Growing List of Republicans Saying Goodbye to Washington (Boehner/Ryan yes men)

news.populiarno.com ^ | 11/11/17

[cotton1706]

WASHINGTON — A growing number of House Republicans are choosing to voluntarily drain the swamp one year ahead of the the midterm elections.

Nearly two dozen congressional Republicans have so far announced they will not be running for re-election, leaving Democrats enthusiastic about the potential for major gains in the 2018 elections. Nine Republicans are running for a different elected position, while 12 are retiring.

And while Congressional retirements are common (on average, 22 House members retire each cycle, according to a CQ Roll Call analysis), the numbers so far are glaringly one-sided. Just two Democratic House members have announced retirements, while six are running for a different office.

[txrefugee]

Good. This part of the Swamp is self-draining.

[Enlightened1]

I hope it’s the RINOs and not actual conservatives.

Anyone have a list?

[mindburglar]

Spin it however they want. They know we are coming for them.

[dforest]

Maybe they will have to get a real job.

[wastedyears]

Oh come on, how many of them had a real job before getting elected?

[Spok]

Remember the character Emmanuel in the book 1984. If there’s no bogey man, one must be invented. There will always be an ‘opposition’ party to claim victory over. Real or imaginary.

[cotton1706]

A couple are conservatives, but mostly RINO’s like Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania.

[originalbuckeye]

Flake wasn’t going to win his Primary. His grandstanding was his last gasp.....but now he will just become a lobbyist. I wonder which side he will lobby????

[Wilhelm Tell]

Are any of these seats likely Dem pickups? Not that a RINO isn’t much better...

[mrsmith]

As Virginia’s elections showed, if DC Republicans don’t replace Obamacare we’ll lose House races in states that didn’t expand Medicare.
That’s the big problem. The one that can make this a “wave election” for the Dems.

We’ll likely lose a third of the retirements, get new (but without seniority) RINOs in a third and get a third more conservative.

[mazda77]

Why must most have to buy the BS about these elections being a binary choice?

antiestablishmentarianism!

[dowcaet]

It’s time to get rid of all of them. We need people in Congress who aren’t looking to make it a career. That’s how we got into trouble in the first place

[LostPassword]

(Boehner/Ryan yes men) (Schumer/Pelosi yes men)

Boehner/Ryan just relay messages from Schumer/Pelosi. Boehner/Ryan can't wait to be minority leaders again so they no longer need to pretend to be in charge and they no longer have to take (or avoid) votes that contradict the conservative principles they claim to get elected.

[Grampa Dave]

WASHINGTON — A growing number of House Republicans are choosing to voluntarily drain the swamp one year ahead of the the midterm elections.

Nearly two dozen congressional Republicans have so far announced they will not be running for re-election, leaving Democrats enthusiastic about the potential for major gains in the 2018 elections. Nine Republicans are running for a different elected position, while 12 are retiring.

And while Congressional retirements are common (on average, 22 House members retire each cycle, according to a CQ Roll Call analysis), the numbers so far are glaringly one-sided. Just two Democratic House members have announced retirements, while six are running for a different office.

[GOPJ]

Let's hope all of them know that Democrat War Rooms write fake letters to our guys - pretending to be conservatives...

And yeah, it's NOT against the law for a person to register “Republican” when they're really democrats working to destabilize Republicans.

Our guys are sooooo gullible.

[Bogie]

Not to worry, anyone who is there for the genuine purpose of being a good public servant, has no reason to go.

[Bogie]

Yeah, the whole swamp thing is full of contradiction.

[central_va]

Your skipping over the primaries, again. A MAGA candidate will smoke a Democrat in 90% of all those races.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Most of the ones that “retire” do it because they are going to get primaried.