Remember when I finally did the blog post on the results of the 2020 presidential race way late when I felt that something time sensitive meant that it finally had to be done? Well, here we are with the next long post that fits this category. I learned that a member of the sedition caucus will be resigning from office. He will not be mentioned in this post since I haven’t posted what has happened to this former group of 147 people and how it has dwindled down since it was formed. I might as well get to this post which will, like future ones like it, double as both an election results post for the last House race and also be a post about the next House race as well. Hopefully, like the other post that I told you about, I can focus on this enough of the time that it can be complete.
Starting
with the House election results, there were nine seats flipped giving Republicans
a 222 to 213 majority. These elections had lots of things going on since in
addition to this being the first time that any of the sedition caucus could
face retribution at the hands of the voters, there was redistricting,
gerrymandering, Trump’s continued influence, abortion protests, inflation, gas
prices, and lots more besides that. First, what did Democrats do wrong to lose
the House?
The
Democratic failures were numerous by the key failure in losing the House was
probably a simple one: not running enough candidates in the races. Too many of
the races, and just the ones with members of the sedition caucus in it, did not
have any Democratic candidates in the race at all so there was no alternative
to the terrible Republicans running. Many of them didn’t run any ads on TV.
Others didn’t counter the ads that the other did. Some would have had an easy
candidate to beat if they only said what needed to be say. If you don’t point
out what people need to know, then how would they know it? Another problem is
that they didn’t run on the importance of the infrastructure bill that passed.
Republican
failures were also numerous. They just barely won the House and that was more
or less the only benefit they had in any of the elections in 2022. After the
Supreme Court victory in Dobbs, Republicans could have pointed out all the good
that the end of abortion would bring. Instead, they went dead air on that and
refused to address the topic at all. This means that the Democrats would
slaughter them in abortion ads, much like how unborn babies are slaughtered in
the womb because of abortion. The election denialism left a lot of the
candidates as laughing stocks to the general public.
How
many of the 147 have left office? If you count up all of them together from
when they were first informally formed on January 7th * of 2021
until May of 2023 (since I’m not covering anyone later just yet in this post),
there are 18 that are no longer in office. This leaves the 129 that are in the
title of this post.
*By
this point, the vote to overturn the election wasn’t until the next day after
the storming of the capitol was over.
Died
(3)
Ron
Wright: He made little to no impact on the world of politics. He took office,
joined the sedition caucus, got covid, and then died of covid. This Texas
Congressman didn’t do much outside of being the first person in the sedition
caucus to leave office. It wasn’t his choice at all. I don’t want to damper any
of those that did die for any reason as it seems mean. I’m not like Mitch
McConnell who takes all of a few hours to politicize a death. I’m only posting
about what has happened to these people.
Jim
Hagedorn: He also died. I forget why. It wasn’t covid. But he won’t be around
to cause any further problems for the country. I think that he was from
Minnesota. I don’t care enough to look up anything about him.
Jackie
Walorski: There was a traffic collision that killed her. I had already donated
to her competitor at that point and felt a bit guilty. Also, my facebook habit
of writing political acrostic poems about those who left office in specific
categories will normally not apply to those who died so she will never get one
since I don’t want to bash a dead person. I might do them if I do like the
person.
Resigned
(1)
Devin
Nunes: He’s now a part of Trump’s current ways of swindling people that the
supposedly liberal media won’t hesitate to tell you about. (Trump has good
fundraising numbers! Trump has high polling among Republicans!) This is a guy
who lost a lawsuit to a made up cow, so I’m not sure what Trump saw in him. But
with the way that he cycles through people in his life, maybe Trump just
doesn’t know how to vet people at all. That explains a lot of problems that
have happened throughout his administration.
Lost
redistricting races (none)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/
This
was one of the more disappointing things to me. While I wouldn’t have known for
sure how all other Republicans in races against each other would have presented
themselves, I would only hope that some of them could have presented themselves
as the better candidate for being less extreme than their opponent. But we’ll
have to wait until the 2032 House races before there will be any potential for
any of them to lose to hopefully better Republicans that way. But this is not
the only way that Republicans can lose to other Republicans.
