Six in One Week....GOP reps bailing

[cityboy-stl]

Good riddance to both Peter King and Sensenbrenner. I hope the door does hit them both in the ass on the way out.

 

[rareboy]

YOHO YOLO


https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...k6mlliwUuG7fRNkHuGDPX21p9KihHL5vNet7h_e-WSH10

And good for him. For keeping his word.

Although he is likely leaving a safe seat.

The 22nd Republican to announce their departure before 2020.

 

[rareboy]

I had missed this.

101 GOP had either lost their seats or left since Trump won the electoral college in 2016.

With Yoho and now today, Mark Meadows, one of Trump's most loyal defenders...that brings the total to 103.

https://americanindependent.com/don...L536vG4fXzFDQMaw5vxDVP2g5Xurb97Y3TRTVbtLUXjOI

https://www.axios.com/mark-meadows-...wZcrIaz7fMdZTGl4U8uDTu2vMrMA5InvffwZqyQC69Jxk

 

[KaraBulut]

...and now today, Mark Meadows, one of Trump's most loyal defenders...that brings the total to 103.

Overdue. I'm surprised Boehner, who referred to Meadows as "an idiot", didn't run him out of town back in 2015.

House conservative seeks Boehner's ouster [The Hill]

Meadows and Boehner have not had a good relationship, to say the least. GOP leaders consider him an unreliable agitator. Boehner recently told colleagues that in 2013, Meadows dropped to his knees to beg the Ohio Republican for forgiveness for taking part in discussions about trying to oust him.

Meadows has also been the subject of some retribution. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz of Utah last month tried to strip Meadows — a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus — of his subcommittee gavel. But Jordan rallied conservatives and overruled Chaffetz.

Now... if only Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz would go...

 

[KaraBulut]

Tennessee’s Phil Roe won’t run for reelection in 2020 [Roll Call]

Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe, the ranking Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, will not run for reelection in 2020, opening up a solidly Republican seat.

“As someone who practiced medicine for over 30 years, I said I would serve five or six terms because I never intended this job to be a second career,” Roe said in a statement Friday morning. “After prayerful consideration, I have decided to retire at the end of the 116th Congress.”

Roe, 74, was first elected to Tennessee’s 1st District in 2008, unseating freshman GOP Rep. David Davis in the Republican primary. During that campaign, Roe said members of the House shouldn’t serve more than 10 years.

 

[KaraBulut]

And another one throws in the towel:

Louisiana GOP Rep. Abraham won't seek reelection [The Hill]

Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-La.) announced Wednesday he will not run for a fourth term in Congress, opening a safe Republican seat in the northeast corner of Louisiana.

Abraham, 65, said in a statement that he would keep a self-imposed three-term limit and return to Louisiana after his tenure ends in January. He said President Trump had asked him to stay in Congress during a January trip on Air Force One to the college football national championship game, but he said he would stick by his decision to retire from the House.

 

[rareboy]

The sad thing is that it is another solidly Republican seat....

 

[TX-Beau]

The sad thing is that it is another solidly Republican seat....

You do realize this is part of a Great Purge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

 

[rareboy]

sigh....yes...I do...the complete takeover by TrumpCo. of the Republican party.

I assume that a lot of this old whores are just being bought off to retire.

 

[TX-Beau]

That or threatened. Mitchy does know where all the bodies are buried - when people ask me what happened to Miss Lindsey, I tell them that Moscow Mitch has video of him sucking off a scruffy homeless guy in a dirty bathroom somewhere.