This Republican implosion has been a long time coming
It should now be clear to everyone: The Republican Party is incapable of governing.
Sure, this sounds partisan. In fact, its an analytical reflection based on what is happening right before our eyes.
You would think that with our nation facing its most profound economic crisis since the 1930s, married to a public health disaster and growing unrest over racial injustice, the party that controls the White House and the U.S. Senate would get serious.
Instead, the Senates Republican majority and the Trump White House are in chaos, unable to produce a coherent relief bill to keep the economy from spiraling further downward.
Republicans admit this.
Its a mess, said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the partys own ramshackle proposal. I cant figure out what this bills about.
A telltale sign of the Republicans flight from responsibility is that they waited until the last minute before launching their haphazard scramble because they were hoping to avoid having to do anything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-has-earned-itself-a-multi-year-expulsion-from-politics/2020/07/29/724d13ac-d1d1-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)underpants
(183,043 posts)Dionne is spot on as usually. Its all smoke and mirrors and victimization for them. It was during the W&Dick years and now theres literally one man behind the curtain.
Zorro
(15,757 posts)With all the circus clowns they have in Congress, they are unfit to govern.
Do you want good government, or Republican government? That should be this election's meme.
liberalla
(9,279 posts)EXCELLENT !!
I want GOOD government!
K & R !
Skittles
(153,310 posts)THAT IS THEIR DILEMMA
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)As usual, the Senate gop wants it both ways, to avoid the public outcry over letting yet another deadline pass AND to force the Democrats to swallow their bill whole, no compromise. 20 fuckers are saying no to anything, they don't have the votes. Dems have the leverage.
It has to be more than a slightly higher uninsurance benefit. The other concepts that are not even in the gop bill, like funds for local government, rental assistance, etc., need to be added. There are more but I can't recall them off the top of my head. They want the bare minimum, but they misgage what is the bare minimum. If people need help, you help them, that's what Democrats do.
hydrolastic
(489 posts)Better plan would be to have the Republican party go away completely. Have another party start the very long process of gaining membership.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)I've given up trying to find good Republicans. What there were of them, now are gone.