Republicans Burn the Republican Party Down to the Ground

[Jesus_Ateo]

Biden gives GOP a shock, tells them they have to actually make policy to stay in the game


It was all happy talk from both the White House and Senate Republicans coming out of Thursday’s infrastructure meeting, with President Biden stressing that everyone was working in “good faith” and telling reporter that he was “prepared to compromise.” For the Republicans’ part, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead in negotiations for the GOP, said it was “very productive” and a “more than courteous give-and-take.”

Biden gave the Republicans homework, which has be a shock to their systems. Capito said after the meeting: “The President has asked us to come back and rework and offer so that he can then react to that and then re-offer to us.” She added that “more detail is what we need to get them so they can react more specifically.”

Yes, more detail. For the past four years, Republicans have been talking and talking and talking about infrastructure without actually doing anything. The chances that they went into that room Thursday with anything more concrete that “no corporate tax hikes” is nil.

https://dailysoundandfury.com/biden...-to-actually-make-policy-to-stay-in-the-game/

 

[Rotadom]

Everyone who enabled Trump will be and are being held accountable. Rudy, for example, will never get a serious gig again.

Many of those enablers will end up on the washed-up pro wrestler autograph session at the County Fair tour.

 

[CornusKousa]

Biden gives GOP a shock, tells them they have to actually make policy to stay in the game


It was all happy talk from both the White House and Senate Republicans coming out of Thursday’s infrastructure meeting, with President Biden stressing that everyone was working in “good faith” and telling reporter that he was “prepared to compromise.” For the Republicans’ part, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead in negotiations for the GOP, said it was “very productive” and a “more than courteous give-and-take.”

Biden gave the Republicans homework, which has be a shock to their systems. Capito said after the meeting: “The President has asked us to come back and rework and offer so that he can then react to that and then re-offer to us.” She added that “more detail is what we need to get them so they can react more specifically.”

Yes, more detail. For the past four years, Republicans have been talking and talking and talking about infrastructure without actually doing anything. The chances that they went into that room Thursday with anything more concrete that “no corporate tax hikes” is nil.

https://dailysoundandfury.com/biden...-to-actually-make-policy-to-stay-in-the-game/

And if they want they can give Biden the finger, and there isn't shit he can do about it.

#RESIST

 

[CornusKousa]

Everyone who enabled Trump will be and are being held accountable. Rudy, for example, will never get a serious gig again.

Many of those enablers will end up on the washed-up pro wrestler autograph session at the County Fair tour.

Tell us more about Liz Cheney

No...You guys can take shots at them but Trumpsters own the GOP, it's not going away.

 

[Rightguide]

Biden gives GOP a shock, tells them they have to actually make policy to stay in the game

Because he can't.

 

[ll74]

Biden gives GOP a shock, tells them they have to actually make policy to stay in the game


It was all happy talk from both the White House and Senate Republicans coming out of Thursday’s infrastructure meeting, with President Biden stressing that everyone was working in “good faith” and telling reporter that he was “prepared to compromise.” For the Republicans’ part, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead in negotiations for the GOP, said it was “very productive” and a “more than courteous give-and-take.”

Biden gave the Republicans homework, which has be a shock to their systems. Capito said after the meeting: “The President has asked us to come back and rework and offer so that he can then react to that and then re-offer to us.” She added that “more detail is what we need to get them so they can react more specifically.”

Yes, more detail. For the past four years, Republicans have been talking and talking and talking about infrastructure without actually doing anything. The chances that they went into that room Thursday with anything more concrete that “no corporate tax hikes” is nil.

https://dailysoundandfury.com/biden...-to-actually-make-policy-to-stay-in-the-game/

I would appreciate having a strong opposition party that stood for something besides one man's ego. Seriously....a conservative or mildly conservative party who offered up counter-proposals and worked to find common sense policies for Americans.

Instead.....we just get angry Trump mobs who knee-jerk whatever bullshit they're fed by one man. Their policy platform for 2020 was "whatever Trump says"

 

[YDB95]

Because he can't.

