Posted on 10/26/2023 3:12:26 AM PDT by cotton1706
In retrospect, wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller for The Bulwark, it was inevitable that Republicans would go down this path.
"For about a decade and a half now the governing wing of the party has attempted every strategy imaginable to delay handing congressional leadership power to the group of lawmakers who better represent the desires of today’s GOP voters — the erstwhile renegades the late John McCain dubbed 'wacko birds,'" wrote Miller. "That group has grown from only a handful of troublemakers to a significant bloc of Congress that’s bolstered by an additional group of 'closet normals' who dress in wacko bird costumes for the retweets."
"Among the many lowlights of this long-running spectacle of appeasement: engaging in wildly irresponsible brinkmanship, granting plum committee assignments to kooks, submitting to power-sharing arrangements and hosting struggle sessions with the House Freedom Caucus, launching sham impeachment inquiries, holding umpty-nine explicitly political hearings over a deadly embassy attack, flying down to an extremely dated South Florida resort to take degrading pictures with a wannabe authoritarian, defending a drag queen fabulist in their ranks, and, most egregiously, agreeing to be complicit in an attempt to overthrow our democracy to soothe the bruised ego of the man-baby-in-chief," Miller continued.
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"So long as the Republican leaders kept giving inch after inch after inch on the Fox outrage du jour, they could avoid an intraparty coup and retain power — until some glorious day in the future when sanity would return and their torment at the hands of these nutjobs would be over," Miller wrote. "Eventually you run out of road."
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I see this article differently from the many comments.
I don’t trust the guy and would not support him at anything, but:
This article is really criticism of the dim party, a compliment to the many who overturned McCarthy and a forecast of the end of the dim party as it exists today.
It comes across as a lib totally disillusioned with libs and the dim party.
Whether he intended it that way we will never know but if written by a conservative with the /saec label at the end.........
“This “Raw Story” site is a bunch of gasbags on a fish wrap liberal site.”
Yes, but it’s interesting to see different perspectives.
Yep...Just as the NY Slimes, WaPoo, etc., as long as you don’t send cash, places to gather info on the disloyal opposition...
The collective Stampy Feet Tantrum of the GOPeahens and the Demoncrats
It’s the Chicken Little Dance! Mad as wet hens.
It’s awesome. Finally, thank you Matt Gaetz.
Damn straight! Lol
My favorite chapter is The Concerto of Deliverance, where Hank tells his mooching family to pound sand.
Levin is not what too many here think
His history books are heavily biased
The establishment Republicans are so poised to make a name for themselves in history by actually doing something other than the conventional cowardly GOP party politics, but instead stick to the conventional consultant BS that’s been their standard lies aka campaign promises since 1996. The GOP consultant class needs to be fired and never allowed near another Republican candidate ever, they are useless as a screen door on a submarine.
Aside from Trump their current crop of presidential candidates could easily be interchanged with 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016 candidates with little to no variations, they would be seamless. The current leadership of the Republican party is a complete train wreck. Trump and the House rebels are trying to get them to move, to do anything but its like taking a toothpick and trying to move a 2 ton bolder.
I always picture the rinos with a donkey on top behind them.
And why is that majority so small when Democrats were so unpopular in 2022? OH That’s Right! Its because the RINO Establishment deliberately sabotaged MAGA candidates who had won Republican primary>>>. Look at what they did to mastriano. (he did run an awful campaign as well). The republicans in montco did fund raisers for shapiro.
McConnel.is doing such a bang up job stopping Biden.....
I haven’t heard a single utterance in opposition from the turtle.
I love every salty tear and clenched liberal fist.
conservative voters having a voice
is a threat to democracy
wow
i read comment after comment lambasting Gaetz as a fool and how he created chaos
today he is a hero
you cannot win if you do not fight
levin’s expertise is constitutional law
not political strategy
“The Bulwark” ... stopped reading right there ...
https://www.distractify.com/p/why-does-tim-miller-wear-pearls
“Who is Tim Miller’s Husband?
“Tim might display his personal fashion choices on television, but he is very tight-lipped about his personal life. According to LGBTQ Nation, Tim came out as gay in 2007. During an interview with the publication, Tim explained that he initially attempted to hide his sexuality before coming to terms with his identity. “I saw a future of a wife and kids and a job as a top-level Republican strategist who managed to like to push all the gay thoughts into a box somewhere in their brain,” he said.”
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