Couldn't agree more with this. If the Republican't 3 won't stand up to a bill this bad, they won't stand up to anything. The 3 are a write off, and it's best to get them out of the Senate as soon as possible.
it’s best to get them out of the Senate as soon as possible.
There are likely only 2 ways that this will happen: 1)they stop breathing for more than 30 minutes 2) Conservatives from all over the country donate to their opponents in the next primary.
Yes, on all this, but “big tent” thinking is wrong from the get-go. Remember? it wasn’t until Bob Dole ran that the term was coined. It was wrong-headed then and even wronger now. The whole concept of “core values” MEANS something, and it’s about time the GOP recognized it and started winning again.
This is why the “60” the dims wanted was largely irrelevant. They can always convince a few RINO traitors to cross over to the dark side.
“The GOP needs them to offer an illusory chance at filibustering legislation, although their failure to filibuster something as bad as Porkulus more or less exposes that as an empty threat.
Couldn’t agree more with this”
Yup.
It would have been so EASY to make this a much much better bill.
In the past, I was worried about losing the majority, so I advocated the ‘lets get RINOs instead of lib Dems’. But at this point, we have a worst-of-both-worlds situation where bad bad policy is sold as ‘bipartisan’ because 3 out of 220 Republicans went along with a partisan liberal Democrat horrible bill.
They should be run out of the GOP for all I care.
The fact that W and the GOP have done nothing speaks volumes.
I blame the GOP and the RNC more than I blame them, you should too.