Beautiful loser.
Posted on 02/08/2024 4:27:06 AM PST by george76
Congressional Republicans are history’s most powerful court jesters. More concerned with earning momentary praise and social access from the people who hate them and their voters, they routinely refuse to deliver results for their constituents or capitalize on potential political wins.
Just look at House Republicans’ failed attempt at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas due to three members siding with Democrats. Republicans walked away from doing something their voters desperately wanted done and fumbled what should have been an incredibly easy political win.
Much like the party’s refusal to take meaningful action in protecting the unborn, Republicans don’t want to impeach anybody. They want to puff their chest, grift donations, then capitulate at the last second so it looks like they fought a real fight.
When was the last time the GOP actually used the power given to it by voters to meaningfully advance a conservative agenda? The party’s only purpose is to marginally slow down the left as it completely conquers and remakes the nation.
But when it comes to needlessly expelling and endlessly denouncing their former colleague George Santos, Republicans clamored over each other to be the first in line to sabotage their already razor-thin margins.
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“The GOP, in a nutshell, can’t govern,” Santos said while speaking to The Federalist about Republicans’ failed attempt at impeaching Mayorkas, “It doesn’t know how to.”
“The majority of Republicans live in abject horror trying to appease Democrats … they want to be accepted,” he said.
Defective Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, and California’s Tom McClintock, each expressing concerns over Republicans’ use of impeachment for political purposes, evidently find greater value in clinging to the notion that the preservation of norms and procedures that have already been done away with will be rewarded.
Immigration is one of the public’s greatest concerns heading into the 2024 election. Given the ongoing invasion of violent multinational, fighting-aged males with no regard for the law; the elaborate non-profit patronage network that ships illegals across the country; and government sponsorship of migrants’ lifestyles while Americans continue to get squeezed by inflation, it makes a lot of sense.
But when an opportunity arrives to take a scalp and show voters they’re serious about addressing the border crisis, Republicans refuse to do so and allow Democrats to reclaim full control of the narrative.
By sabotaging their own efforts to impeach Mayorkas, Republicans will be forced to take further ownership of the border crisis. Impeaching Mayorkas would show voters they were serious about addressing the lawlessness at the southern border. But because they refused to impeach, the left has another cudgel to use against them when this should have been a unifying moment to hold the left to account.
The institutional bulwarks that caused these lawmakers to clutch their pearls haven’t mattered in years. If anything, their fecklessness likely ensures the further erosion of norms as people have yet another reason to doubt Republican competency and put Democrats back in control of Congress. But when was the last time Democrats — members of the party that actually does stuff — let the apparatuses of moderation get in the way of forcing their will?
“Democrats have already spun the issue. [Republicans] now own the migrant crisis,” Santos said, jesting that he “would have voted twice to impeach” if he could.
Unless the nature of Mayorkas’ impeachment articles somehow changes, thus mitigating the concerns of these members, or they’re somehow otherwise convinced to support the cause, it doesn’t matter that a second vote might occur next week. Even if Majority Leader Steve Scalise is present for a second vote, the numbers simply aren’t there. Republicans need more yeas than nays; a tie results in failure.
Had Republicans not expelled Santos, they would be able to overcome this issue, but they prioritized temporary accolades over meaningful results.
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Impeachment vote on Mayorkas will be brought back to the floor next week. Moore voted no so that it could be reconsidered next week. It’s a procedural maneuver so it’ll pass next week
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“Republicans are all talk,” Santos said, “The problem is that 70 percent of [Congress] is more focused on what dinner with what lobbyist they’re having than governing.” And he is absolutely correct.
The median Republican member is happy simply to dine with lobbyists and get a mention in the legacy press. They aren’t using the institutional and political mechanisms at their disposal to coerce behavior, effect change, or humble their enemies. They prioritize the former, assuming the latter will revoke their status as one of the swamp’s special people.
Just like abortion, health care, and spending, Republicans don’t want to actually deal with the border. They want to grandstand and fundraise off it and remain losers beautiful only to themselves.
If the GOP actually accomplishes what they’re supposed to do, then they’d have nothing to fund-raise off of.
The Republican Party has been a scam since Reagan left office. They are disgusting and weak.
Most are compromised. Just imagine little black books being opened to the public like Epstein’s log dick Durban is refusing to make public, the foreign aid scams like the ukraine that launder money into thier private accounts and make them millionaires like the rats, climate change scam, inside trading. The corruption is enormous
Beautiful loser.
There is so much heartbreaking about this article: that it focuses on scoring political points over doing the right thing for its own sake; that it uses as proof the opinions of a man who blatantly lies in order to get elected, then didn’t ask for any sort of forgiveness when he was found out: that getting down into the slop with the godless (and I use the term intentionally) progressive is the only way to win. Have we come to this?
I look at most anti trumpers on the Republican side as I look upon that guy who changes depending on who is in the room. He knows deep down Trump is right, but he knows either Trump reveals his/her shortcomings, or just rather not be associated with strong people in a fight because thats too difficult...
There is only one man who is normal in this political era. If he loses, America will not be normal... Or IOWs... America is at least trying to get back to normal...
Santos and Madison Cawthorn laid the DC depravity and grift wide open for everyone to see. Both were ousted by the party. Thankfully Cawthorn was replaced by Chuck Edwards. Santos’s seat is up for grabs in a D+1 district.
The author nailed it. The GOPe is playing by rules that no longer exist.
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The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The ONLY reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
Congress is Deep State.
I really wish we had an alternative.
Independent and third party candidates rarely get out of single digits.
Perhaps “None of the above” should be on every general election ballot.
I know it makes for eye catching click bate but if the Republicans were really content to lose the Occupy White House gang would have cancelled November’s election already because “All comrades are pleased with their lives and we don’t want to waist time and money on an unnecessary election.”
Go way.
I saw a short snippet of Lindsay Graham respond to a reporter’s question; he said Republicans have to show they can govern.
He just can’t be that stupid. The Republicans killed a montrosity of a bill, an act of governing, and Graham was downcast and rode to the democrats defense.
What about the Democrats failed attempts to impeach Trump? Such beautiful losers.
A very on-point article. They should have kept Santos and gotten rid of Mayorkas. Republican politicians are largely cowards and losers.
If it takes Santos to point out the ELEPHANT in the Living Room, I’d say the Republicans need to get their Shiite together.
There is a whole lot of truth packed into the first sentence.
It is exactly why the GOP voters are disgusted with the party. They just do not represent their constituents and they do not deliver any wins to make it worth voting for them. The RINOs and the neocons have to go. People have moved on from them and it is the GOPe that has squandered so many chances to deliver what the voters want.
Mitch needs to be hammered to get out and the people that value camaraderie with the enemy instead of fighting them need to go with him.
None of us give a damn about the ridiculous bi-partisanship nonsense because we know it always means some stupid or compromised person has sold us down the river to the commies.
No wonder people want a third party of fighters for the country.
THIS is why we need to SCRAP,JUNK,ABANDON WHATEVER IT TAKES TO STOP THIS SCAM! The Republican Party will NEVER DELIVER FOR MAGA. So MAGA NEEDS TO DEVORCE THE GOP.
Then they have the gall to try & blame it on Trump.. Like Regan, Trump has been a breath of fresh air from the stale odor of the GOPe, who liked neither of those leaders that we the people actually liked.
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