119th Congress or Red Wave In Adult Land

zitothebrave said:

What the hell is happening to MTG? YOu think she's starting to posture for a presidential run? She's moved off her fringe platforms and seems to be moving to the center.
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I've watched her over the past few months. She reminds me of a less (far less) eloquent William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner who ran for President on the Democratic ticket three times between 1896 and 1908. She's never going to go with the full Bryan platform, but she's a populist in somewhat the same sense in that she hates Wall Street, hates international intervention, and (in her case) while not a big government advocate, she believes what government there is should work for the common people (hence her point on the Affordable Care Act subsidies). I'm not an MJT supporter (particularly on social issues, but again, it's important to remember that William Jennings Bryan was on the prosecutorial team for the Scopes Monkey Trial), but she's probably more America First than Trump ever was and ever will be.

I don't think she wants national office. I see her trying to become a bit more responsible in her rhetoric (Nancy Mace is going the other way after trying to pass herself off as Miss Moderate Barbie) and playing a larger role in policy development on her side of the aisle. She'll likely be in Congress as long as she wants and distancing herself from some of the Trump/HRCC stances protects her back home.
 
mqt said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1985445683298472099

If you want a fun little diversion, check out how many times Mace’s official account has tweeted just today about the airport she threw a temper tantrum at last week.
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She’s still at it:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986102660546617803

“This is a lie that damaged my very good, honest, trustworthy, hard-working reputation.”

This is my favorite soap opera right now. She’s just running the Trump playbook but doesn’t realize that *nobody* is buying it from her.
 
Mace is just hard to listen to. She’s a double digit IQ who thinks she’s outsmarting people. My opinion of most of SC is fairly high so I’m hoping her moment of spotlight is near its end.

I’m bewildered by MTG. Just a jaw dropping turnaround.
 
https://reason.com/2025/11/06/emerg...rite-loophole-its-cost-taxpayers-15-trillion/

The best recent accounting by the Cato Institute's Dominik Lett puts the emergency-spending price tag at about $12.5 trillion (adjusted for inflation) since 1991. Count the roughly $2.5 trillion more in interest on the related debt and the number is around $15 trillion altogether.

Over the last decade, roughly one in every 10 dollars of budget authority has worn an emergency tag. That's not a safety valve; it's a standing workaround that has already swallowed even the modest savings promised by the Fiscal Responsibility Act two years ago.

What makes this practice so easy? It's largely self-policed.

On paper, the Office of Management and Budget has a five-part test for emergency spending: It should be necessary, sudden, urgent, unforeseen, and not permanent. Congress rarely forces itself to demonstrate, item by item, that all five prongs are met. There's no neutral referee. Once "designated as an emergency" appears in the bill and the president concurs, the amounts are exempt from caps and PAYGO scorecards.

And because this budget label is separate from more specific "national emergency" declarations under statutes like the Stafford Act or the National Emergencies Act, it quietly turns into a vehicle for funding routine projects. It's such a procedural magic word that fiscal guardrails all but disappear.
 
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