Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 20:18:24 | Updated at 2024-11-19 23:06:15 2 hours ago

Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price
The Washington Post ^ | November 19, 2024 7:45 AM EST | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 11/19/2024 12:08:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

As justifiably alarmed as Democrats are by President-elect Donald Trump’s radical agenda and his nominations of unqualified candidates for Cabinet positions, these actions may be even more terrifying for Republican senators up for reelection in 2026. (What follows certainly applies to vulnerable GOP House members as well, although they, of course, play no role in confirming nominees.)

The 2026 map is somewhat more favorable to Democrats than it was in 2024. For example, the reelection campaigns of Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina will be two of the most hotly contested races. While they hail from comfortably red states, less rabid Republican Sens.Steve Daines of Montana, Mike Rounds of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas will also face the voters. That raises a host of questions. Will Collins, who said she was “shocked” at Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general, wind up voting to confirm him or, worse, voting to adjourn the Senate to hide from her constitutional obligations? When it comes to mass immigrant roundups, will Cornyn lift a finger to prevent raids that snare hardworking Texans, disrupt businesses and break up families? Meanwhile, Daines, Rounds and other Republican senators from farming states will have to decide whether to remain mute when across-the-board tariffs drive up farm bankruptcies and destroy the rural economy.

In short, Republicans will face a dilemma time and again during the Trump presidency: Go along with the White House or stand up for their constituents. If they choose the latter, they certainly face the potential for a primary challenge from a MAGA Republican. Do they fear appearing too extreme to voters in the general election more than they fear such a challenge? If it’s the general electorate that worries them, they may choose to buck...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: jenniferrubin; rubinoneout

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In short, Republicans will face a dilemma time and again during the Trump presidency: Go along with the White House or stand up for their constituents.

Those constituents overwhelmingly voted for Trump, you idiot.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see Jennifer Rubin is still spewing crap for the Washington Post. Couldn’t resign as promised, though she has dropped out of X(Twitter), where she was not apparently being paid for these pearls of wisdom.

2 posted on 11/19/2024 12:12:40 PM PST by madprof98

To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Compost is ignoring the fact that President Trump ran ahead of Senate Republican candidates.

He carried them on his back.

Even the dumbest of Republican Senators knows what that means.

3 posted on 11/19/2024 12:13:34 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would only make them pay a price if they voted against

4 posted on 11/19/2024 12:14:23 PM PST by wild74

To: E. Pluribus Unum

In case you don’t know her, Jennifer Rubin is a blogger who styles herself the “house conservative” at the Washington Post. While I generally disregard her hate-filled screeds, I have yet to see anything Rubin writes that I would call “conservative” and I reject her warmongering blather as constituting anything “conservative” or populist.

5 posted on 11/19/2024 12:14:28 PM PST by laconic ( )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I despise Cornyn. I hope he gets primary’d.

Same with Collins.

Maybe only Murkowski is more contemptible.
.

To: laconic

Rubin wants to “conserve” leftist victories.

7 posted on 11/19/2024 12:17:56 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

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