Nov 16, 2023
Republican SLAMS His Own Party For Being Useless
Republican SLAMS His Own Party For Being Useless
- 5 minutes
Hell of a thing,
GOP REP tears into the GOP for
doing absolutely nothing for people.
Here it is.
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>> Speaker 2: One thing I want my
Republican colleagues to give me,
one thing, one that I can go
campaign on and say we did, one.
Anybody sitting in the complex, if you
wanna come down to the floor and come
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explain to me one material, meaningful,
significant thing the Republican
majority has done besides, well,
I guess it's not as bad as a Democrat.
>> Speaker 2: What up,
his picture full of mass.
Sir, you definitely have a point, but
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you all do have a race
baiting bigot at the top
of your ticket polling at number one.
Now that's something.
That's not what I would like to see, but
that is what the Republican
leadership has delivered.
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As the Hill reports, Representative
Chip Roy, Republican out of Texas,
got heated on the House floor Wednesday
because he has nothing to campaign on.
They have not delivered anything other
than rhetoric and red meat tearing
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into the GOP colleagues and GOP leadership
over their approach to funding and
policy battles and criticizing them for
not being willing to force
a shutdown to try to coerce Democrats
into giving them policy concessions.
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During a nearly 1 hour speech,
Roy declared, quote,
this country is in trouble and the time
for excuses is over, no more excuses.
No more excuses from my colleagues
on the other side of the aisle.
But most importantly of all, no more
excuses from my colleagues on this side of
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the aisle, he said,
blasting his own party.
We're blank it all away, he says.
We're giving it away.
All that they fought for, all of those
freedoms, we're giving it away, why?
Because we're too cowardly to stand up and
do our job, Roy said,
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shouting on the House floor.
No, a shutdown?
Are you freaking kidding me?
We can't have a shutdown
heading into Thanksgiving.
What will they say or do?
How about we stand up and fight?
And obviously I completely disagree
with the congressman on this matter.
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Remember, when the government shuts down,
it's not because it happens automatically,
congress fails to do their job, but
Congress still gets a paycheck.
The members of Congress,
they still get paid,
while those who depend on that money for
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Thanksgiving, for Christmas,
for everyday life, will not.
While he may live in
a bubble on this policy and
believe it is somehow accepted,
celebrated,
that people won't get paid
due to your squabbling.
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So I can assure you that they'd rather
you actually work with than work against.
Roy's speech, though, came after he and
more than a dozen of the hard-line
conservatives tanked a procedural
vote on a funding bill in part over
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objections about it not including
conservative policies they wanted.
And partly in retaliation for the House
GOP leadership pushing through a clean
funding extension Wednesday
with the help of Democrats.
So Roy suggested in his speech that
the House Republican majority had not done
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anything meaningful.
One thing I want my Republican
colleagues to give me,
one thing, one that I can go
campaign on and say we did.
Roy said, come on, Roy.
Look at your district, sir.
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All you have to do is say, Trump, Trump,
Trump, and you will get reelected.
Your party is no more.
There is no Republican Party.
You all do not have a platform.
The platform is whatever the hell Trump is
thinking when he wakes up that morning.
That's why most Republicans
in the US Congress,
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they are afraid to actually
have an exacting policy agenda
because they don't know how Trump
will feel about that policy.
You know why?
Because Trump doesn't know how
he will feel about the policy.
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He feels differently about
policies every single day.
All right, Yasmin, thoughts here.
>> Speaker 3: That's so
funny what you just said.
Chip Roy's district is
actually really cute.
It's Texas wine country.
It's a tourist destination, but it is
incredibly rural and very conservative.
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I was just there, but
I stick to the vineyards.
But it's funny,
he's onto something, Chip Roy.
He's mad that the government did not
shut down, which is pathetic and sad for
a lot of different reasons,
but he's at least self
reflective enough to recognize that
his party doesn't do anything.
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But isn't that the Republicans'
modus operandi a little bit?
They literally obstruct progress and
they protect the status quo
as a matter of protocol.
They don't do anything unless
it benefits themselves.
And by themselves, I mean them,
the Congresspeople,
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not necessarily their constituents.
So in a really weird way, even though
I think he's incredibly misguided,
Chip Roy might strangely be considered
more well intended than some of his
Republican colleagues.
Solely in the sense that he's
actually wanting to do something for
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his constituents, supposedly.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, but if the government
shut down, he would not have been angry.
>> Yeah, makes no sense.
>> Speaker 1: He would have said that,
yeah, that's a win, everybody.
We're losing, but we're winning.
>> Speaker 3: That's what his
constituents want, apparently.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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