Republicans form circular firing squad, blame Trump for senate loss/demand RNC chair resign-Politico

[MillenialDemLXXXIII]

Oh, I love it. One of the best days eva!

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/republicans-turn-on-trump-georgia-loss-455305https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/republicans-turn-on-trump-georgia-loss-455305

“Trump is the cause of this, lock, stock and barrel,” said one Republican strategist. “But when you’re relying on someone to win you a Senate race that also lost statewide eight weeks prior, you’re not in a position of strength.”

“He is the Dems’ best base animator,” said one GOP strategist involved in the Georgia races. “Look at how high turnout was on their side compared to historical trends. Look at how much their candidates raised. He steps back after Election Day and denies them that oxygen. He didn’t.”

The GOP blame game has expanded beyond Trump to some of his party acolytes. One party official suggested RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel — Trump’s hand-picked party leader — should step down, only a day ahead of the Republican National Committee’s annual Winter Meeting in Amelia Island, Fla.

Let the bloodletting, backstabbing, civil war and crying inside the GOP commence and get the popcorn!

[SunSeeker]

1. LOL. This is very entertaining!

[agingdem]

2. don't forget the lawn chair...

[Mopar151]

3. Gonna be another stupid spreader event? nt

[Solly Mack]

4. If republicans want to cannibalize themselves, I'll pass the salt and pepper.

[AwakeAtLast]

42. Please proceed!

[Hekate]

5. Popcorn anyone? I brought extra butter...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Or, as someone at Free Republic thought, it was McConnell calling $2000 "socialism for the rich"

When a potential Georgian senate voter thinks that his vote might keep McConnell in charge of the senate, that seems more logical.

Plenty of blame to go around, in a circular firing squad.

(Your link is doubled, so doesn't work without editing, by the way)

[Chemisse]

17. Indeed. McConnell certainly displayed his disdain for the people just before the vote. n/t

[smb]

23. So Obvious, Even A FReeper Can See It!

I did a quick schadenfreude scan of FreeRepublic, and found some comments along the lines of "damn, we'd be a lot better off if Stacy Abrams had won her election and was too busy being governor to run the Democratic GOTV machine".

[AngryOldDem]

7. Who didn't see this coming?

“Trump is the cause if this...”

THE LIGHT DAWNS.

Everything he touches turns to shit.

I for one will savor the schadenfreude.

[TlalocW]

8. If only they had listened to...

Lindsey Graham? Wow. Did not age well. Yet, it kind of did.

Link to tweet

TlalocW

[dutch777]

9. We should be careful what we wish for, any spawn from the Reps could be worse than...

...what we have already seen for 4+ years. Dems have to fix the procedural and rules loopholes or this is a hiatus from crazy, not the full cure.

[Escurumbele]

11. You are 100% correct. Too many loopholes in government, and republicans know how to use them

I have said before that the power of the presidency needs to be analyzed and things must change. There must be more checks and balances, we cannot allow another corrupt, evil individual to become president, and there is a long line of those crazies, who are all more intelligent than trump trying to become presidents themselves, the lessons they have learned from trump will serve them well to accomplish what trump was not able to.

I worry about people like Hawley, not Cruz because he may be intelligent, but too many people hate his guts, even inside the GOP, but Hawley seems to be corrupt enough and smart enough to do it.

[chriscan64]

28. Very true.

We learned that much of what restrained presidents from bad behavior was simply force of habit. "Subpoena? Of course I'll comply, it's a subpoena." Now we know that the penalty for ignoring a congressional subpoena is lawsuits that don't go anywhere even if the suit is won. Too much is built upon assumptions. There is no mechanism for requiring financial information from candidates because we assume that the process of running for president will weed out tax cheats and white collar criminals. We assume nobility in presidents the way we assume that nobody will eat the whole tray of samples at the grocery store when nothing is really stopping them apart from a small paper sign and the meek objections of a minimum wage employee.

If we have the good fortune to control congress along with the White House for the next two years, it would behoove us to codify what are currently just norms.

[wnylib]

37. YES!! Mandatory tax release for all presidential candidates.

Consequences of substance for ignoring subpoenas. A means of enforcing them. Mandatory votes on judicial appointees. Mandatory trial testimony after impeachment. They can vote how they choose on appointees, but they must at least vote. They can convict or acquit after impeachment, but they must hear evidence and testimony and have a trial.

And NO judicial appointments once voting has begun.

For starters. There are many more things to address.

[dutch777]

44. Exactly as you said. Sad but true!

And they need to prosecute Trump et. al. for their crimes as there needs to be a cost.