Lost
primary for same office (3)
Tom
Rice: I’m not even sure what all there is to say about him. I know that on
facebook, I do a bunch of political acrostics and have a certain set planned to
be written about certain groups of politicians. I should be more ahead than I
am now in July, but I will write one on him and see just how badly he messed up
to lose a primary.
Madison
Cawthorn: This guy is so crazy that even Republicans couldn’t renominate him. I
just can’t believe what all happened with this guy. I mean, he had a sex tape
with his cousin! It is messed up enough to have any sex tape at all. But with
your cousin? What? Why?
Steven
Palazzo: Again, this is something that I will probably talk more about in an
acrostic that I will post on facebook at some point in time. I can’t remember
who this person is or why he lost in a primary to the same office that he had.
But it is one less person in the sedition caucus that we have to deal with,
which is wonderful.
Lost
primary for higher office (5)
Jody
Hice: He ran for Georgia Secretary of State and lost the primary to the
incumbent, Brad Raffensperger. While I largely want most Republicans to lose
their elections, especially in the important office of Secretary of State, I
actually wanted Brad to win because it is just so stupid that he is ostrasized
in the Republican Party (the people reelecting him, notwithstanding) for simply
calling Trump’s ridiculous lies out for what they are.
Vicky
Hartzler: She ran for US Missouri senate and lost the primary to Eric Schmitt.
She ran only one ad where she attacked a trans woman saying the same thing that
got her banned from twitter (at least at one point). Does she want us to side
with trans people? That’s all that’s going to happen if that’s your only
campaign strategy.
Billy
Long: He also ran for the US senate seat in Missouri. He never made a presense
in the ads and did terribly in the primary as a result. I’m not sure what he
was even trying to do. What’s the point of running in a race if you don’t make
yourself known?
Louie
Gohmert: He ran for Texas attorney general and lost the primary to the
incumbent at the time (should something happen to him), Ken Paxton. I wasn’t
wanting either Louie or Ken to win and actually wanted a Bush to win the
primary. Even though Ken still won the general election, at least I knew that
one of the terrible people would lose.
Mo
Brooks: He ran for US senator of Alabama. While he was in the run-off, he lost
to Katie Britt, now the state’s current senator. He was one of the less
intelligent people and even in Alabama, they must not have given him much
leeway. “We ain’t dumb,” was something he said. He was. And his own state
didn’t want him to continue in office as a senator. It’s good because, while it
could still happen, no state yet has both of its senators in the sedition
caucus.
Lost
election for higher office (1)
Lee
Zeldin: He ran for governor of New York and lost the election to the incumbent
Democratic governor of New York after winning the Republican primary for the
office. I can’t say I give him points for trying, but he only would have
succeeded against Cuomo and there is no way that Cuomo would have won a
primary.
Retired
(3)
Fred
Keller: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the
need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy
and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person
that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.
Bob
Gibbs: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the
need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy
and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person
that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.
Chris
Jacobs: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the
need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy
and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person
that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.
Lost
reelection (2)
Yvette
Herrell: She was in office in New Mexico so it seems more likely that she could
lose since most of the others are in too red a place to lose reelection. While
she might try to win her way back into office, that’s not a topic for this blog
post.
Steve
Chabot: He was from Ohio so it makes me have some good hope that this state
might have some hope in the future, even though he was the only one of his state
with three others still in office that I plan to get to later in the post.
This
is where the good news of the post ends as I am going to get to bad things we
have to deal with relating to the sedition caucus. Two of them have now won
higher office. And the rest of them are all still in office. Let’s get to the
worst part first.
Won
election for higher office (two)
Markwayne
Mullin: He is now a class three senator from Oklahoma. While he should be a
person who is making great strides for his race, instead, he makes me more and
more worried about just how deep red his state is becoming.
Ted
Budd: He is now a class three senator from North Carolina. I’m also worried
about just how deep red the state of North Carolina is and remains. I don’t
expect it to get better any time soon. At least, like the previous person, he
is replacing a bad, outgoing senator. But he is also bad and could be worse in other
regards.
