Republicans now have a 2 seat majority.
He’d already said he wouldn’t sell reelection. If he was really tired of the inability to get things done in Congress, and really wanted to represent the people who elected him, he’d stay til the end of his term, working across party lines to try to get things done or at least break down the perception of hard-line politics.
Instead, he’s walking off the job because he wants to put space between himself and this wreck of a Congress.
Wreck of a congress that he helped create. The uselessness of our legislative branch is mostly due to Republican maliciousness. He broke the toy and now he’s mad it’s broken so he’s going home.
In recent months, Buck has become a fierce critic of Trump and MAGA Republicans: “I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party.” said Buck recently.
"I am not going to lie on behalf of my party*
Then don’t? Work with the people who want to get things done.
Just leaving is cowardice or laziness. Maybe both.
Fill in tomorrow’s headline: Ken Buck accused of ___
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week.
“This place has just devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people,” he said.
The Colorado Republican’s departure from the House will shake up the chamber’s partisan breakdown, where Republicans control only a very narrow majority – a major challenge for Speaker Mike Johnson who has frequently been forced to rely on votes from Democrats as well as Republicans to get major pieces of legislation across the finish line.
Buck’s decision to step down before the end of his term will trim Republicans’ slim edge to 218 seats over 213 for Democrats, with three vacancies.
Pressed by Bash on whether Donald Trump’s status as the presumptive GOP nominee influenced his decision, Buck said, “Whether he was the nominee or not, I think our system is broken in how we choose candidates and I want to get involved in that process.”
Buck announced last year that he would not seek reelection, citing stagnation in Congress and his party’s election denialism as factors in his decision to not run in 2024.
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So next week…. We expecting “Ken Buck indicted on…” headlines?
That’s what I’m reading into this.
