The Subservient Gaggle

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/senate-vote-budget.html

("Overnight 'Vote-a-Rama ' in the Senate Frames a Contentious Budget Debate")

Please stop reporting, without context, on stray Republican legislators who break ranks on some procedural issue or even on a substantive piece of legislation when you well know those votes are of no consequence. It makes them somehow seem most brave or, at the very least, not in lock step with the party directive. But that is very far from accurate.

There are no John McCain's left on that side of the aisle. Willing as he was to cast a deciding ballot for Obamacare, knowing that country over party still had meaning.

Now there are but those like Mitch McConnell, he of the Party of No throughout the Obama presidency, doing damage throughout his entire career, now with both feet almost fully out of the door, casting purposeless no's in opposition to party dictates. Or a Collins or Murkowski who consistently make noise as if they are deeply troubled by what is proposed, must study and consider its ramifications, and then always "hesitantly and most reluctantly" join the fold.

I would rather you expose these charades for what they truly are.This is but an entirely subservient gaggle, without a backbone or spine, unwilling to confront Mr. Trump and take his most egregious excesses head on.

This nation is in deep trouble and the Republicans in Congress, as one, shoulder responsibility for allowing and encouraging the worst in the President. There are no heroes here, not even remotely close.