DeSantis channels his inner Limbaugh, blames GOP voters for staying home instead of blaming Trump for breaking his promises

 Here.

"... a lot of our voters who stayed home, they stayed home because they were frustrated with the lack of productivity from Republicans in the House and Senate. ..."

Gotta do better than that, Bud.

DeSantis is overreacting

DeSantis: Close To "Extinction-Level Event" For Republicans, So Why Did Florida Hold Up?

Did Democrats go extinct when the GOP took the House in 2010 by a net +63? Obviously not.

At this hour Democrats are ahead by a net +38. 

The Senate is currently D54-R44 with two races still not called.

This is the expected Blue Wave. 

Deal with it. 

One week away from Election 2026 Real Clear Politics polling averages predict Democrats will pick up 4 seats in the U.S. Senate, 25 seats in the U.S. House

10 seats in the Senate are too close to call, and another 25 in the House.

 

 https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/house/2026/toss-up

https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/senate/2026/toss-up 

Real Clear Politics two weeks out: U.S. Senate Dems +3, U.S. House Dems +23

 https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/senate/2026/toss-up

https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/house/2026/toss-up 

Real Clear Politics' predictions for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate three weeks out from Election 2026

Democrats should be doing much better than this given the outrageous transgressions of Trump and his party.

It's an index of the crazy candidates Democrats have offered as the alternative, who aren't exactly galvanizing support.

The two main political parties are mental.

 

Senate: 46D,46R,8TU: Dem +3, Odds | House: 226D,189R,20TU: Dem +21, Odds

The U.S. House is in recess until after the November elections and will have worked just 15 days in over four months

The U.S. Senate remains at work in September. 

A cryptocurrency regulation bill, the Farm Bill, and a reconciliation measure including additional Iran War funding and election security all await Senate action. 

 House races for exit, avoiding vote on Hegseth impeachment 

... Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus who lost the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial and special Senate primaries, wrote on X that canceling another day of votes is “unacceptable.”

“The House has now canceled at least 63 scheduled voting days this Congress, including nine days this month alone, and now we’re leaving Washington until after the election. The Founders did not envision taking this much time off and still getting paid,” he wrote.

“If Members of Congress want to go home and campaign instead of doing the job taxpayers sent us here to do, then their campaigns ought to be paying them, NOT the American taxpayer,” he added. “We still have work to do.”

With the House now gone, much of that work will be kicked to the lame duck, which is scheduled to begin on Nov. 9. ...

 

 

 

 

Pete Buttigieg wants fewer, bigger congressional districts, when what we need is more, smaller districts

 His idea is 1920s Republicanism on steroids.

Those guys fixed representation in the House at 435 so that it wouldn't grow any more with population as the founders intended. That automatically increased the power of the Congress over time.

It's why no one feels represented anymore.

Pete would just make that a LOT worse, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands.

Big NO!

We need more representation, not less, with power diluted in many hands. 

We could eliminate gerrymandering at a stroke simply by electing one representative from each existing county, or group of counties in less densely populated areas.

Maximum representation would grow to 3,244. That averages to one representative per 106,000 people instead of the one per 788,000 we have now. 

 

Seen here: 

- Proportional representation in the House of Representatives, with fewer and larger districts and a ban on Gerrymandering -

"For school board or city council, sometimes you get more than one vote and more than one person wins -- we could do that for Congress. The people who get the top three votes, not just one, get to go to Congress," he explained. "You’d have bigger districts, fewer districts and it would be harder to gerrymander." 

These are toothless resolutions against the Iran war meant for consumption by the dumb public and would never force Trump to do anything

 Congress splits on war powers resolutions to force Trump to abandon Iran war

 

 

Spare me your growing concerns about Mitch, Tom Kean was missing in action for four months, missing more than 140 votes in a U.S. House with a GOP majority margin of just five

 

Tom Kean wasn't in the headlines every damn day.

Mitch hasn't been Senate Majority Leader for 18 months and counting.

If Mitch is absent the Vice President can stand in if there is a tie.

The Mitch-haters on Elon Musk's X are vile and ugly.

