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Unfortunately, a black candidate would encourage the 2023-05-23 6 - gop
The mistake every other campaign is making is that they 2023-05-23 7 - 1 gop
the perennial primary to become the conservative icon of 2023-05-23 7 - gop
NRCC Every Member Can 2023-05-22 11 - gop
An exercise in futility. No doubt Tim Scott would be 2023-05-22 7 - gop
It's not that hard to figure out the GOP program - it's 2023-05-19 9 - gop
To understand the GOP in 2023, you have to look at the 2023-05-11 13 - 1 gop
Nobody is too corrupt to be a part of McCarthy's five-vote 2023-05-11 5 - 1 gop
It's the Golden Rule! He who has the gold, makes the rul 2023-01-15 10 - 2 gop
Remember Bengha 2023-01-09 11 - 1 gop
a supermajority of 3/5 to sign off on any tax increases - 2023-01-08 9 - gop
McCarthy WON - the right to confront Gaetz and all the 2023-01-08 10106 - 201 13 3973 gop
Still no Speaker in the Hous 2023-01-05 7 - 2 gop
TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEF 2023-01-04 7829 - 86 13 3082 1 gop
Yes, we have no Speaker in the Hou 2023-01-03 14 - 1 1 1 gop
Is there a Speaker in the Hou 2023-01-03 11 - gop
Johnson is trying but not succeeding very mu 2023-11-18 2 - gop
The golden rule of politics, again - he who has the gold, 2023-11-06 5 - gop
The Golden Rule of politics - he who has the gold, makes 2023-11-06 5 - gop
Will Johnson ever give a straight answer to a straight 2023-10-26 3 - gop
We don’t deserve the majority if we give the Democrats 2023-10-24 9 - gop
Look out candidates! Arthur Bremer is out, and he had no 2023-10-20 9 - gop
it’s not a normal major 2023-10-20 8 - gop
The best way to elect Tru 2023-10-18 7 - gop
Freischütz Caucus Founder Jordan for Speak 2023-10-13 18 - 1 gop
Tom Emmer for Speaker? Can he get ANY Democratic vot 2023-10-13 3 - gop
A lucky day for Steve Scali 2023-10-12 10 - 1 gop
You can't compromise with fanatics - they take it as 2023-10-10 3 - gop
The Freischütz Caucus hits its mark again! They aimed 2023-10-03 7 - gop
McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality. 2023-09-22 10 - gop
Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy failu 2023-09-22 6 - gop
I got the job d 2023-09-21 7 - gop
He did nothing to support organized labor except lip servi 2023-09-21 9 - gop
Where have you been the last 30 years, Mr Speak 2023-09-21 5 - gop
Benghazi II 2023-09-12 10 - 1 gop
The Republican Party was born in 1854 as a radical 2023-09-07 15 - 2 2 gop
He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass movem 2023-09-03 10 - gop
Some were hoping for vice-president or at least a cabinet 2023-08-23 8 - gop
GOP is in a bad spot. It doesn't matter who they 2023-07-19 7 - 1 1 gop
It's Trump by a mile - except among the educated. 2023-06-23 7 - gop

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Unfortunately, a black candidate would encourage the
white supremacists to stay home on election day, and the
GOP needs every one of their votes, along with all the
other single-issue constituencies they court to defend
minority ru

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/opinion/tim-scott-scorecard.html

But it's moot; if GOP nominates anybody else, Trump will
run against him as a third party - even if he's broke and
in jail.

#PS1gop


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The mistake every other campaign is making is that they
see their path to the nomination through Trump, when our
path is alongside Tr

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-election-2024-republican-nomination.html

???

None of the voters he's talking to could explain what
he means.  Maybe he's just angling for a cabinet position.
Trump isn't worried - he knows his voters.

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the perennial primary to become the conservative icon of
NPR listeners and humanities professors everywh

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/23/gop-nomination-president-moderate-sununu-hutchinson/

Sorry guys.   If you don't want a Trumpist to be president,
you have to tell people to vote Democratic.     If you
don't want a Democratic president, you have to tell people
to vote for Trump.      There is no credible third way
this time.

#PS1gop


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NRCC Every Member Can

18 questions in 2008 -

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/18-questions-from-the-nrc_b_100889

It's up to 29 questions now.     It's got some great
questions!

