Quick take: Republicans face a pattern of near-misses and self-inflicted setbacks, the House is racing to vote on an amended CR, the White House schedule could intersect with a key vote, the courts are handling sentencing and benefits cases, and the party needs a more aggressive playbook to stop being the butt of the Charlie Brown routine.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Good morning. This is a concise update on the big items shaping the day: what’s moving in Congress, what the White House has on the calendar, notable court activity, and a political musing about strategy. Think of it as a quick briefing to get you through the morning with the headlines and some context.
House members are back in Washington and lawmakers will soon vote on the amended continuing resolution to reopen the government. The Rules Committee met late Tuesday to consider the Senate-passed measure and advanced it on a party-line vote. Expect a procedural rule vote ahead of the final floor action, likely later Wednesday afternoon or evening.
The Rules Committee finished in the early hours with an 8-4 vote along party lines to send the bill to the full House. That sets up the usual choreography: debate, procedural votes, and then the final up-or-down decision. If the measure clears the House, it will go to the president for signature, possibly interrupting other scheduled events.
At the White House, President Trump plans a private dinner Wednesday evening, which could be affected if he needs to sign the spending measure into law. The press office has scheduled a briefing at 1:00 PM Eastern with the White House Press Secretary. Those are the short-term things to watch if you want to follow the timing around any votes or announcements.
On the judicial front, the Supreme Court issued a brief, limited order in the SNAP benefits case, extending an administrative stay and noting that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not join the decision. The high court will also hear arguments in a set of criminal procedure and sentencing cases this week. Those cases deal with complex statutory questions about sentence reductions and how the First Step Act interacts with existing sentencing law.
The 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City is being promoted by the MSM and other Democrats as a huge event of great electoral significance in the United States. But they certainly aren’t showing a similar interest in the Mamdani campaign irregularities involved in manufacturing this victory, which makes the final results stink to high heaven.
If the Latin Kings think they can intimidate the federal government, they’re in for a rude awakening.
Sounds like Berkeley has got a lot of explaining to do.
Politics-wise, party dysfunction is on full display for the other side, with leaders struggling to corral their caucus and public critiques spilling into headlines. That dysfunction provides opportunities, but only if the GOP is willing to seize them and stop repeating the same mistakes. Too often, conservative wins stall out because the strategy is reactive rather than proactive.
It’s a familiar analogy: Republicans have been cast as Charlie Brown reaching for the football only to have it snatched away by Lucy. That image sticks because it’s true in too many episodic fights—promising positions evaporate at the last second, and momentum fizzles. The press and opposition will always try to complicate conservative wins, so relying purely on decorum and process hasn’t always been enough.
Recent signs show some improvement—Republicans stood firm during the Schumer shutdown standoff and repeatedly voted to reopen the government on conservative terms. Still, incremental gains aren’t the same as seizing the moment and turning the tables on political theater. There comes a point where offense, within legal and ethical bounds, serves better than waiting for the next betrayal of confidence.
We know Democrats will play rough, and Republicans shouldn’t pretend otherwise. The option isn’t to abandon principles, it’s to be strategically assertive: protect wins, expose the other side’s tactics, and stop letting them control the narrative by default. Sometimes that means pushing the action, not politely asking for fair play.
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The Repubs act like a bunch of wusses and Candy ASS Dumb Wads that finally get the opportunity to kick-butt but talk a lot of crap and do very little ASS-WHOOPING! When the Demoncraps get control they do just the opposite like turning the DOJ into a Political Weapon like Bidum with even his pampers on did with all of the Marxist Traitors like Garland, Mayorkas and all the rest of those Traitors, screwing good American Citizens at every opportunity consolidating power with their evil cohorts and plans to take total control!
Repubs get some fire in your furnace and start kicking lots of ass or you will finally blow it the next election-time forever!!!
Bondi does pretty talky photo-ops but I haven’t seen her produce one PERP-WALK or arrest some of the most Treasonous SCUM to have ever operated in American Politics like Schiff, Piglosi, Schumer and the list is enormous but when it comes to this kind of action we hear crickets!!!
Like the old adage, “if you can’t take the heat in the kitchen then GET OUT!”
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