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Introduction: Liberals and leftists in the United States are generally comfortable with the socialist platform of the Democratic Party. If that ideology is not far enough to the left, there's always the Green Party, or the CPUSA. These are the political parties that see government intervention as the solution to every problem. They believe that the government has a practically infinite supply of money that can pay for everything — assuring everyone a job, a place to live, and help with grocery money. This would result in a system where nobody actually works. (We're halfway there already.) And then, when the government runs out of money and leaves everybody in poverty ... well, at least it's "fair" to everyone. Democrats who are just too conservative to be called Democrats are called centrists or Blue Dogs, but Republicans who play on both sides of the fence are derisively called RINOs — Republicans in Name Only. I do not understand why left-leaning RINOs are allowed to call themselves Republicans and use the party's resources to get elected. The RINOs want the Republicans to boast about their "Big Tent", which can include numerous divergent viewpoints. I take the opposite view: The lefists and centrists should get with the conservative program or get out. If you support same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, abortion, high taxes, and a multi-billion dollar welfare state, you'll be (or you should be) much more comfortable in the Democrat party. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is in no position to eject anyone. The voters who are in favor of the always-increasing size of the federal government, high taxes, abortion on demand for any reason (at any stage of pregnancy and even slightly beyond), the multi-billion dollar welfare state, and an endless supply of unionized government jobs, can count on the Democrats to do their best to bring all this to pass. The Republican Party Unfortunately, instead of the two major parties competing with each other in the marketplace of ideas, in debates over liberty versus dependency and freedom versus tyranny, the lines have been blurred and the two political parties often appear to masquerade as each other. The two parties are just two sides of the same coin. Democrats sound like conservatives when they're campaigning for office, and Republicans act like big-government liberals once they're elected. This annoys a lot of people and leads to disillusioned and apathetic voters who see very little difference between the two parties. RINO politicians are the people most likely to appear on Sunday morning political talk shows, ostensibly to represent "the right." This is a news media canard. The producers of those shows are almost all Democrats, and they select the guest politicians based on what the politicians are likely to agree with. This results in a "panel discussion" in which everybody is in agreement with the Democrat talking points of the week, from which the viewers come away mistakenly think they've heard both sides of the issues. A Republican politician is a RINO if there is a greater-than-zero chance he or she might switch to another party after being elected. A Republican politician is a RINO if he or she is afraid to speak out against the national debt, or the expanding welfare state, or any of several other things (such as the elimination of capital punishment, driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, tax increases, surveillance cameras on every street corner, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, pork barrel spending, affirmative action, zero tolerance nonsense in schools, electric cars, spending money to fight natural changes in the climate, giving money to people who are too lazy to work, giving "foreign aid" to unfriendly countries that don't even need it, anything that benefits the United Nations, women in combat, anything that promotes voter fraud, anything that drives up the price of electricity or gasoline, farm subsidies, ethanol subsidies, food stamps, same-sex marriage, same-sex adoptions, homosexuals in the Boy Scouts, drones, gun control, wide open borders, federal control of local schools, statehood for Puerto Rico or the District of Columbia, green-collar jobs, the use of windmills and solar panels instead of coal and petroleum, etc.) Republicans who have voted for indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, or for the Patriot Act, the START Treaty, Planned Parenthood, Common Core, any kind of gun control, cap and trade, raising the debt ceiling, 1.6-gallon toilets, fluorescent light bulbs, solar panels, windmills, restrictions on oil and gas drilling, or any other impediment to free enterprise and individual liberty, are those who deserve the title of RINO. On this page: Lindsey Graham and John McCain The Republican establishment vs Tea Party Candidates On other pages: Donald Trump versus the Deep State Massive list of federal government agencies Criticism of the Republican Party -- From the Right Overviews and definitions How to Spot a RINO. We are now enduring the usual competing ads from another primary election. A trend has developed in Republican primaries that sees candidates call each other "RINOs" (Republicans in Name Only). An incumbent GOP candidate insists that his challenger is a RINO. The challenger says the same thing about the incumbent. [...] Only some of the accusing candidates are lying. RINOs do appear in many races and sometimes win. They stop key legislation or join with Democrats to create oppressive new levels of government bureaucracy. They repeat Democrat talking points. They denounce conservative elected officials while providing momentum for Democrat efforts to derail conservative initiatives. It takes only two or three RINOs to derail a bill or nomination when a legislative body is held by a slim majority. Their presence at all levels of government demoralizes the Republican base and depresses GOP voter turnout. Many GOP voters have simply given up because GOP officials appear to carry out the same policies that the base has voted against. For Republicans, A Candidate Who Shares Their Views Is More Important Than A Candidate Who Can Actually Win In 2024, New Poll Finds. The University of Georgia's School of Public & International Affairs' (SPIA) latest survey asked Republican voters "which is more important to you personally" — that the GOP nominate a 2024 presidential candidate with a strong chance of beating President Joe Biden, or that the party nominate a candidate "who shares your positions on major issues." Among respondents, 46.4 percent would prefer a candidate who agrees with them on major issues, even if that candidate would not beat Biden. Just 34.4 percent want the party to nominate someone who can beat Biden, but may disagree with them on major issues. Republicans' preference for an ideologically aligned candidate, rather than one who is more electable, translates across all demographic segmentations: race, sex, age and education. The Editor says... Can Someone Please Explain to Me Who's a 'RINO' and Who's Not a 'RINO' in the Republican Party? The definition of "RINO" — Republican in Name Only — not only used to be easy to understand; it was easy to identify Republicans who fit the RINO mold. In the 1990s, Pennsylvanian Senator Arlen Specter was a perfect example. While Specter was a registered Republican, he generally sided with the Democrats. But in the Age of Trump, everything changed, including the definition of RINO — for which Trump himself was responsible. So now, any Republican who isn't sufficiently "Trumpy" is immediately labeled a "RINO" by Trump and/or his followers. The Globalist Uniparty Murdered the American Constitutional Republic. The U.S. government is a corrupt, one-party authoritarian state controlled by a Globalist Uniparty of Democrats and Republicans, who steal from the American people on behalf of rich and powerful multinational interests and use the federal bureaucracy, particularly the national security agencies, to suppress dissent and deny individual rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The American Constitutional Republic died in Arizona from yet another stolen election, the kill shot being administered by Maricopa County Super Court Judge Peter Thompson, who just dismissed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's lawsuit despite overwhelming evidence of election law violations and malicious intent. The Globalist Uniparty has been injecting lethal poison into the body politic of the American Constitutional Republic ever since the American people defied Globalist Uniparty dictates and practiced actual democracy by electing Donald Trump as President. Recognizing that democracy was a existential threat to its survival and its iron grip control of the U.S. government, the Globalist Uniparty did everything in its power, to not only undermine the Trump Presidency, but took measures to ensure that the American people would never again pose a threat to its absolute power. RINOs Deny Funding to MAGA Candidates. While RINO ideology bears little resemblance to today's MAGA Republicans who are America First to the core, RINOs became a household word during Trump's Administration. Biden's hate speech suggested RINOs are more compatible and like-minded than America First supporters. They are, with few exceptions, well known as status quo thinkers with little interest in accountability or transparency and are known to rule with an iron hand. They will rock no boat, accept their place as secondary political participants behind the Democrats, are willing to go-along and get-along, and most importantly, are not seen as an electoral or policy threat to the Democrats. Many RINOs achieve powerful positions by the fluke of seniority as the global roundtable introduces them to the same techno-economic elitists that the Democrats pay homage to, thereby creating a genuine Uniparty. Hey, RINOs! How's all this working for you? When does a person enter the forbidden realm of "RINOhood"? When those values get diluted to the point that you no longer recognize them. The problem with "let's go along to get along" is that sooner or later, people drown in the swamp of negotiation and compromise. They fail to double down on core principles and stand firm. There are brave, well-meaning men and women who compromise to rise to positions of power where they can make a difference. It is sometimes difficult for conservative Republicans to judge when their compromises are acceptable and when they are simply caving in. The Factions of the Right and How They Fight. The Republican faction is composed of those whose primary allegiance is to the Party. Whatever benefits the Party is what they support and defend. Republicans are further subdivided into groups who support bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle to Democrats on virtually every issue and those whose bipartisanship is more limited. The former are usually the ones Christians sneeringly refer to as RINOs. There Are RINOs but Never DINOs. The RINO is an interesting political phenomenon and relatively new. It stands for Republican in Name Only, meaning that although the office-holder is a registered Republican, his voting record and public statements are too often aligned with liberal causes. [...] This kind of politician seems to exist only on the Republican side of the fence. Only Republicans have to scramble to make sure all their members are on board for crucial congressional votes. When a Senate vote looms on a controversial measure, only Republicans have to be certain that all their members are on the same page. John McCain was famous for deviating from Republican orthodoxy, earning him the positive-intentioned nickname from the liberal mainstream media of "Maverick of the Senate." There are many Republican politicians who are famous for their voting or public speaking "undependability," such as Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), and Susan Collins (Maine), and, before her, Olympia Snowe (Maine). With the Senate as closely divided between the parties as it's been in recent years, a few perfidious Republican senators are all it takes to defeat a conservative initiative. Why RINOS Must Go. The time is long overdue for ridding the Republican Party of the Republicans-In-Name-Only ("RINOs") populating much of our government. For many decades, they have traveled under the euphemistic but false label of "moderates" as they sided with the liberals/progressives/socialists of the Democratic Party against Republican conservatives who believe in personal freedom, personal responsibility, a limited federal government, and the Constitution of the United States as "We the People" ordained and amended it. To recognize who the RINOs are, appreciate why they must be removed from office, and maximize our prospects for success in this mission, it is worth considering how they came to hold such sway over our politics. Hunting RINOs is tough, but here's how you do it. President Donald Trump has ushered in a new age of politics, one that's not been seen since Ronald Reagan's day, that supporters see as putting people over pols, citizens over Capitol Hill. And boy, are the RINOs on edge about that. So oust 'em, some say. The trouble is it's easier said than done. Here's why. And more importantly, here's how to do it. The Republican Party is a Political Insane Asylum. [Scroll down] This controlling faction is opposed to a true conservative ever getting the nomination of the party. The party establishment has successfully destroyed every conservative candidate for the nomination since Ronald Reagan. The result is that the Republican Party has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. The RINOS have given us Gerald Ford, Bush Sr. and Jr. Bob Dole, John McCain and, most recently, Mitt Romney. Hunting RINOs. The Country Party is one of a handful of new state political parties and interest groups that have a like-minded goal: hunting RINOs. RINO — or Republican in Name Only — is a term that some conservatives use to describe fellow party members who they believe are too moderate. RINOs: GOP Members Behaving Like Socialists Or Progressives. Not all Republicans are good and it took their support for the socialist democrats to take control of America. A bunch are crooks and people who aren't following the Constitution. They gotta go. Here's our current list of GOP members to watch out for and to vote out of office. Meet the RINOs. Much as the communists infiltrated deeply into the highest levels of American government a few decades ago, RINOs now infiltrate deeply into the Republican party. No doubt some of the plants were orchestrated decades ago. Stealthily. More than one political family has placed a member in the opposite party. How else to know which precincts to block walk — right after the opponent has finished there? Republican in name only. RINOs are often Republican only to the extent it serves their own interests, and will abandon conservative principles as soon as it is in their own interests to do so. RINOs often provide support for raising taxes, abortion as a right, gay rights and gun control. Some RINOs have connections with Planned Parenthood or corporations that support goals of population control; other RINOs pay lip service to pro-life values while in practice not advancing those values. Top 10 RINOs: Ranked by the editors of Human Events. A Living Document? Well, that Depends. Our glorious President, and his almost equally glorious Attorney-General, miscellaneous members of his exalted cabinet as well as numerous members of the amazing Democrat politicians in the House and Senate are constantly reminding us that the Constitution of the United States is a "living document." To be fair, there are a number of RINOs that try to help with their agenda as well. Mitt Romney This section has moved to a page of its own, located here.Senator John McCain This section has moved to a page of its own, located here.Senator Lindsey Graham Trump 2.0's Team. [Scroll down] We focus on Senator Lindsay Graham. When the Russia Collusion hoax hung like a sword over the Trump administration, Graham said all the right things during hearings and on Fox News. But never did he act against the perpetrator. The ravenous warmonger that Graham is, he always tried to persuade Trump to enter pointless conflicts. In her book, Off the Record, Trump's former Director of Oval Office Operations Madeleine Westerhout revealed that Graham would turn up at odd hours requesting a meeting with Trump and Trump would oblige him. Trump's endorsement enabled Graham to be reelected in 2020. However following the January 6th protest, Graham was among the first to attack Trump. He blamed Trump for the 'insurrection' and pompously declared "Enough is enough." Ideally, Graham should have reminded all that Trump urged supporters to protest peacefully. Graham allegedly told police to shoot January 6 protestors who entered the Capitol building. When President Trump rightly pledged to pardon January 6th protesters who have been baselessly persecuted, Graham viciously slammed the idea. Now that Trump has won, he's again pretending to be an ally. Lindsey Graham Introduces a Resolution to Go to War with Iran. Warmongering Lindsey Graham introduced a congressional resolution to authorize the U.S. Armed Forces against Iran. Lindsey constantly wants war. There has to be a peaceful way to deal with Iran. Lindsey can start a war if he agrees to serve on the front lines. Otherwise, he needs to stop. Mind you, he wants to do this while we don't have a president, and we have no idea who is running the country. At the same time, our State Department has proven to be the worst in U.S. history. It's ruled by fools. When Donald Trump oversaw the Abraham Accords, Iran was greatly weakened, and there was talk of them joining. Biden's puppeteers ruined all that. The Editor says... Lindsey Graham's Solution to Trump's Near-Miss Assassination: Give the Secret Service More Money. The hearing did not shed a lot of light on the events of July 13. Everyone agreed that the Secret Service accepted responsibility but not so much as to do anything about it; [...] The FBI tried to launch a narrative that Trump's failed assassin, Thomas Crooks, was an antisemite and possibly racist, while studiously avoiding extensive social media content that indicated he was a Joe Biden, mask-now, open-borders kind of Democrat; [...] All in all, the picture painted was one of a Secret Service management structure that deprived the Trump campaign of requested resources for security because they could. The security coordination for the rally was slipshod and lackadaisical, with no apparent attempt to establish a unified command and operations structure for the different law enforcement agencies involved. GOP Neocon Senator Lindsey Graham Suggests Lack of Evidence Against Joe Biden's Corruption. In a recent episode of "Meet the Press," GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared to suggest a lack of compelling evidence in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. When questioned by host Kristen Welker about his stance on the allegations against Biden, Graham indicated that he has not been closely following the proceedings. His comments implied that for the inquiry to hold weight, it must demonstrate that Joe Biden benefited financially from his son Hunter Biden's business dealings. Graham's statement, "If there were a smoking gun, I think we'd be talking about it," suggests skepticism about the current strength of evidence presented in the inquiry. Lindsey Graham and His Record of Lies, Smears, Trump-Bashing and Deceit via Ultra MAGA Party. On Saturday, horrible RINO and backstabbing warmonger Senator Lindsey Graham was loudly booed throughout his speech at the Trump rally in Pickens, South Carolina. The MAGA crowd is fully aware of Lindsey and his devious ways. And it is not missed by the people of South Carolina that Lindsey cares more about the security of Ukraine than the security of the USA. [...] On Sunday afternoon ULTRA MAGA PARTY reminded us all of how backstabber Lindsey Graham has worked nonstop to destroy the MAGA movement and President Trump while endorsing the criminal Joe Biden. Who is pulling the puppet strings in Washington, DC? Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared last week on Jesse Watters's show on Fox News to express his opposition to the RESTRICT Act. The proponents of the bill claim that it will be used to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok. But the critics of this legislation have pointed out that it grants sweeping powers to the federal government and the president to ban any application they label a 'threat'. [...] Watters made his case opposing the bill while pointing out that the bill doesn't even have the word "TikTok" in it. Graham reiterated his opposition to the bill. Before you can leap with joy that Graham was breaking a rule of a lifetime and standing for what is right, Watters revealed a detail that would have been hilarious if it weren't so grave. Watters informed Graham that South Carolina's senior senator supports the bill. When Graham looked befuddled, Watters explained that Graham happened to be among the cosponsors of the bill and that information is available online. Graham eventually was compelled to admit that he may be co-sponsoring the legislation without reading it and that it made him "look bad". [...] Graham would have been forgiven for not knowing a minor clause in the bill. But opposing a bill on TV that he has co-sponsored is unpardonable. What makes it worse is that he wasn't even aware that he was a co-sponsor. Some say the ploy of feigning ignorance was to avoid tough questions. But the video made Graham look ridiculous, and no politician wants to look ridiculous in the era where videos can be played repeatedly online. Jesse Waters Tells Senator Lindsey Graham He's Listed as a Co-Sponsor on the Restrict Act — Graham Has No Idea. This is a little funny, and simultaneously very sad. Folks, this is the state of legislative affairs in Washington DC, this is exactly what it was like when I was asking these types of questions. Senator Lindsey Graham is listed as one of the Republican co-sponsors for Senate Bill 686, the Restrict Act, aka the TikTok ban act. Fox News host Jesse Waters goes through the bill on live television and then asks Senator Graham why he co-sponsors it. Lindsey Graham has no idea. [Video clip] Why Preserve a 'World Order' without Freedom? Senator Lindsey Graham desperately wants more money and weapons for Ukraine. Recently standing in Kyiv alongside two (other?) Democrat senators — one who repeatedly lied about his service in Vietnam and another who repeatedly lied about President Trump being a Russian spy — Graham demanded American tanks on the ground immediately. "World order is at stake!" he declared. Something serious must be at stake over there; having thrown over a hundred billion dollars to a nation that was known universally as one of the most corrupt in the world before Russia crossed its borders last year, the U.S. government has become "pot committed" to a European war, whether financially struggling Americans care or not. Just what is this "world order" that keeps Ol' Lindsey up at night? Surely he means some combination of American hegemony, military dominance, dollar-denominated financial supremacy, and command over the vaunted "rules-based international system" so-called Western leaders love to defend. You never hear anything about the importance of defending Western rights and liberties, though, do you? Senator Graham-nesty isn't worried about protecting America's borders. He says absolutely nothing about securing Westerners' freedoms from threats of tyranny. Why? Because America has relinquished its status as "leader of the free world." Why were the polls off so badly in this election? I believe that the final polls were wrong simply because they underestimated the Democrat ballot-harvesting machine. Almost every polling organization uses a turnout model that predicts what percentage of registered or likely voters will vote in any given election. Unfortunately, the polls overestimated the number of Republican-leaning voters and/or failed to consider the Democrats' effort to get out their vote. It is also possible some Republican-leaning voters stayed home. Why? Because almost every political pundit and writer, including yours truly, said a red wave was coming no matter what. You could lay a little blame at the feet of Republican senator Lindsey Graham, too. In September, Graham introduced a bill in the Senate to ban abortions nationwide at 15 weeks. This came little more than two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The point of overturning Roe was to return this issue to the states. Graham effectively gave the other side something to fight for right before the election. [The] Republican Leadership [is] Worse than Worthless. After winning a major victory when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Lindsey Graham, two months before the Nov. 2022 election, brilliantly announced his intent to introduce a bill, that had no chance whatsoever to become law at the time, to ban all abortions nationwide after 15 weeks, not in the least worried that this would energize the Democrat base. In fact, and despite the pollsters who still cannot get anything right, it turns out that this did energize young women to turn out in massive numbers and vote for Democrats. Unfortunately, Lindsey does not appear to grasp that one cannot get any of one's programs enacted into law unless one gets elected first, this being, apparently, too deep for him. Lindsay did, of course, accomplish his major goal of getting his pretty face on camera emotionally stating how much he cares. Perhaps this brilliance will propel Lindsey to a presidential run in 2024! Lindsey Graham Urges Biden to Treat Attacks on Ukraine as Attacks on NATO, Even Though They're Not a Member. Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging Joe Biden to consider a nuclear attack on Ukraine as an attack on NATO — even though they are not a member of the alliance. Graham, who has seemingly never met a war he didn't like, called for the US to do more to defend Ukraine during an interview on Fox News. [...] Graham continued, "The president, Biden has refused to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law. We had a vote in the Senate 100 to nothing, urging the Biden administration, declaring Putin's Russia a state sponsor of terrorism like Iran and North Korea. If you did that, we would have access to federal courts to sue for the damage done in Ukraine and throughout the world by Putin." "He is a terrorist. The Wagner group is dismantling, dismembering parts of Africa. He is now illegally annexed territory of a neighboring country," Graham continued. Is Lindsey Graham Trying to Throw the Midterm Elections to Democrats? Was Mitch McConnell Behind It? Joe Biden is the worst president in US history. Inflation is at 40 YEAR HIGHS — and it is NOT receding! Gas Prices are the highest they have ever been under Joe Biden — And this is a direct result of his anti-energy policies. Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban and armed them with $80 billion in US arms. Including 600,000 weapons and 200 aircraft! [...] Joe Biden declared open war on his political opposition. Joe Biden opened the border to 2 million illegal aliens this year! Joe Biden allowed tons of illegal drugs entry into the country via the open border causing over 100,000 annual deaths! Joe Biden pushed the US economy into recession in 18 short months. Republicans should be in GREAT SHAPE for the upcoming elections. But Lindsey Graham wants to change the subject. Lindsey Graham wants the 2022 midterm election to be all about abortion. A few words about Lindsey Graham. Let me say at the outset that I'd rather have Lindsey Graham in the United States Senate than any Democrat, especially the clown he beat last time who is now the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (liberals fail up). Jamie Harrison is a racist pile of garbage on top of being a moron who would do everything he was told by the White House. Graham is a lot of things, and one of them is significantly better than Harrison is in every way. But he's far from perfect and getting farther away from it every day. Lindsey Graham, GOP Senators Say Nothing About Protesters In Prison For Over A Year Without Trial. At some point, these horrible RINOs will notice there is no one standing behind them. RINO Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, Kevin Kramer slammed Trump and said "pardons for January 6 protesters was a bad idea." These same senators have SAID NOTHING about the men and women imprisoned today without trial following the January 6 protests. Don't fool yourself, they don't care if ANY Trump supporter rots in prison. Senator Lindsey Graham claims Republicans are prone to riot. Every time Lindsey Graham tries to work his way back to the conservative fold, he blurts out something in a way that hurts not just Graham, but all Republicans. For his long history in the U.S. Senate, Graham has reliably been the Republican's answer to "foot-in-his-mouth Joe Biden." And that Biden sound-alike contest-winner has just done it again. Given Graham's frequent attacks of Bidenitis, it shouldn't be surprising that Graham blew the roof off of the January 6 issue by publicly claiming that Republicans are ready to take street action. If President Trump is indicted, he said on Fox News, "there will be riots in the street Lindsey Graham: The RINO Who Keeps Telling You He's Really a Principled Conservative. How many times will Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) convince us he's a conservative and then run off into the sunset like the RINO he is? He's done it again. [...] Graham really confirmed the worst this week when he voted to pass a bipartisan gun control bill that critics say will gut the Second Amendment. According to a statement by the National Rifle Association, "The NRA will support legislation that improves school security, promotes mental health services, and helps reduce violent crime. However, we will oppose this gun control legislation because it falls short at every level. It does little to truly address violent crime while opening the door to unnecessary burdens on the exercise of Second Amendment freedom by law-abiding gun owners." As Human Events' Senior Editor Jack Posobiec noted, there were "Zero tweets from @SeanHannity about Lindsey Graham joining the Democrats to sell out the 2nd Amendment." Hannity has Graham on his show quite frequently. So frequently, you would think he was a co-host. Graham is often on to promote his own fundraising and spends most of his time, encouraging the United States to spend more money and lose more lives on foreign wars. Graham was hopping mad about the end of the war in Afghanistan and of course he had every right to be angry about the ignoble way in which America left that conflict and billions of dollars in state-of-the-art military hardware as well. The Six Worst RINOs In Congress. [#4] Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Lindsey Graham, like many of those on our list, is maddeningly frustrating because there are times when you think, they get it, the Democrats are evil and hate this country. [...] America is on the cusp of a technocratic nightmare. Either we stand for freedom or we don't. And Graham has been quite comfortable hobnobbing with evildoers and standing up for Ukrainian sovereignty well before Americans'. Does everyone get to feel pride in their nation and defend its values except us? Graham loves to still talk about his buddy John McCain, who was an utter disaster in the Senate as well. RINO losers who don't value limited government are worse than Democrats, who at least are open and transparent about their beliefs. We vote for a guy with an R behind his name, then get sandbagged every time. