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Republican fears Democratic speaker as Fox News reporter reveals GOPers eyeing exit for “big payday” (www.salon.com)

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More "fed up" Republicans may leave before the election in hopes of cashing in on the private sector, reporter says

More House Republicans may quit before the end of their terms, which could potentially allow Democrats to regain control of the chamber before the elections.

The early departures of Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., dropped the Republican majority’s margin to just one vote. Gallagher’s planned departure on April 19 is immediately after a date that would trigger a special election to fill his seat, meaning it is expected to stay empty until in the election.

But “other Republicans are angling to get out as soon as they can,” Fox News’ Chad Pergram reported. “A big payday in the private sector could lure some members to cash in their voting card early.”

Pergram reported that some House Republicans are “fed up” and “just exasperated.”

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 155 points 5 months ago

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[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

Nah, it just doesn't pay well enough apparently...

A big payday in the private sector could lure some members to cash in their voting card early.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Just ask Clarence "Harlan Crow's sugar baby" Thomas.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“Personally, if you’re going to make a commitment to the people that elect you, that you’re going to serve for two years unless you have a really good reason not to serve, then why would you do that? And aren’t we team Republican?” she asked.

They genuflect at the altar of business, and then say, “wait aren’t we team Republican?” You fuckin idiot. What even is a Republican anymore? Grifters, cash grabbers, rapists, and people who swear by “individualism.” A “team” of greedy individualists. “Where’s the loyalty to individualism?!” they scream.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

The maddening thing is how much their voters go for the worst the party has to offer. They actually seem to prefer worse candidates

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, they’ve conditioned their voters to survive off of little nibbles of dog whistle racism and classism (somehow. Seeing as a lot of their voters are working class whites). But now, they’ve basically Pavloved them and all they’re doing is ringing that bell with all their might. So those fuckers are slobbering all over themselves for the juicy pieces of racism being freely dished out by OTHER people who were conditioned by the last generation’s dogwhistles. The new generation of republicans are basically saying “wait, why hadn’t the previous generation thought of outright racism?!” When the answer is they were trying to have some deniability. But fuck all that now. No need for it. Factionalism keeps open racism safe and electable.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Southern strategy. You can connect the dots quite clearly from the hamstrung and incomplete post civil war reconstruction to where we are now. Unhung traitors really do destroy republics, sooner or later.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

All they care about is a state-enforced white supremacist hierarchy and making their opponents angry.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I know how much sense their behaviour makes, given their goals.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago

Rapists Exploiting Peons Under Basic Lies Incorporating Christianity And Nationalism

(Feel free to edit, it's a bit rough)

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Rape Enablers/Pedophiles United By Lowering Income, Christofascism, and Nazis.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 19 points 5 months ago

Or they don't want to be around in the next riot.

[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 90 points 5 months ago

Uh oh, spaghetti-o's! Was filling your party with a bunch of money hungry, spineless, bootlickers not such a great idea? No. It's the liberals that are wrong. Must lick boot harder.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I wouldn't want to take part in their coming plans either.

[-] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

Something, something, sinking ship.

[-] xhieron@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Better to sink it than let it hit that bridge.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 38 points 5 months ago

So the rats are abandoning the ship

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Republicans who take bribes when other Republicans take bribes: 😮‍

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

Oh no a democratic speaker

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 months ago

I mean GOP money is being sucked up by their golden baby, so it's not a surprise for selfish representatives to take what they can and leave.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Either that, or they're afraid of another Jan 6 (because that's not unlikely to happen whether he wins or loses), and thus afraid that they're gonna get caught in the crossfire on that one (potentially literally).

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: every newborn since the year 2000 has a 3%-5% chance of being a GOP speaker of the house one day. My niece just turned 11 and she's been speaker of the house twice, and hopes to be minority whip later this fall!

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Has that ever happened before, to lose control because multiple people leave?

And of course they have to blame it on something other than their Republican dysfunction lol.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Civil War of 1861? Due to ejections of insurrectionists and abandonment for rebellion, the Senate flipped and the nascent Republicans got control of the House, Senate, and Presidency.

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I do not have the answer to your question, but I am also curios so leaving a comment to follow for an answer.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I do not have the answer to your question, but I am also curios so leaving a comment to follow for an answer.

There is a star button that allows you to follow responses to a comment.

[-] RampageDon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Easier for me to find one of my comments than search through all the junk I save

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Grifters run when the grift dries up

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hakeem Jeffries in a week: How the fuck did this happen? We were trolling by nominating me every time.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Republicans fear almost everything

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I think Democrats were already favored to win the House in 2024 before the Republican exits. And Republicans are favored to win the Senate given how many seats Democrats are defending in red and red-leaning states.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'm no Constitutional scholar, but since the GOP is so racked with infighting, could the Dems call for a new Speaker (or use MTG's recent proposal) and elect one of their own even before they have the majority? It would only take one or two disgruntled Republicans sitting out the vote... Seems worth a try anyway.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I mean you might want to keep your powder dry a bit longer.

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

They wouldn't get enough votes.

Yet.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe tie a carrot to it, like outlawing Jewish Space Lasers.... It's neither the moderate nor the hard-line Republicans you need, it's just a couple of the crazy stupid ones who vote the way they tweet.

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