BREAKING: Just hours after he won the GOP nomination for speaker, Tom Emmer has officially dropped out of the race, according to multiple sources.
That means Republicans are back to square one, again.
The latest: https://t.co/sOaRqDkAyv pic.twitter.com/0cDia2jG1A
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 24, 2023
Late last night, they voted again:
And he’s doomed https://t.co/cxRLVnrxlH
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) October 25, 2023
As long as they can get the media to repeat it, it will work into voters’ brains and that’s the entire point:
https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1707120300658163983
Trump's former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper condemns the corrupt former president for threatening to execute General Mark Milley:
"That statement by the president is horrible. It’s intolerable. It should be condemned by everybody…We owe General Milley and his predecessors a… pic.twitter.com/u4HxeCeBmE
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 26, 2023
But some less-crazy Republicans are out pushing hard in the media to stop a GOP shutdown. Some people are determined not to lose their majority if they can help it:
Mike Lawler, Republican from NY, on hard-right and demands over spending.
“This is not conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. … These people can't define a win. They don’t know how to take yes for an answer. It is a clown show.”
Says “lunatics” put them in this spot pic.twitter.com/Kp67wukgDl
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 19, 2023
Biden-district Rep. Don Bacon says he’s amenable to the conservative proposal to set topline spending in the CR at 2022 levels: “It would go to the Senate. We’d get a compromise back … so it wouldn’t be the final number when all is said and done.”
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 19, 2023
I read Chris Rufo’s book and spent an hour on the phone with him talking about it. I learned a lot about his dubious methods – and the illiberal project increasingly at the heart of the modern right https://t.co/TvL1V0A7is
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) September 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/JohnBurrowsCA/status/1701383086892593574
YOU MIGHT WANNA READ THIS 😆
So billionaire Harlan Crow was bribing the Supreme Court when Citizens United went through – and The Federalist Society helped and they ALL tried to overthrow the government in 2021?
Oh. 😂 https://t.co/o1qafxKHT0
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 10, 2023
The Marine Corps has dismissed the top enlisted adviser at one of its two basic infantry training schools because the service has lost confidence in his leadership.https://t.co/loMpewGkn6
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 16, 2023
Newt Gingrich is the only human being about whom I’ve said, “May God damn him to hell.” He wears his Catholicism lightly, like a napkin to catch his crumbs. He’s done more to ruin America than anyone – I have a very long memory. Fuck him, and the people who still hand him the mike.
Newt Gingrich: "We are drifting towards the greatest constitutional crisis since the 1850s," Trump's indictment is "a desperate last ditch effort by a corrupt machine to destroy their most dangerous opponent. in a way which… breaks the Constitution, destroys the rule of law." pic.twitter.com/I6TxjK6hUF
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 15, 2023
Of all the PragerU propaganda you've seen, this might be the worst.
Frederick Douglass takes a dig at BLM while praising the founding fathers as abolitionists and calling the Constitution a "glorious liberty document."
Florida is letting schools play this stuff. pic.twitter.com/WbS3CDBeNE
— David Heath (@davidhth) August 7, 2023
