Assorted lunatics who want to end the Senate filibuster

 

Ha Ha Ha House Freedom Caucus phonies high tail it out of Congress for state level runs

 

 ... Four of the most prominent archconservatives in that caucus have said they are running for statewide office, the latest being Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who announced Thursday he will run for state attorney general.

Roy followed Reps. Andy Biggs (Arizona), Byron Donalds (Florida) and Ralph Norman (South Carolina) in saying they will run for the GOP nomination for governor in their states. They depart at a time when the Freedom Caucus’s swagger and negotiating credibility on Capitol Hill have taken a hit. ...

“HFC = House Folding Caucus,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pennsylvania), the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, declared after they gave their votes to the GOP’s massive border, tax and health bill in July, shortly after many members publicly slammed the legislation. ... 

The House Freedom Caucus was founded in January 2015 by a small group of hard-line conservatives who felt that the original conservative caucus, known as the Republican Study Committee, had grown too big with more than 150 members and lost its ideological identity. ...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is the only one of the nine founders still serving in office. ...

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