"Taking my ball and going home" is definitely a Republican playbook move. Not surprising in the slightest

So Democrats would go back to having a majority in the house and just enough Democratic senators voting with Republicans.

They still have a 219-213 majority. So a couple retiring or dying wouldn't do the trick. If 3 of them switched parties though, that would be nuts.

I’d say it’s typical actually for a reactionary. The goal for him and his ilk is power, not policy. If he can’t have power, he doesn’t care.

Don't get any hopes up.

The last time Democrats had a supermajority, their biggest legislative achievement was a health care band-aid dreamed up by the ultra conservative heritage foundation designed to ensure big health insurance keeps profiting off sickness and death, and passed originally by Republican Governor Mitt Romney. And there are still uninsured Americans, and people being economically destroyed despite having supposed health coverage.

Republicans are the greater villains, and I vote for Democrats solely on that basis of least bad harm reduction, but lets not pretend either party is the people's champion, or at all interested in addressing our disgusting, embarrassing, massive socioeconomic inequity.

We have the villain party(R), the feckless wet noodle party(D), and within the feckless wet noodle party, all of about 2-5 people between both chambers of Congress who openly advocate for policy that would actually do good for most of the citizenry. And those 2-5 are despised by both parties proper far more than those parties hate one another.

Did you see that post about the Taliban being frustrated with needing to govern instead of running around with the boys? The Republicans in Congress sure do sound awfully similar.

i missed this bit about them losing the majority. it just sounded like 'chaos as usual'.

I mean. Him being a pedophile and a pimp was always a plus as far as republicans were concerned.

Plus he and his fellow psychos have more power over the GOP. The problem is their typical "fail to govern to show that government doesn't work is going a little too well and people are getting wise.

This actually changes a lot. If house republicans put up particularly MAGAy bills, their fellow members in tight districts can't safely either not vote or vote against those bills. Otherwise, their vote will be used against them in campaign ads that very well may end their career. Voting for the bill will upset their moderate voters, voting against will upset the MAGA voters and the rest of the caucus.

Traditionally, for more controversial bills, Rs in moderate districts would abstain to stay off the radar.

So, to keep the caucus the safest move for the Rs is to not bring up anything (which, notable with the slim majority they have now, they've already slowed bills rolling out). But then Ds can very easily still campaign against the Rs in purple districts for being do-nothing politicians.