Discussion: House GOP Worries About 'Mass Exodus' Of Frustrated Members

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Bunch of moochers doing nothing but getting fat at the government trough because they knew that they couldn’t enact their reactionary conservative agenda while a Democrat was President.

Now that they have to actually do some work instead of just drooling over microphones, they want to quit.

Governing is hard.

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Young Guns.

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More open seats would be good news for 2018. In my state, Pennsylvania, gerrymandering has led to an inordinately large Republican delegation in Congress, way out of proportion to the political preferences of the voters. The Nasturtium Narcissist carried Pennsylvania by only 46,000 votes. Yet our representatives in the House consist of 13 Republicans and only 5 Democrats. Fortunately, at least three of the Republicans and none of the Democrats are in swing districts. I’m looking forward to working on those races.

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Freedom is close, dear GOP rep. Go to the light. Relax and embrace not failure, but the next chapter in your fight for American values, somewhere harmless and effectiveness-free.

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Don’t be fooled by these GOPers. They’re retiring or thinking about it because the theme of 2018 has already been set: The next Congress has to check Donald Trump because he is bat shit crazy. The Democrats are a much better fit for that role.

From the GOP side, if they had done everything they had wanted to do, the economy would’ve fallen into recession. {EDIT] There still may be a drop in economic growth given the jolts of 2 hurricanes in 2 major states.

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“It’s a disaster if (tax reform) doesn’t happen,” conservative Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) warned, referring to a failure to make meaningful progress on tax reform. “That has an effect. People like me who are here for the cause, if we see no hope for the cause, which in my case will never happen, that would have a terribly damning effect on our stamina here.”

  1. Republican ¨tax refrom¨ will be a disaster for most of us if it does happen, and
  2. the ¨stamina¨ he´s talking about is for fucking over the American people.The Rs seem to have no lack of that brand of stamina; they just can´t agree which position to use.
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Not necessarily. Rachel Maddow did an excellent analysis of the effects of gerrymandering way back in 2012. It’s well worth watching. (I’ve cued the video to start where she gets to the meat of the matter.) Enjoy.


“a caution light on” for Republican leaders bracing for more retirements

As I used to say as I sat behind inattentive motorists:
“Go, motherfucker. That light isn’t going to get any greener.”

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I could sit here and imagine the “Dems in Disarray” joysplosion articles if the parties were reversed but instead, I’ll just smile to myself thinking about how the latest Presidential tweets impact this.

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Are they actually retiring or just getting out of the Trump trap while they can?

Some of these escapees are departing to SAVE their political futures, not to end it, they will take a short hiatus from national politics, maybe pick up a cheap Goob seat or some state party job back home until Trump’s toast, then climb back into national politics with a shiny new scam.

And pay close attention to the order of departure, in this case, the first rats off the ship tend to be the craftiest.

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some days it seems like they’re fighting the Senate

Fighting the Senate, my ass. The House hasn’t passed a single regular appropriation. Not one.

sweeping generalizations even made by the administration that don’t even apply to the House,” he said, pointing to the failure of Obamacare repeal.

Don’t apply, my ass. Attacking Republicans is the only truth Rump tells. Ever.

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When I first read this I thought I read ‘poison’ instead of ‘position’. Not much difference IMO.

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Yes.

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there’s a thesis or two in that comment… there has never been a moment when Keynesian economics fit better in the whole scheme of things.

GIVE THEM MONEY!!! CASH MONEY, LOTS OF IT, give every victim more than enough to find shelter and food and everything else we need, just print it up and give them more than enough, make lemonade out of the lemon of disaster victimhood in America, use these disasters and the proven consumer-talents of the humans they affect to inject a lot of new money into the commonwealth.

The wealthy can only profit from this, because all that money eventually circulates back through their hands and no one reading this doubts they will find more than one way to profit from that flow of commerce.

THROW MONEY AT THE VICTIMS, start boosting this economy by doing so.

Keynesian economics was meant for a multi-billion-consumer globe, which is why conservatives hate it so. They live in a 19th century national fantasy that imposes blind patriotism on fiscal common sense. But we can not let the slothful rule us, we have to step into the real future and not the stilted, two-class dystopia they hope for the rest of us, and that means dispensing the commonwealth to the commonfolk.

There has never been a better opportunity to start building that future. We can raise it up from the hurricane waste and destruction that this angry planet has imposed upon us in response to our environmental infidelity. We can use this disaster to turn the future back around and head it in the right direction.

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A body can dream.

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Liked times plenty.
To the extent that your suggestions are implemented, recovery will be accomplished and everybody will make money.
And contracts are contracts, so while it may not be to the extent that any of us would want, it’ll happen.
Somebody has to build things. That’s jobs and work hours.
Business cycle excesses cause recessions. Hurricanes don’t.

Signed-Another Keynesian.
ETA: I’m thinking…
Wall Streeters talk trickle-down.
But at least as often they trade, and invest, Keynesian.
NEVER Nadernomics

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We got us another Darwin Award winner here!

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The root political conflict, replicated in all 435 Congressional districts and again in all 50 states, is between nonresident billionaires and the people who live there. Republicans will stop feeling frustrated when they shitcan the billionaires, not before.

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Please Republicans, don’t ever mention Patriotism.
As long as you keep backing Russian loving Trump, among many other things, not only are you not Patriots, you are not Republicans.

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Smith offhandedly taught us all that trickles anywhere in an economy represent failure, economies must flow to be fruitful. One full, flowing river, not a string of large and little lakes trickling between them through the commonfolk.
The only control we should exercise is profit controls, whenever one of those lakes gets too big because they built the dam higher (inflation) we need to expose it.
Two words conservatives fear the most are the two that can balance our future economy… PROFIT CONTROL.
Taxation is about the only way to do that, if we don’t have the stomach for sane regulation.

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