Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) said he will do āeverything possibleā to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). āIām against āSpeaker Lightā,ā Gaetz said in a clip postā¦
Fault and fairness are irrelevant; theyāve never had anything to do with how government functions and damn sure donāt look to start mattering any time soon. A two party system this polarized simply will. not. work.
Which is exactly why itās important not to bail the republicans out of their self imposed ongoing schism. They need to be broken up and that canāt happen unless they repeatedly fail to caucus together on even simple procedural tasks like electing a speaker. This is an ideal problem brought upon themselves to show they are already not a single unified party. Just a loose agglomeration of shit stirrers. Two bad kids in their granddadās trench coat.
I certainly wouldnāt say that bailing them out is the best choice, either from a moral or a practical point of view. My point was merely that the eight nutters here are not the real problem. They are merely symptom of much more grave and perhaps systemic threats to the governmental system.
ā¦ which Republicans have a large hand in perpetuating.
Iām not saying Democrats are the saints and angels, but theyāre a damn sight better than their red-faced counter-parts. What little enabling their members do pales in comparison to the enabling of the Republican party.
Wholesale change needs to happen. And moving The Leftovers party out of itās middle-of-the-road approach is part of that, but itās not even close to a majority. Trying to lump the two together as some sort of āeveryone in government is bad!ā approach is disingenuous and antithetical to seeking change.
If you want to see a solution, stop trying to generalize the problem. Weāve had generalized āsolutionsā for decades, and itās done nothing but slow the degradation a little bit at best.
My assumption is that youāre casting too wide a net because youāre just tired of the status quo, but you donāt really know who to really blame. So youāre blaming everyone.
Fault and fairness are irrelevant; theyāve never had anything to do with how government functions and damn sure donāt look to start mattering any time soon. A two party system this polarized simply will. not. work.
Which is exactly why itās important not to bail the republicans out of their self imposed ongoing schism. They need to be broken up and that canāt happen unless they repeatedly fail to caucus together on even simple procedural tasks like electing a speaker. This is an ideal problem brought upon themselves to show they are already not a single unified party. Just a loose agglomeration of shit stirrers. Two bad kids in their granddadās trench coat.
I certainly wouldnāt say that bailing them out is the best choice, either from a moral or a practical point of view. My point was merely that the eight nutters here are not the real problem. They are merely symptom of much more grave and perhaps systemic threats to the governmental system.
ā¦ which Republicans have a large hand in perpetuating.
Iām not saying Democrats are the saints and angels, but theyāre a damn sight better than their red-faced counter-parts. What little enabling their members do pales in comparison to the enabling of the Republican party.
Wholesale change needs to happen. And moving The Leftovers party out of itās middle-of-the-road approach is part of that, but itās not even close to a majority. Trying to lump the two together as some sort of āeveryone in government is bad!ā approach is disingenuous and antithetical to seeking change.
If you want to see a solution, stop trying to generalize the problem. Weāve had generalized āsolutionsā for decades, and itās done nothing but slow the degradation a little bit at best.
Your assumption that Iām making an argument to moderation is fundamentally incorrect and a little insulting.
My assumption is that youāre casting too wide a net because youāre just tired of the status quo, but you donāt really know who to really blame. So youāre blaming everyone.
Youāre talking out of both sides of your ass.
They are relevant when it comes to elections. And thatās all that ultimately matters in our system.
Lol. Tell that to Al Gore.
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He was blamed for being boring, which he was. That was his fault. He didnāt contest Florida enough. That was his campaignās fault.
I think the concept was that he lost even though he won.