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Randall Stevens.

 

House Republicans look to boot the pedo?

Oh, boy, is this great!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-whisper-expelling-george-santos/71840867007/

 

Special counsel goes directly to Supreme Court to resolve whether Trump has immunity from prosecution | CNN Politics

 

More from the review:

Cheney’s term for this new version of the GOP is the “anti-Constitution party.” Others have begun using this term, in recognition that what confronts us is not merely one unhinged actor but a movement. Better than some others, Cheney grasps that this movement has arisen on the ashes of previous failures. “George W. Bush and my father were the last Republican candidates to win the popular vote in any presidential election, and that was two decades ago, in 2004,” she points out. “And it was no wonder why.”

But what, exactly, is the why she means? She doesn’t say. She is eloquent on the evils of Trump and the craven, ever-widening “orbit” of his flacks and enablers — including her own former colleagues — as well as QAnon followers she has met in Wyoming and some “40 to 50 million” Americans convinced, some of them “absolutely,” thanks to the poisons of social media and internet disinformation, “that their nation had been stolen from them by election fraud.”

Fifty million is a lot, but nowhere near enough to elect a president in 2024. Trump in defeat got some 74 million votes in 2020, and could get even more in 2024, if current polls are reliable. Surely not all of those voters are waiting to join what Cheney calls “the party of QAnon.”

So who are they? This is the question Cheney struggles to answer, because it leads to places that she and many others seem uneasy about exploring, though the answer can be found in publications such as the American Conservative, American Affairs and Compact, not to mention the op-ed pages of the nation’s premier newspapers. There we find writers, many of them young, some of them erudite, who are not necessarily pro-Trump but who argue that he candidly speaks to issues such as the destabilizing costs of the globalized economy and anxieties around immigration policies, not to mention the “nation building” crusades with which the Cheneys, father and daughter alike, have long been closely identified.

Cheney is a person without answers, from a party without answers. Trump bulldozed into that party.

 

I suspect that Cheney could provide some effective answers to the problem, but if she does so publicly she'll write off any possible future return to a position of power within the GOP.

 

She already has. Whether she grasps that of course is a different subject.

 

She's playing the long game. If Trump loses and the R's take another electoral battering she will begin to regain credibility as the worst of the Magats fall away.

 

This idiot clown show must not prevail

 

Al sounds more and more like a vocal doppelgänger of Troy Aikman.

 

The silent silent partner.

 

Harvey the Rabbit.