[Alberta's Child]

You can’t have it both ways, RandFan. On the one hand you call him a “principled conservative” for publicly opposing President Trump’s COVID spending measure, and then you turn around and fall all over yourself making excuses to rationalize his decision to cave on the exact same issue of fiscal irresponsibility when it comes to protecting his House committee assignment.

Which is it? Is he a principled conservative or not? And what’s the purpose of even protecting your seat on a committee in the first place if you are willing to sell out on your signature issue when your moment in history arrives?

I think he’s exactly what I’ve said he is: a bloviating, sanctimonious, self-aggrandizing dope.

It’s easy to call yourself “principled” when you’re on either side of a 420-5 vote in Congress.

It’s what you do in the 7-6 committee vote that really matters.

[RandFan]

I understand what you’re saying but politics is a grubby business I dislike it profoundly