| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| New Congress, new drama. | 2022-12-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604162403691683848 | 1604162403691683848 |
| It's not just Speaker - the RNC chair contest exposes | 2022-12-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603938473974435840 | 1603938473974435840 |
| "some Republicans believe McCarthy is privately rooting | 2022-12-14 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1602846970468397056 | 1602846970468397056 |
| McCarthy stands against serious bipartisan government | 2022-12-14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602845476742520832 | 1602845476742520832 |
| When you get right down to fundamentals, there are two | 2022-12-14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1602844822775005184 | 1602844822775005184 |
| Trump's the worst possible choice but he'd support him | 2022-12-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602840845698244608 | 1602840845698244608 |
| Youngkin in 2024? He's better than Trump or DeSantis | 2022-12-07 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600516543606947840 | 1600516543606947840 |
| Is there a Speaker in the House? | 2022-12-06 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1599947587964239872 | 1599947587964239872 |
| One of the tricky skills needed to be a GOP leader is | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598574297874063362 | 1598574297874063362 |
| “the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is” | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598172437010862081 | 1598172437010862081 |
| What if there is no route for ANY GOP member to get to 218 | 2022-11-24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595570264892243968 | 1595570264892243968 |
| They really should have instituted ranked-choice voting | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594910396577550336 | 1594910396577550336 |
| Democrats outdid Republicans in fund-raising! That has | 2022-11-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594581302652669953 | 1594581302652669953 |
| Split the vote? Parties wouldn't have to worry | 2022-11-20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594393849073238016 | 1594393849073238016 |
| If you couldn't pass any legislation if you wanted to, | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593393471020072960 | 1593393471020072960 |
| Talking about something else is par for GOP - | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593256464381972482 | 1593256464381972482 |
| GOP can't pass anything, so they'll keep investigating as | 2022-11-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593113565686534150 | 1593113565686534150 |
| "We must start saying what we are for" | 2022-11-16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592785458744160257 | 1592785458744160257 |
| Pence testing the waters by releasing his book the same | 2022-11-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592388240547647488 | 1592388240547647488 |
| Andy Biggs is going to challenge McCarthy. He can't | 2022-11-15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592386526264332290 | 1592386526264332290 |
| GOP megadonors trying to figure out what happens next. | 2022-11-14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592064322683170816 | 1592064322683170816 |
| McCarthy believes in "harnessing the power of our entire | 2022-11-14 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591958514133782529 | 1591958514133782529 |
| Everybody in the GOP knows the answer. The problem is | 2022-11-13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591906545033531394 | 1591906545033531394 |
| Liz Cheney for Speaker? | 2022-11-12 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591448393196634113 | 1591448393196634113 |
| Think they can get rid of McConnell? Not as long as he | 2022-11-12 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591314024217870336 | 1591314024217870336 |
| The tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats. | 2022-11-12 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591235991767248896 | 1591235991767248896 |
| "Republicans are simply out of touch with the values of | 2022-11-10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590580615954706432 | 1590580615954706432 |
| Can McCarthy avoid the fate of Boehner and Ryan? | 2022-11-10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590568574036611073 | 1590568574036611073 |
| GOP Speakers of the House have short careers.The fighting | 2022-11-10 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590568219546628097 | 1590568219546628097 |
| Job #1 seems to be making the Capitol easier for | 2022-11-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590188859782238208 | 1590188859782238208 |
| "Republicans are running in 2022 promising a return to | 2022-11-08 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589875638995161088 | 1589875638995161088 |
| To get his majority and speakership - | 2022-11-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589858692476043265 | 1589858692476043265 |
| The Trumpist Dixiecrats have schooled the whole GOP and | 2022-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587277614640558080 | 1587277614640558080 |
| What do GOP WANT to talk about ? Inflation, crime, and - | 2022-10-27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585700959925067776 | 1585700959925067776 |
| Who are the radicals? The Supreme Court that reversed | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584767382400413696 | 1584767382400413696 |
| Cheney expects a new party to arise for rule-of-law | 2022-10-23 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584330152485363717 | 1584330152485363717 |
| Democrats must keep focus on GOP's real agenda - which | 2022-10-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584320968461197312 | 1584320968461197312 |
| GOP's long game to flip south Texas. | 2022-10-21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583581713975779328 | 1583581713975779328 |
| Pence was a good team player for four years and turned | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583579687216762880 | 1583579687216762880 |
| You might have thought Youngkin and Lake were opposites. | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583553093056155648 | 1583553093056155648 |
| Try to have it all ways and you might not win any way! | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583548104426475522 | 1583548104426475522 |
| GOP leaders are getting SPECIFIC about plans, including | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583302236318244865 | 1583302236318244865 |
| Honesty is the best policy - but it doesn't work for | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583298728835751942 | 1583298728835751942 |
| It's true! Trump was chosen by God to save America! | 2022-10-21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583295259131248641 | 1583295259131248641 |
| How do politicians sell their souls? | 2022-10-12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580095295735463936 | 1580095295735463936 |
| McConnell is secure in his Senate seat and leadership | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580087346191441920 | 1580087346191441920 |
| MTG is the future of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party! | 2022-10-11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579665948700995584 | 1579665948700995584 |
| Doing nothing is an excellent qualification for a GOP | 2022-10-10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579331870508318720 | 1579331870508318720 |
| A traditional Republican unclear about Trumpism. | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578472919516053504 | 1578472919516053504 |
| Morality is only an issue for the other party. | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578214950627000321 | 1578214950627000321 |
| GOP candidates REALLY don't want to answer questions about | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578213991595200513 | 1578213991595200513 |
| "Former president George W. Bush, former GOP governors | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578183805130547200 | 1578183805130547200 |
| Another chance to purify the GOP by getting rid of a | 2022-10-06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578172451879415809 | 1578172451879415809 |
| The GOP commitment - to opposition - | 2022-09-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574268103495585792 | 1574268103495585792 |
| Liz Cheney is already NOT a Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican. | 2022-09-25 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573868072917602307 | 1573868072917602307 |
| No matter what GOP candidates say, they will support | 2022-09-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573828440628768768 | 1573828440628768768 |
| Trumpism - and GOP minority rule - depend on single-issue | 2022-09-24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573526175577612288 | 1573526175577612288 |
| The platform to ENACT for the megadonors hasn't changed - | 2022-09-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573516811269591040 | 1573516811269591040 |
| What happens if the party base nominates a candidate with | 2022-09-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573139364451868675 | 1573139364451868675 |
| GOP candidates talk about privatizing Social Security. | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573072618621931520 | 1573072618621931520 |
| If the GOP retakes the House, they'll reinforce minority | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573066044914241537 | 1573066044914241537 |
| Who's going to save the GOP from Trump? Not the lunatic | 2022-09-16 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570764188972351490 | 1570764188972351490 |
| GOP sees voter fraud everywhere. | 2022-09-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570095206455980033 | 1570095206455980033 |
| GOP Lt Gov says GOP must move beyond Trump. But most | 2022-09-14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570050830702874624 | 1570050830702874624 |
| Have the megadonors seen that the patriarchalists, in their | 2022-09-10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1568392793533616128 | 1568392793533616128 |
| What will it take for Trumpism to move beyond Trump? | 2022-09-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568333162304122880 | 1568333162304122880 |
| "reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568331523405021184 | 1568331523405021184 |
| https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law | 2022-09-08 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567732744574345217 | 1567732744574345217 |
| (Mostly) red states fight inflation by fanning inflation! | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565417882829201408 | 1565417882829201408 |
| Inevitably somebody would spill the beans in public about | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565403628998823936 | 1565403628998823936 |
| These have not been approved by GOP megadonors as actual | 2022-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565394485302796289 | 1565394485302796289 |
| "when extremist movements tell you where they are headed, | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565334333203763203 | 1565334333203763203 |
| Two kinds of Republicans - | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565156692249088000 | 1565156692249088000 |
| Alaskans tired of Palin? | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565141609770954752 | 1565141609770954752 |
| Might GOP be in a better position now if they had fielded | 2022-08-30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564458962447020033 | 1564458962447020033 |
| "the other campaign keeps receipts" | 2022-08-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564447317712707584 | 1564447317712707584 |
| Rewriting websites - part of the progression from GOP | 2022-08-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564445741304541184 | 1564445741304541184 |
| The narrower the majority in the House, the more powerful | 2022-08-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563908935861448707 | 1563908935861448707 |
| A libertarian paradise in New Hampshire? | 2022-08-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563891383169064960 | 1563891383169064960 |
| Musk is the archetypcal Republican - pretends to be for | 2022-08-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563375800899870720 | 1563375800899870720 |
| Dark money is the mother's milk of politics. | 2022-08-26 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563039032589750272 | 1563039032589750272 |
| When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563037006778601472 | 1563037006778601472 |
| It's true! | 2022-08-26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563032955244515328 | 1563032955244515328 |
| GOP candidates look at recent special election results | 2022-08-26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563030147711651841 | 1563030147711651841 |
| John Eastman - the last of the Orange County fruitcakes? | 2022-08-18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560284811679346689 | 1560284811679346689 |
| Dynamics of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560079102366781442 | 1560079102366781442 |
| The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party repudiates all | 2022-08-18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560074371804196865 | 1560074371804196865 |
| Not everybody runs to win. | 2022-08-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559958051951497216 | 1559958051951497216 |
| Pence gestures toward rule-of-law Republicanism. | 2022-08-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559948215381741568 | 1559948215381741568 |
| Identitarians vs traditional Republicans - | 2022-08-17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559765482332246017 | 1559765482332246017 |
| Character and moral courage - something you don't find | 2022-08-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559742286308655104 | 1559742286308655104 |
| Arizona GOP is leading the way in undermining democracy | 2022-08-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559220246807863296 | 1559220246807863296 |
| The lunatic fringe has gone mainstream and legislators | 2022-08-15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559185649445482496 | 1559185649445482496 |
