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Spine Sighting in Washington
Dee Cee, that is. A group of 13 Republican Representatives has put the Republican arm of the Democrat Party on notice (You had me at ‘kill’):
In their Monday letter, the 13 House conservatives vowed to “oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for this bill—including the Republican leader.”
“We will oppose any rule, any consent request, suspension voice vote, or roll call vote of any such Senate bill, and will otherwise do everything in our power to thwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts of those senators,” they added.
With the narrow margin in the House—expected to be 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the 118th Congress—just a handful of conservatives could stymie a senator’s priorities.
Specifically, this is the crunchy part of the House GOP telling the Senate that if they cave on the omnibus bill to disenfranchise the GOP in the next session, those Senators doing the Democrats’ bidding may expect targeted opposition from the House.
Tweet of story from Rep. Chip Roy (R – TX):
"Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party"
via @RobertBluey @DailySignal https://t.co/HzPpcSokGx
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 20, 2022
I haven’t pored over details on this — I’ve only skimmed the article. I confess that Roy’s “Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party” is what got me to click. Worth it! You could say that this post is ripe for development. What I do know is that I am happy to hear this.
Published in General
Nice words.
I won’t hold my breath waiting to see if their actions follow.
Rand Paul is trying to do his part in the Senate. I love his description, “emasculated”. It is spot on. Things will never change. It is too lucrative for them. Maybe I can at least count on one of my senators next year to be worth something, Ted Budd. Burr and Tillis have been in lock step with McConnell from the start. They are a far cry from Jesse Helms.
While I share the sentiment, it’s quite reasonable to expect that a sliver of ‘our’ representation will actually represent us.
This is how you do it! Roy is saying that the whole damned Republican edifice doesn’t have to wait for supermajorities and a home-grown Pope just to get some conservative work done.
If they try and fail, I will be much more forgiving than those who never try “because it’s not going to work”. There is value in just getting votes on the record, immense value. Yuuuge value! It is important to establish facts on the ground that may need to be picked up by the next vote, the next session, or the next generation in order to generate wins at some point.
And you never know — they just might do it!
I’m so sick of Republicans caving to anything the Dems want. Good for Chip Roy! And Rand Paul!
Cue the Turtle 🐢 to get right on the Red Phone to the intelligence community to find actionable material to wrench these deplorable’s .
As Rand Paul said they have more than the 41 to stop it. They can only get 4 out of the 41 because the GOP isn’t a real party.
Jesse Helms . . . one of my favorite Senators . . .
You had me at crunchy part of the party.
This
Hence the term “cuckservatives”. Truly an appropriate term for that wing of the R party.
Courtesy of The Daily Signal, some provisions in the omnibus bill
GOP is dissolving before our eyes: GOP’s John Cornyn shreds Republican Kevin McCarthy after his threat against Senate legislation (msn.com)
EDIT: McConnell Ignores Threat, Breaks With McCarthy By Praising Spending Bill: Senate Republicans Achieved ‘Essentially All Our Priorities’ (msn.com)
I think the new House Republicans should open investigations into Congressman and Senators with financial ties to China, with Turkey Face McConnell at the top of the list, followed by Mittens Romney and Pelosi. That might change some priorities in a damn hurry.
The Uniparty is a real thing. And it hates Americans.
Turns out a narrow house win, is much harder to govern than a giant house win. Maybe the two moronics Ms might have thought about that before sabotaging their own party during the last election.
I guess they just thought that their radicals would cave to bribery like the Democrats did.
Which explains why The Turtle can speak of “our priorities”. He is not talking about the priorities of the base.
Exactly. He’s talking about the priorities of the Uniparty.
We’re not voting our way out of this.
This is what my cat has to say.
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I tend to agree.
Sounds like he’s saying that the House won’t be able to do anything because they don’t have a whoppermajority.
Wasn’t this turkey big on the Supercommittee? His girlfriend Jon Kyl was:
https://haakondahl.com/blog/?p=2310
Your cat for Senior Senator from Kentucky.
$750,000 for the “TransLatin@ Coalition” to provide “workforce development programs and supportive services for Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles.”
Even in L. A., how many are there?
Not enough! We must make more!