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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2023, 09:23 AM Jan 2023

'Splain this to me, "moderate" Congressional Republicans:

If you voted for McCarthy, voted for the "rules" package, voted for this week's silly abortion bills and have not clearly renounced the "Big Lie", how in hell do you have the unmitigated GALL to claim you are a "moderate"?

It seems to some of us that the primary difference between you and the likes of Gaetz and Boebert is that you aren't as willing to "say the quiet part out loud".

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'Splain this to me, "moderate" Congressional Republicans: (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2023 OP
Republican Moderates are just as imaginary as Reagan's Iranian Moderates. FSogol Jan 2023 #1
Mythology Magoo48 Jan 2023 #2
Alignment is critical for lock-stepping. czarjak Jan 2023 #3
Jennifer Rubin was just on Velshi addressing this. yorkster Jan 2023 #4

yorkster

(3,832 posts)
4. Jennifer Rubin was just on Velshi addressing this.
Sat Jan 14, 2023, 11:11 AM
Jan 2023

In particular, she said that Nancy Mace (R - SC) was hypocritical because she spoke against the R abortion bill, then voted for it. Ali Velshi had asked her if R's like Mace weren't in fact doing the work of McCarthy by saying the bill wasn't practical because it wouldn't pass the Senate, then voting for it.
Mace did at least mention access to birth control, but then went along with the party line vote.

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