re: #111 No Malarkey!

There will be a lot of political pressure to approve Israeli aid. However, I am very worried the House is going to block any additional aid to Ukraine.

electoral-vote.com said it pretty good this AM

Guess what? An “Israel only” bill could probably not pass the House since every Democrat and many Republicans would vote against it and it probably wouldn’t even be brought up for a vote in the Senate. Johnson has no experience trying to get consensus on contentious subjects, and he may be in for a rude shock. Pursuing the goals of at most a quarter of the House and only a very small fraction of the Senate just isn’t going to fly. Dropping the bill isn’t going to fly either because most Republicans strongly support Israel and don’t want to see it destroyed. Supporters of Ukraine are never going to accept: “Let’s pass aid to Israel now and then we can talk about Ukraine later” because they know there will never be a “later.” Insisting that the two aid packages are in one bill holds the Israel aid hostage to the Ukraine aid. Supporters of Ukraine fully understand that, even if Johnson doesn’t. But he’ll learn.