A couple of days ago, @RepThomasMassie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Trump administration’s war with Iran. By making the resolution privileged, Massie set in motion a process that would force the House to confront the question - and put its members on the record over a war that has continued without specific congressional authorization. Speaker Mike Johnson’s response? Send everyone home. Johnson abruptly ended the House session and sent members back to their districts until after the midterm elections, conveniently postponing the confrontation Massie had forced. In a way, it’s a fitting conclusion to the first two years of Trump’s second term. Republicans entered 2025 with control of the White House, the House, and the Senate, propelled by voters who expected them to deliver on the promises they had spent years making. Now, with that window of unified control closing, Johnson and Team Red have chosen to run out the clock rather than remain in Washington and face one of the most fundamental constitutional questions Congress can confront: who gets to decide when America goes to war? For all their campaign rhetoric about America First, constitutional government, and putting the interests of American citizens ahead of foreign entanglements, the Republican establishment has once again demonstrated where its priorities actually lie. And yet, for the next six weeks, many of these same politicians will return to their districts and make impassioned pleas for voters to send them back to Washington. THIS TIME, they’ll tell you, they’re going to come through. THIS TIME, they’ll keep their promises. THIS TIME, they’ll fight. But they’ve spent two years demonstrating what they do when they actually possess power. They have lied themselves into a political Waterloo and fractured the diverse coalition that put them there. And if control of Congress changes hands, power will simply pass from a Republican establishment unwilling to advance the interests of the people who elected it to a Democratic establishment with a radically different agenda. It did not have to be this way. Republicans had the presidency. They had the House. They had the Senate. They had a political mandate and a rare opportunity to demonstrate that all those years of promises actually meant something. Instead, when confronted with an uncomfortable vote over war, accountability, and congressional authority, the Speaker of the House sent Congress home. Enjoy the vacation, as Rome burns...

Bobby kills me. 🤣

It seems kinda worse that Palestinian residents of Gaza are being subjected to constant physical attack, starvation, and wanton slaughter and genocide, but yeah I guess Jewish patrons having their feelings hurt is pretty terrible too...