If you've been consuming mainstream media this week, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Benedict Donald was already sworn into office. Everything is Trump-centric, with hardly a story about President Biden. Handy tip, everybody: Joe Biden is still President for another five weeks. Watch this space.
Journos would probably respond by saying that Joe has been pretty invisible lately. Well, actually, he hasn't — but that's a subject for another post. We cats are certain that he was happy to sign the continuing resolution into law last night, and, although not happy to abandon the next phase of student loan forgiveness, he was pleased to leave it as an unresolved issue for the upcoming Clown-Car Administration.
Joe was probably also darkly entertained by the Trumpian antics in Washington the last few days. Donald's attempt to pitch us all into chaos ended up being turned back by his own Republican Party.
As Democratic activist Simon Rosenberg observed, "Trump's legislative and political miscalculations were the most significant I've seen in my 32 years here in DC. He was goaded into coming out against the must-pass bipartisan bill and crashing the US government by the lie-infused Elon Musk, and then added his own wild demands for ending the debt ceiling. The replacement bill Trump supported failed due to Republican (not Democratic) opposition on Thursday.
"Then, last night, his party — along with Democrats in both chambers — overwhelmingly passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through March without the one thing he demanded — a suspension or elimination of the debt ceiling, something he told Republicans they needed to fight for and keep the government shut until they won.
"Trump was politically weakened this week, and it was all impulsive, reckless, self-inflicted wounds. He followed Elon, and got terribly burned. Speaker Johnson was also weakened, and the Republican Party looked immature, foolish and not ready to govern." We cats PURR.
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