Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, has openly questioned whether the GOP deserves to keep the House majority, lamenting the lack of accomplishments this Congress. He’s not alone.
When Congress began the new year, Rep. Andy Biggs gave a television interview and made a startling confession: House Republicans have done nothing they can run on.
“We have nothing. In my opinion, we have nothing to go out there and campaign on,” the Arizona Republican said on the conservative network Newsmax. “It’s embarrassing.”
Anchor Chris Salcedo responded with a bemused chuckle. “I know,” he said. “The Republican Party in the Congress majority has zero accomplishments.”
The exchange captured a dynamic that looms over Republican lawmakers heading into the 2024 election: They’ve passed little substantive legislation since winning the majority in 2022 and struggled to do the basics of governing with a Democratic-led Senate. Their first year was instead marked by fractiousness and chaos, complicating the party’s pitch to voters this fall. The challenge is accentuated by likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump making “retribution” against his enemies, rather than shared policy goals, the centerpiece of his comeback bid as he continues to spread fabricated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Having no achievements never stopped them before.
The ignorant and impotent are the angriest , loudest, forked-tongued demons there are. Like burnt out junkie mothers screaming at their children.
That’s NOT true! They have MANY accomplishments!
They forced raped 10 year olds to give Birth! They forced poor people to pay back predatory student loans! They protected Rich CEOS who poisoned American Citizens! They ROLLED BACK Child Labor Laws! They banned the Bible and Dictionary! They made Healthcare ILLEGAL! They protected Cops who killed Kids or watched Kids DIE! They KILLED and TRAFFICKED people! They haven’t passed a Budget!
These are EXACTLY why Republicans keep voting for them! To do EXACTLY this!
“Keep hurting the people we want hurt, you’re doing great!”
They banned the Bible? I’m in favor of that. Enough bronze age superstitions running society already
They banned the Bible?
Sort of. A few districts in states where they instituted “parental oversight” laws got challenges for the bible, so it was temporarily removed from school libraries until it could go through the review process. AFAIK in every case, it was rubber-stamped instead of facing a review consistent with other challenged books.
What.
I mean that’s fukn amazing.
This brings great joy to me, thank you for the update.
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Republicans
worry theyhave no achievements to run on in 2024, and their voters don’t give a fuckWho needs achievement when you have fascism on the menu for 2024?
Tfw your main campaign promises are all the things you’re not supposed to say out loud
Odd, they never cared before.
Welp, guess it’s time for them to fabricate another crisis to try to pin on Democrats!
So what you’re saying is that you may have to face the consequences of your own actions?
Damn. The struggle is real.
Being the least-productive Congress in American history is a kind of accomplishment…
Don’t be upset, Republicans. You also have no positive achievements in the 40 years leading up to 2024 as well.
What?
Attempting to restrict medical care and the rights of gay people not sitting well with you?
They could start by passing a clean Ukraine lethal aid bill in the House that exceeds what Biden is asking for. Funding for high paying American jobs always sells well. And it’s a win-win that those high paying American jobs are to produce modern weapons like PrSM to upgrade the US Army’s capability, enabling them to pass old ATACMS to Ukraine to dispatch Russian invaders.
More military spending? Is that what we’re supposed to be routing for?
Not necessarily, but it really demonstrates that they can’t deliver even when their base and Dem colleagues would support it.
I think that guy is right though, strategically speaking. It would be in their (garbage republicans) best interest to pass some benefit for the military industrial complex that’s kept them in power, because right now they have nothing.
It’s kind of hilarious that Russia was a US conservative’s worst enemy until 2015. 10 years ago a Ukraine bill would have basically no opposition (assuming post Maidan), but Russia has clearly made inroads with the far-right grifters lol.
Russia has clearly made inroads with the far-right grifters
This is why they won’t pass any massive military spending bills, especially those that have to do with Ukraine. They’re all being paid by the Russians, and allowing Ukraine to continue to do well hits them in the pockets more directly than all the other super PACs combined.
Putin bought them out after we started supplying/selling weapons to Ukraine after the 2014 Crimea invasion, with Obama and everyone pushing hard to get Ukraine out of Putin’s sphere of influence. (complete with supporting the Euromaidan, and “the revolution of dignity”… )
100% Putin made an investment in the republican party. It’s paying off wonderfully for him.
I think we should ship Putin everything he paid for. Air drop them into that village they built, just for expats…
I’m personally more hawkish than others on the left, i feel. Even if we cut the military budget in half we’d still have the strongest military by a large margin. If Ukraine isn’t a situation for the richest country in the history of the world to support, what is?
In general, no.
When it supports to defend itself and to drain Russia’s military capabilities through attrition, YES.
fuck republicans, but democrats haven’t done anything but lose ground and fund wars
Simply not true. And yelling about “both sides bad” just makes you look like a troll.
Are they actually capable of embarrassment?
sure.
Just ask them to hold up their hand and compare sizes.
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They don’t see reality, so every hand would be the biggest and the best hand.
yes, but they think you’re saying they have a small dick. (even though there’s no correlation between hand or foot size and dick size.)
Only when they get caught having a gay hookup in a gray hound bathroom… Which has happened several times unsurprisingly
Don’t forget the restrooms in parks and other places. Also don’t forget the underage pages that were all the rage decades ago.
I find that hard to believe… Is Greyhound really still chugging along?
As long as anti gay activists, pastors, and GOP politicians keep buying bus tickets so they have an excuse to why they were found chugging cock in the public restroom, Greyhound will stay in business.
I was assuming the article said, “the GOP is embarrassing.” It’s embarrassing, Republicans - seems self evident. I mean, it’s not like 10 minutes when by and they didn’t get anything done. Weeks, months, years have gone by with GOP demonstrating no interest in governing; of course they haven’t accomplished anything.
Which is complete bullshit, they’ve wreaked havoc on civil rights and eroded the fabric of society to the point of implosion, what the fuck they talking about “we done nothing”, they did a LOT, and they should face trial and execution in the damned International Court once their fascist aspirations crumble.
There never has been, that’s why they focus on just dumb ass culture wars. They’ll probably find weird obscure incident from a single trans kid in school and run their entire platform on that, about woke or some shit.
“We just wish we could have destroyed a bigger part of society and caused additional policy disasters… Sometimes I wonder if we are really evil anymore…”
“The Republican Party is a caucus, representing many different viewpoints. Some of my colleagues wish to worsen the lives of poor people. Others prefer to focus on worsening the lives of minorities. Still others prioritize their personal financial well-being. With this diversity of opinions, it can be hard to find common ground.”
Would you kindly provide me with a source for the quote?
