Democratic leaders spoke on the steps of the Capitol and dialed up their rhetoric against Republicans for nominating a conservative firebrand to be the next House speaker.
Despite all the chaos in their ranks, conservative Republicans say they have no concern that some in their party may heed the calls by Democrats to join them and elect a bipartisan speaker.
“That’s the thing that gets you beat in a primary,” said Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla.
“You’d get your a-- beat,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.
Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, said those discussions have only happened outside the GOP conference, not among Republican lawmakers.
“People can talk a big game about that. I haven’t personally heard anybody talk about that; it’s only hearsay,” he said. “But I think that’s pretty nuclear. Let’s keep this conventional.”
Entertaining the idea of working with half the House of Representatives is “going nuclear” now, while shutting down all House operations due to Republican intra-party dysfunction is “conventional.”
That’s after the Republican hypocrisy of “we now have to heal as a nation and work together oh BTW guys who cares there was just an insurrection caused by our side lols”
What all those people never acknowledge is that some seats won’t stay R.
So while siding with Dems will hurt their Republican primary chances, could be the only way they win in a purple election is by becoming a Manchin Democrat.
Change only the letter by your name and hope the new party blindly supports them for being an incumbent.
Entertaining the idea of working with half the House of Representatives is “going nuclear” now, while shutting down all House operations due to Republican intra-party dysfunction is “conventional.”
That’s after the Republican hypocrisy of “we now have to heal as a nation and work together oh BTW guys who cares there was just an insurrection caused by our side lols”
What all those people never acknowledge is that some seats won’t stay R.
So while siding with Dems will hurt their Republican primary chances, could be the only way they win in a purple election is by becoming a Manchin Democrat.
Change only the letter by your name and hope the new party blindly supports them for being an incumbent.