Posted on 06/30/2022 6:31:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
With three incumbents going down to defeat in primaries earlier this week, the total number of U.S. House retirements has grown to 58 current members. That's over 13% of the 435 seat chamber.
The list includes 34 Democrats and 24 Republicans. 17 of those are seeking another office, while eight - five Republicans and three Democrats - lost renomination.
The list of retirements will grow by at least two over the next couple of months. Democratic member vs. member primaries, caused by redistricting, will take place in MI-11 and NY-12.
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And it doesn't include all the incumbent Democrats (or Republicans) who will lose in November.
The next Congress will have a very large freshman class next January.
Legislatures both large and small are being repopulated and remade. From school boards to state legislatures to the Congress.
Maybe we are going to see if “trowing da bums out” will actually make a difference. Until the Swamp actually gets drained, I doubt we will accomplish much apart from a few issues here and there.
I personally THINK there will be more Republicans than Democrats . . but I confess it is hard (for ME anyway) to "read" the political climate anymore.
Keep repeating that. We’re winning at every turn we just have a duplicitous media that’s working overtime to hide our accomplishments.
“a duplicitous media that’s working overtime to hide our accomplishments”
Yep. I’ll say one thing for the propaganda arm of the dnc......they can blackout information that’s undesirable to them like nobody’s business.
As despicable as it is.
The idea of the House and Senate was to give both the people and the states representation in Congress and in the election of the president. By increasing the number of House members, you dilute the state representation.
There will be a “red wave” but vote stealing and tampering with the vote counting will largely tamp it down. In reality, a clean and fair election would see the Dems washed out to sea across the board. America is fed up with their crap. But they will lie and cheat and mitigate the damage and steal more seats from the rightful winners.
Will it be enough to “keep control” of one, or both houses of Congress? In reality it shouldn’t be. But they are desperate and brazen. I would not be shocked.
The democrats retired because they know they'll lose in Novemmber.
The republicans retired because they're running for higher office OR got/going to get beat in the primaries.
Good observation.
“Why did it stop at 435? “
So what you want is a new Capitol building that can house 3,250 representatives?
I think not. It’s still a representative government at 435.
Total 59. They forgot Liz Cheney in this article
“Legislatures both large and small are being repopulated and remade. From school boards to state legislatures to the Congress.”
Which is a good thing, IMHO. Make it clear that they are expected to represent the interests of their constituency rather than their own agendas / interests.
The House is almost unwieldy at 435! How much larger do you want it to be? Originally it was 1 member per 30,000. (It was originally proposed to 1 per 40K, Washington insisted it be 1 per 30K!) Currently is roughly 1 per 700,000 as you pointed out. Using the original ratio of 1 per 30K and a population of 330,000,000 that would mean a House of 11,000. Your figure would put the House at roughly 3000+. By comparison the number of members of the UK’S House of Commons is 650. Russia’s parliament the Duma is 450. The French parliament is 577. The German parliament - the Bundestag is 709. If the US House, goes up into the 1000s in number it would dramatically increase the power of the staff. Staff power is a huge problem now! I don’t see how that would improve anything.
My tenure in CA included:
1) "motor voter" => voter registration included with driver's license issuance
2) illegals' driver's licenses (necessary for "safety")
all provided by the CA commie party
Not nearly enough
but I confess it is hard (for ME anyway) to “read” the political climate anymore.
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I’m not sure the country knows what it wants. It struggles to define a constructive ethos and/or social foundation for itself. JMHO
Now that is very cynical and defeatist attitude. But I cannot disagree with you.
How is it possible to take away the vast power the deep state has arrogated to itself?
The key is defeating them at the ballot box which requires re-educating the electorate to the dangers these people represent. There are a few glimmers of hope with conservatives wresting education away from the liberals in Florida, Virginia, and Arizona. But it will take multiple generations for that change to sweep over the electorate.
The congress seems happy to abdicate its responsibilities to the executive and courts.
Me too, but I THINK it won't be the 75-25% that it should be.
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