Most Republicans In Denial After Special Election Loss

[RandySF]

their likely loss in the Pennsylvania special election: GOP leaders warned lawmakers that the outcome in the pro-Trump district could spell disaster in the midterms if they don’t respond forcefully, but many lawmakers dismissed the race as an anomaly and seemed to be in denial,” Politico reports.

“Most rank-and-file going in and out of the meeting downplayed the election, suggesting Republican candidate Rick Saccone was weak and Lamb was a “unicorn” who couldn’t be replicated in tight races this fall.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/14/most-republicans-in-denial-after-special-election-loss/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Now the Republican cult just needs to go throught the rest of the stages of grief.

Fox News will pick up the "anger" part soon.

[gratuitous]

2. Excellent

This is exactly how the Democratic leadership fumbled away power after 40 years in 1994. There were plenty of signs and alarm bells throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s that only got their attention in retrospect. Once Republicans got into power, they showed absolutely no hesitation in using every advantage to the fullest, and trashing any norm or tradition that didn't benefit them.

Tom DeLay, for example, used his perch in the House to ramrod through a redistricting scheme in Texas that didn't wait for the decennial census. Nobody thought it was fair, legal or right, but that didn't deter him, and we're living with the terrible results of that bit of chicanery to this day.

The last time Democrats got a bit of power in 2006-10, we frittered away our advantage, reluctant to look backwards to the past and instead looking forward to the future. I was really hopeful that getting congressional majorities after 2006 would lead to a slew of subpoenas for Bush administration skullduggery. But . . . nothing, really. And because of Democratic reluctance to end the out of control Republican rage, we got the horribleness of 2013 to the present, and Mike Fucking Pompeo not only walking around as a free man, but the current Secretary of State designate (bad enough that he was head of the CIA).

If the Republicans can be pried out of power in the 2018 mid-terms, the Democrats need to clean up a 30 years' worth of Republican messes, and get government back on track as the servant of all the people, not just the wealthy and the war criminals.

[thbobby]

3. Same repugs that believe trump is a good president. Right?

Power of denial? Power of stupidity?

[bdamomma]

4. they seemed to be in denial???

will they still be in denial if this stupid man who they have been protecting does some more serious damage to this country and perhaps through their own stupidity does harm to the American people???? I wish they would freaking wake up this is not about them. Sickening.