Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 08/06/2014 7:24:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A libertarian, tea-party congressman just rolled to reelection in a congressional district that is home to some of the wealthiest people in the business wing of the Republican party.
Representative Justin Amash (R., Mich.) was outspent by his opponent, Brian Ellis, who had the support of the Chamber of Commerce and other House Republicans, but it was never even a tight race. “It’s been a pretty significant lead for the congressman throughout,” a Republican consultant and pollster in Michigan unaffiliated with either campaign told National Review Online Monday.
As of this writing, Amash enjoys a comfortable double-digit lead, garnering 57 percent of the vote to Ellis’s 43 percent.
Ellis’s campaign was supposed to demonstrate the political costs of the government shutdown — the primary was supposed to be another “establishment strikes back” moment in the 2014 election cycle. “I’m hearing it from everybody,” Ellis told The Hill in November of last year. “[The shutdown was] no way to run a country. It’s no way to govern.” In the end, it was Ellis who was left with no way to govern. Amash spokesman Will Adams attributed his candidate’s success to the fact that there is “overwhelming grassroots support for Justin and almost no grassroots support for Ellis.”
“Justin reflects where today’s Republican primary voters are,” Adams told NRO. “He has very strong support from ordinary Republicans, and ordinary Republicans vote. Corporations don’t vote. Big business doesn’t vote. Ordinary Republicans vote.”
Amash’s victory exemplifies, in part, the electoral shift that has taken place in Republican party politics since the rise of the Tea Party.
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The Republican party is dead, dead, dead.
To repeat for those who refuse to see the future: (apologies, Monty Python & gang)
The GOP is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! Its stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! Its metabolic processes are now ‘istory! Its off the twig! Its kicked the bucket, its shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARTY!!
Proof that were it not for deep pockets, the elites would be out.
“I’m an Arab-American, and he has the audacity to say I’m Al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress. That’s pretty disgusting,” Amash said in a post-speech interview with Fox 17. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Even if he’s a tea party candidate, he loses any measure of respect from me the second he hyphenated his status. If you ain’t “AMERICAN” period, then don’t talk to me about anything. I’m and AMERICAN. Not a “Dutch-American” or “Welsh-American”. Stop hyphenating yourselves.
Amash is uber conservative. Stinking Hoekstra used to be this way but he sold out and got out while the getting was good.
The answer to this looney-tunes myopia, is a clear, direct & repeated, enunciation of the principles involve3d. The Constitution is not some vague, confusing document. The confusion arises in people simply looking at individual clauses, out of context of the whole. Read in context, it is very clear to anyone of ordinary intelligence, that it was never intended to authorize a Federal takeover of local medicine, the relationships between doctor & patient; nor ever intended to interfere in anyway with State & local control of questions pertaining to the health of the diverse communities across the sub-continent.
We need to educate the public better. The fact that 43% of Republicans in an affluent district, would support a candidate who takes a completely stupid position on so important a subject, reflects our failure to do a better job of educating.
For more on the fallacy of broad implied powers in Washington, see Implied Powers? Clear Limitations.
William Flax
What this strong victory indicates is that if a constitutional conservative has a reliable voting record and speaks compellingly about the issues, without compromising on principles, they’ll win.
Amash refused to support Israel.
Well that should tell you/us/somebody something about his character. Not too shocking though.
He is a Libtardian in the image of Ron Paul, he would gladly cut off any aid to Israel and defund the military.
Ellis is a Chamber of Commerce Ho.
Amash wouldn’t support Scamnasty and the Chamber told him they would run a primary against him if he didn’t...
Hoekstra is a doublespeaking Corp. Ho., the Idea that Ellis Camp put him out there as some sort of a Pillar of the Community is a joke.
I hope lil Pete and Brian Ellis gets over the *ussy hurt they got laid on them yesterday.
One other little note, Amash was one of the Members that Limp Boehner kicked off committees a couple of years ago because he wouldn’t toe the line for the (R)ino brigade.
So The speaker can eat some crow this morning as well.
On Foreign Affairs:
Amash supports decreased U.S. military spending to help balance the federal budget. He believes there is significant waste in the military spending of the U.S. Department of Defense.
He believes that only Congress has the power to declare war. He supports a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Amash joined 104 Democrats and 16 Republicans in voting against the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Amash called it “one of the most anti-liberty pieces of legislation of our lifetime”.
Amash has co-sponsored an amendment to the NDAA that would ban indefinite military detention and military trials so that all terror suspects arrested in the United States would be tried in civilian courts. He expressed concern that individuals charged with terrorism could be jailed for prolonged periods of time without ever being formally charged or brought to trial.
Amash is an idiot. He supports the Libtardian platform and not much else.
Fantastic!
“The Republican party is dead, dead, dead.”
if Justin Amash is the future....you are correct.
Devin Nunes is Mexico’s best friend. Nunes is part of the group attacking Amash. Ironic attacking Amash when Nunes’ has oligarchs backing his immigration stance.
I think Nunes ancestors are from Portugal (not Spain or Mexico), but he has this sort of reverse-nativist streak in him where the solution to every problem is just add mass immigration.
Amash has been open to amnesty at times. Unlike Rand Paul he doesn’t seem to get all excited over “immigration reform”. I think he was open to it, but not a mover on the issue and not totally addicted to the issue like Rand. Ellis would have been 10 times worse and literally asked Boehner how to vote. I think Amash may have said he was open to legalizing them over a long period of time. I don’t know when this was but it unfortunately it was better than much of the caucus.
Back in August or September of 2013 they apparently had 84-100 + House Republicans ready to grant legal status to illegals. That figure is probably lower now.
Fortunately Kery Bentivolio, Ted Yoho, Joe Wilson, Jeff Duncan, Bachmann, Steve King, Barletta, Tom Cotton, Rohrabacher, McClintock and others were the loudest voices in their respective delegations. It is unfortunate Bentivolio lost. He has been attacking amnesty from his first day in congress.
Ellis was such a coward he had no immigration stance.
After Cantor lost, Bentivolio called out the Chamber and Dave Trott. Suddenly on June 11, Dave Trott opposes any legal status for illegal aliens.
Spencer Abraham(R-MI) lost in 2000 because FAIR immigration hammered him for his weak stance on Muslim students and other immigration votes. He lost by 1 point 49-48 with the largest amount of donors of any incumbent Republican. Terri Lynn Land should be careful. She was stupid enough to bring McCain to Michigan. As if that is not to help third party voters think she is a hack for neocons and open borders. It may help her far left opponent as well on foreign policy.
My priority is a Congress that supports the USA and takes care of our vets and country. That’s my only priority. We’re in more than enough debt than to be forced by politicians to support illegals and other countries, that have much less debt per taxpayer than our own country. We need Congress and WH that are obsessed with restoring America.
If GOP is dead do I have to put up with Obama clone democrats for ever? Sorry, will not tolerate that.
But if not Obama clone and not republican then who?
3rd party? They have not even come close to winning
in my lifetime, and I am on Medicare. Wet dream it is!
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