Can Republican travesties be a campaign issue?

What's going on in Congress with regard to the highway funding bill is just a basic example of how these dudes don't know how to make the trains run on time and keep the army fed.  That's basic governing, something they're incapable of.   I made up the link titles to the linked articles:

The new McCarthyism = F*ck the Country

"Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Monday that the House will not consider the Senate version of a long-term, must-pass highway bill, setting up an apparent impasse as Congress faces a Friday deadline. ...
“We’re not taking up the Senate bill,” McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters. Pressed on whether he was ruling it out, he said, “Yes.” "

Great.


Long-term thinking? Not here

The House has already passed its own four-and-a-half month highway bill. But the Highway Trust Fund — which provides federal funding for transportation projects across the country — will expire on its deadline of midnight July 31 unless the two chambers can agree on a version, or pass a stop-gap measure before then.

McCarthy said the House will leave as scheduled on Thursday for a month-long recess, leaving McConnell to decide whether to forfeit his push for a longer-term bill in order to prevent the trust fund from expiring.

Ugly.

My way or no highway (pat on the back for that one)

“We’re not taking up the Senate bill,” the California Republican told reporters at the Capitol, adding that the Senate should instead take up the bill already passed by the House. “My best advice to the Senate is to get our highway bill moved forward,” he said.

The House bill is a five-month extension of current programs while the Senate’s version authorizes $350 billion in transportation programs for six years, though only three of those are paid for.

Nauseating.

So will this be a Presidential campaign issue?  Greg Sargent thinks so, and thinks Hillary Clinton expects and wants it to be.


The GOP Congress is set to run off the rails. That could help Hillary Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton has signaled that she hopes to run for president in part by painting the GOP-controlled Congress — and, by extension, the Republican Party — as a divisive, destructive, hidebound, reactionary force. As the Post recently put it, Clinton has accused Congressional Republicans “of waging a war on women, playing politics with a black nominee, shortchanging students, endangering the economic recovery and trying to yank health-care coverage for 16 million Americans.” "

Well, not funding the highway trust fund would definitely endanger the economic recovery.  So yes, she should make these Republican travesties of governing a campaign issue.

Because this is how they are.