The Absurd GOP

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Analyst shames GOP for hypocrisy after U-turn on key conservative gripe

For years, the Republican Party — and ultra-wealthy businessmen in general — have warned about "unelected bureaucrats" and the danger they pose to accountable government. But when they are handed unified control of Washington, they immediately bring in their own to control everything, wrote Ryan Teague Beckwith for MSNBC.

The principal way they are already doing this, he wrote, is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, in which two pro-Trump billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are heading up an unofficial task force, outside the government itself, to essentially make recommendations from on high about which federal programs and services should be cut.

All their complaints about "unelected decision-makers working without authorization from Congress and the Constitution" don't matter, he said, because "as it turns out, these critics don’t really mind any of those things, as long as they’re the ones in charge."

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Imagine the Republicans actually giving a shit about accountability. 

Seriously, if there were any hopes that the Republican Party gave a shit about accountability after the Bush Administration or even after January 6, the last embers would have died when the Supreme Court decided that Presidents were functionally above the law.

Shit, as I write this, Dad’s watching MSNBC, and what are they talking about? Trump saying that the members of the January 6 Committee should be jailed. And, after that, trying to get sympathy for the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago because he hoarded classified documents.