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¦
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.
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.