Opinion by Dana Milbank: Volodymyr Zelensky’s address capped a very productive “lame duck.” Remember this moment — it may be the last time you see a competent government for two years.
But Zelensky’s visit to Capitol Hill celebrated something else, too: a functioning Congress. The address capped an extraordinarily productive “lame-duck” session in which Democrats and a minority of Republicans guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage and reached agreement on a massive $1.
insurrection. The House’s Jan. 6 committee produced a thorough report and multiple criminal referrals, while the Ways and Means Committee, after a years-long legal battle, finally shook loose Trump’s tax returns.Remember this moment: It might be the last time you see a competent government for at least two years. This will all come crashing down when — if — McCarthy assumes the speakership on Jan. 3.
McCarthy himself is trying to make sure dysfunction will dominate. Not only is he fighting to defeat the bipartisan omnibus spending bill, but he has threatened that any bill sponsored by any lawmaker who votes for the omnibus — Democrats and Republicans alike — will be “dead on arrival.”House Republicans who signed a letter this week demanding Senate Republicans “kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.
McConnell, the main target of McCarthy’s latest threat, reacted with pity. “I’m pulling for Kevin,” he told reporters. “I hope he makes it.” He spoke as though the would-be House speaker had a terminal illness — which, in a sense, McCarthy has. One way or another, the abundance of dead-enders in the House GOP caucus will bring his demise.The contretemps over the omnibus spending bill gave a taste of things to come after Jan. 3. There’s much to dislike about the process that produced the 4,155-page spending bill in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
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