Posted on 02/27/2024 4:42:57 AM PST by cotton1706
Edited on 02/27/2024 1:22:52 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
House Republicans are facing a growing exodus of experienced and talented members that adds up to an alarming political maturity drain. A growing number of their well-respected members are fleeing Congress as the conference pulls further to the right, and the departures are starting to spark worries about a further erosion of GOP lawmakers' appetite for the basic tasks of governing. After a brutal year of their party's shaky stewardship of the House, 21 House GOP lawmakers have already announced their plans to retire at year's end — including five committee chairs. Many of the departing members share a common trait: They’re part of a loose coalition of governing-minded Republicans who are still willing to generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and even defy former President Donald Trump at times. And while some Republicans have cited personal or health reasons for leaving office, others in the group are blunt as they lament their party’s inflated expectations for what’s achievable when the GOP controls just one half of one branch of the government.
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I think you have it backwards. Obama did everything to insure a nuclear powered Iran. Degrading American power and building up America's enemies were obvious Obama (and now Biden's) policies.
Agreed. To the RINOs, isolationism = anti-globalist. They cannot see an America where American citizens govern. Can’t even comprehend why We’d want that. (We The People)
“governing-minded Republicans who are still willing to generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and even defy former President Donald Trump”
Pollutico shows how it sees the situation from its extreme far-left perch.
Glad to see you pick a side, too bad its not Amerian
“House Republicans are facing a growing exodus of experienced and talented members..”
If the media is wringing their hands over this — which they are — instead of gloating about how all these GOP retirements are golden opportunities (a la 2018) for Democrats — which they are NOT — it serves as further proof that these retirements will shift the balance of power in the House not one iota.
If anything, when Democrat retirements are factored in (something the media never mentions) the balance actually FAVORS the GOP picking up a few seats.
That’s not to say they won’t lose House control after November because there’s a high probability that they will lose it. But if that happens it will be because heavily-funded Democrat challengers (+ Democrat vote fraud, + Democrat gerrymandering in places like New York, Wisconsin, Alabama, Louisiana, etc.) will oust enough Republican incumbents who ARE running for re-election in marginal districts.
If Politico is upset and sounding alarm bells about something, that means I am very happy about it.
The simple truth is that all of these Republicans that are leaving or part of the problem. They are why everybody thinks that there is a unit party. What’s the point of having Republicans if they’re just going to act like, and vote with, Democrats? For all of the time that the Republican party has controlled the House of Representatives in this century, we have had exploding deficits. Of course, it is worse when the Democrats control everything, but the point is that the Republicans have done nothing to stand in the way, and these people who are leaving are a very big part of that problem. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
“... Many of the departing members share a common trait: They’re part of a loose coalition of governing-minded Republicans who are still willing to generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and even defy former President Donald Trump at times. ...”
Many of the departing members share a common trait: They generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and defy former President Donald Trump.
There FIXED IT.
RINO’s retiring just means we don’t have to spend to primary them! If politico says nad then we know it’s good. Go away RINO’s.
$MAGA
Oh NO!!! The backstabbing milquetoast weenie RINO wing of the party is heading for the exits. Whatever shall we do????
“Corporations don’t “pay” any taxes. Their shareholders, employees, and customers pay what are labled as “corporate” taxes.”
Better them than me.
If I spend $2000 a year with corporations whatever more I would pay ($200?) would be less than what I pay in property tax.
The current Republican Party is doomed to sputter and fail. Maybe there’s a last gasp before the crash, but it won’t survive two election cycles at this rate.
There are now two party factions: pre-Trump GOP and post-Trump GOP. The former is often called RINO but in fact it WAS very much the Republican Party up till 2016, going back to Eisenhower: pro-business, pro-military and military alliance, pro-trade agreements and low or no tariffs. I’d call that the Traditional Republican faction and it still has a sizable footprint in Congress. Its outlook on social issues is conservative, but that has never been a primary concern.
The post-Trump wing has a vastly more populist bent: anti-interventionism, anti-free trade, nationalistic, and very focused on social issues.
Advocates of Trump-ism can shun the traditional wing as much as they want but it hasn’t shrunk into political insignificance. It is represented by a majority of Senate Republicans and a substantial minority (a quarter or a third) of Congressional Republicans.
The turmoil in House leadership laid bare the divisions and they have not miraculously disappeared since Johnson’s elevation. The only accomplishment of his bare majority was to forward a symbolic impeachment which in short order will fail in the Senate.
In the immediate future he will try to straddle the great divide in his caucus over Ukraine and over a shutdown.
Any compromise will merely postpone the detonation of his House majority and my guess is that detonation will take place sooner than later.
It’s been over a century and a half that the Republican Party emerged primarily from the scattered remains of the Whig Party. I think we’re headed for another realignment.
Maybe I’ll comment sometime ...
... once I stop laughing about “Olivia Beavers” ...
Your first clue is that it is Politico.
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