Just because you hate it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Part of the problem we outsiders have in trying to explain Republican elected officials’ behavior is that it continues to be bizarrely incompatible with what they claim to be their party’s driving beliefs. Not from a policy standpoint, mind you. From a “basic human being living their life” standpoint. In premise, Republicanism is all about being tough and bigly: bein’ proudly hypermasculine, an “alpha male” not taking any guff.

But the behavior actually demanded of Republican officials, if they want to keep their positions in the party, is gutless, spineless cowardice. Donald Trump, a perpetual whiner who is terrified of strong women and needs a golf cart to get from one end of a green to the other, is allowed to be the “alpha male.” Every other Republican is expected to be so beta as to barely exist.

George P. Bush, ambitious if loutish offspring of Jeb! Bush, is the extended Bush clan’s only plausible current inheritor of the family political dynasty. He will be challenging Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who is indicted for f’cks sake, in upcoming Republican primaries. George P. is expected to run a campaign based broadly around “the name Bush is on my driver’s license” and “the other guy is indicted, for f’cks sake!” But Donald Trump absolutely loathes the Bush family, and has been very loud in saying so, because the Bush family is one of the few nests of Republicans left willing to point out that Donald Trump is a grifting, incompetent helium balloon of a man who has screwed up everything he’s ever touched. This requires George P. Bush to make a decision. Defend his family? Or cozy up to Coughed-Up Hairball?

We’re kidding, of course. Like Sen. Ted Cruz and every other Republican before him, George P.’s response to Donald Trump mocking his would-be presidential dad as “low energy” and claiming his family “has to like Mexican Illegals” because George’s mother was born in Mexico is … to suck up to him.

Politico has the brief rundown of where things stand after the most gutless of all Bushes tweeted himself bending the knee to Donald via phone call. The short version is that George has been courting Trump for a long time now, and that it has everything to do with politics. Donald Trump, incompetent death-dealing blowhard, is more popular among the Texas Republican base than father Jeb! or uncle President Guy, so family is out and Typhoid Hitler is in. A man’s got to get elected, after all. George P. Bush is not the sort of person who would settle for simply not being in politics.

Again, though: This is expected behavior for all Republican elected officials. It is required. You are expected to project an aura of utter spinelessness, and you will be met with furious primary challenges if you, as a Republican lawmaker, do not thoroughly humiliate yourself to the world’s most clearly dysfunctional reality television star. Want George P. to attack Rep. Liz Cheney for standing up to Trump’s support for a seditious act? You got it, boss. He’ll get his phone out and do it on the spot.

https://dailysoundandfury.com/georg...imself-in-a-movement-that-enforces-cowardice/

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Ex-RNC head drops the hammer on the GOP for blocking the Capitol riot commission

look at -- look at the members of my team, you know, guys that I have known and worked with over many, many years who once stood for something, once said something that meant a lot and could mean a lot to people, just buckle," he began.

'Buckle because [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell wanted them to buckle, because [Donald] Trump wanted them to," he continued. "Buckle because [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy wanted them to. There was no leadership there, and that's what that moment called for."

"I just don't know, Ali," he added. "I kind of look at this and just say to myself, 'where do you go from here, what do you say next to the American people?' How do you now come on the other side of this vote or non-vote and say to Brian Sicknick's mother, you know, what? What do you say to her? She walked the halls of our Congress trying to get people to do the right thing, to vote to just find out why her son died -"

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-capitol-riot-commssion/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Rightguide]

Ex-RNC head drops the hammer on the GOP for blocking the Capitol riot commission

look at -- look at the members of my team, you know, guys that I have known and worked with over many, many years who once stood for something, once said something that meant a lot and could mean a lot to people, just buckle," he began.

'Buckle because [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell wanted them to buckle, because [Donald] Trump wanted them to," he continued. "Buckle because [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy wanted them to. There was no leadership there, and that's what that moment called for."

