In case you could forget, Minority Leader McCarthy and Minority Whip Scalise encouraged their members to vote to overturn the election and refused to condemn members of their caucus who called for violence. They also sanctioned months of campaign ads and violent official rhetoric accusing Democrats of having “blood on their hands.”
Our point: House Republicans know who they’re following. If they had the courage of their convictions they’d put their names behind the quotes they are using to attempt to salvage their reputations.
That, or they’re just trying to make themselves feel better before they go back to whipping up their QANON mob.
“Some GOP House members are grumbling privately that their top two leaders badly mishandled this week’s traumatic events on Capitol Hill”.
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“Privately, they say McCarthy and Scalise failed to show leadership…”
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“The scrutiny, anonymous for now, offers a preview of the reckoning to come in the Republican Party…”
“House Republicans and leadership had no problem putting their names on the violent rhetoric that incited a QANON mob to attack the Capitol, or their vote attacking American democracy. We see clearly that the line they draw on ‘courage’ comes far before putting their name on quotes questioning their party leaders, or even considering firing those leaders over their failures,” said DCCC Spokesperson Robyn Patterson.
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