Friday, October 09, 2015

Republican Rep. Charlie Dent: Say, Maybe We Need to Team Up With Democrats to Elect a Speaker Who Will Represent Both Parties

When he says no Republican can secure 218 votes from within the party, what he means is that Establishment "centrists" like himself will refuse completely to support a Freedom Caucus candidate like Daniel Webster. 
That means that to insure an Establishment candidate, he thinks they'd have to reach out to Democrats to secure Democratic votes. So he'd prefer a coalition with Democrats than with other Republicans. 
Striking deals with Democrats is just business, but striking the same sort of deal with conservative members of his own party is just unthinkable.

3 comments:

Always On Watch said...

For pity's sake!

Epaminondas said...

The political class HAS NO FUCKING PARTY, merely recognized self interest.


My wife is knitting a scarf.
Charlie, how do you spell your middle name, just want to be cure we get it right.


We won't need a Place de la Concorde, we going to do this American Style.


THere will be no more wall street lobbying jobs, no more sweet professorial teaching positions for ONE CLASS supported by school loans guaranteed by laws you passed.

You'll have to work.
Or collect.
Or leave.

I hear Uber is good

Always On Watch said...

Epa,
The political class HAS NO FUCKING PARTY, merely recognized self interest.

Indeed.

Furthermore, once elected to Capitol Hill, most work to make sure that they're elected for life so as to ride the gravy train. Not what the Founders had in mind!