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Retirements Surge in Congress in Wake of GOP House Speaker Drama
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/23/23 | Siobhan Hughes

Posted on 11/23/2023 5:49:23 AM PST by cotton1706

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To: Presbyterian Reporter

They’re not fed up with partisanship. They’re fed up that they may get caught taking bribes, enriching themselves or actually having to go home and explain to voters why they are living so badly and he/she has become a millionaire living in the lap of luxury.


21 posted on 11/23/2023 6:51:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: mewzilla

“All Deep State is doing is re-arranging the deck chairs.
As long as Deep State picks the candidates and rigs our elections…”

When DS finally loses the Wall Street Journal will be the last to tell you, for many reasons. The news media will never approve of DS being abolished. People expect the news media to approve of DS getting shoved out. My suburban women friends especially so. They want what they call peace.

Look for signs. It won’t be a peaceful process, the opposite. Kevin McC ouster was a microcosm of what I would expect, payoffs, repeated votes, accusations pushing, shoving, finally an elbow to the kidney, denial, projection, more threats.

On a much larger scale

I think people expect a peaceful relinquishment. Tge WSJ sure would. They don’t know what to make of Trump, for instance.


22 posted on 11/23/2023 6:51:05 AM PST by stanne
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To: Guenevere

“This is good news, right”

Yep

If it were, the WSJ wouldn’t admit it.


23 posted on 11/23/2023 6:53:23 AM PST by stanne
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To: cotton1706

They are cashing in and going to their jobs as lobbyists and so on.


24 posted on 11/23/2023 6:53:27 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: mewzilla

“All Deep State is doing is re-arranging the deck chairs.

As long as Deep State picks the candidates and rigs our elections, theirs is the only game in town.”

It’s going to happen

When it changes it’ll be extremely disruptive. The suburban women, my homeys, will be the most obstructionist “ooh stop the mean social media posts! Stop fighting. The news media doesn’t like this!”


25 posted on 11/23/2023 7:01:38 AM PST by stanne
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To: cotton1706

Politics is supposed to be ponderous and messy. Can’t handle that? Quit.


26 posted on 11/23/2023 7:09:44 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Jolla

Executive Orders are supposed to apply only to members of the Executive Branch. They are not to be treated as law.

The atheist RINO governor in my state issued his stupid EO lockdown orders. I refused to comply as much as possible. I told people that I’m not in the Governor’s chain-of-command so I’m not subject to his unconstitutional orders.


27 posted on 11/23/2023 7:12:46 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: cotton1706

Many more to come. Stay tuned.


28 posted on 11/23/2023 7:21:17 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: joe fonebone

>>It was never intended to have a permanent elected class.

Yet, if you look at the biographies of early members of the House, they served multiple terms. When they left it was to run for Senate, President, become a cabinet secretary, ambassador, etc.


29 posted on 11/23/2023 7:26:02 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: Bratch

Reprise of 2018?


30 posted on 11/23/2023 7:27:01 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: cotton1706

[[A dozen lawmakers—six Democrats and six Republicans—have said in November that they don’t plan to continue serving in Congress, ]]

Why? Did the fires of hell lapping at their feet get too hot?


31 posted on 11/23/2023 7:35:15 AM PST by Bob434
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To: cotton1706

I suspect the oligarchs fear Trumps return and want to lower the risk of charges when he shows dots connected.

Bonus round: Democrats may have made sweetheart deals for new oligarchs this is going to be a winner takes all election the democrats have everything to lose.


32 posted on 11/23/2023 7:36:04 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Pollard
News article quick (and predictable) take:

“With the crazy Republicans now in control of the House, normal congresspeople, namely Democrats and RINO’s, just can’t take it anymore.”

33 posted on 11/23/2023 7:49:36 AM PST by daler
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