Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic congressman, won a closely watched special House election in New York on Tuesday, narrowing the Republican majority in Washington and offering his party a potential playbook to run in key suburban swing areas in November.
His victory in the Queens and Long Island district avenged a year of humiliation unleashed by the seat’s former occupant, George Santos, and stanched a trend that had seen Republicans capture nearly every major election on Long Island since 2021.
Mr. Suozzi, 61, fended off the Republican nominee, Mazi Pilip, in a race that became an expensive preview of many of the fights expected to dominate November’s general election, especially over the influx of migrants at the border and in New York City.
This looks like an opening. Is there any “broken clock is right twice a day” legislation that the extreme MAGA fringe wants passed that mainstream GOP doesn’t that coincidentally aligns with democrat policy goals?
The GOP would actually have to pass legislation for there to be a chance for anything for them to talk about. They haven’t passed meaningful legislation in years that wasn’t bipartisan. They’ve shown that even with a majority they can’t get anything done themselves. They keep scapegoating their own Speakers because of it.
It pretty much shows that the GOP can’t even unite to do anything in current Congress. It is supposedly so much a shitshow that some long-time Congresspeople are considering retirement after their terms are up out of frustration.
If not legislation, then how about procedure votes?
If I’m not mistaken the ouster of McCarthy from the Speakership was a bi-partisan effort with democrats and MAGA fringe GOP voting for it.
Well it was 208 Democrats + 8 GOP. That’s not even 4% of the GOP in the House. I guess you could call that bipartisan if you want. Then there were a bunch of failed speaker nominations before Mike Johnson.
The impression I got of McCarthy’s ousting was that some democrats would have voted to keep him as speaker had he had the balls to ask them. But he didn’t, so the democrats did what they were expected to do and voted to oust the guy from the other party.
This is exactly what happened.
MAGA policy is if the democrats vote yay, then vote nay.
Not that I’m aware of. A lot of the MAGA stuff is just directly opposed to democrats.
MAGA has nothing to do with passing legislation or running the country, so no.
MAGA congresspeople put Mike Johnson into the position he’s in.