New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who recently announced that he would not run for Senate next year, on Sunday expressed his dismay over Republican lawmakers wanting to punish colleagues for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but most voting against censuring Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) after his tweet depicting violence against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and President Biden.
“I think politics in its entirety on both sides of the aisle in Washington is screwed up,” Sununu said. “It really is.
I am so grateful that Sununu speaks without drooling out of both sides of his mouth, that I will not even mention his both-siderism and false equivalencies.
Or, what @progress said.
I wish I’d started a tally of the people I see pushing back against the cult of personality and saying let’s move beyond that. I think at some point in the recent past we quietly went beyond the tipping point where people perceived Trump to be more a liability than a benefit. Murdoch says let’s move on. So do more and more GOP heavyweights. Trump is losing his grip. Too much blood in the water now.
After decrying that Republicans are trying to strip Republicans of their committee assignments, after these same Republicans receive death threats from Republicans, Gov. Sununu says:
“I think politics in its entirety on both sides of the aisle in Washington is screwed up”
The GOP needs to get in better sync with Fox and Rupert on what messages work. Fox is throwing up whatever to see what sticks and attracts eyeballs, and of course the GOP reps have Fox droning on in the background all the time. This was part of the reason Kevin McCarthy’s 8-hour rant was filled with so much nonsense, he read the current Fox litany in random order, mentioning things like “Walgreens” and “the baby carrots deception” and ISIS “caravans” which nobody outside the Fox universe could understand. And the average Fox viewer is 71, somewhat older than McCarthy and many of the GOPers in Congress. In TVland facts don’t matter, but they do matter in science and to some extent in the law and policy. Fox execs are likely fighting about programming at this moment as the titanic ratings struggle between Tucker Carlson and The Five leads them to increasing irrelevance. In the beginning of this year, the ratings leader Fox dropped behind both CNN and MSNBC in viewership, partly the consequence of losing Trump and partly the ongoing erosion of the younger demographic, which sees ad-driven tv as a waste of their time. Dementia is more common in the elderly, which may be why the fragmented presentations of Fox are not botheringly incoherent to some old folks. My question to Sununu and Murdoch would be: When you take away outrage, mendacity, fear and titilation, what drivers does the GOP have left? If there is something, that should be the priority.
Sununu seems to have declined his boarding pass on the S.S. Trump …
maybe doubts the “sea-worthiness” of this oddly floating garbage scow and anticipates it will get to mid ocean & break apart … and all on board will be lost …
Govenor Sununu is supposedly the ‘reasonable’ other side and this is diagnosis with policy proscriptions:
“I think politics in its entirety on both sides of the aisle in Washington is screwed up. SNIP “It really is. They got their priorities all wrong, focus on the wrong things, don’t talk about balancing budgets and fixing health care, immigration reform, Social Security and Medicare are going to be broken in about 10 years.”
I suppose that he will happily spend New Hampshire’s share of BI and BBB Acts, the latter still pending.
Yep, BOTH sides “entirely … screwed up.”
In its best iteration of which Sununu is presumably the exemplar, the Republican Party ain’t got nuthin.’
I totally agree. Just recently Ronna McDaniel finally acknowledged Biden won the election, Pence committed to campaigning for incumbent Republicans, even if Trump opposes them, and we have Christie and now Sununu rebuking Trump. And Murdock speaking out is quite the signal.
As establishment Republicans try to sideline Trump, expect him to accept it with grace and dignity. Just kidding. I can hear the howling already.
