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House Republicans condemn socialism unanimously; five of their own vote no.
As it ran on the front
You want to know how you spot a party that's run out of miracles? It starts condemning the neighbors instead of fixing the roof. The House put out a resolution condemning socialism — a whole floor vote, real paper, real roll call — like the ceiling was on fire and the fire was named Marx. Problem is, five of their own guys walked out of the room. Five Republicans looked at a resolution that should've been a layup, a gimme, a 'yeah sure, socialism bad' rubber stamp, and said no thanks. That's not a defection, that's a crack in the foundation showing up on camera.
Meanwhile the same week, the same papers running that story are also telling you Democrats are 'selling their souls' for even standing next to a guy who calls himself a democratic socialist. So let me get this straight: the party that can't get all its own members to agree socialism is bad is out here lecturing the other party about purity. That's not a policy debate, that's a bar fight where one side keeps swinging and hitting themselves in the face.…
…(cont) Here's what actually happened while everybody was arguing about the S-word: nobody on that House floor introduced a resolution condemning the price of eggs, the rent, or the insurance premium. Socialism doesn't show up in your paycheck, hon — but its opposite sure does, every two weeks, smaller than it was last year. The condemnation vote costs nothing and changes nothing. It's theater, a chalk outline drawn around a word so nobody has to look at the body — which is the actual economy, the one with your name on the electric bill.
And the pieces running alongside it, warning the DSA's agenda 'promises misery for all' — read those next to a grocery receipt sometime. Misery's already been delivered. It's just got a different sender.
The trick is simple once you see it: you get a party that can't unify on a symbolic vote against an idea, but unifies instantly, every time, on the votes that actually move money up the ladder instead of down it. Watch where the five defectors show up on that vote. I'd bet the bar tab they're back in line.
“Funny how the party that can't agree socialism is bad on a symbolic floor vote never splits on the real one — the tax cut. Watch the money, not the word, and you'll always know where the votes actually line up.”
“This was a values vote, plain and simple — a chance to put the House on record. The five who broke ranks had their reasons, procedural, local, whatever, it's not a crack in the party, it's a — okay, it's five members on a unanimous-messaging bill, that's not nothing, I said unanimous, I need to check that.”
The receipts
The Democratic Socialists of America are proving an old principle of politics: You can win a lot of votes by promising "free stuff" — and not worrying if you could possibly deliver.
A handful of Republicans split from their party on Tuesday, voting against a rule to allow a measure condemning socialism and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America to reach the House floor. Among the Republicans to buck their party on the rule were Reps. Andy Harris (R-MD), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Ralph Norman (R-SC), […]
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