GOP is handing Biden a 2nd term.

One of America’s old folk heroes was the errant pilot, “Wrong Way” Corrigan. He is the perfect model for Rep. Matt “Wrong Way” Gaetz, and his small band of rightwing allies. Corrigan earned his nickname in the late 1930s when his flight from Long Island to California actually landed in Ireland. Gaetz’ flight of fancy landed in the wrong place, too, out of fuel, out of ideas, and out of a working GPS. It managed to end the Speakership of Kevin McCarthy, but it had no solution to the problem it created no glide path to a safe landing in the right place. Although Matt Gaetz was skilled at demolition, he wasn’t nearly so skilled at rebuilding. He and his allies never had a feasible solution for the vacancy they created.


Whoever emerges from this fracas, Republicans have scored a devastating “own goal” here. Their self-inflicted damage carries a larger message for the country, beyond the Republican Party and the House of Representatives. It is that America is clearly, painfully hobbled by political dysfunction and bitter ideological fissures, which run deep within each party and between them. In a time of war, inflation, surging illegal immigration, and massive budget deficits, we seem to be passengers on a plane buffeted by strong winds and piloted by “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

Voters next year will have to choose between a united and functioning Democratic party and a deeply fractured and paralyzed GOP piloted by “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

- I think we all know who they'll choose. 😏

@mchill said
One of America’s old folk heroes was the errant pilot, “Wrong Way” Corrigan. He is the perfect model for Rep. Matt “Wrong Way” Gaetz, and his small band of rightwing allies. Corrigan earned his nickname in the late 1930s when his flight from Long Island to California actually landed in Ireland. Gaetz’ flight of fancy landed in the wrong place, too, out of fuel, out of ideas, a ...[text shortened]... and paralyzed GOP piloted by “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

- I think we all know who they'll choose. 😏

We, and the country, could indeed be lost. Remember to tell your grandkids that AvJoe said , in 2019, you would win in the end. Losing the country.
I’m tied up hunting right now but thurs I’ll do an interesting thread on What’s Up.

The GOP are handing us great entertainment.

@mchill said
One of America’s old folk heroes was the errant pilot, “Wrong Way” Corrigan. He is the perfect model for Rep. Matt “Wrong Way” Gaetz, and his small band of rightwing allies. Corrigan earned his nickname in the late 1930s when his flight from Long Island to California actually landed in Ireland. Gaetz’ flight of fancy landed in the wrong place, too, out of fuel, out of ideas, a ...[text shortened]... and paralyzed GOP piloted by “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

- I think we all know who they'll choose. 😏

I have a plan forward for the Republican Party, and I am quite serious about it. I know AverageJoe and a few others here think I'm a liberal, but it is not so. I vote (in Switzerland, as I did in America when I still lived there) on each issue on its own merits, regardless which party supports it.

America needs a functioning Republican Party, and here is what Republican politicians should do to regain functionality:

1. Expell the radical elements. We all know who they are. The trouble started over ten years ago when the Republican Party assimilated the Tea Party, mistakenly thinking that the Tea Party would be moderated and tamed. The exact opposite occurred: the Tea Party polarised and radicalised the Republicans to the point where the Republicans can no longer govern themselves, much less the nation. So, banish the radicals, let them re-form an independent party among themselves.

2. Repudiate Trump and Trumpism; repudiate demagoguery and government by personalities. Cooperate with the DoJ in investigating and prosecuting alleged crimes, regardless of party affiliation.

3. Return to government by principles.

4. Publicly acknowledge that the Democrats are not idiots, socialists, Communists, or baby eaters, and find consensus solutions everyone can sign onto in good faith.

@averagejoe1 said

I’m tied up hunting right now but thurs I’ll do an interesting thread on What’s Up.

Hunting ducks, or pussy ?

😆

@moonbus said
I have a plan forward for the Republican Party, and I am quite serious about it. I know AverageJoe and a few others here think I'm a liberal, but it is not so. I vote (in Switzerland, as I did in America when I still lived there) on each issue on its own merits, regardless which party supports it.

America needs a functioning Republican Party, and here is what Republican p ...[text shortened]... sts, Communists, or baby eaters, and find consensus solutions everyone can sign onto in good faith.

I've heard stories that this is how Republicans used to be, back in the day. Not while I've been alive, surely, but you know, I've heard stories.

(Reagan was elected in 1980, four years after I was born, and even he might be called "radical" [or, more properly, "reactionary"]. He was the one who started calling those on the left "the L-word" [even though that was as late as 1988, stumping for G.H.W. Bush], as if that made them the evil side of Government, and at that time, that was a fairly "radical" idea.)