GOP Failure Watch Part V (the Minority in Congress edition)

Not a hint of irony:

"We have never had a family that has influence peddled to this degree" -- James Comer talking about [checks notes] Biden pic.twitter.com/5Q1UshnxNa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2022

 

Javanka just bought Puerto Rico. But OK

 

Judging by her uncle, that family is always hungry!!

Hat. Coat. Waiting for cab.

 

That made me smile.

 

We lost because you believed us!!!

He says it's "immoral" to not vote after bragging about being in the viral election denial movie "2000 Mules" pic.twitter.com/eHunbY2c6p

— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) December 7, 2022

 

In today's Washington Post one of the articles is titled "Calls for a new path for GOP after loss"
Does the MSM just recycle these articles every 2 years? I've been seeing them at least since 2012. Despite that they have 3 reporters on the byline, I wonder if AI wrote it?

 

What's truly irritating is they have these when Democrats lose, too. For Democrats, it's always "Move to the center," and for Republicans, it's always "Double down!" The sooner the Republicans join the Know-Nothings in the floating garbage island of history, the better

 

Trouble is, the Know-Nothings never die. They just become reincarnated, as America Firsters, then as the Silent Majority, then as the Moral Majority, then as today's Republicans. Tomorrow they will still exist, whatever they are called.

 

They don't have to. As long as they can be shut out of the political process for awhile it is good. With the exception of Chinese, it took almost 70 years from their time to restrict immigration to the US and almost 30 years for anti-Catholicism to be a major Presidential election theme.

 

A lot of these folks wish it was the 90s and early to mid 00s.

And as mentioned, Perlstein's books taught me that a lot of the pundit folk aren't exactly the brightest.

 

Following the 2004 Presidential election, The WSJ Op-Ed section crowed about Bush's "mandate" and how the nation wanted him to enact conservative policies without compromise. Following the '08 election, when Obama won by more than what Bush ever did, the Journal wrote about how Obama shouldn't just ignore the 47% of people that did not vote for him and how he bore responsibility for governing for the entire country.

Yeah sure those guys are right-wing shills, but that attitude also bled somewhat into the less overly political media, as your comment notes.

 

"Aww hell, Charlie. I don't wanna be like all dem Dummocrats who care about voting rights & actually vote. I'm a gonna stay home and skin some raccoons or sumthin"

CK "No, no, no! Don't skin raccoons on election day, Cletus. Think of voting like taxes. You hate them but you have to pay them, right?"

 

Tired of winning:

Ronna McDaniel is set to glide to a fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee next month — an unprecedented vote of confidence for a leader who has thus far failed to preside over a single positive election cycle. https://t.co/JnJ0xP7k08

— Axios (@axios) December 13, 2022

 

Dipsh*t Rick Scott too

 

Winning is for liBruL woke elites.

 

In a way it is because when you win elections you have to govern.

 

It’s almost as if words had different meaning to them:

Boebert explains why she thinks Mayorkas should be impeached: “On Mayorkas’s watch, over 14,000 pounds of fentanyl was seized in fiscal year 2022 at our southern border. That is an all-time record high.” pic.twitter.com/fttfuthyCM

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 13, 2022

 

So is this what they call rule by the mob?

Marjorie Taylor Greene said Republican House factions are holding weekly meetings in Kevin McCarthy’s office, calling themselves, “the five families.” pic.twitter.com/aeWx4w8i6b

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) December 13, 2022