| Historians point out the ghosts of Huey Long | 2022-08-11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557580305443086336 | 1557580305443086336 |
| The would-be dictators trying to take over the GOP. | 2022-08-04 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555026072273424384 | 1555026072273424384 |
| Ron Johnson is trying to privatize social security, | 2022-08-04 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555017741408473088 | 1555017741408473088 |
| CPAC and Orban - and Tucker Carlson - a marriage made | 2022-08-04 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555002378503393286 | 1555002378503393286 |
| How the crazies took over the GOP - and were welcomed by | 2022-08-04 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554999246721495040 | 1554999246721495040 |
| Why are McConnell and McCarthy in charge? Is it | 2022-07-31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1553590964106641408 | 1553590964106641408 |
| A Trumpist who clearly doesn't need Trump any more. | 2022-07-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552884064830382082 | 1552884064830382082 |
| No lame excuses here - these GOP are proud of their | 2022-07-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552881581362008065 | 1552881581362008065 |
| The exciting new class of GOP candidates. | 2022-07-29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1552877715937669120 | 1552877715937669120 |
| Voting in the Republican primary in | 2022-07-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552785820599197696 | 1552785820599197696 |
| Romney didn't get the memo - the GOP left him behind | 2022-07-13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1547222227279495168 | 1547222227279495168 |
| If Musk is as smart as Trump used to say he was, then it's | 2022-07-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546556000693473281 | 1546556000693473281 |
| Can American GOP match British Tories? | 2022-07-10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546282239524163584 | 1546282239524163584 |
| One thing you can say about Pence - he's not as bad as | 2022-07-08 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1545250379528486912 | 1545250379528486912 |
| The South has won the Civil War at last! Soon the | 2022-07-07 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1544899527794077697 | 1544899527794077697 |
| When the Federal regulators won't do anything - then | 2022-07-05 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544305590796574720 | 1544305590796574720 |
| An argument for Youngkin in 2024. | 2022-07-04 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1543845619730505730 | 1543845619730505730 |
| Increasing GOP registrations - will that translate to | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543822648743890945 | 1543822648743890945 |
| If GOP controls Congress, that will force the real issue - | 2022-07-02 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543075306075934721 | 1543075306075934721 |
| What is Pence thinking? | 2022-06-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541773670736990209 | 1541773670736990209 |
| Susan Collins is a poor judge of GOP character. She | 2022-06-25 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540734449129623552 | 1540734449129623552 |
| It's lonely and dangerous being a rule-of-law Republican. | 2022-06-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540693639847759873 | 1540693639847759873 |
| The GOP major donor class hit two home runs. But they | 2022-06-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540459983912853506 | 1540459983912853506 |
| Texas Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP reaffirms its leap toward | 2022-06-20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538884587891269634 | 1538884587891269634 |
| Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP acknowledges that white supremacists | 2022-06-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538883058585042945 | 1538883058585042945 |
| All the wannabes are booking trips to Iowa. | 2022-06-18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538034668020240384 | 1538034668020240384 |
| GOP recruits diverse candidates to talk about all the | 2022-06-05 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533262061588733954 | 1533262061588733954 |
| So much for the will of the people in South Dakota. | 2022-06-04 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532946082094649345 | 1532946082094649345 |
| The Nazis couldn't have taken over without the Franz von | 2022-06-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532864999160393729 | 1532864999160393729 |
| Sasse auditions, perhaps not knowing it, for a place on | 2022-06-03 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1532860765320802304 | 1532860765320802304 |
| Paul Ryan decides he's a rule-of-law Republican after all. | 2022-06-03 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532858879318425600 | 1532858879318425600 |
| Kemp no hero of democracy - but he did stand up to Trump. | 2022-05-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529988501243981824 | 1529988501243981824 |
| Does Pence have a political future? Not loyal enough | 2022-05-26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529677096162717696 | 1529677096162717696 |
| GOP collectively conspiring to make sure they never lose | 2022-05-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529086101477916672 | 1529086101477916672 |
| Are major GOP donors REALLY opposed to Replacement Theory? | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528921362596712448 | 1528921362596712448 |
| GOP stands for GOP. | 2022-05-23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1528584500883558400 | 1528584500883558400 |
| Now the Freedom Caucus is going too far! | 2022-05-20 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527657830035038208 | 1527657830035038208 |
| The GOP has no clue about inflation. They can't fix | 2022-05-20 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527450564027527168 | 1527450564027527168 |
| As Dixiecrats migrated to and eventually took over the | 2022-05-19 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1527329981969227780 | 1527329981969227780 |
| It's remarkable that Trump endorsed a Muslim and Turkish | 2022-05-16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526081622684012544 | 1526081622684012544 |
| Pence to rally for Kemp. | 2022-05-13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525113412950183936 | 1525113412950183936 |
| Voting in the Republican primary? What do the candidates | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525093232803082240 | 1525093232803082240 |
| Rand Paul stands up decisively - for Rand Paul. | 2022-05-12 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524885365969981441 | 1524885365969981441 |
| All in on culture wars! | 2022-05-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524571087874318336 | 1524571087874318336 |
| Most the the NC GOP establishment would love to retire | 2022-05-12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524546930172329984 | 1524546930172329984 |
| Who needs debates or press conferences if you have campaign | 2022-05-12 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524541747484798977 | 1524541747484798977 |
| McConnell won't say what GOP-controlled Senate would do, | 2022-05-11 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1524263543457165314 | 1524263543457165314 |
| Prohibit abortions? Not a winning campaign tactic | 2022-05-06 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522695483025616897 | 1522695483025616897 |
| LGBT are not an important GOP constituency. They should | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522379857300054016 | 1522379857300054016 |
| GOP legislators always remember where their campaign funds | 2022-05-06 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522378222716944384 | 1522378222716944384 |
| It's going to be Benghazi all over again! | 2022-05-05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522012986012962816 | 1522012986012962816 |
| Pro-life is not the essence of GOP's reactionary judge | 2022-05-05 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1522009523443044353 | 1522009523443044353 |
| What do GOP candidates REALLY believe? There are so | 2022-05-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521360859804487681 | 1521360859804487681 |
| How lucky the Ukrainians are that the US House GOP | 2022-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520808213846773761 | 1520808213846773761 |
| Will McCarthy become Speaker? One word from Trump would | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519504224035295233 | 1519504224035295233 |
| In the best Dixiecrat tradition - | 2022-04-22 | 511 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517635538710269952 | 1517635538710269952 |
| Tourism is booming in Iowa - Cotton, Cruz, Haley, Pence, | 2022-04-22 | 514 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517510556025974786 | 1517510556025974786 |
| Don't want to talk about your real agenda in public? | 2022-04-21 | 488 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1517136481759887363 | 1517136481759887363 |
| As you'd expect, GOP representatives sued to prevent proxy | 2022-04-21 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516990483188183040 | 1516990483188183040 |
| McConnell fights back against Trump. McConnell wants | 2022-04-19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516397628291911681 | 1516397628291911681 |
| The GOP has a plan for when they gain control of | 2022-04-19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516237492604661762 | 1516237492604661762 |
| Though they don't like to talk about it to the voters | 2022-04-15 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514774443058368512 | 1514774443058368512 |
| The last thing GOP candidates want to do is reveal the | 2022-04-14 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514459871353077760 | 1514459871353077760 |
| McConnell doesn't want to talk about the real platform. | 2022-04-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513329125649358849 | 1513329125649358849 |
| It used to be GOP candidates never talked about policy - | 2022-04-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512786510529003523 | 1512786510529003523 |
| View from the porch! | 2022-04-08 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512419623609667585 | 1512419623609667585 |
| McConnell is fine if GOP nominates Trump again, even though | 2022-04-08 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1512225974972153859 | 1512225974972153859 |
| Sarah Palin thinks she has something more to contribute! | 2022-04-02 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510109115267182597 | 1510109115267182597 |
| Rick Scott isn't shy about his agenda, and Democrats aren't | 2022-03-30 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509159619255435273 | 1509159619255435273 |
| GOP presidential hopefuls play to the QAnon part of | 2022-03-27 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1508105616421654529 | 1508105616421654529 |
| If GOP senators can't do what they want for their donors - | 2022-03-25 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507399085925416960 | 1507399085925416960 |
| Florida GOP leads the way in making sure election officials | 2022-03-25 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507363150600937474 | 1507363150600937474 |
| Election fraud - how come it's always Republicans? | 2022-03-25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507194029246623759 | 1507194029246623759 |
| "Graham added that if Biden picked Childs, I could have | 2022-03-24 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1506792002041516032 | 1506792002041516032 |
| Promises are made to be broken! | 2022-03-24 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1506790392859045888 | 1506790392859045888 |
| GOP senators missed no opportunity to campaign for | 2022-03-24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506789278390530050 | 1506789278390530050 |
| Why shouldn't GOP nominate domestic violent candidates? | 2022-03-24 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506787536110174208 | 1506787536110174208 |
| The impossible dream - you can't be a traditional | 2022-03-21 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1505787328555466754 | 1505787328555466754 |
| Home-grown Ohio oligarchs try to pretend they have no | 2022-03-17 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504256146076409856 | 1504256146076409856 |
| Make it a referendum, not a choice! | 2022-03-12 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1502662182755921922 | 1502662182755921922 |
| Making the argument for regional federalism - | 2022-03-12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502657340197068805 | 1502657340197068805 |
| Americans deserve to know what GOP will do. | 2022-03-12 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1502522361026805760 | 1502522361026805760 |
| There are some things that everybody that upholds rule of | 2022-03-10 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502066854315053076 | 1502066854315053076 |
| Most GOP leaders don't want to explain or even talk about | 2022-03-10 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501726395755417602 | 1501726395755417602 |
| Trumpist senator Mike Lee of Utah has some unusual | 2022-03-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501070491129237505 | 1501070491129237505 |
| Political credos for traditional Republican politicians | 2022-03-07 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1500911832608829441 | 1500911832608829441 |
| "We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises | 2022-03-07 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500833277535563781 | 1500833277535563781 |
| Pence tries to have it both ways - | 2022-03-05 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1499967448723779585 | 1499967448723779585 |
| CPAC - Trump is all about Trump, but all his would-be | 2022-02-27 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1497947911128190976 | 1497947911128190976 |
| “CPAC is a good group of people" - so much for Christie's | 2022-02-26 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1497577981035749379 | 1497577981035749379 |
