Scott is an asshole and generally unliked in the conference room. Mitch has lost some troops over the past few years (notably both TN Senators, Portman etc.) but the MAGA wing hasn't really gotten much bigger; Vance is gone, Tuberville/Blackburns are considered punchlines, Lee and Scott are both not liked etc. and the institutionalists s…
Scott is an asshole and generally unliked in the conference room. Mitch has lost some troops over the past few years (notably both TN Senators, Portman etc.) but the MAGA wing hasn't really gotten much bigger; Vance is gone, Tuberville/Blackburns are considered punchlines, Lee and Scott are both not liked etc. and the institutionalists still carry a solid majority of Senate Rs
I think behind closed doors nearly all of that wing despise Trump (and there's a fair case to be made that absent Trump's MAGA Senate candidates over the past 6 years Republicans could be at 60 votes there).
Nice analysis! I wonder whether there now will be a foundation for at least some cooperation with Senate Democrats. After all, Democrats have sought, and achieved, considerable bipartisan agreement.
I think it will be essentially the same dynamic as in Trump's first term (and past two years). The Senate will generally hammer out bipartisan appropriations and non-controversial bills, the House GOP caucus will be unable to pass almost anything because of their extreme MAGA nihilist wing, and Johnson will need Dem votes to pass basically whatever the Senate agreed to.
That said, they'll go straight partisan reconciliation on a new tax bill and probably immigration, since that latter is where Trump has promised the most/spent the highest political capital. Although the ? is Thune's caucus willing to go where Trump and Stephen Miller want to go on immigration (back to pre-60s immigration law).
He's far worse than merely an asshole. He's a crook and committed the largest Medicare and healthcare fraud in US history. Asshole plead the 5th 75 times while his companies were under investigation. Scott was the swamp long before Trump decided to join the fray and likely outlast him. Scott is the absolute worst of crooks out there.
Scott is an asshole and generally unliked in the conference room. Mitch has lost some troops over the past few years (notably both TN Senators, Portman etc.) but the MAGA wing hasn't really gotten much bigger; Vance is gone, Tuberville/Blackburns are considered punchlines, Lee and Scott are both not liked etc. and the institutionalists still carry a solid majority of Senate Rs
I think behind closed doors nearly all of that wing despise Trump (and there's a fair case to be made that absent Trump's MAGA Senate candidates over the past 6 years Republicans could be at 60 votes there).
Nice analysis! I wonder whether there now will be a foundation for at least some cooperation with Senate Democrats. After all, Democrats have sought, and achieved, considerable bipartisan agreement.
I think it will be essentially the same dynamic as in Trump's first term (and past two years). The Senate will generally hammer out bipartisan appropriations and non-controversial bills, the House GOP caucus will be unable to pass almost anything because of their extreme MAGA nihilist wing, and Johnson will need Dem votes to pass basically whatever the Senate agreed to.
That said, they'll go straight partisan reconciliation on a new tax bill and probably immigration, since that latter is where Trump has promised the most/spent the highest political capital. Although the ? is Thune's caucus willing to go where Trump and Stephen Miller want to go on immigration (back to pre-60s immigration law).
He's far worse than merely an asshole. He's a crook and committed the largest Medicare and healthcare fraud in US history. Asshole plead the 5th 75 times while his companies were under investigation. Scott was the swamp long before Trump decided to join the fray and likely outlast him. Scott is the absolute worst of crooks out there.