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The Seinfeld Republican Party
If you were counting on the Republican Party to retake the House next year (overcoming extreme and unapologetic gerrymandering by Democrats in every Democrat-controlled state and phony “nonpartisan” redistricting commissions stacked with Democrat operatives) and retake the Senate despite competitive seats in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Arizona being decided by the same junk-mail ballot processes as 2020) and maybe you were counting on that GOP Congress to turn things around after President Brandon’s first two spectacularly dreadful years… Well, don’t.
Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won’t release a legislative agenda before next year’s midterms, according to people who’ve attended private meetings with the minority leader.
They aren’t going to secure the borders. They aren’t going to repeal and replace Obamacare. And they most definitely are not going to control spending or repeal any of Biden’s spending. McConnell says his strategy is for Senate Republicans to promise nothing, and let the House Republicans do the heavy work of setting the agenda. We saw how this worked out under Obama. The Republican Senate only passed House legislation when they knew Obama would veto it. Such will likely by the fate of the “Parents Bill of Rights” House Republicans are touting. Meanwhile, they cut budget deals that gave Obama everything he asked for and more.
Like Seinfeld, the Republicans are a party about nothing. Republicans have finally wised up that the only way to avoid accountability for breaking promises and betraying voters is to not make any promises in the first place.
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I don’t believe that McConnell wants the majority. It is more personally enriching to be the minority leader (the majority leader has to buy votes from the minority). Looking at his career, I think Mitch’s #1 priority is enriching Mitch McConnell. Change my mind.
Off the top of my head, I would say the interning of Japanese-Americans in World War II and the Trail of Tears were far more outrageous. Also, running guns to Mexican Drug Cartels (Obama) resulting in over 300 deaths was pretty bad; although some would say not as bad as alleging that states like Pennsylvania and Michigan unconstitutionally changed their voting laws before a presidential election.
Only if someone can show me the actual plan to overthrow the Government.
They should have received the same punishment as the left-wing protesters who interrupted the Kavanaugh hearings. $50 fine (suspended) and no jail time.
Seems kind of undemocratic; you know, like you’re trying to overturn the results of several legitimate elections.
In essence, your proposition is “I will criticize Biden one time for one thing and in return you will denounce Trump and everything he did and anyone who supported him forever and only vote for candidates that meet with my approval from now on.”
And, gee, why do you need a quid pro quo for criticizing Biden?
Maybe. Gosh, what’s to vote for with no agenda? This smacks of Pelosi’s “pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
If they want a bailout from the rank and file, they should ask for it. Otherwise, it’s just banking on how bad things get to redound to their benefit. If they want to run on accelerationism, they should say so.
They crapped on the Tea Party after 2010 (McConnell personally among others, by the way). These guys. These friggin guys.
Exactly. I hope the voting public have a longer memory than the GOPe gives them credit for.
Or attempting to issue vaccine mandates from the Federal Gubmint.
I am open to hearing a reasonable argument about why voting for the Republican Party in its current form would even matter.
The original point of the post involved the lack of goals of the Republican Party in light of redistricting. I commented on redistricting. Bryan jumped in and tried to cancel me, taking this post off of the rails. I resisted. I am not willing to be cancelled.
FWIW, I thought Trump’s beef with NATO members — looking at you Germany — not paying the cost of their own defense was a legit beef.
Let us see how quickly they fold:
Every president has had that beef for the last 40 years
Bryan’s critique of you is absolutely related, and no one is trying to cancel you. He suggested you agree not to address each other. You have zero credibility on both issues. Among other issues.
@garyrobbins, your perennial Reagan support combined with voting for Biden makes sense to you, and I understand that. But it doesn’t make sense to most other people, and you should understand that as well. It’s your issue, not ours. I wish you well, but I’m not a fan of your copy-and-paste diatribes.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Mitch leaves a vacuum for President Trump to fill. MAGA! Go Trump!
The Trump Train has no brakes.
ALL ABOARD!
Thank you for your gracious comment.
Trump is the first Republican President to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in his first term within his first term since Herbert Hoover.
As with most of the crap you write, it is factually untrue. How do you keep from being disbarred?
Performance art?
There is a time and a place for grace, Gary. You reached the credit limit several years ago. Besides, nothing you quoted me saying is ungraceful. Direct does not equal ungraceful.
So disingenuous. Nixon and Ford didn’t have either the house or senate to lose – otherwise they surely would have. Nixon resigned before he was going to be impeached and Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. Yes, Reagan was great, but Bush 1 and Bush 2 set about dismantling what was great about Reagan, kind of (sometimes) going along with Newt and his historic gains, and at the same time building the establishment status quo most of us dislike.
Yeah, I was thinking that the Democrats held Congress for several decades starting in the 1930’s, so there was no Congress for a Republican to lose.
And the first to be deposed in a coup. So you got that going for you.
So I am accurate, but you don’t like what I said?
The Dems held the House from 1954 to 1994, and for all but a couple of years since we lost it under Herbert Hoover in 1932. Do we want to lose the House for all but a couple terms for 62 years, the time period of 1932 to 1994. My point is that Trump is toxic to the Republican Party, he has pushed away women, the college educated and the suburbs. Try winning without women, the college educated and the suburbs.
No, he is saying it does not carry the meaning you imply it does. It is a clear trick of rhetoric.
And opposing council has pointed that out to the jury.
You voted for Joe Biden Proudly.
You donated more to Democrats than Republicans in the last decade.
There is no reason to listen to you. You energy and treasure and advice has been to support Democrats for the past half decade.
True, given the alternative.
Not true. I gave twice as much to Republicans than Democrats in the last decade. And this cycle, the large majority has been to Republicans.
Then don’t engage.
Actually, my energy has been to support NeverTrump (NT) Republicans and NeverAgainTrump (NAT) Republicans since 2016. Before 2016, I was straight down the line Republican with very few exceptions. To quote a counselor friend of mine, you are letting me live “rent-free” in your head.
That’s a miserable dodge. Own it if you wish to.
Heh, like I said: disingenuous. Has nothing to do with whether I like or don’t like what you said.
Gary: He pushed that lady to the ground violently!
Me: Yeah, he was pushing her out of the way of an oncoming bus.
Gary: So I am accurate but, you don’t like what I said?
This is all so silly. You’re so silly. My mistake for engaging, but sometimes the marker needs to be laid down so your crap doesn’t just stand as if it weren’t crap.