Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Republican Dysfunction Sinks to a Weird New Low

Did you hear the joke about the GOP House members who want to punish colleagues for joining Mitch McConnell in support of the infrastructure bill? Oh, wait.

November 10, 2021 at 12:30 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Republican dysfunction just keeps getting worse. The latest? A movement to strip the 13 House Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill of their committee seats. Let’s go to Congress scholar Josh Huder: