Is this the "functioning" House of Representatives?

[Anonymous]

Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

That's a hell of a strategy... rather than deal with your own broken caucus, leave it to the Democrats to fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

That's a hell of a strategy... rather than deal with your own broken caucus, leave it to the Democrats to fix.

If there’s one thing we know about republicans, it’s that they are cowards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

That's a hell of a strategy... rather than deal with your own broken caucus, leave it to the Democrats to fix.

If there’s one thing we know about republicans, it’s that they are cowards.

And the second thing we know about Republicans is that they’re always leaving messes for the Democrats to clean up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

There’s a lot of outstanding legislation - border security, Israel & Ukraine defense packages, etc - that needs to get done before the Election. Trump has come out against a lot of this stuff to try to hurt Biden, so Traditional Republicans would rather resign and hand Dems the House than be seen as going against Trump/cooperating with Democrats on a bipartisan basis. I think we will see Speaker Jeffries before Memorial Day and House Dems will ram through the outstanding bipartisan legislation that already been agreed upon by cooler heads in the Senate.

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That’s even more pathetic than I realized.

And now they are on recess again for another two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Hahahahahahaha they think they can rename Dulles for Trump.

[Anonymous]

Ew, no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hahahahahahaha they think they can rename Dulles for Trump.

This is the “legislation” they are devoting time to?

For a party that spends so much time wringing its hands over how awful everything is, that’s a pretty pathetic effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hahahahahahaha they think they can rename Dulles for Trump.

These people are not serious. If I were a Republican I would be furious that my taxes are paying these peoples salaries.

[Anonymous]

It was bad enough when the renamed DCA, that was already honoring President Washington, to Reagan.

That cost millions of dollars in new signage etc and was a slap in the face of air traffic controllers everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are Republicans retiring? Is it moderate members leaving because they know there is no negotiating with the freedom house caucus? Or because they think democrats will sweep the elections? Just curious.

‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/house-republicans-retirements-mike-johnson-majority-elections/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3d531d6%2F6612c332c98fd32082cd2704%2F5b09d2ceade4e264170bb291%2F11%2F49%2F6612c332c98fd32082cd2704

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hahahahahahaha they think they can rename Dulles for Trump.

These people are not serious. If I were a Republican I would be furious that my taxes are paying these peoples salaries.

Your taxes pay all of Congress.

I’m all for renaming the airport since things are named after dead people. 🙂

[Anonymous]

👀 Former Speaker at an event at Georgetown: