Who gets custody of Marge, Matt and Gym?
Dan Hicks predicted Republican buyer’s remorse. The Murdoch’s have it, too.
If the GOP is ready to split with Don, who gets custody of Marge, Matt and Gym?
Not that it’s sunk in with Matt that “Big Daddy Don” has any responsibility for the flacid Republican performance on Tuesday.
Someone quipped on Wednesday that “Dancing With The Stars” has already contacted Rep. Lauren Boebert whose reelection hangs in the balance. Greene won her Georgia reelection easily and could make House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s dreams of being Speaker a nightmare.
One incoming Republican congressman from New York at least performs distancing from Trump’s cult of personality. He wants to see “a different direction.” But Mike Lawler hedges on supporting investigations of Biden. His wife is from Moldova, says Lawler, adding he is “fully committed” to support for Ukraine at current levels. He’ll have trouble selling that to a Republican House caucus dominated by Greene’s dead-ender brand of MAGA.
With Murdoch’s News Corp. turning on Trump, one wonders how long it will take before Fox News celebrities move on fully from Trump to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis? No amount of Fox fluffing will breathe life into the right’s next authoritarian gasbag.