Congress: The pentage spending bill vote was split with 214 to 212 bringing the government to a hault...
Them: Its all the GOPs fault, their evil, they are halting the whole governement for themselves!
Me: You talking about that 214 to 212 vote where 209 democrats and 5 GOP voted against it causing it to fail?
Them: yes
Me: And thats the fault of those 5 GOP voters for voting against it?
Them: Yes
Me: Not the 209 democrats who voted ont he same side as those 5 GOP? The democrats arent to blame for that just the GOP?
Them: ....
Me: ....
Them: You're a NAZI!!!!
Me: .....
@freemo The Dem-majority Senate managed to pass a major bipartisan bill.
So, yes, in comparison at least, the failure of the GOP-majority House to find a workable compromise falls on its leadership.
@freemo As I understand it, that's not correct. The bill in the senate only had about half the support of the GOP, not the full support, and that was because the majority worked with the minority to find a compromise, not because the GOP members randomly chose to be magnanimous.
In the House, however, we have jackass McCarthy running things, and he doesn't even seem to know what the word "compromise" means. So of course Dems aren't going to vote for a bill when they've had no input into its creation. That's not their fault; that's them doing their jobs.