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Sabrina Haake

Freedom means tormenting Kevin McCarthy

(Squawking about the nation's debt after your party spent like drunk sailors on leave is like eating a ribeye at Ruth's Chris, then planting a fly under the bone to get a free meal. You ordered and ate the steak, sir. Yes, but I didn't order the fly that came with it, and don't you think your prices are obscene?  )

This same exchange keeps repeating in Washington, where members of the ultra-MAGA Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives are, once again, criticizing an expensive steak they already ate and denying they ordered it in the first place. 

Republicans spent a staggering and unprecedented $8 trillion during the Trump administration and now blame Democrats for the debt. Yesterday, only four months after House Speaker McCarthy, R-Calif, angered the right by reaching a debt ceiling agreement, the same thirsty clowns blocked the GOP's own Pentagon spending bill, one of twelve annual spending bills, from even coming up for debate. 

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