Oh, where would Senate Republicans be if they weren't smacking at each other like prepubescent school girls willing to knife each other in the back over a pimpled hero named Chad?
I was halfway to being impressed that cadaverous-looking John Thune was able to get the SAVE Act to the Senate floor with only the desertion of one of the usual suspects...
...yeah. THAT one.
š„šØ BREAKING: The SAVE America Act HAS ADVANCED in its first test vote on the Senate Floor!
ā The Patriot Oasisā¢ (@ThePatriotOasis) March 17, 2026
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President Trump has declared this priority #1 for true election integrityāhuge momentum!
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is the lone "NAY" from the Republican Party pic.twitter.com/bdFreInz7o
That's how low expectations are for this august group of ego-driven, underperforming publicity whores, where only one turncoat is an absolute surprise - like a gift from God or something.
But at least we're through that part of the process, and now to see if Thune can orchestrate a talking filibuster.
Hard on the heels of that little victory, I read an interesting X-screed by Kurt Schlicter this morning, about why they want to keep Texas Senator John Cornyn around, and it makes such sad, perfect sense.
Using one of TX Attorney General Ken Paxton's campaign ads as a backdrop (Cornyn's Republican Senate run-off competition), Schlichter makes the case that Cornyn's the choice of the D.C. establishment because he's a malleable mushroom.
DEEP DIVE - The John Cornyn Failure Spiral
ā Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 14, 2026
Itās remarkable how quickly @JohnCornyn is falling apart.
The remarkable ad that @kenpaxtontx just dropped on him (below) directly attacked what Cornyn thought was his strength: his alleged support for @realDonaldTrump. But, likeā¦ https://t.co/11ozGdzcwn
An excerpt:
...This is an utter disaster for Cornyn. His whole campaign is summed up by that clip where he says, āGo away.ā Thatās what he wants us voters to do. To go away. To stop bothering him with our petty problems and concerns. We are an inconvenience, a hassle, and how dare we expect him to lower himself to deal with us?
Every six years, Cornyn dons a Stetson and pretends heās Mr. Texas. But heās not. Heās an empty suit. A phony. All hat and no cattle.
Cornyn is panicking. Thatās why he suddenly went all-in on the SAVE Act. Where was he last week? Telling us we couldnāt have it. All his establishment friends in Washington want him to be reelected, and theyāre willing to waste money trying to beat Kenny Paxton because Paxton wonāt play their game. But they donāt want Cornyn because they respect him. They want Cornyn because they donāt.
They want Cornyn because heās a puppet. Heās been in the Senate for 24 years, and yet he has zero influence. Zero impact. He canāt get the SAVE Act passed. He canāt even get John Thune to put the Senate into recess so the president can make appointments. He canāt do anything. Where are all those important friends of his now? Does he have any friends at all?...
It's so interesting, and I encourage you to read it.
It explains the psyche of a good number of shroomy senators who act with all that very patrician gravitas so apparent in Cornyn, whilst doing little to nothing but warming a cushy chair seat.
I suppose every organization has its helping of these types, and they are, in some respects, necessary to getting things done. Everyone can't be an A personality, or it would be continual loggerheads.
Where we've really run into problems has been the GOP senators who like to style themselves as independently minded. However, they are so much a part of an established contrary herd that you immediately know who is going to cause the most trouble or fall completely off the bandwagon. Inevitably, when they are most needed for agenda items most important to the American people. Some do it because they're just miserable, petty individuals to begin with, like Murkowski and Thom Tillis. Others seem to have some weird personal axes to grind that will always take precedence over the wishes and business of the American people.
WAAH DON'T LIKE ORANGE MAN
Well, that's a shame, say, Senator Paul. Whatever your personal views of the 47th president, over 77 million people voted for him and the plans he put forth.
As a Republican in a Senate with the slimmest of majorities, only a conscience that cannot be breached should decide your actions, especially in that rarest of clubby chambers.
Why on earth would you diss not just one but two of your Senate REPUBLICAN colleagues to score some kind of mean girl points?
It would be fine if Rand Paul were all of thirteen years old and the only thing he's hurting is himself.
That, however, is not the case.
The juvenile Senator from Kentucky had his petty coat on.
NEW: Per source familiar, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) from introducing Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) at his confirmation hearing this morning. Britt & Mullin are good friends and Britt is the Chair of DHS appropriations in the Senate. She was planning toā¦
ā Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 18, 2026
...She was planning to introduce him, but @FoxNews is told Paul, the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, wouldn't allow it.
Paul used his opening statement to go after Markwayne Mullins for something Mullins said about the attack Paul'd suffered at the hands of a deranged neighbor.
We know who will man up for the job. Yet unafraid to say things to your facehttps://t.co/C48DZGpA6X
ā Kristišŗšøšš» (@magamomabear) March 18, 2026
Not the time or the place. And it's been long enough already to settle this between the two of them.
Let's just say that Paul's opening gambit was not a hit for precisely that reason.
Who needs Democrats when you've got self-destructive twits like these?
...Statement to FOX via senior Senate GOP source familiar with the situation:
"Rand Paul has become completely blinded by his hatred of President Trump and petty personal squabbles. His actions today were those of a seething snakeāand a hopeless hypocrite. What kind of free speech advocate would bar Senator Mullinās choice to deliver his introduction from speaking? What kind of Republican would bar a fellow Republican Senator from voicing their support of a colleague? Why is this guy allowed to hold a Republican gavel anymore?"
I couldnāt believe what I was hearing when Rand Paul attacked Mullin and made his 7 minutes 100% personal and all about attempts to get Mullin to apologize for a past incident between them and nothing about the Homeland Security.
ā Steven Kerwin (@StevenKerwin) March 18, 2026
DEATH BY A THOUSAND PAPERCUTS
He's a petty child.
ā Mack Swift (@swifthampton) March 18, 2026
But worse, it adds to death by 1000 papercuts the GOP continues to inflict upon itself. Petty squabbles, bad or simply wrong-roled candidates, incorrect priorities (it's the economy and immigration, stupid!). The list can continue.
It's one thing to keep the snarking and snarling in-house. Doing the dirty laundry of compromise and consolidation should all be their little senators' secrets, and the face they show the country should be one big smile, however grim it might be at times.
Like the Democrats always do.
But, no.
What we get is the food fight at the Happy Hour BOGO buffet on a three-day Gulf cruise. Chicken wings and tiny hot dogs flying, fugly buttcracks exposed, and tube tops being pulled off, right out there in public for everyone to see. The malleable Republican Senate mushrooms step adroitly over the flailing bodies to pick at what's left on the table, avoiding any food or bloodstains on their impeccable cruisewear.
As always, one of the usual GOP suspects will snatch one last wing off the filthy deck before announcing they were leaving anyway.
I fail to understand the lack of camaraderie and collegial bonhomie. The complete lack of dignity of any description.
God forbid they should even pretend to share a common goal, which is what I thought being elected to serve 'we, the people' was supposed to be.
So much for thinking.
