Posted on 10/26/2023 3:12:26 AM PDT by cotton1706
In retrospect, wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller for The Bulwark, it was inevitable that Republicans would go down this path.
"For about a decade and a half now the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters — the erstwhile renegades the late John McCain dubbed 'wacko birds,'" wrote Miller. "That group has grown from only a handful of troublemakers to a significant bloc of Congress that’s bolstered by an additional group of 'closet normals' who dress in wacko bird costumes for the retweets."
"Among the many lowlights of this long-running spectacle of appeasement: engaging in wildly irresponsible brinkmanship, granting plum committee assignments to kooks, submitting to power-sharing arrangements and hosting struggle sessions with the House Freedom Caucus, launching sham impeachment inquiries, holding umpty-nine explicitly political hearings over a deadly embassy attack, flying down to an extremely dated South Florida resort to take degrading pictures with a wannabe authoritarian, defending a drag queen fabulist in their ranks, and, most egregiously, agreeing to be complicit in an attempt to overthrow our democracy to soothe the bruised ego of the man-baby-in-chief," Miller continued.
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"So long as the Republican leaders kept giving inch after inch after inch on the Fox outrage du jour, they could avoid an intraparty coup and retain power — until some glorious day in the future when sanity would return and their torment at the hands of these nutjobs would be over," Miller wrote. "Eventually you run out of road."
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Now we knew this already but they are openly pulling their hair out now, as they lose power and influence.
Go Wacko Birds! All the way to victory!
Drooling half wits like this fooled themselves into believing they would never be defeated. Now that defeat is here they will blame everyone but themselves.
Most of the Republican leadership and their strategists hate the Republican voters.
The collective Stampy Feet Tantrum of the GOPeahens and the Demoncrats is so predictable and, if it wasn’t so darn serious, it would be the ultimate in political hilarity. Drain the Swamp!
Was this written for The NY Times?
From Wikipedia:
Miller was an Iowa staffer for John McCain in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, and later served as national press secretary for the Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential campaign. In his role with the Huntsman campaign, Miller was credited by Esquire for making its daily email to reporters “surprisingly hip”. After the primary, Miller joined the Republican National Committee as its liaison to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
In 2015, Miller was hired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush to be a senior adviser to his presidential exploratory committee, Right to Rise political action committee (PAC), and went on to serve as the communications director for Bush’s presidential campaign. During the campaign, Miller drew notice as a “vocal critic” of Donald Trump. Following a 2016 South Carolina Republican primary debate, Miller followed Trump around the spin room heckling him until Miller was “hip-checked” by Trump campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski.
“Now that defeat is here they will blame everyone but themselves.”
They sound a lot like democRats don’t they ...
We simply must win the House, Senate, And POTUS in 2024. To do that we must fight to minimize the use of mail-in balloting and Rank Choice Voting (RCV) systems. There is almost no limit to the fraud that can be brought forth to exploit these voting methods.
The guy is flat-out wrong about this. It’s not that this group of “troublemakers” has grown. They were always there. It’s just that the GOP majority is so thin that at group of fringe Congressmen can heavily influence the outcome of a vote.
FUTM,AH!
“...as they lose power and influence...”
They are going to lose much, much more. The French revolution is going to pale in comparison to what is coming for those filthy cretins. /spit
I think the kooks in the uniparty are mad. ROTFL
DU (Democratic Underground) is in meltdown over it.
Like the beer, he’s Miller Light.
In short, a loser.
Literally and figuratively.
Another elitist scumbag who would be better off somewhere in Europe, if they would actually want him.
And what is he worried about. Speaker Johnson’s conservative score is around 75%. Maybe this idiot wanted a 25-percenter.
Read Part II. Chapter 6, Miracle Metal, of Atlas Shrugged. Rand had The Swamp pegged 70 plus years ago.
Wacko Birds. I kind of like it. One is reminded of the Angry Birds, who manage to achieve the apparently impossible, and get back all the eggs that were stolen from them.
Let’s get those eggs back and incubate them.
Loser
Glad he’s not one of us
And to think I was silly enough to believe that a “representative” was supposed to REPRESENT those who elected him. What was I thinking?… 🙄
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