You guys have to listen to this Charlie Dent RINO on cnn today…video in link if anyone can embed would be appreciated
We all know what is happening
https://www.mediaite.com/news/revenge-of-the-rinos-ex-gop-congressman-celebrates-jim-jordan-losing-yet-another-speaker-vote/
Revenge of the RINOs’: Ex-GOP Congressman Celebrates Jim Jordan Losing Yet Another Speaker Vote
Alex GriffingOct 20th, 2023, 12:08 pm
Former GOP Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA) joined CNN on Friday to discuss Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) third attempt to become House speaker, which failed soon after voting began.
“We have been talking for seven years about the fact that this is Donald Trump’s Republican Party and what we’re watching right now is your flavor of Republican, former Congressman Dent, the moderates, those who have been shoved aside and ridiculed as not real Republicans during the Trump era, flexing their muscle,” noted Dana Bash.
“Yeah, they’ve been threatened. They’ve been insulted. They’ve been mocked. They’ve been told they have no spines. They’re invertebrate. Well, it seems like their spines are pretty damn stiff to me,” Dent replied, adding:
They’ve had enough. This is a revenge of the RINOs. This is the squishes striking back.
And I am a proud card-carrying member of the RINO squish and bedwetter caucus. So I’m not saying that pejoratively. I’m saying these guys are standing up strong, but this is the fight that needs to happen. The institutionalists, the pragmatists versus the Trump populists who don’t have any kind of a philosophy, a governing philosophy.
They’re just about making noise and causing disruption versus the people who are serious about doing the business of governing and want a policy agenda. This is a real fight. And I’m glad it’s happening. You know, obviously, this is not politically very good for the Republican Party to do this in public, but the fight needed to occur years ago. It is happening now. And I think that the fact that you saw Brian Fitzpatrick flip and a Molinaro and Tom Kean Junior, these are all good, solid people who, you know, are part of that governing wing, you’re going to see more of this. And so the party really does need to figure out what it wants to become, because this is a total embarrassment and Jordan needs to
withdraw.
You know, if they can’t get Patrick McHenry in there as the interim speaker, then they’re going to have to put together this bipartisan coalition I’ve been talking about. I don’t see a way out because the pro-Trump guys, you know, they’re not going to vote for somebody like a Scalise or an establishment type. And now it looks like these establishment types aren’t going to support the Jim Jordan type of bomb throwers and noisemakers.
“So they’re really at an impasse and they’re going to need Hakeem Jeffries help to get them out of this, just as they did on the debt ceiling, just as they did on the continuing resolution,” Dent concluded.
Watch the full clip above via CNN.