DAVID MARCUS: Sen Thune has no idea how mad the GOP base is at him

About 60% of Texas Republicans voted past Tuesday to extremity John Cornyn’s vocation successful the Senate, but it wasn’t truly Cornyn they were rejecting. It was the feckless, do-nothing GOP Senate enactment that makes "Waiting for Godot" look similar a "Fast and Furious."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton coiled up successful a virtual necktie with Cornyn, and headed to a runoff precisely due to the fact that Republican voters, not conscionable successful Texas, but crossed the country, are incandescently aggravated astatine the GOP-controlled Senate’s inability to do, well, overmuch of anything.

This righteous fury is wherefore Paxton’s governmental play successful the look of a runoff was truthful brilliant. He said that if the Senate would walk the Save America Act, and its elector ID provisions, helium would driblet out, redeeming President Donald Trump from having to swoop successful with a decisive endorsement.

 Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks astatine a property league successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

For Cornyn, and much importantly for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., this occasioned a crisis, a much-needed one, successful fact, arsenic GOP voters look crossed the table astatine Senate leadership, similar the Bobs successful "Office Space," asking, if they can't walk a measure with monolithic nationalist support, what would they accidental they bash there?

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Thune responded Monday to increasing nationalist calls to walk the Save America Act successful the stupidest, astir infuriating mode possible, by asserting that voters aren’t truly angry, and the furor is each conscionable a run by paid influencers.

The information that Thune has not apologized for this yet is incredible. It is arsenic condescending to working-class voters arsenic thing a person has ever said.

Does Thune deliberation that 60% of Republicans successful Texas voting against the Senate presumption quo is simply a motion that they deliberation he’s doing a large job?

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It is not.

All crossed the country, Republican voters archer maine that they are apoplectic astir the Senate. Yes, they recognize the arcane 60-vote filibuster stuff. They conscionable don’t care. They privation and request enactment from a assemblage that refuses to act.

And it isn’t conscionable Paxton who knows successful his bones however vitally GOP voters request a triumph connected the Save America Act, it is besides Trump, who has shown a uncommon magnitude of patience with Thune’s ineptitude and incalcitrance. At slightest truthful far.

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Even Cornyn has travel around, if lone successful the look of his ain imaginable governmental demise, penning a file successful the New York Post calling for the filibuster to beryllium abandoned and the enactment to beryllium passed.

But Thune, with his long, bittersweet look and debased mournful dependable similar Eeyore the donkey, conscionable keeps saying, "We don’t person the votes to interruption the filibuster."

Ok, John, past however astir this: Any Republican legislator who refuses to ballot to interruption the filibuster loses their committee assignments, gets nary wealth from the enactment and is promised a primary.

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The astir unsafe happening I heard from GOP voters successful Texas, and I heard it from plenty, is that they are starting to deliberation their ballot conscionable doesn’t matter, that thing tin alteration anyway. And close now, who would reason with them?

I don’t cognize who Thune surrounds himself with who told him that the choler I spot everyplace from Republican voters is conscionable a paid influencer campaign, but I would impulse him to spell speech to immoderate existent voters alternatively of his K Street cronies.

Sen. John Cornyn speaks to the media connected superior night, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, successful Austin, Texas. (Jack Myer/AP Photo)

It was an ominous motion that much Democrats than Republicans voted successful past week’s deep-red Texas primary, but not a surprise, due to the fact that the demoralized aren’t anxious voters. And if the Save America Act dies connected the vine, adjacent less volition consciousness compelled to formed a ballot.

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In the last moments of "Waiting for Godot," Vladimir says, "Well? Shall we go?" To which Estragon replies, "Yes, let’s go." And past the celebrated signifier direction, (They bash not move.).

There is nary nonstop grounds to amusement that Samuel Beckett was inspired by Senate Republican enactment erstwhile helium wrote this, but helium could person been, due to the fact that it is the aforesaid aged scene, implicit and over.

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If thing else, Thune needs to look GOP voters successful the oculus and say, directly, "We perceive you. We cognize you are angry. We spot it successful the superior results and we volition perceive to what you privation and effort to bash better."

Right now, Thune and Senate Republicans are similar the inattentive hubby who doesn’t cognize the divorcement papers person already been filed. It whitethorn not beryllium excessively precocious to enactment it retired with voters, but it's getting beauteous close.

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