But everything they attribute to Democrats - is actually
about GOP policy.

Do you favor Republican efforts to make the Federal Tax
Code simpler and fairer and make it less complicated and
cumbersome to individuals and corporations?

You mean like the GOP 2017 billionaire tax relief?

 https://www.one-flat-tax.net/

How concerned are you that Biden's 87,000 new IRS agents
will be unleashed on fixed-income, middle-class, and
lower-income individuals rather than the ultra-wealthy
Democrat donor class?

Most of them are replacing retirees, most of which were not
involved with enforcement.     It's the LACK of enforcement
against the ultra-wealthy GOP megadonor class that owns
GOP politicians that should concern everybody.

And more of the same, ending the same way - asking for
more money to take the burden off those hard-working job
creator megadonors.

#PS1gop

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/18-questions-from-the-nrc_b_100889


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An exercise in futility.     No doubt Tim Scott would be
a better president than Trump or DeSantis.     But that's
such a low b

But if Trump is not the GOP nominee, he'll surely run
as a third party, even if broke and in jail.     No GOP
is magnetic enough to draw enough independents and swing
voters to replace the Trump base.

 https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-2024-presidential-race-4a73e00db2295afbc4b07d1c6bb64811

Trump obviously doesn't consider Scott a threat - Trump
must have concluded that Scott was angling for a cabinet
post in the next Trump administration -

Trump nonetheless struck a conciliatory tone Monday,
welcoming Scott to  the race and noting that the pair
worked together on his  administration’s signature
tax cuts.

Scott worked on the 2017 billionaire tax relief - which
was McConnell's masterpiece, not Trumps?     That makes
Scott just another defender of minority rule after all.

#PS1gop


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It's not that hard to figure out the GOP program - it's
to defend minority rule by the ruling class

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

Very feudal, as befits a Dixiecrat party - laws are for
the ruling class to apply to the masses.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html

Because they still have to win elections in some states,
they have to pretend to be interested in something else -
something that attracts single-issue voters that will vote
to protect minority rule candidates who protect their
single issue.    The megadonors fund candidates who can
successfully manage to say three different things at once,
to the Trump base, to the independent/swing voters, and
above all, to the megadonors.

#PS1gop


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To understand the GOP in 2023, you have to look at the
Whigs in 185

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Collapse,_1853%E2%80%931856

They eventually discovered that pro-slavery pro-minority
rule could not co-exist with anti-slavery pro-democracy.
The fragments of the Whigs eventually became anti-slavery
pro-democracy Republicans or pro-slavery pro-minority-rule
Democrats.     Amazingly, within 115 years, these parties
had swapped roles and ideologies.     Just as amazingly,
the Republicans seem to have locked in the same course as
the Whigs.

In 2023, the pro-minority-rule cult-of-personality GOP
can't coexist with the rule-of-law GOP.     Trump doesn't
care about the latter and neither does his base -

 https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-president-cnn-2024-69921c48683f26c02eb799513e8e5754

The rule-of-law GOP has a bitter choice - nominate Trump
for president and alienate swing voters and risk losing
power in Congress - or nominate somebody else so Trump
will run as a third party and take his base with him -
guaranteeing a historic Democratic victory.

That's just another reason why GOP legislators go to such
great lengths to avoid giving a straight answer to any
straight question.      They'd rather talk about Hunter
Biden's laptop!

The GOP megadonors seem to have made up their minds - any
kind of Trumpist in office is a distraction that benefits
them and their program.      They'll be happy to provide
the GOP winner with all the $upport he needs to keep
the focus ON Hunter Biden's laptop, and OFF their actual
agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, entitlement reform, and
reactionary judiciary, all to benefit the megadonor class

#PS1gop


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Nobody is too corrupt to be a part of McCarthy's five-vote
majority!     McCarthy can't afford to lose a single vote.
Santos can't afford to resi

 https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-federal-charges-updates-33667a0900271e5002459ab748d8fdc8

#PS1gop


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It's the Golden Rule!    He who has the gold, makes the rul

many, perhaps most, Republicans in Congress aren't
culture-war zealots. Instead, they're careerists
who depend, both for campaign contributions and for
post-Congress career prospects, on the same billionaires
who have supported right-wing economic ideology for
decades. They won't stand up to the crazies and conspiracy
theorists, but their own agenda is still tax cuts for the
rich and benefit cuts for the poor and middle class

 https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/jan/15/opinion-why-republican-politicians-hate-medicare-tfp/

#PS1gop


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Remember Bengha

 https://msnbc.com/msnbc/kevin-mccarthy-credits-benghazi-committee-clinton-damage-msna693201

You cannot overstate the importance of spectacle to the
MAGA right’s political project. Much of what this new
committee does will be designed to create mere impressions
of coverups, of wrongdoings

 https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/09/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-trump-investigations-mar-a-lago-jan-6/

#PS1gop


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a supermajority of 3/5 to sign off on any tax increases -
to protect the megadonors via legislative paralysi

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/politics/new-challenges-what-matters/index.html

the predictable outcome of handing power to the unhinged”

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/opinions/kevin-mccarthy-chaotic-victory-opinion-column-galant/index.html

This is the moment for rational House Republicans to make
their stand

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/07/opinions/mccarthy-speaker-vote-house-republicans-dent

#PS1gop


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McCarthy WON - the right to confront Gaetz and all the
bomb throwers.   Over and over until they vote him out. He
also won the right to meekly obey them until the saner
GOP members vote him o

 https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-government-e986c620149b72030bb418bd5fadb4a2

As Franklin might have said - A Speakership - if you can
keep it!

 https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-mike-rogers-lunged-at-rep-matt-gaetz-after-kevin-mccarthy-failed-to-win-a-14th-vote-for-house-speaker/ar-AA163YJT

To the Freischütze-macht-Freiheit caucus, floor fights
is not a metaphor but democracy in action.    Or at least
mob rule in action.     If not lynch mob insurrection
in action.

This drama is just beginning!    As in debt limit and
funding the government.

At least all the GOP members can agree on protecting
their vital megadonors by cutting taxes on the wealthy
and cutting IRS enforcement on the wealthy and endless
investigations of the Biden administration.   But it took
McCarthy four days to win the speakership - can he hold on
to it for four days after Congress tackles anything else?
Or do we go through this whole process every month?

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html

The first test comes tomorrow - is a majority in favor of
ceding superpowers to a radical minority?

 https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-kevin-mccarthy-house-of-representatives-4922d22689eb79d5d05c1b49ca733123

Appeasement, or ransoming hostages, seldom work.  They just
encourage the crazies to ask for even more.

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Still no Speaker in the Hous

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html

But more people are taking another look at coalition
bipartisanship and de-politicizing the Speaker office.

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/mccarthy-speaker-vote-stalemate-what-matters/index.html

Eventually everybody will realize that the Republicans did
not win a majority in 2022.     Neither did the Democrats.
A tiny extreme faction is trying to control the whole show,
just as in European parliaments.  The 200 unfringe GOP
members need to realize that to accomplish whatever they
intend, they need to decouple from the fringe members and
find a candidate that 20 Democrats can accept for the good
of the country - and the free world.

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/politics/mccarthy-desperation-speaker-analysis/index.html

Then the current crisis will turn into a healthy turning
point for the country.

#PS1gop


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TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEF

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/04/trump-mccarthy-republicans-speaker/

Trump managed to accidentally hit the nail right on the
head!     The Dixiecrats who started moving to the GOP in
the 1960's and began to take control with Newt Gingrich in
the 1990's, have completed their acquisition and now have
total control and power - because Trump and Murdoch and
all the other merry pranksters gave it to them by doing
whatever they wanted to keep them in the GOP.     Now they
think it's their turn to clean house of the members they
don't like.

Boebert said Trump called the defectors to tell them
“they need to knock this off.” Boebert, among 20
Republicans who voted for Republican Byron Donalds (Fla.),
said Trump should do the opposite — call McCarthy and
tell him he lacks the votes and should withdraw

What could be clearer?

The only way out is for the tiny minority of 200 other GOP
House members to boldly attack the 20 titans and throw THEM
out of the GOP conference, with the help of 20 Democrats
who might well be available for this righteous cause.
Offer those Democrats the committee chairmanships that
McCarthy wanted to give the wackos.   You don't cure cancer
by cultivating it!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/04/mccarthy-may-not-have-votes-become-speaker-does-any-republican/

Appeasing the Dixiecrats didn't work for Boehner, it didn't
work for Ryan, and it's not working for McCarthy.   So just
keep at it and let the GOP Whig itself into oblivion? The
better part of the Whigs became the nucleus of a radical
new party in 1854, and maybe that history needs to repeat.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#19th_century

When all was said and done, the Whigs were an incompatible
conglomerate of anti-slavery vs pro-slavery factions -
majority vs minority rule.     The modern GOP is pretty
much for minority rule, because that's where the unlimited
dark campaign money comes from,

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law

But it's now become another incompatible conglomerate - of
fact-based vs fantasy-based epistemology, and rule-of-law
vs cult-of-personality.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist

The fact-based rule-of-law conservatives need to realize
that the fantasy-based cult-of-personality fringe is never
going to lead them to accomplish anything remotely related
to traditional conservative principles - they are even
more opposed to traditional conservatives than they are
to Democrats.

 https://apnews.com/article/house-speaker-vote-updates-669e23dc963da9579ab10e4b3da78911

It should soon be even clearer who really believes what.

==

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Yes, we have no Speaker in the Hou

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html

Thus - Mission Accomplished!   The lunatic fringe promised
to honor their Dixiecrat and Tea Party heritage by bringing
things to a complete halt until they got their way in
every detail on every issue.

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/republican-speaker-chaos-analysis/index.html

Freischütze-macht-Freiheit Caucus election deniers still
have six magic bullets.       Will they use every last one?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/03/mccarthy-defectors-election-deniers/

Not Scalise either?

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/politics/mccarthy-floor-fight-steve-scalise/index.html

The other 200 GOP members could get more than the 20
votes they need if they nominated a GOP problem solver
for GOP Speaker!

Fox weighs in, seemingly surprised by the damage they did
so much to wreak -

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-falls-short-second-house-speaker-vote-19-republican-defectors-back-jordan

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looking-like-idiots-multiple-fox-news-meltdowns-amid-mccarthy-turmoil/ar-AA15WBAA

You should not take this job if it’s about your ego and
your own personal agenda,” Kilmeade emphasized. “The
whole thing should be service for the country

Where has he been the last 6 years?   Cult of personality
is ALL ego!

 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-friends-nails-republicans-not-193301063.html

More -

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/house-speaker-vote-mccarthy/index.html

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-what-matters/index.html

 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/opinions/gop-battle-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-filipovic/index.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/03/kevin-mccarthy-faces-open-gop-revolt-house-fails-elect-speaker/

McCarthy says Trump still backs him, but Trump hates to
be associated with losers, especially losers that turned
on him, if every so briefly after the insurrection.

 https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-669e23dc963da9579ab10e4b3da78911

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Is there a Speaker in the Hou

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html

A suspenseful day today!

 https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-us-republican-party-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-8b1d6cdf0d75dfc95b195c301f9ae344

McCarthy can perhaps win if he agrees to let the
Freischütze-macht-Freiheit Caucus hold a cocked gun to
his head with a magic bullet - the motion to vacate -
that they can fire if he ever fails to follow their orders.

Of course a do-nothing Congress is fine with them and their
megadonors - the more talk on Fox and the less legislating,
the better.

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Johnson is trying but not succeeding very mu

 https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-speaker-johnson-government-shutdown-afb4c4602375383a7dc1c649eeb4e5aa

He seems destined to follow McCarthy, Ryan, and Boehner
into retirement.     But he did get a continuing resolution
passed, which just kicks the can a very short distance
down the road, but that's more than McCarthy could do.

And it looks very possible that George Santos will be
expelled with some GOP votes, even though he has been
reliably voting Trumpist in hopes of keeping out of jail.

So a couple of dim lights glowing in the Stygian darkness
of the House.

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The golden rule of politics, again - he who has the gold,
makes the rul

 https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/israel-the-i-r-s-and-the-big-grift/

In this case, every GOP legislator knows that job #1
is protecting the megadonors.     Talk about Israel, or
deficits, is just a smoke screen.      Tax enforcement
actually pays for itself - unlike the usual GOP budget
cutting, which does not generate enough economic activity
to offset the cuts.   But it does generate enough megadonor
activity to offset the next primary.

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The Golden Rule of politics - he who has the gold, makes
the rul

 https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-02/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-california-republicans-biden

In their blood lust, the Freischütz Caucus seems to have
forgotten that..    The Democrats are hoping to pick up all
the California swing districts in the House next year, and
so far there's no indication that Johnson has McCarthy's
golden touch.

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Will Johnson ever give a straight answer to a straight
questi

 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/johnson-speaker-republicans/

Probably not in public!     Will House GOP choose him
anyway?    No Democratic votes.

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We don’t deserve the majority if we give the Democrats
control over the House of Representati

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/24/government-shutdown-house-speaker/

GOP doesn't HAVE a majority - neither Freischütz Caucus
nor the duck-and-cover GOP.     Will they realize before
the next election moderate Democrats costs less than
Freischütz?

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Look out candidates!   Arthur Bremer is out, and he had no
ideological quarrel with George Wallace - he  just wanted
to be famous.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer

It's no wonder the modern GOP is so Dixiecrat -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/19/republican-civil-war-house-gop-jim-jordan-speaker-fight/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/20/threats-havent-saved-jordan-trump-era-intimidation-has-had-an-impact/

Because that's where it reinvented itself -
Thurmond-Wallace-Nixon-Gingrich-Trump-

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/20/george-wallace-presaged-donald-trump-republicans/

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it’s not a normal major

It's not a majority at all!     It's two irreconcilable,
radically different, ideas of government.

Maybe the seventh try will be the charm!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz

Like Trump, despite all rational evidence, Jordan is
convinced that the people are with him, and the few
holdouts can be bullied into line.

 https://apnews.com/article/jim-jordan-house-speaker-mccarthy-trump-f2b2bf9dc834742bde93d5fc918d9940

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The best way to elect Tru

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/11/mitt-romney-gop-challenger-trump/

One good way is to get an almost-viable GOP nominee instead
of Trump - so Trump runs as a third party or write-in.
Another is to get an almost-viable third-party nominee to
run against Trump and Biden.

Either way, the non-Trump draws votes from Biden, not
from the Trump base, and increases the odds of an outright
Trump victory or a corrupt bargain in the House.

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Freischütz Caucus Founder Jordan for Speak

 https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-scalise-jordan-mccarthy-trump-ced017e71de967a7e327cba7e502926a

That's definitely crossing the Rubicon, not the Jordan,
toward a reactionary Grab-Of-Power GOP that doesn't even
pretend to be interested in anything except defending
minority rule by shutting down the Federal government,
lowering taxes for the megadonors, lowering benefits for
the masses, deregulation for the megadonors, limiting
democracy to old white male megadonors, and ignoring the
rest of the world.   Government of the megadonors, by the
megadonors, for the megadonors!

Are there five House Republicans that won't go along
with that?     That's about all it takes.      It's better
for them to find their consciences, and remember why they
opted for public service, sooner rather than later.

But if Jordan can inherit McCarthy's access to the
megadonors... he who has the gold, makes the rules.

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Tom Emmer for Speaker?      Can he get ANY Democratic vot

 https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/12/steve-scalise-house-speaker-race/

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A lucky day for Steve Scali

 https://apnews.com/article/kevin-mccarthy-ousted-speaker-jordan-scalise-1492ca6b58604c51186015c23f7efccd

Better to be rejected quickly behind closed doors rather
than slowly over 15 ballots.

There is no way out except to find a few Democratic
moderates who will vote for a GOP candidate who renounces
the Freischütz Caucus once and for all.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz

The fundamental problem is that nobody has a majority in
the House - not the GOP, not the Freischütz Caucus,
not the Democrats.     So somebody has to find a
coalition.   Maybe that will change in 2025, but the
Dixiecrat Freischütz Caucus still won't have a majority.
They have nothing in common with the GOP of the Bushes,
Reagan, or Eisenhower.    And Trump would dump them in
a New York minute if he got a better offer elsewhere -
unlikely though that be.

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You can't compromise with fanatics - they take it as
weakness and ask for even mo

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz

House Democrats - and moderate GOP - should vote against
any speaker candidate who wants to include the Freischütz
Caucus in his coalition.     Let them find some  moderate
Democrats instead.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-jim-jordan-house-speaker/

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The Freischütz Caucus hits its mark again!    They aimed
their rifles in January and pulled their triggers today,
and immediately began bragging about it in fund-raising
appeals, teaching a lesson to the third speaker in a row
and getting ready whoever wants to be next.      Nothing
pleases their megadonors more than a paralyzed impotent
Federal governme

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freisch%C3%BCtz

But was this their seventh bullet?     Time will tell.

 https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555

The rest of the House GOP need to realize that they are
next, unless they excommunicate the personality cultists
and burn-it-downers among them once and for all.

Trump's comment takes the prize -

“Why is it that Republicans are always fighting among
themselves?

Vendettas and purges are hallmarks of Trumpism of course -
and cults of personality in general.

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McCarthy doesn't have a majority, just a plurality.
The only way to avoid a Federal shutdown constitutional
crisis is to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution -
followed by the Freischütz Caucus firing McCarthy,
followed by a different kind of constitutional cris

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/22/government-shutdown-deal/

House Democrats should consider voting to retain McCarthy
if he were to renounce the Freischütz Caucus forever, in
favor of bipartisan problem solving.   But with  a shutdown
victory so close, his megadonors might not go for that.

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Shutting down the Federal government is not a policy failu

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/us-braces-calamitous-costly-government-shutdown-eight-days/

It's the long-sought dream of the Freischütz Caucus and
their anonymous  megadonors, who find that it's cheaper
and easier to manage state governments than Federal.
And although they like to say mean things about McCarthy
in public, to keep him in line, they know that he is their
dream Speaker, who will make any concession to appease
them and keep his job, just so he can be remembered as
the weakest Speaker in generations.

But when will they shoot their seventh bullet?

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I got the job d

Wrong!   Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell and their
anonymous GOP megadonors got the job done.     The most
Trump can claim is that he didn't get in the way.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/20/trump-abortion-republicans-presidential/

there’s nothing ‘terrible’ about standing up for life

But those anonymous GOP megadonors only stand up for
UNBORN life that doesn't cost them anything, and keeps
the single-issue constituencies voting GOP, to defend
minority rule.       For the actual BORN - especially poor
Democrats - they will have to make do for themselves.
Job-creator megadonors standing up for the children of
the shiftless improvident poor - that would be 'terrible'!

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He did nothing to support organized labor except lip servi

Of course!   Trump is a SALESMAN.    Salesmen take your
money.   Delivering your goods is somebody else's problem,
and Trump gets bored by negotiations that don't produce
a quick win photo-op.

 https://apnews.com/article/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73

But in every way he's a stalwart defender of minority
rule, like most of the GOP candidates.     Say one thing
in public, the opposite in private, and do what the
megadonors say.

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Where have you been the last 30 years, Mr Speak

“This is a whole new concept of individuals who just
want to burn the whole place down”

It's the whole old concept of the Newt Gingrich Contract
on America and the Tea Partyers and the Freischütz Caucus.

McCarthy’s strategy of repeatedly giving in to the
conservatives is seemingly only emboldening them

As anybody who ever heard of Neville Chamberlain would
surely understand!

 https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-mccarthy-house-republicans-spending-cuts-deff84c0e2ff7d3bd076b8c38e14cca4

They're all doing what they can to defend minority rule
by wrecking the train and blaming it on the Democrats and
RINOs, so they can take over in 2025.  Putin is thrilled,
and probably supporting them in many ways, just as Hitler
supported the original America Firsters.

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Benghazi II

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_2012_Benghazi_attack

Nobody has any evidence that would hold up in court -
but that's not the point.      The point is to keep a
Biden investigation going through the election AS IF there
were serious crimes comparable to those of Trump - whose
trials will also likely be ongoing through the election -
by Trump's choice - to dominate fundraising and air time
to squelch any GOP challengers.

 https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-oversight-republicans-impeachment-57c5b1b40d19ede4ecf7fde08c027cee

The other important point is to save McCarthy's speakership
which the Freischütz  Caucus has threatened if he didn't
deliver on impeachment.     Of course, gaining that, they
will move on to their next non-negotiable demands about
the budget.

The House GOP Benghazi investigations abruptly ended when
Trump was elected president.

#PS1gop


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The Republican Party was born in 1854 as a radical
progressive movement against minority rule, reborn in 1877
as the conservative defender of minority rule, and reborn
again in 1968 as the reactionary defender of minority ru

So it should come as no surprise that it was reborn again
in 2015 as a cult-of-personality defender of minority rule.
And just as in previous reincarnations, by the time the
old guard realized the new guard had taken over, it was
too late to do anything about it.

