The Washington Post's Dana Milbank Nails It -- Fiscal Conservatives Are Simply A Total, Pathetic Joke In The MAGA Republican Party

Dr. Phosphorous

Dr. Phosphorous

Platinum Member
Joined
Sep 3, 2024
Messages
10,042
Reaction score
6,259
Points
938
Why does the Freedom Caucus even exist? Nobody takes these weaklings seriously....they fold like a wet blanket the minute Trump criticizes them.

Dana Milbank criticizes these frauds much better thank I do. --

Texas Republican Keith Self, a putative deficit hawk affiliated with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, was categorical in his opposition to the Senate-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which will add about $4 trillion to the federal debt.

“The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt,” he proclaimed on X at 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three hours later, he posted again, saying he had voted to block the House from taking up the Senate legislation. “House leadership wants to cram this broken bill down our throats by rushing it to the floor,” he wrote. “Ultimately, this is an issue of morality,” he added, saying the House had a “rare opportunity” to “begin restoring fiscal sanity” by rejecting the Senate bill.

Then Donald Trump began threatening him and the other holdouts. “What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES,” the president posted on Truth Social after midnight Thursday. In another post, he wrote, “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

Self, swallowing his “morality” and his dignity, went onto the floor and changed his vote to “yes” to advance the Senate bill — without securing a single change to it. So did every single member of the Freedom Caucus.

That feeble wheeze you heard on Capitol Hill this week was the last breath of small-government conservatism.

No one should be surprised that the so-called deficit hawks folded in the nation’s hour of need. Their unwillingness to stand up for their principles has become a standing joke. Members of the House Freedom Caucus squawk with outrage whenever House GOP leaders or Senate Republicans come up with a fiscally reckless plan, they swear they will vote “no” — and then they quietly retreat to their cages, usually after receiving some offer of future fiscal restraint that never materializes.

This time, there were at least 28 holdouts, according to Punchbowl News’s Haley Talbot, who maintains the “Big Mad Index” of potential defectors during key votes. (Some were moderates, but most were Freedom Caucus types.) To account for the holdouts’ past behavior, Talbot added a new category to her index: “Fiscal Hawks KTF.” Known To Fold.

 
Last edited:
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Why does the Freedom Caucus even exist? Nobody takes these weaklings seriously....they fold like a wet blanket the minute Trump criticizes them.

Dana Milbank criticizes these frauds much better thank I do. --

Texas Republican Keith Self, a putative deficit hawk affiliated with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, was categorical in his opposition to the Senate-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which will add about $4 trillion to the federal debt.

“The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt,” he proclaimed on X at 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three hours later, he posted again, saying he had voted to block the House from taking up the Senate legislation. “House leadership wants to cram this broken bill down our throats by rushing it to the floor,” he wrote. “Ultimately, this is an issue of morality,” he added, saying the House had a “rare opportunity” to “begin restoring fiscal sanity” by rejecting the Senate bill.

Then Donald Trump began threatening him and the other holdouts. “What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES,” the president posted on Truth Social after midnight Thursday. In another post, he wrote, “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

Self, swallowing his “morality” and his dignity, went onto the floor and changed his vote to “yes” to advance the Senate bill — without securing a single change to it. So did every single member of the Freedom Caucus.

That feeble wheeze you heard on Capitol Hill this week was the last breath of small-government conservatism.

No one should be surprised that the so-called deficit hawks folded in the nation’s hour of need. Their unwillingness to stand up for their principles has become a standing joke. Members of the House Freedom Caucus squawk with outrage whenever House GOP leaders or Senate Republicans come up with a fiscally reckless plan, they swear they will vote “no” — and then they quietly retreat to their cages, usually after receiving some offer of future fiscal restraint that never materializes.

This time, there were at least 28 holdouts, according to Punchbowl News’s Haley Talbot, who maintains the “Big Mad Index” of potential defectors during key votes. (Some were moderates, but most were Freedom Caucus types.) To account for the holdouts’ past behavior, Talbot added a new category to her index: “Fiscal Hawks KTF.” Known To Fold.

