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    This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

    We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

    There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?



     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    This asshat continues his BS. Screw you and your negotiations...

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    Tuberville says he won’t relent on holds despite Israel’s war, claims he’s not hurting military readiness | CNN Politics

    Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has had a hold on military promotions for the last nine months, slammed a proposal being floated to change the chamber’s rules to allow a vote on many of the nominations en-masse and attacked the White House and Senate Democrats for not negotiating with him.
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    I cannot express how much contempt I have for Tuberville. What a small man. Horrible bigot. I feel sorry for every player he ever coached.

     
    At least a dozen Republican members of Congress have welcomed clean energy investment flowing to their electorates following Joe Biden’s landmark climate bill, even as they launch fresh attempts to dismantle the legislation.

    The group of conservative lawmakers, including the House of Representatives members Nancy Mace, Clay Higgins and Marjorie Taylor Greene, have all recently praised the arrival of new renewable energy, battery or electric vehicle jobs in their districts even after voting against last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was loaded with incentives for clean energy projects.

    The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) environmental group is tracking what it calls the “hypocrisy” of the Republican members who have repeatedly sought to bask in the climate investment unleashed by the IRA despite having voted unanimously against it.

    “We are clearly seeing this disconnect House Republicans are feeling between their voters and their fossil fuel donors,” said David Shadburn, senior government affairs advocate at LCV. “Voters want clean energy jobs but the donors in big oil and gas want the repeal of this stuff. These members are stuck between these two things.”

    The passage of the IRA, which includes vast tax credits and other support to bolster clean energy such as solar and wind as well as the manufacturing of components such as electric car batteries, was widely castigated by Republicans. Mace, a South Carolina lawmaker, called the bill “absurd” and a “fiasco” but more recently has issued glowing statements about the carmaker Volvo boosting its electric vehicle production and a scheme to further electrified public transit.

    Higgins, meanwhile, denounced the IRA as a “monstrosity” but has welcomed the arrival of a $1bn solar manufacturing plant that broke ground in his state of Louisiana in September.

    Taylor Greene, the far-right extremist from Georgia, has called the climate bill “extremely dangerous” but then lauded the “fantastic” decision of QCells, a solar company, to expand its manufacturing base in her district…….

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    Republicans welcome local benefits of climate law despite voting against it

    Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene among those accused of hypocrisy over efforts to gut landmark Inflation Reduction Act
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    More infighting coming, this time on the Senate side?

    Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

    According to multiple sources familiar with the Tuesday lunch meeting, McConnell warned GOP senators that they could face “incoming” from the “center-right” if they signed onto Hawley’s bill. He also read off a list of senators who won their races amid heavy financial support from the Senate Leadership Fund, an outside group tied to the GOP leader that spends big on TV ads in battleground Senate races. On that list of senators: Hawley himself, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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    Mitch McConnell warns GOP senators they’ll face ‘incoming’ if they back Hawley bill to limit corporate giving in campaigns | CNN Politics

    (CNN) - Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned GOP senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the...
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    BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Only a week into the job, the North Dakota Republican Party's executive director has resigned after a media outlet publicized some of his social media posts that were demeaning toward women and dismissed concerns raised by Black people about racism.

    The party announced the resignation Monday of Dave Roetman, who previously worked for the South Dakota GOP. He quit seven days after being hired and a few days after Forum News Service reported about his posts and replies on X, formerly known as Twitter. The posts dated from just over a year ago to as recently as this month.

    Many of the posts and replies were about political issues. But they also included crass comments, such as replying “she seems nice” to several posts of women in revealing clothing, and responding unfavorably to a woman in a plus-sized swimsuit. In another reply, he speculated about whether women should be addressed as “broads” or “dames,” adding that debates about gender and language are why “men are distancing themselves from women professionally.”

    In a post about a Black reporter who left a music festival after a man called her a racist word, Roetman replied, “Narcissist?” On a post of a news story about Black Americans moving out of the U.S., he replied with a meme that read, “Well... ... bye.”

    Roetman told The Associated Press on Monday that “I think that recent events have been a distraction for the party, and I just don’t want it to be a distraction. We need to have a strong party, and I’m just going to take a different path here.”

    North Dakota Republican Party Chair Sandi Sanford said she was “very disappointed” by Roetman's posts. She said the search committee “looked at everything,” and that the disparaging posts were "kind of buried.”

    Sanford said Roetman resigned after they talked about his posts following the Forum article.............

     
    Welp, yet another stand up Republican is leaving office. Ken Buck has had enough and is saying the party has to quit saying the 2020 election was stolen and he doesn't support Trump and thinks Trump won't be the next President. He thinks both chambers of Congress are up for grabs in 2024.
     
    DaveXA said:
    Welp, yet another stand up Republican is leaving office. Ken Buck has had enough and is saying the party has to quit saying the 2020 election was stolen and he doesn't support Trump and thinks Trump won't be the next President. He thinks both chambers of Congress are up for grabs in 2024.
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    I saw that. He caved and voted for Johnson for Speaker after saying he wouldn’t vote for an election denier. I don’t know what to think about him.
     
    MT15 said:
    I saw that. He caved and voted for Johnson for Speaker after saying he wouldn’t vote for an election denier. I don’t know what to think about him.
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    The idiots probably cornered him and gave him an ultimatum. Could be part of why he's getting out. He's clearly pissed about what happened.
     

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