Posted on 01/08/2024 11:24:28 AM PST by chickenlips
In the 2023 election cycle in Louisiana, conservatives let their voices be heard. It wasn't just a Republican wave in the state last year - it was a decidedly conservative wave. Moderate (read: really Democrat) Republicans were thrashed just as much as actual Democrats were.
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But Republicans in Louisiana can be their own worst enemy when it comes to governance. Even while Republicans had majorities in both chambers of the legislature during Edwards' term, they could rarely agree on leadership and committee assignments, and on more than one occasion, Republican leaders picked Democrats to chair committees in the House and Senate.
Still, one would hope that with a supermajority in the legislature and a Republican in the governor's mansion, they wouldn't be handing out power to Democrats like party favors. Louisiana voters made it clear that they wanted Republican leadership - that they wanted conservative leadership - and, apparently, the first thing they want to do is put Democrats in charge of legislative committees.
This time, Republicans are set on Monday to elevate Landry’s choices to the top two positions in Legislature, Sen. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, as the president, and Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, as the speaker.
Republicans hold a 73-32 advantage over Democrats in the House and a 28-11 margin in the Senate.
Despite the big partisan advantage, both Henry and DeVillier have said in interviews that they plan to give committee chairmanships to Democrats, a move that will likely spark protests among hard core conservatives who want the incoming leaders to follow Washington’s practice of the majority party consolidating its power.
“I found Democrats who I think would be good chairmen based on their skillset,” Henry said.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
If you're a Republican in Louisiana and you aren't lighting up the phone lines to the state legislature and Governor's office and filling up their email inboxes; letting them know this is unacceptable, you are complicit. This is an unforced error. Dimocrats have no desirable skillsets, only pathologies.
Republican Leadership is an oxymoron.
Typical republican behavior
Sheep in wolves clothing yet again.......
Similar situation in Tennessee. The GOP outweighs the Dems by almost 3:1 yet cant seem to find the backbone to actually behave like conservatives.
Epitomizes the kind of behavior that made me resolve to never contribute a penny to any GOP organization. Every bit as despicable as any Democrat politician.
The Stupid Party strikes again ...
Doesn’t matter the percentage. The boss stays the same. The uniparty.
Well, we’re not like them!
We reach across the aisle!
A lot of blackmail down there?
“A lot of blackmail down there?”
Louisiana politicians don’t need blackmail to be corrupt. That is their default position here. And, I suppose, the same goes on in all fifty states.
Most LA Republicans are former Democrats, and old habits die hard. People can be so gullible.
This. Once you accept that they all play for the same team, it makes sense. Insisting otherwise is cognative dissonance.
“We reach across the aisle!”
Then they chop our hands off...
and tell us that gators did it!
The Republicans at the national and state level are for the most part liberals except for the tax issues. They run the same playbook, lots of lies about their being so conservative and then lots of excuses about why they had to betray their voters again and again. Sometimes no excuse other than deal with it.
The only difference between almost all dems and repubs is that the repubs are more quiet.
The Republican Establishment has the job of PRETENDING to be conservative, but really follows the orders of their globalist donors.
Worthless Vichy Republican swine.
The GOP’s patented cirle jerk is not limited to DC... It extends into much of the state & local government environments...
Not the Bee?
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