The Bulwark: Tim Miller & Representative Jared Moskowitz: 'GOP Has Made Congress a Total Cluster F!'

Source:The Bulwark talking about the MAGA House of Representatives.

"The 118th Congress has made history: by removing a speaker, expelling a member, and holding sham impeachment hearings. Without Dem votes, the government would have shut down multiple times. Plus, the home insurance crisis, abortion politics, and the Democrats' uphill climb in Florida. Rep. Moskowitz and Marc Caputo join Tim Miller." 

From The Bulwark 

Just to correct the record, a little bit: The 118th Congress is not a failure. Just the Republican, really MAGA controlled House of Representatives that is a failure. While the Senate (which is actually the upper chamber of Congress) has been confirming Federal judges and executive nominees, even passed appropriations bills with Senate Republican support, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, avoided government shutdowns and defaults, etc.

I don't mean to sound overly technical and prickish, (actually, I'm lying about that) but I learned back in elementary school back in the 1980s, (to sort of date myself) that the United States of America has a bicameral Congress, with a House of Representatives and a Senate. This is not freakin Britain, where the House of Commons is considered the entire U.K. Parliament. We have a bicameral Congress and an executive branch that's separate from the legislature. 

So when I hear a sitting U.S. Representative like Jared Moskowitz, or any other Democrat, especially left-wing Democrats, who talk about the House of Representatives, as if it's the entire Congress and the Senate is a separate institution, I get a little annoyed as someone who writes about Congress because it's part of my job. 

Now why is the MAGA House of Representatives (which is not the entire Congress) a cluster flop? (To clean this up) 

I'll give you a hypothetical: imagine having Communists running private banks and other private, for-profit corporations and a few months later these banks and other businesses go bankrupt. 

Imagine putting sharks in-charged of a giant goldfish tank and a few days later all the goldfish are gone. 

Imagine an airline hiring nothing but blind people, alcoholics and other drug addicts to fly their planes. And within days, all of their planes have crashed, with passengers aboard on every flight. 

My point is,MAGA is not a governing coalition. They're a political cult of political suicide pilots and bombers. They're not in Washington to govern. They're there to defeat as many establishment Republicans (meaning the real Republicans) as they can and to kiss Donald Trump's feet (to keep it clean) as much as possible and to see that he gets back in The White House. 

And I'm not saying what's going on in the Senate under Democratic control, should earn Senate Democrats and Republicans rewards for good government: 

I mean you don't reward cab drivers for arriving at the right place to pick up or drop off their passengers. 

To use a sports analogy: you don't give the kicker extra credit for converting the extra point. 

You know what I mean? The Senate is simply doing their jobs right now to keep their institution running, to say at least the upper chamber of Congress is earning their money, and keep the government moving. But compared with the MAGA House, they look like the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals. (To use another sports analogy) They look liker a team of geniuses, a team of road scholars, verses an all star team of asylum patients. 

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