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Congressional Crisis Kit

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The week started with the President threatening to annihilate Iran in a deranged post on his vanity website. That didn’t happen, which is a pleasant surprise! Despite claims of a ceasefire, we’re exactly where we’ve been for over a month now: Lots of people are dead in Iran and lots of boats are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.

While we were all contemplating our mortality Tuesday, Congress was away on vacation, doing nothing to exercise any constraints on this madman. Of course Republicans are largely to blame, but Democrats also overwhelmingly approved of this stupid war in a retroactive vote that occurred after the bombs were already falling on schools and hospitals.

The plan since January 2025 was to give Trump enough rope to hang himself in the midterms. That’s a lot of rope, and a lot of people are being hanged while we wait for them to actually be seated.

While in the minority, they could gum up this idiot fascist machine by refusing to fund it, or confirm Trump’s unqualified and dangerous flunky nominees. I know this is possible because I remember Mitch McConnell. He practically single-handedly ruined the last quarter century by wielding every bit of power available to the Senate minority.

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Democratic Defense

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Chuck Schumer announced that he’d vote for cloture (which is effectively a yes vote for its passing) on a continuing resolution to avoid a budget shortfall. He and other feckless Senate Democrats will claim this is necessary to avoid a government shutdown. But those of us with eyes and two brain cells to rub together know the federal government is already shutdown due to the illegal withholding of congressionally appropriated funds by the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE. Causing a budget impasse was the Democrats’ best shot at having any leverage and they blew it.

To Hakeem Jeffries’ credit, he called out Schumer’s move as complicity with the Trump regime. Not sure what else he’s been up to for the past two months that disproves his depiction in this cartoon, though.

Before anyone gives the ol’ “They’re the minority! There’s nothing they can do!” razzle dazzle, there’s plenty of parliamentary shenanigans that can gum up the works of the Republican bulldozers. These two are choosing not to use them for reasons that get more dubious as one crisis after another happens every week of this nightmare administration.

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