Republicans Flip House By Unexpectedly Small Margin - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Republicans won back the House Wednesday, but are only on track for a very slim majority.

What was long predicted to be a midterm shellacking in the stylings of the Republican tsunamis of past Democratic-trifeca years of 1994 and 2010 fizzled out to the point that the lower chamber became little more than a tossup. 


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um, fir…?

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That is certainly my expectation FWIW. Repuglicans may try to act like adults initially in a vain attempt to appear statesmanlike or even normal but there is no way that provides the red meat MAGA requires nor is it consistent with many of the personalities in that fetid swamp so I expect a hot mess well before the first year of their majority is over.

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The Jan 6 Committee better get its report out before the GQP shuts it down.

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They’ll move to impeach President Joe Biden and, likely, assorted Cabinet members.

Soon, it will be a point of shame for Cabinet officials that they weren’t investigated:

“I’m sorry, Bob, but your failure to be called before a committee is a blot on the family escutcheon. Your mother and I have no choice but to change our names and move to Canada.”

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…and they’ll act like king shit of turd hill and behave like total asses.

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They don’t control the House yet. We might get some stuff done in the lame duck.

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firgit it

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Pass the popcorn, Kevin McCarthy is headed for the wood chipper!! Fargo Forever!!!

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They most certainly will. They know what will happen if they don’t.

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They look like people hired to dress up and draw attention to a discount furniture store.

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yawn. Oh. Did a Republican say something?

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I’d like to see the metrics of how many of the unnecessary deaths of Trump voters from COVID due to his malfeasance and sheer stubbornness in redder districts helped to keep the senate in Democratic control and a very narrow Republican margin in the house. Call it the Cain line.

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This seems like a question-grenade worth pulling the pin from.

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Hopefully the budget item. But from what I understand there is a long list of things the Dems want to pass in the lame duck.

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Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

The GQP will overreach badly by the end of the first week they’re in control.
They’ll make themselves so unpopular that the Dems will retake the House and expand their Senate control in a walk.

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Sack of shit?

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The J6 committee charter makes the committee automatically dissolve on Jan 3, no matter who controls the House.

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They still don’t get that all the blather they’ve been blathering isn’t popular with a clear majority of Americans.

Lost in the weeds.

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