GOP finds new tools to tear at Dem divisions

[DonViejo]

BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE AND MIKE LILLIS - 03/05/19 06:00 AM EST

House GOP leaders are looking to capitalize on tensions between centrist and liberal Democrats following a pair of high-profile procedural victories on the chamber floor that have highlighted divisions in the Democratic Party.

Republicans intend to weaponize an obscure parliamentary measure, known as a motion to recommit (MTR), as an evolving strategy to give moderate Democrats a choice between crossing the aisle or risking GOP attack ads in their swing districts heading into the 2020 elections.

Republicans, when they held the House majority between 2011 and 2019, treated the Democrats’ MTRs as mere messaging gambits — partisan measures to oppose regardless of their substance. And GOP leaders were near-unfailing in uniting their conference against those proposals over those years: Not one Democratic motion to recommit passed during that stretch.

Now in the minority themselves, Republican leaders have adopted a different position, arguing that MTRs should carry the same weight as any other piece of legislation. And they’re thrilled that a number of Democrats, in the early weeks of the new Congress, have embraced the same belief.

“What we’ve established is that on their side, the motion to recommit is now about policy, it’s no longer procedural, because they’ve been voting with us on a number of the MTRs we’ve brought forward,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) told The Hill.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432561-gop-finds-new-tools-to-tear-at-dem-divisions

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1. Despicable.

[mitch96]

2. "Despicable."

Despicable, all right. On one forum a poster was advocating registering as a democrat and voting for the biggest looser to bust up the choices. Then vote your "conscience" as who you really are, a republican in the prez election.......
Despicable. or a Rodger Stone dirty trick?
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3. And They Think Certain DEms Won't Take Nancy's Warning Seriously?