On Monday both GOP and Democratic congressional leaders announced that they had a framework for a budget bill, and it was another victory for the Democrats because it was very close to the deal Biden had worked out last year. I don’t need to tell you that doing the same thing that triggered Kevin McCarthy’s ouster is inspiring House MAGAs to start the process all over again:  #VacateTheChair is trending. Because if you’re a Republican, nothing succeeds quite like failure, and especially repeated televised failure.

It’s a level of magical thinking that is, frankly, frightening to see among adults. The Republicans hold a slim House majority, and, more importantly, they don’t have a united bloc of votes, so they need House Democrats to vote with them. And that won’t happen without a bill that Democrats can support. But if the bill on the House floor can get Democratic votes, if it passes it’ll reopen the fissures in the GOP and most likely trigger another Speaker vote.

It’s as if no matter how many times the GOP MAGAs see this movie, they can’t remember how it ends. The fact is that right now the House can’t pass any meaningful legislation because the most extreme extremists will block any partisan GOP bills, and if Mike Johnson tries to work with Democrats, he becomes subject to being kicked out of the Speaker’s chair.

And it’s not like anyone in the US thinks that the current GOP House is capable of doing anything meaningful. The House chamber these days is essentially a glorified adult day care where Republicans shout all about impeaching Joe Biden, and claiming that Hunter Biden’s art dealer wasn’t truthful, John Kerry is a traitor, etc. It’s all they can do because MAGAs can’t write legislation and hate the actual work of government.

In the meantime the government has to be funded and the GOP has to cave because it’s an election year and they can’t afford a government shutdown.

Here we go again. Dolly has it from here: