cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/80257
> Apparently, shooting a 100-pound female Trump supporter in the neck without warning is “doing his job.”
Capitol Hill Club Republicans don’t give a damn about winning another election. As long as they still get invitations to D.C. parties and happy hours while the United States is speeding toward socialist Hell, they’re content.
"I represent the third-biggest state in the country," Scott said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. "What they told me today at lunch is the way the rules work, McConnell gets to pick."
"So guess who [were] kicked off? Mike Lee and me," the senator continued.
Scott said he is "not going to back down" and that he believes he "did the right thing" when he challenged McConnell for his top GOP Senate spot, adding he believes the Senate GOP conference "needs to change."
Trump added, “She called me and said she’d like to consider it, and I said you should do it.”
Trump then said he told Haley, “Go by your heart if you want to run.”
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/76821
> Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, cochair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, said last week that both parties were discussing the option of using a discharge petition to address the debt limit.
In a nutshell, the primary represents the continuing battle between the more traditional, Bush-era Republicans and the more pro-Trump, populist-leaning candidates such as Banks. Daniels served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under former President George W. Bush, and was cited as a potential presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016.
Scott pointed to his 2021 proposed amendment to the Senate Republican Conference that commits to raising the debt ceiling only if it also secures spending reforms.
“I’ll be fighting with every tool at my disposal to enforce this rule that every Republican in the Senate agreed to follow,” Scott said in a statement released on Wednesday. “A day of reckoning is coming.”
“I look forward to working with House Republicans so we can stop caving to the Democrats, finally end Biden’s raging inflation crisis and bring fiscal sanity back to Washington,” Scott added in a veiled attack on McConnell.
Love this. Let's get it right.
- "We’re at a Reagan moment — ‘trust but verify,’" Perry tweeted. "The devil is in the details, and we’ll take our time to ensure it’s right, not easy. One way or another, the status quo must go."
The comment about Republican priorities is so false as to be completely delusional. Among the many concerns Republican voters have with Washington, D.C., a failure to give even more money to Ukraine simply does not rank.
A large coalition of conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute, publicly opposed ramming through more Ukraine support during the lame-duck session before Republicans take over control of the House on Jan. 3, 2023. Strong pluralities and majorities of Republicans have told pollsters they want decreases, not increases, in foreign spending and global military involvement.
As readers understand by now, conservatives can’t trust the Biden DOJ, under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland, any further than they can throw them. Not only do their actions during the Paul Pelosi attack incident smell funny, but this is the same outfit that calls parents who speak up about their children’s safety in school “domestic terrorists.” And I’m no Mike Lindell fan girl, but what they tried to do to him, as my colleague Bob Hoge wrote, is shameful. People like this don’t need an ironclad list of reasons to bring up their political enemies on bogus criminal charges. We definitely don’t need Republicans helping them do it.
Republicans in the Senate have assured their constituents they will address these issues next year with a series of fundraising emails for their reelection campaigns.
But there will also not be any shut down. The 22 members of the GOP who voted in favor, and 9 who abstained, will have successfully played their designated role for the amorphous uniparty.
And make no mistake about it: Without a purge of Republican leadership, they will succeed. And the GOP will resume being the party standing athwart history yelling, “Just trans our kids a little bit slower, would ya?”