F Toomey.
The only way he can regain a modicum of respect with me is that is disavows the gun control legislation that he worked to create with Chuckie Schumer. He needs to attack Schumer for the Marxist that Schumer is and then vow never to work on anything that is bipartisan (because that simply means going along with Democrats to some degree and relinquishing all conservative principles). Lastly he needs to propose new pro-2a legislation that includes the repeal of unconstitutional laws on the books and introducing uniform "free-passage" laws between and thru states. The latter is about the only law that seems remotely constitutional to me.
“...He needs to attack Schumer for the Marxist that Schumer is..”
What makes you think that that will ever happen?
With ALL the evidence and examples that exist from over the years of dealing with Schmuckie, proving him to be exactly what you say he is, if it was ever going to happen, it would have happened already.
Have you ever once, in your lifetime, heard one of these cretins stand up and call another “colleague” to the carpet? I haven’t.
It’s a game to these people. The outcome of the game doesn’t affect them the way it affects you, me, all of us.
He’s got armed protection round the clock, so he really doesn’t care about the little guy being able to protect the family and himself when away from home. Toomey, et al, isn’t the exhausted working stiff coming from second shift with overtime - IF he can get it - who winds up face down in a dark parking lot, bleeding and dying from stab or gunshot wounds to the back because some crackhead freak wanted the 40 bucks and credit cards in his wallet. So pro-gun, anti-gun, etc., it means nothing to him and those like him other than as an election ploy to sway a certain voting block.
He’s got a taxpayer funded pension for life; so economic issues - up, down, good, bad, indifferent - don’t have any bearing on him either, except only in the sense of election time. He doesn’t have to worry about the electricity, or the water or the gas being turned off because the mortgage had to go out and food shopping needed to be taken care of, the kids’ medical bills are piling up, and the life insurance premium is due (which you MUST keep up with so that if you die, your family will at least be able to pay off the bills for a little while). He just doesn’t care.
None of them do, at the end of the day. They’re immune to the convulsions, disasters, upheavals, and turmoil that THEIR OWN ACTIONS AND LOUSY POLICY DECISIONS AND LAWS cause to the rest of us.
In a business, guys who make lousy business decisions cause people to get laid off, companies to lose money and business, and ultimately get shut down. In government, it’s “just the way it goes” and we’ll pass MORE laws to make the damage even worse and even more stupid. And still they have jobs.
Liberals, Conservatives, all of us - we’re ALL f***ed one way or another on ALL of the issues that are real and dear to us, and these people in DC just go on playing the game and benefiting from it, while we tussle and brawl and kill each other in the muck that they intentionally create over race, class, economics, whatever.
And they laugh at us and our efforts to rein them in when we actually DO wake up for a few minutes.
So Toomey, publicly going after Chuckie?? Probably won’t happen. Please let me know when it happens, because I would dearly love to be proved wrong about this.
They both have Lifetime Passes to the same country club, we’re paying the bill for them, and they’re having Martinis and cigars together, slapping each other on the back at our expense.
I don’t know Toomey personally. Maybe he’s a GREAT family guy, takes the kids to Church on Sunday, loves baseball, hots dogs, and apple pie. Maybe he really DOES give a rat’s ass about his constituents. But it sure doesn’t seem it from the Manchin-Schumer team up. That was the single WORST thing he could have done to Pennsylvanians that believed in him and elected him, and the rest of the country that counted on him to be a staunch gun rights supporter.
SO yeah, I won’t trust him either. If we get a chance to primary him, I will be there. He was a sad disappointment, but I can’t say it surprised me anymore...NOTHING these people do surprises me.
I want someone who will stand up and FIGHT - scream bloody murder, carry on and raise hell - in public, on the Senate or House floor, for MY rights - my rights as a Citizen, as an American. Not as a liberal or a conservative, but as an American with rights that are enumerated in the Constitution - that document that they SWORE to uphold, protect and defend.
I want someone who raise a ruckus and then actually put forth bills that walk the walk AFTER the talk, and fight like hell to push them through.
At the end of the day, he’s either an American ... or a Politician.
He needs to decide what he wants to be, or what he already is, and then have the integrity to BE it. One way or the other.