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‘We Are A Broken Conference’: Republicans At Standstill After Speaker Nominee Drops Out
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Their agenda is to grind the government to a halt and destroy public faith in the institution. That's been their agenda all along. They campaigned on the premise that our government is broken, and they've been actively trying to break it since they were elected. This has been the core Republican strategy since the 1950s.
Once they think they can get away with it, they'll sell off the government's functions to private interests because they feel that government should only exist to maintain an army and police force to enforce their property rights.
This is why the GOP are fundamentally unfit to govern. It would be like hiring a construction worker who intentionally dismantled or delayed the project every chance they got. That person isn't a builder with "different opinions," they are a saboteur and should be banned from ever working construction again.
Classic fireman arsonist
Something like 74% of Americans dislike what the Republican party is doing. The poll isn't a slam dunk, since Democrats have like 40% approval and apparently more people want the House to solve problems than Biden -- but it's still encouraging to see that people are extremely sick of the GOP.