Posted on 03/09/2021 9:04:56 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Roy Blunt’s, R-Mo., announcement that he won’t seek re-election next year — following the same decisions by Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio — represents more than an exodus of non-Trump Republicans.
It represents the end of the Bush Era Republicans in Washington — or close to it.
Portman, after all, worked as a top official in the Bush 43 administration before getting elected to the Senate in 2010.
Burr first won election to the upper chamber in 2004, which was the year W. Bush won re-election.
And while both Blunt and Toomey first won their House seats during Bill Clinton’s presidency, they cut their political teeth during the Bush years before both won their Senate seats in 2010 (the same year Portman did).
The Blunt/Burr/Portman/Toomey exits — along with Sen. Richard Shelby’s, R-Ala. — raise these questions:
One, just how Trump-y will the GOP primaries get in Alabama, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania?
Two, what will governing look like in 2023, even with the recognition that all five retiring GOP senators (along with the rest of their caucus) voted against the Biden/Democratic Covid relief deal?
And three, what happens with another Bush Era Republican up for re-election in 2022: Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., (who was first elected to the Senate in 2004).
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ONLY OLD REPUBLICANS RETIRE!
No more future in RINO GOPe Deep Swamp Shilling, so put the Knife deep in America's Back, stuff your carpetbag full of Taxpayer Cash and get out while you can.
All talk. If they’re going to leave, they need to leave NOW.
It looks like the RNC is going to fight back by wanting to still use Trump for fundraising.
That is not too bright. Trump has already activated his lawyers.
I recall Blunt, Toomey, and Thune were all considered pretty conservative when first elected. Swamp gas (blackmail?, money?) got a hold of them. How do we prevent it in the future?
I wonder who told them to bail?
Term limits and mandatory independent audits after either failing to be re-elected or hitting the term limits.
Brasshole says he is backing Cheney, Murkowski and Romney.
He needs to be forced out.
Same with Sasshole ,Thune, Bombay India Lee, Feinstein,
Sanders, Leahy.
I wonder who told them to bail?
Maybe M!tch and Chuck?
Since they see their coup worked and the filibuster disappearing, fast?
excellent question.
Nice to know there is at least a small amount of justice left in politics.
Elect real conservatives not fake “talk a good game” conservatives like these guys were.
Well disguised enemies domestic.
That’s one of Mitch’s bitches, now to get rid of the rest, Murkowski, Thune, Rubio, Grassley, Hoeven, Scott (SC),
My recollection is those three did more than talk a good game before they were elected to the senate. The other two not so much.
Part of a plea deal?
Polls, maybe?
I heard that a rumor exists that says McConnell is about to quit.
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