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Well, the Republican Party is absolutely incompetent.

I mean, there's no other way to put this.

What exactly has the Republican Party accomplished in the last, say, four years?

The last time the Republican Party accomplished anything is when President Trump was president

and Republicans had unified control of the House and the Senate.

And since then, they've been absolutely incompetent at everything, so incompetent that the

Republicans in the Senate distrust the Republicans in the House to the extent that they voted

along with Democrats by a huge margin in order to advance a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package

4,155 pages long. Now, a question is, why exactly they would do this? Why would Mitch McConnell,

as well as the other 18 Republicans, the other 17 Republicans who voted in favor of this thing

in the Senate? Why would they do that? I mean, because this is a pretty broad spectrum group of

people who voted in favor of the omnibus spending package. It included people like McConnell, of course, but also it included Richard Shelby, Roy Blunt, John Boosman of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, John Corny, Tom Cotton voted in favor of it, Lindsay Graham, Jim Inhofe, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Mike Browns, John Thune, Roger, Wicker, and Todd Young.

These are not all, quote-unquote, moderate Republicans. Some of these people are pretty conservative. Tom Cotton is a very conservative senator. Jim Inho from Oklahoma is a very conservative senator. They voted in favor of this omnibus package anyway. Now, Kevin McCarthy, who wants to be Speaker of the House,

it is still not clear whether he actually has the votes to be Speaker of the House in the upcoming Congress. He had threatened, along with a bunch of other Republicans in the House, that if these senators voted in favor of the omnibus package, whatever their priorities were in the next Congress, the next Congress would not take up those priorities. Richard Shelby of Alabama, he said, he's focused on being speaker. If I run his shoes, that's what I would be focused on,

trying to get enough votes. But I don't... take up those priorities. Richard Shelby of Alabama, he said he's focused on being speaker.

If I were in his shoes, that's what I would be focused on trying to get enough votes.

But I don't think that intimidates anybody.

So what exactly happened here? Well, the answer from a political point of view is pretty obvious.

The Republicans in the House are a fractious bunch. The majority that Republicans are going to have in the next Congress is extraordinarily slim.

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