Click to expand...
Gosh...then that would be the first thing that the Post got right in years, Doc!
GOP members voted for it because if they didn't the American people would have been hit with the biggest tax increase in US history! Why the brainiac who wrote that article can't understand that says volumes about her.
 
Man With A Plan said:
Gosh...then that would be the first thing that the Post got right in years, Doc!
GOP members voted for it because if they didn't the American people would have been hit with the biggest tax increase in US history! Why the brainiac who wrote that article can't understand that says volumes about her.
Click to expand...
Well, it just illustrates how full of shit you MAGAs are....you whined about the national debt every single day that Biden was President.

And now you imbeciles suddenly don't care about it anymore.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Well, it just illustrates how full of shit you MAGAs are....you whined about the national debt every single day that Biden was President.

And now you imbeciles suddenly don't care about it anymore.
Click to expand...
You mean President Biden who kept spending at the same level it was at during Covid...and gave us rampant inflation because of all his trillion dollar stimulus programs? Gosh, why would anyone feel the need to whine about THAT! It only cost the average American family an extra ten grand plus out of pocket! (eye roll)
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Why does the Freedom Caucus even exist? Nobody takes these weaklings seriously....they fold like a wet blanket the minute Trump criticizes them.

Dana Milbank criticizes these frauds much better thank I do. --

Texas Republican Keith Self, a putative deficit hawk affiliated with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, was categorical in his opposition to the Senate-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which will add about $4 trillion to the federal debt.

“The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt,” he proclaimed on X at 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three hours later, he posted again, saying he had voted to block the House from taking up the Senate legislation. “House leadership wants to cram this broken bill down our throats by rushing it to the floor,” he wrote. “Ultimately, this is an issue of morality,” he added, saying the House had a “rare opportunity” to “begin restoring fiscal sanity” by rejecting the Senate bill.

Then Donald Trump began threatening him and the other holdouts. “What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES,” the president posted on Truth Social after midnight Thursday. In another post, he wrote, “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

Self, swallowing his “morality” and his dignity, went onto the floor and changed his vote to “yes” to advance the Senate bill — without securing a single change to it. So did every single member of the Freedom Caucus.

That feeble wheeze you heard on Capitol Hill this week was the last breath of small-government conservatism.

No one should be surprised that the so-called deficit hawks folded in the nation’s hour of need. Their unwillingness to stand up for their principles has become a standing joke. Members of the House Freedom Caucus squawk with outrage whenever House GOP leaders or Senate Republicans come up with a fiscally reckless plan, they swear they will vote “no” — and then they quietly retreat to their cages, usually after receiving some offer of future fiscal restraint that never materializes.

This time, there were at least 28 holdouts, according to Punchbowl News’s Haley Talbot, who maintains the “Big Mad Index” of potential defectors during key votes. (Some were moderates, but most were Freedom Caucus types.) To account for the holdouts’ past behavior, Talbot added a new category to her index: “Fiscal Hawks KTF.” Known To Fold.

Click to expand...
See Post #2 for your first clue.
 
Man With A Plan said:
You mean President Biden who kept spending at the same level it was at during Covid...and gave us rampant inflation because of all his trillion dollar stimulus programs? Gosh, why would anyone feel the need to whine about THAT! It only cost the average American family an extra ten grand plus out of pocket! (eye roll)
Click to expand...
And yet Trump did far worse with this bill, gomer. At least Biden was trying to help people.....not take away their ******* Medicaid.

You've got nothing.
 
Check out this Freedom Caucus imbecile. --

Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican and member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, spent the early part of this week telling anybody who would listen that he was adamantly, passionately and inalterably opposed to the tax bill that the Senate passed. It was, he said, a “non-starter” and not “serious.” He said there was “probably not” anything that could be done to change his mind by Republican leaders — or even by a “mad” Trump: “I don’t know what to tell him.”

