For those interested the entire conversations. (You can skip the Jimmy Stewart interviews if you want)
Comparing Walters and Parton is like comparing apples with watermelon IMO
It takes to to tango. One would expect the so called majority party to stop dissing the opposition and make the first move in a matter like this. However the two factions of the Party of Irresponsibility seems deeply entrenched in wanting to elect McCarthy or die trying.
Can't rule out attrition, one GOP a member is out tomorrow for surgery, another's wife had a baby this week and he's potentially no going to be around. Democrats seem happy just to put up Jefferies (who keeps getting the overall plurality).
Bottom line from this partisan, one party has no real desire to govern.
They've reached the point where they need to call in the adults. Get members of the "Problem Solvers" caucus together and nominate a compromise candidate and to hell with the major trouble makers...
Nominate someone like Brian Fitzpatrick or even Don Bacon
Dingell will be 71 in 2024, I would consider he age as a factor.
Not a big Haley fan (personal reasons), she has the ambition, however. I think Whitmer may have ruled out a run when asked a similar question a couple of weeks ago, that could change.
It's not the Virginians I worry about. It's the Transplants from Texas, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania...
OK it is the Virginians who drive all around creation with "farm use only" tags on their vehicles that wouldn't last 10 minutes in a field
Went back to the DMV today. Toyota released the lien, finally. Virginia gave us a new title. All it took was one or more employees to have enough gumption to ask a supervisor for assistance.
I'm wondering if he sees a run for Governor more advantages than Senate. Either way it would rule out 2024 if Biden doesn't run, and give him some state cred if Biden seeks reelection