These are toothless resolutions against the Iran war meant for consumption by the dumb public and would never force Trump to do anything

 Congress splits on war powers resolutions to force Trump to abandon Iran war

 

 

Spare me your growing concerns about Mitch, Tom Kean was missing in action for four months, missing more than 140 votes in a U.S. House with a GOP majority margin of just five

 

Tom Kean wasn't in the headlines every damn day.

Mitch hasn't been Senate Majority Leader for 18 months and counting.

If Mitch is absent the Vice President can stand in if there is a tie.

The Mitch-haters on Elon Musk's X are vile and ugly.

 

 Mitch McConnell’s health concerns grow amid 4th week in hospital with few details from aides

 GOP Rep. Tom Kean says depression diagnosis caused months-long absence from Congress

 

 

U.S. House forces Trump's hand to dump Pulte lol

10:45 AM:  FISA to expire Friday after House blocks extension

The U.S. House on Thursday rejected a proposal to extend a key foreign surveillance program through July 2, as Democrats continued to withhold support over President Donald Trump’s choice of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. The program will expire on Friday. ... 

2:05 PM:  Trump picks former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as national intelligence director

 

The GOP just had a terrible May, generic Congressional poll shows Republicans collapsing to 40.7% giving Democrats an 8.1-point advantage

 

Republican Congress critters got the hell out of town Thursday and won't be back until June and left all this unfinished business in their wake lol

 Republicans lash out over $1.776B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund 

McConnell slams Blanche over ‘slush fund to pay people who assault cops’  

Republicans punt on reconciliation amid furious disagreement over ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  

House Republicans fume at Senate for punting immigration funding package  

House punts Iran war powers resolution vote   

Trump approval among Republicans at new low in Fox News poll   

Trump, facing GOP blowback, sends 5,000 troops to Poland  

(Trump orders withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany amid feud with Merz) 

Trump cuts off his nose in the primaries to spite his face

  Trump’s primary push could leave him with short-term problem in Congress 

... the defeated or retiring incumbents he’s targeted remain in office until the end of their terms.  

Those lawmakers, who no longer face voters and have little political incentive to fall in line, could make things difficult for Trump and GOP leaders as they feel more emboldened to push back against key partisan legislation. In a narrowly divided Congress, even a handful of GOP defections can derail a party-line bill. ...

You betcha.

 

Bill Cassidy in the Senate is already a problem for Trump post-defeat.

So is defeated Thomas Massie in the House.

Still in the crosshairs:

Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

Already alienated and retiring:

Sen. Thom Tillis, Rep. Don Bacon. 

Expect little to pass easily before November under these new intra-GOP adversarial circumstances, and even less after a Blue Wave.

 

 

A Blue Wave is building in the 2026 Generic Congressional Vote with Democrats now +7.2 points

As usual politics at the extremes is less about voting for someone and more about voting against someone.

All you have to do most of the time is not piss off the voters.

 

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-4) was for the ban on insider stock trading in Congress before he was against it

 My favorite part about his new position is that if we don't allow our representatives to make money somehow, we'll stop attracting talent to Washington, D.C.

You know, like Trump, whose primary talent is corruption. 

💋 

 

RobbyD, hater of idiocy according to his bio, is upset with Democrat Senator John Fetterman for voting Nay on the US House War Powers resolution on Iran ROFLMAO

 

Why I'm not very interested in the redistricting hullabaloo pre- and post- the Supreme Court decision

Supreme Court's Redistricting Decision Is Devastating

Erwin Chemerinsky, LA Times 

I view fixed representation at 435 as a crime against the Founders and a crime against the people, and all the recent developments involving this subject simply rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Representation was meant to grow with population, and Republicans stopped that in 1929.

Political power is now more concentrated in fewer hands than ever, resulting in sharply more polarized politics where more is riding than ever before on the outcome of U.S. House elections.

Anti-federalists sought representation at 1:15,000 of population. An early compromise settled on 1:30,000, which grew to 1:50,000 but was never ratified in Article The First.

At this moment in time we have representation at 1:787,290 thanks to the Republicans in 1929.

Now your congressman doesn't know you from Adam, and couldn't care less what you think. Write him or her about an issue, and you'll get a nice form letter back thanking you for writing if you're nice. If you're not nice you will not hear back from your lords and masters.

6,849 U.S. representatives is unimaginable to most people today, let alone 11,415 or 22,831.

The problem is 435 for a country this size would be unimaginable to the Founders.  

The incredible shrinking U.S. House of Represenatives in April 2026

 

Speaking of whiplash

 Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns, third House member to quit this month

 

 

So it will be a wash in the US House when Democrat Eric Swalwell resigns since Republican Tony Gonzales will also, both under threat of expulsion for sexual misconduct

Rep. Eric Swalwell resigns from U.S. House after sexual misconduct allegations

 The current party breakdown is 217R / 214D.

DHS will remain shutdown, GOP-controlled U.S. House passes 60-day continuing resolution to fund DHS, ignoring the plan passed by the GOP-controlled Senate earlier

 The Senate returns in 2 weeks to take up the matter.

Kristi Noem did a really fantastic job running DHS, didn't she?

 

 

GOP-controlled US House says Nay Nay to GOP-controlled Senate bill funding DHS, meaning more DHS shutdown, et cetera et cetera et cetera!

 

 TSA funding update: House GOP spikes DHS funding proposal, extending shutdown that’s caused delays

... The stopgap measures advanced out of the House Rules Committee on Friday, teeing up a vote as soon as later this evening. ... Any such effort would need to go back to the Senate for final approval and would extend the shutdown. It is also not likely to pass in the Senate, where most lawmakers have already left town. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday called the proposal “dead on arrival.” ... 

GOP-controlled US House and Senate both cede war power to the president, shirking their constitutional duty

 

Republicans claim to be against more wars, but they let them happen anyway. 

 House rejects war powers resolution to rein in Trump on Iran

... The vote was 212-219, with four Democrats joining Republicans to torpedo the measure and two Republicans joining Democrats in voting for the measure. The Senate shot down a similar measure on Wednesday. ...

War powers vote fails in the Senate, allowing Trump to continue Iran strikes

... The measure, brought by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., faced steep odds and was largely symbolic even if it passed — Trump is almost certain to veto any bill aimed at decreasing his authority to use the military. The vote was 47-53, under the 50-vote threshold needed to advance the resolution. ... 

U.S. House votes 219-211 to overturn Trump tariffs on Canada

 House votes to override Trump’s Canada tariffs

... the effort is likely symbolic. Even if the Senate approves Meeks’ resolution, Trump would likely veto the legislation. ...

 

Representatives Massie, Kiley, and Bacon revolt against House GOP and vote with all Democrats to take back Congress' Article I tariff power from the president

Expect tariff votes in the U.S. House in the near future, but not necessarily victories.

 

GOP defectors help spike House measure to block tariff disapproval votes

 

... The House Rules Committee on Monday approved language that would block any House votes disapproving of Trump’s tariffs through July 31. ... The Senate has on multiple occasions voted to strike down tariffs issued by Trump, while the House has blocked votes on tariff-related resolutions. The latest prohibition on tariff votes expired at the end of January. ... 

Trump job approval in Real Clear Politics average falls to new second term low 42.1%

 If Trump wants to lose the US House even bigger than he's going to, he should by all means double down, add fuel to the flames, and invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis.

 

Now 47 members of the U.S. House are not running for re-election in 2026