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Lazy Senate Republicans Attack J.D. Vance To Distract From Their Own Failure

Republicans in the Senate need to grow up, be men, and stop hiding behind Kimberly Strassel.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is no doubt very pleased with Kimberley Strassel right now. The Wall Street Journal columnist has excused him and other Republican Senate leaders of all the responsibilities that their very job titles convey and attacked Vice President J.D. Vance on their behalf.

In an op-ed for the Journal on Thursday, Strassel granted anonymity to very brave Senate Republicans so that, using her as cover, they could blame Vance for the party doing essentially nothing this entire year to advance President Trump’s policy agenda.

Vance “was in the Senate less than two years ago,” wrote Strassel. “He is — by his reports — trusted by the president. Yet he’s nowhere. Members hugely appreciate frequent visits from energetic cabinet members — notably Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. But it only further highlights the vice president’s lack of interest, and it fuels criticism that Mr. Vance is putting his presidential ambitions ahead of a GOP Congress’s success.”

Writing on behalf of the Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn wing of the GOP, she also said the........

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