House GOP returns to Washington after sobering midterm losses
This headline is a thing of beauty!!
House GOP returns to Washington after sobering midterm losses
By Melanie Zanona and Juliegrace Brufke - 11/14/18 06:01 AM EST
Hugs, kisses, pats on the back, offers of condolences — and even a few jokes.
That’s how dejected House Republicans who returned to Washington this week coped with suffering brutal electoral losses in the midterms that handed over power to the Democrats for the first time since 2010.
While the shift in power was somewhat expected, it didn’t make it any less painful for the GOP conference — nearly two-thirds of which has never served as the minority.
“We’re all sad when you lose great members and great friends,” added Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who chaired the House GOP’s campaign arm after Democrats won the House in 2006.
A band of Republicans who lost their races received a chorus of sympathetic words on Tuesday night from their colleagues on both the left and right. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) — who was greeted with thunderous applause and cheers from Democrats on the floor after edging out Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) in the race for Arizona’s Senate seat — crossed over to the Republican side of the chamber where she sat and chatted with a number of recently defeated friends across the aisle.
While Democrats appeared to revel in their victory, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) was seen commiserating with Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), a Ways and Means subcommittee chairman who lost his tough reelection battle, as they exited the House floor Tuesday night.
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Karma bite you in the ass?
which was last seen sometime in late 2015, and is presumed dead.
RIP douchebag
his 15 minutes are over. Back to milking cows would be his best bet....
Our new democracy reform task force, which Nancy has asked Rep. John Sarbanes to head, is getting a huge bill ready to introduce first thing as a declaration of intent to the nation. We'll pass everything we can now. Much will require gaining more power in 2020.
Voter registration as it's done now is inevitably on its way out, though. It's totally unnecessary and obsolete, and its only useful function is to provide opportunities for election theft. And everyone knows it.
with pols who've been under attack for a long time, but I'm afraid that person almost never reveals anything in a timely way to anyone as a matter of course and only occasional little stories later. Very nice guy, but also comes naturally, not a gabber. Sigh.
I was a little surprised that you describe Rep.Nadler as a small-c conservative, progressive variety of course, fairly similar to Elizabeth Warren maybe? The computer evaluation sites call him liberal, but I've then been sort of assuming being the minority caucus probably makes those extremely unreliable.
I wasn't using the word "conservative" in Republicanese, but rather the English definition: proceeds cautiously, likes to have his facts BEFORE he says things, careful in what he says. The word "conservative" in English is in no way the opposite of being liberal. In English, they are not opposites, only in Republicanese and its main dialect, Foxese. Jerry has a conservative approach to how he goes about his job--which has nothing whatsoever to do with how progressive his stances on the issues are. It only means that when Jerry says something, you can believe he has thought it out first, and has facts to back it up. In Republicanese, of course, "Conservative (and its southern dialect version "Conserv'tive--3 syllables instead of 4"
means "right wing radical." But that is a version hijacked by them. It has nothing to do with the English definition of the word.
meanings is fairly big with me, as it obviously is with you. What a nice way to be able to describe him.
I imagine he of course also has "a liberality of ideas" as Jane Austen once put Anne Elliot's idea of good company. 
There's what I take to be a pretty nice article about him in Roll Call.
But even if Mueller comes back with alleged criminal activity by the president, that won’t be an automatic trigger for Democrats to initiate impeachment. “The fact is, impeachment is not a criminal punishment,” Nadler told Roll Call. “There are crimes that you could commit that are not impeachable offenses and there are impeachable offenses that are not crimes. They’re different tests.” ...
Nadler’s impeachment theory, though, goes not one, but two steps further: Not only must Congress find that the president committed an impeachable offense, it must determine that ousting the president is a “service to the republic,” he said.
“The purpose of the whole impeachment process is to protect the integrity of liberty and of the rule of law and of government, to protect against a person with aggrandized power or who destroys the separation of powers or something like that,” Nadler said.
The Republicans are so fortunate to have us as the people across the aisle, and not themselves, as is our nation.
now see the Democratic house majority as an opportunity to do some really good obstructing, Freedom Caucus style. Over 90% of Sanders primary voters were mainstream and did their best to elect Democrats, of course, leaving a small core of hard-core Never-Hillary spoilers to continue their peculiar battle.
It's looking like most of those are here at DU continuing as Never-Nancys. Lucky us.
That poor old bastard has a frown on his face that won’t quit! 
drunk on trump before? 