Now there's hardly any prominent Republican left who even
knows who Edmund Burke was.

 https://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/burke.htm

So it's pretty silly for a Republican-III era Pence to call
out a Republican-IV era Trump.      Pence was part of the
transformation, whether or not he knew it at the time,
and whether or not he regrets it now.      Pence should
not blame Trump for being what he's always been - Pence
should consider some mea culpas for enabling Trump - and
for not becoming the man he should have been, before it
was forced upon him on Jan 6.

 https://apnews.com/article/pence-conservatism-populism-trump-2024-republican-primary-90b437952693ec00e378411be8393499

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He is not a candidate. He is the leader of a mass movem

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/09/02/trump-republicans-dominates-campaign/

The GOP embraced a personality cult when they thought they
would benefit.   Now they can't escape it.   That tar baby
sticks!   But they KNEW what he was when they embraced him.

Trump commands a majority of GOP voters but a minority of
all voters, and that seems unlikely to change.   GOP can go
down to defeat by nominating Trump, or go down to defeat by
nominating somebody else - so that Trump runs as a third
party, independent, or write-in.  Trump sees running as a
way to delay trial and judgment, and being in contention
as a way to get a corrupt bargain if he can't win outright.

For the GOP money machine, the only question is which path
minimizes the losses in  Congress and the states, and thus
jeopardizes minority rule the least.    That's what the
megadonors are trying to figure out.

This showdown has been impending ever since Strom Thurmond
jumped ship in the 1960's.   Newt Gingrich came very
close but was ultimately contained. Thurmond's spiritual
successor Dixiecrats in the Freischütz Caucus and the
Trump base are determined to define the GOP once and for
all - their way.

#PS1gop


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Some were hoping for vice-president or at least a cabinet
office, so said nothing bad about Tru

DeSantis proudly pointed that while Trump sometimes TALKS
fascist, DeSantis already DOES fascist, unilaterally
removing elected Democratic officials that don't meet his
standards of political correctness - and plans to do more,
unilaterally invading Mexico on his first day in office -

 https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ron-desantis-eyes-possible-us-military-offensive-mexico-rcna101590

Maybe while the special forces are across the border, they
can collect the money to pay for Trump's wall - Trump said
Mexico will pay.    They can hire the cartels to act as
technical advisers on collection methods - they've that
down stone cold.

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Haley pointed out that Trump has no support outside his
base, and can't win.

And the rest of the BUNCH have no hope of getting the
Trump base, and so no hope of winning either.

 https://apnews.com/article/debate-republican-takeaways-president-gop-trump-ramaswamy-christie-f38e0aa189ad85f347f97b1b6bea4c53

Trump was right to skip the pointless exercise.  But he'll
still lose, unless he can get some third-party candidates
to draw support from Biden.   Like Joe Manchin.  Then maybe
the election will go to the House and Trump can cut a
corrupt bargain.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_bargain

#PS1gop

Not so long ago, rest of the BUNCH meant
Burroughs-Univac-NCR-CDC-Honeywell.      Who remembers
any of them now?

We're almost there -
Burgum-UNKNOWN-Nikki-Christie-Hutchinson.     U is a
challenge.  Maybe Utahan if Romney gets involved somehow.
Or sUnUnU reconsiders.


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GOP is in a bad spot.    It doesn't matter who they
nominate for preside

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/desantis-campaign-republican-alternative/

If Trump, only the Trump base will vote GOP; that's 1/3
at best.      If not Trump,  he will run as a third party
(he has to be a candidate to defer justice) and take the
Trump base with him, leaving the GOP candidate with less
than 1/3.     If third-party Trump can get enough electoral
votes to send the election to the House, he can forge a
corrupt bargain to avoid justice.

The White House might well be beyond GOP's grasp in 2024.
Their puzzle to solve - which course of action will
preserve their House majority and obtain a Senate majority?

#PS1gop


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It's Trump by a mile - except among the educated.
The uneducated like Trump because he survived college
unchanged and is still like th

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/23/different-way-visualizing-2024-republican-race/

Trump's indictment might have sealed DeSantis' fate.
And the realization that Trump won't endorse any other GOP
candidate and might run on his own, and that would be even
worse for the GOP.    So they might as well nominate Trump.

Then the interesting question will be who among GOP is
really a rule-of-law conservative willing to hold his nose
and vote Democratic.

#PS1gop


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