Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress
dan1101@lemmy.world 4 days agoAnd they spend most of the afternoon fundraising and with lobbyists. The clever ones start their reelection campaign immediately after getting elected.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And it doesn’t have to be this way! This behavior of spending most of their time in office campaigning or acquiring funding for reelection instead of, you know, governing only became the norm in the nineties.
(Add yet another “fuck Newt Gingrich” to the tally board.)