“This is the mob rule right now in Congress — and I’m ready for mob rule. ... But it’s not a way to govern.”—Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN)
What does she mean? I don’t even know what she's trying to say. These motherfuckers are CRAZY, man, fucking raving lunatics! They can’t even articulate their own disturbed thought!
…the Republican Party… is by choice or by force, turning away from its traditional role as a working partner in the U.S.'s two-party system to a new one that is rooted in Donald Trump’s vision of the GOP.
“Politics used to be the art of the possible. Now it’s the art of the impossible,” said Sen. Mitt Romney… “Let’s put forward proposals that can’t possibly pass — so we can say to our respective bases, Look how I’m fighting for you. We’ve gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
… an emboldened generation of hard-right lawmakers allied with Trump are energized by the disruption, eager to carry on with their emerging agenda…
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The House is expected to try again to impeach Mayorkas, possibly next week, if Republicans can boost their numbers over what was essentially a tie vote Tuesday.
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To up their tally, House Republicans are counting on either winning a special election to replace the ousted GOP Rep. George Santos in New York or waiting for Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who has been receiving cancer treatment, to return to Washington.
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In the Senate, McConnell faced a separate revolt over the border security package he had reluctantly agreed to pursue as a way to appease hard-right demands to link national security aid for Ukraine to an almost politically impossible compromise on immigration.
As soon as the bipartisan package was unveiled it encountered fierce blowback from [hard right]… Republicans led by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and others, forcing McConnell into an abrupt about-face…
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“Time to disband The Firm,” Lee wrote on social media, a mocking reference to McConnell and Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Trump…orchestrated from afar, celebrating the collapse of the border package… and disparaging McConnell…
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“What is the point of being a senator if you let Donald Trump make all of the decisions for you?”-Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington.