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins Buck Trump, Vow to Persecute Jan-6ers. President Trump held another packed rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night [1/29/2022]. An estimated 50,000 supporters turned out to see President Trump in Texas. President Trump also promised to release the persecuted January 6 Political Prisoners at the DC Gulag! These poor men and women are held in isolation without any basic human rights. Truly this is a dark stain on America and our judicial system. This morning on the Sunday talk shows dangerous Lindsey Graham and RINO Susan Collins bucked Trump and vowed to persecute the January 6 prisoners. These are not good people. Republican pols preemptively surrender on Supreme Court, but Americans don't. Biden isn't even pretending that anything other than race and sex are the most important metrics for his Supreme Court choice. And of course, the usual RINOs couldn't agree more with quotas for the Supreme Court. Perhaps these out-of-touch politicians would do well to pay attention to the American people, though, because Americans think it's a terrible idea to make intellectual qualifications the least important thing. Lindsey Graham, a man of tremendous charm and no backbone, has already surrendered on the issue. When he heard that J. Michelle Childs, a U.S. District Court Judge from South Carolina, was on the short list, Graham couldn't have been more excited. "Michelle Childs is incredibly qualified," he said. "There's no affirmative action component if you pick her." No, Childs is not incredibly qualified. She is simply another garden-variety leftist. If you search for articles about her in the media before her name suddenly got picked up for the Supremes you learn that she has no record of extraordinary intellectual distinction. Lindsey Graham Reportedly Called for Law Enforcement to Shoot Jan. 6 Rioters During the Attack: 'You've Got Guns. Use Them.' Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly called for law enforcement to gun down the rioters who broke into Congress during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The Washington Post has released a new retrospective article on the riot Donald Trump's supporters carried out in their violent attempt to overturn the former president's 2020 election defeat. The piece offers a massive reconstruction of January 6th, and amid all the shocking content that turned up during the Post's investigation, the paper presents a detailed timeline of how the situation on Capitol Hill plunged into chaos. In the Post's second chapter — titled Bloodshed — the report goes in-depth on how Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated or sheltered in place after rioters breached the Capitol. One anecdote describes Graham's reaction to fleeing the Senate chamber, including him urging the Senate's sergeant-at-arms to use guns against the mob. Lindsey Graham breaks with most Republican colleagues by supporting Biden judicial nominees. With Democrats controlling the Senate, it comes as no surprise that President Biden has successfully nominated dozens of federal judges, but nearly all of those picks enjoyed the support of a high-profile Republican: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham, who until January was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted in favor of all but three of Biden's picks who have gone before the full Senate for votes. In two of those cases he did not vote at all, and he voted no in just one. Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was booed by Republican activists Saturday after he suggested they should consider taking the coronavirus vaccine, making him the latest prominent Republican to face a backlash from the party's grassroots over the vaccine. Speaking at a county Republican event in Summerville, South Carolina, Graham said he had received the vaccine and encouraged audience members to take the vaccine as well. "If you haven't had the vaccine you ought to think about getting it because if you're my age — " Graham said, before he was interrupted by boos and shouts of "No!" from the audience. Fully-Vaccinated RINO Lindsey Graham Goes On A Weekend Trip With A Boat Filled With Democrat Senators, Comes Back With COVID. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham became a darling of the party when he bravely stood up for Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. For a short period of time, Americans forgot Senator Graham(SC) was besties with Senator John McCain, the traitor who turned the fake (Hillary Clinton funded) Russian dossier over to the FBI that led to the 4-year-long witch hunt against Donald Trump. After spending the weekend on Democrat Senator Joe Manchin's houseboat, the fully-vaccinated RINO Senator Lindsey Graham (SC), announced today [8/2/2021] that he's tested positive for COVID. Joe Manchin Hosts Weekend Houseboat Gathering, Attendees Include Now-Covid-Positive Lindsey Graham. Several senators attended an event on Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-WV) houseboat over the weekend, and one of the attendees, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), announced Monday [8/1/2021] he tested positive for coronavirus. In addition to Manchin and Graham, senators who were present at the gathering included Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Chris Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), according to multiple reports. The Editor says... Senator Lindsey Graham Deploys UniParty Outrage Chaff and Countermeasures. Senator Lindsey Graham (U-DC) appears for his scheduled pontificating pantomime with Maria Bartiromo. Right-wing Graham is outraged, shocked and verklempt at the policies being advanced by the left-wing of the UniParty bird. Graham walks through the legislative constructs that are destroying our constitutional republic and then promises if the flag atop the Senate spire is changed, all will be better. Graham is what Native Americans aptly described as "forked tongue". [Video clip] The Establishment GOP Still Does Not Understand the Patriot Movement...and Never Will. Establishment Republicans have yet to come to terms with the fact that they need patriots to keep them in office. [...] Senator Lindsey Graham, who emphatically declared with a sweaty brow from the U.S. Senate floor on January 6 that Biden would be sworn in as president, senses that his political relevancy is nearing expiration. Labeled a traitor among America's 80 million Trump voters, he has recently attempted to grovel back into President Trump's good graces. Perhaps the 45th President has a forgiving heart, but Republican disenfranchised voters will not be supporting a traitorous career politician. After all, it was patriots who saved Senator Graham's almost failed re-election bid this past November. Lindsey Graham Supports Liz Cheney. The framework of Liz Cheney's DeceptiCon perspective is actually turning out to be a valuable asset. By watching who steps out to defend Ms. Cheney we get a more clarified picture of who the DeceptiCons are. Liz Cheney is a walking 'TOUCHSTONE", a test or criteria for determining the genuine ideology of corrupt political alignment. Last night Mitch McConnell stood up on Cheney's behalf. Today Lindsey Graham does the same. These republican names reflect politicians who are aligned with Globalism, Wall Street, and the leftist agenda of Big Government; these are the DeceptiCons. Keywords: Lunacy, delusion, chicanery. New Ad Destroys RINO Sen. Graham. A new political advertisement by popular U.S. Senate candidate Michael LaPierre exposes globalist RINO U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina for who he really is. In particular, the ad exposes Graham's disgusting boot-licking of billionaire population-control fanatic Bill Gates, who now wants to forcibly vaccinate everybody on the planet with his experimental vaccines. Right as President Donald Trump has terminated U.S. ties with the disgraced United Nations World Health Organization, Graham can be seen in this video advocating a doubling of funds for the WHO — if Bill Gates, who was recently denounced as a dangerous criminal on the floor of the Italian Parliament, were to be put in charge [of] it. Yes, Lindsey Graham really did endorse Gates for director of WHO and pledged more funds for WHO. [Video clip] Lindsey Graham to the Rescue? Don't Count on it. Is Senator Lindsey Graham actually about to hold an Obamagate hearing? — Don't bet the farm on it yet, but yesterday the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee did at least schedule a hearing to debate whether or not to issue subpoenas to potential witnesses. Of course, Graham set the agenda for his May 21 hearing in such a way to ensure that at least two more weeks would go by before the committee votes on the question. At that June 4 hearing, assuming the Republicans on the committee hold together (not a safe assumption in the RINO-filled Senate) to approve the question, you can be sure that many more weeks would then pass before Graham actually schedules additional hearing to begin questioning the witnesses. Lindsey's Obamaphobia. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who loves to bloviate on cable news and the talk shows, is the man who has launched a thousand excuses to not hold hearings on the Deep State attempt to overthrow duly elected President Donald J. Trump. Can't muddy up the waters with all this stuff going on, Graham opined. He just might disturb someone else's investigation. Running out of excuses and time, Graham has scheduled hearings in June, but with one very important proviso — with all evidence pointing to Barack Hussein Obama as the architect and quarterback of the coup, particularly the Jan. 5 White House meeting that set up Lt. Gen Michael Flynn, Lindsey Graham wants Obama and links to him to be off limits. Lisa Page told FBI lover Peter Strzok, "POTUS wants to know everything we're doing." Graham wants to hear nothing about what Obama was doing, at least not from the unindicted co-conspirator himself. Senator Lindsey Graham is Making Sense Again: "This is J Edgar Hoover Stuff. Senator Lindsey Graham must be thinking about his reelection again because he's back to making sense mode. In this interview Senator Graham discusses the second scope memo (August 2, 2017) and actually uses a timeline to outline how the Mueller investigation itself was based on a fraud. Graham then says today's [5/6/2020] declassified scope memo was given to him for release by AG Bill Barr, and [...] Graham actually, finally, notes the FBI letter to the FISA court on July 12th, 2018, was based on a lie. [Video clip] Republicans [Graham and Rubio] buck Trump, side with Democrats on aid for 'mismanaged' cities, states. President Trump is facing a growing rift with Senate Republicans who are siding with Democrats on the need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency aid for states and cities that have lost tax revenue during the coronavirus pandemic to pay for first responders and other basic expenses. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida said they are inclined to provide more aid to states, despite the president warning that he opposes giving more money to states that have been "mismanaged" by Democrats. "No doubt states have been hit pretty hard," Mr. Graham told reporters at the Capitol. "If it were set up the right way, I think it makes sense." The Editor says... Lindsey Graham Creates Opening for Bernie Sanders to Derail Rescue Bill. Senator Lindsey Graham led a group of Republican Senators warning that they would oppose a swift passage of the economic rescue package unless changes are made to its unemployment benefits section. That prompted Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to say he too would hold up the bill over his objections to the aid to U.S. businesses. The Republicans Pushing a Mass Immigration Scheme Favoring China. As Americans struggle to stem the spread of the Wuhan virus, the Republican Party is considering bringing Wuhan to a suburb near you. According to a Politico exclusive, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is leading an effort to increase the number of EB-5 visas offered to wealthy immigrants, supposedly to salve the economy as the crisis caused by the pandemic worsens. Between 2012 and 2018, about 80 percent of EB-5 visas went to Chinese investors. Jared Kushner reportedly is also heavily involved in this scheme. Sources: Lindsey Graham Uses China's Disease Crisis to Deliver Green Cards to Wealthy Chinese. Sen. Lindsey Graham is using the coronavirus recovery bills to dramatically expand the award of EB-5 green cards to wealthy Chinese if they lend money to U.S. real estate investors and other companies, according to several activists and Politico magazine. "How can people pushing this not see how politically explosive this is?" said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "An EB-5 increase would almost exclusively benefit Chinese: It is hard to imagine what they are thinking." Lindsey Graham does not want Schiff or other Congressmen to testify at Senate impeachment trial. Is the ghost of John McCain haunting Senator Lindsey Graham? The South Carolina Senator went on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, to throw a wet blanket on conservatives' dreams of a Senate trial that would get to the bottom of the plot against President Trump. He wants to leave all those rocks in place, turning nothing over to see what crawls out. Instead, once the House managers present their case, he wants a quick vote, presumably ending in dismissal of the case. In particular, Graham ruled out calling Adam Schiff to testify. Where's Lindsey Graham? I, for one, have grown weary of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), appearing on every other talk show bloviating about spygate, Ukrainegate, collusiongate, and all the wrongs committed against the Trump presidency and then doing nothing to fight back other than getting his face in front of the camera. Lindsey, do your job or get off the pot — call some hearings, as you promised, and go for the Democrat's jugular. Show that passion you showed during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when you went on an epic rant against that bevy of Democratic presidential wannabes who were raising the politics of personal destruction as they shredded the presumption of innocence all Americas are supposed to enjoy. Curious Statement, Curious Timing — Senator Lindsey Graham Announces Intent to Abdicate Judiciary Chair Following 2020 Election. Senator Lindsey Graham, who has increasingly come under pressure for doing nothing as the powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announces today that he will be abdicating his chairmanship immediately after the 2020 presidential election: [...] Obviously this announcement begs the question: Did Graham — who has done nothing promised — assume the Chair for 2019 and 2020 as a designed effort to protect the backroom interests of the upper-chamber? Despite some initial side-eye to the cynicism, the premise would actually not be that far fetched. Senator Rand Paul Calls-Out Chairman Lindsey Graham for Doing Nothing Except Protecting the "Deep State". Finally, Senator Rand Paul directly calls-out Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for doing absolutely NOTHING. At a certain point it becomes necessary to accept willful blindness for what it is. Senator Graham wants to protect the Deep State more than Senator Graham wants to protect a constitutional republic. It's worth noting that Senator Rand Paul's statement comes out at the same time Senator Lindsey Graham has said he will support the impeachment of President Trump as soon as the articles reach the Senate for trial. [Video clip] Romney and Graham leave the door open to voting to remove Trump if impeachment passes. Sens. Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham both indicated that voting to remove President Trump from the Oval Office is on the table for them should the House pass articles of impeachment. In a Sunday [10/20/2019] interview with Axios on HBO, Romney "made it clear that he's open to voting to remove Trump." The Utah Republican outlined the answers he'll be looking for if the impeachment process reaches the Senate, including who was involved in Trump's communications with Ukraine, the intentions behind the conversations, and if efforts were made to conceal the transcript of his July 25 phone call with the country. Romney did say, however, that he'd have a high bar for voting to remove Trump from office, pointing to wrong or possibly illegal activities of other presidents that didn't amount to being removed. Rand Paul slams Lindsey Graham: 'Been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision of the last two decades'. Rand Paul sharply criticized fellow Senate Republican Lindsey Graham for suggesting that U.S. troops should remain in northern Syria. "Lindsey Graham has been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision of the last two decades," the Kentucky senator said during a Tuesday morning [10/15/2019] appearance on MSNBC. "He was wrong about the Iraq War. The Iraq War was a mistake. It made Iran stronger, allowed more chaos, more instability, and more terrorism. He was wrong about the war in Libya. It lead to more chaos and more terrorism. He is wrong about this." Lindsey Graham Isn't Defending the President As Promised. Maria Bartiromo confronted Lindsey Graham on her show, 'Sunday Morning Futures,' today about when he was going to start sending out subpoenas. It's a good question since the Democrats are on the offensive but Republicans are sitting back in silence or in defensive mode, except for people like Romney who are plotting against the President [thank you Utah]. Graham promised he would hold investigations, but he hasn't followed through on even one. As for Inspector General Horowitz, his reports so far have been experiments in whitewashing. Russiagate Probe: Empty Threats, Broken Promises. Lindsey Graham vowed to get to the bottom of the scandal. We're still waiting. Bad Lindsey Graham Has Made a Comeback. Good Lindsey Graham came increasingly to the fore last year as John McCain's absence due to illness and subsequent death released Graham from his daily duties of following McCain around like a puppy on a leash. Unleashed Lindsey turned out to be a pretty consistently conservative guy and loyal supporter of his country's best interests and of a President from his own party, quite the direct contrast to Senator From the News Media McCain. [...] Unleashed Lindsey, it seems, has been re-leashed, and this time we don't have John McCain to blame. Indeed, there is no difference at all between Re-Leashed Lindsey's conduct of the Judiciary Committee and the conduct of the Senate Intelligence Committee by its' Chairman, deep state skunk Richard Burr of North Carolina. With Republican "friends" like these controlling the key Senate committees, President Trump has no need for enemies. Lindsey Graham: Democrats, GOP Can 'Come Together' for Gun Confiscation Law. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says firearm confiscation laws portend a way that Democrats and Republicans can "come together." CNN reported that Graham has long supported red flag laws, which allow a court to issue firearm confiscation orders for individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others. House Democrats have already passed legislation during this Congress to criminalize private gun sales and extend the instant background check for firearm purchases. They are now pressing for $50 million in annual funding to bring academia into the gun control push. Beware the Lindsey Graham amnesty betrayal. The problem is that amnesty is the main reason why we need a border wall at all. More of it will make a wall useless. Kushner and Graham have an amazing idea. You see, it was never tried before. They are asking Democrats if they would agree to begin funding part of a border wall, which is just one of the many things we were promised and need to stop illegal immigration. In return, they will give the Democrats another mass amnesty, which will engender an even bigger wave of illegal immigration before we can construct all of the wall. Lindsey Graham Brazenly Disrespects Trump, Says He Would Not Serve in Cabinet If Asked. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ran a wildly unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016. Most people probably forgot about that, because Graham went unnoticed the entire way. Now, Graham says if asked by President Trump to serve in a cabinet position he'd turn down the offer. Lindsey Graham Calls for Roy Moore to Step Aside but Defends Bob Menendez. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday that if the allegations against Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore are true, he should step aside, and "should be dealt with severely." But Graham not only hasn't called for Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), accused of having sex with underage prostitutes, to step aside — he went to New Jersey on his own dime two weeks ago to testify as a character witness in Menendez's corruption trial, telling the judge that Menendez is "very honest" and "honorable." Lindsey Graham's Idea To Bail Out The Highway Trust Fund Could Involve You Paying More For Energy. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters he supported taxing carbon dioxide emissions to keep the Highway Trust Fund from going under and to bail out ailing nuclear power plants. "The Highway Trust Fund is falling apart," the Republican lawmaker told reporters at the National Clean Energy Week event in Washington, D.C. "Somebody needs to do something about it." Graham told reporters a carbon tax could boost highway funding as electric cars become more prevalent, according to Axios. Electric vehicles and fuel efficient cars have depressed federal and state gas tax revenues. Lindsey Graham endorses carbon tax at Yale climate forum. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham endorsed a carbon tax on Tuesday during a Yale University climate change conference hosted by former Secretary of State John Kerry. "I'm a Republican. I believe that the greenhouse effect is real, that CO2 emissions generated by man is creating our greenhouse gas effect that traps heat, and the planet is warming," said the South Carolina senator in a transcript of his pre-recorded message to the conference. "A price on carbon — that's the way to go in my view." The Editor says... Lindsey Graham named one of America's most unpopular senators in new poll. It could always be worse for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. He could be as unpopular as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, or as disliked as U.S. Sen. John McCain. Instead, Graham has only the third-worst approval ranking in the U.S. Senate, according to poll results out Tuesday from Morning Consult. Among voters in the Palmetto State, the poll found Graham had a 40 percent disapproval rate and a 46 percent approval rate. Fourteen percent of the state's residents voiced no opinion. Lindsey Graham: The crazy man of the Senate. Every time Senator Lindsey Graham opens his mouth, crazy things fly out. Is there something wrong with this guy? It's not for nothing that a MorningConsult poll released Tuesday [4/11/2017] pegged him at the third most unpopular senator, trailed by only John McCain and Mitch McConnell. But there are methods to the madness of McCain and McConnell. In Graham's case, the loathing is justified, given his out-of-control statements, signaling an unserious mind, unmoored from reality. His latest was a call for 5,000 to 6,000 U.S. ground troops in Syria, backseat-driving the Trump administration, which seems to already have a handle on the situation. Lindsey Graham questions Gorsuch about impeaching Trump. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday [3/21/2017] questioned Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch about what it would take to impeach President Trump. The Republican senator used a portion of his time for questions at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing to probe Gorsuch about the impeachment process. "In case President Trump is watching, which he may very well be, one you did a good job picking Judge Gorsuch," Graham said to laughs, "and number two — here's the bad part — if you start waterboarding people, you may get impeached. Is that a fair summary?" Lindsey Graham: 'I Don't Know What America First Means'. Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," while discussing President Donald Trump's inaugural address calling for his policy to be informed by putting "America first," Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-SC) said, "I don't know what America first means." Senators move to protect 'Dreamers'. A bipartisan pair of senators is filing legislation that would extend legal status for undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) rolled out legislation on Friday [11/9/2016] to try to provide an assurance to such people in case President-elect Donald Trump nixes the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. They're calling it the Bar Removal of Individuals who Dream and Grow Our Economy Act, or BRIDGE Act. 7 top RINO moments of the week. Lindsey Graham has long peddled the open borders electoral myth: Republicans cannot win elections without embracing amnesty. This election completely repudiated that premise and proved conclusively that just the opposite is true. So what is Graham's first priority for 2017? He plans to introduce another Dream Act amnesty designed to preserve Obama's executive amnesty! At a time when more and more young, illegal immigrants are flooding our southern border, induced precisely by these very promises of amnesty, Lindsey wants to pour gasoline on the fire. Meanwhile, there are new reports that illegal immigrants are more successful than ever at evading apprehension at the border and that unaccompanied minors are draining our federal health care funds. Thanks Lindsey! You are just what the doctor ordered. Graham Reaching Out To Gang Of Eight Members For Bill To Block Deportations For Youths. South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham confirmed Thursday [112/1/2016] he is in the process of reaching out to former "Gang of Eight" members to help him craft legislation that would protect immigrants who illegally entered the country as children from deportation. Obama ally Lindsey Graham vows to fight Trump on illegal amnesty repeal. The South Carolina Republican, a stalwart proponent of the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, told reporters Tuesday [11/15/2016] that Trump ought to tread lightly around a full repeal of President Obama's illegal executive order on amnesty, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "Here is a problem that we have: You've got about a million DREAM Act kids who came here as small children, lived here all their lives. Now they have legal status by executive order," Graham told reporters, according to The Hill. Obama's DACA order provides illegal residents who came to this country as minors temporary protection from deportation and work authorization, should they meet certain criteria. President-elect Trump has called DACA an "illegal and unconstitutional" executive order and pledged to "cancel every unconstitutional, executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama" within the first 100 days of his presidency. Sen. Graham voiced his objection to any Trump plan that would deport non-violent illegal aliens. The Editor says... RINO Lindsey Graham Eats Crow, Releases Statement After Trump's Victory. Groveling won't help, Lindsey. Sen. Lindsey Graham has 'hold' on bipartisan bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The White House is pushing back against a bill that would allow individuals victimized by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. So is U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. A day after President Barack Obama suggested he would veto the legislation in the lead-up to his high-profile visit to the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the South Carolina Republican confirmed he is using parliamentary maneuvers to block the bill's expedient passage. While Obama said he was concerned the bill would open the floodgates to lawsuits across international governments, Graham told reporters he's stalling because he fears new revisions could create adverse repercussions for the United States. Sen. Lindsey Graham Declares Better for GOP to Lose Election Than 'Heart & Soul' With Trump. The Republican establishment is doubling down on its anti-Trump rhetoric with longtime senator Lindsey Graham declaring Sunday [3/20/2016] that it would be better for the GOP to lose the general election that lose its "heart and soul" by siding with Trump. [...] No, Sen. Graham, Trump would not destroy conservatism as we know it because society, on the whole, has already accomplished that feat. Trump isn't the problem, he is a symptom of our changing world, and yes, Party. While there are a handful of true-blue conservative lawmakers out there in Washington, they rarely make headway because they must lead an uphill battle against entrenched establishment members, like Graham, whose only concern is holding their own power and standing. Traitor Lindsey Graham says it's better to make Hillary president over Trump. The GOP establishment is losing their cool pondering a Donald Trump presidency. In an interview [3/20/2016] on CBS' "Face the Nation," establishment-type Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., admitted that he would prefer to lose the election to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton than to have Trump as president. Graham: I will vote for 'qualified' Clinton Supreme Court nominee. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday [3/10/2016] said he would vote for a qualified Supreme Court nominee sent for confirmation to the Senate by Hillary Clinton. "Let's just assume she is president," Graham said at a Judiciary Committee meeting. "I've been telling everybody on my side, she's going to pick somebody probably more liberal than President Obama's going to send over in a few days and I'm going to vote for that person if I think they're qualified." Why Sen. Lindsey Graham Should Resign. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) should walk into the Senate chamber today and resign his seat. He would be doing America a great favor. According to CNN, Sen. Graham said at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner last night [2/25/2016], "If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial is at the Senate, no one will convict you." Graham's joke crossed the line. Joking about the murder of a presidential candidate is reckless and wrong. Lindsey "Goober" Graham slams 'ideologue' Senate colleague Cruz. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is warning that his Senate colleague Ted Cruz of Texas would be an ineffectual leader because he is just as ideologically driven as President Obama. Graham told the Washington Examiner after Saturday's [2/6/2016] GOP debate that Cruz has not come to the Senate to solve problems, but to create them and that he does "dumb things." Mark Levin: No Distance Between Hillary Clinton, Lindsey Graham And Marco Rubio On Foreign Policy. Lindsey Graham votes for every nominee this radical president puts forward. Lindsey Graham — whether it's Obamacare, whether it's the outrageous immigration situation, whether it's same-sex marriage, which is a decision the states should be making — Lindsey Graham keeps telling us to move on and to move along. When it comes to the massive national debt, Lindsey Graham supports it. When it comes to taking the United States military and sending ground troops in every hellhole all over the Earth, Lindsey Graham supports it. The
