The incident brings to the foreground long-simmering divisions between the Republican Party’s national leaders and the grassroots voters that sustain it.
Chief among those grievances is McConnell’s record of backing establishmentarians over conservatives in GOP primaries — sometimes resulting in Democrats defeating both.
The proposed censure resolution faults Sasse for being one of just five Senate Republicans to vote against Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) motion to reject the impeachment as partisan and unconstitutional.
Much has been made in the press of Biden being only the second “Catholic” president in U.S. history, despite Biden’s support for various positions at odds with Catholic principles.
A poll shows that just 17 percent of rank-and-file party members favor impeachment, and 41 percent of 'traditional Republicans' support a run for president in four years.
'This bill funds things we said we wouldn’t, like Planned Parenthood, but doesn’t fund things we said we would, like the border security wall,' Jim Jordan said. 'That’s unacceptable. Republicans need to actually do what we said.'