After Norman restated his opposition to the bill at a meeting of the House Rules Committee late Tuesday, Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat, observed that the Senate-passed legislation was doomed — “unless you cave, which has become kind of a pattern around here.”

The next day, Norman caved.

The only commitment he had received in exchange for his vote? The White House acknowledged that “we’re deficit hawks and they know that,” he told Axios’s Victoria Knight.

Maybe he should have held out for a pat on the head, too.

 
Oddball said:
Suddenly the shitlibs care about deficits and out of control spending?

Don't you believe it.
Click to expand...
So why aren't you calling out your own? You heard your fellow full-of-shit MAGAs whine about the national debt every day while Biden was President. And now these MAGA assfucks have nothing to say about it.

You are obviously a very dishonest person...to put it mildly.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
So why aren't you calling out your own? You heard your fellow full-of-shit MAGAs whine about the national debt every day while Biden was President. And now these MAGA assfucks have nothing to say about it.

You are obviously a very dishonest person...to put it mildly.
Click to expand...
They're not "my own" and I've called the bullshit on this bill numerous times.

You just don't pay attention, so **** off, dickhead.
 
Oddball said:
They're not "my own" and I've called the bullshit on this bill numerous times.
Click to expand...
Yet, here you are....whining about liberals, as always.

We're not the ones who took away Medicaid for 17 million people and increased the national debt by over $3 trillion.

Your imbecile party did that, shit-for-brains.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Why does the Freedom Caucus even exist? Nobody takes these weaklings seriously....they fold like a wet blanket the minute Trump criticizes them.

Dana Milbank criticizes these frauds much better thank I do. --

Texas Republican Keith Self, a putative deficit hawk affiliated with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, was categorical in his opposition to the Senate-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which will add about $4 trillion to the federal debt.

“The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt,” he proclaimed on X at 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three hours later, he posted again, saying he had voted to block the House from taking up the Senate legislation. “House leadership wants to cram this broken bill down our throats by rushing it to the floor,” he wrote. “Ultimately, this is an issue of morality,” he added, saying the House had a “rare opportunity” to “begin restoring fiscal sanity” by rejecting the Senate bill.

Then Donald Trump began threatening him and the other holdouts. “What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES,” the president posted on Truth Social after midnight Thursday. In another post, he wrote, “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

Self, swallowing his “morality” and his dignity, went onto the floor and changed his vote to “yes” to advance the Senate bill — without securing a single change to it. So did every single member of the Freedom Caucus.

That feeble wheeze you heard on Capitol Hill this week was the last breath of small-government conservatism.

No one should be surprised that the so-called deficit hawks folded in the nation’s hour of need. Their unwillingness to stand up for their principles has become a standing joke. Members of the House Freedom Caucus squawk with outrage whenever House GOP leaders or Senate Republicans come up with a fiscally reckless plan, they swear they will vote “no” — and then they quietly retreat to their cages, usually after receiving some offer of future fiscal restraint that never materializes.

This time, there were at least 28 holdouts, according to Punchbowl News’s Haley Talbot, who maintains the “Big Mad Index” of potential defectors during key votes. (Some were moderates, but most were Freedom Caucus types.) To account for the holdouts’ past behavior, Talbot added a new category to her index: “Fiscal Hawks KTF.” Known To Fold.

Click to expand...
Well I’m not sure who Dana is but I’m smarter than she is. She can ***** about how the GOP votes came down but one thing is certain and was never in doubt. The entire democrat party had no interest in not raising your taxes, every one of them wanted Medicaid for illegals at your expense, none of them wanted secure borders.

So complain and cry but the democrats were not going to help us citizens at all.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Why does the Freedom Caucus even exist? Nobody takes these weaklings seriously....they fold like a wet blanket the minute Trump criticizes them.

Dana Milbank criticizes these frauds much better thank I do. --

Texas Republican Keith Self, a putative deficit hawk affiliated with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, was categorical in his opposition to the Senate-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which will add about $4 trillion to the federal debt.

