The wrong people are retiring from Congress

Roll Call ^ | 2/12/24 | Stuart Rothenberg

[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.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the mention. I hadn’t heard those things before,
but it isn’t all that surprising.

One might think of ways their comments might play into the
scene we’re seeing unfold today, one way or another.

[SharpRightTurn]

Rothenberg’s take. Any far lefties you’re worried about, Stu?

[Political Junkie Too]

The House now has a long list of extreme ideologues...

Would it help if we came up with a cute nickname for it, say, something like "The Squad?"

-PJ

[Col Freeper]

Roll Call - [Stuart Rothenberg]

[Olog-hai]

Their rhetoric is not too much different from what we hear from our own Uniparty, frankly.

[wildcard_redneck]

I am personally disgusted by the chummy relationship of the Senate club. 100 useless a-holes robbing us blind while shouting “Bipartisan” has no appeal for me. In a better world these 100 jerks would be forced to fight in cage matches against one another.

[DoughtyOne]

There’s so many charges being tossed around by them, that I’d
have to agree.

[Dagnabitt]

“trans rights” =

Child mutilation
Men in women’s sports/spaces

[LS]

Thanks for posting this. It confirms I am right that all the RINOs, and none of the MAGA (save Debbie Lesko) are leaving!

[wjcsux]

“The Roy Blunts of the world are being replaced by the Josh Hawleys. “

Watching Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley tag teaming Mayorkas is a must watch for everyone.

[ought-six]

Absolutely.

[cowboyusa]

😀

[Pollard]

The Roy Blunts of the world are being replaced by the Josh Hawleys.

I would say that was good news if it were true, but Hawley replaced a rabid female dem, McCaskill, which is even better.

MO AG Eric Schmitt replaced Blunt which seems much better for now but we'll see how it goes in the long term. Oh wait, they shouldn't have long terms.

[Thapsus_epiphany]

Being pro life and against homosexuality are not ‘extremist views’.
They were and are perfectly normal views, supported by 2,000 years of Christian teaching and 5,000 years of Hebrew or Jewish teaching.
These were the views of the overwhelming majority of Americans until the very recent and foreign views of the radical left began influencing opinions going back to the hippies of the 1960s.
There’s.nothing ‘extreme’ about taking care of Americans first, and limiting America’s involvement in foreign affairs. So said George Washington in his farewell address to Congress, and this was America’s official policy until our first left wing democrat president, Woodrow Wilson, in 1913.
BTW, Wilson gave America its first permanent income tax, authorized the creation of the Federal Reserve, and signed the 17th Amendment that changed how US Senators are elected.
The purpose of the Federal Reserve was to protect the value of the US dollar. The dollar from 1913 is now worth less than one penny. Good job, huh?
And allowing for popular election of senators instead of being chosen by state legislatures is the very cause of the massive corruption in Washington today.
Also, Wilson dragged America into World War One to “make the world safe for democracy”, ignoring the fact that America is and was a republic, not a democracy, thus ending our official policy of neutrality, which kept America out of foreign wars, and pursued peaceful and prosperous policies.
The political left is losing their stranglehold on public opinion makers like the media, and to their horror, they are discovering that the real America is still here, ready to resume participating in American life, almost as if the hippie movement never existed.
Thanks be to God.

[jmaroneps37]

Get lost Stuie.