{"id":17384,"date":"2026-01-14T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17384"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:27:07","slug":"capitol-hill-republicans-in-disarray-as-internal-revolt-threatens-partys-main-priorities-unearthed-transcripts-show-top-republicans-mocking-trump-while-scalises-biden-derangement-syndrome-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/14\/capitol-hill-republicans-in-disarray-as-internal-revolt-threatens-partys-main-priorities-unearthed-transcripts-show-top-republicans-mocking-trump-while-scalises-biden-derangement-syndrome-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Hill Republicans in disarray: as internal revolt threatens party&#8217;s main priorities, unearthed transcripts show top Republicans mocking Trump while Scalise&#8217;s Biden Derangement Syndrome spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Raw Story<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/house-gop-2674892140\/\">Matthew Chapman reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Politico&#8217;s Meredith Lee Hill, the GOP is likely to cancel a scheduled vote on Thursday for the Save Local Business Act authored by Rep. James Comer (R-KY). This legislation would limit the circumstances in which businesses can be classified as &#8216;joint employers,&#8217; a rule that protects labor rights for a number of workers from temps at staffing agencies, to farm hands, to janitors who serve multiple businesses. A contingent of Republicans sympathetic to organized labor, which opposes the legislation, are reportedly revolting, with one lawmaker telling Hill, &#8216;If leadership insists on a vote, it\u2019ll likely fail worse than today\u2019s bill.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;A number of prominent Republicans ridiculed President Donald Trump behind his back over his false claims that the 2020 election had been &#8216;stolen,&#8217; including Trump loyalist Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/13\/us\/georgia-election-republicans-trump-transcripts.html\">See the details at the <em>NY Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And poor Steven Scalise&#8217;s BDS is spiraling out of control. <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2026\/01\/steve-scalises-biden-derangement-syndrome\">Conover Kennard at <em>Crooks and Liars<\/em> has the receipts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026 GRAB THE POPCORN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going so well for the former Party of Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}