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House GOP has run out of options as 'wacko birds' take over: Ex-Republican insider
Raw Story ^ | 10/25/23 | Matthew Chapman

Posted on 10/26/2023 3:12:26 AM PDT by cotton1706

In retrospect, wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller for The Bulwark, it was inevitable that Republicans would go down this path.

"For about a decade and a half now the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters — the erstwhile renegades the late John McCain dubbed 'wacko birds,'" wrote Miller. "That group has grown from only a handful of troublemakers to a significant bloc of Congress that’s bolstered by an additional group of 'closet normals' who dress in wacko bird costumes for the retweets."

"Among the many lowlights of this long-running spectacle of appeasement: engaging in wildly irresponsible brinkmanship, granting plum committee assignments to kooks, submitting to power-sharing arrangements and hosting struggle sessions with the House Freedom Caucus, launching sham impeachment inquiries, holding umpty-nine explicitly political hearings over a deadly embassy attack, flying down to an extremely dated South Florida resort to take degrading pictures with a wannabe authoritarian, defending a drag queen fabulist in their ranks, and, most egregiously, agreeing to be complicit in an attempt to overthrow our democracy to soothe the bruised ego of the man-baby-in-chief," Miller continued.

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"So long as the Republican leaders kept giving inch after inch after inch on the Fox outrage du jour, they could avoid an intraparty coup and retain power — until some glorious day in the future when sanity would return and their torment at the hands of these nutjobs would be over," Miller wrote. "Eventually you run out of road."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; fakenews; hobbits; johnmccain; mcstain; rawstory; thebulwark; timmiller; wackobirds
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To: silent majority rising

Jeb Bush campaign leader?


61 posted on 10/26/2023 5:16:05 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: cotton1706

You may have found one of the keystone infiltrators.
This guy has been fighting GOP voters for over 20 years.


62 posted on 10/26/2023 5:16:59 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: lurk

“Who is the drag queen he mentions?”

He linked to a story on Santos.


63 posted on 10/26/2023 5:17:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Godebert

That Miller was gay is no surprise.
The Gay Mafia only cares about one thing and will do anything to promote their lifestyle.


64 posted on 10/26/2023 5:24:19 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: cotton1706

65 posted on 10/26/2023 5:28:31 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: cotton1706

Mark Levin’s squeaky, whiny, irritating voice is somewhere between Ted Cruz, Bugs bunny, and Mr. Bill. Can’t listen to it for long but he ranges from brilliant to psycho.

Never could figure out how he got into radio. Bongino has a voice for late night smooth jazz, though.


66 posted on 10/26/2023 5:30:19 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: cotton1706

Just what is an “ex-Republican”? Can we say democrat?


67 posted on 10/26/2023 5:32:50 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: cotton1706

The GOP should fire every single one of the “consultants” they all turn out to be Alt Left Democrats in disguise


68 posted on 10/26/2023 5:43:56 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: cotton1706

Isn’t that what McCain called Tea Partiers?


69 posted on 10/26/2023 5:49:47 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: cotton1706

Hey Tim, Cope!


70 posted on 10/26/2023 5:52:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Republicans - We Suck Less.

Yeah, that’ll really fire up the base....NOT!


71 posted on 10/26/2023 5:53:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cotton1706

‘wacko birds,’...fits the writer to a tee.


72 posted on 10/26/2023 5:53:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: sauropod

Schmidt voted for Obama over his own candidate.


73 posted on 10/26/2023 5:54:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cotton1706
And it’s not like he didn’t telegraph what would happen if leadership didn’t do certain things. But they laughed him off since they counted on the Democrats bailing them out. But the Democrat s weren’t interested in helping, so McCarthy was deposed, due to his own insidious machinations.

Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They'd all been warned
And the walls came down
They stood there laughing
They're not laughing anymore
The walls came down

-The Call

74 posted on 10/26/2023 5:56:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bray

“Isn’t that what McCain called Tea Partiers?”

Yes. And Tim Miller worked for the McCain campaign. So they’re of the same ideological mindset.

Halting illegal immigration is wacko.

Repealing Obamacare is wacko.

Overturning Roe vs Wade is wacko

Spending less than you take in, and paying down debt is wacko

Not brining in angry, murderous muslim refugees is wacko

Staying out of foreign entanglements is wacko

Manufacturing goods in America is wacko

Drilling for oil in America rather than importing it is wacko

And on, and on.


75 posted on 10/26/2023 6:03:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
I'd say Miller is representative of the GOP variety of confused creature that believes power resides in the middle. Rockefeller, the Bush clan, McCain, Romney etc. bring to mind lost prospectors wandering around a political wasteland searching for a lost, middle road to power.

That road is no longer viable; it is submerged under a flood of socialist poison being pumped into American civics by Rats and Rinos. America is choosing sides in a fight for a return to reality in our governance.

76 posted on 10/26/2023 6:04:08 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: bray
Isn’t that what McCain called Tea Partiers?

Isn't McCain gone?

77 posted on 10/26/2023 6:04:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Apparently not.


78 posted on 10/26/2023 6:07:55 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: cotton1706

Why hasn’t anyone properly thanked Nancy Pelosi and the democrats for pursuing McCarthy?


79 posted on 10/26/2023 6:14:56 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: cotton1706

This “Raw Story” site is a bunch of gasbags on a fish wrap liberal site.


80 posted on 10/26/2023 6:31:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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