All
reelected and staying in office: Alabama: Robert Aderholt, Jerry Carol,
Barry Moore, Gary Palmer, Mike Rogers, Arizona: Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar,
Debbie Lesko, David Schweikert, Arkansas: Rick Crawford, California:
Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Jay
Obernolte, Colorado: Lauren Boebert, Doug Lamborn, Florida: Kat
Cammack, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin, Matt
Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube,
Daniel Webster, Georgia: Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Andrew Clyde,
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Barry Loudermilk, Idaho: Russ Fulcher, Illinois:
Mike Bost, Mary Miller, Indiana: Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence, Kansas:
Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner, Tracey Mann, Kentucky: Harold Rogers, Louisiana:
Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Maryland: Andy
Harris, Michigan: Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain, Tim Walberg, Minnesota:
Michelle Fischbach, Mississippi: Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, Missouri:
Sam Graves, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, Montana: Matt Rosendale, Nebraska:
Adrian Smith, New Jersey: Jeff Van Drew, New York: Nicole
Malliotakis, Elise Stefanik, North Carolina: Dan Bishop, Virginia Foxx,
Richard Hudson, Greg Murphy, David Rouzer, Ohio: Warren Davidson, Bill
Johnson, Jim Jordan, Oklahoma: Stephanie Bice, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern,
Frank Lucas, Oregon: Cliff Bentz, Pennsylvania: John Joyce, Mike
Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, Glenn
Thompson, South Carolina: Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, William Timmons,
Joe Wilson, Tennessee: Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck
Fleischmann, Mark E Green, Diana Harshbarger, David Kustoff, John Rose, Texas:
Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C Burgess, John R Carter, Michael Cloud,
Pat Fallon, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson, Troy Nehls, August Pfluger, Pete
Sessions, Beth Van Duyne, Randy Weber, Roger Williams: Utah: Burgess
Owens, Chris Stewart *, Virginia: Ben Cline, Bob Good, Morgan Griffith,
Robert J Wittman, West Virginia: Carol Miller, Alex Mooney, Wisconsin:
Scott L Fitzgerald, Tom Tiffany, and Louisiana senator John Kennedy.
*He
is set to resign on 9-15-2023
to focus on his wife’s health issues.
Not
up for election this cycle: the class one senators of Ted Cruz, Josh
Hawley, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Rick Scott and the class two senators of Cynthia
Lummis, Roger Marshall, and Tommy Tuberville.
There’s
still more to write in this blog post in question. You see, there are links to
cover some of the subjects that are still worth covering in this blog post. I
might do more in future versions of this blog post.
While
I need to check this list with the people who ultimately wound up in the 147,
the idea for this eventual problem all started with people wanting to support
the Texas versus Pennsylvania lawsuit that sort of went before the Supreme
Court. I’m pretty sure that some of them did not ultimately vote to overturn
the election. Maybe some were wise after what happened earlier that day. Others
may have abandoned it a long time before that.
If
you want to know more about the horrible person that Madison Cawthorn is, such
as one of the many controversies that got him ousted by his own party in the
primary, or the terrible ways of him being a sore loser who can’t accept
election losses because that tends to be a common problem among Republicans of
today, then read either of these articles.
One
of the most despicable current members of Congress would undoubtably have to be
Paul Gosar. He does a video where he threats another member of Congress and
people defend him as if cancel culture is worse than the real controversy that
he caused. And that’s not even what this article here is about.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/17/2104709/-Arizona-Rep-Paul-Gosar-I-started-the-revolution
Here
is a story of a Congressman from the sedition caucus misusing funds. In the
world of TV, you often run across people not facing their due punishment for
what they did wrong. What’s shocking is how rare it is for a Republican to be
punished for their wrongdoing.
Here’s
a story about one of the many PPP loan controversies that arose out of the
pandemic and people’s response to it. Some people abused the system for sure. While
I can’t remember if these two people were among them or not, feel free to read
on.