"I just don't know, Ali," he added. "I kind of look at this and just say to myself, 'where do you go from here, what do you say next to the American people?' How do you now come on the other side of this vote or non-vote and say to Brian Sicknick's mother, you know, what? What do you say to her? She walked the halls of our Congress trying to get people to do the right thing, to vote to just find out why her son died -"

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-capitol-riot-commssion/?utm_source=push_notifications

Her son died of a fucking stroke. He wasn't murdered. The media lied.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Her son died of a fucking stroke. He wasn't murdered. The media lied.

What caused the stroke? If George Floyd's murder was exacerbated by drugs... amirite?

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

the Republican leadership is finding itself put into a corner by the more extreme elements in the party -- from far-right GOP lawmakers who excuse violence and conservative voters who see no problem with it.

With Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) excusing the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th and Rep. Andrew S. Clyde claiming the insurrectionists were merely "tourists," Republicans are now confronted with the optics of being the party that condones violence.

According to McManus, Republicans refusing to take a firm stance against political violence is not a good sign for a party that just lost the Senate and the White House.

The problem, he wrote, is that a substantial number of the GOP's most fervent supporters have said they are fine with the use of force to hold political power.

"A significant chunk of the party's most fervent supporters aren't so sure [the insurrection was damaging], and they illustrate the GOP's dilemma. At a time when the party needs every vote it can muster, it can't risk alienating loyal supporters, even if they embrace violence, " he wrote. "In a survey by the conservative American Enterprise Institute after the riot in January, 56% of Republicans agreed that 'the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.'"

According to the columnist, those voters are holding the party hostage as they try to woo voters back after four years of Donald Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2653466965/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[CornusKousa]

I see RAW and it's readers are still trying to convince themselves it's they who get to decide who the GOP supports.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Her son died of a fucking stroke. He wasn't murdered. The media lied.

Officer Sicknick died in the line of duty, protecting the United States Capitol from rioting insurgents.

No amount of horseshit revisionism from you or the Bobogook can change that underlying fact. He is a hero, interred at Arlington National Cemetery, a place that you and your kind will never be buried.

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

In her column for the Washington Post, conservative commentator Jennifer Rubin lambasted Republican lawmakers for degrading themselves and parroting whatever "nonsense" Donald Trump comes up, saying their desire to thought of as "important" overrides any sense of self-respect.

Noting that GOP lawmakers would rather toe the Trump line than help out voters in their districts or states, Rubin called them out for giving up on doing their jobs.

"This sorry sight is unsurprising given that Republicans have all but given up on the notion of governance," she wrote before charging, "At the national level, they consume themselves with race-baiting (e.g., scaring Americans about immigration and critical race theory), assailing private companies (e.g., corporations that defend voting rights, social media platforms, book publishers) and perpetrating the most ludicrous and dangerous lie in memory — that the 2020 election was stolen."

Getting to the root of the matter, Rubin suggested that Republicans holding office aren't in the business of governing -- they're in the business of landing the job and all that comes with it and then clutching desperately to their positions of power for as long as they can.

"One might wonder from time to time why Republicans even bother running for election. Because they have so little interest in governing (other than in protecting tax cuts for the rich, shielding the gun lobby from reasonable regulation and dictating women's reproductive choices), they might as well take on the role of social media trolls and right-wing media guests full-time," she wrote. "In truth, a great many Republicans simply like to be 'important people' with the perks of holding office. It seems the notion of finding other work causes them to break out in a cold sweat, so they adopt insane MAGA positions so as not to offend the mob they helped rile up."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-republicans-2653467809/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

When are Republican leaders going to quit rationalizing and acknowledge the truth about their toxic relationship with Donald Trump?

They have managed to convince themselves that they need to appease the former president because he alone can stoke the conservative base enough to accomplish their return to power in 2022.

But the fragility of that premise becomes more apparent every day, as Trump increasingly turns his wrath on them, undermining their legitimacy and questioning their fitness to govern.

