Politics The Elephant in the room...The GOP today

The assmouths on our local GOP "news radio" station are doing their best to spin the 2022 midterms into a victory over Biden. One of their guest analyst referred to the results as "the red trickle" and said one big mistake the Repubs made was not offering any solutions to inflation.

Indeed.

Harping on more funding for the police and having stricter judges is easy.

Telling how you're going to stop inflation, especially in a brief ad, is something very different.

 

An interesting read that shows how $$$$$ seriously affects political races.

‘They completely f--ked up’: How the GOP lost its grip on the Senate majority

A detailed report on how the Repubs blew their chance for a red wave. Basically, money that could've & should've gone to quality candidates had to be redirected to weak candidates.

 

NY Times paywall. There are many articles detailing how loyalty to NPD Trump led to Repub defeats.

Setting aside my desire to see NPD Trump go to prison...
It might be beneficial to have him run for POTUS in 2024, provided he loses big time.
Loses the GOP nomination (possible but not probable?), & splits off as an independent, weakening the GOP voter base.

Possibly a slow process to move away from NPD Trump:
Top GOP leaders stop taking, & stop returning, his calls.
Donors start giving to the GOP, not to his campaign.
The GOP stops funding his political efforts (& his legal bills).
Only his base votes for him.

 

Is anybody going to watch the Mike Pence interview tonight?

The teasers I've seen appear to confirm at least two things:
Pence is a wimp who makes Jimmy Carter look like a serious badass.
Pence is still reluctant to criticize NPD Trump's actions & inactions, he's still an apologizer.

 

Mike Pence is still in love with Donald NPD Trump.

Near the end Pence said issuing & executing a search warrant against a former POTUS was unnecessary & uncalled for. When asked about previous efforts to have the documents returned he had no answer. Did Pence mean XPOTUSs in general, or NPD Trump specifically? The question wasn't asked; Pence would've danced around it.

Pence's right leg was twitching & twisting all through the interview. You don't need to be an expert to see Pence very carefully structuring some of his responses so that he didn’t lie, at least outright.

And he's considering running 2024.

 

https://apnews.com/article/2022-mid...uits-georgia-958586396db5ed82c4d1291e9abe3690

Another legal challenge to another Republican Secretary of State's effort to limit voting. One Saturday of voting doesn't sound like much, but the voting window in the runoff for the Georgia US Senate seat is already small.

 

That's a good article.

Hey, at least it's not someone from the Freedom (For White Hard Right Loonies) Caucus. Which doesn't really say much for the GOP HORs.

 

How many caucuses do the Repubs have in the House ?

GOP centrists prepare to 'flex our muscles'

A good look at some of the organized GOP factions in the House.

Will this mean in-fighting will stop useful legislation (other than must pass)?

Are we in for a two year long stalemate after stalemate?

Maybe some alliances will be formed with Dems when necessary?

Will this stop/slow down some of the "payback" investigations?

 

GOP's lackluster fundraising spurs post-election infighting

A detailed article on campaign spending.

One very interesting part of the article is how stingy NPD Trump was when giving money to the candidates he forced on the GOP, $15M out of $100M. I'm curious to know why he's hanging onto that money, possibly for his 2024 run. What are legalties involved with "... a committee designed to help other candidates."?

 

Next act for Palin unclear after Alaska House losses

Is Sarah Palin relevant? Even red Alaska doesn't want her.

If you can't take the heat in 2009, stay out of the kitchen in 2022.

 

5 investigations House Republicans have promised

Legitimate concerns, or political sourgrapes/payback? Two stand out to me.

The one that needs to be dropped: Hunter Biden.
Enough already. Yes, he received a sweet deal because his father is an influential politician. How many hundreds (thousands) of relatives of high ranking politicians have done so? Are the Republicans willing to put their own under the microscope?

A potential cesspool for Repubs: Covid-19 origins.
Do they seriously want look into the early days of Covid? Wouldn't the lack of effort to find the origin of Covid reflect extremely poorly on the Trump admin, & the Repub leaders who followed his do-nothing lead?

 

Both races were very close...which doesn't say much for GA voters.

 

If the GOP is serious about shaking NPD Trump, they should consider trying to convince some of his closest aides & confidants to tell the truth about NPD Trump's activities while serving as POTUS. Getting him banned from public office would be good for the GOP (and the US, and the world).