| McConnell is trying to purge unelectable fringe candidates | 2022-02-25 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1497095668233506817 | 1497095668233506817 |
| There's no secret about the GOP agenda. Talk about | 2022-02-15 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1493606363418738689 | 1493606363418738689 |
| McConnell and Trump trade more shots - | 2022-02-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491564922920071171 | 1491564922920071171 |
| "it’s imperative that the next generation ensures the | 2022-02-07 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490836746933731331 | 1490836746933731331 |
| DeSantis perfects himself as Trump 2.0. | 2022-02-03 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1489134743404769283 | 1489134743404769283 |
| Of course no Trumpist - hardly any GOP in fact - is really | 2022-02-01 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1488350882005614596 | 1488350882005614596 |
| Most GOP legislators demonstrate excellence at avoiding | 2022-02-01 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1488348805682667521 | 1488348805682667521 |
| Traditional conservatives no longer have a political party. | 2022-01-27 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486778619401629699 | 1486778619401629699 |
| Contract with America - the campaign brochure that nobody | 2022-01-22 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484772868957224960 | 1484772868957224960 |
| McCarthy wants to be Speaker so badly. | 2022-01-21 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484523814868320256 | 1484523814868320256 |
| GOP asks Gingrich to draft a plan. They tell major donors | 2022-01-21 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484384204313956358 | 1484384204313956358 |
| It's not easy to be Mike Pence. | 2022-01-13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1481489129896513536 | 1481489129896513536 |
| As Republicans go, Hogan is not bad. But why settle for | 2022-01-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480760191398252545 | 1480760191398252545 |
| Thune decides he's still in. | 2022-01-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480337926584029184 | 1480337926584029184 |
| Somehow the people that fund GOP campaigns decided | 2022-01-06 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1478962220323139585 | 1478962220323139585 |
| Another traditional conservative might have had enough. | 2022-01-05 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1478775400696205313 | 1478775400696205313 |
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========== New Congress, new drama. https://apnews.com/article/politics-kevin-mccarthy-bakersfield-af3c403b3cbd4cc26940718f55fb4d55 If you thought the current Congress was "do-nothing", just wait! #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-17 17:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604162403691683848 ========== It's not just Speaker - the RNC chair contest exposes the fundamental fissures in the GOP. Rule-of-law vs cult-of-personality, and multiple personalities contending for GOP support of their cults. https://apnews.com/article/politics-donald-trump-ad24a08c75b87773bfdc02b0e885cfec Voters get no say; how about megadonors? #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-17 02:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603938473974435840 ========== "some Republicans believe McCarthy is privately rooting for the omnibus bill to pass, even though he plans to vote against it publicly" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/kevin-mccarthy-mitch-mcconnell-collision-course/index.html Saying one thing and doing the opposite is essential GOP minority rule. #PS1gop ===== engage 5 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 30 time 2022-12-14 02:04 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602846970468397056 ========== McCarthy stands against serious bipartisan government problem solving. How could that possibly be more important than his getting elected Speaker? https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/government-funding-shutdown-latest/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-14 01:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602845476742520832 ========== When you get right down to fundamentals, there are two diametrically opposed GOP factions - the rule-of-law believers and the cult-of-personality believers. No telling who will win, but the leading candidate is the Democrats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/house-speaker-gop-motion-to-vacate/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-12-14 01:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602844822775005184 ========== Trump's the worst possible choice but he'd support him anyway? That's not the unleadership the GOP needs. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/13/ap-interview-hutchinson-says-trump-worst-choice-for-gop/ For rule of law or for cult of personality? It's on or the other, full time, not depending on which way the wind is blowing. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-14 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602840845698244608 ========== Youngkin in 2024? He's better than Trump or DeSantis or Cruz - but that's a pretty low bar. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-virginia-777765c6894f5277d91f055648c6b856 The GOP's Gordian knot is figuring out how to appeal to the Trumpist base AND never-Trumpists, independents, and swing voters. #PS1gop ===== impress 17 time 2022-12-07 15:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600516543606947840 ========== Is there a Speaker in the House? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html No Democrat would ever vote for McCarthy or for any of the reprobates he's courting. But if some reasonable Republican offered a way forward? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/05/mccarthy-clyburn-speaker-house-desperate-democrats/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-12-06 02:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1599947587964239872 ========== One of the tricky skills needed to be a GOP leader is saying one thing in public to the voters and the opposite in private to the megadonors, and then voting their way. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But it's a skill honed by steady practice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/republicans-railroad-strike-workers-party/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 07:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598574297874063362 ========== “the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is” https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html Excellent idea, Mr McCarthy! Democrats can certainly support Republicans interested in serving the country rather than their personal ambitions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/30/mccarthy-trump-fuentes-ye-mar-a-lago-dinner-comments/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598172437010862081 ========== What if there is no route for ANY GOP member to get to 218 GOP votes? Then the Democrats can help them decide! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html Flexible McCarthy has never painted himself into a corner by saying he'd rather be right than Speaker. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/kevin-mccarthy-pro-trump-threat-house-speaker/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-11-24 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595570264892243968 ========== They really should have instituted ranked-choice voting in party primaries! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/trump-crowded-republican-primary-2024/index.html Now they're stuck, since they'd most assuredly rather hang separately than hang together. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594910396577550336 ========== Democrats outdid Republicans in fund-raising! That has numerous implications. Particularly that GOP megadonors do not feel generous about wasting money on low-quality candidates. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-mitch-mcconnell-tucker-carlson-government-and-politics-3c7479c6bd7abf922dcc3aae2e3ae16c In true Trumpist fashion, GOP factions blame each other. #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-11-21 06:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594581302652669953 ========== Split the vote? Parties wouldn't have to worry about that if they elected convention delegates with ranked-choice or proportional voting, instead of plurality-take-all. Then it wouldn't matter how many challengers Trump or Biden had. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-las-vegas-donald-trump-2a4caff793c65878204d210bc740cadf #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-20 18:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594393849073238016 ========== If you couldn't pass any legislation if you wanted to, what can you do instead? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/house-republicans-white-house-hunter-biden/index.html It doesn't matter whether they have any actual evidence or whether they ever find anything. It's all about getting on Fox. #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 time 2022-11-17 23:59 +0000 userclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593393471020072960 ========== Talking about something else is par for GOP - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop That's how you get voters to vote for a subpar candidate. Talk about something - anything - else! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-georgia-e70f3a80b2af5d23bad4bff65a274dd5 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593256464381972482 ========== GOP can't pass anything, so they'll keep investigating as long as the cameras keep showing up. https://cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/house-majority-republican-plans/index.html A do-nothing Congress is OK with GOP megadonors. They can wait to get their tax cuts, deregulation, and union busting. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/opinions/biden-roadblocks-house-under-gop-control-zelizer/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-17 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593113565686534150 ========== "We must start saying what we are for" As in "tax increase for many of the lowest-paid Americans" and "cutting Social Security and Medicare"? And who preserved the Democrats' Senate majority? https://apnews.com/article/florida-mitch-mcconnell-congress-3592c4d35d125619d935f09b1d00dc5e More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1804695269874984 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% expands 1 impress 5 time 2022-11-16 07:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592785458744160257 ========== Pence testing the waters by releasing his book the same day Trump announces. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/pence-trump-2024/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-15 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592388240547647488 ========== Andy Biggs is going to challenge McCarthy. He can't be elected but he can keep McCarthy from being elected. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-speaker.html And Hawley says he opposes McConnell. How much is hot air? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-support/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-15 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592386526264332290 ========== GOP megadonors trying to figure out what happens next. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-14 07:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592064322683170816 ========== McCarthy believes in "harnessing the power of our entire conference". QAnons and insurrectionists too? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-faces-tough-math-problem-house-speakers-race-gop-wins-majority Pelosi piles on too - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-says-she-doesnt-believe-kevin-mccarthy-takes-house-speaker #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-11-14 00:57 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591958514133782529 ========== Everybody in the GOP knows the answer. The problem is that everybody knows a DIFFERENT answer. And since they can't agree on basic facts, they don't even agree on what the question is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/11/senate-republicans-mcconnell-midterms/ #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-13 21:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591906545033531394 ========== Liz Cheney for Speaker? https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-for-speaker Why not? Anybody can be Speaker. She couldn't keep all her supporters singing the same tune but maybe she could keep them talking to each other. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1801841883493656 #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 15% expands 1 impress 13 time 2022-11-12 15:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591448393196634113 ========== Think they can get rid of McConnell? Not as long as he keeps the pipeline open from donors to candidates. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/politics/trump-republican-senate-leadership-elections/index.html Money talks. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-12 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591314024217870336 ========== The tossups NV-1,3,4 were just called for Democrats. At this point, it sounds like McCarthy's best bet is to hope to have one LESS than a majority. Then nobody will bother trying to replace him as (minority) leader. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/group-staffed-by-ex-trump-officials-working-to-block-mccarthys-speaker-bid #PS1gop ===== engage 4 engage-rate 57% expands 4 impress 7 time 2022-11-12 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591235991767248896 ========== "Republicans are simply out of touch with the values of a significant part of the electorate" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/republicans-midterms-abortion.html Did GOP, depending on single-issue pro-lifer voters, miscalculate how many pro-choice voters are also single-issue? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799887257022452 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-10 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590580615954706432 ========== Can McCarthy avoid the fate of Boehner and Ryan? