If the Republican Party is abdicating its responsibility as one of the co-equal branches of government; if they are abdicating their responsibility to legislate; if they are abdicating their responsibility to provide the check and balance the Founding Fathers designed to check the executive branch (which we fought a Revolutionary War over….remember declining to have a King?.. )If the Republican Party doesn’t do its job, I think they should be “defunded”. People, stop sending your hard earned money to a political party who hasn’t even taken the time to read their job description.
Judith Fauntleroy
Easton, MD
Deirdre LaMotte says
The capitulating Republican House is why we are in a Constitutional Crisis.
trudy wonder says
I agree. Our Republican representatives have essentially made themselves unnecessary; irrelevant. If they’re not needed because Trump and Musk can decide everything (despite our Constitution saying they can’t), and they have no intention of legislating anymore, then why are we paying them and covering their expenses and benefits? We don’t need DOGE to see there are efficiencies to be had right here.
Bob Parker says
While I agree in principle, and believe that many candidates do need the donations from individual voters, many do not because they are funded by deep pocketed donors. This latter group includes, but is not limited to, trump. The only real message to which any politician listens is your vote. There are likely some elected Republicans in Congress who actually have “swallowed the cool-ade”, but most are merely cowed by trump out of fear of being “primaried” by a trump acolyte or someone with even fewer ethics than they. If enough MAGA Congressmen (and women) lose their re-election bids, then some of the leverage trump has over them will lessen; if enough lose, this leverage will disappear! This is true for ideologues in the left of the Democrat party as well, although the ethical deficit apparent in the GOP writ large is much much less. So, while one is refusing to fund candidates, one must also vote for preferred candidates in primaries and the general election. One’s vote should be given to the candidate one prefers while remembering that no candidate is “perfect” forcing the educated voters to award his or her vote, at times, to the lesser of 2 evils. If we as an electorate fail to vote, we may end up not even having the opportunity to vote.
Wilson Dean says
Right on point. We don’t need to waste our tax dollars on spineless cult followers like Andy Harris who refuse to do their job. Let Andy and his ilk worship Trump from afar without the benefit of our subsidizing his uselessness.
susan delean-botkin says
Those Republican legislators took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not a president, judge or king. They also have a job – to legislate and to manage the purse strings of this great republic. Since this group is doing neither, they should not be paid, and should be terminated – with cause.