“Falling apart” implies there was a point where their majority was cohesive.
They don’t have a majority once you section them out into The Hatfields, The McCoys, and The Batshits
And trump is going to hoover all the campaign cash for himself.
Thoughts and Prayers
It never really fell together…
GOP house majority is like the dog that caught the car. They don’t know what to do with it other than piss on the tires.
Elect Democrats!!!
All these retiring republicans should switch to Independent and tip the balance of Congress democratic for a brief time so Hakeem Jeffries can bring the Ukraine/Israel aid package to the floor for a vote.
America just need 5 or so “brave” retiring Republicans to vote out the Speaker and vote for the Democratic speaker. They can then pass the Border bills and funding bills for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, and be key gate keepers to any legislations the rest of the year. They could get so many concessions.
This is the story about how a small majority in the house tried to enact their will on the entire country. The rest of the country did not appreciate extreme RW views and booted them out of the majority in the next election.
I worry that, since most seats are ‘safe”, we will simply get more Gaetz/Bobo types to replace them
I don’t know about y’all but I’m enjoying watching the slow-motion train wreck that is the collapse of the GOP.
The retirement of establishment Republicans is a harbinger of things to come for the House. More loudmouthed empty headed populists, more dysfunction, more rank stupidity – scary stuff. Lets hope voters get tired of the poisonous mix of fanaticism and ineptitude and hand the House majority back to the Dems
Telling my Gen Z coworkers that there used to be moderate Republicans (and I preface this as my opinion), and the first tears in the fabric (after some normality following McCarthyism) were the Nixon administration repositioning themselves during the time of Reagan’s administration, and eventually we had the Newt Gingrich class of Republicans which later really co-opted American symbolism post 9/11. Then after Obama came the hate Republicans.
Democrats had some rifts. Jimmy Carter was the nicest. Al Gore was the most head-in-the-clouds. Obama said “Yes, we can!” Clinton said “I did not.” Moderates that were cool with guns and not cool with videogames and stood on both sides on the invasion of Iraq. Republicans have to form a body now, seemingly. Democrats get along, but not amicably.
And then there is Bernie.
Moses is doing a shit job of leading the GoOPers to the promised land.
Republicans are like the opposite of Midas. Everything they touch turns to shite.
The majority? Try the Party itself! However 2024 ends, the Grand Old Party goes with it.
They all proved they weren’t actually serious
They have no wish to govern for everyone.
That’s what I’m hoping for in November! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
If these 18 republicans simply caucused together — offering their votes to whichever party brought forward the best bipartisan bills — they would control actual legislative progress in congress.
Democrats could protect the small caucus group, because together they could get things done
When you all you do is spend 2 years coming up with a bunch of committees aimed at doing nothing more than roasting democrats or democratic interests so you can have TV time on Fox News instead of coming up with ideas that might help your constituents, what do you expect?
Shocking to realise that entrenched racism, desperate subservience to the world’s stupidest wannabe-autocrat, a singular inability to govern, and a deep-seated mistrust and loathing of one another could have had such a detrimental effect on the “Republican” majority.
I never thought I’d see the say when Bush-era Republicans were seen as the moderate sane ones.
Is this another piece of evidence that the Republican party is really two separate parties trying their best to masquerade as one? Or is it a party that is unified under the idea of being batshit with 5 other people just tagging along
As a party, they need to be completely annihilated to have a chance at a rebirth.
Oh, let me see if I have a tear for the people who tried to turn our homeland into a dictatorship, no I don’t have a single tear for these traitors.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Trump loses and destroyes the Republican party then Democrats get a super majority for decades and actually pass legislation that helps benefit the people. He could make America great again
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“Falling apart” implies there was a point where their majority was cohesive.
They don’t have a majority once you section them out into The Hatfields, The McCoys, and The Batshits
And trump is going to hoover all the campaign cash for himself.
Thoughts and Prayers
It never really fell together…
GOP house majority is like the dog that caught the car. They don’t know what to do with it other than piss on the tires.
Elect Democrats!!!
All these retiring republicans should switch to Independent and tip the balance of Congress democratic for a brief time so Hakeem Jeffries can bring the Ukraine/Israel aid package to the floor for a vote.
America just need 5 or so “brave” retiring Republicans to vote out the Speaker and vote for the Democratic speaker. They can then pass the Border bills and funding bills for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, and be key gate keepers to any legislations the rest of the year. They could get so many concessions.
This is the story about how a small majority in the house tried to enact their will on the entire country. The rest of the country did not appreciate extreme RW views and booted them out of the majority in the next election.
I worry that, since most seats are ‘safe”, we will simply get more Gaetz/Bobo types to replace them
I don’t know about y’all but I’m enjoying watching the slow-motion train wreck that is the collapse of the GOP.
The retirement of establishment Republicans is a harbinger of things to come for the House. More loudmouthed empty headed populists, more dysfunction, more rank stupidity – scary stuff. Lets hope voters get tired of the poisonous mix of fanaticism and ineptitude and hand the House majority back to the Dems
Telling my Gen Z coworkers that there used to be moderate Republicans (and I preface this as my opinion), and the first tears in the fabric (after some normality following McCarthyism) were the Nixon administration repositioning themselves during the time of Reagan’s administration, and eventually we had the Newt Gingrich class of Republicans which later really co-opted American symbolism post 9/11. Then after Obama came the hate Republicans.
Democrats had some rifts. Jimmy Carter was the nicest. Al Gore was the most head-in-the-clouds. Obama said “Yes, we can!” Clinton said “I did not.” Moderates that were cool with guns and not cool with videogames and stood on both sides on the invasion of Iraq. Republicans have to form a body now, seemingly. Democrats get along, but not amicably.
And then there is Bernie.
Moses is doing a shit job of leading the GoOPers to the promised land.
Republicans are like the opposite of Midas. Everything they touch turns to shite.
The majority? Try the Party itself! However 2024 ends, the Grand Old Party goes with it.
They all proved they weren’t actually serious
They have no wish to govern for everyone.
That’s what I’m hoping for in November! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
If these 18 republicans simply caucused together — offering their votes to whichever party brought forward the best bipartisan bills — they would control actual legislative progress in congress.
Democrats could protect the small caucus group, because together they could get things done
When you all you do is spend 2 years coming up with a bunch of committees aimed at doing nothing more than roasting democrats or democratic interests so you can have TV time on Fox News instead of coming up with ideas that might help your constituents, what do you expect?
Shocking to realise that entrenched racism, desperate subservience to the world’s stupidest wannabe-autocrat, a singular inability to govern, and a deep-seated mistrust and loathing of one another could have had such a detrimental effect on the “Republican” majority.
I never thought I’d see the say when Bush-era Republicans were seen as the moderate sane ones.
Is this another piece of evidence that the Republican party is really two separate parties trying their best to masquerade as one? Or is it a party that is unified under the idea of being batshit with 5 other people just tagging along
As a party, they need to be completely annihilated to have a chance at a rebirth.
Oh, let me see if I have a tear for the people who tried to turn our homeland into a dictatorship, no I don’t have a single tear for these traitors.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Trump loses and destroyes the Republican party then Democrats get a super majority for decades and actually pass legislation that helps benefit the people. He could make America great again