House Republicans divided over gathering focused on party unity

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GOP leaders organized an annual retreat “aimed at unifying the conference.” Most of their members decided not to show up for the gathering.

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It’s against this backdrop that the House Republican Conference left the nation’s capital this week for an annual retreat, held this year at a historic luxury resort in West Virginia. According to an Axios report, the gathering is “aimed at unifying the conference.”

That goal might be easier to achieve if more GOP members were willing to show up. Roll Call reported:

The first order of business at the House GOP’s annual retreat, which kicked off Wednesday, was a press conference on expanding the majority, though less than half of that majority planned to attend the retreat. ... [A] spokesperson for the Congressional Institute, which sponsors the Republican Issues Conference, said just over 100 members of the 218-member majority had RSVP’d they were going.

One lawmaker told reporters for Axios and Politico this week, in reference to the conference’s retreat, “I’d rather sit down with Hannibal Lecter and eat my own liver.”....

Evidently, party leaders focused on “unifying the conference” will have to try again some other time

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1. Republicans are heading towards destroying themselves......................

their cult and the not so Christian evangelists.

Will I care, hell no.

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2. Maybe thoughts and prays will help, Speaker Johnson.

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3. Less than half of the Republican House caucus attended the caucuses retreat in West Virginia this past weekend

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