The Senate is going to tie the two together and kill the idiot proposal defunding the IRS, and the Senate conferees will insist that both provisions stay in the conference bill.
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Some might make a decision based on how (badly) Mike Johnson fares. If he flames out quickly with more of this IRS-Israel bill nonsense, that might chase out a few Reps with their fingers in the air, testing the wind.
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Romney? What’s your thoughts?
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Not sure. He’s not running for reelection, so he doesn’t have to toe the line as much, but he definitely still has some power to do good or evil. Too soon to tell.
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This guy is my congresscritter. Whenever I would send a message to his office, I’d get a sanctimonious letter in response, pompously justifying his opposition to my position. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, man.
Hopefully we’ll get someone better. My district is fairly conservative (for Colorado). Jenna Ellis and Cory Gardner both got their start there.
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The only thing Ken Buck should get any credit for is having the lowest-common-denominator capacity of awareness that the Leopards were finally starting to Eat His Face too.
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Part from being a rich, entitled White Man (e.g., I am sure he has convinced himself that the carried interest loophole is fair and in the public interest), Romney is a pragmatist and an honest person, and far from stupid.
This sets him apart from most R’s, but for the most part he has gone along to get along. TBF, he can’t do much on his own, so I don’t expect much from him.
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The next election is not a mid-term; the Republicans will have Trump at the top of the ticket; there are around 18 “Rs” in districts Biden won in 2020, and those are all up for grabs; plus the new maps in at least a couple states should give democrats a couple more seats. Both Granger and Buck see the future, and it is the Republicans back in the minority with Jefferies as the speaker.
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Thank you for your honest and frank response. I agree, although I am still wondering why the hell he would put his dog in a crate on the roof of his car? Does not bode well for his character…
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My sympathies. And I get it — “my” governor is Youngkin.
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Mine, too, after redistricting. I’m bummed that I won’t get to vote against him. Cook has CD-4 as R+13, so I’m sure whoever the GQP nominates to replace him will be equally worthy of disdain.
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I had neighbors years ago who kept their dog tied up in the yard, 24-7. This was in MA, which has widely varying weather, with temperatures over the year ranging from -10 to +100, with rain, snow, wind, etc. Some people just don’t know how to care for animals.
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I hope you are right but reading what Republican senators are saying is deeply concerning.
Whether this Speaker will allow a vote on such a bill may come down to what he is first above all else, an Armageddonist or a Putinist. He clearly is both and only the dumbest believe he will ever allow a vote on Ukraine aid if not tied to Israeli aid or that does not have some poison pill.
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Well, that’s the funny thing. As I understand the rules, once a bill comes out of conference committee/reconciliation, each house is required to bring it to the floor for an up-or-down vote, no amendments permitted.
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To me, most of our LW takes about the RW meltdown all have some element of “they are destroying themselves and will hit bottom and have to rebuild”.
That is the incorrect take, they are purging. Because they must. Because they can. Because their voters endorse it. All their safe seats are still safe. They don’t really risk losing much. They aren’t going to damage themselves to the point where they have to change (for the better) in order to get back in the game. They are changing the game. We have seen them deal their own deathblow a dozen times. It has no effect.
Their only tool is destruction, even when they still had a ton of old-school Rs and ‘moderates’. They can destroy almost as well from the minority as they can when they are in power. That is the trump card of destruction. A single person can destroy the long, patient, perfect work of millions. They don’t have to be correct or catch lightning in a bottle or run-the-table in order to achieve it. Just relentlessly kicking at the bottom Jenga blocks.
They aren’t descending to into a pile of broken rubble. They are consolidating. Changing course and they need the squeamish gone.
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All the Republicans voted for MAGA Mike, so the normies should spare us of their disdain for the nihilists. He’s just a smoother-talking Jim Jordan. He’ll hold the government hostage for culture war.
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That’s happening in local election administration. The destroyers of democracy are driving out the diligent defenders.
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Speakership Circus Was Too Much For Some House Republicans To Stomach
And the rest will reminisce fondly about the times when their only tough decision was choosing who to be Speaker.
It really only goes downhill for them from here.
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Well just look at who the goobers elected speaker. Tells ya how great at “governing” they are.
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When stung by the Presidential bug, reasonable and for the most part decent people tend to completely change overnight, would say anything regardless of the truth and generally become no better that daytime right-wing radio host. That happened to Mitt Romney.
It also happened to former Senator Bill Frist, a good decent doctor that used to donate time in Africa, all of a sudden decided that he could do diagnostics over TV footage, just to score points with the pro-life crowd. I recently read an article he had written about public health and he seems to have recovered his good sense.
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