The House and Senate might not be able to agree to terms to fund the federal government by the Sept. 30 deadline, and that’s OK to an influential bloc of hard-line House conservatives who are playing an outsize role in both the spending process and the fate of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership.
I wish that anyone there is a government shutdown no current politician is available for reelection. If you can’t work together sometimes then GTFO!
So don’t elect republicans. Got it.
Pretty much!
I take a somewhat harder line.
Failure to pass an on time budget (no CRs) is treated as dereliction of duty and gets every seat in Congress vacated, requiring special elections, with no member so expelled eligible to run or be a registered lobbyist for at least ten years.
So you want the party of “I’d eat my own shit if it meant democrats had to smell it on my breath” to have the unilateral power to remove every single one of their “enemies” for a decade?
How do you differentiate the good actors from the bad actors with this approach? How does it prevent a bumper crop of even more radical shitheads from popping up and then voting in lockstep for the absolute worst proposals you’ve ever seen?
The confusion of a new congress that needs to build coalitions with the ever-present American demand for the government to do something would be a good solution to that.
But that’s collective punishment. Not everyone is trying to sabotage things.
Ideally the voters would have the intelligence to recognize which politicians are acting in good faith and which are not, with only the bad faith obstructionist being voted out (ideally immediately, without having to wait the potentially years till their term is up). But ehhhh, we know how that goes.