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Korea. The list now includes: Graham Slams GOPs 'Irrational' Obama Dislike: 40% Still Think He's 'a Kenyan-Born Muslim'. Sen. Lindsey Graham Friday [12/11/2015] knocked the GOP's "visceral" "dislike of President [Barack] Obama" during an interview on Boston Herald Radio. "Well there's about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim," Graham said, adding "there's just a dislike for President Obama that is visceral. It's almost irrational." The Editor says... Marco Rubio Skips Critical Vote to Fund Government, Avoids Voting to Fund Planned Parenthood. GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)'s plan to fund the government, including Planned Parenthood, to move forward without risking a shutdown. That means Rubio and Graham, for whatever reason, skipped a key vote that would have shown where their allegiances lie regarding funding for the highly controversial abortion provider, which, based on recent undercover video investigations, is in the business of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder. Hillary Clinton emails: Lindsey Graham 'always talks how much he likes you'. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) apparently likes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — he just thinks she'd do a terrible job as commander in chief. In one of the some-3,000 Clinton emails released by the State Department on Tuesday [6/30/2015], business executive Terrence Duffy wrote to Clinton congratulating her on her daughter's engagement and then relayed well wishes from Graham. Graham: GOP Should Take Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment Out of Platform. In 2012, the Republican platform read, "We reaffirm our support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman." Echoing former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, [Senator Lindsey] Graham argued that Republicans should abandon that official 2012 position. Lindsey Graham: Socialist Ratcheteer. [Scroll down] Lindsey Graham is not alone out there as an example of just what's wrong with the GOP. The Graham mindset in fact dominates not only the Republican House and Senate leadership of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell but in fact is the animating force behind several would-be GOP presidents and the consultant class advising these candidates. Presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham wants former Olympian's vote. Presidential hopeful Senator Lindsey Graham has said he would welcome Caitlyn Jenner into the Republican party with open arms. Graham was asked about Jenner — who came out as a Republican in April — during an interview on CNN on Sunday [6/7/2015]. Graham to Chuck Todd: GOP Should Stop 'Arguing with the Science' on Climate Change. While Lindsey Graham may be with a large portion of the GOP when it comes to foreign policy hawkishness, but on the environment he is not in lockstep with much of the Republican Party. Graham has stated rather definitively in the past that he believes climate change is real, and said just a few months ago that the GOP has no environmental platform that he knows of. Graham repeated some of these points in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd tonight [6/2/2015]. The Editor says... Graham Is Serious About 2016, But Does He Have a Prayer? In more than two decades in Washington as a five-term U.S. House member and third-term South Carolina senator, Graham has won all of his races by double-digit margins, while developing a reputation as a conservative who is at times willing to work with Democrats to get things done. He is an Air Force veteran with an appealing blue-collar background and a knack for debating that would allow him to stand toe to toe on stage with any of the other potential Republican 2016 contenders. Senator Lindsay Graham reveals he's never sent an email. A U.S. senator has revealed he has never sent an email despite completing 12 years in office. South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham insisted that he would happily let anyone look at his emails because he had never needed to send one. The comments were made on Meet the Press during a discussion about the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private server and personal email account to conduct foreign policy. Sen. Lindsey Graham Is The White House's Favorite Republican For Funding Amnesty. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest twice cited Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) support for funding President Obama's executive amnesty program during Monday's [2/23/2015] White House press briefing. "I am willing and ready to pass a DHS funding bill and let this play out in court," Graham told ABC News Sunday [2/22/2015], referring to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen's decision last week to issue an injunction blocking Obama's Deferred Action for Parental Accountability program. Lindsey Graham: 'No doubt' Obama loves America. [Scroll down] "I don't want to go there. The nation's very divided. President Obama has divided us more than he's brought us together, and I don't want to add to that division," Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and a potential presidential candidate, said on ABC's "This Week" program. "I have no doubt that he loves his country. I have no doubt that he's a patriot. But his primary job as president of the United States is to defend this country, and he's failing miserably." On the contrary, Obama hates America. Lindsey Graham: Advocating Partial-Birth Abortion Doesn't Disqualify Lynch as AG. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch at a confirmation hearing today [1/28/2015] that the fact that, in support of Planned Parenthood, she had advocated for partial-birth abortion did not "disqualify" her from serving as attorney general of the United States. "In 2006, you signed an amicus brief supporting Planned Parenthood's opposition to partial-birth abortion ban; is that correct?" said Graham at Lynch's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Yes," said Lynch, "I was one of a number of former Department of Justice officials [who signed it]." Americans don't want mere change. They want improvement. SC GOP Senator Thinking About Presidential Run. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a conservative with a maverick streak and a folksy manner, said Tuesday that he is thinking about seeking the Republican presidential nomination. 'Shame on us' for not passing immigration reform Graham says. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said Republicans are partially responsible for not passing comprehensive immigration reform. "Shame on us as Republicans for having a body that cannot generate a solution to an issue that's national security, that's cultural, that's economic," Graham said [11/23/2014] on CNN's "State of the Union." The Senate has passed an immigration bill three times, Graham said, adding that he "loves" his GOP colleagues in the House. Lindsey Graham, you are the weakest link. If his track record is any guide, he is one of the Republicans most likely to break ranks with Republicans and vote to confirm left-wing nominees. For example, Graham voted to confirm both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Here we go again: AG nominee Loretta Lynch wants to free blacks from the 'Prison of Racism'. If confirmed, it looks as if Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, will be carrying out Eric Holder's politics of racial vengeance. Based on her family history, social justice statements and close ties to black activists, Lynch will deploy law enforcement resources based on race and political ideology, not on the rule of law. [...] Senator Lindsey Graham has already stated Lynch is a "solid choice" by the President. Bloomberg donated to Graham PAC, source says. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $250,000 to the super PAC supporting Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) in the primary battle he won by a wide margin last month, a source familiar with the donation told POLITICO. The donation is set to be revealed in financial filings made public Tuesday [7/15/2014] by the West Main Street Values PAC, the source said. GOP Establisment: Congress Should Give Obama 'Blank Check' To Address Border Crisis. While liberal activists keep pushing Democrats to make more concessions regarding the flood of illegal immigrant children across the border, GOP consultants in D.C. are suggesting that Republicans roll over and approve President Barack Obama's request for $3.7 billion without any concessions. [...] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Republicans should just roll over and not ask for concessions because doing so would make them "get blamed for perpetuating the problem." Sheila Jackson Lee Says Border's 'Under Control.' Her Website Disagrees. A prominent Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security seems to have two different interpretations of the situation at the southern U.S. border where tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America have been apprehended. "I disagree it is in devastating condition," Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said of what some are calling a "border crisis" in an interview Thursday [7/10/2014] with MSNBC. "I think with now 21,000 border patrol agents is under control." But her statement seems to contradict the one currently on Jackson Lee's congressional website. "She believes that our country currently has deficient border security, which is the result of a history of congressional under-funding," the site reads. Giving Graham Grief. It's been a lousy couple years for the Establishment. A subtle (but seismic) shift has taken place. Many Republicans in leadership are now scrambling for grassroots credibility. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and others who have become desperate are shadowing their libertarian junior colleagues. Then there's Lindsey Graham. Of all the incumbents up for reelection this cycle, only he remains untroubled, unrepentant, and seemingly unassailable. Just to review the record: The senior senator from South Carolina has declared that, "We need to raise taxes to get our nation out of debt." Charleston County GOP straw poll for US Senate favors Bright, Graham places third. Charleston County Republicans met for a barbecue stump and straw poll where incumbent U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham was a popular target of those trying to oust him. "We have six weeks to defeat Lindsey Graham or we are going to have six more years of Lindsey Graham," said Upstate businessman Richard Cash, one of six Republicans challenging him in the June 10 GOP primary. How Lindsey Graham outmaneuvered the tea party. After the tea party wave in the 2010 election, right-wing groups were itching to get one of South Carolina's newly elected conservative congressmen to challenge Graham, the blunt-spoken, deal-making congressional veteran of two decades. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a favorite of the grass roots, was high on their list. So when Graham got wind in 2012 that Mulvaney wanted a seat on the House Financial Services Committee, he quietly lobbied his longtime friend, Speaker John Boehner, to make it happen. Are reports of the death of a viable challenge to Lindsey Graham grossly exaggerated? I long ago ceased trying to predict South Carolina politics. But it seems to me that the world could change quickly if Graham gets into a runoff. Four Tea Party Challengers to Lindsey Graham Vie for One-on-One in Runoff Election. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Joe Dugan, the executive producer of next month's South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, said that the gathering of more than 600 Tea Party activists will play a critical role in efforts to defeat incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in June's Republican primary. Sen. Lindsey Graham gets fourth primary challenger in S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, is getting a fourth primary challenger in the race for his U.S. Senate seat next year. Bill Connor, a lawyer and U.S. Army veteran who lost a 2010 Republican runoff for lieutenant governor, has filed to run against Mr. Graham in next June's GOP primary, The State newspaper reported. State Sen. Lee Bright, businessman Richard Cash and Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel, also are running against the incumbent Mr. Graham. Graham: Those Who Cause Government Shutdown Will Be Enemies for Life. Sen. Lindsey Graham may face a tea party challenge back home, but he's not shying away from blasting the strategy of fellow GOP Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah — and he had some choice words for any Republican or Democrat who causes a government shutdown. "If the government shuts down, it's not what you think it would be. I have actually experienced that," Graham said. "If anybody creates a process where our military doesn't get paid, and their families, they're going to make an enemy ... of me for life." He added that he was prepared to do what he could to keep the shutdown from taking place. The Editor says... Clemson poll shows SC GOP with mixed feelings on Sen. Lindsey Graham. A new Clemson University poll shows U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is having trouble with his Republican base here at home. Graham's popularity was not as strong as South Carolina's two other high-profile Republicans up for re-election next year: U.S. Tim Scott and Gov. Nikki Haley. Sen. Lindsey Graham, 'Leader of the Surrender Caucus'. [Pat] Caddell's "surrender" remark referred to the senator's unwillingness to challenge President Obama on his appointments. Why didn't Graham put the brakes on a "corrupt and radical" nominee for Labor secretary or protest liberal National Labor Relations Board picks? How did Susan Rice and Samantha Power get a pass after their culpability in Benghazi, an obsession of Graham's? Lindsey Graham Polling Under 50 Percent in Primary, Could Face Runoff. Ten months out from his primary election against three different Tea Party candidates, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has dropped to below 50 percent in the polls, meaning he is particularly vulnerable to a runoff strategy conservatives have employed against him. Intelligence Insider Speaks on the Record About False Flags and Government Lies. This source talks explicitly about the incident at the Dyess Air Force Base involving the reported unauthorized shipment of nuclear warheads from that base. The incident at Dyess was broken exclusively by Anthony Gucciardi and Alex Jones of Infowars last Tuesday, on the same day that war hawk Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a speech citing the need for the U.S. to attack Syria. During that speech, Graham made the extraordinary and almost surreal statement that failure by the U.S. to intervene could result in nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists, and that "could result in a [nuclear] bomb coming to Charleston Harbor." Coincidence? South Carolina Tea Partiers Draft Resolution to Replace Lindsey Graham. South Carolina Tea Party groups have drafted a resolution containing a 29-point case to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a Senator who is more conservative, Breitbart News has learned. [... The document] argues that Graham's activities in the U.S. Senate are a violation of the principles of the South Carolina Republican Party platform. Conservatives ready another try to unseat Lindsey Graham. "He just doesn't represent South Carolina very well," said challenger Richard Cash, a businessman who nearly won a House seat in 2010. "He voted for Justice Sotomayor ... and then he did the same thing with Justice Kagan. We don't like his leadership on immigration — we believe it's another Grahamnesty. He's not just on the wrong side of the issue, he's a leader on the wrong side." Sen. Graham: Obama makes 'Carter look better by the day'. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) offered a scathing criticism of President Obama on Syria, saying he makes "Jimmy Carter look better by the day." Graham cast Obama's strategy on Syria as "unintelligible" and said he had made a huge mistake by withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and sending a U.S. ambassador back to Syria. The Editor says... Anti-Lindsay Graham conservatives air their ire. The only thing missing from the anti-Lindsey Graham rally was the senator himself. But there was a Graham cardboard cutout for people to get their picture taken with — and to direct their political anger. Group sets town hall meeting Tuesday in North Charleston about Sen. Graham. There's a Lindsey Graham town hall meeting Tuesday night [8/27/2013] in North Charleston, but the senior senator from South Carolina won't be there. It's being held by FreedomWorks to ask: "Does Lindsey Graham care about your opinion?" Challengers to South Carolina Senator Are Lining Up on the Right. A small group called Carolina Conservatives United, one of dozens organized loosely under the flag of limited government, low taxes and strict adherence to the Constitution, sent out images last week of a milk carton bearing Mr. Graham's face and asked Gov. Nikki R. Haley to issue the state's version of an Amber Alert to find its missing senator. "Lindsey Graham has not been seen in the state of South Carolina for most of the last two years," said Bruce Carroll, the chairman of the group. The Editor says... Lindsey Graham's primary challenge. Is Lindsey Graham vulnerable? Three Republican candidates already have announced they are gunning for South Carolina's senior senator when he seeks re-election next year. State Sen. Bright opens US Senate campaign website, to challenge Lindsey Graham. State Sen. Lee Bright has brought his campaign website online as he considers a Republican primary challenge against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham next year. [...] Two other candidates are already in the race. Anderson businessman Richard Cash and Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace agree with Bright that Graham is not conservative enough for South Carolina. Lindsey Graham: Embassy closures show Obama learned from Benghazi. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday [8/4/2013] endorsed President Obama's move to close nearly two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa for the day, calling the terrorism threat behind the decision "scary." Graham, R-S.C., said the administration's awareness of the threats prove that the controversial surveillance by the National Security Agency is needed. Lindsey Graham Taking Heat From Another Primary Challenge on the Right. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is getting another challenge from the right. Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from the military college The Citadel, will announce her candidacy Saturday in her hometown of Goose Creek, S.C. Mace, 35, said she would not do interviews until after the event, but confirmed to ABC News today that she intends to enter the race. Lindsey Graham's Tea Party Opponents Are Emerging. Watch out, Lindsey Graham: the Tea Party says that you are next. According to sources in South Carolina and within the Tea Party, at least two serious challenges to Graham are expected to emerge in the next few weeks. Dustin Stockton, a leading conservative activist and head of Western PAC, told The Daily Beast that he is headed to South Carolina next month to help build a ground game for the 2014 primary. For Whom Does Lindsey Graham Think He Works? As many of you know, I seriously considered and eventually declined to run in 2014 against Lindsey Graham. That doesn't stop me from continuing to encourage someone else to run and scream at the top of my lungs about how terrible Graham is as an elected senator from the state in which I live. In fact, a day doesn't go by lately where I don't scream obscenities at the computer or the television because of the latest mind-boggling thing that Lindsey Graham has said or done. Graham, Cornyn trade public blows over Gang of 8 border amendment cost. [South Carolina Sen. Lindsey] Graham, a Republican member of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that authored the comprehensive immigration reform bill, told reporters that Cornyn's amendment, which would increase the threshold for border security, "as constructed, it's gonna add 20 plus billion dollars" to the cost of reform. "It's kind of odd: we think sequestration's a good thing, but we're gonna throw money at the border. That's a little schizophrenic," Graham said. The Editor says... Lindsey Graham Says He Would Suggest Censoring The Mail, If He 'Thought It Necessary'. Yahoo's Chris Moody reports that outspoken security hawk Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would propose censoring American postal mail if he thought it a "necessary" method to protecting the United States from future terror attacks. The senator compared the hypothetical situation to World War II, in which all Americans had a "mentality" that their way of life was "at risk," and thus surveillance was necessary. The Editor says... Lindsey Graham Isn't Sure If Bloggers Deserve 'First Amendment Protection'. The verbal slipup aside (of course bloggers are covered under the Bill of Rights!), Graham's riffing on constitutional law exposes one of the age-old tensions between journalism as a product and journalism as an activity. What Graham really meant to ask was whether bloggers deserve the specific protections of the First Amendment that are granted to the press. Lindsey Graham Asks: Does the First Amendment Apply to Bloggers? Last week over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey wrote about Democrat Dick Durbin asking the question, "Does the First Amendment apply to bloggers?" Now, Republican Lindsey Graham is asking the same exact question. GOP Sen. Graham says he's 'glad' NSA is collecting phone records. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he is "glad" that the National Security Agency is collecting millions of telephone records — including his own — from one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies in an attempt to combat terrorism. Mr. Graham said that he is a Verizon customer and has no problem with the company turning over records to the government if it helps it do its job. The South Carolina Republican said that people who have done nothing wrong have nothing to worry about because the NSA is mining the phone records for people with suspected ties to terrorism. Sen. Graham gets a primary challenger. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has his first official primary challenger: Attorney Richard Cash (R) has announced he'll run against the senator. Cash, a social conservative activist who narrowly lost a House primary runoff election to now-Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) in 2010, said Graham has lost touch with South Carolina values. Sen. Graham Backs Radical Obama Judicial Appointment. The presidential judicial appointments — by custom — should be taken under consideration by the Senate, but not this one. For starters, Halligan is a pro-abortion, anti-gun zealot, who just received the support of Sen. Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham Boasts About Dinner with Obama. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a statement Thursday [3/7/2013] boasting about his dinner with Barack Obama. [...] There is no dishonor in holding steadfast to conservative principles, win or lose. There is only dishonor in betraying the trust of the conservative voters who elected you. Lindsey Graham: Congratulations to Obama, he won and I'll vote for his tax increases. This is exactly why I don't like Lindsey Graham. It's like having a minute left at the end of a football game where his team is a touchdown behind with the season on the line and he's on the sidelines congratulating the other coach for playing a great game. Lindsey Graham's collaboration with Democrats points to tea-party primary challenge in '14. South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's opposition to political ads targeting several Democratic senate incumbents could create a significant re-election issue for him in 2014. When Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul launched an ad campaign against Democrats who opposed his proposal to end foreign aid to Libya, Egypt and Pakistan, Graham took the unusual step of defending the Democrats from a fellow Republican. Sen. Lindsey Graham working with Sen. John Kerry on climate bill. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina publicly announced his support for climate legislation on Sunday in an op-ed column with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. Sen. Lindsey Graham working with Sen. John Kerry on climate bill. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina publicly announced his support for climate legislation on Sunday [10/11/2009] in an op-ed column with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. Lindsay Graham is the Senate's densest Republican. And the winner of this week's (Ig) Nobel Award for Densest Senate Republican is ... Lindsay Graham. He thinks he's brokering a bipartisan deal on cap-and-trade. What he's really doing is pulling the Democrats' fat out of the fire on global warming. The Seduction Of Lindsey Graham. According to most conservatives in South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has officially gone over to the dark side. Under the guise of 'bipartisanship,' Graham has signed on to one of the left's most ambitious plans to impose a socialist agenda in America — government control of the formerly free market through implementation of cap-and trade, the 1,400 plus page Waxman-Markey bill approved earlier this year by the House. Lindsey Graham's costly collegiality. Democrats and their liberal buddies in the mainstream media need only whisper the magic word "bipartisanship" and soon enough along comes a gullible GOPer to take the bait. Lindsey Graham Climate Dance with the Democrats. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has turned his back on the latest science, economics, the Republican Party, and American national security, by announcing his new partnership with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) to find "the winning formula" to pass global warming cap-and-trade legislation. Graham is now touting his view that man-made global warming fears are real and can be "solved" by passing Congressional cap-and-trade legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham's Me-Too Kyotoism: Last weekend, Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) co-authored an op-ed in the New York Times titled, "Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)." Kerry and Graham want to pass a Senate companion bill to H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), also known as Waxman-Markey. Lindsey Graham warns GOP against going too far right. The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country. US Sen. Lindsey Graham censured by SC county GOP. Republican leaders in a South Carolina county have censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation. McCain AND Graham Why they won't convict Trump. [Scroll down] Since the death of John McCain, no Republican has stepped up to be the Blue Falcon who trashes the party's president on the Sunday morning talk shows. Everyone expected Lindsey Graham to be McCain. Instead, Graham has consistently supported the president, and has been polite in policy disagreements. McCain and Graham Seek to Undermine Trump's Immigration Order. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Friday entitled "Executive Order Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States." In the few short days since, it would seem the action was tantamount to stirring up a hornet's nest. Perhaps not so surprisingly, a few of the hornets are from Trump's own ranks: Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The Use of Borders. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham raised forceful objections to president Donald Trump's 120 day moratorium of refugee admissions to the US. [...] McCain and others see counterterrorism as coalition warfare in partnership with "good guy" Muslims. To make it work America must stay in the good graces of its Islamic allies. This stands in contrast to the view which regards Islam itself as the triumphalist ideology: a threat to be contained, if not combated; to be accomodated very cautiously, warily and after much checking. John McCain: 'I might write in Lindsey Graham'. Sen. John McCain provided some insight Monday [10/10/2016] into whom he might vote for president on Nov. 8, now that he isn't supporting Donald Trump anymore. During a debate Monday evening in Phoenix, Ariz., in which the Republican incumbent faced off against Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, McCain revealed he just might write in a friend of his in the Senate. The Graham/McCain/Rubio Foreign Policy Exposed. Is it "hawkish" to empower the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East? What about arming Al Qaeda affiliates and creating chaos for Jihad to thrive? Thanks to Tuesday night's [12/15/2015] debate, the American people finally observed a substantive debate that highlights the false choice and phantom labeling of "isolationist" vs. hawk. There legitimately are some isolationists who believe the Islamists are not a problem so long as we don't "bother" them. But that is not the position of most conservatives. In fact, most conservatives fully understand the threat of Islamic supremacism. It is those who subscribe to the Graham/McCain/Rubio foreign policy that fail to understand the root cause of terrorism. John McCain to campaign for Lindsey Graham in NH. U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will campaign alongside Republican presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham on Sept. 11, and through the weekend. McCain, a two-time New Hampshire primary winner, will first accompany his fellow senator and friend at a news conference at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College on Friday. Obama's 'Open Hostility' to Israel Sees Democrats Losing Trust in him. President Obama's hostility towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is creating a backlash in congress among Democrats, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told The Washington Post in an interview published on Friday [3/20/2015]. This backlash is beginning to damage the President's agenda with respect to Iran and Israel, according to Graham. The deteriorating relationship also elicited a strong response this morning from Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a close Graham ally. 'Telegraphing' of plan to retake Mosul not unprecedented, may be strategic. Within hours of the announcement by an unnamed U.S. military official that plans were underway to retake the key Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, the criticism began. "That is pretty amazing that that information's out there," retired Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff and a Fox News military analyst, said Friday [2/27/2015]. Top Republican senators also demanded answers, saying the disclosure has put the mission at risk. "Never in our memory can we recall an instance in which our military has knowingly briefed our own war plans to our enemies," Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a letter to President Obama. McCain wants his 'illegitimate son' Lindsey Graham to run for president. Republicans on Capitol Hill weighed in on news that Mitt Romney might be exploring a possible third bid for the White House, but it was Arizona Sen. John McCain who might have drawn the most laughs of the day in talking about the potential presidential aspirations of his best friend Sen. Lindsey Graham. John McCain Encouraging Lindsey Graham To Run for President. "I think he is looking at it, and I am strongly encouraging him to take a look at it," said Arizona Senator and former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, of a possible presidential bid by his colleague and friend Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, (R). "I know of no one who is better versed and more important on national security policy and defense than Lindsey Graham, and I don't think these challenges to our security are going away," added McCain. Lindsey Graham Censured. Last weekend, Maricopa County GOP formally censured Senator John McCain "long and terrible record of drafting, co-sponsoring and voting for legislation best associated with liberal Democrats." Last night [1/16/2014], the Pickens County GOP in South Carolina took similar action against Senator Lindsay Graham. McCain and Graham Visit Karzai to Smooth Path for Security Agreement Obama Wants Signed. