After Hamasā surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel.
At the time, the House was floundering without a speaker, and members cited the necessity of sending immediate aid to a close U.S. ally as a motivating reason for solving the speaker drama.
But five weeks after Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker, and nearly eight weeks since the attack, Congress doesnāt appear any closer to passing an aid packageāfor Israel or for Ukraine, the latter of which has been āweeksā away from running out of weapons for months now.
As Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told The Daily Beast this week, Ukraine needed an aid package in October.
Republicans negotiated with, capitulated to and were just steamrolled by a small cadre of political terrorists whoād held their party and the US government hostage and they wonāt suddenly make everything okay? You donāt fucking sayā¦
I had hoped the humiliation of endlessly voting only to capitulate to the extremists only to then get burned by said extremists would at least shame them into at LEAST picking a less odious republican that might sway some dem votes. What actually happened really shouldnāt surprise me but here we are.
Nope, it just got a bunch of them to retire so they can bitch and moan about it on cable news channels.