Posted on 08/26/2022 5:32:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are plowing new and dangerous ground. Meanwhile, the GOP is silent.
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) looks around his adopted hometown of Washington, D.C.—a city shamelessly and aggressively using every lever of federal power to destroy Donald Trump and the 76 million Americans who dared to vote for him in 2020—he sees only one menace to the well-being of the nation:
January 6 protesters.
“I do think it’s an important issue,” McConnell said in response to a reporter’s question about a recent poll that ranked “threats to democracy” as the top concern among registered voters who responded. “There were those who were trying to prevent the orderly transfer of power for the first time in American history and that was not good.”
But contrary to his somber reflections, January 6 was very good for McConnell; he got exactly what he wanted after the tear gas smoke cleared that evening. As I explained here, not only did McConnell intentionally leave the Capitol largely unguarded, he warned of the irreparable damage to the republic if his Senate Republican colleagues demanded an audit of contested states—the “official proceeding” actually taking place when the building was breached. McConnell later cooed to a reporter that he had prevailed that day.
“Exhilarating” is how McConnell described his emotions after congressional Republicans, cowed by the four-hour disturbance, abandoned their plans to seek a 2020 election audit commission.
In a way, McConnell is right that the events of January 6 represent a grave threat to the country. They do—just not in the way he thinks.
The Capitol protest is being used as the pretext to criminalize political dissent as the FBI continues its dragnet to round up 850-and-counting Trump supporters (with new arrests announced just this week) and the Justice Department circles Donald Trump as the alleged instigator of the “insurrection.”
Political prisoners languish in a special jail for January 6 defendants, a hellscape located in the shadow of McConnell’s throne on Capitol Hill. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutors ruthlessly seek years in prison for nonviolent offenders, adding domestic terror sentencing enhancements in an escalation of the regime’s war on terror against the Right.
The January 6 select committee has made a mockery of itself while failing to sway public opinion. The same poll that showed a majority of Americans feared “threats to democracy” above all other issues also showed they have little or no faith that the government is conducting a fair inquiry. Yet this phony January 6 investigation provides cover for all sorts of lawfare, not least of which is the production of tens of thousands of Trump’s presidential records from his last year in office, a process expedited by the unprecedented denial of executive privilege claims by Joe Biden.
But McConnell, his Senate GOP toadies, and most Republican House members are intentionally oblivious to the radical weaponization of the Justice Department.
Following a brief outburst after the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, congressional Republicans have gone back to radio silence. Promises of a “rapid response team” to counter the January 6 committee’s primetime performances landed no punches as Republicans shied away from much-needed fights over several questions the committee left unanswered, including the lack of progress in the hunt for the mysterious pipe bomber and unreleased surveillance footage. Instead, they pivoted quickly to familiar ground: high food and energy prices.
Fear and impotence paralyze Republican Party leaders as well as those aspiring to hold leadership positions in a potential Republican majority. If the party doesn’t blow it, that is.
Unfortunately, it appears as though the GOP is doing precisely that. Republican voters, disgusted with the party’s wholesale failure to confront the Democrats’ scorched earth crusade with little more than tough-sounding tweets, eventually will channel Hillary Clinton and begin asking “what difference” their anger and votes even make.
What difference, at this point, does it make if Republicans win Congress in November?
As Victor Davis Hanson observed this week:
the left-wing playbook is based on two pillars: the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home, the January 6 ‘insurrection’ investigation—and selective daily leaking about both. Between the raid and the star-chamber House inquiry, we are supposed to forget unaffordable gas and food, dangerous U.S. cities, over 3 million people swarming the border, and the Afghanistan debacle. Yet if the Republicans advance a coherent national plan of action to restore a pre-Biden America, if Donald Trump will focus positively on national issues and not take the bait to obsess on the wrongs done to him, and if grass-roots conservatives this time around prepare to preempt massive left-wing vote harvesting, they will achieve their blowout.
“But that is a lot of ifs,” Hanson writes. “And meanwhile, time grows short.”
Seventy-five days to be exact.
So, what’s the plan? Who in the GOP is detailing how Congress will dismantle this abusive administrative state targeting their own voters? Where is the pledge to cut off funding to the FBI and U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a Biden campaign advisor now handling the vengeful prosecution of Trump voters?
Where are the public denouncements of Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, a longtime Obama loyalist now attempting to finish what her boss started in 2016 by putting Trump in handcuffs, or of Steven D’Antuono, the FBI chief responsible for the Gretchen Whitmer fednapping hoax, who sent his agents to Palm Beach to participate in the raid of the former president’s residence?
Republicans may not control much in Washington yet, but there are other ways to draw attention to this destructive abuse of power. The Biden regime and congressional Democrats are plowing new and dangerous ground, and Republicans appear unwilling to do anything about it.
Republican voters hear their silence. And in November, they might hear Republicans’ silence in return.
I don’t understand why Republican Senators seem so afraid of The Turtle.
no one is oblivious of the radicalization of the justice department... they condone it.
Why do you think they fear him?
They LOVE him. He's the leader of the club most of them belong to.
campaign money and committee assignments
he has the purse strings and makes the assignments
He’s a sickly old bitch.
the term republican is meaningless
because of the intra-party battle
you have to distinguish between establishment pubs(rinos) and MAGA pubs
the rinos have the leadership
and would rather lose elections than give up that power
Probably because he has FBI files on some of them. Other reasons, they agree with McConnell and also they want to keep their jobs and just don’t care about the citizens they represent.
Probably because he has FBI files on some of them. Other reasons, they agree with McConnell and also they want to keep their jobs and just don’t care about the citizens they represent.
Republicans get it. They’re just corrupt, is all.
What you say is really disgusting.
But it is true.
True, he gets them the front row seats at the Kennedy center GOP box, invites to the most decedent and lavish lobbyist junkets, campaign cash, so many other special favors, they cozy right up to his nipple.
Julie kelly is a saint thanks for posting
If you are a Senator or Representative who has joined the Swamp, you are now an insider.
McConnell keeps the Republican members of the Swamp in line.
They don't dare step out of line. Their lives and their families' lives depend on it.
This is like the Mafia...except they ARE the law.
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced "diversity" with its attendent decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
... how true! ChinaMitch working for the other side, better known as the DS Uniparty... ymmv
They get IT.
They only care if they GET reelected.
If they GET perks.
If the can GET a 3rd vacation home..in very wealthy areas.
They don’t mind if the dims do the dirty work..it allows them to appear as though they have clean hands.
But they are every bit as greedy and corrupt.
>>>>> And in November, they might hear Republicans’ silence in return. <<<<<
Sorry Julie...but Dominion Voting Systems will “count” the votes again and select the “winners”.
I have yet to read of any substantial efforts to stop the massive voter fraud coming in November including wide spread mail-in ballots.
The DNC/Communist party will not give up their 2020 gains without a fight.
Mitch controls the money and the seating charts. They have to do as he says.
The canvas needs to be wiped clean because the landscape that was America has become too ugly to look at. This is not America and a corrupted election isn’t going to save it at this point.
I hate thinking it is going to end like this.
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