"Moderate" Republicans Are Fed Up With The Party's Showboats!

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Karens Gone Wild.

Rep. Idiot Karen Greene (R-GA), Rep. Karen Cawthorne (R-NC), Rep. Karen Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Karen Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Karen Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Karen Cammack (R-FL), Rep. Karen Poe (R-TX), Rep. Karen Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Karen Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Karen Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Karen Brooks (R-AL), Rep. Karen Nunes (R-CA), Rep. Karen Zeldin (R-NY), Rep. Karen Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Karen Issa (R-CA), Rep. Karen Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Karen Hice (R-GA), Rep. Karen Babbin (R-TX), Rep. Karen Van Duyne (R-TX), Rep. Karen Mace (R-SC), Rep. Karen Roy (R-TX), Rep. Karen Wilson (R-SC), Rep. Karen DesJarlais (R-TN) and QAnon leader Karen McCarthy (R-CA).

The caucus of white nationalists. The two Coonrans are Rep. Karen Donalds (R-FL) and Rep. Karen Owens (R-UT). 

The House Republicans have their share of headaches within their conference.

The House members who voted for President Joe Biden's infrastructure package and impeachment of Washed Up 45 have become targets of ire from Republicans and extremists.

A monster they created due to their culture wars and willingness to embrace a cult and white extremism.

Rep. Karen Cheney (R-WY), Rep. Karen Kinzinger (R-IL), Rep. Karen Gonzalez (R-OH), Rep. Karen Katko (R-NY), Rep. Karen Upton (R-MI), Rep. Karen Malliotakis (R-NY), Rep. Karen Reed (R-NY), Rep. Karen Young (R-AK), Rep. Karen Van Drew (R-NJ), Rep. Karen Herrera Buelter (R-WA), Rep. Karen Rice (R-SC), Rep. Karen Meijer (R-MI) and Karen Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have been getting death threats and primary challenge threats from the far-right.

Here's the threatening voicemail Michigan GOP Rep. Fred Upton received after supporting the infrastructure bill via CNN

Keep in mind it has money for lead line replacement and PFAS cleanup. A community in Upton's district is in the midst of a lead crisis, another is a PFAS site pic.twitter.com/6AWnWbTGCK

— Aaron Parseghian (@AaronParseghian) November 9, 2021

Upton shared his death threat to the junk food media.

He blames Idiot Karen Greene and Karen McCarthy for it. He believes that the party's showboats are causing chaos. He said that his constituents want road and bridges fixed. He doesn't agree with Biden 100% of the time, but he felt that the need to get things done is important. He felt the party can't just be opposing Biden and be rewarded for doing nothing.

Katko 202-225-3701
Bacon 202-225-4155
Van Drew 202-225-6572
Young 202-225-5765
Upton 202-225-3761
Kinzinger 202-225-3635
Gonzalez (OH) 202-225-3876
Reed 202-225-3161
Smith 202-225-3765
Gabarino 202-225-7896
Malliotakis 202-225-3371
Fitzpatrick 202-225-4276
McKinley 202-225-4172

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 6, 2021

Of course, Karen Gosar shared that anime that showed him decapitating controversial do-nothing, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Biden.

That was condemned by the Democrats but no comment from McCarthy.

The QAnon leader has been very vocal about opposing Biden but he's been very active in opposing his own members who refuse to tow the line. Cheney was ousted from her leadership post when she cast that vote for impeachment. She is to the far-right and she lost to a former moderate in Karen Stefanik.

The two have been feuding ever since. 

Cheney vows to stay on the committee investigating the January 6 riots and insurrection. She's gotten death threats and calls for her removal in the primary. She is the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney.

“This madness has to stop,” said Upton, an 18-term moderate, who said his offices received dozens of threatening calls following his yes vote. That included one obscenity-laced rant that aides provided in which the caller repeatedly called Upton a “traitor” and expressed hope that the lawmaker, his family and aides would die.