On Tuesday, Trump even went so far as to call for the ouster of Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as Senate minority leader. “Should have never lost the Senate in the first place, thanks Mitch!” Trump wrote in an email blast. “New leadership is needed, and fast!”

Of course, the blame for Republicans losing the Senate more properly belongs with Trump himself.

He was the one who depressed GOP turnout in the Jan. 5 runoff election that determined two seats in Georgia by claiming it was “illegal and invalid.” In refusing to concede his own defeat in the state, the then-president also made the baseless allegation that there had been “massive corruption” in the general election.

Trump’s latest beef with McConnell stems from an interview that his former attorney general William P. Barr gave to journalist Jonathan D. Karl. In it, Barr said McConnell had pleaded with Barr to dispute Trump’s claims of massive election fraud, but was too cowardly — or too calculating — to do it himself.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...g-republican-leaders-look-downright-pathetic/

 

[pecksniff]

Her son died of a fucking stroke. He wasn't murdered. The media lied.

You are not, I hope, suggesting Sicknick would now be dead if there had been no riot.

 

[phrodeau]

Her son died of a fucking stroke. He wasn't murdered. The media lied.

If the MAGAs who assaulted Sicknick are ever identified, they could be charged with wrongful death, at the least.

 

[allison22]

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" with host Jake Tapper, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) launched a furious attack on Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for spreading lies about COVID-19 vaccinations and bluntly stated they are going to get "somebody killed."

Asked about the latest Republican talking point, criticizing the Biden administration's plan to send people door-to-door promoting getting vaccinated, the Illinois Republican became incensed.

"It's absolute insanity," Kinzinger exclaimed. "What President Biden said, and maybe he could have said it slightly different was, we're willing to come to your house to give you the vaccine. At no point was anybody saying they're going to break down your door and jam a vaccine in your arm despite your protest."

"This is outrage politics that is being played by my party and it's going to get Americans killed," he continued. "We are on a -- our party has been hijacked. We can put out this outrageous stuff on Twitter, 'yeah, I'm getting all these retweets and everybody knows me, I'm famous,' but this plane is going to crash into the crowd."

"If you're a Republican voter, do not listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene," he begged. "The vaccine is safe, COVID is real, get vaccinated. Because if you are going to listen to the outrage, by the way, in March, she's [Taylor Greene] was bragging about Donald Trump creating the vaccine and now she's saying basically the vaccine is going to kill you."

https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-marjorie-taylor-greene/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[allison22]

Texas Tossing Out the Requirement to Teach That KKK Is “Morally Wrong” Says a Lot



Texas’ Republican leadership, who continue to prove that they are the worst, just dropped a bill that would remove the requirement for educators to teach that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is “morally wrong,” alongside white supremacy and the institution of slavery. This elimination is a new political low that clearly shows the party is all about promoting an “anti-civics” approach when it comes to its educational measures.

H.B. No. 3979, the bill in question, also drops requirements like studying Frederick Douglass’s writing, the Chicano movement, women’s suffrage and equal rights, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” the life and work of Dolores Huerta, and even the requirement of the history of Native Americans or Indigenous People.


This comes just as Senate Bill 3 passed the Senate, dropping mentions of figures like Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and other women and people of color, according to Bloomberg Law. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also said, “Parents want their students to learn how to think critically, not be indoctrinated by the ridiculous leftist narrative that America and our Constitution are rooted in racism.”

That’s not all. The bill would prohibit a teacher from discussing particular current events that are “widely debated and currently controversial.” That puts a stranglehold on teachers and makes it harder for them to teach history that is relevant and that their students are absolutely aware of, no matter what the Texas government thinks.

But back to the KKK of it all. Do Texas Republicans really think they are doing a service to their students by not teaching them that the KKK is “morally wrong”? Because this isn’t a group that that gets together on Sundays for a meal and some intellectual discussions. These people are a racist terrorist organization that has targeted people of color.

What does the Texas State think they’re gaining by avoiding talking about the KKK? Because from where I’m standing, Texas is gaining absolutely nothing by standing their ground and making it harder for their students to get a clear and concise picture of what it is to live in the United States of America if you are anything but white.

