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I can't help but thinking that this week was just theater. McCarthy was always going to be the Speaker. They deflected the 1/6 event and gave Trump a new forum.
This was all about bringing attention to themselves and winning the news cycles.
Irish_Dem
(48,788 posts)LakeVermilion
(1,049 posts)to deflect from the actual work of governing. They aren't about working to advance the country because they have no platform.
Irish_Dem
(48,788 posts)She is just getting started.
Whoever is funding her decided that a mere 500 vote win was not a good thing.
dalton99a
(81,772 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,788 posts)At the time no one could understand why he kept hanging in there.
bdamomma
(64,004 posts)all about them and their egos. They always distract to something else.
Not one repig, except for 1, went outside with other Democrats on the Capitol steps for the 2 yr. anniversary of Jan 6th insurrection.
That's saying a lot, and I noticed for Hakeem Jeffries speech that other side of the aisle did not get up, (nothing new for them) the Democracy haters.
Walleye
(31,221 posts)Winning that way is no fun for them, they have to be in a loud intimidating minority for victory to be enjoyable. And its all about fun for them
NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... means demonstrating to the nation that the Republicans are "a party in disarray", then I agree that that mission was accomplished.
And I don't think that looking like assholes constitutes "winning the news cycles".
Sometimes abject stupidity is just that - and pretending it was some kind of "strategy" is just a poorly-devised response to the obvious.
Xoan
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