Kevin McCarthy"s Republican Plan

[Chip]

By launching a bunch of hostile, frivolous investigations of their enemies, the right-wing nutjobs are making a serious tactical error. Far from having any sort of mandate for such conduct, they come off the midterm elections severely weakened by voter disapproval. For instance, Lauren Boebert won Colorado's heavily Republican 3rd district by only 546 votes.

If, predictably, the members of the Treason Caucus trump up Benghazi-style shitshows, they will suffer in the coming election cycle. The bright side is that perhaps in the process, they will help destroy the Republican party's chance of winning a national election ever again.

[dneal]

Bedtime stories people tell themselves… sheesh.

[TSherbs]

By launching a bunch of hostile, frivolous investigations of their enemies, the right-wing nutjobs are making a serious tactical error. Far from having any sort of mandate for such conduct, they come off the midterm elections severely weakened by voter disapproval. For instance, Lauren Boebert won Colorado's heavily Republican 3rd district by only 546 votes.

If, predictably, the members of the Treason Caucus trump up Benghazi-style shitshows, they will suffer in the coming election cycle. The bright side is that perhaps in the process, they will help destroy the Republican party's chance of winning a national election ever again.

Yes, it's pretty clear that the Jan 6 committee work did not hurt the midterms for Dems. I'm not sure that a bunch of rebound investigations for the GOP will have the same kind of effect. But I'm sure that that the GOP will try. Not much new political science being applied these days (except new gerrymander computer modeling).

[Chuck Naill]

We can say this, the Republicans will receive exactly what they want and deserve. Many conservatives are leaving the party. I was surprised that Brooks voted for Obama, so his departure happened before mine. Stephens waited for Clinton as I did.

Thing is, they needed Santos' to vote for Kevin. Now he's being thrown to the curb.

[dneal]

Yes, it's pretty clear that the Jan 6 committee work did not hurt the midterms for Dems.

If you don’t count losing the House, I suppose so.

[TSherbs]

Ironically the same are going after George Santos. They say he has disgraced the House of Representatives.

I know what you mean, but there is really no irony in this through the politics of power. This fraud was used for what he was politically worth, and now the GOP wants to cauterize the wound. The barrage 9f reports today hounded him and blocked the hall. We'll see how long he lasts. Tough start, for sure.

[Chip]

Here's a cute shot of the Cavewoman and her pet dinosaur.

[Chuck Naill]

This is an interesting observation from HCR.

"On Monday evening the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service that the previous Congress included in the Inflation Reduction Act, funding intending to add workers to clear a big backlog of unprocessed returns, overhaul technology, and improve customer service. Republicans insist that funding the IRS will send bureaucrats to hassle ordinary Americans, but in fact, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed that none of the new resources will be used to increase audit rates for small businesses or households with an annual income below $400,000.

If the House measure were to become law—which it will not because the Senate will not pass it—it would add significantly to the deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that the Republicans’ bill would increase the deficit by nearly $115 billion over ten years."

This shows how todays Trumpian Republicans are Conservatives in Name Only aka CINO.

[TSherbs]

This is an interesting observation from HCR.

"On Monday evening the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service that the previous Congress included in the Inflation Reduction Act, funding intending to add workers to clear a big backlog of unprocessed returns, overhaul technology, and improve customer service. Republicans insist that funding the IRS will send bureaucrats to hassle ordinary Americans, but in fact, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed that none of the new resources will be used to increase audit rates for small businesses or households with an annual income below $400,000.

If the House measure were to become law—which it will not because the Senate will not pass it—it would add significantly to the deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that the Republicans’ bill would increase the deficit by nearly $115 billion over ten years."

This shows how todays Trumpian Republicans are Conservatives in Name Only aka CINO.

Here come a slew of bills will little expectation of passage into law that are designed for garnering votes in the next election cycle. And the pendulum swings...

[Chuck Naill]

This might be a good time for Biden to say he will not seek a second term and to throw himself entirely in doing all the good he can and making a case for how his policies are helping many of the Americans the Republicans have counted on, but thoroughly ignored.

[Chuck Naill]

George Santos is a gift that keeps on giving....
https://www.ibtimes.com/george-santo...s-2008-3658937

[Chuck Naill]

Well, this is just hilarious...

From HCR,
Representative George Santos (R-NY) is still in Congress, for the moment anyway, and he continues to embarrass the Republicans. After insisting that reports he was a drag queen in Brazil were lies, it turns out that Santos himself apparently posted that information on Wikipedia. The party that has spent months grabbing headlines by attacking drag queens is now represented by one in Congress.

In the same Wikipedia article, he appeared to claim he was an actor on the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana.

Representative Bill Foster (D-IL), an award-winning physicist who holds a PhD from Harvard, trolled Santos today in a way that powerfully demonstrated the current difference between the two parties. In response to the news that House speaker Kevin McCarthy has put Santos on the House Science Committee, Foster tweeted: “As the only recipient of the Wilson Prize for High-Energy Particle Accelerator Physics serving in Congress, it can get lonely. Not anymore!... I’m thrilled to be joined on the Science Committee by my Republican colleague Dr. George Santos, winner of not only the Nobel Prize, but also the Fields Medal—the top prize in Mathematics—for his groundbreaking work with imaginary numbers.”

[TSherbs]

Ouch. Owned.