Because the "basic tasks of governing" are:
Passing continuing resolutions every couple of months
Passing bills that the Senate passed without amendment
Never having conference committees
Continually "suspending the rules" so that Democrats can help pass bills that the Senate passed, without amendment
Never cutting a single line item of spending
Never eliminating a single government program
Of course, funding Ukraine
Etc.
The writers of these articles haven't been alive long. Governing looked very different in the 80's for example, when the Congress actually legislated. But that was Pre-Pelosi.
“governing-minded Republicans who are still willing to generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and even defy former President Donald Trump”
Pollutico shows how it sees the situation from its extreme far-left perch.
If Politico is upset and sounding alarm bells about something, that means I am very happy about it.
The simple truth is that all of these Republicans that are leaving or part of the problem. They are why everybody thinks that there is a unit party. What’s the point of having Republicans if they’re just going to act like, and vote with, Democrats? For all of the time that the Republican party has controlled the House of Representatives in this century, we have had exploding deficits. Of course, it is worse when the Democrats control everything, but the point is that the Republicans have done nothing to stand in the way, and these people who are leaving are a very big part of that problem. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
“... Many of the departing members share a common trait: They’re part of a loose coalition of governing-minded Republicans who are still willing to generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and even defy former President Donald Trump at times. ...”
Many of the departing members share a common trait: They generally back leadership, support bipartisan deals and defy former President Donald Trump.
There FIXED IT.
RINO’s retiring just means we don’t have to spend to primary them! If politico says nad then we know it’s good. Go away RINO’s.
$MAGA
Oh NO!!! The backstabbing milquetoast weenie RINO wing of the party is heading for the exits. Whatever shall we do????
The current Republican Party is doomed to sputter and fail. Maybe there’s a last gasp before the crash, but it won’t survive two election cycles at this rate.
There are now two party factions: pre-Trump GOP and post-Trump GOP. The former is often called RINO but in fact it WAS very much the Republican Party up till 2016, going back to Eisenhower: pro-business, pro-military and military alliance, pro-trade agreements and low or no tariffs. I’d call that the Traditional Republican faction and it still has a sizable footprint in Congress. Its outlook on social issues is conservative, but that has never been a primary concern.
The post-Trump wing has a vastly more populist bent: anti-interventionism, anti-free trade, nationalistic, and very focused on social issues.
Advocates of Trump-ism can shun the traditional wing as much as they want but it hasn’t shrunk into political insignificance. It is represented by a majority of Senate Republicans and a substantial minority (a quarter or a third) of Congressional Republicans.
The turmoil in House leadership laid bare the divisions and they have not miraculously disappeared since Johnson’s elevation. The only accomplishment of his bare majority was to forward a symbolic impeachment which in short order will fail in the Senate.
In the immediate future he will try to straddle the great divide in his caucus over Ukraine and over a shutdown.
Any compromise will merely postpone the detonation of his House majority and my guess is that detonation will take place sooner than later.
It’s been over a century and a half that the Republican Party emerged primarily from the scattered remains of the Whig Party. I think we’re headed for another realignment.
Maybe I’ll comment sometime ...
... once I stop laughing about “Olivia Beavers” ...
Your first clue is that it is Politico.