[Cha]

10. Rofl! I read on here that the gop raised

More Money!

Good I'm glad they're pointing fingers at the gaslighting Stooge ronna romney mcdaniel!

[yellowcanine]

12. Loeffler and Purdue bear most of the blame.

Horrible greedy conniving people.

[Major Nikon]

13. To all the Trump supporters lurking, I say this to you

Fuck your feelings, with a cactus. Couldn’t happen to a better group of shitstains.

[underpants]

14. Ooh that Winter meeting should be fun

[rpannier]

15. They need to start by looking in the mirror irst

They should have passed the 2k stimulus money
About 80% of Georgians supported it

[jaxexpat]

26. Mirrors will never work. Republicans never reflect. Plus they have no reflection.

Cannot change spots on the leopard nor stripes on the tiger.

[sdfernando]

35. didn't they do, what was it, THREE post-mortems???

As I remember all 3 basically said the same thing. They need to be more inclusive and expand their base. Instead they went in the opposite direction utilizing voter suppression tactics and amping up the racist B.S.

I'm sure they will do yet another postmortem, but will they actually LEARN anything?

[greenjar_01]

16. That's one of the great side benefits here: how's he gonna say he won GA by hundreds of thousands

of votes when his two flunkies can't win eight weeks later?

Oh, yeah, these are "rigged" too?



And he had another rally in the reddest of the red areas just two nights ago?

[wnylib]

38. With below average voter turnout from that area.

[Harker]

18. There's plenty of soul searching to come.

I doubt they'll find any.

[RVN VET71]

21. Republican "soul" searching!

Good one!

[Harker]

29. Every now and then.

[wnylib]

39. Not searching their souls.

Searching to see if there is one in the whole bunch, so they can get rid of it.

[malaise]

19. So who's the Minority Leader - byebye Mitch!

[democrank]

22. Perhaps Jared, The Boss of Everything, can come me up with a solution.

He’s a bridge over troubled waters, right?

[SergeStorms]

24. They got their civil war.

It's a magnificent civil war within their own traitorous party, and for that I couldn't be happier.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Please, suh - The War of Tea Party Aggression! (nt)

[twodogsbarking]

25. He's the bridge you burn

because you are never going back.

[PJMcK]

27. I always love this part!

When Republicans turn their vitriol on one another is when I start laughing out loud.

Seriously, after today's election certification in Congress, the GOP is going to be fatally fractured between those who follow the Constitution and the seditionists. They can't exist together so we'll see them split into two entities, I think. This is good because the seditionists need to be exposed, shunned and kept in their caves. Further, Democrats can use the Republican playbook for once by dividing and conquering the two factions.

PE Biden has a chance to be a monumentally important president.

[Lonestarblue]

31. Is it too early for champagne?

I really hope that this time the rot in the Republican Party will finally face the light of day. This article in The Guardian clearly lays out at least some of the rot. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/05/trump-is-trying-to-thwart-democracy-itself-but-the-problem-is-deeper-than-one-man

The Republican Party is now the party of anti-democracy and fascism. The whole country needs that fact repeated over and over.

[dalton99a]

32. They all should take each other hunting

Cheney-style

[lagomorph777]

41. Oooh, you mean Whittington-style, or like when he ties the animal down...?

I'm OK either way...

[durablend]

33. Well I'm disappointed

No mention *at all* about Dems in Disarray from Politico?

[keithbvadu2]

34. Ronna even gave up using her family name for the cause.

Ronna even gave up using her family name for the cause.

Or 'for the cult'.

[sueh]

36. They should have removed him from office when they had the chance.

[lagomorph777]

40. Cannibal sharks.

These guys know how to attack; it's gonna be delicious to watch them attack each other.

[bucolic_frolic]

43. The Republican Party crumbled pre-November and was only held up by

The Lincoln Project. By that, I mean, TLP motivated moderate, reluctant Republicans, some of whom didn't vote often, to show up to oppose Trump, and in doing so they voted Republican for other state and federal offices.

They were absent yesterday. If you show up to oppose Trump and vote for Joe Biden, are you gonna show up to vote for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler? After Trump's 11,780 vote call? The self-dealing laced with corruption was on display.

And the RNC hasn't a clue what went wrong. They will never figure it out.

[SWBTATTReg]

45. Republicans also need to blame themselves for one of the greatest breaches in US History, the

invasion of the Capital building and other places by trump's thugs. Not protesters, thugs. Every one of these thugs needs to be caught, dug out of their holes and charged w/ treason and sedition, no less. Time to lay down the gloves, and get tough. No more Mr. nice guy/gal. No more.