Once again, the best we can hope for from the GOP is their failure to agree on how best to tank the country.
The GOP can only obstruct, they can’t govern.
On a different note can a President nominate a Justice to the SC when he is being impeached?
Ah well. I guess this is the Democrats’ fault too.
Rep. John Katko (R-NY) lamented his decision to trust the Freedom Caucus and vowed “that he’d never make that mistake again,” in Politico’s words.
This is likely true since you may lose your seat in November.
Gullible Rubes Shocked Group Elected For Promising Not To Compromise Refuses to Compromise
There’d be nothing to stop him from making nominations. One might hope that his party would be punished for accepting them but …
Also, if any Republicans were willing to act against Trump as of last week, now they’re less likely to do so, because of the vacancy on the Court.
What!? Wait, You mean people who screamed “We are going to be Greeeece!” about the deficit when Obama was President, and threatened to default on the full faith and credit of the US by not raising the debt ceiling then turned around and put into place structural deficits of $1 trillion a year and suspended the debt ceiling when they came into power, would lie?
I’m shocked. Not.
similarly…
A weak, ineffective parliament is essential to a managed democracy. The lower house Duma in Russia basically rubber-stamps submissions from Putin’s cabinet and complies with Putin’s “decrees” (ukazi). Similarly, the US House has largely abandoned its role as shaper of laws, throwing lobbyist-penned legislation in the hopper or doing kabuki about the times it used to do something. Trump in contrast, has an executive as busy as termites weakening or destroying institutions besides those that power his interests. I was particularly shocked by David Valadao’s comments about why he thought the legislation had failed. Look around, man.
It’s pretty much come to this, hasn’t it, at least till the November elections.
Maybe my capacity for amazement is rather child-like in its boundlessness, but here, even, what?, eight years on, I continue to find myself amazed by the Freedom Caucus’s political ineptitude. Many of them no doubt ran on the slogan that they weren’t/aren’t politicians, and they keep on proving that.
Their constant willingness to let the horrific be the enemy of the truly awful has not, ahem, moderated.
The system is calling for immigration reform, accountability and a restoration of balance. GOP has overreached. That correction is coming over the next 2 election cycles. It feels similar to 2006 where the congress (and media coverage) that were in place did not reflect the views of the American people. It’s a similar situation today (and perhaps even more pronounced).
I keep hearing that it’s not about immigration, it’s about following the law. But here they are reducing legal immigration. Maybe it’s really about brown people and white rage and insecurity.
When you go to lunch with the freedom caucus guy, he orders two entrees then gets up before the bill arrives, slaps $5 on the table, and leaves.
Gee, who would have thought the White Christian Nationalist wing of the Republican Party was the problem all along?
BTW Please stop calling any member of the Republican Party “moderate,” What Republicans gets elected calling themselves “moderate” and don’t spout “conservative values?”
You have the conservative wing and the White Christian Nationalist wing.
To paraphrase Mitt Romney, “Brown people aren’t people too, my friend.”
Can we please stop desperately referring to these people as “moderates”? No such thing exists within the modern GOP.
We have “hardline conservatives” and we have “extremist conservatives”. That’s it.
I hope Jesse Colvin, running against Andy Harris ® for Maryland’s first Congressional District uses immigration against him. [Harris is a member of the Freedom Caucus that has voted with Trump over 94% of the time]
The majority of Marylanders support dreamers. Also, MD-1 is primarily agricultural - and Trump’s anti immigrant policies have already hurt the region. MD-1 includes our Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery- and this spring many crab houses were not able to open to process crab because they lost the immigrant worker lottery - skilled laborers from Mexico that had worked for them for years were not allowed to return. [this year they had to compete against hotels and other businesses in the lottery, for a significantly reduced number of visas]
I wonder - did any of Trump’s properties fail to get all the visas/workers they requested?
Snake continues to eat tail, sources say.
Just to make your life as a taxonomist more complicated: they aren’t “conservatives,” either!