Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
In my opinion, it would be anything along the lines suggested by this Democratic opinion writer:
thehill.com
We are stuck with the current Congress until January 2025. Unless something is done, that means more chaos and dysfunction — and that’s on the good days. More often, it will mean complete paralysis.
The alternative is a new coalition. And, for better or worse, that means involving Democrats. Of course, Democrats are Democrats and it will be hard-going for them to form a partnership with Republicans — even those in the Republican Governance Group. Nonetheless, they all have a shared interest in the basics of governing, which we saw on Saturday when more Democrats than Republicans voted for McCarthy’s shutdown-avoiding continuing resolution.
A serious proposal of the Radical wing of the Democratic Caucus (which as far as I know is all congressional Democrats) to form such an alliance would be the political nail in the coffin of the Republican RINOs. The only thing that would prevent that would be for all RINOs to stand firm against Democrats. For reasons too obvious to go into here, that is not going to happen.
One or more of them would be perfectly willing to sell his soul to be speaker elected by such a coalition. With more Democratic votes than Republican votes, he would be in bondage to the Democrats, in particular Hakeem Jeffries, whose office would leak as often as possible, stories of him bringing the Speaker to heel.
CNN, MSNBC, and the alphabet licensed network would gleefully air stories of Jeffries and the RINO acting as de facto co-Speakers, with Jeffries always in the favorable light. A humiliating experience for the RINO, because the positive coverage he would receive would be so condescending and transparently left-handed.
That puppet speaker would be primaried into oblivion in 2024. Every Republican who voted for such a coalition would have a primary challenger, or maybe several. With or without MAGA support, those challengers would stand a very strong chance of running the RINOs out. That would leave the next congress with either a Democratic majority, the challengers having not won enough of the general elections, or a congress with a majority consisting of many more genuine Republicans than at present..
That being said, why wouldn't the RINOs simply resist Democratic overtures to form such a partnership? Man, they can't help themselves. Going along to get along with Democrats is in their nature, like the Scorpion who kills the frog.
An alternative to the chaos in Congress? Coalition government.
What we need in the House is something called a “confidence and supply” agreement.
thehill.com
We are stuck with the current Congress until January 2025. Unless something is done, that means more chaos and dysfunction — and that’s on the good days. More often, it will mean complete paralysis.
The alternative is a new coalition. And, for better or worse, that means involving Democrats. Of course, Democrats are Democrats and it will be hard-going for them to form a partnership with Republicans — even those in the Republican Governance Group. Nonetheless, they all have a shared interest in the basics of governing, which we saw on Saturday when more Democrats than Republicans voted for McCarthy’s shutdown-avoiding continuing resolution.
A serious proposal of the Radical wing of the Democratic Caucus (which as far as I know is all congressional Democrats) to form such an alliance would be the political nail in the coffin of the Republican RINOs. The only thing that would prevent that would be for all RINOs to stand firm against Democrats. For reasons too obvious to go into here, that is not going to happen.
One or more of them would be perfectly willing to sell his soul to be speaker elected by such a coalition. With more Democratic votes than Republican votes, he would be in bondage to the Democrats, in particular Hakeem Jeffries, whose office would leak as often as possible, stories of him bringing the Speaker to heel.
CNN, MSNBC, and the alphabet licensed network would gleefully air stories of Jeffries and the RINO acting as de facto co-Speakers, with Jeffries always in the favorable light. A humiliating experience for the RINO, because the positive coverage he would receive would be so condescending and transparently left-handed.
That puppet speaker would be primaried into oblivion in 2024. Every Republican who voted for such a coalition would have a primary challenger, or maybe several. With or without MAGA support, those challengers would stand a very strong chance of running the RINOs out. That would leave the next congress with either a Democratic majority, the challengers having not won enough of the general elections, or a congress with a majority consisting of many more genuine Republicans than at present..
That being said, why wouldn't the RINOs simply resist Democratic overtures to form such a partnership? Man, they can't help themselves. Going along to get along with Democrats is in their nature, like the Scorpion who kills the frog.
