The 'Good' Republicans Are Bad, and the Bad Ones Are Batshit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Chip Roy from Texas’ 21st Congressional District didn’t vote to overturn the election of the 2020 election, which made him slightly better than 147 of his colleagues who voted to change the election results because they didn’t like them.

Roy released a statement with a small group of Republican reps who wanted to follow the law despite the fact that their guy lost, warning that trying to overturn the election would “strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.” He even went as far as to challenge the seating of representatives from states where members of his party were challenging the results of the election—a pretty bold move considering one of the people who was challenging the results was his old boss Ted Cruz.

But what a difference six months makes. Roy is no longer Team Electoral College and the Constitution. He’s joined the rest of his party—with the exception of soon-to-be-purged Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney—on Team Own the Libs Even If It Means Killing Your Supporters.

This weekend he was sounding like a mini-Newt, telling a group in a recently surfaced video that “Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in there and lead.” When CNN followed up, “Roy responded to coverage of his earlier comments in a statement standing by his remarks, saying he plans to ‘oppose almost everything that Congress does,’ and pledging ‘to fight with every ounce of my being to stop the radical left—and weak Republicans.’” And then of course there was his weird anti-vaxxer tweet: “come inject it.” A great message when the most contagious delta variant is taking hold and new polling from the Washington Post-ABC shows that 47 percent of Republicans “aren’t likely to get vaccinated.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-good-republicans-are-bad-and-the-bad-ones-are-batshit/ar-AALUHgb

[Walleye]

1. Why does he even bother to show up at the Capitol , he's not gonna work

We’re supposed to be the lazy, undisciplined ones. They seem to have no work ethic at all

[pandr32]

3. +1

The elephant in the room.

[Timewas]

2. Sadly

I really don't give a rats ass about he 47% that may not be around to continue this idiocy .... The only concern I have at all about them si that they may be a vector for a worse variant...Otherwise couldn't care less.

[Marcuse]

4. Even "the good ones" want to suppress the vote. Re Cheney:

Even more troubling, she shied away from criticizing Jim Crow-style legislation that Republican-led states are passing based on the “big lie.” Instead, she claims some measures have been “misrepresented in the media” and that the greater danger is “federalizing” voting rights under the Democrats’ voting reform bill H.R. 1. She insists states should do what they please. In practice, that is no different from MAGA activists seeking to curtail voting access and trying to stack the deck so that elections are conducted under the auspices of Republican partisans.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/14/liz-cheney-doesnt-go-far-enough/