Steve Benen gives a casual summary of Republicans nation-wide:
While the GOP’s self-imposed drama [concerning border security] unfolds in the Senate, elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Republicans are poised to impeach the Homeland Security secretary for reasons they’re struggling to explain, knowing that their Senate counterparts intend to ignore the entire fiasco.
The impeachment vote later failed. Maybe they’ll try again!
Meanwhile, Donald Trump appears to be throwing his handpicked chair of the Republican National Committee [Ronna Romney McDaniel] under the bus for reasons he also hasn’t explained.
It’s against this backdrop that the state Republican Parties in Florida, Arizona, and Michigan have recently parted ways with their chairs; the chair and vice chair in Oklahoma don’t appear to be on the same page; and Nevada is holding a presidential primary and caucus on the same week for a series of confusing reasons that have left local voters baffled.
Yep, that sounds like arrogant amateurs at work.
Which all reminds me: a few years back I went to a birthday party where I met a lady who had helped run elections in a number of roles. While she was obviously of a leftish inclination, she seemed quite honestly bewildered when discussing the lawyers who represented the right over election night issues, who she described, if I remember rightly, as becoming more and more stupid as the years passed.
