Posted on 11/15/2023 1:04:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“high crimes or misdemeanors” is equivalent to “natural born”
i.e. it’s whatever congress says it is.
Wasn’t Tom McClintock considered a strong conservative say ten years ago? Wha’ happened?
He was always an egotistical gadfly.
Ryan and McCarthy got to him?
He’s not wrong, and I challenge you to come up with a plausible counter argument.
At some point the American Members of Congress need to start caucusing together...
The government is supposed to protect our borders, but it is not. If Texas tries to protect their border, Mayorkas just has the Border Patrol cut the wire fence. The deluge of illegals is sinking cities. How can this not be criminal?
Biden will WIN in 2024 and people STILL won't wake up to this fact, ALTHOUGH BRAZILIANS DID.
Well the two of you agree, but when did McClintock become the final arbiter of the constitution? The constitution is challenged every single day in courts around this country. Maybe they can make the case, but maybe the Supreme Court would agree with you. But at the core, that’s the real problem, our side says we can’t, and the Democrats say let’s see if they’ll stop us. Which Republicans are usually too weak to challenge them anyway.
Tom is no scum bag. He’s maintained a lifetime CPAC rating of 98%, and most years it’s closer to 100%, but there are times, like this, where he thinks too hard and trips over his feet.
This year, he’s been caught up in normalcy bias, thinking that the battle is still between conservatives (which Tom without a doubt is), and Liberals, not understanding that the terms have changed. The Conservatives lost. Now the populist right is in what may be the last fight for this nation, opposing the totalitarian, radical left.
In this case, Tom’s using the old, conservative logic of looking at the Constitution, reading it, and applying it dispassionately. And he’s correct: this is a political disagreement, and any “high crime or misdemeanor” in the traditional sense.
What Tom’s not taking into account, IMHO, is that the Democrat opposition burned those old rules to the ground with their two fake, sham, unconstitutional impeachments of Trump, followed up with four sham, unconstitutional and unprecedented weaponized indictments. He’s playing by the old rules, which is frustrating, but he’s been solid on a range of issues for a long time, and is going to be needed in congress during Trump’s second term.
Nothing happened.
You were fooled by his speeches, and ignored who his donors were.
umm No, I was not ‘fooled’. Not to get too defensive here but I’m in Missouri. I only went by what was put out there in the public airways. Had I lived in CA, I would have ‘researched’ the guy thoroughly and would have discovered the truth about him.
“And he’s correct: this is a political disagreement, and any “high crime or misdemeanor” in the traditional sense.”
How is deliberately enabling a foreign invasion of ten million just a “political disagreement” ?
Allowing our border to be invaded isn’t treason? I notice he’s saying voting against Biden is the only recourse. Shame on him. Neglecting his duty for votes.
He’s just doing Biden’s bidding. Biden isn’t going to appoint anyone who is going to genuinely secure the border.
“lifetime CPAC rating of 98%”
That’s for over 15 years.
You can count on one hand his peers.
A very strong case can be made that treason is afoot.
Yup.
Still butt hurting from losing his master, McCarthy, just like Mike Turner.
Very surprised about Issa.
McClintock is just plain senile, time to primary him.
Ken Buck, I do hope the door hits him in his brains on his way out of Congress.
I did my best to explain that in my original post.
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