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) went to Afghanistan this week to sit down for a "long lunch" with President Hamid Karzai and discuss the bilateral security agreement he has refused to sign to the disappointment of the Obama administration. What We Just Saw. After his disgraceful attacks on Cruz, including his reach-across-the-aisle, dog-in-the-manger response today, this should be the end of Senator John McCain as a voice of influence in the Republican party. Ditto his mini-me, Senator Lindsey Graham. Indeed, the entire Old Guard of business-as-usual "comity" fans passeth. When you care more about what the other side thinks, it's probably time either to switch teams or step down. The Elites Stumble on Syria. [Scroll down] I suppose you have to have lived in Washington a long time for this fairy tale to make sense. And frankly, some elected officials have lived in Washington for far too long. We must remember that in addition to Senator Graham, John McCain — who like Graham was elected to be the loyal opposition — rushed to the Oval Office weeks ago in support of Obama's Syria policy. In fact, after meeting with President Obama, McCain and Graham emerged confident — even cocky — that they had the entire Syria scenario figured out. The president thinks you're stupid. [Scroll down] Across the aisle, establishment Republicans took a break from trying to ram amnesty for illegal immigrants down America's throat to start an effort to ram a new war down Americans' throats. Sen. John "Maverick" McCain said the U.S. needed to do waaaay more than lob a few bombs into Syria, but, later, vowed to seek impeachment of the president if a single U.S. boot touched ground. Sen. Lindsey "What He Said" Graham, always level-headed, warned his South Carolina constituents that if America doesn't attack Syria, nukes will fall in Charleston Harbor. Community Organizer Goes to War. Why is Congress even having a vote? This is nothing but a fig leaf to cover Obama's own idiotic "red line" ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on chemical weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to get Congress on the record so that whatever happens, the media can blame Republicans. No Republican who thinks seriously about America's national security interests — by which I mean to exclude John McCain and Lindsey Graham — can support Obama's "plan" to shoot blindly into this hornet's nest. Allen West slams 'useful tools' McCain and Graham for pushing Obama's same old inept foreign policy. ["]The Obama administration has a confused Middle East policy and has shown ineptness in understanding the second and third order effects.["] Egypt championing Coptic Christians while Obama plays Nero. Yesterday [8/16/2013] top U.S. Senate Republicans McCain and Graham were siding against El Sisi and throwing in with the Muslim Brotherhood by issuing a joint statement "to suspend U.S. assistance to Egypt and make clear to the current leadership of the country what steps we believe are necessary to halt Egypt's descent into civil conflict and ultimately to restore our assistance relationship, which has historically served U.S. national security interests." It's Obama, McCain, Graham who made 'huge mistake' in Egypt. On their current trip to Cairo, Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), two of President Barack Obama's most persistent critics on everything in foreign policy from Syria to Benghazi, have found common cause with him at last. All three fear that the anti-American (and generally anti-human) Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whom they mistakenly see as "moderate," will disappear from the halls of power in Egypt, our most important Arab ally. RINO Clowns: McCain and Graham a Disaster in Egypt. According to reports from Cairo, not only was the trip paid to Egypt by Senators John McCain (RINO-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) worthless but the word 'counter-productive' can be added to the list. These two clowns were like walking cans of gasoline and every time they opened their mouths, they spit up on another fire. McCain, Graham urge Egyptian government to release Islamist prisoners during Cairo visit. Two Republican senators said Tuesday that they've personally urged the Egyptian government to release Muslim Brotherhood prisoners, after hosting meetings with top officials in Cairo as part of an Obama administration-sanctioned visit. McCain and Graham, Irrelevant or Dangerous. Senator Paul simply wanted an opinion from Attorney-General Eric Holder as to whether the President of the United States has the constitutional authority to use weaponized drones to kill American citizens, without due process, on American soil. For this perceived outrage, the cantankerous McCain, who long ago chose to transform himself from an American hero into a political clown for the amusement of Washington media elites, granted an interview to the loony-left Huffington Post website to vent his displeasure. Therein, he referred to Senator Paul, Senator Cruz and Rep. Amash as "wacko birds." Dinner for twelve at the fancy hotel is nothing compared to the real cost. One more reason for term limits: McCain, Graham call Paul's questions on drones 'ridiculous, offensive'. Two senior GOP Senate defense hawks say Sen. Rand Paul "cheapened" the debate over drone policy by making "ridiculous" arguments in a talking filibuster. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sternly criticized the statements that Paul made on Wednesday in his attention-grabbing filibuster of CIA nominee John Brennan, which lasted for more than 12 hours. McCain said Paul's argument that the administration might use a drone to kill an outspoken opponent — someone like Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War — was "ridiculous." Senator Graham steps out of Senator McCain's shadow right into his shoes. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime friend and ally of Sen. John McCain, is now going a step further, Democrats say, and actually becoming the new McCain. Kelly Ayotte Clean out your desk, and good luck with your lobbying career. GOP Senator Kelly Ayotte Gives Away Free Condoms at Campaign Rally. Republican New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte gave away branded condoms at one of her re-election campaign rallies Monday [10/3/2016]. Moderate Republican offers compromise on gun control. Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent Senate Republican moderate who has helped put together major bipartisan deals in the past, has proposed compromise legislation to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. She is working with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), one of the chamber's most endangered Senate GOP incumbents, as well as Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). RINOs, one and all: Sen. Ayotte to meet with Supreme Court nominee. Sen. Kelly Ayotte will meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland next week. The New Hampshire Republican plans to meet with Garland on April 13, according to her office, even though she thinks the Supreme Court seat should remain vacant until next year. "I will meet with the president's nominee out of courtesy and respect, and I also plan to explain my view that the people should have a voice in this important nomination through their votes in November," Ayotte said in a statement. Vulnerable GOP senator backs Obama's climate rule. A Republican senator facing a tough reelection fight is supporting President Obama's signature climate change rule. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) came out in support late Sunday [10/2/2015] of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation that seeks a 32 percent cut in the power sector's carbon dioxide emissions. Ayotte, who faces a tough reelection bid in a state that voted for President Obama in the last two presidential cycles, is the first congressional Republican to openly endorse the rule, dubbed the Clean Power Plan. Kelly Ayotte: RINO. This Senator voted YES on S.990 to extend the Sunset clause of the Patriot Act which is widely desputed by Americans from both parties because [it] infringes upon our right to privacy. Cruz Blasts "Fraternal Order" GOP on Lynch. Texas Senator Ted Cruz issued a statement Thursday [4/23/2015] blasting "fraternal order" Republicans in the Senate who are set to confirm the Obama nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general. Cruz spoke shortly before Lynch was confirmed — with the aid of ten Republican Senate votes. Those ten GOP senators were: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- UT), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen Thad Cochran (R-MS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Kelly Ayotte: We Can't Trust Obama, But Let's Do Amnesty Anyway. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) says she agrees that Republicans can't trust President Obama to enforce the law, but they should immediately move forward on comprehensive immigration reform, anyway. [...] Ayotte, who rode the Tea Party wave in 2010 to her election to the Senate but has emerged as one of the upper chamber's more liberal Republicans, conceded there is a "trust deficit" with Obama. Senator Marco Rubio Marco Rubio brushes off potential Senate primary face-off with Ivanka Trump in Florida. Marco Rubio signaled Sunday [1/24/2021] that he isn't too worried about any primary run from Ivanka Trump in his 2022 reelection race, claiming she would 'have a tough race' amid speculation she could pursue public office like her father. 'I don't really get into the parlor games of Washington,' the Florida senator told 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace. 'If you're going to run for the Florida Senate, you're going to have a tough race, including a primary,' Rubio continued. 'That's their right under the system.' Marco Rubio calls Biden national security picks 'polite & orderly caretakers of America's decline'. [Scroll down] But there's nothing polite or orderly about the way they have handled policy or treated people. This is Team Obama, coming back to populate Washington, D.C. again. [...] The media depicted the Obama administration as mainstream and competent when it actually wasn't, and gave it every advantage of admiring, incurious, sycophantic coverage for eight years. That is a far different thing from competence or moderation being the reality of the Obama administration. As ugly as the protracted agony of Russiagate and Spygate has been, they taught us what was really being done by the Obama administration. It wasn't polite or orderly. Senate Intel Committee Refuses to Give GOP Senators Documents From Russia Investigation. Of all the tells that have surfaced in the past four years, this is the biggest. This is the one that reveals just how corrupt and duplicitous the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence really is. Do not pass over this information without pausing and evaluating just how explosive this refusal is amid the largest, most corrupt scheme in political history. The republican led Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) is refusing to provide documents to republican senators from their Russia investigation. Citing archaic justification within senate parliamentary rules current Chairman Marco Rubio (R) and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner are refusing to allow Senator Johnson and Senator Grassley to review the evidence the SSCI assembled to create their report on Russian election interference. The reason and motives for the denial are simple, yet the majority of Americans have no idea. The SSCI was the legislative entity, both republicans and democrats, who participated in the unlawful effort to remove President Trump from office. The risk of exposure is exactly why Mitch McConnell put Senator Marco Rubio on the committee as chairman to replace Richard Burr. The Senate was participating in the soft-coup. Marco Rubio's Plan To Suck Social Security Dry Faster With Family Leave Isn't Pro-Family. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced legislation that would allow parents to cash in a portion of their future Social Security benefits early to finance family leave. He's billing the proposal as pro-family, but it would actually hurt families by worsening the program's already dire financial problems. Rubio's bill would give new parents the option to take at least two months of paid leave, in exchange for delaying their Social Security benefits for three to six months after they retire. Rubio's passion for providing paid family leave is admirable, but his proposed solution is fundamentally flawed. The Social Security system is currently not financially stable, and allowing more benefits to be drawn from the trust fund will only quicken its existing death spiral towards bankruptcy. Tim Scott and Marco Rubio Sink Stellar Judicial Nominee. Despite their razor-thin numerical advantage over Democrats, Senate Republicans were able to put together a long and impressive winning streak in confirming President Trump's court of appeals nominees. That winning streak came to an ignominious end today. Not because Sen. Susan Collins or Sen. Lisa Murkowski balked at a conservative nominee. But because Sens. Tim Scott and Marco Rubio ambushed a superb conservative. Their victim, Ryan Bounds, is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Oregon. He has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff in the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department and as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Rubio's Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low After He Participates In CNN's Gun Control Town Hall. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is at an all-time low with Florida voters following his participation in CNN's televised town hall with Parkland shooting survivors, while Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who chose not to attend, is at an all-time high. Both Republicans have backed gun control measures in the wake of the shooting that left 17 students and staff dead. But a Quinnipiac poll conducted a few days after CNN's town hall suggests Scott made the right call not to participate in the heated event. Marco Rubio, unclear on the concept. On the heels of its multiple failures to repeal Obamacare, the troublesome Senate has finally gotten its act together enough to pass a $1.6-trillion tax cut. If it passes as expected, Americans can finally get the tax cut they elected a Republican Congress for, following years of Obama-era tax-harvestings and stagnation. But it was a close call. One name stands out as a stinker here, and it still stands out as a stinker even though he's now voting yes: Senator Marco Rubio. The supposed conservative from Florida was willing to derail the whole thing for all of us and cost the Senate its majority if he didn't get the tax refund credit he wanted. In reality, it wasn't a tax cut, but a dollop of pork slipped into the package, a refundable tax credit to hand to people whose incomes are so low they don't pay taxes at all. Read: illegals and unwed mothers who get all kinds of free stuff already. Marco Rubio Opposes Tax Reform Unless Republicans Expand Child Tax Credit. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will oppose the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act unless it includes an expansion of the child tax credit. According to the Washington Post, a Senate GOP source revealed that Rubio will oppose the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rubio proposed an expansion of the child tax credit. Lee has yet to say whether he will oppose the tax bill in its current form. If Rubio opposes the tax legislation, Republicans can only afford to lose one more vote in the Senate and have Vice President Mike Pence pass the bill through Congress's upper chamber. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) revealed that he would oppose the Republican tax bill because of its supposed effects on the federal deficit. Sen. Bob Corker: Sen. Marco Rubio the Only GOP Senator Wavering on Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told Breitbart News Thursday Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.) is the only Republican member of his committee he suspects could vote against the confirmation of former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state. Top Ten Most Under Reported Stories of 2016. [#6] The collapse of Little Marco's professional career: Senator Marco Rubio humiliated himself publicly, embarrassingly and unbelievably. How anyone could ever envision Rubio attempting to gain higher office on his own merits is beyond my ability to understand. There's a reason he's been essentially invisible on the national stage; however, as soon as he might think about poking his head up again — there's reams of footage of him playing the fool and showcasing a painful lack of maturity. Sure he's apologized, but he'll likely never recover from the embarrassment of his own behavior. Rubio Voted to Expedite Legalizing Illegal Aliens In 1999. Marco Rubio requested and voted for a West Miami city resolution in 1999 that urged the U.S. government to speed up processing of applications by Nicaraguan, Cuban, and Haitian illegal immigrants for permanent resident status, documents obtained by The Daily Caller reveal. Marco Rubio Has a Second Amendment Problem. When Marco Rubio was a local commissioner in Florida in 1999, he voted to ban guns from local parks. Now, politicians make mistakes. And honest politicians "fess up" and move on. Rubio's problem is that, when Senator Ted Cruz called attention to Rubio's anti-gun vote, Marco's response was to call Cruz a "liar." This was part of a larger narrative in which Donald Trump and Rubio were hurling "pants on fire" insults at Cruz. But when Rubio disavowed his 1999 anti-gun vote — falsely accusing Ted Cruz of Rubio's own sins — he made a serious mistake. Marco Rubio is the biggest loser of 2016. We can debate many things about the outcome of Super Tuesday, but one thing should be indisputable: Marco Rubio is hands down the biggest loser of 2016. Don't let the "he's no longer winless!" line convince you otherwise. After 17 contests, the one-time pundit-appointed frontrunner has eked out just one win, in Minnesota. That might be one more than John Kasich and Ben Carson. But you can't be a loser if no one ever seriously considered you a possible winner. Rubio's Lies on Immigration. At the February 25 debate in Houston, Marco Rubio revisited an issue that had first come up at the previous debate. On February 13, Ted Cruz said that Marco Rubio told Spanish television he would not rescind President Obama's illegal executive amnesty on his first day in office, and Rubio responded that Cruz was lying. The transcript is unambiguous: Cruz had spoken accurately. [...] Rubio had not only said that he would not rescind DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) immediately, he also said he would not do so until it had been replaced by legislation — which means only after a long time, if ever. LGBT supporting hedgie to join Rubio's team. Hedge fund billionaire and Republican megadonor Paul Singer looks set to be named national finance chairman of Marco Rubio's presidential campaign. The move is sure to spark controversy among Christian conservatives in the party, because super-PAC donor Singer is a gay-marriage advocate and a supporter of LGBT causes. New York-based Singer announced he was throwing his support to Rubio last October and has since emerged as one of the Florida senator's top financial backers. Victims of illegal immigrant violence tell GOP to reject Marco Rubio. Victims of illegal immigrant violence released a letter Monday [2/29/2016] demanding Republican voters reject Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign, saying he made himself unacceptable by pushing for "amnesty" in 2013. "The inconvenient truth is that we have been betrayed by politicians," the letter, from the Remembrance Project said. More than three dozen people whose relatives were killed by illegal immigrants signed onto the letter. Marco Rubio: Our issue is not with Islam. This is one very excellent reason (among many) why Marco Rubio (aka Jeb 2.0) should not be our nominee. The fact is that the Islamic doctrine of jihad (holy war) is very much the problem. Rubio Lies Four More Times About Breitbart News, ICE Officer on FOX News. Rubio implicitly demeaned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane by declaring that Crane's desired changes to the Gang of Eight bill pertained to "labor union stuff" rather than the substantive concerns Crane had about how the bill would negatively impact the safety of the American people. Crane is an ICE officer of 13 years. He is a former U.S. Marine, a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and of the American Legion. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has described Crane as "an American hero" for blowing the whistle on immigration corruption. In 2012, after President Obama enacted his first executive amnesty, Crane and several of his fellow officers took action and filed a lawsuit against the President for his lawless amnesty. Chris Matthews: Rubio Had Plants "Squealing" At Debate; "Unnatural," "Phony," "Choreographed". MSNBC's Chris Matthews accuses the Marco Rubio campaign of putting plants in the CNN Republican debate audience to "squeal" and clap enthusiastically "every single time" Rubio said anything. Matthews called it the "most unnatural, phony thing in the world." "I hope people when they watch this know this was all choreographed. It was all part of a P.R. operation," Matthews said Thursday night [2/25/2016]. Marco Rubio: It Is 'Wrong' And 'Immoral' To Ban Muslim-Americans From Gun Ranges. Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) condemned a recreational gun range that banned Muslims from their facility, during a presidential forum with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. One member of the audience asked Rubio about the incident, where a Muslim-American army reservist was denied access to the facility in Oklahoma, and asked for his reaction to the incident. "The story you just told me is wrong. It's immoral. We should not be doing that to people," Rubio said. "The bottom line is there are millions of patriotic Muslim Americans." The Editor says... Rep. Hardy Becomes Latest Rubio Backer Who Can't Name A Single Legislative Accomplishment. In an interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts on Wednesday morning [2/24/2016], freshman Nevada congressman Crescent Hardy dodges a question about Marco Rubio's legislative accomplishments as a senator. This calls to mind the last time a Rubio supporter was sent to promote the candidate on television completely unprepared, when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough stumped former senator Rick Santorum with the same question. Laura Ingraham: Rubio "Absolutely Going To Push Amnesty If He's President". Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham says Marco Rubio's recent rhetoric on immigration doesn't differ from Jeb Bush's position on and only confirms suspicions that he is pro-amnesty. "I don't buy what he's selling, he is absolutely going to push amnesty if he's president of the United States," Ingraham said on the Tuesday broadcast of her radio program. "I have no doubt about it. No doubt. I've been around a long time. Those wiggle-words he uses are so revealing about what the ultimate product of his work in the Oval Office would mean for the American people." The Conservative Case Against Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio may not be a squish on most issues, but it doesn't change the fact that his Gang-of-8 Amnesty Bill is unforgivable. Nobody would be campaigning harder against Marco Rubio today than Marco Rubio back in 2010 when he desperately needed to convince Tea Partiers he was tough on immigration to get elected. [...] Rubio's sell-out on immigration was the biggest betrayal of conservatives since George Bush's dad said, "Read my lips, no new taxes" and then raised taxes. How do you trust Rubio on any issue after he so blatantly lied on immigration? Marco Rubio Plans to Skip CPAC, Pre-Eminent Conservative Gathering, in 2016. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) plans to snub the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year, and won't show up at all, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU) in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. In 2016, the conference will be held right after Super Tuesday from March 2 until March 5. Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa. Following the Donald Trump blowout in South Carolina, pundits are calling for Ted Cruz to get out of the GOP presidential race to make room for Marco Rubio, even though Cruz won Iowa, came in third in New Hampshire, and essentially tied with Rubio in South Carolina. The reasoning is sound if you don't want a Trump nomination. As long as Rubio and Cruz are in the race, they'll split the votes, and Trump will likely continue to dominate. One of the Cubans must go if you don't want Trump to be the GOP nominee. Establishment turns to Rubio to stop Trump. GOP lawmakers and party leaders are rushing to endorse Marco Rubio as the panicked Republican establishment flocks to the man it hopes can stop Donald Trump's "Terminator"-like march to the presidential nomination. A crush of lawmakers and party leaders announced on Monday [2/22/2016] they'd support Rubio for president less than two days after Jeb Bush exited the race. The GOP Duping of America. Marco Rubio's campaign outspent the Cruz campaign in South Carolina by almost 2 to 1. Given the obvious anti-Cruz media bias and GOP establishment endorsements, to include Governor Nikki Haley-S.C., Rep. Trey Gowdy-S.C., and Sen. Tim Scott-S.C., and with Rubio's nearly double campaign spending, Rubio achieved merely 1,000 votes more than Ted Cruz. Let this reality sink in. What would be the equivalent cash value of all the negative, anti-Cruz "reporting" that Fox News, MSNBC and CNN "contributed" to the Rubio campaign? Ted Cruz has won the youth vote (17-29) among all the Republican candidates in 100% of the first three races — Iowa, N.H., and S.C. This fact has rarely, if ever, reported by our "friends" in the media. A Vote for Rubio is a Vote for Trump, Period. There are only two candidates who can emerge from the "SEC Primaries" with a substantial number of delegates. Marco Rubio is not one of them. He can play the spoiler against Ted Cruz by garnering as much of the anti-Trump vote as possible, but this will not be enough to usurp Trump. On the other hand, if the Republican Establishment were to wake up and focus their energies on revealing what a disaster a Trump nomination would be, there's a chance that Cruz can emerge from the March 1 primaries with a substantial lead and a pathway to the nomination. Rubio Tears Into 'Conspiracy' Site Breitbart on Fox: 'Not a Credible Source'. Marco Rubio went on quite a tear against Breitbart during a Fox News appearance this morning [2/20/2016], calling them not credible and a pusher of conspiracy theories. Neil Cavuto asked Rubio about a Breitbart piece from last night titled "Exclusive: On Eve of South Carolina Vote, Nation's ICE Officers Detail How Marco Rubio Betrayed Them." As Rubio points out, the piece does not feature interviews with ICE officers, but with Chris Crane, president of the union that represents ICE employees. He did trash Rubio over and over about how after he met wit [sic] the senator, Rubio never introduced any of his proposed changes into immigration reform. He said, "All of his strong statements during our meeting about making the changes we suggested were apparently all just a dodge to get rid of me." Nation's Immigration Officers: Rubio Betrayed Us, and America. ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation's approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America's immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. For the first time ever, Crane details his behind-the-scenes interactions with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Crane sought to protect the nation's ICE officers and national security. Crane was integral to stopping Sen. Rubio's amnesty plan from passing the House — which, as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) recently explained, "was a near-run thing." In his responses, Crane addresses an incident — first detailed by Breitbart News — in which Marco Rubio stood idly by as Crane was ejected from a Gang of Eight press conference for trying to ask a question on behalf of law enforcement. Nation's ICE Officers Detail Rubio's Betrayal. In an exclusive Q&A with Breitbart News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane provides never-before-heard details about the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration fight that are likely to shake up an already tumultuous presidential race. ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation's approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America's immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Rubio: Romney 2.0. At every campaign stop, Marco Rubio calls it "the biggest lie in American politics" — the notion that Republicans are the party of the super wealthy, and hopelessly out of touch with the working class and minorities. The party, in other words, that Democrats eviscerated with Mitt Romney at the helm in 2012. But strip away Rubio's rags-to-presidential contender biography, and his candidacy has more than a little in common with Romney's — from policy platforms that are largely in sync to a brain trust that boasts a number of the same key figures. When it comes to the substance of what he'd try to do in the job, at least, Rubio is not promising a sharp break from the last establishment favorite the party put forward. Ted Cruz Shows Marco Rubio Speaking Obama's Language. First he mocked the similarities in their biographies, calling Senator Marco Rubio "the Republican Obama." Now, in an ad called "Sales Pitch," Senator Ted Cruz is hammering Mr. Rubio for serving up the same talking points as President Obama's. After calling Mr. Rubio "the Republican Obama" at the end of an ad in Iowa, Mr. Cruz has spliced together clips of Mr. Obama and Mr. Rubio to make them sound like a skipping CD, repeating each other's lines, during the legislative battle over a comprehensive immigration overhaul in 2013. Marco Rubio: I 'Absolutely' Support Tuition Breaks For Illegal Aliens. