Subject: GOP outperformance week
with the bar set low via incompetence and irrationality, this was a relatively massive week for the GOP :

- johnson passes temp budget (and all expectations), basically putting him in the same effective position as predecessor mccarthy.
will history rhyme, or selective hypocrisy hold in 2024 ?
surely some of this was due to congress' need to feel they fully deserve a long stretch of peaceful winter holidays.

- GOP finds a lower limit to its real-world ethics&criminal tolerance for anyone not named trump. santos seems done.


let's not spoil this week with all the off-setting GOP activities, as regular programming sure to continue.