Two House Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) multiple failed bids for the speakership announced their retirements on Wednesday, with one specifically citing the last several weeks and the Republican Party “lying to America” as rationale.
I take it there was nothing happening in the court hearing in NY today???
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Dude, your party has been lying to America for decades.
Buck is not a good guy nor is he particularly principled but he does seem able to visualize the end game of the denier grift and his poor chances of surviving politically until that runaway train is fully derailed.
It became up close and personal for him. These destructive republicans are chasing anyone with any even small sense of ethics and patriotism out of the party.
I hope it dies in a fireball at its end, which I hope is soon.
What has happened to men and women of courage in America? I know they exist. We need them now.
Junior will definitely be channeling Sgt Schultz…
“I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing….”
They chased out or primaried far better people than he has been until now(?). Waiting for someone, anyone on that side to stand up and take a stand.
But as Public Notice’s Noah Berlatsky recently said of Buck’s newfound flirtation with reason, Buck is “a bizarre canary in the fascist coal mine — but at this point that’s the only type of canary the GOP has.”
The New York Times reports that Buck and Granger are likely just the first of what will be a wave of Republican retirements now that the dust from their own demolition has settled.
I dunno, I’m just not seeing it for this coming mid-term…the NEXT one, I would believe. Simply because the GQP got what it wanted, the lunatics are actually running the asylum right from the rostrum, not just in the back rooms. So, why quit now??
Until they are actually completely unable to accomplish ANYTHING, AND get destroyed in the mid-terms, the end game will not be understandable to them. Mostly because they still have no plan, no foresight, and less understanding of how the real world actually works. Work your contacts, gang, cuz you’re gonna need a job pretty darned soon.
Rep. Buck’s glimpses of reason and sanity are akin to a whirling dervish…without the balance.
I think the big news is that Tronnie Dump inserted himself back into the active management of The Trump Org around 15 December 2020. (I don’t recall the exact date 
.) This is new (to us) evidence that he knew he lost the election. I think it likely that both DA Willis and Special Counsel Smith already knew about this letter and probably have copies of it. If not, they know it now, and it’s another nail in the coffin for the lie that The Fat Guy really, truly, believed that if he was sincere enough the Great Pumpkin would land in his pumpkin patch that he had won the election.
They exist, but very few are in the elected GOP, and even those are largely misguided in terms of what could make a good society.
It’s not some much putting things in God’s hands as it is blaming God for stuff that happens. It’s just one more way to duck accountability.
The finger pointing is a bit rich coming from Buck, a guy who only recently jumped on the fed-up-with-the-big-lie bandwagon and who was part of the group of hardliners who voted to oust ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the first place. And Buck’s pivot to the appearance of sanity is only a few months old. As he railed against his Freedom Caucus colleagues for their drive to impeach President Biden, enough to earn him a shiny new “moderate” label from some in the media, many had apparently forgotten his past of over-the-top misogyny, extreme homophobia and blatant climate change denialism.
Truer words haven’t been spoken. Busk was an early adopter of Tea Party extremism, now he wants to pretend his party has swung too far…
“Jeebus take the wheel”
“But I’m a goatherder from the bronze age”
(inevitable multi-car pile up, flaming weasels everywhere)
So we really are dealing with toddlers?
Just from my imperfect view of world history if the Christianists gain power over all areas of government, then how long before the schisms or cracks appear? And from what I can see of our resident God botherers (h/t @ralph_vonholst) we’re putting power in the hands of the persnickety. And just like Prince’s mother, they’re never satisfied.
In regard to Mike Johnson saying he supports aid to Ukraine but it must be separate from aid to Israel which as an “armageddonist” he fanatically supports as a way to help the rapture, I am reminded of something I read about how he is different from Mike McCarthy:
People are overlooking the primary and highly significant difference between Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson.
Everyone in Washington knew that if McCarthy made his most solemn promise while starting to pour syrup on his breakfast pancakes, he would have broken it repeatedly before the syrup actually hit the flapjacks.
As far as is known, Johnson is capable of waiting until the second cup of coffee before proving everything he’d said was a lie.
The only way aid for Ukraine will get through the House so long as Johnson is Speaker is if it is tied to aid to Israel and every honest person knows this.
Any time a couple of GOP house members with seniority throw in the towel it’s a plus. Fuck 'em!
Yes. There are good, courageous people out there, but very, very hard to find in the Republican Party, really almost non-existent.
Seniority is a pretty artificial construct. The conferences make up their own rules on seniority, and its importance (particularly in the House) has diminished since Gingrich revamped the rules to limit terms as committee and sub-committee chairs.
On the other hand, any time a GQP House member wants to create an open seat, I wholeheartedly approve.
