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People who hate government govern badly. Huh. @The Village 11-15-2023 [1]
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Date: 2023-11-15
Would you go to a dentist who hated teeth?
Would you choose a mechanic who hated cars?
Would you hire an accountant who hated numbers?
And yet GOP voters continually pick politicians who hate government.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Republicans. Cannot. Govern. The party of perpetual grievances simply cannot get its act together. At this point, it's more than simple incompetence; it's intentional. We have one of our two major political parties that does not believe in government and is willing to have its own members shut down that very same government for the *sixth* time in the last 30 years. That's the whole shtick of what would become the Tea Party movement: we hate government but elect us and we'll vote against everything. A decade later that mantra still echoes throughout the United States Congress on the Republican side. These folks are political arsonists, willing to set the whole thing on fire and then gleefully blame Joe Biden when Democrats don't swoop in and save the day fast enough. With a complicit media playing both sides, struggles like this current showdown have become all too common and have played into voters' stereotypes that Washington doesn't care about the Average Joe or Jane on the street. While it's obvious to those who pay attention that Democrats are the adults in the room, Republicans are more than happy to take our country to the edge of financial ruin simply because they can. establishmentbar.blogspot.com/...
There is a document about local governing boards/councils that should be applied to the GOP House, if they ever decide to try to govern effectively and for the common good.
10 HABITS OF HIGHLY-EFFECTIVE GOVERNING BODIES ...The quality of leadership effectiveness demonstrated by a governing body
and its ability to be highly-effective are not attributes bestowed upon it by a swearing-in ceremony. They are the result of disciplined adherence to a set of fundamental principles and skills that characterize highly-effective governing bodies. Listed below are 10 “habits” of highly effective governing bodies based upon the author’s observations of hundreds of city, county, special service district and school district governing bodies over the last twenty years. mrsc.org/…
These habits include:
Think and Act Strategically Respect "shared constituency": What do the people need? Understand and Demonstrate the Elements of Teams and Teamwork Master Small Group Decision Making Have Clearly Defined Roles and Relationships Honor the Board-Staff Partnership Allocating Governing Body Time and Energy Appropriately Have Clear Rules and Procedures Conduct Systematic and Valid Assessments… [of group’s performance] Practice Continuous Personal Learning and Development as a Leader
Let’s examine a few of these in more detail—
#3- Understand and Demonstrate the Elements of Teams and Teamwork
Governing bodies by law, exist and have authority only when their members convene as a “body” to do business. Each member is a component of a corporate being which must speak, act, and fulfill its commitments with one voice, in a mature, effective and reliable manner. [See Habits document]
Mature. Effective. Reliable. Hmmm.
x Burchett's back was to McCarthy and his detail walking by in the hallway, then the lunge.
Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy kept walking, "Sorry Kevin didn't mean to elbow --" then seriously yelled, "why'd you elbow me in the back Kevin?! Hey Kevin, you got any guts!?" — Claudia Grisales (@cgrisales) November 14, 2023
x @RepTimBurchett yelled after catching up to McCarthy, "Hey Kevin, why'd you walk behind me and elbow me in the back?"
KM: "I didn't elbow you in the back."
Burchett: "You got no guts, you did so, ...the reporter said it right there, what kind of chicken move is that..." — Claudia Grisales (@cgrisales) November 14, 2023
x Burchett adds, "did you just see that?" he asks in disbelief. I'm stunned, too.
Says he won't follow up with McCarthy on what happened, "he's on a downhill spiral... he just, that was pretty gutless of him. I'm disappointed in his, in him." — Claudia Grisales (@cgrisales) November 14, 2023
#4- Master Small Group Decision Making
Or not. At a closed-door meeting underneath the Capitol on Tuesday morning, Mr. Johnson presented a menu of spending strategies to his conference. It included passing a temporary measure that would extend government funding into early 2024 that contains a handful of conservative policies and negotiating a deal directly with the Senate. Some hard-right conservatives have backed a third option, which Mr. Johnson also discussed, that would fund some government agencies for only a few weeks, and others for a longer period. The discussion amounted to a concession that House Republicans’ preferred way of funding the government — through passing a dozen individual spending bills — was no longer feasible with a deadline less than two weeks away, and after they squandered three weeks fighting over who should be speaker after Mr. McCarthy’s ouster. www.nytimes.com/… x Totally amazing. House Freedom Caucus came up with the laddered approach. Now they’re out against it.
https://t.co/bjV4gxNack — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 14, 2023 #5- Allocating Governing Body Time and Energy Appropriately Not holding my breath waiting for this to happen. Editorial: It's time for Mike Johnson and the House to get serious [Bringing back “regular order” to the budget process] ...implies a House that pays attention to its formal duties, including the most important, weighing budget decisions for the nation. It also implies not going off onto ideological tangents and playing the endless political games that have brought Congress into disrepute. Johnson was wrong to push an emergency measure that tied aid to our ally Israel to a GOP hobbyhorse, cutting the Internal Revenue Service budget, as some anti-government Republicans want to do. That just adds to the deficit, as it lets more high-income tax cheats defeat the system; for most of us, it just means the IRS can’t hire enough people to answer the darn phone. Cut the games. If you promise regular order, let’s see it in action. www.theadvocate.com/… This is Johnson’s home town paper. 10- Personal Learning and Development as a Leader Highly-effective governing bodies are comprised of members who
honestly know they don’t know it all. They take advantage of the myriad of opportunities to learn and perfect their skills by reading, going to workshops, and forums that can expand their skills to lead and govern well. [See Habits document] Darn. That ship has sailed & is not coming back for the GOP. x I guess your education in Mid-GA lacked adv. reading skills, so brush up on some fourth grade readers and then reread.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene is a hard working member of Congress, but I believe she lacks the maturity and the experience to understand what she was asking for” — Emmett O'Dell (@DellEmmett) November 14, 2023 x The school board elections last night said differently. — Cathreine (@Cathreine64) November 8, 2023 x Lauren Boebert calling for the abolishment of the Department of Education is like if chlamydia spoke out against "the dangers of antibiotics" — Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) November 10, 2023 Never Bothsiderism here. x All around?
McCarthy pushes Burchett, both Republicans
Republican Senator Mullin challenges witness to a fight during a hearing
It's not "all around", bless your heart, it's the Cons and their playground tactics. Again.#RepublicansCantGovern — Melissa Gill (@MelissaGill999) November 14, 2023 Count on Leader Jeffries & House Dems to save the day. Again. x I fully support Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s decision to vote with Republicans to keep the government running. Once again, Democrats are playing the role of the adults — meanwhile, Republicans are literally physically fighting each other and challenging others to duels. pic.twitter.com/Bwmaa08193 — Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) November 14, 2023
Because Democrats do know how to govern & do it so well.
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