A new record for republican pettiness-good lord is this guy 12 years old?

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

James Risch was going to hold up the spending bill over a provision to name a National Wilderness Area after a dead guy he hates. Former 4 Term Idaho governor, the late Cecil Andrus made preserving the White Clouds Wilderness Area a personal cause. When he was Secretary of the Interior under Jimmy Carter he stopped a molybdenum mine from ravaging this national treasure. (What, did Andrus kill his dog or something?) Now we're going to have Senator Risch head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? I'm sure pettiness like this will serve the nation well.

Sen. James Risch’s decades-old grudge briefly derailed the big spending bill

For several hours Thursday night, a senator’s disdain for a deceased political rival threatened to spark a government shutdown.

According to two congressional aides familiar with the dispute, Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) demanded that a provision renaming the White Clouds Wilderness in central Idaho after former four-term governor Cecil D. Andrus, who died last year, be removed from a fast-moving omnibus appropriations bill.

The request generated all sorts complications as Senate leaders sought to clear the 2,232-page $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead of a Friday night government shutdown deadline. Among them: changing the bill would require a House vote, as well — many hours after the House passed the bill and members left Washington for a two-week recess.

Aides to Risch did not respond to a message seeking comment on his objections. Risch would not comment outside the Senate chamber early Friday morning: “What part of ‘No’ don’t you understand?” he said. “Do I have a problem with my English? I don’t have any comment.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/23/sen-jim-rischs-decades-old-grudge-briefly-derailed-the-big-spending-bill

[spanone]

1. no, he's not that mature.

[maxrandb]

2. This is what the ReTrumplican Party is

He's not an "outlier" or an "exception"...this is the Retrumplican Party...LOCK...STOCK...and BARREL

I would say; "todays" Retrumplican Party, but it's been this way for about 50 years now.

The only thing that needs to happen to the Retrumplican Party, is to get the shit beat out of it this November, and then in 2020, finally drive a wooden stake trough its black, cold, diseased heart.

[Laxman]

3. What Could Possibly Go Wrong......

with Trump, Bolton and this guy guiding our foreign policy? We'll be at war with Luxembourg before you know it. The "Ugly American" school of foreign policy. The history books will remember this time well.