{"id":4483,"date":"2026-06-19T08:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:46:30","slug":"drama-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Drama Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA553.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Drama Queen\" class=\"wp-image-4484\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA553.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA553-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan Speaker of the House Matt Hall has been on quite a tear lately being &#8230;Matt Hall. Is that good or bad? You be the judge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year Hall played a critical role in taking the budgetary process well outside of constitutional grounds. This year, the House and Senate have actually passed proposed budgets at this point, which is a positive step forward. Hall, however, has now floated the idea of not reconciling those bills until after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/house-speaker-matt-hall-threatens-budget-stall-over-impasse-with-senate-dems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November election<\/a>. It is, of course, a negotiating tactic \u2014 from the &#8220;he&#8217;s just crazy enough to burn down the whole #%&amp;@* house down&#8221; school of negotiating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hall jumped on the Trumpian bandwagon of delaying the opening of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/michiganadvance.com\/2026\/06\/11\/michigan-house-speaker-says-delayed-gordie-howe-bridge-opening-shows-promise-for-a-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gordie Howe Bridge<\/a>, the bridge that Canada paid for. This also is a negotiating tactic. It&#8217;s from the &#8220;never miss an opportunity to screw your neighbor&#8221; school of negotiating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hall declined to let the Michigan House vote on a symbolic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/politics-government\/2026-06-17\/michigan-house-dems-call-for-pride-month-resolution-speaker-says-no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pride Month resolution<\/a>&nbsp;because it&#8217;s &#8220;too divisive.&#8221; Too divisive. Uh-huh. And this is clearly from the &#8220;pot calling the kettle black&#8221; school of hypocritical behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Speaker of the House Matt Hall has been on quite a tear lately being &#8230;Matt Hall. Is that good or bad? You be the judge: Last year Hall played a critical role in taking the budgetary process well outside of constitutional grounds. This year, the House and Senate have actually passed proposed budgets at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}