Because even if they don’t mind getting primaried next year, which they would, they would also likely lose out on cushy post-Congress lobbying gigs. This situation is really highlighting how broken Congress is.
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Too left-wing.
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It would currently take 217 votes for a majority, and the Democrats have 212 votes, so just 5 Republican defections would be enough to do it. (Not that I see any chance of that happening.)
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I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen now. If the people they’ve floated so far can’t get the votes, I don’t see how anyone can get the votes.
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Clarence Thomas is feckless enough to vote to repeal Loving
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“He’s just not a big enough bigot, so it’s going to be a ‘no’ from me, dog.”
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I still think Stefanik will get it for reasons I’ve articulated above.
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The tweet showing her support for herself is going to be weird. That’s the only consistent thing in all the votes, she’s tweeted out support for the candidate.
Enough that it is comical now. I can only assume someone is building an NFT collection of them.
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Specifically, 5 of the 18 in competitive districts that Biden carried. They could make themselves king makers and pivotal in every piece of legislation. Exactly the way Manchin does in the senate.
Use the results of that leverage to hold off primary challengers and to win their seats again. Since without this, they’ll have a harder time in the general and may get a primary challenger anyway.
My prediction is either this, or some large coalition of GOP and Democrats will come together. The larger one to try and hold off challengers by size, the small set though power. I think the small is more likely, but people love hiding in a crowd.
But, it’s not going to be this week.
Best case, it’ll be less than 7 days before the government shuts down next. More likely, right at the deadline and then it will shutdown anyway as it’s to close to pass a CR and will be way past time to pass actual final bills. Possible it’ll be within the month after the government shuts down. I don’t think it’ll go longer than that. Being shutdown for both Thanksgiving and Christmas is going to be bad for everyone.
If you’re in a swing district, it’s going to be hard to run against the ads showing you keeping the government shutdown for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Just the TSA visuals used in the ads will be bad.
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Yep. For the “burn shit down” wing of the GOP, this kerfuffle looks like an early Christmas gift. Or, given who led the push to dump McCarthy, a plan.
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They will not, at the very least none of them have seemed remotely willing to do so… the biggest crime you can commit as a republican is working with the “Democrat” party… 
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I get that feeling, but I’m also so fucking angry that they are holding up work that needs doing.
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and probably gun violence
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If he dropped the bid, does that leave Jeffries as the only one running and he gets it?
I can hope anyway :-/
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I mean, that too… people opposed to Jordan were getting death threats, apparently.
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The fact that she is such a vocal Trump supporter is a deal breaker for at least 6 or 7 House Republicans, even if they won’t go public about that. And, as I said elsewhere, there are no moderate Republicans in the House.
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