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is doubling down on his support for in-state tuition for illegal aliens. On ABC, George Stephanopoulos asked Rubio about his work in the Florida statehouse in which he "co-sponsored legislation to provide in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants." Stephanopolous asked Rubio directly: "Do you stand behind that position now?" Rubio said that he "absolutely" stands behind that legislation: [...] About that "Rubio said something different on Univision" charge. One of the more volatile moments from Saturday night's WWE cage match, er... Republican debate which didn't directly involve Donald Trump, was when Ted Cruz accused Marco Rubio of telling the mainstream media one thing on immigration while whispering something else to Hispanic voters en Espanol on Univision. [...] But what of the original charge? Is it true that Rubio has been literally saying one thing in Spanish and another in American? (I've lately come to prefer saying American rather than "English" since the languages have diverged so much.) Because if that's true, it seems like a significantly bigger story than whether or not any of the candidates are bilingual. Marco Rubio's immigration fog: His stance on his own reform legislation is impossible to discern. It's pretty much impossible at this point to figure out what Marco Rubio thinks about his one real achievement as a United States senator: the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill. Rubio played a leading role in crafting and passing the legislation as part of the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight, but he abandoned the legislation not long after it passed when it became clear just how dangerous the bill was to his political ambitions. In the two-plus years since he washed his hands of his own accomplishment, Rubio has been struggling with how to frame his deviation from conservative orthodoxy so that it doesn't hurt him with Republican primary voters. Exclusive: Rubio Supported Amnesty As Far Back As 1998. While serving as a city commissioner in West Miami, Marco Rubio voted in favor of a city resolution urging the federal government to give Honduran illegal immigrants permanent resident status and free them from risk of deportation, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller. The 1998 city resolution, #98-16, is titled "Resolution of the City of West Miami urging the federal government and Immigration and Naturalization Service to accord same status to Hondurans as has been afforded to Nicaraguans." If Rubio is Telling the Truth, These People Are Lying. Regarding his record on immigration/amnesty, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is asserting some things that simply aren't reconcilable with numerous other eye witness accounts of what went down during the infamous "Gang of Eight" battle in 2013 and its (ongoing) aftermath. This is far bigger than simply a disagreement between Rubio and his presidential rival, Ted Cruz, in the heat of a competitive race. [...] By crafting an alternative reality on his own record, Rubio has run afoul of much more than a competitor. Rubio is literally calling some of the most respected names in conservativism liars. Here's a sample of the people who must be lying for Rubio to be telling the truth. [...] Rubio's 'Morning Again in America' ad is actually Canada. As several discerning Canucks have pointed out, the opening shot of Rubio's American morning is not American at all. It's Canadian. The first few seconds of the ad feature a tugboat moving across a serene harbor at dusk. The skyline in the background, however, is not one that can be found on this side of the border. It belongs instead to Vancouver, Canada. Rubio Promised Hispanics en Español He'd Keep Executive Amnesty. In what could arguably be seen as another debate debacle for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Florida Senator seemed to confirm Phyllis Schlafly's assertion that he is "back to his old ways" of deceiving conservatives on immigration. In response to attacks leveled against him by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rubio made a demonstrably and provably false declaration about his position on President Obama's executive amnesty. Rubio even accused Cruz of "telling lies" about his position on executive amnesty — even though nationally-televised video footage of Marco Rubio confirms Cruz's allegation, and reveals that Rubio lied in front of a nation-wide viewing audience during tonight's debate. Marco Rubio: Gang Of Eight 'Was the Best We Could Do' In Senate at That Time. Speaking to voters in South Carolina, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) defended his participation in the Senate Gang Of Eight immigration reform bill, arguing that the bill that passed in the Senate as written wasn't the final draft of the law that would be signed by President Obama. The Unmaking Of Marco Rubio. [Scroll down] Rubio, like Barack Obama before him, has been running for president since the day he joined the Senate. The guy has a lot going for him, but he disastrously misread the mood of the country with the bipartisan reform bill on immigration. Yes, Rubio's Amnesty bill provided legal status, work permits for criminals. S. 744 provided legalization for aliens convicted of multiple misdemeanors — so long as the alien was convicted of them on the same day. A single act resulting in three misdemeanors wouldn't count as three separate misdemeanors under S. 744. In one instance, you could commit 10 misdemeanors, serve 10 years in jail, and yet not be a "criminal" as long as you were convicted at the same time for all of them. Domestic violence and assault and battery are considered only class 1 misdemeanors in some states. A single conviction in these cases wouldn't render the alien ineligible for the amnesty in Rubio's bill. Why Did Rubio Push Gang Of Eight If He Was Aware of Security Risks? If Rubio sat on the Intel Committee during his Senate tenure and was privy to information on the national security threats we face, how could he have simultaneously pushed the Gang of Eight immigration bill? Rubio On Univision: I Will Keep Obama's Executive Amnesty In Place Until We Pass Amnesty. In a little-noticed interview late last year with Univision's Jorge Ramos, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declared that, as President, he would keep Barack Obama's executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation. Cruz: Marco Rubio Is the Media's 'Chosen One'. Ted Cruz's case against the fast-rising Marco Rubio is that he is "the chosen one," anointed by the media as the GOP's establishment candidate. Both during remarks to voters at a sports bar here and while responding to reporters outside, Mr. Cruz delivered unprompted shots at his Florida rival, tethering him to past nominees who have lost general elections. "I understand that in the media newsrooms and in the Washington establishment circles, Marco is the chosen one," Mr. Cruz said outside a sports bar here. He went on to dismiss Mr. Rubio's third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, which Mr. Cruz won. "In the media's telling, bronze is the new gold." The Real Marco Rubio in a Single Tweet: "Legalization Comes First — It Is Not Conditional". Marco Rubio has spent his entire Senate career fighting tooth and nail for Amnesty. In advancing his "Gang of Eight" immigration scheme, he collaborated with the loathsome Chuck Schumer, along with Dick Durbin, Michael Bennet, Bob Menendez, Jeff Flake, and the same-sex senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Most importantly, however, Rubio told a Spanish language television audience his real plan for legalizing the 20 million or more illegal aliens in the U.S.: [...] It turns out that, aside from the Amnesty issue, Rubio seems to be a sitting duck in the general election due to a whole series of alleged scandals that lie lurking stage left. Marco's "Gang of Eight" Amnesty Bill Really Didn't Secure the Border First. In a remarkable interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer following Thursday night's presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s campaign spokesman, Alex Conant, admitted that the 2013 Gang of Eight bill, which Rubio co-authored and ushered through the Senate, did not secure the border first. Marco Rubio says that mass deportations will not fix immigration issue. Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday [1/29/2016] that if he is elected president, he will not look to deport 12 million people in the U.S. illegally, and will instead propose solutions to accommodate those who have no criminal record. Rubio urges against mass deportation as fix to immigration. Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that if he is elected president, he will not look to deport 12 million people in the U.S. illegally, and will instead propose solutions to accommodate those who have no criminal record. Here's Why I Am So Absolutely Opposed to Marco Rubio. The Establishment has a gameplan. The gameplan is to manage their voters and leave them with little choice but to accept the agenda they've set for us. Here is what they are hoping: "Sure, the base will squawk and make big noises and rant on the internet, and sure, Rush Limbaugh will hit us, but if we just remain absolutely implacable, unwilling to budge an inch, eventually they will get over their temper tantrum and accept that We Always Win So There's No Use Resisting." Now, obviously, amnesty is a major part of the Establishment's platform. In their 2012 post-mortem, the consultants, who are super-smart and know everything, made amnesty a central plank to winning in 2016. Marco Rubio Now Openly Campaigning in Favor of Obama-Schumer Amnesty Bill. "I continue to support and have supported and sponsored the largest border surge in American history," Rubio told ABC's George Stephanopoulos — referring to the security provisions crafted by him, Chuck Schumer, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) in the Gang of Eight bill. Rubio repeated the Gang of Eight's talking points, declaring that his 2013 proposal would provide "20,000 new border agents, 700 miles of fencing and walls, a mandatory e-verify system, entry-exit tracking system to prevent visa overstays." What Rubio failed to mention about the Obama-backed proposal is that it provided an instantaneous amnesty for illegal immigrants, a fact he himself admitted at the time during a Spanish-language interview with Univision. Gang Of Eight Defines Marco Rubio's Conservativism. Marco Rubio, the young junior senator from Florida, is now the establishment candidate of choice for 2016. As it should be expected with his new-found establishment status, Rubio's conservative bona fides are coming into question from talk radio and other sources of right-wing discontent. Of particular concern is the senator's signature legislative action — the now-infamous Gang of Eight attempt at "comprehensive immigration reform." On cue, National Review's Jim Geraghty rode out against the currents of conservative skepticism over Rubio last week to deliver a message: the White House hopeful is "plenty conservative." The
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these candidates you are a traitor to this nation and deserve to be stripped of your citizenship and deported to North
Korea. The list now includes: Open-Borders Money Backs Marco Rubio. Political analysis of the Las Vegas debate immigration dust-up between Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio is missing a key ingredient: the money factor. You can read the lips of the candidates till the cows come home. But you'll get to the truth much faster when you learn where pro-amnesty power brokers have placed their bets and hitched their wagons. Rubio's brazenly fraudulent campaign to paint Cruz as soft on illegal immigration is a flabbergasting attempt to distract from the Florida junior senator's faithful allegiance to the open-borders donor class. The Rubio Campaign's Unseemly Alinsky Tactics Against Cruz. I was among the first national radio hosts to support Marco Rubio in his uphill Republican primary campaign for the Senate against the unprincipled Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Back then, he ran as an unabashed Tea Party conservative. I also supported Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, among others, in their campaigns against the entrenched GOP establishment. But soon after arriving in Washington, Rubio decided to throw in with these politicians — including John McCain and Lindsey Graham and take an active leadership role in the Gang of Eight fiasco. As he runs for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio has attempted to redefine his position on immigration yet again, resulting in his utter incoherence on the subject. Rubio Bill Expanded Visa Program Used by San Bernardino Terrorists. When I was fighting the Gang of Eight bill in 2013, one of my observations was that this legislation provided much more than amnesty for illegal aliens already here. It created a permanent open border policy across the spectrum of legal and illegal immigration. One such provision was Section 2310 (page 426), which would have massively expanded the K-1 fiancé visa program, the very visa that San Bernardino terrorist Tafsheen Malik used to gain permanent residence in our country. While the underlying premise of this program makes sense, it has been rife with fraud and 99.7% of requests for K-1 visas have been approved in 2014. According to CIS, "[C]lose to half of the aliens initially slated for K-1 visas (and marriages) did not get married in the United States as planned." Iowa Pastors Grill Marco Rubio over Gay Marriage Duplicity. Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is dealing with skepticism from Iowa religious voters regarding his position on gay marriage. [...] Many ministers are reortedly skeptical of Rubio because they're unsure whether Rubio's views are in line with the teachings of the Bible when it comes to the issue of gay marriage. Some Iowa pastors say they want "to know Rubio's authentic feelings about gay rights." Rubio Weak on the Constitution? Senator Marco Rubio is backing an extension of the provisions of the Patriot Act that were set to expire this week, while labeling his fellow Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul weak on national security. In reaction to the ISIS slaughter in Paris, Senator Marco Rubio's policy on foreign threats to the United States includes backing a push to end the National Security Agency reforms that were put in place upon passage of the USA Freedom Act. The first-term Senator is claiming that the USA Freedom Act reforms would leave our intelligence agencies "fewer tools to defend the American people." Marco Rubio: Another charming young man. [Senator Marco Rubio's] only job throughout 44 years of life has been in the public sector, as a State Representative and House Speaker in Florida, and one term as United States Senator. He has no business experience nor did he serve in the military. We cannot afford to elect another life-long politician who has demonstrated no particular accomplishments and only one major legislation win in the Senate: Comprehensive Immigration Reform, that was thankfully terminated in the House of Representatives. Senator Rubio's highlight of his entire life is having been the architect and leader of the infamous "Gang of Eight" legislation that would had given amnesty to millions of illegal aliens without border protection first. After seeing his poll numbers drop drastically, Senator Rubio claimed to have changed his mind, understanding finally that border security must occur first. Rubio's Bill Would Have Opened Floodgates to Islamic Refugees. Here's a question an incisive debate moderator ought to ask Marco Rubio: are you happy Senators Sessions and Cruz helped defeat your Gang of 8 immigration bill? One of the more obscure yet destructive provisions of the Gang of 8 bill I wrote about in 2013 was section 3405 (page 693), which created an entire new pipeline for refugees. This bill would have concocted an unconditional right to immediate legal permanent resident status for any person in the world who declares himself "stateless." Had the bill passed in 2013, it would have given the Obama administration power to define who is considered stateless. Most of those likely to be designated as stateless are from Islamic hell holes and would include the Syrians, Somalis, Palestinians, and the Muslim Rohingya in Burma. Rand Paul: Rubio Blocked Amendment That Would Have Protected U.S. From Jihadists. Asked about the Paris attacks, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul singled out opponent Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday for blocking an amendment he offered to the 2013 Senate immigration bill that would have made it harder for foreigners from countries with a large jihadist presence to come to the United States. Cruz Opposes Amnesty, Rubio Supported It, and Rubio Fails to See the Difference. To be a good legislator and to move public opinion on important issues, a senator sometimes must make proposals that, taken out of context, can distort the senator's overarching position, creating the illusion that he favors what he clearly opposes, and vice versa. No one should know this better than Senator Marco Rubio. Yet Rubio, a major culprit when it comes to foolish immigration policy, is now straining to defend his walk on the wild side by misrepresenting the record of his rival, Senator Ted Cruz. Rubio Gets New Billionaire Backer: Paul Singer a Major Supporter of Open Borders and Amnesty. Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer's decision to throw his financial weight behind the donor-class 2016 favorite, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), has sparked fresh questions about Rubio's coziness with the financial interests funding his career. Singer was a major financial force behind the Rubio-Obama amnesty and immigration expansion push in 2013. As President, Marco Rubio Says He Intends to Preserve Lawless Obama Executive Amnesty. Not only did [Senator Marco] Rubio reiterate that he would not reverse Obama's executive amnesty on day one — as candidates ranging from Christie to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have promised — but he said his "ideal way" of transitioning out of the Obama's amnesty would be for it to be "replaced by a reform system that creates an alternative." This is Rubio's most explicit suggestion yet, following Paul Singer's endorsement, that enacting a legislative amnesty would be one of his first priorities in office. Chuck Schumer: Rubio 'Totally Committed' To Obama's Immigration Agenda. The La Raza-backed Rubio-Schumer immigration bill would have granted amnesty to the illegal alien population and would have expanded immigration levels beyond all known historical precedent — issuing 33 million new immigrants on green cards in the span of a single decade, permanently transforming the U.S. electorate and economy. Every immigrant with a green card could in turn bring relatives to the United States, collect welfare, and eventually vote and thus cancel out conservative ballots. Schumer: Rubio 'molded' pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio can run away from immigration legislation as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination, but Sen. Chuck Schumer says he can't hide from it. As he has risen in the polls, Rubio has methodically sought to distance himself from the comprehensive immigration bill he coauthored more than two years ago. But Schumer, the veteran New York Democrat, is dragging him back into the fray, shining a spotlight on one of the 44-year-old's biggest vulnerabilities with the right as top Democrats seek to undermine the GOP senator's surging candidacy. Marco Rubio's New Billionaire Backer Top Funder for Open Borders. Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer's decision to throw his financial weight behind the donor-class 2016 favorite, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), has sparked fresh questions about Rubio's coziness with the financial interests funding his career. Singer was a major financial force behind the Rubio-Obama amnesty and immigration expansion push in 2013. A vote for Marco Rubio is a vote for Obama's third term. Marco Rubio's New Billionaire Backer Top Funder for Open Borders. Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer's decision to throw his financial weight behind the donor-class 2016 favorite, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), has sparked fresh questions about Rubio's coziness with the financial interests funding his career. Singer was a major financial force behind the Rubio-Obama amnesty and immigration expansion push in 2013. Marco Rubio should resign, not rip us off. After five years in the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio does not like his job. A long-time friend told The Washington Post "he hates it." Rubio says hate might be too strong a word, but he sure acts like he hates his job. Rubio has missed more votes than any other senator this year. His seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence briefings. He says he's MIA from his J-O-B because he finds it frustrating and wants to be president, instead. Florida newspaper: Marco Rubio should show up or resign. Marco Rubio should resign from the U.S. Senate and stop "ripping off" the people of Florida, according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel newspaper editorial board. "By choosing to stay in the Senate and get the publicity, perks and pay that go with the position — without doing the work — you are taking advantage of us," the paper wrote in an editorial published Tuesday [10/27/2015]. "Your job is to represent Floridians in the Senate. Either do your job, Sen. Rubio, or resign it." Marco Rubio Praises Obamatrade. "Rubio voted in favor of fast-track and has struck a favorable tone toward the overall deal," writes The Hill. Obamatrade collectively refers to Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which is the controversial fast-track mechanism for ramming trade treaties through Congress with minimum scrutiny, and the three major trade deals that would be guaranteed these "fast-track" protections before a page of them had been made public: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Marco Rubio Skips Critical Vote to Fund Government, Avoids Voting to Fund Planned Parenthood. GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)'s plan to fund the government, including Planned Parenthood, to move forward without risking a shutdown. That means Rubio and Graham, for whatever reason, skipped a key vote that would have shown where their allegiances lie regarding funding for the highly controversial abortion provider, which, based on recent undercover video investigations, is in the business of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder. Pope Francis and Marco Rubio Urge Erasing U.S. Borders. Pope Francis is urging America to throw open her borders to thousands of impoverished migrants, in part to atone for the "sins" of the colonial era. Marco Rubio: The Newest Member of Black Lives Matter. Rubio curiously ignored the facts that Cuban and Asian — and even African — immigrants — put the lie to that story of racial hopelessness every day with every success they enjoy. Including low crime rates. And high graduation rates. If Rubio feels he needs black friends to validate his opinions, perhaps he should "interact" with the work of Thomas Sowell and Jesse Lee Peterson and Taleeb Starkes and Kevin Jackson who say this entire story of black victimization is a lie. Why We Lose: Top GOP Consultant Rick Wilson Trashes Republican Base. The first thing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) did after the Tea Party elected him in 2010 was to join the Senate's Gang of Eight and roll over for Chuck Schumer on amnesty. After winning huge majorities in both Houses in 2014 on a message based primarily on President Obama grabbing too much executive power, one of the first things Republicans did was to give Obama more executive power (and a major political victory) by passing a trade deal Democrats wanted no part of. Republicans couldn't even leverage something like passage of the Keystone Pipeline in return. Marco Rubio makes a wrong turn on climate change. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), whom many presume to be a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said two things Sunday [5/11/2014] about climate change. Only one could fit into a presidential campaign worth taking seriously. Rubio: If we don't pass immigration reform, Obama might legalize illegals by executive order. Amnesty shills on the left have warned, with increasing volume lately, that King Barack might decide to grant de facto amnesty to illegals via executive order for the remainder of his term if nothing passes Congress. That's their way — and now Marco Rubio's way — of trying to scare House Republicans into action. Keyword: enabler The Editor says... Rubio the Appeaser. This morning [8/13/2013] Senator Rubio again made the argument that I mentioned the other day, that Congress needs to pass an amnesty to prevent President Obama from just amnestying all the illegals administratively without giving any enforcement in return. The Sudden Decline of Marco Rubio. Rubio's immigration reform bill is so full of pork, favoritism, and outrageous provisions that it has probably ruined his chances at becoming president. Tantaros to Rubio: Do You Realize that You're Destroying Your Political Future by Supporting the Immigration Bill? Talk show host Andrea Tantaros had a very pointed and uncomfortable question for Sen. Marco Rubio today. She interviewed the Florida Republican about his support for the Gang of Eight's "comprehensive" immigration reform bill, which puts legalization for millions of illegal aliens ahead of the border security that a majority of American voters want. How to lose 2016 in one easy amnesty bill. To say that there is disgust growing in the ranks is an understatement. If adults who broke the law to come here illegally get citizenship, it will be a spit in the face of millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules, and many millions more who wait patiently on the other side of the oceans and borders. It will send a message of lawlessness which will encourage more lawlessness. Marco Rubio and others are imploding the party to achieve Chuck Schumer's dream. Poll: Conservative Support for Marco Rubio Plummets. The latest Public Policy Polling data bears sobering news for Senator Marco Rubio, showing his support among conservatives has substantially decreased since last month. When asked for their preferred GOP candidate, only 17% of "very conservative" respondents favored Rubio, while only 18% of "somewhat conservative" respondents favored Rubio. McCain-Rubio Amnesty Bill Ends Conservatism in America. For all practical purposes, what the Gang of 8 amnesty bill does is permanently ensconce 11 million plus illegal immigrants in our country in return for mostly waivable promises of border security that will never be fulfilled and a permanent liberal majority. This is a phenomenal deal for Democrats and people who came to this country illegally; so it's easy to understand why they'd back the deal. Why there are so many conservatives in Congress who are willing to put conservatism's neck in a noose and jump off a stool is harder to say. Rubio's Amnesty Pitch: From the Predictable to the Ridiculous. There wasn't any ambivalence in his performance; it seems certain he's going to stick with the amnesty bill expected out this week under almost any circumstances. He was not only aggressively making his case but, in addition to familiar talking points, he made a couple of new ones that were so obviously ridiculous that I can't see how he could possibly believe them. Unless he's an idiot, which I do not think to be the case, he's trying to fool voters, not persuade them. 90% Bull. Fig leaves wilting! It looks like the requirement that the Border Patrol catch 90% of illegal crossers — reported by the WSJ and touted by both Marco Rubio's chief of staff and my colleague Matt Lewis as an example of the "tough border enforcement measures" in the Gang of 8 immigration amnesty bill — has turned out to be evanescent, like so many of the other promises amnesty boosters have pitched to conservatives. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Anti-Trump Republican Presidential Candidate Maintains Close Ties To Pharmaceutical Industry. Anti-Trump Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie is closely tied to the pharmaceutical industry he has repeatedly criticized on the campaign trail. Christie's connections to large pharmaceutical companies are reflected in his current board seat with Pacira BioSciences — a manufacturer of opioid alternatives — and in his previous lobbying work for multinational pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk through his consulting firm in 2020 and 2021. Christie's consulting firm, Christie 55 Solutions, received $40,000 from Novo Nordisk in 2021 and $120,000 in 2020, according to nonpartisan watchdog group Open Secrets. Christie's firm made $1.3 million from nine clients in 2020 and $180,000 from six clients the following year, according to Open Secrets. Christie 55 is run by longtime Christie aide and former chief of staff Rich Bagger, who spent 25 years as a pharmaceutical executive with Pfizer and Celgene, his official bio says. The Poll Results Are In: Everyone Hates Chris Christie. It's not an exaggeration to say that everyone hates 2024 presidential candidate Chris Christie. An August poll from Fox News found that Christie is viewed rather unfavorably by every political, racial, and economic demographic. Overall, 56 percent, a majority of American voters, express disdain towards Christie. Only 22 percent of 1,002 people polled said they held "favorable" opinions of the former New Jersey governor. Christie isn't just disliked by 57 percent of Republicans, the people he expects to potentially elect him in 2024, but he also earned the ire of 60 percent of Democrats. Even a good portion of independents, 46 percent, say they have a "somewhat" or "strongly unfavorable" opinion of Christie. Republican Chris Christie Advocates for More War, More Conflict, More Turmoil, More Weapons, More U.S Intervention. Big Picture: Democrats want power, Republicans want money — and when it comes to foreign policy, they are in complete UniParty alignment. This is the baseline to understand why only Donald J. Trump represents an alternative to the foreign policy worldview of the corrupt DC system. This is also why they hate him and us. There is no genuine alternative, no distinction between the foreign policy of professional Democrats and the foreign policy of professional Republicans. The nature of each wing of the UniParty vulture flows in complete sync on the issues of U.S. global interests and the multinational beneficiaries who pay for the policies of intervention. At the absolute core of the issue for Republicans is the money. The financial mechanisms which create a need for outcomes in various nations. The ultimate and biggest pay-to-play scheme, where the policy of the United States is sold to the highest bidder and becomes an outcome of the interests of the multinational corporations. It is maddening to watch this dynamic continue to play out and yet feel incapable of stopping it. This is part of the value in Donald Trump. Chris Christie says we haven't done enough for Ukraine ... he wants to be the Republican nominee? This is the man who wants to be the Republican nominee for President. The man who thinks he can beat President Trump in a primary and carry the torch for Republicans. [...] I don't know what is more insane, the idea that we haven't done enough for Ukraine or the idea that Biden, who is largely responsible for Russia being emboldened enough to invade Ukraine in the first place, is doing a better job than Trump whose presence in office held off Putin's invasion plans. I'll tell you what IS the craziest part, however. That Chris Christie visited Zelensky in Ukraine a week ago and delivered him a handwritten note from Jon Bon Jovi containing the lyrics to the song "It's My Life." Survey: Chris Christie [is the] Most Disliked GOP Candidate in [the] Field. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the most disliked Republican candidate in the GOP primary field, this week's Morning Consult survey found. As is consistent with past weekly surveys, Trump continues to stand as the candidate with the highest favorability among Republicans, with 71 percent viewing him favorably. