After serving six terms in Congress, Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), a veteran and a medical doctor, will retire at the end of this term, Roe’s office confirmed to TPM Friday.
Another one bites the dust
What’s the running count now? I forget…
Sign of the times. Trump thinks his Iran tough guy act is going to save him but GOP congressmen think differently.
Where is the tipping point? How many Republican ‘retirements’ will it take before the GOP decides which direction it’s going to turn to? If they go full Trumpian then they’ll keep losing members, because Trumpian policies are hurting the very people they say they are protecting.
Please name one Republican who actually cares about his constituents ??? Its all about power to them…
Yet most of those very people still support Trump for reasons that make no sense. They are either ignorant of or impervious to easily demonstrated facts, or are swayed by the GOP fear mongering that a Democratic president would bring about the end of the civilized world, i.e., they are ignorant of or impervious to historical facts. Our best and only hope is to repeat the 2018 midterms and trust that a resounding defeat will reorganize rather than energize the GOP in its current incarnation.
This is my uncle’s Congresscritter, down in Kingsport. In 2018, Roe got 72% of the vote. Hope he’s got a Dem opponent this year, just to show the colors, but it’s not worth money to convince the hill people of their better interests. My uncle’s the only #GOP in my extended family, and he’ll never vote blue. Weirdly, retired pensioner from lifetime federal employment (never military).
The ‘writing on the wall’ is sinking in with some.
All of them when you define constituents as the powerful business interests who bankroll them rather than the voters who live in their districts.
The GOP doctors caucus just sounds so oxymoronic when they try to deny insurance to millions of Americans including those in Dr. Roe’s district.
They haven’t already? What would be the line to cross that hasn’t already?
Jesus will save them it’s Tennessee
The cry of “SOCIALISM!” drives a lot of them. Someone needs to ask them whether that means they want to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. And how about public schools? And public highways? And the air traffic control system? And the FDA? And the EPA? The list goes on, and they’re all just godless socialist programs.
ETA: And ask them how they feel about farm subsidies. 
It’s Tennessee. Inherit the dim.
The EPA is pretty much closed down already by Trump’s appointed thugs.
I remember doctors strongly protesting Medicare as intervening in the relationship between doctors and patients.
Does this caucus of doctors actually believe it is ‘better’ not to have coverage? Does Mr. Roe believe this? Or at least ‘asserted’ it?
And isn’t interesting that those business ‘constituents’ can’t vote for their well paid agent?
To me full Trumpian is Gym, Meadows, and Gaetz. There are other Republicans that stand at the back of the scrum and nod their heads, but aren’t out there with full-throated cheering.
