We have to stop electing Bush League Republicans.
For 2020, the ones up are, Flimsey Grahamnesty, Thom Tillis, Gardner, McSally, Daines, Collins, Cornyn, Capito, Enzi, Rounds, Sasse, Hyde-Smith, McConnell.
They all should have primary challengers.
They are all Bush League Republicans.
The only ones worthy of re-election are Inhofe, Sullivan, Cotton, Perdue, Risch, Ernst and Cassidy.
All it takes in the Senate is one vote to overturn the veto. There is a lot of back door dealing going on to get that one vote in the Senate. Not so much for the House.
I spent all day on Capitol Hill yesterday. While I go there fairly often, after the vote yesterday, I really felt like I needed a hot shower, only to learn that one wasn’t enough.
I am so pissed off that, this morning, I sent slightly modified versions of the following to the “Dirty Dozen” Republican senators who voted against border security:
Senator (Name),
I cannot begin to express just how utterly disappointed I was to learn that you joined 11 other senators in voting against border security for the United States. I lived in the Southwest for ten years and three of my children live there today. I can attest to the fact that the situation along the border is far, far worse than it ever was when I lived in Arizona and New Mexico. But then, you know that.
I have supported your positions on key issues the vast majority of the time, but this vote was the most egregious violation of the trust of the American people I can possibly imagine. We finally have a president who is willing to staunch the flow of illegal aliens, drugs, white slavers and their ilk into the United States and you and your contemporaries cannot find the intestinal fortitude to vote with him. It’s been said that, “Democrats will not vote against a Democrat president, but Republicans will vote against a Republican.” I would re-phase to, “Neither Democrats or Republicans will vote against a Democrat president, but Republicans will vote against a Republican, especially one who is willing to do what is best for the United States of America.” I am utterly ashamed to call myself a Republican.
I cannot recall Republicans in the House or the Senate successfully opposing even one major policy initiative of the Obama administration, yet you have successfully thwarted President Trump on major policies - for which he was elected - on more than one occasion in slightly more than two years in office. With control of both houses of Congress, you could not muster sufficient support for the president that We The People elected to finally secure the US-Mexico border. I don’t recall this level of outcry when Obama, after proclaiming that he didn’t have the authority to unilaterally implement DACA, did so anyway. As you well know, Congress passed and President Ford signed the National Emergencies Act into law in 1976. It has been used over 50 times since and not once has Congress overturned a presidential declaration of an emergency.
Save me your platitudes on the constitutionality of the NEA. Your predecessors passed the NEA. If you had questions about its infringement on the separation of powers, why wasn’t the NEA repealed? I have long maintained that our representatives in Congress no longer represent those of us who elected them; that they represent the paymasters who fund their campaigns - and now we know who you are, at least on the Republican side of the aisle. Although I do not live in (state), you may rest assured that I will support primary challenges to your seat in the Senate for as long as I remain on this earth.
When will the leaders of the country start doing the right thing? The act out of resentment, jealousy and hate 95% of the time.
Very sound well-reasoned analysis. Hudak is added to my list, thank you.