“The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt,” he proclaimed on X at 6:50 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three hours later, he posted again, saying he had voted to block the House from taking up the Senate legislation. “House leadership wants to cram this broken bill down our throats by rushing it to the floor,” he wrote. “Ultimately, this is an issue of morality,” he added, saying the House had a “rare opportunity” to “begin restoring fiscal sanity” by rejecting the Senate bill.

Then Donald Trump began threatening him and the other holdouts. “What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES,” the president posted on Truth Social after midnight Thursday. In another post, he wrote, “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

Self, swallowing his “morality” and his dignity, went onto the floor and changed his vote to “yes” to advance the Senate bill — without securing a single change to it. So did every single member of the Freedom Caucus.

That feeble wheeze you heard on Capitol Hill this week was the last breath of small-government conservatism.

No one should be surprised that the so-called deficit hawks folded in the nation’s hour of need. Their unwillingness to stand up for their principles has become a standing joke. Members of the House Freedom Caucus squawk with outrage whenever House GOP leaders or Senate Republicans come up with a fiscally reckless plan, they swear they will vote “no” — and then they quietly retreat to their cages, usually after receiving some offer of future fiscal restraint that never materializes.

This time, there were at least 28 holdouts, according to Punchbowl News’s Haley Talbot, who maintains the “Big Mad Index” of potential defectors during key votes. (Some were moderates, but most were Freedom Caucus types.) To account for the holdouts’ past behavior, Talbot added a new category to her index: “Fiscal Hawks KTF.” Known To Fold.

Click to expand...
Are you arguing for cutting the budget now?
 
15th post
progressive hunter said:
tthe only people biden was helping was his family, ukraine politicians nd illegals crossing the southern border,,,,
Click to expand...
Wrong again, lightweight.

Whatever you want to say about Biden....he didn't cripple 17 million Americans by taking their Medicaid and add at least $3 trillion to the national debt.

This is easily the worst bill in the history of the country.....and Trump is the worst thing to happen to this country since ******* slavery.
 
Missouri_Mike said:
Well I’m not sure who Dana is but I’m smarter than she is.
Click to expand...
No, hopeless MAGA bumpkin.....you are not smarter than Dana Milbank (a man, by the way).

You can't think for yourself, Trump does it for you....because you are not smart.

Trump will take your Social Security next and you'll be OK with that, too.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
No, hopeless MAGA bumpkin.....you are not smarter than Dana Milbank (a man, by the way).

You can't think for yourself, Trump does it for you....because you are not smart.

Trump will take your Social Security next and you'll be OK with that, too.
Click to expand...
If you thought for yourself you would question Dana’s conclusion.

My SS money has been stolen since the first dime I paid in order to keep that Ponzi scheme afloat.
 
Dr. Phosphorous said:
Wrong again, lightweight.

Whatever you want to say about Biden....he didn't cripple 17 million Americans by taking their Medicaid and add at least $3 trillion to the national debt.

This is easily the worst bill in the history of the country.....and Trump is the worst thing to happen to this country since ******* slavery.
Click to expand...
you guys keep forgetting the constitution doesnt give feds authoritty to be involved in healthcare let alone stealing from one person and giving to another,,

everything I said is proven fact
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

trump was unaware that his BBB cut Medicaid

< Previous Thread

RINO flip flops......

Next Thread >

Similar threads

Doc7505
Democrats Cave on Government Funding, Will Receive Nothing for Ending Schumer Shutdown
2 3 4
Replies
63
Views
1K
wamose
W
J
Democrats Are Speeding Straight Into A Wall W/ Government Shutdown Plan!
2 3 4
Replies
70
Views
1K
Dekster
D
berg80
Kash Patel's enemies list just got a little longer.
2
Replies
22
Views
617
ColonelAngus
ColonelAngus
J
One Big Beautiful Bill, Is That What It Will Be!
Replies
6
Views
605
sealybobo
sealybobo
J
Republicans Aren't Starting Off Well After Winning The Elections!
3 4 5
Replies
86
Views
2K
struth
S

New Topics

Latest Discussions

Back
Top Bottom