Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), who has indicated that he’s open to impeaching President Donald Trump, expressed serious concern over the state of his party on Sunday.
“I am a Republican,” he continued. “I believe we have the better argument in the area of economic and business regulation."
Rooney then went on to say:
“And it’s these policies of funneling more money to the 1% that I care about deeply. Massive wealth inequality is part of God’s plan - but I kinda don’t like separating children from their parents and locking them in cages. I mean, staffing the Department of the interior with industry insiders is all well and good, but …well…Kavanaugh is kinduv an embarrassment - don’t tell the others I said it.”
Very worried about the Republican Party? He should get in line and take a number.
“We are self-sorting for a declining demographic, a narrowing demographic of elderly people, rural people.”
Go ahead - say it. You know you want to - “white people”
The rubes in the Villages are now grumbling about Rep. Rooney. “Self sorting?” “You bet! I got my Medicare and a Rascal scooter” “Whatcha going to do about it”.
The wheels coming off the GOP, GOP, GOP
The wheels coming off the GOP
Early in the morning…
More traditional Repubs are finally realizing that their party doesn’t exist anymore, as such.
It’s so ironic that the last ones to accept the reality of his concerns are his own constituents, hence the problem. It’s a problem he and his party created by conning their constituents to believe facile lies, paving the way for propaganda mills like Fox News, Facebook bots and QAnon, ultimately leading to full blown psychopaths like Trump.
I would say the time for concern would’ve been sometime prior to putting children in cages and separating families and calling it “adoption.” Your time for concern is over, the time for consequences is just beginning.
Everyone please open your hymnals to page 69 and sing along to the Black Money Aria…
What economic arguments do Republicans actually have? They are pro deficits, pro tariffs and trade wars, against Medicare and Social Security and for destroying the safety net. All to give billionaires and corporations yet more tax cuts.
Rooney said the GOP needs to “get back to being the party of pro-economics, pro-capitalism and reduced spending,” not “all this kind of populism stuff.”
“Can’t we just get back to PRIVATE racism while we bootlick the rich and shaft everybody else?!”
They have beliefs, tenets, myths, axioms, that sort of thing. Propaganda. Arguments not so much.
ETA took me a minute, but I think “dogma” is the word.
On previous threads I have talked about a Post High School National Service Program. I have also talked about Planet Saving and how this Post-Millennial Generation has an opportunity to both make a difference and validate their lives.
These two items put us in uncharted territory, but territory that militates against the political tropes of the last 20-25 years.
Both Republicans and Democrats can be part of this joint effort. But there is going to have to be a national conversation on this.
Removing Trump is the First Step.
And he can’t even bring himself to talk about kids in cages, the Muslim ban, overtly pro-racist policies and statements, and voter suppression practices. This is what the Republican Party stands for.
I seem to recall a lot of shrieking that Michelle was trying to “indoctrinate” children to eat broccoli and so forth by, you know, kind of suggesting they do that. So yeah, might take a while to prepare the ground for a youth service program.
Because Art Laffer.
I had—note the tense—a Republican friend who used to wave away things like that. (We parted company before Trump, actually.) She’d literally wave her hand and say all that kind of thing was done by the “crazies,” as if it were just sort of out there in the borderlands where it hardly even mattered, it wasn’t really what Republicans wanted. Republicans were just nice people like her father who happened to have the correct notions about certain economic matters like whether they should be taxed much, or at all. She was opposed to torture, until the day came when she wasn’t sure it was always, always bad, what if there were a nuclear bomb set to go off, etc. Like I said, I couldn’t be friends with someone I felt contempt for and we haven’t talked in years. But the attitude is general, I think, among otherwise respectable people. The racism, the nihilism, the corruption, the incompetence, they’ve just been waving it away, no-true-Scotsman style. That’s why they have to go into the wilderness and stay there. They don’t understand what they’ve done wrong.
This. Is. Hilarious.
Thanks.
It’s a great idea, though. Fallows often points out that when we had a draft, you had people serving from all the income levels, where now a lot of middle-class people don’t know anyone who’d think about going into the military. Send them off to fight? Well, they knew what they were signing up for, right? That’s how you think when your sister’s kid isn’t one of the ones to go.