Posted on 02/12/2024 2:21:55 PM PST by cotton1706
House Republicans have moved quickly and strongly to the right, embracing the most extreme positions on cultural issues (including abortion, gay and trans rights, and guns) and isolationism on foreign policy and national security.
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The House now has a long list of extreme ideologues, ranging from Eli Crane and Andy Biggs of Arizona to Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Troy Nehls of Texas, Bob Good of Virginia, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who don’t care if government works at all. In fact, they are content with gridlock, as they pander to the needs of former President Donald Trump.
Over in the Senate, the GOP also continues its slide to the right.
Sure, libertarian conservatives like Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky have been around for a while. But now, they are joined by the likes of Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Ted Budd of North Carolina, J.D. Vance of Ohio, and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks may well join them next year.
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The Roy Blunts of the world are being replaced by the Josh Hawleys. As political scientist Sean Theriault noted in “The Gingrich Senators,” his 2013 book: “The short-term future (of the Senate) is bleak, at least for those critical of today’s more partisan Senate. And because it is bleak, it will become even bleaker.”
The retirements of GOP Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Kay Granger of Texas are more than mere coincidences. They undoubtedly reflect the bitterness on Capitol Hill and the petty partisanship of politics these days.
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Somehow, questioning where all our money is going overseas is "isolationism".
My poli sci teacher in college told me that political analysts and astrologers are one in the same. They get overpaid to give you predictions that are always wrong!
That’s funny, I remember that it was Claire McCaskill who was replace by Josh Hawley. It was a very good change!
“petty partisanship of politics”
Democrats never descend to petty partisan politics. That is where they are all the time.
““The short-term future (of the Senate) is bleak, at least for those critical of today’s more partisan Senate. And because it is bleak, it will become even bleaker.””
In other words, the Republicans who vote for open borders and war are slowly being replaced. That will make things more partisan because there will actually be Senators standing up for their citizens instead of the Chamber of Commerce and cheap labor.
Yes, Republicans have plenty of opportunities in good districts following their loss of 53 House seats over the past two cycles. And yes, there are signs that the Republican hemorrhage has stopped and even possibly that the party’s fortunes have begun to reverse course.
But there are no signs of a dramatic rebound for the party, and the chance of Republicans winning control of either chamber in the 2010 midterm elections is zero. Not “close to zero.” Not “slight” or “small.” Zero.
Big changes in the House require a political wave. You can cherry-pick your way to a five- or eight-seat gain, but to win dozens of seats, a party needs a wave. …
National socialism and fascism are both left wing. They have never been right wing.
My post may have led you to think otherwise, but I agree with
your point there.
The Left sure wants folks to think Hitler was a right wing
person though.
He’s a genius!
Reminds me when Trump won in 2016 and all of the pollsters were thumping their chests about having been “closets to being wrong”.
The Framers of the Constitution designed gridlock into the way we govern: the less the government does, the better.
Roll call can SUCK ON IT!
Yep. AFAICR, the whole “right wing” big lie started with Stalin’s propaganda.
Goebbels was adamant when he said in an interview with Der Angriff, “According to the idea of the NSDAP, we are the German left; nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership bloc.”
And of course, Mussolini while in power as a fascist talked about “social justice” all the time, never mind envisioning a time when the fascists would be victorious and there would be “the world’s social revolution where there will be a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches”, ad nauseam.
Mooorrrtooonn.
You notice Rothenberg is not concerned about moderate democrats retiring and being replaced with crazed lunatic Bolsheviks.
His concern is only with Vichy Republicans getting thrown out into the dung heap of history.
Note to the pantywaist Rothenberg: more pain is coming for you and your ilk. /spit
"libertarian conservatives"
Was spot on it seems.
Yes, that’s right. RINOs are being purged. Its taking time, but we are slowly but surely winning the fight against the corrupt Assistant Democrats who have long held the levers of power in the Republican party.
The 2009 prediction?
I put no stock in backpedalers who most likely got their change of mind from others.
Correct. Oxymoron.
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