Dangerous RINOs are endangering our democracy
Unless Republicans exhibit some political backbone and show the courage necessary to stop this Fascist agenda, the nightmare for our country will only get worse.
Among those RINOs who need to be voted out of office are (L. to R.) Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rob Portman (R-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT). (Photo: Scott Applewhite/Associated Press) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perhaps one of the biggest proofs the 2020 election was stolen for Joe Biden is the fact that the American electorate split the U.S. Senate right down the middle, 50/50, while supposedly “electing” Joe Biden. If we had truly wanted to endorse the Fascist Left agenda of the puppet masters behind Biden and Harris ― the former a demented fool and the latter a high-class call girl with the IQ of a Twinkie ― we would have voted in a Congress that would assure their agenda would be enacted.
Republican voters across the country surely did not elect 50 U.S. Senators to support the socialist agenda of President Joe Biden. In fact, these Senators were elected to serve as a bulwark against the far-left legislation pushed by our cognitively challenged President and the congressional leadership of the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, these wishes are being ignored by Senate Republicans who are more interested in doing “deals,” rewarding lobbyists who increase their personal wealth and growing the size of the gargantuan federal government.
Once again, the conservative base of the Republican Party has been betrayed by their so-called leaders in the United States Congress. In the latest monstrosity, a $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill, a horrific piece of legislation, was passed in November in the House after the Senate action in November. It was with the help of eighteen Republican U.S. Senators the bill passed the upper chamber. It gave Joe Biden and the Democrats there first real victory since the election, while the grassroots of the Republican Party suffered yet another stinging defeat.
The GOP Senators supporting the legislation included the entire RINO caucus, featuring Republican Party embarrassments such as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rob Portman of Ohio, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. For good measure, worthless U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) added his support to the “bi-partisan” legislation.
In all, 18 RINOs in the Senate voted for cloture ― the end to debate. Not all of them voted for the bill, but most of those 18 did.
It is the continuance of a long-term problem in American politics. Few of those who go to Washington, D.C. are interested in curbing the size and influence of government. The most notable in recent years is 45th President of the United States Donald Trump. Most of the GOP, however, long ago stopped listening to the will of the people and have consistently voted against our best interests.
Not only are the Senate leadership working against those interests, the stalwarts of the party are doing likewise. Take, for example, former President George W. Bush.
Bush contributed to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AL) reelection campaigns at the end of 2021, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday. These were two of the most notorious RINOs who supported impeaching Donald Trump a year ago.
Bush donated a maximum individual contribution of $5,800 to Cheney last October. It was a small but notable piece of her total haul of $1.9 million in the last quarter of 2021, which swelled her campaign account to more than $4.7 million cash on hand. Bush had previously donated to Cheney — whose father served as Bush's vice president — in 2016, according to FEC records.
The 43rd president also threw in $2,900 — the maximum allowable primary donation — for Murkowski’s reelection efforts, adding to her $1.2 million intake in the last quarter of 2021. Murkowski ended 2021 with $4.2 million in the bank. It’s the first time Bush has donated to the Alaska senator, FEC records show.
Bush has contributed to a number of Republican political campaigns in recent years, but these appear to have been the former president’s first donations of 2021 — and they are significant in their symbolism. Trump has endorsed Republican challengers seeking to unseat Cheney, Murkowski and others as retribution for their votes to remove him from office and said he incited the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Cheney has drawn several Republican challengers for Wyoming’s at-large House seat, chief among them Harriet Hageman, a former Cheney supporter who won Trump’s endorsement to take her on. Trump’s endorsement has come with connections to his donors, though Hageman brought in significantly less than Cheney — about $443,000 — in the fourth quarter. Early polls show most Wyoming voters don’t want Cheney to continue to represent them.
In Alaska, Trump endorsed Republican Kelly Tshibaka, former State Commissioner of Administration under Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R-AL) against Murkowski in the Senate race. Tshibaka is also one of the Republican candidates joining Trump’s call to oust McConnell from his leadership position.
Both Wyoming and Alaska’s primaries are on Aug. 16.
These corrupt, sell-out RINOs like Bush and McConnell always appeal to “bipartisanship.” Hence their irrational votes on the so-called “infrastructure bill” that is nothing more than a Fascist Left effort to institute bigger government and solidify public dependence on it.
The false narrative of bipartisan cooperation always ends up exclusively helping the Democrat Party, as Republicans get nothing in return. Such legislation adds to the federal debt, expands government, and gives conservatives no victories to savor.
The goal of the GOP in the U.S. Congress should be victory over their Democratic Party opponents.
