Joe Manchin Charted a Better Course for House GOP

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OpinionJonathan Bernstein

Joe Manchin Charted a Better Course for House GOP

The party would benefit more from seeking bipartisan agreements than from allowing extremists like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene to wield influence.

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/22/manchin-charted-a-better-course-for-house-gop/

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Jonathan Bernstein: “There are roughly two dozen House Republicans who, based on the midterm results or their districts’ makeup, are likely to face difficult re-election battles in 2024. While these Republicans typically get far less attention than the party’s anti-democratic extremists — those who praise autocrats like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and spread former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election — they potentially have far more leverage.”

“That’s because moderate Republicans could undermine the GOP’s slim House majority by reaching across the aisle to work with Democrats. Extremists, for all their bluster, have no such option.”

“The narrow GOP majority means moderate Republicans could exercise their influence to press for centrist priorities that could help them with voters in 2024. But their leverage will only be helpful if they choose to take advantage of it. In recent years, the majority of House Republicans, fearful of being labeled Republican in Name Only, have allowed the party’s extremist fringe represented by the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan to intimidate them.”

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[W_HAMILTON]

1. I don't know why people continue to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt.

Moderate House Republicans can't do a thing to push forward these mythical bipartisan agreements because Republicans have their Hastert Rule that says they won't bring forward any bill that isn't supported by a majority of the Republican members.

[wryter2000]

2. I've been wondering

If Empty Greene et al. were to try to cut off funding to Ukraine will a few non-crazy Reps in the House vote with Dems to keep it going? That's one place where I could see getting a few R votes.

[relayerbob]

3. So, basically nothing will come out of either chamber for 2 years

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. Must be why he refused to let Democrats take care of the debt ceiling problem.

Republicons need a way to force us to cut SS, Medicare etc and he just handed them the government-shutdown tool they needed to screw us all.

[WarGamer]

5. If the GOP were smart... (they're not)

They'd allow a section of their people to vote with Dems to codify a Roe-like legislation.

It would permanently take this issue out of the DEMS weapons cache to use against the GOP.