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Originally Posted by August
The last time a republican speaker reached across the aisle the democrats repaid the effort by joining the MAGA faction in voting him out.
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That Republican speaker managed to pass a CR with the help of the Dems, and then immediately went on all the Sunday morning talk shows and said “The democrats wanted to shut the government down.”
He lied about this over and over, using the so-called Fake News MSM to broadcast that particular message.
Dem votes are what passed that CR. McCarthy and most of the Repubs are the living embodiment of the oft-circulated meme where a dude is riding a bike, thrusts a stick into the spoke of the front wheel, crashes, and then wails “why did the democrats do this?!”
Their new speaker isn’t going to last for long either. Once again, it will be one of the freedom caucus or perhaps MTG (who got kicked out of the freedom caucus because she was too crazy and annoying even for them) who calls for the motion to vacate.
This guy too will have to count on Dems to save his ass. Maybe they will, probably they won’t, but either way the Repubs are going to once again be the living embodiment of that meme.
The Republicans have the majority in the House but all they’ve shown is that they are so splintered and riddled with lunatics that they are completely incapable of governing at all.
This is now their identity, and it goes hand in hand with what I said before, that they have no choice but to go all-in on abortion and supporting Trump.
It’s a car with no brakes that has been pushed down from the top of a long hill. It is most definitely going to crash, the only question is how spectacular the crash will be, and it’s the Republican Party itself that cut the brake lines.
There is no escape, for them. It may well be the case that none of us will live long enough to see the day when there is an out, an escape. And they created this situation entirely by themselves.