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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpinion: The GOP's revenge plot against Pelosi is unhinged - but revealing By Greg Sargent
"Because Republicans are such firm believers in benevolence toward political foes, they are furious with Democrats for failing to save Kevin McCarthy. After Democrats voted en masse this week to remove the California Republican as House speaker, his fellow Republicans responded by revoking some of Rep. Nancy Pelosis Capitol office privileges. They are reportedly planning more acts of retaliation.
"But Democrats were right not to save McCarthy. With the forces unleashed by former president Donald Trump and the MAGA movement damaging the House GOP caucus, Democrats absolutely shouldnt have stepped in, because so doing would help Republicans erase their own culpability for nourishing those forces for so long.
"Republicans believe Democrats should have joined most of them to vote against the motion to vacate the speakership that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) brought against McCarthy, which would have enabled him to survive despite eight GOP insurgents voting to remove him. As Punchbowl Newss Jake Sherman reports, Republicans intend to 'exact revenge for a long while.' McCarthy himself was reportedly behind the retaliation against Pelosi.
"All of that is absurd, but its also revealing. In a sense, what Republicans really wanted from Democrats is help in solving a problem thats grown intractable for them: At critical moments such as these, theres nothing holding the House GOP majority together.'
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marble falls
(57,240 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,833 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)certainly not loyalty or comaraderie
Tetrachloride
(7,871 posts)Quanto Magnus
(899 posts)"Because Republicans are such firm believers in benevolence toward political foes,"
If this is supposed to be serious... What is the author smoking???
DemocraticPatriot
(4,413 posts)The line made me smile, lol
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)You're not familiar with Mr Bunch.
Go read some of his columns. He's no friend of the traitor thugs.
IOW: Yes, he absolutely is being sarcastic.