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/09/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-house-speaker/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 9 time 2022-11-10 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590568574036611073 ========== GOP Speakers of the House have short careers.The fighting between the lunatic fringe, the traditional GOP, and the problem solvers wears the Speaker down and out. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-congress-nov-9-0b3b0a547265e5bfa6fd4382b43e0e7f But McCarthy and McConnell can work with megadonors, and $hare with their members. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% expands 1 impress 18 time 2022-11-10 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590568219546628097 ========== Job #1 seems to be making the Capitol easier for insurrectionists to enter, and even harder for the IRS to audit GOP megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/day-one-republican-majority-house-mccarthy/ #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-09 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590188859782238208 ========== "Republicans are running in 2022 promising a return to calamity" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/opinion/republican-congress-agenda-mccarthy.html GOP donors will be happy cultivating the lunatic base, shutting down the government, defaulting on the debt, burning more hydrocarbons, doing without Social Security or Medicare. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-08 07:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589875638995161088 ========== To get his majority and speakership - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/politics/midterm-fractious-political-environment-analysis/index.html McCarthy promises to do nothing specific about any of the problems he ran against. Endless investigations aren't DOing. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security/index.html Thus he plans to avoid a debt default, without saying how. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-08 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589858692476043265 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrats have schooled the whole GOP and most of their megadonors - that fueling divisive talk at the top and violent action at the bottom protects minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-gop-strategist-condemn/ And if the GOP is not for minority rule, what are they for? #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-01 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587277614640558080 ========== What do GOP WANT to talk about ? Inflation, crime, and - the one thing they know how - for rich, cut taxes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/political-ads/ "Entitlement reform" for the rest of us - cut Social Security, Medicare, etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/republican-midterm-debates-abortion-trump/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1789515298059648 #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-27 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585700959925067776 ========== Who are the radicals? The Supreme Court that reversed a decision after 60 years, and the GOP megadonors that financed the grooming and selection of those justices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/gops-attempt-flip-abortion-issue/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584767382400413696 ========== Cheney expects a new party to arise for rule-of-law conservatives - leaving the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to the reactionaries, personality cultists, violent insurrectionists, and their enablers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/23/cheney-trump-gop-midterms/ #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 2 impress 19 time 2022-10-23 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584330152485363717 ========== Democrats must keep focus on GOP's real agenda - which they used to hide - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But not any more! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/23/biden-democrats-midterms-economy/ #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-23 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584320968461197312 ========== GOP's long game to flip south Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/texas-democrats-republicans.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-21 22:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583581713975779328 ========== Pence was a good team player for four years and turned off rule-of-law Republicans. Then for one day he was not on the team and turned off Trumpists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/pence-2024-jan-6-poll-numbers-byler/ He's still popular with traditional Republicans and their megadonors - the few remaining. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 22:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583579687216762880 ========== You might have thought Youngkin and Lake were opposites. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/kari-lake-glenn-youngkin-republicans-trump/index.html Wrong - they are alike - Trumpists winning any way they can. "The party’s single-minded pursuit of power is not new. It’s the key feature of the last decades of Washington politics." #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 20:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583553093056155648 ========== Try to have it all ways and you might not win any way! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-congress-donald-trump-3c315861315cdb483fe4c72560dac909 The genius of the GOP is to tell everybody what they want to hear, to get them on board and keep them. It's tricky when the message reverses between primary and general. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583548104426475522 ========== GOP leaders are getting SPECIFIC about plans, including "entitlement reform" - GOP-speak for privatizing, eliminating, or shrinking Social Security and Medicare - or else shutting down the global economy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/gop-debt-ceiling-plan-financial-crisis-recession/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783888135289031 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583302236318244865 ========== Honesty is the best policy - but it doesn't work for GOP candidates. They have to say different things to their megadonors - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop and for the primary - and to swing voters. https://www.salon.com/2022/09/24/maga-candidates-scrub-references-to-stolen_partner/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783888135289031 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583298728835751942 ========== It's true! Trump was chosen by God to save America! https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1779416145736230 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-21 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583295259131248641 ========== How do politicians sell their souls? Speaker Henry Clay would rather be right than President. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would rather be Speaker than right. It might work if he can keep the dark money flowing from megadonors to candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-trump-book/ #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-12 07:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580095295735463936 ========== McConnell is secure in his Senate seat and leadership position. He lines up the donors to support his GOP colleagues. And he knows nobody ever got in trouble for keeping his mouth shut. He just wishes that Trump and the Trumpists knew that. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/mitch-mcconnell-interview-midterm-cliffhanger/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-12 06:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580087346191441920 ========== MTG is the future of the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/greene-mccarthy-house-republicans-trump/ https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-congress-ed7fb114dbe45d0cd703d8800c21bfa3 May it follow the Whigs into well-deserved oblivion. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-11 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579665948700995584 ========== Doing nothing is an excellent qualification for a GOP senator! It's what they do best! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/jd-vance-ohio-senate-nonprofit.html Vance will learn how to cut taxes for billionaires and privatize social security and medicare like a good GOP senator. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-10 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579331870508318720 ========== A traditional Republican unclear about Trumpism. "We need candidates the public should take seriously. That goes beyond celebrity. It requires a conservative vision for governing." https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/opinions/herschel-walker-scandal-georgia-senate-gop-duncan/index.html Now it's ALL about celebrity. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772799476397897 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 19:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578472919516053504 ========== Morality is only an issue for the other party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/walker-republican-moral-politicians/ #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578214950627000321 ========== GOP candidates REALLY don't want to answer questions about abortion. Either they lose votes from the base or lose votes from the middle. Their HONEST answer would be "I'll say, or not say, anything it takes to get elected." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/maine-governor-lepage-mills-abortion/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578213991595200513 ========== "Former president George W. Bush, former GOP governors and other former Republican senators and House members have not lined up to call out deniers" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/cheney-election-deniers-republicans-arizona/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 00:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578183805130547200 ========== Another chance to purify the GOP by getting rid of a non-Trumpist senator! https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/ben-sasse-resigning-senate/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-06 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578172451879415809 ========== The GOP commitment - to opposition - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/house-gop-commitment-to-america-mccarthy/ A list of things to talk about, not of things to do. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop They are not FOR anything specific that might alienate their crazies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/commitment-america-gop-midterms-dionne/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1762421970768981 #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-09-26 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574268103495585792 ========== Liz Cheney is already NOT a Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican. Maybe she hasn't realized it yet. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/politics/liz-cheney-republican-party-donald-trump-2024/index.html The GOP will go the way of the Whigs, we hope, to be replaced by a rational conservative party with broader appeal. #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-09-25 02:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573868072917602307 ========== No matter what GOP candidates say, they will support union-busting to support their megadonors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop One Pennsylvania union says - “Here’s one thing my members get: They’ll never be with someone who is for right-to-work” https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-pennsylvania-presidential-campaigns-d934158054ec81e2379b72ad40b5f6b7 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-25 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573828440628768768 ========== Trumpism - and GOP minority rule - depend on single-issue constituencies - right-to-lifers, free-fire advocates, anti-vaxxers, KKK, Nazis... What's next - incels? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/incels-rape-murder-study/ But for now - QAnon - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/23/trump-qanon-song/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1760691577608687 #PS1gop ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-24 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573526175577612288 ========== The platform to ENACT for the megadonors hasn't changed - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop So McCarthy published a platform to TALK about for the voters - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-kevin-mccarthy-newt-gingrich-border-security-97f04b6997ea980a868b8d7628378824 Traditional GOP business as usual. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-24 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573516811269591040 ========== What happens if the party base nominates a candidate with no chance in the general elections? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/trump-threaten-democracy-nyt-siena-college-poll/index.html Does the GOP dissolve into a fascist Trumpist Dixiecrat branch and a traditional Burkean conservative branch? