Posted on 10/04/2023 4:52:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When Democrats are in the majority, they get their way. And when Republicans are in the majority, the Democrats also get their way. Most recently, after the stopgap spending bill was passed, Rep Jamie Raskin took to MSNBC to boast that the Democrats “got the vast majority of what we wanted” from it. And for some Republicans that was the last straw.
Eight House Republicans allied with Democrats on a vote to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy. And for the first time in over a century, a House Speaker was successfully booted from office.
A civil war among Republicans came down to threats from both sides of collaborating with Democrats in a House of Representatives with a narrow majority. And collaborating with Democrats seems to be the only thing that House Republicans know how to do anymore.
What are the legislative achievements of a House GOP majority, today, yesterday and the day before? They invariably involve collaborating with Democrats for personal political gain.
It’s been over a generation since a House Republican majority delivered for conservatives. Congressional Republicans are too terrified to fight Democrats and instead go after safe targets like each other. It’s not even worth counting how many times a Democrat White House made a House Republican majority cower in fear over the threat of being blamed for a government shutdown. Or how often that same majority compensated for surrendering to Democrats with meaningless virtue signaling votes that everyone knew were never going to pass the Senate.
Why are Democrats able to effectively wield their House majority while Republicans couldn’t? The Democrats are not afraid of what Republicans think of them. They develop a plan, implement it and dismiss Republican efforts to stop them. Republicans however care a great deal about what Democrats, in the House, in the media and the culture, think of them.
When Republicans threaten to blame Democrats for something, they laugh it off. Democrats backed the mobs that burned cities to the ground and opened the border to an unprecedented mass invasion without worrying what the Republicans would say. But Republicans live in fear of being blamed for a government shutdown. Rather than risk being blamed for shutting down the country, they shut down their own agenda, and then formed circular firing squads.
House Republican majorities do very little because they want to avoid taking responsibility for anything. When there is a Republican Senate majority or a Republican White House, they defer to them. And when there isn’t, they defer to the Democrats. The pattern is that the House Republican leadership wants someone else to take on their responsibilities....
I agree! Republicans are sick and tired of their spineless representatives caving into Democrat demands. Two possible solutions: 1) the Republicans grow a pair and start fighting for their constituents (not likely), or 2) Republican voters start over and start voting the sheep out of office (not likely). Option 2 holds the most hope, but only if the voting public educates itself...also not likely. We're getting what we voted for...
McCarthy seemed to just want the title on his CV, he was not interested in the work and got out pretty dang fast. They had Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, we got nothing and the turtle. Sad.
The 8 Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy are outnumbered in the House by the 18 who represent districts that Biden won in 2020.
There’s no such thing as a Republican agenda in the House when you have a narrow majority under those circumstances.
The sold-out uniparty is the problem.
It seems that voting Republican is as useless as voting libertarian. Either way the big government gets its way.
I hate that too.
Thats batting a 1000, since there are only 8 Republicans in the House. Yesterdays vote CONFIRMED in Spades that over 200 of the so called Republicans in the House are addicted to the Bribes, Kickbacks, Graff and Insider Trading scams and literally not a single one of them gives a Rats Ass about the American People.
SAVE THE CLUB AND SCREW AMERICA is their Official Motto now
I agree.
Here is my simple explanation for why some Republicans seem willing to prioritize honorable defeat over dishonorable victory, paraphrasing Victor Davis Hanson’s recent observation that “Republicans would rather lose nobly than win nastily.” Many so-called RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) are dues-paying members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has always maintained that, as a 501(c)(4) organization, it works with and supports both political parties to advance its agenda.
The DOJ is being weaponized against the political enemies of the ruling regime. Not just Trump but pro-lifers, pro-2A activists and other conservatives.
Our borders are not only left open but our government is spending money to incentivize the invaders to come here and replace normal Americans.
Republicans control the funding mechanism of the government. They CANNOT keep funding that tyranny. It is their duty to stop it.
Republicans control the funding mechanism of the government.
They CANNOT keep funding this tyranny. It is their duty to stop it.
Our Rep (NW GA) Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t vote with the ousters, and she’s as conservative-voting as anyone there. I’m not at all sure this was a wise move.
Amen
We need Party Unity, but not a partnership with liberals to appease the lobbyists. McCarthy was a Swamp creature and lobbyists best friend, just like his friend Ryan is. Maybe Fox has a place for him.
Watch CSpan to hear how Congress is supposed to work for the people. Dems want more largess, more spending and benefits and to tax the Rich out of being rich. They do not care of the consequences. I almost want the Dems to drive this ship but all I’d get is a big fat “I told you so” as we hit the iceberg.
Forgotten...
SNORT.
They haven’t forgotten a darn thing.
They don’t work for us.
They are Deep State.
The House Republican mission is not the business of government, but the business of revolution. The Democrats see that as their mission and it’s time that Republicans did too. That will take a wartime party, not peacetime managers. A true wartime party does not collaborate with the enemy. It builds a united front and sets out to win without fearing the other side.
A party like that requires strong leaders who know what is at stake: not hollow men and grifters.
The House GOP doesn’t have a speaker because it doesn’t have a mission. ...
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Mission? Their mission, as it appears to me, is to WASTE OUR MONEY and collude with the Socialist Democrats whenever and wherever possible to denigrate and bypass our Constitution!
*SPIT*
If Gowdy hates this, and Newt hates this, and the GOPe hates this, I am 100% on board.
If the house can’t figure out a way to shut down this border thru the power of the purse, then they are worthless imho.
And that’s just table stakes.
Listen to Biggs 7 minute floor speech, that tells me all I need to know.
People don’t want to fund Ukraine. They want spending cuts. Voters are sick and tired
of voting in Republicans then watching the spineless reps transitioning into Democrats.
Reaching accross the isle is not suppossed to mean pulling down you pants and spreading ‘em.
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