November 15, 2024
House Fails to Pass Bill to Defund Pro-Hamas NGO"s
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
"Fears Trump could use bill to target ‘enemies’ by deeming groups ‘terrorist-supporting’ to withhold tax-exempt status"
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
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