - - House Democrats almost all voted against the new measure, however, complaining bitterly that Johnson didn't consult Jeffries on it.

What we're hearing: Jeffries told House Democrats in a closed-door caucus meeting Friday morning that lines of communication between the two leaders have reopened, according to numerous sources in the room.

- - - The Democratic leader said he is doing "everything possible" to get the impasse resolved Friday "consistent with our values and bipartisan agreement we have negotiated," two lawmakers told Axios. ...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson: 'We have a plan' after government funding bill fails
www.upi.com

... House Speaker Mike Johnson expects another vote on stopgap funding to avert a government shutdown on Friday morning.

The clock is ticking on a government shutdown after House Republicans failed to pass a stopgap funding bill late Thursday. Speaking to reporters early Friday, Johnson, R-La., said "we've got a plan."

Congress has until midnight on Saturday to pass a government funding bill and avoid a government shutdown through the holiday season. ...

Time will tell ...

We have the best president money could buy.

OpEd: Elon Musk's Latest Tantrum Shows He Has No Idea What He's Doing
www.yahoo.com

... Elon Musk is now threatening to get rid of Democratic lawmakers, but he has no idea who he's dealing with ... no, seriously he has no idea who he's complaining about. ...

"Government shutdown: House passes stopgap funding bill, sends it to Senate for vote

Like Thursday's failed vote, Friday's passage " without Trump's debt limit hike " served as a reminder to the incoming president of just how difficult it is to control the notoriously fractious House Republican caucus."

www.cnbc.com

Lewzer loses again... but he'll treat the House like they owe him one.

House passes stopgap funding bill, sends it to Senate for vote

Right at the last minute. Truly a miracle. No one would have thought...

"Elon Tries to Kill "President Musk" Allegations After Total Disaster

Musk's genius spending bill idea crashed and burned. Now he's hoping he won't be blamed, including by Trump.

Whatever the state of Musk and Trump's relationship after the world's wealthiest man flexed his political muscles this week, the notion that Musk is delivering marching orders seems to have struck a nerve with team Trump.

On Thursday, a Trump spokesperson insisted that the president-elect, and no one else, was in charge, saying, "President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop."

newrepublic.com

If you have to say that, you must really be doing a lot of things wrong.

"President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop."

"the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period."

~S. Spicer

@#8 ... the notion that Musk is delivering marching orders seems to have struck a nerve with team Trump. ...

Team Trump has been, I'll be nice, concerned with Mr Musk's, again nice, participation in Pres-elect Trump's pre-inauguration endeavors for a while now.

But their concern does not matter.

What will matter is the point at which Pres-elect Trump feels Mr Musk is stealing the spotlight.

Once Pres-elect Trump realizes the spotlight has moved from him to Mr Musk, Mr Musk will have to find a place beside Mar-A-Lago to hang out at.

Until then, I doubt if anything will change.

Musk is as ------- stupid as Fat Donnie Loser.

Musk is as ------- stupid as Fat Donnie Loser.

Not by a long shot. Elon is everything Lewzer except the stupid part. He actually took Dad's money and did something with it.

"Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

Musk's objections to the 1,547-page omnibus bill included misinformation about congressional salaries, federal funding and public health preparedness, among other topics."

apnews.com

It's not a lie when a billionaire does it, it's a, "misrepresentation".

Trumpers swallow those whole.

"Musk's meddling in debt ceiling deal signals a turn toward oligarchy

Collectively, their actions mark a troubling turn away from representative democracy and toward oligarchical rule, as Musk's wealth and influence overpower the legislative priorities of lawmakers elected by the American people."

lasvegassun.com

Musk's wealth and influence overpower the legislative priorities of lawmakers elected by the American people."

Very true. Overpowers Lewzer as well... can't be enough popcorn. Will Elon hold the bible for him on 20 Jan?

@#15 ... Very true. Overpowers Lewzer as well... ...

Yup.

That, to me, was a very interesting aspect of the budget fiasco.

Pres-elect Trump seemed to follow Mr Musk's lead.

Tacitly admitting that Mr Musk has the stage.

How long can that last?

Tacitly admitting that Mr Musk has the stage.

Elon will be right behind him on the Capitol steps when he takes the Oath.

Elon will hand him the pens when he signs the Executive Orders.

He will go to bed when Elon tells him to. Lewzer is basically Joffre at this point.

Whoa, just saw this...

'Trump is in charge!': MAGA activists push 'hyperpartisanship' and reject compromise
www.nbcnews.com

... As Congress struggles over a deal to keep the government open, the message coming from the beating heart of Trump world is clear-cut: Don't compromise.

Speakers at a conference of conservative activists here this week said that Donald Trump's election victory should be a warning to those who try to block his agenda " Republicans and Democrats alike " that they need to give way.

"We don't need partisanship now; we need hyperpartisanship now," Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House senior adviser, told a raucous audience gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center for AmericaFest. ...

'Trump is in charge!'

Lewzer in charge of his own meltdown.

@#19 ... Lewzer in charge of his own meltdown. ...

Nah... he'll likely just blae Mr Musk for all that happened and then try to claim [falsely?] that he was in charge along.

The current aspect is... Mr Musk is stealing the spotlight from Pres-elect Trump. Pres-elect-Trump seems to be taking a back-seat to, and following (not leading) Mr Musk.

Of course, that raises questions ...

blae

-- should be --

blame

oops . :)

President Musk now thinks he's running Germany, too:

Elon Musk calls for German Chancellor's resignation following Magdeburg incident

www.investing.com

ahahahha...

EDS now on the rise....

( for you dopes who can't put 2 and 2 together....that would be Elon Derangement syndrome _)

@#23 ... EDS now on the rise.... ...

The usual lame deflection attempt because that current alias has nothing to add ...

The only people who have EDS are those who believe Musk is a genius, rather than an opportunist.

Republicans embrace "our prime minister" Elon Musk
www.axios.com

... Republican members of Congress took to the Sunday shows to praise Trump lieutenant Elon Musk's involvement in last week's government funding saga, with one likening him to "our prime minister." ...

well, we can't keep governing they way we are now..............$34T in debt and counting.

@#27 ... $34T in debt and counting. ...

About one-quarter of that occurred during to Pres-elect Trump's first term.

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It'll Weigh Down the Economy for Years (January 2021)
www.propublica.org

... The "King of Debt" promised to reduce the national debt " then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.

One of President Donald Trump's lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he's inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.

The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump's time in office. That's nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country.

The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war. ...