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759812001029978 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-23 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573139364451868675 ========== GOP candidates talk about privatizing Social Security. Are anonymous bureaucrats better on Wall Street than in DC? Many candidates aren't good at saying one thing to the voters and another to the megadonors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/22/democrats-election-republican-candidate-meltdown/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759669044377607 #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-22 22:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573072618621931520 ========== If the GOP retakes the House, they'll reinforce minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But McCarthy has a platform for the voters! https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/house-republicans-midterm-mccarthy/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1759658837711961 #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 21:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573066044914241537 ========== Who's going to save the GOP from Trump? Not the lunatic fringe who love him. Not the self-serving opportunists who keep quiet - no courage there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/02/its-time-republicans-save-themselves/ If GOP leaders do turn on Trump, it will seem unanimous and overnight. Safety in numbers! #PS1gop ===== impress 9 time 2022-09-16 13:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570764188972351490 ========== GOP sees voter fraud everywhere. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/jason-schofield-new-york-election-commissioner/index.html That's because so many of the offenders are GOP. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-14 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570095206455980033 ========== GOP Lt Gov says GOP must move beyond Trump. But most current GOP candidates have hugged the tar baby too closely and can never be clean again, no matter how they scrub their websites. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/opinions/gop-candidates-midterm-elections-duncan/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-14 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570050830702874624 ========== Have the megadonors seen that the patriarchalists, in their zeal, will undermine rather than strengthen minority rule? Let's get back to talking about inflation! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/republican-abortion-bans/ So it wasn't a profound moral conviction after all - just a political calculation. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-09-10 00:15 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568392793533616128 ========== What will it take for Trumpism to move beyond Trump? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-rick-scott-what-it-will-take-to-abandon-trump-zelizer/index.html It's all up to the megadonors! They call the shots in the GOP, and it's strictly a business decision for them. They won't throw good money after bad. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-09 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568333162304122880 ========== "reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/biden-republicans-infrastructure-law/index.html GOP politicians lead such scripture-based lives! #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 20:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568331523405021184 ========== https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law Can a rule-of-law Republican make progress against Trumpism? https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-inflation-presidential-utah-ea8396a0aed62ae0ba9617d157117baa #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-08 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567732744574345217 ========== (Mostly) red states fight inflation by fanning inflation! https://apnews.com/article/inflation-covid-health-personal-taxes-legislature-5062f53df342140f945f98e99dc923d6 But tax rebates are a way to try to change the subject in an election year - away from stolen elections, violent insurrections, lost reproductive rights, and stolen top secrets. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 19:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565417882829201408 ========== Inevitably somebody would spill the beans in public about the real GOP agenda - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop McConnell told them to keep their mouths shut! Not exactly the seven wounds of Christ, these seven GOP wounds were all self-inflicted - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/republican-midterm-self-inflicted-wounds/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565403628998823936 ========== These have not been approved by GOP megadonors as actual policy objectives since they imply tax increases and inflation. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop But conservative daydreams are OK as talking points - https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/opinions/gop-strategy-2022-midterm-elections-cass/index.html until the day after the election. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-01 17:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565394485302796289 ========== "when extremist movements tell you where they are headed, you should believe them" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-07-15/supreme-court-abortion-civil-rights #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565334333203763203 ========== Two kinds of Republicans - Trumpists who believe that all you have to do is appeal to the base. Others who believe that you have to appeal to swing voters and independents to get control of Congress. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-presidential-elections-mar-a-lago-election-2020-congress-cfcdf3bccd5bd8c008248b19ab299044 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1743130286031483 #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565156692249088000 ========== Alaskans tired of Palin? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-voting-government-and-politics-f9855f1138a922ab1147da7900819fa8 This was just a special election for a short term. The full term election is in November. #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565141609770954752 ========== Might GOP be in a better position now if they had fielded more non-Trumpists? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/opinion/senate-republicans-trump.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-30 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564458962447020033 ========== "the other campaign keeps receipts" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/republicans-shift-abortion-positions-general-election/index.html You bet they do! Switching your positions after winning the primary will get public feedback from all directions. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-30 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564447317712707584 ========== Rewriting websites - part of the progression from GOP primary appealing to the base, to general election appealing to swing voters and independents. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/blake-masters-campaign-website-changes/index.html Standard procedure if you have no fundamental principles except winning. #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-30 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564445741304541184 ========== The narrower the majority in the House, the more powerful the Trumpist Dixiecrat House Freedom Caucus becomes. Expect them to keep doing what they do best - obstruct. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-midterms/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-28 15:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563908935861448707 ========== A libertarian paradise in New Hampshire? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-hampshire-government-and-politics-261966bda9f95a9b746215abd4bba408 More likely a tax-free and regulation-free resort for wealthy donors. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-28 14:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563891383169064960 ========== Musk is the archetypcal Republican - pretends to be for the common man while pursuing his own economic interests. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2022/07/773_331764.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-27 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563375800899870720 ========== Dark money is the mother's milk of politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/dark-money-federalist-society-politics-distortion/ Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society are in charge of defending minority rule by grooming and submitting reactionary judges for Senate confirmation. But Democrats are not immune. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 12 time 2022-08-26 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563039032589750272 ========== When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/25/republicans-abortion-politics/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-26 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563037006778601472 ========== It's true! Putin was chosen by God to save Russia! https://www.christianpost.com/news/vladimir-putin-sent-by-god.html Trump was chosen by God to save America! https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/evangelicals-told-trump-he-was-chosen-by-god-now-he-says-it-himself/ DeSantis was chosen by God to save America! https://ifapray.org/blog/desantis-says-put-on-the-full-armor-of-god/ More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1738739589803886 #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-26 05:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563032955244515328 ========== GOP candidates look at recent special election results and begin to stammer about right-to-life. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/senate-candidate-abortion-ad-2022/index.html But if they're Trumpists, they'll follow the leader anyway. And confirm more reactionary judges to cement minority rule. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% expands 1 impress 4 time 2022-08-26 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563030147711651841 ========== John Eastman - the last of the Orange County fruitcakes? https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2690872 The Birchers have mostly gone silent in Orange County. #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-18 15:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560284811679346689 ========== Dynamics of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#revisionist https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/five-gop-power-centers-ranked/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 01:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560079102366781442 ========== The Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party repudiates all previous ideological substance of the Republican Party yet claims the same image and the same name, and calls traditional Republicans RINOs. https://apnews.com/article/cheney-defeat-marks-end-of-era-for-gop-65c8b400b533dffc422322031a0dbf5c #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-18 01:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560074371804196865 ========== Not everybody runs to win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-2024/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-17 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559958051951497216 ========== Pence gestures toward rule-of-law Republicanism. That makes him a RINO as far as Trumpists are concerned. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-new-hampshire-merrick-garland-government-and-politics-85619b0f18da0fb6eaba5bee4d0654f8 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-17 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559948215381741568 ========== Identitarians vs traditional Republicans - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/liz-cheney-wyoming.html Will voters eventually notice that the identitarians are too busy getting on Fox to actually do anything useful? #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-17 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559765482332246017 ========== Character and moral courage - something you don't find in Trumpists! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-wyoming-alaska-48a5444f247727d26cf67a0a72f14637 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-17 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559742286308655104 ========== Arizona GOP is leading the way in undermining democracy in favor of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/magazine/arizona-republicans-democracy.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-15 16:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559220246807863296 ========== The lunatic fringe has gone mainstream and legislators who know better are fine with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/15/election-deniers-march-toward-power-key-2024-battlegrounds/ #PS1gop ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-15 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559185649445482496 ========== Historians point out the ghosts of Huey Long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long#Politics and Father Coughlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin#Antisemitism still run the GOP - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/10/biden-us-historians-democracy-threat/ The Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP evolved from the party of Lincoln to the party of Calhoun and Preston Brooks. #PS1gop ===== impress 15 time 2022-08-11 04:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557580305443086336 ========== The would-be dictators trying to take over the GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/blake-masters-arizona-senate.html They've no patience for democracy, compromise, self-restraint. All power to the powerful! And to those that have little - even that will be taken away. "A republic if you can keep it." #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555026072273424384 ========== Ron Johnson is trying to privatize social security, medicare, etc, so it's not on the Federal budget and GOP megadonors won't have to make up the shortfall. https://news.yahoo.com/ron-johnson-suggests-medicare-social-233139470.html Of course, in best Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP style, he denies his real objectives. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555017741408473088 ========== CPAC and Orban - and Tucker Carlson - a marriage made in hell. