This time around we have Rep Victoria Spartz (R-FL) at a townhall:
“Will you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the rest of the group chat”Spartz: No Crowd: Booo
“Will you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the rest of the group chat”
Spartz: No
Crowd: Booo
Only unspeakable, if understandable, loyalty to the President explains such a refusal to do her duty. She could have made a satisfactory answer out of I’m considering it, but she didn’t.
But long-term readers will be considering the possibility that voters of a conservative tilt, long trained to make judgments solely on issues, and not to pay attention to experience, competency, moderation, and ability to negotiate compromises – even to loathe such attributes – may now be reconsidering these metrics by which to judge Republican candidates. That’s a drum I’ve been beating for a while.
The fact that a candidate can do the abortion jig, the gun rights yodel, even the anti-tax howl, may soon become burdens for Republican candidates, rather than advantages. The more Congress sits on its hands as President Trump’s actions, whether by his mistaken view of the world or on purpose, convert the nation from the leading country on Earth to a quivering lump of sodden gelatin, the more likely there will be a mass replacement of Republican Congresspeople in 2026.
Not that the replacements will necessarily be Democrats. The Democrats, for all of their anticipation at the recent gains in elections since the 2024 Election, have yet to demonstrate significant attempts at reform, although efforts by Governor Newsom (D-CA) and Rep Moulton (D-MA) can be viewed with some optimism by those who are conscious of the errors imputed to Democrats – and their allies. Along with mismanaging the transgender issue, they need to deal with the charges of anti-semitism, the lack of a primary for VP Harris’ ascension to the top of the 2024 ticket after Biden left the race, a general sense of an autocratic inclination, and a few other issues, and, internally, their turn to identitarianism, and what to do about the DEI issue, which currently seems to have become a loser with the citizenry. Oh, and much like the Republicans, the arrogance.
I offer no solutions. I’m an independent. I observe that, against a pathetic group of group of pathetic Republican candidates, the Democrats lost. That observation, if they’re honest, and willing to kick out those who stubbornly cling to positions designed to preserve their positions in the power hierarchy in the Party, should help guide them towards success.
And if they can’t? Then both Parties deserve to be replaced, not just the Republicans. Both Parties are a discouragement.
