The White House reacted to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) new stopgap funding bill Saturday, calling it “extreme.”
“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop,” a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre read. “With just days left before an Extreme Republican Shutdown—and after shutting down Congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader—House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties.”
“An Extreme Republican Shutdown would put critical national security and domestic priorities at risk, including by forcing service members to work without pay,” Jean-Pierre continued. “This comes just days after House Republicans were forced to pull two of their own extreme appropriations bills from the floor—further deepening their dysfunction.”
"Extreme Republican Shutdown’ is never going to stick. No news media is going to use that because it’s so obviously partisan. The real trick is to get something that everyone calls it while still obviously framing it on your terms.
I’m thinking something like “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown” would sound fact based while still obviously pinning it on the Republican Comgress.
I disagree, “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown" would pin it on congress as a whole.
There’s a semi-paradoxical fact that most people strongly dislike congress, but have higher opinions of their congressman. They always blame dysfunction on “other people in congress”. I guarantee if you polled republican voters and asked who was in control of congress, a substantial portion would say democrats.
That’s what they tried to do when McCarthy was ousted, blame it on the Democrats. The majority of those who voted to remove McCarthy, do it was the Democrats that did it. Ignoring of course the actual instigators, Republicans.
Exactly! Heck, right before he was ousted McCarthy went on TV and blamed Democrats for not passing a budget, despite the fact that 1) McCarthy’s continuing resolution passed primarily with Democrat votes, and 2) Republicans were the ones unable to agree as a party on a budget.
It’s super important to constantly hammer home that all of this dysfunction isn’t “congress”, it’s congressional republicans.
I like “MAGA mess”.
I think they should just refer to the people themselves as “Republican Extremists” and leave it at that.
It doesn’t make “moderate Republicans” feel bad, and allows them join in hating on the “bad ones” instead of going into full defensive mode. I use quotations because a lot of them like to pretend to be the smart ones sometimes.
It also forces them to mentally associate with other things they hate that are labeled ________ extremists.
Nah, we NEED to drive a wedge between the noncrazies and the crazies. If calling it the MAGA Mess gets the normies angry at the psychos, GOOD!
They’re only making room for more and more harm the longer they retain ANY power. Influence is power. They have less influence if they fail to ally.
Why would the “Make America Gay Again” movement be held responsible?
When has obviously partisan news ever stopped anyone?
My point is that the news that try to be nonpartisan won’t use the language. So, always, I guess?
It’s super cringe to read…
Dems suck at messaging.
Dems suck at messaging because the entire media apparatus does republicans’ work for them.
I fuckin’ love how both liberals and conservatives are absolutely convinced that their side sucks at messaging and that the media companies are biased against them. 🤣
Who owns the company that’s writing scripts for local news?
Often, Sinclair.