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Tuesday’s Final Word | by Ed Morrissey – HotAir

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Ed: Will the House pass this as is, or will it need to go to conference committee? I’m betting on the latter, but we’ll see.

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Democrats are already vowing to make President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a centerpiece of their strategy for taking back the House of Representatives in 2026.

Why it matters: House Democrats’ campaign arm is projecting confidence that Republicans in key swing districts will take a significant political hit from voting for the legislation.

Ed: Spoiler alert: No one cares. This is akin to Democrats running on Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. It’s all inside-the-Beltway sausage-making, and very little of it will affect voters enough in either direction. Right now, the Democrats are transforming themselves into the Karl Marx Open-Borders Party, and that will matter one heck of a lot more in the midterms. 

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Ed: We’ll see. At some point, even the usual agitators will want to move onto the appropriations process, where these fights really belong.

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“Our bill has been completely changed … It’s a non-starter,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) bemoaned to reporters on Tuesday,





Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in a post on social media that he will introduce an amendment to the Senate bill that would delete all its text and replace it with the version passed by the House in May.

One House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Axios there are “well over 20” GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against the bill.

Ed: They’re teeing it up for tomorrow. Either this revolt is overblown, or that vote schedule will change. 

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Ed: I’d credit the difference between 2017 and 2025 is attributable to vastly increased competence. Trump has delivered real results this time because of it, especially on border security and illegal immigration. 

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The U.N. reappointed Albanese—a vocal Israel critic who blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree and compared Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler—to her post earlier this year over the Trump administration’s objections. Since that time, she has penned “threatening letters” to companies across the globe, warning them to cut business ties with Israel or face “potential criminal liability,” according to the Trump administration.





Albanese wrote threatening letters—which the Trump administration described as “riddled with inflammatory rhetoric and false accusations”—to some of the “most prominent American corporations in varied sectors including technology, financial services, manufacturing, and hospitality” in recent weeks, prompting the State Department to raise its concerns with U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres earlier this month and demand her termination.

Ed: I doubt the UN will take any action against Albanese, especially given the anti-Semitic tenor of its establishment. This still sets a good marker, and who knows? The US has other levers to pull here too, including and especially financial levers. 

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Ed: Warren hasn’t met a funding increase she opposes, so her crocodile tears on the debt are amusing. She didn’t lift a finger about it when Democrats controlled the Senate and House during the Biden Regency. 

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According to the Saudi source, if Israel and the Palestinian Authority can reach an agreement over Gaza, then normalization with Israel will be back on the table. 





The source stressed that as long as Hamas is involved in managing the Gaza Strip, “the job isn’t done. Without removing Hamas, there will be no peace.”

This position, outlined by the Saudi source, is the first confirmation that the end of the war in Gaza alone is insufficient in Saudi eyes to restarting the normalisation process with Israel. 

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Ed: Good pro tip. Still would prefer that the mentally ill illegals get returned to their home countries. 

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Job prospects for the professional managerial class began to sour in the wake of the Great Recession, and we entered into an era defined by what the political scientist Peter Turchin calls elite overproduction, or the “discomfiting hypothesis that societies go haywire when the number of wannabe elites outstrips the number of truly elite jobs,” as Reihan Salam pointed out in our pages this week. Even those lucky enough to get the elite jobs still find themselves in a precarious position. If the Great Recession, Covid-19, and the specter of an artificial intelligence-assisted “white collar bloodbath” has taught the professional class anything, it is that their credentials cannot save them. This insecurity, compounded by the outrageous cost of living in many large cities, has pushed the PMC’s anxieties to the breaking point. Add that to the triumph of identity politics in professional class institutions like universities, corporate C-suites, non-governmental organizations, and media—itself a byproduct of inter-elite competition as many have observed—and what you have is the modern left.





Therefore, it shouldn’t be any surprise that Mandami-esque socialism is sprouting up in the places where the PMC is at its most precarious. There are, after all, college professors and lawyers in, say, Des Moines, Iowa. The difference is that they can buy a house and raise children on their six-figure salaries, while those in San Francisco and New York cannot. It’s no great exaggeration to say that the history of American leftism (of the DSA type Mamdani represents) since Bernie Sanders ran for president in 2016 has been one of PMC revolt, largely concentrated in cities such as San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; D.C.; and New York, where having a low six-figure job does not easily—or even conceivably—translate into the former mainstays of a middle-class life, like homeownership and good public schools.

Ed: Well, maybe. I think this is more a function of an education system that has relentlessly indoctrinated children and young adults into neo-Marxist ideology and ‘queer theory’ claptrap. 

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Ed: It’s amazing that (a) she thinks this is at all credible, and (b) she thinks she is at all credible. She’s a heartless loon. 





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