This Republican implosion has been a long time coming

[Zorro]

It should now be clear to everyone: The Republican Party is incapable of governing.

Sure, this sounds partisan. In fact, it’s an analytical reflection based on what is happening right before our eyes.

You would think that with our nation facing its most profound economic crisis since the 1930s, married to a public health disaster and growing unrest over racial injustice, the party that controls the White House and the U.S. Senate would get serious.

Instead, the Senate’s Republican majority and the Trump White House are in chaos, unable to produce a coherent relief bill to keep the economy from spiraling further downward.

Republicans admit this.

“It’s a mess,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the party’s own ramshackle proposal. “I can’t figure out what this bill’s about.”

A telltale sign of the Republicans’ flight from responsibility is that they waited until the last minute before launching their haphazard scramble because they were hoping to avoid having to do anything.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-has-earned-itself-a-multi-year-expulsion-from-politics/2020/07/29/724d13ac-d1d1-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

[lagomorph777]

1. and they'll be a long time gone

[underpants]

2. hostelry

Dionne is spot on as usually. It’s all smoke and mirrors and victimization for them. It was during the W&Dick years and now there’s literally one man behind the curtain.

[Zorro]

3. They are not only incapable of governing

With all the circus clowns they have in Congress, they are unfit to govern.

Do you want good government, or Republican government? That should be this election's meme.

[liberalla]

4. Do you want good government, or Republican government?

EXCELLENT !!

I want GOOD government!

K & R !

[Skittles]

5. they have to serve their corporate masters while pretending to care about WE THE PEOPLE

THAT IS THEIR DILEMMA

[chriscan64]

6. Democrats have the votes to put some of what they want in the bill.

As usual, the Senate gop wants it both ways, to avoid the public outcry over letting yet another deadline pass AND to force the Democrats to swallow their bill whole, no compromise. 20 fuckers are saying no to anything, they don't have the votes. Dems have the leverage.

It has to be more than a slightly higher uninsurance benefit. The other concepts that are not even in the gop bill, like funds for local government, rental assistance, etc., need to be added. There are more but I can't recall them off the top of my head. They want the bare minimum, but they misgage what is the bare minimum. If people need help, you help them, that's what Democrats do.

[hydrolastic]

7. If we are lucky enough for that to happen

Better plan would be to have the Republican party go away completely. Have another party start the very long process of gaining membership.

[CTyankee]

8. Their brand was based on rotten greed, dressed up as patriotism.

I've given up trying to find good Republicans. What there were of them, now are gone.