Posted on 12/11/2019 4:20:29 AM PST by EyesOfTX
During the lead-up to the 2016 elections, I repeatedly wrote that, as a class, Republicans in the House and Senate were the single most hated element of the DC Swamp. This was because of their repeated collective failures to live up to the promises they had made to voters in getting elected.
On the campaign trail, House and Senate Republicans sounded like Ronald Reagan, promising to go to Washington and beat up on those Democrats and President Obama, promising to get rid of the Obamacare atrocity, promising to rein in Obama’s regulatory reign of terror, promising to use the filibuster and the parliamentary process in the House to force Democrats to pass real budget bills instead of agreeing to just another continuing resolution, promising to rebuild the military and get our young men and women out of the myriad Middle East and African civil wars Presidents Bush and Obama had gotten them entangled in.
But once safely in office, all those promises and many, many more were quickly forgotten, as congressional Republicans immersed themselves in the corrupt ways of the Swamp and became utter cowards when it came to casting principled votes out of fear that they might get negative attention from the corrupt news media. But their disloyal, unprincipled and cowardly behavior brought them nothing but scorn and contempt from those they were trying to please: They became hated by the Democrats, hated by the corrupt news media, and yes, hated even by their own voters, voters who only continued voting for them because the alternative – voting for a Democrat – was too repugnant to contemplate. Better to vote for a coward than for a Marxist Alinskyite.
Ok, now that I’ve had the catharsis of getting all of that out my system, here’s why you Republican voters should be proud of your house members today: Because, to a man, and to a woman, they all did their damn jobs throughout throughout the Democrats’ Soviet-style impeachment clown show. Oh, Texas congressman Will Hurd had a shaky moment early on, but even he ended up coming around to realizing that Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi were abusing their power like no one in the nation’s capital had ever done before, and got with the program.
Hey, for once the Republicans actually had a program to get with. An aggressive, no-nonsense, call a clown a clown strategy for giving no ground to Schiff and his fraudulent, corrupt process. An aggressive, no-fear strategy of staying on-message with the corrupt Democrat media toadies and for pointedly calling them out when they lied in their reporting, which of course, happened constantly.
Devin Nunes and Doug Collins, as ranking GOP members on the House Intel and House Judiciary Committees, respectively, were stellar, scorching the earth and the hides of Schiff and Jabba the Nadler with every opening and closing statement. Both men managed their committee members and their questioning time perfectly throughout, and the results were spectacular.
Both Jim Jordan of Ohio and John Ratcliffe of Texas did double duty as members of both committees, and all conservatives should be incredibly grateful for those two men. Jordan was fantastic in capitalizing on the utter absurdities of the parade of hearsay gossips who showed up as “witnesses” before the committee, rendering them all human pin cushions by the time he was done with them. Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor himself, was more subdued but equally effective in consistently pinpointing the legal holes in the Democrats’ case and tying several of the witnesses up in knots of logic they could not untie.
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz utterly and completely decimated the Democrats’ despicable Alinskyite Lawfare lawyer, Daniel Goldman, making him look like an 8 year-old being lectured in the Principal’s office for all to see on national television. It was a moment of TV beauty that deserves to be seen again here:
Rep. Matt Gaetz ✔ @RepMattGaetz "Do you think if you had given more money to Democrats you might have been able to ask questions and answer them like Mr. Berke did?"
*silence*#ImpeachmentHearings
Embedded video 32.6K 5:30 PM - Dec 9, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 14.2K people are talking about this These guys were all members we expected to shine going in. But the hearings were filled with some new stars, too. Like Chris Stewart of Utah, one of the finest human beings serving in congress today, who time after time providing piercing and pointed questioning that brought Schiff’s array of haughty gossip witnesses crashing down to earth. Michael Turner of Ohio was another relatively unknown member who took apart several witnesses and battled fiercely with the imperious Schiff on several points of order. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Arizona’s Andy Biggs also had great moments in limited duty on the Judiciary Comittee.
And then there was Elise Stefanik, the 35 year-old who represents the 21st district of New York, who may have been the star of the show. Combative, pointed, smart, and fearless of the vicious attacks from the press that she surely knew would come, Stefanik emerged from this process as one of the true rising stars not just in the House, but in the Republican Party. Expect her to have a prominent speaking role at next year’s GOP National Convention.
Going into this impeachment farce, seasoned observers of House Republicans had every reason to be nervous, to expect them to be completely disorganized and ineffective. After all, under Boehner and Paul Ryan’s non-leadership, we had seen this story so many times before.
But they came in with a clear and highly-organized plan with two main objectives: 1) dismantle Schiff/Pelosi/Nadler’s fraudulent case, and 2) do so in a way that would hold the Trump support base together.
