{"id":54411,"date":"2023-11-15T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/gop-congressman-declares-the-gop-is-useless-in-floor-speech-democrats-are-probably-turning-into-a-2024-ad-right-now\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T23:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:39:52","slug":"gop-congressman-declares-the-gop-is-useless-in-floor-speech-democrats-are-probably-turning-into-a-2024-ad-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/gop-congressman-declares-the-gop-is-useless-in-floor-speech-democrats-are-probably-turning-into-a-2024-ad-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Declares the GOP Is Useless, in Floor Speech Democrats Are Probably Turning Into a 2024 Ad Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Has the modern Republican Party become a complete, useless dumpster fire that does nothing to actually help the American people, because it\u2019s too busy investigating the president\u2019s son, kissing the last president\u2019s ass, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/11\/markwayne-mullin-sean-obrien-teamsters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenging congressional witnesses to brawls<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/11\/kevin-mccarthy-tim-burchett-sucker-punch-kidneys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fighting each other<\/a>? Many would say yes. Usually, though, the people saying yes are not actual Republicans. But, surprise!<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Representative <strong>Chip Roy<\/strong> took to House floor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/chip-roy-goes-ballistic-on-fellow-republicans-in-fiery-speech-give-me-one-thing-i-can-go-campaign-on-and-say-we-did\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tear<\/a> into his fellow Republicans, accusing them of doing literally nothing useful with their time in Washington\u2014definitely not anything he could actually tell voters about in an effort to get reelected. \u201cYou know, we have had a tumultuous year of sorts, but in the eyes of the American people, they\u2019ve been watching from afar wondering when this body, the people\u2019s House, will stand up in defense of the people who send us here,\u201d Roy said. \u201cWhen are we going to do what we said we would do?\u201d Taking aim expressly at his GOP colleagues, Roy added: \u201cFor the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something\u2026and then do nothing about it. One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing\u2014one\u2014that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!\u201d Then he dared any Republicans in the room to come to the floor and \u201cexplain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.\u201d<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1724850080098799653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In other words, it was a perfect speech for Democrats to run every single day from now until November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Of course, the things that set Roy off\u2014like funding the government to avoid a shutdown and not \u201cending the wokeness that is killing and corrupting our schools and our kids\u201d\u2014are obviously not things Democrats take issue with. But they should definitely plaster the airwaves with a Republican member of Congress talking about how useless Republicans are nevertheless!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Homeland Security chief his days are numbered (after trying and failing to impeach him)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/11\/chip-roy-republicans-have-accomplished-nothing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the modern Republican Party become a complete, useless dumpster fire that does nothing to actually help the American people, because it\u2019s too busy investigating the president\u2019s son, kissing the last president\u2019s ass, challenging congressional witnesses to brawls, and fighting each other? Many would say yes. Usually, though, the people saying yes are not actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[381],"class_list":{"0":"post-54411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-republicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}