The screaming banshee calls fellow Republicans traitors for supporting bipartisanship.

Upton closed his two Michigan offices for a day and reopened them after increasing their security.

This year’s bill, triple the size of the 2015 measure, is a keystone of President Joe Biden’s push to create jobs and build out the nation’s roads, water systems, broadband coverage and other projects. A compromise between Senate Democrats and Republicans, it will send money into every state and is the kind of bill that politicians have loved promoting back home for decades. Biden plans to sign it Monday.

Democrats say GOP opposition to the bill is indefensible on policy and political grounds.

“It’s a sad statement of how the other party has lost its way,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) who’s leading the House Democratic political arm into a 2022 campaign in which Republicans have solid chances of capturing congressional control. ”If you want our country to fail so you can say things are bad and win power for yourself, you act like the House Republicans are.”

But for many Republicans, infrastructure projects — once an issue the two parties would reflexively work together on for mutual and national benefit — now offer a complex political calculation.

“When it comes to policy these days, we’re basically divided into two tribes. And you stick with your tribe and you don’t try to help the other tribe,” said Glen Bolger, a GOP pollster and strategist.

As president, Washed Up 45 repeatedly promised his own massive infrastructure plan but never produced one, making the phrase “infrastructure week” a Washington synonym for “pipe dream.” But he opposes the current package, and his ability to rally his conservative supporters against those who cross him was a factor as GOP lawmakers decided how to vote.

Even so, hard-right cries for retaliation against the 13 pro-infrastructure Republicans, largely moderates from the Northeast and Midwest, have prompted their own pushback.

“This notion that we’re going to have people that are on the fringe, in terms of the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world and others, imposing some kind of a purity test on substance is lunacy,” said Cheney.

Cheney has been at war with Washed Up 45 and the party’s far right ever since backing his impeachment early this year.

Cheney opposed the bill, saying it contained clean energy and other provisions that would hurt Wyoming. She said the 13 Republicans who backed it are “among some of our very best members” who did it “because it was the right thing for their districts.”

Obstructionist Leader Karen McConnell (R-KY) an unabashed partisan warrior, was among 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the bill in August. McConnell, who doesn’t have to worry about being reelected until 2026, said this week he was “delighted” the measure was heading to Biden.

A day earlier, McConnell had already drawn the former president’s wrath.

Washed Up 45 issued a statement denigrating GOP senators who’d backed the bill for “thinking that helping the Democrats is such a wonderful thing to do.” Those Republicans “should be ashamed of themselves, in particular McConnell,” Washed Up 45 wrote.

That was just the tip of the iceberg for the attacks.

In an interview, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said GOP lawmakers should consider removing from their posts the 10 of the 13 defectors who are the senior Republican on committees and subcommittees. “I respect their right to vote their districts and their conscience. But that doesn’t mean that they should get the privilege of leading” House Republicans, said Biggs.

At a private Florida dinner Monday to bolster House GOP campaign prospects, the former president said he loves House Republicans but not the 13 who voted for the bill, according to an attendee who described the former president's remarks on condition of anonymity.

Earlier, House GOP leaders tweeted, and then deleted, that “Americans won’t forget” a vote for the “socialist” infrastructure bill. “Time to name names and hold these fake republicans accountable,” tweeted Boebert.

Before last week’s vote, QAnon leader McCarthy, said it would be “very difficult” for Republicans to promote backing the infrastructure bill during their campaigns because it is so closely linked to Democrats’ accompanying $1.85 trillion social and climate measure, which the GOP has solidly opposed.

Van Drew, who switched parties in 2019, said he supported the infrastructure bill because his state would receive over $20 billion “we desperately need.” Van Drew, who said he had heard “some cranky things” from some people, scoffed at the notion that the bill would “catapult the president” politically.

“If she wants to be mean to me, that’s fine,” he said of the colleague who labeled him and 12 others traitors. “I love America very much. I would never ever do anything to hurt this country.”