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.
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.
To be fair, they do have achievements. They’re just incredibly unpopular with the general public.
The got abortion banned, they brought back child labor in some states, they blocked support for Russia’s invasion of Europe, they’re blocking bipartisan legislation on immigration so they continue to campaign on it, they got America’s
Credit rating dropped again, and they’re about to make it so federal regulators can’t keep food, water, and workplaces safe.
They were able to do a lot with their court appointments, local officials, and good old fashioned obstruction.
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!
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.
"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..."
Guess they can't really brag about where they actually focus energy: stonewalling any and all progress and poisoning the public's opinion and trust of "the Other", whatever the target may be.
Bragging about accomplishments and compromise is the old way to campaign.
The modern form of getting elected is not to actually do anything. Because if you solve a problem then you can't scare your voters with that problem in the future.
An example of this is abortion. Conservatives could always count on the one issue, "pro-life" voter to give them their vote to ban abortion. Now that it's become easier for states to restrict abortion there is less incentive for these one issue voters to come out to the polls.
I fear that the left is starting to see the effectiveness of the "scare the voter" strategy and will drag their feet on certain hot topic issues like abortion so they can get more votes.
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.
secure the border? Any legislation that might address the border will kill the number 1 campaigning topic.
Passing a budget. The current 3 CR's are quite telling. They cannot get the spending cuts because it will also upset some of their potential voters. Not enough cuts or cuts to the wrong programs won't set well.
Roy ,Cramer and Cole aren't the only ones echoing their dissatisfaction .
How ever the American public is grateful for the naming of two medical centers and the dairy bill.
Don't feel bad champ, you held the second most votes for Speaker of the House, that's almost a record, you took the most basic part of your job, something that has been done 129 times, and only taken more than 1 vote 16 times (once since the civil war) and turned it into an international embarrassment, twice, in January it took 15 rounds to select McCarthy, then 10 months into the 2 year term you did it again!