The fact that they were successful in achieving both objectives is a credit to the leadership of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. His leadership made success possible. Be thankful Paul Ryan is spending his time these days trying to screw up Fox News – had he still been Minority Leader there is no telling how badly this all would have gone.
So, I know it’s hard for many of us, but be happy, Republican voters. You finally have leadership in the House of Representatives you can be proud of. If things go half as well in the Senate, Election Day 2020 will be a great day for America indeed.
That is all.
I am so glad the Republicans fought back.
Here is the problem. These rising stars are not just pandering to the GOP base, which RINOs can do really well. They are giving the base what they actually want - a public fight against the democrats. This is not what GOPe wants. They want to screw the base, get along with democrats and do deals with deep staters to further the globalist agenda. Ryan never actaully gave the base what they wanted. His approach was to say - well let’s to our deals with the democrats now. Then maybe we can get some conservative bills passed later - whoops there just isn’t support for a late term abortion ban, but don’t accuse me - I tried. It’s those democrats. I gave them everything they wanted and now this...
We’ll never have Republican leadership we can be proud of in the Senate until China-Mitch is gone.
My hat is off to GOP House members who are fighting for Truth.
Prayers for wisdom, protection and stamina as they are forced to confront the petty, absurd and abusive left.
Here is the problem. These rising stars are not just pandering to the GOP base, which RINOs can do really well. They are giving the base what they actually want - a public fight against the democrats. This is not what GOPe wants.
I don’t agree. The GOPe don’t mind the theatrical fight when they are in the minority and can dodge behind that fact. It’s when they are in majority, have real power and conservatives expect them to govern as they campaign the that the GOPe hates conservatives most.
Fair point. GOPe don’t govern. Never wanted to. Never will.
Some red-meat hot-air, sure. Pretty simple this time when ZERO ‘witnesses’ had ANY 1st-hand knowledge.
But, fought back? P-L-E-A-S-E.
None of ‘em told Schitt “Hit me w/ that ethics complaint” via “wb” anonymity (which they never deserved). Nader’s failure of allowing the minority party their day? *crickets*
Got Linda actively quashing ANY looks into the (D) illegality (phone records, collusion+) & (R) ‘leadership’ *spit* sits on their thumbs & rotate.
All the held-back testimony (most likely exculpatory)??
(R)N(C) stabbing the Pres. in the back, ZERO trying to bring anything to front to exonerate the man, just doing it on the sly, IMO.
Kevin McCarthy will be the next House Speaker, and he may be the best of them all because he has been the strategist the others can unite behind. Am proud of my Republican party.
Twitter has clip of staffer turned witness back to staffer nudging and winking to nadler to gavel down gaetz. Nadler looks like he has dementia in the clip.
Plus the thing that really irks me is last night on Fox I heard that 28 Republican reps are RETIRING!
So here we go again. Stupid pubbies, making their districts vulnerable to Soros’ minions and possibly voiding any chance of retaking the house, allowing MarbleMouth to remain speaker. STUPID timing.
I don’t trust any of them.
Not one.
“We’ll never have Republican leadership we can be proud of in the Senate until China-Mitch is gone.”
China-Mitch is doing his job and changing the courts. Whether this is a move to seal his legacy or to actually do some good it shouldn’t matter. Two SCOTUS picks and over 150 conservative justices seated is fine by me.
The theatrics and faux outrage at all times should be troubling. Get them in front of a camera, at a committee hearing, and they puff up their chests and out comes the righteous indignation. But that's it...largely just meat for the crowd.
I have a problem with #2
IMO, the "Trump support base" exists despite the Republican party. Evidently the GOP learned nothing from the primaries of 2016. (just look at 2018) They, like the RATS and the media, continue to be ignorant of the reasons President Trump won......they'd rather think of us as a "cult" that needs to be shepherded around by our betters in the Republican party.
They still just don't get it.
[Plus the thing that really irks me is last night on Fox I heard that 28 Republican reps are RETIRING!
So here we go again. Stupid pubbies, making their districts vulnerable to Soros’ minions and possibly voiding any chance of retaking the house, allowing MarbleMouth to remain speaker. STUPID timing.]
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/gop-term-limits-committee-1510493
People think House seats are these wonderful sinecures. They’re not. It’s hard to think of any job where you run the risk of being fired every two years where you can’t get an equivalent job at some other company. A House seat is one of these jobs. For a bar maid like AOC, it’s a step up. For many of these people, who took a pay cut and had to completely rearrange their lives to move to Washington, it’s a drag. Those term limits are doing what they aimed to do - introduce fresh blood. Unfortunately, that fresh blood consists of Democratic freshmen. It’s no coincidence they call the GOP the stupid party.
Nadler has an evil heart
Ryan was a total tool
I loathe the RNC dirty dogs
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