Lots of nonsense has been floating around and posing as news over the last several days. One example is a recent ABC-Washington Post poll, with numbers so embarrassingly off that pollster Larry Sabato of Sabato's Crystal Ball said ignore it, it's trash.
Nevertheless, Real Clear Politics adjusted its Presidential polling averages, and included the ABC-WaPo poll but ignored a Reuters-Ipsos poll that had Joe Biden leading Benedict Donald by five points. So, yes, polling is broken. It's surely impossible to be accurate these days when only old people with landlines answer their phones.
Meanwhile, Washington is bracing for a shutdown this week — and once again, it'll be the Republicans' fault. But the "This is why it's bad for Biden" meme just won't die: Pundits are already predicting how terrible a shutdown will be for the White House. It won't help anybody, but we think people really will understand that any shutdown in 2023 will be a MAGA-inspired misery.
That's because in normal times, casual news consumers can't identify individual members of Congress. The legislative branch is like a faceless monolith to them — while the executive, obviously, is a person. But now, the Republican caucus is so extreme that they're breaking that mold.
Crazies like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who calls everyone a pedophile and talks about Jewish space lasers, Matt Gaetz, who's trailed by underage-sex accusations, Lauren Boebert, who gropes her boyfriend in a theater, Jim Jordan, who never wears a suit jacket, and Paul Gosar, who wants to kill the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tend to get people's attention. The MAGA caucus has been so purposely outrageous that average voters know who a lot of them are — which means they'll know whom to blame when the Social Security checks don't arrive.
It's up to Kevin McCarthy. He can easily do a budget deal with Democrats, but that would probably cost him his job. Does Kev think his Speakership is more important than America? If so, he'll probably lose his majority, too. We cats are sick of all of them, and we HISS.
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