On the menu today: The Democrats wake up every morning wanting to beat the Republicans, but they’ll never be as good at beating the Republicans as the Republicans are at beating themselves.
Republicans, Masters of the Self-Own
Let’s just run down the last few days in Republican news:
- After spending months insisting that U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan had to be tied to a border-security proposal, House Republicans declared the proposal negotiated by the Senate dead on arrival. There were good reasons to be dissatisfied with the compromise proposal, but this put everything back to square one.
- The GOP House leadership’s next move was to attempt to pass a standalone bill for aid to Israel. That legislation included $800 million for ammunition, $10 million for naval supplies, $36.8 million for Air Force missile procurement, $4 billion for “the procurement of the Iron Dome and David’s Sling defense systems ...
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