Yup…..
Everybody is NOT rowing together among the Grand ole’ Party US Senator’s….
Senate Republicans are hoping to avoid an intraparty bloodbath that would threaten their chances of taking back the majority in 2022.
Tensions within the party have been on full display since the ugly mob attack on the Capitol and the impeachment vote and Senate trial that divided Republicans and left former President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) trading charges in public.
Even on Wednesday, the tensions were evident when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking House Republican, disagreed over Trump’s attendance at a conservative conference this weekend.
Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, acknowledged the current signs of disunity but predicted competing factions of the party would unify.
“I think there will be a lot more coordination than it might appear at the moment,” Thune said.
“The former president, the NRSC and Sen. McConnell and his team, I think, will be realizing that for us to succeed we’ve got to succeed as a team,” he added, referring to the National Republican Senatorial Committee….
image…Senator’s Cheney/McConnell…CNN
Then there’s Chip Roy(R- Texas) who earlier denounced Trumps conduct with the insurrection labeling it “impeachable conduct” and defending the remarks of Liz Cheney.
The Chipster must be reading the blowback from his constituents.
He’s now denouncing Cheney and hailing Trump.
An ol MAGA red hat bootlicker coming home!
Give him a pat on the head Donnie!
Then there’s the “intellectually challenged” Kevin McCarthy.
The Trump House Leader takes the rather weird position that Liz Cheney’s view that Trump shouldn’t lead the party was censorship and indicated she was joining the “cancel culture.”
As Playbook commented Cheney in no way called for Trump to be silenced,only that he shouldn’t lead the party.
I’m no supporter of Liz Cheney yet she is a paragon of virtue to this weak kneed little wimp.Hes licking Trumps boots to a fine shine!
St Joan of Cheney?
He, he, he….
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took aim at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the recording of his audio narration for an upcoming memoir, Axios reported Thursday evening.
During the audiobook recording for his new work “On The House: A Washington Memoir,” which features a white-haired Boehner holding a glass of wine in a smoke-filled room on the cover, sources familiar with the subject told Axios the former speaker went off script several times.
Boehner, who resigned from Congress in 2015, at one point exclaimed: “Oh, and Ted Cruz, go f— yourself.” The context of Boehner’s remarks was not clear….
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If you want to hear more of Boehners candid comments about some of his fellow Republicans,read American Carnage by Tim Alberta.
His remarks about Trump toady Mark Meadows are hilarious.
Let’s not forget the comments made by Mattis, Tillerson and others….
UPDATE in the Boehner vs Cruz curse off‼️
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) hit back at former Speaker John Boeher (R-Ohio) on Friday after Boehner reportedly told the senator to “go f— yourself” while he was recording the audio book of his upcoming memoir.
Cruz poked fun at the comments during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla.
“You know yesterday, John Boehner made some news. He suggested that I do something that was anatomically impossible,” Cruz said. “To which my response was, who’s John Boehner?”….
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The fact that Republicans want to hear from the “Cancun hero” says everything one needs to know about their so called…
“Conservative Values.”
And as I point out Jack?
There IS an undercurrent going on among even the CPAC people…
What “undercurrent?”
Is THIS anyway to run things?
Rick Scott Sits Out the GOP Civil War
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who heads the Senate Republicans’ campaign committee, told the Wall Street Journal that he did not ask Donald Trump to refrain from endorsing primary challengers to GOP incumbents the former president regards as disloyal.
Said Scott: “Many are saying it is my job to mediate between warring factions on the right and mediate the war of words between party leaders… Well, I have news for them—I’m not going to mediate anything.”
Ted Cruz Mocked by His Colleagues
“Sen. Ted Cruz’s colleagues had a little fun at the Texas Republican’s expense when he returned to Washington this week following his infamous trip to Cancun,” NBC News reports.
“When senators arrived at the Senate gym on Wednesday morning, they found that one of them had taped memes on the lockers welcoming Cruz home and showing him in the short-sleeve polo shirt, jeans and Texas-flag mask that he had at the airport… ‘Bienvenido de Nuevo, Ted!’ was the ‘welcome back’ message typed at the top of the color printouts.”
Ill wind keeps blowing for Democrats for next years elections…
Three Senate Races Shift Towards the Republicans
The Cook Political Report moved three U.S. Senate races next year — in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada — from Lean Democrat to Toss Up.