Yes, there was a time when the parties had the same basic mutual goals, just different methodologies for getting there. No longer is that the case, and as a result, the Republicans should be working non-stop to defeat every piece of socialist legislation that Democrats advocate until the midterm elections in November can bring what should be new, conservative leadership to a GOP-controlled Congress that can save the nation.
Instead, if the GOP keeps giving the Democrats victories like the “infrastructure” bill there will be little, if anything, left to save after the midterm elections.
That fraudulent “infrastructure” bill is 2,702 pages long and was certainly not read in its entirety by any member of the United States Senate. It is more than double the size of the Bible, but without any of the “Good News.”
It is nothing but more big government expansion, reckless spending, and payoffs to influential special interest groups. President Donald Trump called the bill “a gift to the Democratic Party.” Of course, he is right, and Republicans can thank their gutless Senate Minority Leader and the RINO’s in their caucus for this latest disaster.
It is just now, three months later, becoming apparent what the legislation contained. The bill includes very little for actual infrastructure. According to the Republican Study Committee, only about 10 percent of the bill is actually being allocated for traditional infrastructure projects. It is a nightmare of ever-larger government programs that will never be allowed to expire, though giving them a sunset provision was the promise that sold them.
The rest of the bill is completely antithetical to American democracy. It includes funding of digital equity grants, zero emission vehicles, and green energy projects. It formalizes gender identity as a protected class, provides for alcohol monitoring of all drivers ― even those who have no record of driving under the influence ― and will track every vehicle’s mileage so new taxes can be collected.
Not surprisingly, the bill is just another liberal grab bag of spending priorities. No conservative goals are actually achieved in the bill. The word “equity” is used at least 64 times. According to far-left Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the bill also addresses “racism physically built into some of our highways.” It is not clear how highways are racist, but billions of dollars will be spent to “fix” it anyway.
The bill includes nothing for the biggest crisis in America, the invasion of illegal aliens at our southern border. Zero dollars are earmarked for the border wall. At least $2.5 billion is allocated for additional “border processing stations.” These facilities will not be used to stop the invasion of illegal aliens but will be used to help poor Central American “migrants” receive the resources and direction they need for illegal access ― further illegally facilitated by the Biden administration ― into the United States.
Another troubling feature is that the bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will add $256 billion to the national debt. The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn-Wharton Budget Model has calculated an even greater addition to the national debt of $351 billion with no “significant” economic gain from the legislation.
Those figures pale in comparison to the Hoover Institute’s estimate of the $5 trillion debt that would be added if the so-called “Build Back Better” bill passes, either in whole or in part.
Republicans used to be concerned about the national debt and limiting the size of the federal government, but such values are practically non-existent in the U.S. Congress today. Along with the fiscal problems caused by more debt, there are inflationary pressures that will be created.
This is a significant problem because inflationary pressures have been skyrocketing in our country, particularly in the fourth quarter of 2021. Prices on everything from groceries to gasoline have been increasing at the highest levels in over a decade.
These inflationary pressures act as an additional tax on hard working Americans, who are still suffering from the COVID pandemic, the effects of the lockdown and the fact that millions of jobs have still not returned to the American economy since the start of the crisis in March of 2020, contrary to multiple disingenuous Biden claims.
For all of these reasons and more, Senate Republicans should not be working with Democrats and Joe Biden on a budget busting, Green New Deal piece of misnamed “infrastructure” legislation. For that particular legislation, it is too late. It’s the law. They should now be working feverishly to dismantle this Fascist Left agenda with a tsunami of fresh Republican blood in November.
When Donald Trump was President, Democrats refused to work with him on an infrastructure bill. In fact, Democrats spent his entire four-year term trying to impeach, convict and politically destroy him. When they win back the House and Senate in November, Republicans must display the same attitude toward the radical Fascist Joe Biden as well as the Democratic Party leadership in Congress.
There should be no cooperation, no bipartisanship, only political opposition to a dangerous, far-left agenda. In fact, based on the illegal actions Biden has taken regarding immigration, vaccine mandates and “climate change,” he and Harris should both be impeached. They, unlike President Trump, have truly violated the Constitution and federal law.
Further, for the same reasons they should have opposed the “infrastructure bill, the GOP must assert its conservative DNA to vehemently oppose any effort to break up the companion legislation, “Build Back Better.” Though Senators Joe Manchin (D-VA) and Kristin Sinema (D-AZ) stood steadfastly against it, they are now making noises about supporting piecemealing the legislation.
Unless Republicans exhibit some political backbone and show the courage necessary to stop this Fascist agenda, the nightmare for our country will only get worse, perhaps going to far to reverse even with a Republican midterm election landslide.