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/media/viktor-orbn-cpac-dallas/index.html But that's the future embraced by the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. #PS1gop ===== impress 19 time 2022-08-04 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555002378503393286 ========== How the crazies took over the GOP - and were welcomed by the "traditional" Republicans. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/opinions/alex-jones-sandy-hook-conspiracies-gop-hemmer/index.html The crazies are valuable distractions for the masses as the GOP megadonors plan to get their way for good. #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-08-04 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554999246721495040 ========== Why are McConnell and McCarthy in charge? Is it McConnell's attractiveness and McCarthy's wit and wisdom, or vice versa? None of the above - they're in charge because, in their distinct ways, they keep the megadonors funding GOP candidates. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy-republican-divisions/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 50% impress 2 likes 1 time 2022-07-31 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553590964106641408 ========== A Trumpist who clearly doesn't need Trump any more. When and how will he say that? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/josh-hawley-fist-pump/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-29 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552884064830382082 ========== No lame excuses here - these GOP are proud of their anti-semitism. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/doug-mastriano-gab-pennsylvania-republican/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 2 time 2022-07-29 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552881581362008065 ========== The exciting new class of GOP candidates. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31 The national GOP is afraid to say anything about them in case they win and take over the party the way Trump did. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 time 2022-07-29 04:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552877715937669120 ========== Voting in the Republican primary in August? Are the candidates - Trumpists? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Rule-of-Law Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1718803221797523 #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-28 22:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552785820599197696 ========== Romney didn't get the memo - the GOP left him behind years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/opinion/abortion-romney-child-tax-credit.html His colleagues might or might not care about abortion as a moral issue, but they certainly care about keeping single-issue voters supporting GOP minority rule. #PS1gop ===== impress 12 time 2022-07-13 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1547222227279495168 ========== If Musk is as smart as Trump used to say he was, then it's going to be President DeSantis in 2025. Like DeSantis, Musk seems to think that Trumpism is better off without Trump. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/opinions/trump-musk-desantis-election-2024-obeidallah/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-11 18:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546556000693473281 ========== Can American GOP match British Tories? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/opinions/boris-johnson-resignation-republicans-dump-trump-heye/index.html Not likely, but if it does happen, it will seem to be overnight. #PS1gop ===== impress 1 time 2022-07-10 23:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546282239524163584 ========== One thing you can say about Pence - he's not as bad as Trump or DeSantis. Pence had his moment of glory, but that's not enough to be president. https://www.twincities.com/2022/07/07/lynn-schmid-mike-pence-liz-cheney-republican-presidential-ticket/ #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-07-08 03:36 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545250379528486912 ========== The South has won the Civil War at last! Soon the Supreme Court will leave everything up to the states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/04/america-house-divided-guns-abortion-lincoln/ The modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP has nothing in common with the party of Lincoln. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702803990064113 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-07-07 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544899527794077697 ========== When the Federal regulators won't do anything - then anything goes! DeSantis and Trump both have over $100 million in cash to spend - fighting each other? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/ron-desantis-campaign-finance-2024-election/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 8 time 2022-07-05 13:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544305590796574720 ========== An argument for Youngkin in 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/glenn-youngkin-president-2024-campaign/ He's probably better than Trump or DeSantis. But after learning how GOP presidential campaigns are funded, would he forget about campaign promises as soon as elected? Trump did. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-07-04 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543845619730505730 ========== Increasing GOP registrations - will that translate to increasing GOP votes? If they are swing voters anyway who vote their pocketbook, their registration doesn't matter much. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-covid-health-presidential-e50db07385831e67f866ec45402be8b9 #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543822648743890945 ========== If GOP controls Congress, that will force the real issue - who ARE they? America-Firsters? https://britannica.com/biography/Charles-Lindbergh/Germany-and-the-America-First-movement Or defenders of western ideals? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/29/nato-republicans-trump/ "Was Trump the exception, or will Biden be the exception?” More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1652873241723855 #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-02 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543075306075934721 ========== What is Pence thinking? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/27/abortion-2024-presidential-candidates/ Leaning in hard for national abortion prohibition, Pence might increase his hold on Trumpist evangelicals who will vote GOP anyway, but probably will lose ground with persuadable swing state voters. What's the point? #PS1gop ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-28 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541773670736990209 ========== Susan Collins is a poor judge of GOP character. She thought Trump's first impeachment taught him a lesson - he learned he could get away with anything. Then she believed Kavanaugh that Roe was settled law. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0KijfCPPsXdMLY9qqacNvijz57WzBywmKbZRPe9vQJCpj1CAFbCrJCTVWZzMQWuhcl https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/roe-kavanaugh-collins-notes.html #PS1gop ===== impress 15 time 2022-06-25 16:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540734449129623552 ========== It's lonely and dangerous being a rule-of-law Republican. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/21/rusty-bowers-jan-6/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-25 13:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540693639847759873 ========== The GOP major donor class hit two home runs. But they don't really care about abortion rights or gun safety. What they do care about is tax cuts for billionaires and benefit decreases for poor people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0Uy4piTFxuuEEmLCcMtnbiNyn52iEL68y6LcUKwZnbH6WBeZBcp3jdBx9EEqwYR9ql #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-24 22:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540459983912853506 ========== Texas Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP reaffirms its leap toward the past. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/us/politics/texas-republicans-approve-far-right-platform-declaring-bidens-election-illegitimate.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-20 14:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538884587891269634 ========== Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP acknowledges that white supremacists are one of the single-issue constituencies essential for GOP minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/07/white-supremacist-attacks-hearing-republicans/ #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-20 13:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538883058585042945 ========== All the wannabes are booking trips to Iowa. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-cedar-rapids-iowa-south-carolina-tim-scott-d7f173b915d93302c10d43bbf6c252d1 But how can they sell the idea to Trumpists that they should vote for a Trumpist other than Trump? #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2022-06-18 05:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538034668020240384 ========== GOP recruits diverse candidates to talk about all the things the GOP actually won't do if it gains power. Look at 2017-2018 - their one big accomplishment was billionaire tax relief. They couldn't even agree on how to replace Obamacare. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/us/politics/gop-diversity-texas-arizona.html #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-05 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533262061588733954 ========== So much for the will of the people in South Dakota. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/02/south-dakota-ballot-initiative-gop-subvert-voters/ Minority rule wins again. #PS1gop ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-04 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532946082094649345 ========== The Nazis couldn't have taken over without the Franz von Papens who thought they were in control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen But the Nazis took over - bit by bit - normalizing their ideas as the von Papens said nothing. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/02/whats-far-right-trying-build-power/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-03 23:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532864999160393729 ========== Sasse auditions, perhaps not knowing it, for a place on a centrist Rule of Law national unity platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/ben-sasse-optimistic-republican-party/ He doesn't seem to grasp that he has no place in the Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/ben-sasse-gop-party-leader-comments/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-06-03 23:04 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532860765320802304 ========== Paul Ryan decides he's a rule-of-law Republican after all. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law That's why he has no place in the Trump Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/paul-ryan-republicans-impeach-trump/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-06-03 22:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532858879318425600 ========== Kemp no hero of democracy - but he did stand up to Trump. Once. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/opinions/georgia-primary-kemp-perdue-trump-democracy-eisen-aftergut/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-27 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529988501243981824 ========== Does Pence have a political future? Not loyal enough for Trumpists, too loyal for anti-Trumpists - who's left? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/opinions/pence-2024-election-campaign-politics-dantonio/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-26 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529677096162717696 ========== GOP collectively conspiring to make sure they never lose another election! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics/midterm-election-2022-georgia-false-claims-trump/index.html It's not who the people voted for that matters, it's who counts the votes that matters. #PS1gop ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-24 13:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529086101477916672 ========== Are major GOP donors REALLY opposed to Replacement Theory? Or will they donate to anybody, in order to preserve access and get their calls returned? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/23/lincoln-project-ad-elise-stefanik-great-replacement/ #PS1gop ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-24 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528921362596712448 ========== GOP stands for GOP. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/05/22/leonard-pitts-jr-the-republican-party-stands-for-the-republican-party/ Cawthorn only lost by 1300 votes. But he must have embarrassed GOP donors - who relayed their dissatisfaction to legislators. Something Green, Boebert, Stefanik, Hawley, Cruz, Gaetz, Gosars, never accomplished. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-05-23 03:51 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528584500883558400 ========== Now the Freedom Caucus is going too far! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/freedom-caucus-bipartisan-irritation/index.html Interfering with GOP fundraising! When the GOP gets control of Congress, count on them doing - not much. That's fine with their donors. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-20 14:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527657830035038208 ========== The GOP has no clue about inflation. They can't fix China's covid policies or undo the damage to Ukraine. They won't say what they'd do instead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/19/republicans-have-no-plan-to-lower-inflation-prices/ But they'll blame the Democrats no matter what. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid04nMNXLNvURbaTgjsncaRJYaXwcSc2Fe5V7NGNwBot81oapFB2c8QagyYYaDYpqU6l #PS1gop ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-20 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527450564027527168 ========== As Dixiecrats migrated to and eventually took over the Republican Party, they brought fantasy politics with them. So GOP voodoo economics did not lead to GOP replacement theory - the poison was already there. https://greeleytribune.net/from-voodoo-economics-to-maga-buffalo-mass-shooting/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02FP6Srvt8qJHUHJWRoFyadGozMgjj5JB2dBGVDJEyqDftdYYN7sWLsW8J52GyDmuol #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 34 likes 2 time 2022-05-19 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527329981969227780 ========== It's remarkable that Trump endorsed a Muslim and Turkish citizen. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-religion-primary-7731ebe00e378a59294396cc6eb1b7a3 It's unremarkable that other Trumpists are making an issue of it. #PS1gop ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-16 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526081622684012544 ========== Pence to rally for Kemp. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-backs-georgias-kemp-in-opposition-to-trump/ar-AAXeBH9 Pence is definitely not working for Trump any more. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-13 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525113412950183936 ========== Voting in the Republican primary? What do the candidates really believe? Are they - Trumpists? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Traditional Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Rule-of-Law Republicans? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law More here - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1655313134813199 #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525093232803082240 ========== Rand Paul stands up decisively - for Rand Paul. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/rand-paul-blocks-ukraine-aid/index.html It's not a futile gesture if it gets reported in the media. That's why bipartisanship so rarely works these days. #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2022-05-12 22:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524885365969981441 ========== All in on culture wars! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/gop-culture-wars-midterms-biden/ If there's no constitutional right to privacy - then abortion, birth control, same-sex marriage, can all be criminalized. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02sD955hwdcbjouMucSqfTgx4aD3MWxir7YEUWXcgjVhMgP9WPUsSZWcv47uazqLRal #PS1gop ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-12 02:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524571087874318336 ========== Most the the NC GOP establishment would love to retire Cawthorn - the earlier the better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/10/thom-tillis-madison-cawthorn-primary/ #PS1gop ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-12 00:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524546930172329984 ========== Who needs debates or press conferences if you have campaign rallies, social media, and Fox? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/media/midterm-campaigns-reliable-sources/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-12 00:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524541747484798977 ========== McConnell won't say what GOP-controlled Senate would do, but Scott is not so shy. He speaks for all billionaire major GOP donors - reduce taxes and increase benefits for billionaires, increase taxes and decrease benefits for everybody else. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/rick-scott-joe-biden-resign/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-05-11 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524263543457165314 ========== Prohibit abortions? Not a winning campaign tactic in California. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2672911 California GOP would rather talk about gas prices. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2022-05-06 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522695483025616897 ========== LGBT are not an important GOP constituency. They should not be surprised to be sacrificed to excite the GOP voter base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/23/republicans-lgbt/ GOP politicians speak to the most committed base, not to the center. #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522379857300054016 ========== GOP legislators always remember where their campaign funds come from - from lowering taxes on billionaire GOP campaign donors - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop It's no contradiction when they put new taxes on people who are NOT major GOP donors! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/26/republicans-prioritize-culture-wars-even-over-low-taxes/ #PS1gop ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-06 00:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522378222716944384 ========== It's going to be Benghazi all over again! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/04/hunter-biden-obsession-republicans-comer/ Even if they never find anything, they'll keep the hearings going as long as the TV cameras keep showing up. #PS1gop ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-05 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522012986012962816 ========== Pro-life is not the essence of GOP's reactionary judge campaign. The real goal is reactionary decisions on taxes, deregulation, campaign finance, and voter suppression, to protect GOP's major donors. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/opinions/supreme-court-abortion-conservatives-roe-stewart/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02xj1gQCocFbiQx7MZCRrms3eqiXfnT7bEbsmjKFEipoFok7rBoBUeRXq3gomhbngil #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 13% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-05-05 00:25 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522009523443044353 ========== What do GOP candidates REALLY believe? There are so many choices - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html Ohio GOP primary voters still struggle with that - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/us/ohio-senate-republican-primary.html #PS1gop ===== impress 29 time 2022-05-03 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521360859804487681 ========== How lucky the Ukrainians are that the US House GOP conference was not in charge of resisting Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/opinions/2013-government-shutdown-problem-with-gop-dent/index.html They can't even resist Trump. No Profiles in Courage for the Fear Caucus. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0zuodZnPiAVRAiXo9X6t6v31rASYudzzHs7VNz6oWD9GZ53nXTjui3bSbKtZEp22Sl #PS1gop ===== impress 36 time 2022-05-01 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520808213846773761 ========== Will McCarthy become Speaker? One word from Trump would make or break him. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-elections-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-congress-891eabe5ef653e7bb3983f8e3fa96a67 Though it's kind of like making or breaking a jellyfish. #PS1gop ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519504224035295233 ========== In the best Dixiecrat tradition - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop "an assault on the very idea of public education, part of the long war against public goods and collective responsibility fought by conservatives on behalf of hierarchy and capital" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/opinion/red-scare-culture-wars.html #PS1gop ===== impress 511 time 2022-04-22 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517635538710269952 ========== Tourism is booming in Iowa - Cotton, Cruz, Haley, Pence, Pompeo have all visited recently. But they're really hoping for a visit from DeSantis. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-presidential-election-2020-iowa-80201caa714144a5aff7082d10cbbaee #PS1gop ===== impress 514 time 2022-04-22 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517510556025974786 ========== Don't want to talk about your real agenda in public? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Talk about culture wars instead! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/20/republicans-grooming-democrats/ It doesn't have to be true to poll well with your base. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 488 likes 1 time 2022-04-21 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517136481759887363 ========== As you'd expect, GOP representatives sued to prevent proxy voting, then opted to make the most of it. https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-congress-voting-414cb594073bab735552c6918c308470 #PS1gop ===== impress 482 time 2022-04-21 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516990483188183040 ========== McConnell fights back against Trump. McConnell wants a majority, Trump wants revenge. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/mcconnell-murkowski-super-pac-money/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 7 time 2022-04-19 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516397628291911681 ========== The GOP has a plan for when they gain control of government. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop They just don't want to talk about it in public where the voters might hear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/17/republicans-are-track-regain-power-they-should-decide-what-do-with-it/ #PS1gop ===== impress 6 time 2022-04-19 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516237492604661762 ========== Though they don't like to talk about it to the voters https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop the GOP is still bought and paid for by its rich major donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/opinion/republicans-populism-rich.html #PS1gop ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-15 01:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514774443058368512 ========== The last thing GOP candidates want to do is reveal the same agenda to voters and donors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop McConnell is right about that, and Rick Scott wrong. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2662292 Democrats will help make sure their message to donors gets to voters as well. #PS1gop ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-14 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514459871353077760 ========== McConnell doesn't want to talk about the real platform. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Easier just to blame Biden for global inflation without saying what GOP would do about it. But lowering taxes on billionaires would be a good guess - as usual. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/10/emptiness-heart-republicans-midterm-campaign/ #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2022-04-11 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513329125649358849 ========== It used to be GOP candidates never talked about policy - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html Now another Rick Scott Republican tells the truth - GOP plans to lower taxes on billionaires and raise them on everybody else. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-florida-ohio-personal-taxes-7cb1d1085bb9a3cf9a82ed2a23297df7 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1638711569806689 #PS1gop ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-09 13:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512786510529003523 ========== View from the porch! https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jack-ohman/article260140740.html #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2022-04-08 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512419623609667585 ========== McConnell is fine if GOP nominates Trump again, even though Trump was resposible for Jan 6. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/mcconnell-trump-2024-comments/index.html If there's one thing McConnell is an expert on, it's what it takes to keep his job. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 33 likes 1 time 2022-04-08 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512225974972153859 ========== Sarah Palin thinks she has something more to contribute! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-don-young-alaska-elections-special-elections-548bc4594cabccb3017e60bfae35b8dc #PS1gop ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-02 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510109115267182597 ========== Rick Scott isn't shy about his agenda, and Democrats aren't shy about his agenda either. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-florida-donald-trump-congress-46e4862dfe2709e0408f56551c999968 Scott thinks his brand of traditional conservatism + Trumpism is a mass movement. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1631468597197653 #PS1gop ===== impress 34 time 2022-03-30 13:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509159619255435273 ========== GOP presidential hopefuls play to the QAnon part of their base. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/opinion/republican-senators-qanon-ketanji-brown-jackson.html #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2022-03-27 15:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1508105616421654529 ========== If GOP senators can't do what they want for their donors - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop then "they were for the most part content with the speed at which they weren't doing anything" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-governor-sheds-light-his-party-s-disinterest-governing-n1287710 New Hampshire's GOP governor was not interested in doing nothing. #PS1gop ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-25 16:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507399085925416960 ========== Florida GOP leads the way in making sure election officials toe their party line. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/florida-republicans-elections-bar-free-legal-help/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2022-03-25 14:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507363150600937474 ========== Election fraud - how come it's always Republicans? https://apnews.com/article/elections-los-angeles-campaigns-nebraska-congress-66c320661e21eef5d3083254e8a686f7 #PS1gop ===== impress 25 time 2022-03-25 03:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507194029246623759 ========== "Graham added that if Biden picked Childs, I could have gotten her a lot of votes." Lindsey Graham is delusional - for any nominee, GOP questioning is going to be about the next election, and the Senate vote is going to be about party lines. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/gop-senators-opposing-kbj-confirmation/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 likes 1 time 2022-03-24 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506792002041516032 ========== Promises are made to be broken! https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-hearing-gop-what-matters/index.html Putinists, Trumpists, what's the diff? Winning is the only thing - who cares how! #PS1gop ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 20 time 2022-03-24 00:29 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506790392859045888 ========== GOP senators missed no opportunity to campaign for president. Even though the hearing was about a Supreme Court nominee. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/senators-2024-jackson-analysis/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-24 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506789278390530050 ========== Why shouldn't GOP nominate domestic violent candidates? Violence at home, violence at the Capitol, what's the diff? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-steve-bannon-roy-blunt-election-2020-elections-c496743d4656aacf4a1c5d76f1d97b80 With enough major donors, anybody can win! #PS1gop ===== impress 18 time 2022-03-24 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506787536110174208 ========== The impossible dream - you can't be a traditional Republican AND a Trumpist. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html But Pence is going to try, by courting major donors. That's the traditional Republican way. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-europe-campaign-2016-bda68166f62a171878dd65b20ec43b1a #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 likes 1 time 2022-03-21 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1505787328555466754 ========== Home-grown Ohio oligarchs try to pretend they have no skin in the Russian game. Good news for Democratic candidates! Lots of Ohioans have Ukrainian ancestors. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-europe-rob-portman-903327323c57c2e410c0921ec5f18c01 #PS1gop ===== impress 34 time 2022-03-17 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504256146076409856 ========== Make it a referendum, not a choice! And he's in charge of the 2022 GOP Senate campaigns! https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/rick-scotts-11-point-plan-to-rescue-america-is-so-insane-its-basically-a-gift-to-the-democrats/Content?oid=31107885 Are any Trumpist voters going to woke up to the writing on the wall? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1619016471776199 #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2022-03-12 15:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502662182755921922 ========== Making the argument for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html New Hampshire secession fails for now - https://apnews.com/article/oddities-new-hampshire-united-states-legislature-constitutions-c39eb2375d9aa953dde2ad3cef891121 #PS1gop ===== impress 26 time 2022-03-12 14:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502657340197068805 ========== Americans deserve to know what GOP will do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/11/yes-voters-deserve-know-this-gop-plan-would-raise-taxes-by-1-trillion/ McConnell scolds Scott for spilling the private beans in public. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-03-12 05:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502522361026805760 ========== There are some things that everybody that upholds rule of law should support - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law Some GOP leaders have little patience for Trumpists who don't. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/10/maga-republicans-setbacks/ #PS1gop ===== impress 78 time 2022-03-10 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502066854315053076 ========== Most GOP leaders don't want to explain or even talk about what they said (or didn't say) about Ukraine in the distant past - like 4 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/us/politics/republicans-ukraine.html Are any of their other statements on other topics any more credible? #PS1gop ===== impress 92 time 2022-03-10 01:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501726395755417602 ========== Trumpist senator Mike Lee of Utah has some unusual opponents this time - Two Republicans in the primary - https://news.yahoo.com/republican-sen-mike-lee-faces-144410429.html And a former Republican in the general - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-evan-mcmullin-has-democrats-backing-him-in-his-race-against-mike-lee/ar-AAUKIof But Utah is an unusual state, politically, so it's hard to generalize. #PS1gop ===== impress 31 time 2022-03-08 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501070491129237505 ========== Political credos for traditional Republican politicians defending minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 17 time 2022-03-07 19:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500911832608829441 ========== "We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half of the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years" That's GOP McConnell talking about GOP Scott! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-seniors-doug-ducey-election-2020-e126709accd4405525db65b2d876584f More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1615564375454742 #PS1gop ===== impress 19 time 2022-03-07 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500833277535563781 ========== Pence tries to have it both ways - "no room in this party for apologists for Putin" "Biden squandered the deterrence that our administration put in place to keep Putin from trying to redraw international boundaries" What deterrence was that? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-elections-donald-trump-fae55c9c736a34bfccf4e6143833b510 #PS1gop ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% impress 56 likes 1 time 2022-03-05 04:38 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499967448723779585 ========== CPAC - Trump is all about Trump, but all his would-be successors are only about opposing Biden and culture wars. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-florida-race-and-ethnicity-donald-trump-f49a267fa0d90b27a3b4747b6878e4dc GOP candidates never talk about their real agenda in public - billionaire tax cuts, deregulation, union busting, reactionary judges. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2022-02-27 14:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497947911128190976 ========== “CPAC is a good group of people" - so much for Christie's credibility. What will those good people say when Trump addresses them tonight? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-florida-race-and-ethnicity-donald-trump-f49a267fa0d90b27a3b4747b6878e4dc #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 likes 1 time 2022-02-26 14:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497577981035749379 ========== McConnell is trying to purge unelectable fringe candidates from the GOP primaries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/us/politics/mcconnell-trump-primaries-midterms.html Can he do it? Will Trump's fawning over Putin help? #PS1gop ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-25 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497095668233506817 ========== There's no secret about the GOP agenda. Talk about culture war issues - and do nothing about them. Do NOT talk about the real agenda - tax cuts, deregulation, union busting, all for billionaires, all to defend minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/14/republican-top-secret-agenda-really-election-calculus/ #PS1gop ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-15 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1493606363418738689 ========== McConnell and Trump trade more shots - https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-violent-insurrection/index.html Pence got a lot of private positive feedback from GOP leaders and donors - https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/pence-trump-rebuke-response/index.html Most GOP voters side with Pence over Trump - https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/electoral-count-act-pence-poll/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1598009030543610 #PS1gop ===== impress 25 time 2022-02-10 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491564922920071171 ========== "it’s imperative that the next generation ensures the advancement of pro-America ideas" First pro-America ideal to advance - the rule of law! First anti-America ideal to denounce - the cult of personality! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/07/mike-pence-to-take-on-woke-left-in-stanford-speech-but-will-he-talk-about-trump/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1596644870680026 #PS1gop ===== impress 19 time 2022-02-07 23:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490836746933731331 ========== DeSantis perfects himself as Trump 2.0. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/donald-trump-ron-desantis-2024-election-republicans/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2022-02-03 07:12 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489134743404769283 ========== Of course no Trumpist - hardly any GOP in fact - is really going to explicitly condemn Nazis, white supremacists, antisemites, QAnons, anti-vaxxers, or any other fringe constituency that they count on for votes. They'd rather dodge the issue. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/ron-desantis-anti-semitic-protests/index.html #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 56 likes 1 time 2022-02-01 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1488350882005614596 ========== Most GOP legislators demonstrate excellence at avoiding issues and taking stands. So much for rule of law! They don't consider anything Trump might say to be disqualifying. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/republicans-trump-january-6-pardons-2024-nominee/index.html #PS1gop ===== impress 52 time 2022-02-01 03:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1488348805682667521 ========== Traditional conservatives no longer have a political party. And they never had a mass movement. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/anti-trump-republicans/index.html So in 2022 and 2024, will they support Trump or another Trumpist - or the rule of law? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1589174871427026 #PS1gop ===== impress 52 time 2022-01-27 19:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486778619401629699 ========== Contract with America - the campaign brochure that nobody reads or believes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/20/contract-with-america/ The real GOP agenda is the same as always - billionaire tax cuts, deregulation, union busting... If they can't override Biden's veto, they simply oppose Democrats. #PS1gop ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-22 06:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484772868957224960 ========== McCarthy wants to be Speaker so badly. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-gop-conference/index.html But Trump and the Freedom Caucus don't trust him, and they're not shy about saying so. The Democrats will paint him standing with the lunatic fringe. #PS1gop ===== impress 56 time 2022-01-21 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484523814868320256 ========== GOP asks Gingrich to draft a plan. They tell major donors in private billionaire tax relief billionaire deregulation billionaire union busting reactionary judiciary But what do they tell voters in public? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/01/20/republican-midterm-plan-education-economy/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1584686885209158 #PS1gop ===== impress 59 time 2022-01-21 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484384204313956358 ========== It's not easy to be Mike Pence. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/opinions/pence-january-6-commission-dantonio/index.html It's hard enough finding traditional conservatives to support his candidacy, and worse if he gets subpoena'ed by Jan 6 committee. #PS1gop ===== impress 22 time 2022-01-13 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481489129896513536 ========== As Republicans go, Hogan is not bad. But why settle for "not bad" in a blue state? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-campaigns-senate-elections-larry-hogan-maryland-fcddb1dbbb036f3db02f775e31ca93c6 #PS1gop ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-11 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480760191398252545 ========== Thune decides he's still in. https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-south-dakota-mitch-mcconnell-john-thune-ac301b7c42a5485b747750d423344f06 But in to support Trump or in to thwart Trump? #PS1gop ===== impress 13 time 2022-01-10 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480337926584029184 ========== Somehow the people that fund GOP campaigns decided after Jan 6 to stick with Trump and his narrative. Any non-conformists have to be removed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-jan-6-election-lie/2022/01/05/82f4cad4-6cb6-11ec-974b-d1c6de8b26b0_story.html There's just Trumpist cult of personality and anti-Trumpist rule of law now. #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 likes 1 time 2022-01-06 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478962220323139585 ========== Another traditional conservative might have had enough. https://apnews.com/article/elections-campaigns-south-dakota-sioux-falls-john-thune-d77c0282509b0174786d58c0d0e5ccd9 Why wait to get expelled from the Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality? #PS1gop ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-01-05 17:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478775400696205313