Of course, at the heart of not teaching students that the KKK is the worst is the fact that there are racists in the Texas government. Simple and to the point. Racism is alive and well in this country despite how those pushing it with moves like this would like us to believe it’s all in the past, and they’re still using it to make strides to keep themselves in a position of power. And because they’re racists, they push this narrative that the world is just out to get white people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...g-says-a-lot/ar-AAMmN5Q?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[YDB95]

As disgusting as I find that Texas bill, I'm almost glad it includes MLK's "I have a dream" speech. That, at least, might cut down on Republicans lying about the point of that speech.

 

[CornusKousa]

Texas Tossing Out the Requirement to Teach That KKK Is “Morally Wrong” Says a Lot

Why??

Racial identitarianism is ok when you guys do it.

As disgusting as I find that Texas bill, I'm almost glad it includes MLK's "I have a dream" speech. That, at least, might cut down on Republicans lying about the point of that speech.

Republican's haven't been lying about the point of that speech.

SJW leftist who think it's a rallying cry to punish white people for the sins of their race???? Excessively so....

 

[RobDownSouth]

Why??

Racial identitarianism is ok when you guys do it.

By all means, Stanford, tell us what sort of "Racial identitarianism" you believe that Democrats are engaging in...

And do you really feel it's equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan? Hmmm?

#Histrionics

 

[pecksniff]

And if they want they can give Biden the finger, and there isn't shit he can do about it.

#RESIST

Or they can just stay home and leave off voting in Congress -- it would have the same effect.

 

[nowisthetime]

Texas Tossing Out the Requirement to Teach That KKK Is “Morally Wrong” Says a Lot



Texas’ Republican leadership, who continue to prove that they are the worst, just dropped a bill that would remove the requirement for educators to teach that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is “morally wrong,” alongside white supremacy and the institution of slavery. This elimination is a new political low that clearly shows the party is all about promoting an “anti-civics” approach when it comes to its educational measures.

H.B. No. 3979, the bill in question, also drops requirements like studying Frederick Douglass’s writing, the Chicano movement, women’s suffrage and equal rights, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” the life and work of Dolores Huerta, and even the requirement of the history of Native Americans or Indigenous People.


This comes just as Senate Bill 3 passed the Senate, dropping mentions of figures like Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and other women and people of color, according to Bloomberg Law. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also said, “Parents want their students to learn how to think critically, not be indoctrinated by the ridiculous leftist narrative that America and our Constitution are rooted in racism.”

That’s not all. The bill would prohibit a teacher from discussing particular current events that are “widely debated and currently controversial.” That puts a stranglehold on teachers and makes it harder for them to teach history that is relevant and that their students are absolutely aware of, no matter what the Texas government thinks.

But back to the KKK of it all. Do Texas Republicans really think they are doing a service to their students by not teaching them that the KKK is “morally wrong”? Because this isn’t a group that that gets together on Sundays for a meal and some intellectual discussions. These people are a racist terrorist organization that has targeted people of color.

What does the Texas State think they’re gaining by avoiding talking about the KKK? Because from where I’m standing, Texas is gaining absolutely nothing by standing their ground and making it harder for their students to get a clear and concise picture of what it is to live in the United States of America if you are anything but white.

Of course, at the heart of not teaching students that the KKK is the worst is the fact that there are racists in the Texas government. Simple and to the point. Racism is alive and well in this country despite how those pushing it with moves like this would like us to believe it’s all in the past, and they’re still using it to make strides to keep themselves in a position of power. And because they’re racists, they push this narrative that the world is just out to get white people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...g-says-a-lot/ar-AAMmN5Q?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Rethugs are not even trying to hide it anymore.


So proud of the Texas Dems for not even trying to grant these thugs a quorum in a House vote.


This bill will be a major disservice to the students in that state, they need to know their real history.

Rethugs want an ignorant population in which they can control and grift.