 

 Mitch McConnell’s health concerns grow amid 4th week in hospital with few details from aides

 GOP Rep. Tom Kean says depression diagnosis caused months-long absence from Congress

 

 

U.S. House forces Trump's hand to dump Pulte lol

10:45 AM:  FISA to expire Friday after House blocks extension

The U.S. House on Thursday rejected a proposal to extend a key foreign surveillance program through July 2, as Democrats continued to withhold support over President Donald Trump’s choice of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. The program will expire on Friday. ... 

2:05 PM:  Trump picks former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as national intelligence director

 

The GOP just had a terrible May, generic Congressional poll shows Republicans collapsing to 40.7% giving Democrats an 8.1-point advantage

 

Republican Congress critters got the hell out of town Thursday and won't be back until June and left all this unfinished business in their wake lol

 Republicans lash out over $1.776B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund 

McConnell slams Blanche over ‘slush fund to pay people who assault cops’  

Republicans punt on reconciliation amid furious disagreement over ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  

House Republicans fume at Senate for punting immigration funding package  

House punts Iran war powers resolution vote   

Trump approval among Republicans at new low in Fox News poll   

Trump, facing GOP blowback, sends 5,000 troops to Poland  

(Trump orders withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany amid feud with Merz) 

Trump cuts off his nose in the primaries to spite his face

  Trump’s primary push could leave him with short-term problem in Congress 

... the defeated or retiring incumbents he’s targeted remain in office until the end of their terms.  

Those lawmakers, who no longer face voters and have little political incentive to fall in line, could make things difficult for Trump and GOP leaders as they feel more emboldened to push back against key partisan legislation. In a narrowly divided Congress, even a handful of GOP defections can derail a party-line bill. ...

You betcha.

 

Bill Cassidy in the Senate is already a problem for Trump post-defeat.

So is defeated Thomas Massie in the House.

Still in the crosshairs:

Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

Already alienated and retiring:

Sen. Thom Tillis, Rep. Don Bacon. 

Expect little to pass easily before November under these new intra-GOP adversarial circumstances, and even less after a Blue Wave.

 

 

A Blue Wave is building in the 2026 Generic Congressional Vote with Democrats now +7.2 points

As usual politics at the extremes is less about voting for someone and more about voting against someone.

All you have to do most of the time is not piss off the voters.

 

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-4) was for the ban on insider stock trading in Congress before he was against it

 My favorite part about his new position is that if we don't allow our representatives to make money somehow, we'll stop attracting talent to Washington, D.C.

You know, like Trump, whose primary talent is corruption. 

💋 

 

RobbyD, hater of idiocy according to his bio, is upset with Democrat Senator John Fetterman for voting Nay on the US House War Powers resolution on Iran ROFLMAO

 

Why I'm not very interested in the redistricting hullabaloo pre- and post- the Supreme Court decision

Supreme Court's Redistricting Decision Is Devastating

Erwin Chemerinsky, LA Times 

I view fixed representation at 435 as a crime against the Founders and a crime against the people, and all the recent developments involving this subject simply rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Representation was meant to grow with population, and Republicans stopped that in 1929.

Political power is now more concentrated in fewer hands than ever, resulting in sharply more polarized politics where more is riding than ever before on the outcome of U.S. House elections.

Anti-federalists sought representation at 1:15,000 of population. An early compromise settled on 1:30,000, which grew to 1:50,000 but was never ratified in Article The First.

At this moment in time we have representation at 1:787,290 thanks to the Republicans in 1929.

Now your congressman doesn't know you from Adam, and couldn't care less what you think. Write him or her about an issue, and you'll get a nice form letter back thanking you for writing if you're nice. If you're not nice you will not hear back from your lords and masters.

6,849 U.S. representatives is unimaginable to most people today, let alone 11,415 or 22,831.

The problem is 435 for a country this size would be unimaginable to the Founders.  

The incredible shrinking U.S. House of Represenatives in April 2026

 

Speaking of whiplash

 Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns, third House member to quit this month

 

 

So it will be a wash in the US House when Democrat Eric Swalwell resigns since Republican Tony Gonzales will also, both under threat of expulsion for sexual misconduct

Rep. Eric Swalwell resigns from U.S. House after sexual misconduct allegations

 The current party breakdown is 217R / 214D.