While
it is a well known fact that Lauren Boebert believes a lot of conspiracy
theories, that she believes them isn’t always just the extent of her dumbness. There’s
a lot of dumb things that she believes or says and here’s one of them:
It
seems that people like to plead the 5th Amendment a whole lot and,
both constitutionally and legally, there is nothing that anyone can do about it
since it is written into our laws, I’m not sure if people can always just
refuse to appear before a court when ordered to, although they can refuse to
talk to the court as stated before.
Matt
Gaetz continues to be a despicable human being who can’t face reprocussions for
his actions, be it at the ballot box or in court. He has lots of people against
him with their testimony in his potential sex crimes cases. And even his own
party walked out on his speech.
Now
people have given Biden a lot of crap for high gas prices. They didn’t thank
him when it went down because of him (more on this in a later link), but they
sure love to blame him when things go wrong. This link is just one of many that
points out that many gas industries donate to the sedition caucus, known Biden
enemies.
Skipping
ahead a bit, there is now the committee investigating the January 6th
committee, aka the United States House Judiciary Select Committee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government. People need to give these people
mirrors. I do know that some Democrats are on the committee which is actually a
good thing and not something that we should dismiss them for being DINOs as. Whether
or not they can hold the lease of the poodles in the other party is unknown. What
is known is this issue:
The
House speaker election was a crazy part of the US government process and was
nice to see the supposedly liberal media focus on Republican infighting as they
often tend to focus solely on Democratic infighting. After many votes with the
far right “Freedom” Caucus finally getting their successions from the incoming
speaker, Kevin McCarthy became the weakest Speaker of the House in quite some
time. Read on for more of his terrible ways and how he is not nearly as
powerful as he could be with his own party.
While
the title of this article isn’t present due to some sort of glitch, this is a
story that I felt was worth sharing relating to Josh Hawley. It was probably
about something dumb he said or did so enjoy this article about whatever it
was.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/16/2157836/undefined
(Josh Hawley related)
The
United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was pretty good. It
had ratings about as high as the highest rated show on television right now. And
they did a lot of good that you will see if you pay the slightest bit of
attention.
If
you remember or heard about Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, you would know that he
seems to have given an unsantitioned tour to people who would storm the capitol
the very next day. It would not look good at all to anyone, that is, except the
people who reelected him.
Like
Josh Hawley, Rick Scott is a senator part of the sedition caucus who was not up
for election this past cycle, but is worth talking about in a post covering the
subject. He thinks that he’s so smart, yet can’t remember simple things like
who a senator is that he’s criticizing.
You’d
think that the party that doesn’t like Trump being investigated because they
are convinced that it has to be politically motivated wouldn’t be so openly
hypocritical about investigating Hunter Biden, but if you thought that, you don’t
know jack shit about the Republican Party.
There
is far too much wrong with Republican’ts and they will do anything and
everything in order to escape accountability. Here are other stories that I
deem relevant to this blog post that I can only hope are worth the read that I
felt were good.
The
last person that I feel like giving a section to in this blog post is Marjorie
Taylor Greene. While I have pointed out how some bad Republicans lose in
primaries to others (who aren’t necessarily good, just different at best or bad
for other reasons, even though some are good), she beat someone who might have
been a good Republican when she first took office. There are a lot of problems
with her and I can only fear what all happens as she stays in office.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter-suspension/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-jan-6-what-matters/
*Note
that the article’s mention of the Dunning-Kruger effect is wrong.
There’s
no better link to end this article with (before the real closing) than the one
on just how much the Republican Party is like a circus. This cartoon can convey
it well enough just how much it can be like that at any given time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/23/2159710/-Cartoon-Republican-circus
When
it comes to the upcoming House election next year, there isn’t too much else to
say about it. There are some notable people of both parties seeking a higher
office. There are once again far too many Democrats doing that which could
hinder their chances of regaining control of the House. Due to a Supreme Court
decision, Alabama has to redraw their maps. I look forward to the elections at
hand and will post again about it after the election has happened. I just hope
not to be this late again, but knowing me, it could happen. I mean, I did want
to have this post written two days ago. Still, I hope that you enjoyed this
post and like knowing about who isn’t a part of the sedition caucus anymore.
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