Well, bye.
They’re all leaving … Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Richard Shelby, Pat Toomey, Rob Portman. I’ve also heard that Mitch McConnell might not finish his term.
Note: They aren’t headed for the door because the GOP is facing a tough election. The 2022 midterms will probably be a good cycle for them.
@ they are probaly headed to their bunkers .
Unfortunately, who ever comes after him will the same or worse. It’s a never ending cycle of evil.
If this country has ever had a worse class of leadership than the congressional representatives over the last several decades, then it sure escapes me.
Senators, like Blount, simply cannot reassign themselves from ‘representing us’ to playing golf fulltime in their hometowns fast enough for me.
They never did anything in office. Nothing. Now fresh Conservatives will pop up but will those people be following the old defeated ways of the Republican Party or go with the new America First / Pro White wing? Deo Vindice !
Blunt knew about Dennis Hastert and did nothing.
Blunt and Shelby are leaving because they’re kinda old.
Nothing more to it really.
I see in the news in the last several weeks that Blunt was accumulating primary challengers or threats of big name primary challengers (e.g. former Gov. Eric Greitens) even before retiring yesterday. Missouri is now a solidly red state, and 2022 looks to be a red season. So it’s not because he fears losing the general. It’s probably because there are internal polling data out there that show that his even winning the Republican primary isn’t a sure thing.
Maybe you should run for U.S. Senate
I’m kinda far away, even though I still legally could. Don’t know how effective of a U.S. Senator I’d be from across a whole ocean. I’ve had people tell me I should run for the Bundestag, even though I’m not a citizen. But that’s not precluding a certain 2015 Syrian refugee from saying he’s going to do so.
HW: I don’t know if I sent you my birth announcement for my twin sons. If you didn’t get it, want to send me a working e-mail address for yourself?
Awesome news!
@countenance
With the retirements in Alabama and Missouri, I think there should be some investment from people around here for the sole reason of preventing: a.) A turbo zionist pseudo populist like Hawley, b.) A nutty kook like Mo Brooks, or in Missouri’s case, c.) Eric Greitens from becoming a Senator.
It’s a good plan for a lot of people to run in primaries for 2022.