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amcgrath

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7. Members are there to represent their voters

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 12:13 PM

6 hrs ago

Punishment for not voting on party lines is pure, undiluted fascism. It makes a total mockery of the term "representative" and renders the house totally irrelevant

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Republicans fume at members circumventing leaders with discharge petitions [View all] BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago OP

"I don't support that process," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) Firestorm49 8 hrs ago #1

How can one call a Republican a "leader"? usonian 8 hrs ago #2

Anybody who has done this should immediately be expelled from the Republican conference SSJVegeta 8 hrs ago #3

Of course an apartheid party does not support letting the majority of representatives force them to actually vote JT45242 8 hrs ago #4

is this gonna get worse as folks lose their primaries? mopinko 7 hrs ago #5

Republicans hate democracy. Midnight Writer 7 hrs ago #6

They crow about defending democracy, the constitution, and all the BS rhetoric that goes with it ... King_Klonopin 4 hrs ago #10

Members are there to represent their voters amcgrath 6 hrs ago #7

I know why the Repukes hate these discharge petitions FakeNoose 6 hrs ago #8

Boo hoo. Martin68 5 hrs ago #9