#ACA: "Democrats' decision⚡to end the shutdown when they did doesn't look like such a bad choice anymore.

When they'd a shutdown to rail agst, the GOP was hardening against any extension of subsidies. Now #Democrats walked away & let them own it, they're falling apart."
-M Chapman

🚨“We don’t even have a consensus on the Republican side on healthcare changes"
-Sen Kennedy

#RepublicansInDisarray #Kakistocracy #TrumpRegime #Reconciliation #Economy #Healthcare #USPol
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2025/republicans-stuck-in-economic-muddle-as-white-house-eyes-second-party-line-bill

Republicans stuck in economic muddle as White House eyes second party-line bill

The party is rudderless on health care costs and divided over tariffs as Trump aides try to focus on selling what it already passed.

Rep. "Elise Stefanik is Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest challenge, as he struggles to keep control of the House":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-feud-00674030
#chaos #RepublicansInDisarray #politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson breaks with Trump on Epstein files: ‘We should put everything out there’

“It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide,” the House speaker declared.

New York Post

#RepublicansInDisarray

“House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) released his spending and tax blueprint Wednesday morning – the initial step in kicking off the reconciliation process,” Punchbowl News reports.

“Arrington is already taking withering criticism from members of his own panel and the broader House Republican Conference.”

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicanKakistocracy #Budget #USHouse #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #GOPWeirdos #USPol

@theguardian_us_news

Yet not a single paper or commentator will run the headline:

#RepublicansInDisarray

Four top 5th District GOP officials ousted for not supporting McGuire • Virginia Mercury

In a sign of deepening divisions among Republicans in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, at least four members of the district’s 37-member GOP Committee, including the vice chair, were ousted over the weekend, and another resigned after refusing to sign renewed loyalty pledges for state Sen. John McGuire, R-Goochland, the party’s nominee. 

Virginia Mercury

The snark is strong with this article about how the House Republicans are screwing up must-pass legislation less than 2 months before Election Day.

Republicans can't govern, and should not be entrusted with government offices.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-johnson-gop-fail-shutdown-bill-rcna171632

#RepublicansInDisarray #RepublicansCantGovern #HouseGOP #Republicans #USpol #CWUSpol

Mike Johnson is walking a fine line between Trump and a shutdown disaster

Speaker Mike Johnson might not follow Donald Trump's orders and shutdown the government for the SAVE Act but Republicans still failed to pass a spending bill.

MSNBC
'Growing chatter' at Mar-a-Lago that Trump wants two campaign heads to 'kill each other'

The re-hiring of former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to help shore up a struggling re-election effort is being dismissed as not reflecting on the existing campaign managers, but there might be financial considerations in play.On Thursday, an announcement that Lewandowski and sever...

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele says the new Republican Party platform is nothing but a manifesto aimed solely at Donald Trump, and it's "riddled with... contradictions", "incoherent, hate-filled and ham-fisted".

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republican-party-platform-trump-project-2025-rcna161259

#Republicans #RepublicanParty #RepublicanPlatform #RepublicansInDisarray #USPol #CWUSPol

The Republican Party platform has an audience of one: Donald Trump

The Republican platform committee issued a draft of principles that will guide the party, but they read more like a manifesto for Donald Trump than anything else.

MSNBC