General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith all these resignations, and people leaving politics are we witnessing
the fall of a House of Cards?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)It depends on how much power Putin actually has over our elections.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)He's destroying the GOP in a two year period.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Many thought Nixon had destroyed the brand. Six years later, Reagan was elected.
marble falls
(57,427 posts)the graduation class for the next round of new lobbyists??? The money is always pretty fat for the GOP and 1% even if when they are out of power.
Ryan's campaign has around $10,000,000 in it. How many jobs in the civilian world allow you to work for $174,000 (base Rep's pay, speaker gets $223,500, majority and minority leaders get $193,500) for 18 years with a $10,000,000 gold watch?
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)In the long term, I think it means the GOP slides into irrelevance if they do not have a reckoning. IN the short term, it makes them extremely dangerous, IMO, and we'll see more states suffer the fate of Kansas and Oklahoma.