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes in second place with 63 percent reporting a favorable view of the presidential hopeful. Both Trump and DeSantis, however, see roughly a quarter of respondents reporting an unfavorable view of them — 26 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Almost two thirds of Granite State Republicans say Chris Christie should drop out now. Chris Christie is gambling his presidential campaign on New Hampshire's independent-minded Republican voters. And it looks like an uphill struggle according to a new DailyMail.com poll that shows 60 percent of primary voters want him to drop out of the race now. Yet at the same time the former New Jersey governor has risen to joint third place behind Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. It all points to a love-him-or-hate-him, take-him-or-leave him candidate who polarizes voters like a mirror image of Trump, and casts him as a potential wild card. The GOP's Festival of Losers. The obvious reaction to the bizarre idea that Chris Christie will soon enter the 2024 GOP primaries and then win the general election — "Fat chance! — is accurate on every level. The rotund Republican has zero support among the base, having missed his window a decade ago and having gone on to become one of those Republicans whose primary function is to trash other Republicans — a chubby chimp dancing for dimes as the MSNBC organ grinders play. Why is he running? Delusion? Narcissism? Greed? Who knows? Chris Christie is wrong: Election integrity matters. In an effort to tee up another failed run for president, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recently stated that everyone should move on from the 2020 election, criticizing former President Donald Trump and his supporters for focusing on it. Christie is completely out of touch with voters. Trump is right to focus on election integrity. Election integrity is an important and winning issue for Republicans, especially after the sham election of 2020 and with the fast-approaching elections of 2022 and 2024. Without it, history will repeat itself, and we will lose our country as we once knew it. The 2020 election was one of the most unfair, disgraceful events in U.S. history. And with H.R. 1, the Democrats are trying to make sure this becomes the new normal on a nationalized scale. Contrary to the Constitution, state officials ignored statutes passed by their legislatures and made last-minute, illegal changes to voting procedures. Millions of ballots were mailed to people who never even asked for them. With no voter ID laws in many places and inadequate signature matching and poll monitoring, it was a free-for-all. Chris Christie May Face Impeachment Over 'Bridgegate' Scandal. Gov. Chris Christie, who chairs Donald Trump's White House transition team, could face impeachment hearings in New Jersey over his involvement in the 2013 Bridgegate scandal. Key Democratic members of the state assembly said court testimony in the George Washington Bridge trial suggested the Republican governor had knowledge of the lane closures in Fort Lee while they were occurring, NBC 4 New York reported Friday. An unnamed committee chairman said an obstruction of justice charge would be an "obvious" pursuit. The lawmaker pegged the likelihood of the assembly moving forward with an impeachment process at about 50-50. Chris Christie's Bizarre Love Affair With Radical Islam. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's nomination of Sohail Mohammed to be a state judge shows the governor's tin ear for radical Islam. Not only did he appoint a longtime mouthpiece for radical Islamists to be a judge, but Christie has also turned a blind eye to the activities of one of Mohammed's clients — radical imam Mohammed Qatanani, head of one of New Jersey's largest mosques. Qatanani has a history of Hamas support and was related by marriage to a leading Hamas operative in the West Bank. This fall, Qatanani will return to a New Jersey immigration court, where the Department of Homeland Security is fighting to have him deported. In his initial application for a green card filed in 1999, government lawyers say Qatanani failed to disclose a conviction in an Israeli military court for being a Hamas member and providing support to the terrorist group. Lawyers in GWB scandal case argue creating a traffic jam is not a crime. Lawyers for two former associates of Gov. Christie accused of engineering massive traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge to exact political revenge have hit back at government prosecutors, insisting that their clients violated no laws. Step down, Gov. Christie. What an embarrassment. What an utter disgrace. We're fed up with Gov. Chris Christie's arrogance. We're fed up with his opportunism. We're fed up with his hypocrisy. We're fed up with his sarcasm. We're fed up with his long neglect of the state to pursue his own selfish agenda. We're disgusted with his endorsement of Donald Trump after he spent months on the campaign trail trashing him, calling him unqualified by temperament and experience to be president. And we're fed up with his continuing travel out of state on New Jersey's dime, stumping for Trump, after finally abandoning his own presidential campaign. For the good of the state, it's time for Christie to do his long-neglected constituents a favor and resign as governor. If he refuses, citizens should initiate a recall effort. Political Prediction Market: Marco Rubio's odds drop 10% after Christie endorsement. Despite a well-received debate performance on Thursday night [2/25/2016] and a Friday spent battling it out with Donald Trump, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's odds at the Republican nomination have decreased after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's unexpected endorsement of Trump. According to the CNN Political Prediction Market, Rubio's odds of winning the republican nomination were at 31% the morning after the debate, but have since dropped almost 10% to 21%. Christie Sells Out. Sad! [Chris] Christie spent a year telling the world that the entitlement crisis is the gravest threat to the future of the country (for instance, in the January 14 debate: "The reason why no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it's hard"). But the day after Trump insisted that we don't need to touch entitlements and that we can balance the budget by finding "waste, fraud and abuse" and eliminating Common Core, Christie comes out and celebrates Trump as the guy the country needs. Christie boasted constantly about the need to tell the American people hard truths and he endorsed the guy who tells little more than easy lies. What a profile in courage. Chris Christie Endorses Donald Trump for President. Former presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president today [2/26/2016]. "I'm proud to be here to endorse Donald Trump," Christie said at a campaign rally in Fort Worth, Texas, adding later, "I'm happy to be on the Trump team." Christie endorses Trump for president. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday [2/26/2016] endorsed Donald Trump for president, saying he was the only candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton. "I can guarantee you that the one person that Bill and Hillary don't want to see on that stage in November is Donald Trump," Christie said in an appearance with Trump in Texas. "The best person to beat Hillary Clinton in November is undoubtedly Donald Trump." Christie parrots leftwing talking points to attack Ted Cruz. This is not to say Ted Cruz is above criticism. But if the best Chris Christie can do is regurgitate DailyKos talking points he needs to reconsider his qualifications to be president. Chris Christie has accomplished little as governor, most N.J. residents say in poll. Three-quarters of New Jersey residents believe Gov. Chris Christie has made minor or no real accomplishments to the state since first taking office, according to a new poll. A majority of residents rate Christie average when stacked about against his predecessors and 75 percent indicated his accomplishments for the state have been minor or minimal, according to the Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll released today [1/15/2015]. It found only about one-in-five residents, just 19 percent, said the Christie years have been good for the average Garden State citizen. Christie Administration Proposes More Gun Control For New Jersey. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's (R) administration is proposing more gun control in the form of "security requirements" for firearm retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers — and employees of the same — in the state. N.J Gov. Chris Christie's EPA praises Obama's coal emission crackdown. Washington Republicans are decrying President Obama's plan to cut carbon emissions from energy plants 30 percent as a job and economy killer, but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's EPA welcomed the move as the right thing to do — setting up a potential 2016 GOP presidential fight over green energy initatives [sic]. New Jersey is among the hardest hit states in the Obama plan, with a demand for 43 percent reduction in emissions from fossil-fueled power plants by 2030. But state officials said less than 3 percent of the state's electricity comes from coal plants. Christie still won't say whether he'd sign gun bill to reduce size of ammunition magazines. Gov. Chris Christie has been mum for months on whether he'd sign a controversial gun-control bill that would reduce the size of ammunition magazines. That didn't change Tuesday [5/13/2014]. A day after the state Senate passed the measure — which would cut the permitted capacity of magazines from 15 to 10 rounds — Christie said he still hasn't decided what he'd do should it also pass the state Assembly. How to tell if a presidential candidate is an establishment Republican. [Scroll down] Chris Christie is also a supporter of Common Core. His own website touts his support and he his quoted as saying, "The Common Core State Standards are a building block in our state's education system meant to ensure that teachers and districts can innovate within a framework of high expectations and accountability. They are based on the fundamental belief that every child in every classroom deserves an education that will properly equip them with the skills they need for college and a career. Our aggressive implementation of these standards in partnership with districts will ensure that our children have an education that will serve them well in the next stages of their lives." Christie Touts Free Dinner Program For Camden Kids. Gov. Chris Christie is praising a new pilot program that is offering free hot dinners to students in a half-dozen Camden schools. Christie Proposes Education Changes. New Jersey spends over $7 billion on education each year and is among the 36 states that actually outperformed the international education average, so are these changes necessary? We Told You So: McDonnell, Christie Dumped Tea Party Long Ago. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were the first victors in the Tea Party wave, riding fresh conservative enthusiasm — and outrage over Obamacare — to victory in November 2009. The left, predictably, is trying to link Christie's bullying scandal and McDonnell's corruption indictment to that Tea Party support. The truth, however, is that they dumped their Tea Party principles and supporters long ago. Christie 'punishes' head of abusive state agency with judgeship. Given all the questions surrounding Gov. Chris Christie's political maneuvers these days, it's probably not the best time for him to pluck a figurehead from the notorious Delaware River Port Authority and knight him a Superior Court judge. Yet that's exactly what the governor did this month. He nominated John Matheussen for a seat on the bench, with a six-figure salary and the prospect of lifetime tenure. His only qualification for this prestigious position appears to be his decade-long reign as head of an abusive state authority now under federal investigation. Conversion Therapy Law Threatens Christians. When Chris Christie signed a law against conversion therapy directed at counseling teens experiencing homoerotic feelings, he probably didn't think he had just put New Jersey on a path similar to countries like Saudi Arabia, which forbids conversion from the prevailing Muslim faith. But forbidding efforts to convert is essentially what the governor did. Christie to sign ban on gay conversion therapy. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a bill barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight. Christie passes on conservative event to speak at Clinton forum. [New Jersey Gov. Chris] Christie was invited to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's two-day "Road To Majority" conference in Washington, Republicans with knowledge of the invitation said. Christie's team declined, citing a scheduling conflict. Instead of visiting the conservative confab, the New Jersey governor, who is up for re-election this year, will be heading to Chicago to attend a symposium sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation helmed by former President Bill Clinton. Major Democratic donors flock to Christie. The checks are flying into the Republican governor's war chest from all sorts of unlikely places — the hedge fund run by liberal billionaire George Soros, for example, and the politically progressive halls of the University of California, Berkeley. Governor Christie Wants More Gun Control. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced his intention to expand his state's gun control laws. [...] Christie believes the government has the right to "demand more" from law-abiding citizens, but acknowledges it can't do the same to criminals. This is standard gun control fare. One of the main features of gun control is making it harder for the law-abiding to defend themselves, while making it easier for violent predators to succeed. Excommunicating Christie. With unemployment stuck around 8 percent, economic growth basically nonexistent and the nation suffocating from record debt, the White House should have been the GOP's for the taking in 2012. The elephants need a new dynamic leader. It's vital they don't pick a RINO. The biggest bull in the herd is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee: RI Gov. Chafee poised to join Democrats. On Thursday, [Lincoln] Chafee cast his lot with the Democrats, long the state's dominant political party. Sources: Lincoln Chafee to switch parties. Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will formally switch his party registration Thursday [5/30/2013], abandoning his status as an independent and joining the Democratic Party, the governor's office told Politico. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg set to address Democratic National Convention, endorse Clinton. Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to give a prime-time speech and endorse the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee at this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia — just a week after former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani addressed the Republican convention in a fiery speech to lend his support to GOP nominee Donald Trump. Michael Bloomberg: 'I Have Earned My Place in Heaven'. Former New York City mayor is pledging to spend $50 million this year to push gun control, the New York Times reports. For this and other deeds (such as taking on obesity and smoking), Bloomberg believes he's going to heaven. "I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close," Bloomberg told the Times. The Editor says... Michael Bloomberg: I've 'earned my place in heaven' for anti-gun crusade. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said it's his work for more gun control — along with his anti- smoking and healthy eating campaigns — that have won him God's favor and a sure spot behind the Pearly Gates. His exact words, made in context of discussing his smoking cessation and anti-obesity pushes, as well as his concerted crackdowns on private gun ownership, to the New York Times were: "I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close." Bloomberg's Last Crusade: Banning Styrofoam Cups. With the sun finally setting on the Bloomberg empire, New York City's fastidious mayor attempts to seal his legacy by tackling the most dangerous threat facing America's largest city: styrofoam cups? Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban Styrofoam. At the request of the mayor, the City Council's Sanitation Committee is holding a hearing Monday [11/25/2013] on a bill to prohibit the use and sale of plastic foam cups and plates that have long been ubiquitous in delis, bodegas and even school cafeterias. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway will testify on behalf of the administration, which first proposed the ban in the summer and is now rushing to get it enacted into law. NYC Mayor Bloomberg Pushes Mandatory Composting. Mayor Michael Bloomberg — the man who brought about the failed supersize soda ban and restrictions on trans fats in city restaurants — is pushing for a law forcing New York City residents to compost their food refuse. Bloomberg's proposal would encourage voluntary composting initially, and then make food composting mandatory by 2015-2016. Opponents decried yet another expansion of the nanny state and also worried about food composting expanding the city's rat population. NYC Bill Would Ban Styrofoam Containers. The New York City Council is considering a bill to ban the sale of food served in polystyrene foam containers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and at least 11 Council members publicly support the proposed ban, but consumers and small business owners are rallying against it. The Bloomberg administration claims the many years it takes polystyrene to break down in local landfills justifies the product ban. According to the American Chemistry Council, however, polystyrene foam containers comprise less than 1 percent of landfill waste. Mike Bloomberg's gun accident. His Honor just doesn't like guns. Guns, like a 16-ounce bottle of soda pop, frighten him. That's why he has a police detail to shadow him everywhere he goes, lest a wild Slurpee lunge at him from the shadows. Doesn't everyone? Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rail Against 'Extremist' NRA. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used a commencement speech to push his gun-control agenda, telling graduates of Kenyon College in Ohio that gun control is "something you really should think about." Bloomberg, who co-chairs Mayors Against Illegal Guns, spent at least $14 million in support of legislation that would have required universal background checks for all gun-buyers. Although the bill died in the Senate on April 17, Bloomberg said the battle isn't over. Mayor Bloomberg's Personal Reading Of Constitution. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that in light of the Boston Marathon bombing, our interpretation of the Constitution will "have to change." Americans should be appalled at such a statement. The Editor says... Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping. Reporters at Bloomberg News were trained to use a function on the company's financial data terminals that allowed them to view subscribers' contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage, more than half a dozen former employees said. Bloomberg Terminal Scandal Makes Bunga Bunga Parties Seem Quaint. When a billionaire mayor's news company uses his financial company's products to spy on the nation's top bankers and officials, no line is left uncrossed. Michael Bloomberg's creepy authoritarianism. So, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes that the public's interpretation of the Constitution must evolve in the face of terror attacks such as the one in Boston. "You're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days," the man explained, "and our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change." Of course he thinks they do. That's why we have constitutions — so they can be changed in tumultuous times. Mayor Bloomberg Is Trying to Create Prohibition Lite. Bloomberg and his confederates have effectively nudged thousands of smokers and shopkeepers into criminal behavior. The mayor who would be despot. [Even if Mayor] Bloomberg is no Rudy Giuliani, at least he has done OK up until now. Now his daydreams are taking on the air of delusion. He apparently longs for the perfect gesture with which to festoon his legacy. Health for all! An end to guns for everyone, except the cops! No more violence! Maybe he even plans a campaign against spitting in public. The Media's Favorite Fake Republicans. Exhibit A: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Jan. 14 Washington Post insisted on the front page: "Bloomberg wants change in the GOP." Post reporter Jason Horowitz noted, "America's most prominent and deep pocketed advocate for gun control would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them." What? Republicans are criminals in need of rehabilitation? The analogies get worse. Bloomberg: Obama Should 'Go Around Congress' to Appoint ATF Director. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday [1/14/2013] urged President Barack Obama to make a recess appointment for the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as one of several steps that Obama can take to on gun control "without congressional approval at any time he chooses with just the stroke of a pen." Former Speaker of the House, John Boehner: The Editor says... Related topic: Speaker Boehner's lawsuit in lieu of impeachment. John Boehner Reminds Republicans Why They Can't Stand Washington. Nancy Pelosi is ending her second and final stint as Speaker of the House, and despite her tenure being one of the most divisive and harmful in history, she's taking a victory lap. On Wednesday, a ceremony was held to unveil a comically large portrait of Pelosi that will now hang in the Capitol Building into perpetuity because our elites aren't content with just stealing our money. They must also use that money to laud themselves on their way out the door. At the ceremony, the spirit of bipartisanship was alive and well. Former GOP Speaker John Boehner spoke, and naturally, he cried over how amazing Pelosi supposedly is. In doing so, he reminded Republicans exactly why they can't stand Washington, DC. [Tweet] Former House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner Conduct Fundraising Rallies for The Shameful 35 House Decepticons. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan previously held a fundraising event for Liz Cheney (March 2021). Former House Speaker John Boehner previously held a fundraising event for Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez (March 2021). And now Paul Ryan announces he will host a fundraising event for Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger. What do Liz Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez and Adam Kinzinger have in common? If you notice they are all members of the shameful 35 HOUSE DeceptiCons, you are correct. Boehner Stands to Make Millions in Drug Money From Biden Win: The sordid motives behind the ex-Speaker's anti-Trump stand. Nine years ago, the New York Times was accusing John Boehner of racism. Now it's eager to lap up every drop of vomitous bile from the former Republican House Speaker. When Boehner asked Obama to move his speech by one day to avoid clashing with a Republican debate, NBC political analyst Richard Wolffe suggested that Boehner only did it because of "the color of his skin". Wolffe meant Obama's skin, not Boehner's, which always looks like spoiled meat served in some blackmarket back alley cafe in Havana. Since then Boehner has followed the usual career track of former RINOs from "worse than Hitler" to "sleazy lobbyist" to "author of unnecessary memoir bashing Trump". Boehner's memoir On The House, like his political career, has no reason to exist. Even when he occupied one of the most powerful elected positions in the country, Boehner was mostly notable for looking like he was on the edge of tears. That and the time his bartender was arrested for wanting to poison him. That seemed unnecessary as Boehner was doing the job for him. The GOP establishment strikes back. For the first time since at least 2015, former House Speaker John Boehner is the toast of the town in Washington. The Ohio Republican is out with his memoir On the House. In both the book and a series of interviews to promote it, Boehner dishes on his party. On The View, Boehner accused former President Donald Trump of "one of the sadder things I've seen in the last 40 years in politics." "The president abused the loyalty and the trust that voters had placed in him by perpetuating this noise," Boehner said of Trump's claims that last year's presidential race was stolen from him through widespread voter fraud. According to Boehner, Trump isn't finished yet. "Here's a guy who's unemployed, has nothing else to do but cause trouble," he said. Marijuana Firm Gains Unlikely Ally: Former Speaker John Boehner. Former House Speaker John Boehner says his stance on a popular substance has shifted — and it's not merlot. The former Republican congressional leader — and famed wine-drinker — announced Wednesday [4/11/2018] he is joining the board of Acreage Holdings, a firm that cultivates, processes and dispenses marijuana in 11 U.S. states. The move marks a significant shift for the former lawmaker, who told Bloomberg 2011 that he was "unalterably opposed" to marijuana legalization but now says his views on the drug have "evolved." No longer speaker, but two Boehner aides being paid over $10,000 a month. Two aides to former House Speaker John Boehner are earning over $10,000 a month in his taxpayer-funded "Office of the Former Speaker," according to congressional records. Both longtime aides, Amy Lozupone received $26,414 for work done in November and December as Boehner's administrative assistant, and Michael Sommers was paid $22,185 during the same period. GOP Establishment: Let's Prop Up Rubio! [Scroll down] The last thing Speaker Boehner did was pass a long enough "continuing resolution" to take the spending process all the way through March of 2017. Yes, that is correct, all the way to the next President's statutorily required (constitutionally required) budget proposal. In order to extend the spending [...] it had to be constructed without a debt ceiling limit on how much they could spend. So Boehner removed the ceiling and the House passed the entire scheme. Continuing resolution, unlimited spending, no ceiling on debt — Got it? Boehner's Budget Betrayal Will Haunt Republicans. In one of his final acts before leaving Congress, now-former House Speaker John Boehner teamed up with President Obama for one last embrace. This unholy union concocted a scheme to bust the spending caps, while virtually eliminating the debt ceiling for the final 15 months of Obama's term in office. While Boehner and Obama pushing progressive legislation is not uncommon for this dastardly duo, this budget deal flies in the face of conservative principles because it wipes away the one real victory House Republicans managed to score since taking back control of the lower chamber in January 2011. This budget is an utter disgrace and a complete betrayal of the grass-roots conservative activists who worked so hard to defeat Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats during the 2010 elections. Good Riddance To Johnny Lawnchair: The Fastest Fold On The Potomac. There are few political hacks in Washington more deserving of everlasting ignominy than retiring speaker John Boehner. So here's a vehement good riddance to the man who has single-handedly destroyed whatever pathetic semblance of fiscal responsibility that remained in Washington. The so-called bipartisan budget deal he confected as a parting gesture doesn't even deserve to be called a farce. It's actually just an extension of Washington's pathological lying to the American public about the monumental fiscal calamity now brewing. Boehner's Backroom Budget. Putting aside for a moment the details of the deal, the process — secretive back-room negotiating with approximately zero input from nearly 300 other Republican members of the House and Senate — seems to be everything Ryan railed against when courting House conservatives' support for his speakership. Boehner, McConnell and Obama package another two-year budget blowout and debt limit increase. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Barack Obama have crafted yet another out-of-order budget deal in secret. Par for the course with this egregious crew, members of Congress and the American public were not consulted. Their "deal" would increase the debt limit for another two years, adding another trillion dollars to our kids' bill, increase spending by $80 billion, and yields the hilarious promise of "entitlement reform" at some point in the future. Sens. Lee, Sessions Blast Boehner-Obama Budget Deal For Being 'Drafted in Secret'. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the current and former chairs of the committee, respectively, sent a letter to their Senate colleagues today [10/28/2015] asking them to vote against the deal and oppose the "nontransparent process used to produce it." In their letter, the Steering Committee leaders criticized their Republican congressional leaders for crafting the deal behind closed doors, leaving no room for input from Republicans. 'Cleaning the barn,' John Boehner dumps on GOP renegades. John Boehner's final act before he leaves Congress is to flip a middle finger at the renegade conservatives who have made his life miserable since he became speaker of the House of Representatives. Saying he needs to "clean up the barn" before he turns the gavel over to Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Boehner has made a budget deal with President Obama that will forestall any threat of a government shutdown or debt default until after a new president takes office in 2017. Massive Debt, Budget Deal Introduced In Dead of Night, Vote Violates Another Boehner Pledge. The giant debt ceiling increase rolled together with a budget deal was introduced at 11:36 p.m. Monday [10/26/2015], in the dead of night, several congressional sources confirm to Breitbart News. The text is 144 pages long and increases the debt ceiling beyond when President Barack Obama leaves office, all the way until March 2017. It also, according to Politico, increases spending by $50 billion this year and $30 billion more the following year. This Budget Is No Deal, It's A Spending Spree. Federal spending in 2016 was already expected to climb by more than $250 billion — or close to $1 billion extra spending each day. This was to be a 6% rise in outlays in a year when inflation is running at slightly less than 2%. But the budget deal adds to the orgy of spending. The plan raises spending by at least $100 billion over two years and busts through the spending caps for two years. And it raises the debt ceiling by about $1 trillion for the next year and a half so that Washington doesn't have to deal with it anymore. Boehner Agrees to Suspend Debt Limit for the Rest of Obama's Term. The new spending deal that resigning House Speaker John Boehner has made with the Democratic congressional leadership and President Barack Obama will suspend the legal limit on the federal government's debt until after Obama leaves office. "Subsection 901(a) provides for the temporary suspension of the limit on public debt through March 15, 2017," says the official summary of the bill. On Benghazi Intelligence Briefing — Speaker John Boehner: "I don't recall". "I don't recall" — In a world where journalists were in-tune with events and stories, and in a world where journalists were driven to tell the truth behind events, those three words from Speaker of the House John Boehner would have caused every DC reporter to grab their steno pads and head immediately to his offices. Alas, few people beyond the inhabitants of the "new media world" (internet) have an understanding of how consequential those three intentionally obtuse words actually are. Mo Brooks: John Boehner Will Likely Remain House Speaker Until 2017. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) acknowledged on Breitbart News Sunday that since no candidate has a clear pathway to becoming the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) could remain Speaker through January 2017. Boehner making waves on his way to the exit. John Boehner's speakership is not ending quietly. With less than four weeks left in his decades-long congressional career, Boehner is maneuvering to shape the House Republican Conference on his way out. Cruz Slams Boehner for Not Leaving Immediately. Sen. Ted Cruz blasted outgoing Speaker John A. Boehner Monday [9/28/2015] for sticking around for a month after the Ohio Republican announced his intent to resign. The Republican presidential candidate from Texas was rebuffed by his colleagues from even getting the show of 11 hands needed for a sufficient second of a motion for a roll call vote on a process that would set up an amendment to the "clean" continuing resolution on defunding Planned Parenthood and the international nuclear agreement with Iran. Lame duck: Loose cannon: John Boehner: Then and Now. In 2010, I interviewed Boehner when he was minority leader and I asked him to cite the most important lesson he learned when Republicans lost their hard-won House majority in 2006. He replied, "Our team failed to live up to our own principles." Failing to live up to GOP principles, indeed, failing to articulate what those principles are, was largely the reason for the increase in conservative members who then demanded either action or the speaker's head. They got his head. John Boehner: Bad Speaker or Worst Speaker? All you need to know about the failed speakership of John Boehner was exposed to the entire world by Boehner himself as he announced his resignation from Congress. The what, the how, and the why of his failures were succinctly explained when he said, "The first job of any Speaker is to protect this institution that we all love." Do what? Well, no wonder he was a disaster as speaker. He had no clue what the job description was. In just 15 words, everything about his disastrous reign was brought into laser-sharp focus. Never has someone so orange said so much with so few words and so many tears. When you're this out of touch and have abused this much power and wasted this many opportunities that have caused a nation great pain, there is no limit to the scorn you deserve. John Boehner Quit Because He Was Going To Be Fired. Under Boehner's leadership, the institutional standing of the Republican Congress has crumbled to record lows. He departs as the least popular Speaker in three decades. The idea that this approach was one designed to appeal to some higher purpose is simply laughable. One does not fall on a sword when your head is already in the guillotine. Boehner: 'False Prophets' Like [Ted] Cruz 'Whip People Into Frenzy' Over Plans That Won't Work. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared on one Sunday show — CBS' "Face the Nation" — after his Friday surprise announcement that he'd be resigning from Congress in about a month. And Boehner used the opportunity to make another firm announcement: There will be no government shutdown this week, despite the efforts of some conservatives to block Planned Parenthood funding. Time to say really goodbye, Mr. Speaker. I guess Boehner was out of the loop when the national Republican Party political organs spent millions of dollars promising to end ObamaCare if elected. Those speeches and commercials condemning President Obama's executive amnesty must have been sanctioned elsewhere, over Boehner's objections. And the constant Republican refrain about the dangers of the ever-expanding national debt must be news to him. Judicial Watch Statement on Boehner Resignation. John Boehner's willingness to fund rather than oppose Barack Obama's lawlessness is a chief reason for his forced resignation from his position as speaker of the House. It is no small issue that, during Boehner's tenure, Judicial Watch is widely acknowledged to have been performing the oversight that is the job of Congress. We've heard from many members of the House who are embarrassed that its committees and oversight have become a joke under Speaker Boehner. Judicial Watch has had more success investigating the IRS, Benghazi, and Clinton email scandals than any House committee under Boehner's direction. And the House simply could not stand for John Boehner to allow the funding of the very things he told the American people that House leadership opposed. Corruption in government grew under Speaker Boehner's watch. Boehner Betrayed His Party. "We want to give Boehner a governable majority so the crazies you hate will be irrelevant." This is how the Washington Republican Establishment talks to its K Street allies. It's a quote from last October when a Republican campaign operative told the business community why it was important for Republicans to capture 245 House seats. The establishment isn't focused on marginalizing liberal lawmakers trying to grow the size and scope of government. They want to marginalize conservative lawmakers fighting to keep the reasonable promises they have made to their constituents. Disgraced Speaker Worked Deal to Fund Planned Parenthood With Pelosi. In all seriousness, Ted Cruz just unleashed several quotes of the year as the bumbling, incoherent, chain smoking loser known as John Boehner has decided to collect his long-anticipated 8-figure retirement bonus by transferring to a lobbying role on K Street. John Boehner just sacrificed his career for the good of the Republican party. Almost since the day he became speaker — following the tea party-led takeover of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections — Boehner had been caught betwixt and between. His roots were firmly in the establishment end of the party, having spent decades in Congress and moving up the leadership chain not once but twice. Divine Comity. The age of Boehner in the United States Congress is at an end. He announced his resignation effective the end of October 2015. The first flurry of commentary will likely center on the motives, or proximate causes, of the startling move. Some say he dreamed his entire career of bringing the Pope to Congress, and having achieved that end, his mission is completed. Others say he could not marshal two hundred and eighteen Republican votes to save his speakership against an expected vote of no confidence. Boehner: Shutdown will hurt anti-abortion rights movement. Speaker John Boehner warned his Republican colleagues Wednesday morning that shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood could damage the cause of lawmakers who oppose abortion, according to multiple sources in the closed party gathering. The private House Republican Conference meeting Wednesday morning was mostly focused on the pending Iran vote, but Boehner (R-Ohio) began what will be a weeks-long quest to quell a growing uproar over the government funding of Planned Parenthood, after several videos released over the summer have allegedly depicted agents of the group discussing fetal tissue sales. Republicans Thwart Boehner Plan To Move Forward On Obama's Nuclear Arms Deal With Iran. A full-scale revolt against House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) — including a looming resolution that could come up for a vote at any time that would remove him from the speakership — has thrown into disarray the House GOP leadership's previously carefully laid plans to push President Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran through Congress without a fight. Mark Meadows: Constituents Pressuring GOP Reps to Oust Boehner for Failed Promises. On Breitbart News Sunday [9/6/2015] [...], Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who is leading the effort to oust House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) from his leadership post, said the effort to remove Boehner is getting momentum because GOP constituents are sick and tired of a GOP establishment leadership that does not fulfill campaign promises. Meadows told guest-host Matt Boyle, [...] that Boehner will need the votes of Democrats to remain Speaker if a vote is held today. Regarding his motion to vacate the chair, Meadows noted that 25 Republicans did not vote for Boehner for Speaker in January and he said, based on private conversations, that there are at least a dozen more Republicans who are now willing to vote against Boehner. Even Boehner allies see his speakership nearing an end. The long and troubled reign of Rep. John Boehner as leader of Republicans in the House may be coming to an end. A floor vote will be scheduled later in September to vacate the speaker's chair and even his closest allies believe he may not survive. In the vote for speaker in January, 17 Republicans voted against him. With just 28 no votes needed to oust him, and several contentious issues coming up in the next 3 months. Republicans may feel they can do better with someone else at the helm. Leaked Instructions — GOPe Leaders Give Senators Talking Points For August Recess. The Mitch McConnell legislative agenda was written for him prior to taking his position as Senate Majority Leader. The author of the agenda was a group of Wall Street financiers who organize under the construct of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue as CoC President. Donohue then spends millions through K-Street lobbyists to insure his legislative priorities are maintained. In the run-up to the 2014 mid-terms Donohue was very specific on what his demands were of the GOPe team, Boehner and McConnell: [...] John Boehner's 10 Worst Moments as Speaker. It's clear that the last six months have done nothing to make Boehner see the error of his ways. Report: John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz A 'Jackass' At Fundraiser. Given Speaker Boehner's abysmal approval ratings, the question isn't if his comment hurts Senator Cruz, but if it will possibly help him. Cruz has clashed with party leadership since taking office in January of 2013. John Boehner Calls Ted Cruz A 'Jackass' At Fundraiser. At a Steamboat Springs event for GOP Rep. Scott Tipton, the Ohio Republican quipped that he likes how Cruz's presidential campaign keeps "that jackass" out of Washington, and from telling Boehner how to do his job. That remark rubbed some attendees the wrong way. The D.C. Idiocracy: Remember The Really Dumb Kids In School? They're Now In Charge Of Your Life. Keep in mind that Mitch McConnell's favorite negotiating tactic is to declare that Republicans won't shut down the government right before he starts telling Obama what he wants. Even Obama, who's about as sharp as a bowl of spaghetti, knows all he has to do is wait until he gets close to the deadline for a shutdown to get everything he wants. McConnell's counterpart in the House, John Boehner, is just as habitually incompetent. His idea to stop Obama's illegal immigration policy was to refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security until Obama gave in. Then, when Obama refused to give in, Boehner immediately caved because the Department of Homeland Security is important and he couldn't risk defunding it. New Poll: Boehner Under Water With GOP Voters. Rank-and-file GOP House members are now confronted with an important question: do they want to head into a presidential election with a leader who is unpopular with their own voters and hated by Independents? Gallup released a poll today [8/12/2015] showing that just 23% of Americans view Speaker John Boehner favorably. A clear majority have an unfavorable view of him. Boehner Laments Conservative Radio Hosts Going 'Further Right'; Limbaugh Fires Back. John Boehner appeared on The Golf Channel with David Feherty last night and lamented how things are so partisan these days, he can't even play a game of golf with President Obama without people getting so worked up. "20 years ago, when we won the first Republican majority in 40 years, there was one radio talk show host nobody had ever heard of," he said. "There was one cable news channel that just did news. And you look at today, you've got hundreds of radio talk show hosts all trying to outdo themselves by going further right and further right." That one unnamed talk show host he mentioned is, of course, Rush Limbaugh, and Limbaugh responded on his radio show today [8/4/2015]. The Editor says... John Boehner Embarrassed: His Whip Team Couldn't Find Votes to Reelect Him Speaker Last Week. House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) had been planning to call up on the House floor last week a measure from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that would have removed him as Speaker of the House if it succeeded — intending to embarrass Meadows — but abandoned the plan after his entire leadership structure learned that they did not have the votes to re-elect him as Speaker before the August recess. John Boehner says Republican Congressmen won't let him play golf with Obama because they are worried about what they discuss on the course. The bitter rivalry between the Democrats and Republicans causes a constant lack of agreement in Congress. Their inability to come to a settlement has stalled legislation for months and even caused the shutdown of the federal government. And, according to House Speaker John Boehner, the feud extends beyond Capitol Hill onto the golf course. He says fellow GOP Congressmen won't let him hit the course with President Obama, because they are worried about what the pair might to discuss. Boehner, McConnell 'Destroying Party From the Top'. Congressional Republicans are headed toward summer recess in turmoil, and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says it's because Republican leaders are acting like big-spending liberals and conservatives have had enough of it. The House of Representatives is the scene of the latest unrest, as Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed a motion to remove House Speaker John Boehner from his leadership position. Boehner said he will not allow a vote before recess. Things are just as intense in the Senate. The very real consequences of the effort to remove John Boehner. North Carolina Republican Representative Mark Meadows has filed a motion to remove John Boehner as speaker of the House. Technically it's called a motion to "vacate the chair," though it feels as though the chair has been vacant for some time already, given the absence of any meaningful opposition to Obama's agenda. Meadows is unhappy with Boehner's unwillingness to fight for Republican or conservative values (which used to be the same thing). Of course, his motion has no chance of passing, and publicly Boehner and his cronies will probably smirk and laugh at Meadows as it is voted down, the very same way Mitch McConnell and his Chamber of Commerce mafiosi smirked at Ted Cruz when Cruz confronted McConnell about his lies concerning the Export-Import Bank. Punished conservative moves to oust Boehner. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., was temporarily removed from his post chairing a House Oversight subcommittee after voting against a procedural measure to advance a critical trade bill earlier this summer. He was later restored to his post thanks to protests from his rank-and-file conservative allies, but Meadows apparently wasn't satisfied. Meadows Tuesday [7/28/2015] introduced a resolution "Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives vacant." Levin: McConnell and Boehner 'Are a Disgrace;' They're 'Endangering This Country'. On his show Monday, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin lamented the direction that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are leading this nation. They "are a disgrace," and they are "endangering this country" by delivering the trade deal to Obama, said Levin. "These men are a disgrace. They're endangering this country," Levin said on his July 27 broadcast. "It's not Obama alone. It's the Republican phony leaders in the House and the Senate, too." [Audio clip.] John Boehner coup: Rep. Mark Meadows files motion to oust House Speaker. Tea party champion Rep. Mark Meadows filed a motion Tuesday [7/28/2015] to oust House Speaker John A. Boehner from his leadership post, escalating the feud between a faction of conservative lawmakers and the Republican leadership. Mr. Meadows, North Carolina Republican, filed a motion to "vacate the chair," which could force a no-confidence vote by the full chamber and result in the removal of Mr. Boehner as speaker. It's On: Rep. Mark Meadows Makes Move to Unseat John Boehner as Speaker Immediately. Yet another rebellion against Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is brewing among Republicans in the House of Representatives, and has now burst into public view. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) has filed a motion aimed at unseating Boehner immediately as Speaker of the House. House conservative seeks John Boehner's ouster. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) has filed a motion to try to force Speaker John Boehner from his leadership post. The action, called a motion to vacate the chair, represents a new level of opposition to the Ohio Republican's speakership from the conservative wing. However the motion, which was filed late Tuesday afternoon [7/28/2015], can be easily disregarded by supporters of Boehner in its current form. Levin: It's Time for Boehner and McConnell to Resign. As usual, Levin is spot on. The Republican Congress was elected in large part to fight against Obama and his far left policies. And yet, they have caved on every issue. They fund Obamacare, they fund Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty, and they made themselves irrelevant in the Iran deal by passing Sen. Bob Corker's bill that turned the treaty provision of the Constitution on its head. Where have Boehner and McConnell been on the issue of sanctuary cities and Kate Steinle's murder? Where is the forceful action and leadership on the defunding of Planned Parenthood after these horrific videos of them admitting to illegally selling the body parts of aborted babies? GOP working hard on phony bill to defund sanctuary cities. House Speaker John Boehner has just come out of the closet. He's a thespian. He can't be anything else, because he strives to be one of the greatest actors of all time. He currently is starring in a play on the House floor where he is appearing to pass a bill that would cut off funding for sanctuary cities. The only problem with that is that the House is now powerless to do so. The House can certainly pass such a bill, but the Senate can ignore it, and even if the Senate passed it as well, Obama could veto it without consequence. 7 Questions for J.D. Winteregg, the Man Running Against John Boehner. Republican J.D. Winteregg has launched a 2016 primary challenge. And it's not just any challenge. It marks his second attempt at taking on one of the most powerful men in the country. John Boehner's Reality Distortion Field. This is Speaker Boehner's reality; as a leader in DC, he's a perpetual loser. Ever since his he was poised to take over as Speaker, Boehner has immersed himself in a world where his rhetoric doesn't match his reality. He promised that "not a dime" would go to funding Obamacare, and after the theater of 50+ votes to repeal it (to provide cover for those who wanted to be re-elected), he voted to fund it. After the IRS unfairly targeted conservative and tea party groups, Speaker Boehner boldly stated that someone needed to go to jail over the matter — no one has. Speaker Boehner has caved on raising the debt ceiling with no strings attached, he has attacked good conservative Republicans who don't want to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants, and he has stated that he absolutely trusts the president. His trust for the President was further demonstrated when he pushed for — and voted — to give the President the ultimate authority to negotiate three secretive economic deals. We've all seen how well the President negotiates — 5 terrorists for a traitor, and now a signing bonus to Iran that will enable them to develop a nuclear bomb. Despite this reality, Speaker Boehner continues to claim that he is one of the most conservative people in Congress. Boehner Attacks Conservatives Opposing His Chummy Relationship With Obama. The GOP leadership has found a hill to die on... Obama's legacy enhancing trade authority. Yes, free trade is generally a Republican and conservative policy goal but it's never a big winner with voters. But this time with Obama, Boehner and McConnell leading the charge Republicans are far more skeptical of big deals with unforeseeable consequences than usual. Usually conservatives are told they can't have their priorities because they don't poll well. It seems that's not an issue when the GOP leadership class really, really wants something. In fact, Boehner is now retaliating against conservatives who opposed him on the Trade Promotion Authority rule. Boehner Returns Meadows to Chairmanship After Buck Keeps Post. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) jointly announced Thursday [6/25/2015] that Meadows would get his subcommittee chairmanship back after being punished for voting against House leadership on the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation that gave President Obama fast track authority to finalize his trade negotiations without amendments from Congress. House Rebels Warn of Blowback for Boehner. The House Freedom Caucus has a secret it wants to share with Democrats. "If the Democrats were to file a motion to vacate the chair and were to vote for that motion unanimously, there probably are 218 votes for it to succeed," one member of the House Freedom Caucus told CQ Roll Call Tuesday night [6/23/2015], as he exited an meeting in the basement of Tortilla Coast. If that's true, Democrats could certainly use a vote to remove Speaker John A. Boehner as leverage in any number of upcoming battles: the Export-Import Bank, a highway bill, all sorts of spending measures. GOP Leadership Threatens Other Conservative Subcommittee Chairman as Punishment for Trade Vote. Last week, 34 Republicans broke from their party in voting against a routine procedural rule that would have advanced Trade Promotion Authority. Since then, GOP leadership has come down hard on those members, removing some from the leadership team and threatening others with losing subcommittee chairmanships. This show of force from leadership has angered conservative lawmakers and members of the House Freedom Caucus, who are speaking out against the "culture of punishment and fear" that's emerged during John Boehner's tenure as speaker. Boehner warns conservatives: Stray and be punished. Conservatives who voted against advancing a "Fast Track" trade deal got a lecture from House Speaker John Boehner, who warned them that he endorses the punishment that has been handed down to some of them. In a closed-door weekly Republican conference meeting Wednesday [6/24/2015], the Ohio Republican told rank-and-file members that he supports a move to strip Rep. Mark Meadows of his Oversight subcommittee chairmanship. Meadows, R-N.C., was among those conservatives who voted against the "rule" on a trade package that is a top priority for the GOP leadership. Boehner Targets Another Courageous Conservative For Retaliation Over Obamatrade Vote. Freshman Congressman Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) refused to support Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation last week, so now House leadership is rumored to be planning his removal as President of the Freshman Class of the House of Representatives. 'Fed up' conservatives plot revenge against Boehner. Dozens of members of the House GOP's most conservative faction plan to meet Tuesday [6/23/2015] to discuss ways to counteract the decision of House Speaker John Boehner and other leaders to seek retribution against members who vote against must-pass measures. The House Freedom Caucus, a GOP group made up of about 40 of the most conservative members, plans to hold the discussion some time after Tuesday's evening votes, according to lawmakers familiar with the initiative. Boehner Allies Retaliate Against Members Who Oppose Obama's Agenda. Speaker John Boehner has just stripped Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), one of the most honorable conservatives in the House, of a subcommittee chairmanship for voting against Obamatrade. By the end of the week, we will know whether the conservative movement inside and outside of Congress has learned its lesson in this one-sided war. As John Boehner works to rubber stamp Obama's agenda and ignore every single dangerous act of this president, House conservatives stand at the precipice of a time for choosing. The House has hit rock bottom. Now is the moment for all those self-described conservatives in the House to choose between their constituents or the pagan altar of the D.C. oligarchy. Levin: Boehner's Retaliation Against Conservatives Means Open Warfare. Levin's comments come after Boehner's retaliation against conservatives hit a new low this weekend, with a report from Politico about how House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) — playing along with Boehner's scheme to attack Republicans for voting their conscience — removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) as the chairman of a subcommittee on his full committee. Levin even compared Boehner to 20th century Communist Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and how he cleansed his government of all dissent. "Speaker Boehner's and Congressman Chaffetz's removal of Meadows is the latest in a series of ideologically-driven attacks on conservatives. Boehner seems to think he's Stalin cleaning out all opposition in the Kremlin," Levin said. "No Republican Speaker in recent times has behaved with less integrity in his wielding of power." Boehner: We're Seeing 'Positive Momentum' Toward Passing ObamaTrade. House Republican leadership is conveying confidence about the prospects of passing a top trade priority for President Obama. [...] House Leadership has posted the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) language, which would provide President Obama "fast track" authority to negotiate trade bills — notably the Trans-Pacific Partnership — which would allow for a vote before the end of the week. The Obama-Boehner-McConnell 'Fast Track' to a Poorer America. President Barack Obama is negotiating a multilateral trade agreement with the governments of 11 nations. These include Malaysia and Vietnam — as well as Japan, Brunei, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. This so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership would govern most of the commercial relations between the nations that sign it. Boehner boots rebels. Three months after they voted against John Boehner's third term as speaker, two Republicans have been removed from a key committee in retaliation for their dissent. The House Rules Committee announced on Tuesday that they have filled two positions temporarily vacated by Reps. Richard Nugent and Daniel Webster, who were taken off the panel after they joined 24 conservative Republicans in voting against Boehner in January. The Medicare Doc Fiction. When will John Boehner learn that a bill is bad news if Nancy Pelosi supports it, President Obama wants to sign it, and the press sings its praises? That's precisely what he had on his hands with H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, a.k.a. the "Doc Fix." Yet today we find him basking in the approbation of the Beltway establishment for getting this bill passed. This "fix" will add billions to the federal deficit, replace an unworkable price control system with a worse scheme that will dictate how doctors practice medicine and place financial burdens on seniors. Conservatives seethe after attacks from allies of Boehner. Conservatives are seething after an outside group aligned with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars targeting a trio of Republican lawmakers over threats to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. Tea Party Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) equated the attack ads to GOP "cannibalism," while his conservative colleague Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) called them a "stupid" tactic that would backfire. Dems want to empower Boehner. Democrats are outnumbered by more than 50 members — and have almost no power to bring bills to the floor. But they see Boehner as a willing compromiser on must-pass legislation like funding the government and raising the debt ceiling — once the Speaker can convince his troops that the partisan route endorsed by his conservative wing has been denied. The Hastert Rule is dead; Nancy Pelosi runs the House. This is an unfortunate but foreseeable situation that was bound to happen as the House GOP caucus became progressively more conservative than the GOP leadership and as Boehner has shown he has less and less stomach for fighting. The fact that the Speaker went to the Democrats first to get votes on this spending deal shows the extent to which Boehner has been mortally injured as a leader. It also tells us that the House may very well have become less conservative than the Senate. John Boehner, The Dishonorable Gentleman From Ohio. [Speaker of the House John Boehner] spent much of last year traveling the country on behalf of Republican candidates. His pitch was invariably something along the lines of, we need more Republicans to change the direction of the country has been going under Obama. [...] Hundreds of billions of dollars in deficit spending? I don't recall that being part of Boehner's pitch last fall. Working with Nancy Pelosi to provide the votes for this spending? Again, I don't remember that being a big GOP selling point prior to last November. Reauthorizing SCHIP at inflated Obama levels as a "sweetener" to get Democrat votes? That's the bold change in direction we heard so much about? Boehner Trades $200B in New Spending Now for Nothing Later. [Scroll down] The secondary problem is that Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is one of the worst negotiators in recent history. Strike that — Boehner is pretty decent getting Democrats on his side by giving them what he wants. He's not so great at maintaining cohesion on his side and actually getting something in return. Thus, Boehner is negotiating a deal — again, with Democrats, which will essentially give away the house for free in exchange for promised future entitlement reforms. Stop me if this sounds familiar. Speaker Boehner: Democrat Dissenter. On March 3, after repeatedly huffing and puffing in support [of] the Republican position on one of the major issues of the 2014 election, John Boehner predictably went back on his word, betraying conservatives on a signature campaign promise: to rein in President Obama's unconstitutional and lawless actions in support of lawlessness. This was Boehner's final surrender, ceding the last vestige of the immense power of the purse that a majority of voters sent Republicans to Washington to exercise. In ratifying law-breaking by both the president and millions of aliens, he removed any lingering doubt that he is the Democrat-preferred Obama-Pelosi House Speaker. It's Time to Vacate the Speaker's Chair. This year began with an election on whether Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) should continue as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. A number of brave House conservatives, led by Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Tom Massie, and Rep. Steve King (R-IA), waged a historic effort to deny Boehner the Speakership. What resulted was an earth-shattering groundswell of grassroots opposition to Boehner that shocked every Republican congressman. It was unsuccessful only because a handful of otherwise reliable House conservatives chose to support Boehner and give him another chance. And look at what their vote for Boehner has wrought in just two short months. It resulted in a historic cave from a personal and iron-clad commitment to fight "tooth and nail" to block the President's executive amnesty on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill. Even in the minority, Democrats seize control of Congress from feckless, cowardly boobs McConnell and Boehner. Are the Democrats in charge of Congress? On its face, this question certainly seems ridiculous since Republicans regained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives last November. But as we have witnessed over the last several weeks, just because Republicans have the most seats in the Senate and the House doesn't mean they are actually in control. Just consider the Department of Homeland Security funding debate. House Republicans weigh coup against Boehner after series of political defeats. Rank-and-file Republicans are openly contemplating a coup against House Speaker John A. Boehner and his top lieutenants after a series of self-inflicted legislative fumbles and political defeats in the first weeks of the congressional session. This week's retreat from the standoff over Homeland Security Department funding and President Obama's deportation amnesty was only the latest embarrassment for Republican leaders, who also have had to yank bills on abortion, border security and education after rebellions within their own party. Boehner Has No Plans To Leave Republican Party Despite Newfound Democratic Party Support. Despite the fact that Democrats are rushing to protect him from a potential brewing Republican coup attempt, House Speaker John Boehner — currently a Republican — has no intention of leaving the Republican Party to join his new friends in the Democratic Party, his spokesman Michael Steel tells Breitbart News. "Speaker Boehner is a proud, conservative Republican, and enjoys the strong support of an overwhelming majority of the House Republican Conference," Steel said in an email on Friday morning when asked by Breitbart News if the Speaker plans to switch party affiliations, given that several Democrats now say they'll protect him from a Republican coup. Boehner-Aligned Group Expands Anti-Republican Pro Obama Executive Amnesty Ad Campaign With Renee Ellmers At Center. A group close to House Speaker John Boehner that's been running anti-Conservative advertisements in support of President Barack Obama's executive amnesty is now airing positive ads thanking liberal Republicans who supported funding executive amnesty earlier this week. The Republican member at the center of this new leg of the pro-executive amnesty ad buy is Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), Politico reports, with others including Reps. Susan Brooks (R-IN), Todd Young (R-IN), and Dan Benishek (R-MI) benefiting from the ads as well. Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup. A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner's commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama's policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands. But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. How John Boehner might rethink his speakership. On paper, the GOP currently has 245 members, but when 50 feel they can walk away from their leadership on any given day, it's really a plurality, not a majority. The House, then, is not controlled by one party but is better understood as a playing field for at least three: the party on the right; the dominant Republican core in the center; and the left, represented by the Democrats. Has Boehner taken left turn? A beleaguered House Speaker John Boehner is suddenly relying on Democrats rather than his fellow Republicans. For the second day in a row, Wednesday, his House leadership team turned to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's Democrats to help pass major legislation and overcome determined opposition from dozens of GOP conservatives. It's a far cry from January, when Republicans took control of both chambers of Congress, and Boehner, R-Ohio, returned to Capitol Hill buoyed by expectations of a fruitful relationship with the new Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. Cave. DHS is funded through the end of the week, so Boehner didn't have to make his move today. But with most of the media focused on Bibi Netanyahu's speech, he probably decided to use the distraction to try to bury the news of his capitulation. That's appropriate. A fiasco this total should end with an air of shame around it. Boehner Surrender On DHS Marks Beginning Of The End Of His Speakership. As largely expected, House Speaker John Boehner has surrendered on trying to defund President Obama's executive amnesty through DHS. The Hill reports that Speaker Boehner is planning a vote today to pass a "clean" DHS bill that keeps President Obama's executive amnesty intact. [...] Now rumors are starting to fly that conservatives may try to launch a coup against Speaker Boehner in response to this vote. After all, when Boehner was pushing passage of the "CRominbus" bill at the end of the year, he promised conservatives that he would fight against Obama's executive amnesty with the new Congress. Now, we saw the results of that fight and conservatives are moving to the point where they have had enough of Speaker Boehner. Replace John Boehner as House Speaker. ([A]lleged) Republican Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) just pushed through a "clean" bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and funded Barack Obama's plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegals. Boehner has once again flipped the bird to the conservative base and shown his cowardice in the face of the Democrat meanies who threaten to throw a fit about a shutdown. John Boehner must go. He must be replaced as House Speaker. He does not represent the interests of the majority of Americans who voted for a Republican House of Representatives and Senate and whose clear message was "oppose Barack Obama". Boehner looks for a life line — from the Democrats. I hope to heaven that no one in Boehner's office thinks he can avoid blame for this or that anyone believes anything hits the House floor without his acquiescence. Because that would mean that they are stupider than they think we are. Rarely in the history of representative government has a majority party been so effortlessly emasculated by a minority party. Boehner Declares War on Conservative Congressmen. This is how desperate Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is to keep his position and fund amnesty. He will use an outside group to attack congressmen who defied their campaign promises and wound up voting for him for Speaker. And he will do it because he is desperate to get the President's amnesty agenda funded. Boehner stands firm on looming shutdown: Dems using 'blackmail' to protect Obama amnesty. House Speaker John A. Boehner refused to back down Thursday [2/26/2015] from the shutdown showdown and accused Senate Democrats of using Homeland Security funding as "blackmail" to protect President Obama's deportation amnesty. When questioned at his weekly press conference about how he would handle the "clean" funding bill coming from Senate, Mr. Boehner puckered his lips and made kissing sounds. Speaker Boehner and the Frustrated Conservatives. America is now lorded over by an oligarchic Ruling Class. Republicans are indistinguishable from Democrats. For voting majorities, who resoundingly rejected Obama Care in 2010 and all Obama policies in 2014, there is currently no place to go. Due largely to Boehner, firmly and clearly stated campaign promises on the most important issues have been repeatedly and defiantly broken. 23 Conservative Leaders Warn Boehner Not to Punish GOP Dissenters. A coalition of 23 leaders in the conservative movement today urged Speaker John Boehner not to punish Republicans who voted against him for the House's top job. Boehner, who removed two of those dissenters from the powerful Rules Committee after the speaker vote, is now rethinking the decision, according to Politico. A total of 25 Republicans did not vote for Boehner. How not to oust a speaker. A group of House conservatives spent almost a year dreaming big about toppling Speaker John Boehner, but less than a day before the vote, they still hadn't found someone to replace him. One promising candidate finally jumped in — but only at the last minute, not even telling his closest friend in Congress he was running. The result was a vote Tuesday that ultimately yielded an ugly, controversial win for Boehner, with the most defections from his own party than any speaker has seen in decades. Proof The 'Dump Boehner' Movement Wasn't About Ideology. Yesterday's failed coup in the House was a perfect illustration of this point. The candidate who emerged as Boehner's rival was a Florida representative named Daniel Webster. He was brave! — he was daring! — he was an insurgent! What he wasn't was terribly conservative. In fact, it turns out that Webster has earned just a 56 percent rating on Heritage Action's scorecard. Was supporting this failed effort worth "burning up the phone lines" over? Flood of anti-Boehner calls rattles leadership. It wasn't the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls. There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers. The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker. The 25 who stood against the Obama-Boehner Chess game should form their own party. For anyone who got past the media spin in yesterday's wholesale sell-out of America, truth is you now know without any doubt who in public office truly cares about their own country; who lived up to the many false promises made out on last November's campaign trail: 25 That's 25 Republicans who put their future careers on the line by casting votes against Boehner, a sissy in every way when it comes to standing up to the Democrats, but a bully out for revenge against those in his own party who dare stand against him. Hopefully the toss of ice water in the face of the voter woke a majority of them up to the harsh reality of today. Boehner says Republicans are having 'family conversation' after move to unseat him. Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday that House Republicans are in the midst of a "family conversation" in the wake of Tuesday's move by rogue conservatives to dislodge him from the top job, and he would not rule out further retribution against unruly members. Addressing reporters after a meeting with rank-and-file Republicans in the Capitol basement, Boehner acknowledged stripping Florida Republican Reps. Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent of their membership on the House Rules Committee. Webster ran against Boehner for speaker, and Nugent voted for him. Gohmert to Hannity: We 'Had Enough Votes' to Unseat Speaker Boehner. Earlier today, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) fell far short of his goal to become the next Speaker of the House, garnering just three votes (including one from himself), compared to 216 for John Boehner. This afternoon [1/6/2015], Gohmert joined his biggest media supporter, Sean Hannity, by phone on the radio to breakdown what went wrong. "Close but not close enough," Hannity said during his introduction of Gohmert, overstating the situation a bit. Boehner defends retribution. A day after winning his third term as Speaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio) said his conference had begun a "family conversation" about how to respond to the 25 conservatives who revolted and voted against him on the floor. Boehner confirmed that the Rules Committee agreed hours after the Tuesday vote to boot two of the defectors off the committee: Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who challenged Boehner for Speaker, and Rep. Richard Nugent (R-Fla.), who voted for his fellow Florida Republican. The Six Freshmen Republicans Who Lied About Voting Against Boehner as Speaker. Courtesy of RedState, we now have a list of The Dirty Half-Dozen, the six freshmen Republicans who campaigned on explicit promises to vote against John Boehner as Speaker of the House. And then, moments after being sworn in, they promptly violated their promises and essentially spit on their constituents. These people need to be exposed as the frauds they are. Could these Boehner challengers keep their House Rules Committee seats? Members streaming out of a closed-door, House Republican conference meeting on Wednesday said it's possible two unseated far-right members could be allowed to serve on the House Rules Committee after all. Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, both of Florida, were cut from the Rules panel roster on Tuesday [1/6/2015], hours after they joined 22 other GOP lawmakers in voting against Boehner for a third term as House speaker. The move to punish Webster and Nugent inflamed conservatives, who said it would spark a fight, or even a "mutiny," among the far-right faction. GOP Dissent Over Boehner: A Sign of Trouble Ahead? When two dozen House Republicans chose Tuesday not to support the re-election of their leader, key questions arose: Did the small but outspoken opposition to John Boehner signal a lack of party unity in support of the Republican agenda? And could that impede a conference that now holds its biggest majority in the lower chamber since the Great Depression, not to mention Republican control of the Senate for the first time in a decade? Probably not, said one of those who voted against the Ohio congressman. Boehner takes revenge. John Boehner is getting revenge. After he secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to some relatively unknown members of the Republican Conference, Boehner moved swiftly to boot two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback for the speaker's betrayers, who might see subcommittee chairmanships and other perks fall away in the coming months. La Cosa Boehner — Leave The Gun, Take The Kleenex. [Scroll down] "We don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore," said a GOP leadership aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "We can let them walk on certain bills, and it just won't matter. That gives us breathing room." If any of you had any doubt that the Quisling Despots in the GOP hate conservatives and will do whatever they can to neutralize and isolate us, that statement should be your wake-up call. Weber, Backing Gohmert Over Boehner, Says 'Retaliation' Has Begun. The 114th Congress is barely underway, but Randy Weber, R-Texas, says he's already paying a price for making known his intentions to vote against another term in leadership for Speaker John A. Boehner. Weber, who backed the long-shot speakership bid of fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert over Boehner, has been removed as the lead sponsor of a nuclear energy bill expected to brought to the floor in the 114th. During a small meeting Tuesday of about 10 members of the Texas delegation to discuss the speaker's race, Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Weber the speaker's office had called and said Weber could not be the sponsor of that legislation, Weber told CQ Roll Call before the speaker vote this afternoon [1/6/2015]. Boehner retribution roils the Right. Republican leaders on Tuesday infuriated conservatives by meting out punishment to a group of far-right GOP lawmakers who tried to oust House Speaker John Boehner. Hours after 24 Republicans voted against Boehner, GOP leaders removed two members from a key committee. By late Tuesday, Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, both of Florida, were stripped from the powerful House Rules Committee, which governs the legislative process, including amendments and changes to bills before they reach the House floor for debate. Gohmert: People Backed Out of Vote Against Boehner At Last Minute. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that "people that were right there ready to go ended up deciding not to vote with us" in his campaign to unseat John Boehner (R-OH) as House Speaker on Tuesday's "Sean Hannity Show." "We had enough votes but people that were right there ready to go ended up deciding not to vote with us," he stated. Conservative Republicans lose committee assignments in retaliation for voting against Speaker John Boehner. Iron-fisted U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is moving quickly to punish conservative Republicans who tried to oust him Tuesday during the biennial leadership election. Hours after the contentious vote, Florida Rep. Daniel Webster — who actively campaigned against Boehner and persuaded 12 GOP members to support him — found himself left off the membership list of the powerful House Rules Committee, where he served for the last two years. Rep. Rich Nugent, a fellow Floridian who voted for him, suffered the same fate. Gohmert: 'Pretty Nasty' 'Fight' if Boehner Punishes Dissenters. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) vowed that there would be a "pretty nasty" "fight" against House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) if he retaliates against members who did not support his Speakership on Tuesday's "Hannity" on the Fox News Channel. "If [Florida Republican Congressmen] Webster and Nugent are being punished, then we're going to have another fight real quick and it's going to be pretty nasty. We can't let that stand if they're going to be punished" he declared. Here's how to thank the Congressmen that stood on principle against Boehner. Join us in thanking the congressmen that stood on principle and listened to the grassroots call for new leadership! Here are the Republicans who voted against John Boehner for speaker. In the biggest defection from an incumbent speaker in at least 100 years, 25 House Republicans voted for someone other than John Boehner to serve as speaker in the 114th Congress. Boehner re-elected to third term as House speaker. Republicans formally took control of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday [1/6/2015] with party leaders pledging to make Washington work better even as battle lines were already being drawn by both parties for the two years ahead. Ongoing internal Republican divisions between party leaders and a small but influential conservative flank spilled on to the House floor as 25 GOP lawmakers did not support Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, for his third term as House speaker. Here's why House Republicans should replace Speaker Boehner. Boehner has had plenty of time to show that he's capable of leading the House and pursue the limited government ideals on which Republicans ran. Instead, he's proven himself to be a shaky leader with little credibility among fiscal conservatives. Boehner has failed to lead, and he's sold out taxpayers time and time again. Boehner's Ten Worst Moments as Speaker. Here are the top ten cases where Boehner failed to stand up to the establishment. [#1] The CRomnibus: Boehner supported the more than $1 trillion spending bill crafted in secret behind closed doors. [#2] 2014 Omnibus: Boehner voted for an omnibus appropriations bill that exceeded spending caps by $45 billion. [#3] Raising the Debt Limit in 2014: Boehner supported suspending the debt limit until March of 2015, with non accompanying spending reforms. [#4] The Farm Bill: Boehner voted for nearly a trillion dollars in corporate welfare and food stamps in the Farm Bill. Republicans with a Backbone against Boehner For Speaker. A common complaint that we hear among liberty-minded grassroots activists is that Republicans have no backbone. When Republicans are right, they often lack the courage to fight for what they believe in and instead succumb to the Democrats. We've seen this kind of cowardly behavior time and time again from John Boehner who has been speaker for the last four years. There's good reason why an EMC Research survey found that only 25 percent of GOP voters want Boehner to be reelected as speaker, while 60 percent said they want someone new. Why It's a Good Thing Boehner Didn't Lose His Job Today. Like many conservatives, I'm not a huge fan of John Boehner. Over the years, he has not been consistent in cobbling together an effective legislative agenda and does not do so well when he has to confront President Obama. His willingess [sic] to blink on immigration is a strong indication of his hesitancy to confront Obama. This is particularly egregious given Obama's usurpation of Congressional jurisdiction. Speaker Keeps Gavel: Boehner Gets By with a Little Help from Missing Dems. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) kept his gavel in the 114th Congress as the opposition bloc in the GOP failed to gather enough votes to oust him on the first ballot. The number of members voting was 408. Boehner received 216 votes, 164 went to Pelosi, and 26 went to other names, with one lawmaker voting present. By comparison, Boehner won with 220 votes in 2013. The Republican Party Deserves a New Speaker; Contact Your Representative Now!. "Even the most politically inept individual could see that all Republicans had to do to run the board was pass a short term continuing resolution funding government at the exact same levels until Republicans took control of the Senate in the new year. That Speaker Boehner chose to pass a spending bill for the entire year instead of waiting to control both chambers is illustrative of either a) complete alignment with the Democrats and President Obama or b) incompetence of an almost unimaginable magnitude," [Matt] Nye said. "Neither of those are qualities you want in an individual who holds the third most powerful position in the United States government." Six Times John Boehner Proved His Incompetence. [#1] The 2011 Budget Control Act. In 2011, Boehner signed off on the BCA, which also came to be known as "sequestration." The sequestration deal was designed to cut $1.2 trillion from 2013 to 2021; a gang of legislators was supposed to cut a deal to avoid half of those cuts coming from the military budget. Oops. That deal never happened, so the military took the brunt of the cuts. Boehner rationalized the BCA by stating that he intended to attain cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Eventually, the debt ceiling was raised by $2.1 trillion. Boehner then undermined those overall cuts in the 2013 Ryan-Murray budget deal. More Republicans Say They Won't Support Boehner For Speaker. While ousting John Boehner from the speaker's office still remains a long shot, a growing number of conservative lawmakers in the House are saying they plan to support someone other than the Ohio Republican during this week's vote. The latest Republicans to announce plans to oppose Boehner are Indiana Rep. Martin Stutzman, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, Iowa Rep. Steve King and Virginia Rep. Dave Brat. That makes at least ten House Republicans who have publicly come out against Boehner's re-election, with more expected Monday. Who Else Has the Courage to Vote Against John Boehner? Objectively speaking, John Boehner is more morally culpable for America's slide into socialism than Obama is. Barack Obama is a communist and he does what communists do. Boehner pretends to be a conservative, but he does what communists do. Conservative call for Boehner coup grows louder. Conservative momentum to oust John Boehner from House leadership during Tuesday's election for speaker continued to build through the weekend, with two alternatives emerging and a national conservative group joining the effort. On Monday, Virginia Rep.-elect Dave Brat became the latest to confirm his intention to vote against Boehner for speaker. On Sunday night, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar and Iowa Rep. Steve King also came out opposed to Boehner. Gohmert Names Boehner's Broken Promises. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) shared more details about his decision to challenge Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for the Speakership, citing a long list of broken promises and his worries about a third party splitting the conservative vote as inspiring his determination to oust Boehner. As Breitbart Texas reported earlier, Gohmert announced on Fox & Friends early Sunday morning that he would be challenging Boehner for Speaker, in a vote that will take place this Tuesday, January 6th. Conservative Activists Fuel Anti-Boehner Rebellion. Members of the newly elected House of Representatives will meet in Washington on Tuesday to select a new Speaker of the House. "In the four years Boehner has been Speaker," the letter reads, "he has been nothing short of a disaster." The signatories have little good to say about Boehner. "He has insulted conservatives; he's a poor strategist; his word means nothing; he's reluctant to fight and he has lost the trust of Republicans across America," the letter says. "As bad as things have been over the last four years," they write, "in the last month they became even worse." South Carolina Tea Party Leader Presses State's Delegation: Vote Against Boehner. South Carolina Tea Party convention leader Joe Dugan, the head of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, is putting his state's GOP House members on notice: he wants them to vote against John Boehner for Speaker on Tuesday. [...] Dugan said South Carolinians, some of the most conservative voters in America, will be let down should any member of the state delegation vote for Boehner. "We will be more than disappointed, should they vote to keep John Boehner on as Speaker, guaranteeing us more of the same creeping socialism," Dugan said. Texas Republican announces challenge to Boehner for Speaker in new Congress. Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) said Sunday [1/4/2015] that he will challenge John Boehner (R-Ohio) as Speaker in the new Congress. "I'm putting my name out there today to be another candidate for Speaker," Gohmert said on "Fox and Friends." Gohmert said that after "years of broken promises, it's time for a change." Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) on Saturday announced that he would not support Boehner for Speaker. Does the Right Have a Shot at Ousting Boehner? Two Republican lawmakers have stepped forward to challenge House Speaker John Boehner's campaign for a third term as top dog in the lower chamber, raising the specter of an extended selection procedure that could muddy the selection process. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a Tea Party Republican who has been a consistent pain in Boehner's side, announced Sunday that he will challenge Boehner, declaring that the election "is not about a particular candidate — it is about whether we keep the status quo or make the change the country demands." Republicans Must Investigate Where the Media Fear to Tread. The failure of the House to investigate the Muslim Brotherhood lies at the feet of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who denounced his fellow Republicans when they sought a probe of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin's controversial foreign Muslim connections. Boehner was also slow to embrace a special committee to investigate Benghazi. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy notes that the Muslim Brotherhood's influence is so pervasive within the U.S. government and civil institutions "that a serious, sustained and rigorous investigation of the phenomenon" is in order. I Will Not Vote for Boehner as Speaker. At each crisis point of conflict between President Obama and Congress, we have been admonished by our Speaker to take the high road, to pick our battles, to wait for a better time to fight on better ground. As a product of hook, crook, and legislative shenanigan, ObamaCare was passed. The American voters elected 87 Freshmen Republicans to the House of Representatives, every one pledged to repeal ObamaCare. Then, our soon to be Speaker told us we would not and could not use the Constitutional "power of the purse" to block implementation of ObamaCare. Minimutiny mounting against John Boehner. Rep. Jim Bridenstine did not mince words in his press release Friday [1/2/2015], titled "I Will Not Vote for John Boehner." In the brief statement, the Oklahoma Republican complained that Mr. Boehner joined forces with President Obama on the $1.1 trillion budget bill known as the CR/Omnibus, which he said "blocked our newest elected Republicans from advancing conservative policy and delivering on campaign promises." "With this vote, Republicans gave away the best tool available to rein in our liberal activist President: the power of the purse. The power of the purse is Congress' Constitutional strength," Mr. Bridenstine wrote. Former House Minority Whip Candidate Stutzman Joins Rebellion Against Boehner. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) will officially join the rebellion against John Boehner's re-election as Speaker of the House on Monday morning [1/5/2015], Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) announced in a statement late Sunday evening. Stutzman, Bridenstine said, will issue a statement early Monday announcing his public opposition to Boehner's re-election. Ted Yoho on Challenging Speaker Boehner: "I Fear No Man". Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), who is challenging House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for the Speakership, said he fears no man and does not expect retribution for trying to oust Boehner. On Breitbart News Sunday [1/4/2015], Yoho said voters in his district, including a seasoned farmer in his seventies this weekend, have urged him to vote against Boehner because he is a "weak leader" and not a good voice for the GOP. "My base wants me to vote this way," Yoho said. Conservative Activists Fuel Anti-Boehner Rebellion With Letter Calling For His Removal As Speaker. Two dozen conservative activists, including prominent new media personalities Michelle Malkin and Dana Loesch, joined Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation and John Hawkins and Tiffany Ruegner of Right Wing News, in signing a letter calling on "Republicans in the House of Representatives to elect someone other than John Boehner as Speaker of the House of Representatives." South Carolina Tea Party Leader Presses State's Delegation: Vote Against Boehner. South Carolina Tea Party convention leader Joe Dugan, the head of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, is putting his state's GOP House members on notice: he wants them to vote against John Boehner for Speaker on Tuesday [1/6/2015]. "I am confident that the astute, South Carolina Congressional delegation is keenly aware of the voter mandate they received in November," Dugan said in an email to Breitbart News. Replacing Speaker Boehner: Here's How It's Done. December's disgraceful CRomnibus debacle fresh in mind, House conservatives may finally be ready to hand the most powerful gavel in the House from John Boehner to a more principled leader when they vote for Speaker of the House on January 6th. Replacing Boehner is both possible and necessary for a multitude of reasons, but it's important to understand how the vote works in order to counter the misinformation that has already started coming from those with a vested interest in keeping the status quo. Why I Will Not Vote for John Boehner to Be House Speaker. The day after Republicans won the largest majority in the House of Representatives in almost 100 years and won a significant majority in the Senate, our liberal activist president claimed to hear the voices of all the people who didn't vote. It was another example of stunning obstinacy from this president. It seemed Democrats were melting down, Republicans were unified, and all we had to do was buy enough time to get our Republican reinforcements to Washington in January. Like President Obama, Speaker John Boehner must have heard voices that didn't vote. Should John Boehner be the Speaker of the House? As Speaker of the House and leader of the House Republicans, John Boehner promised he would fight Obama's Executive Order on immigration "tooth and nail." Yet, soon thereafter, he strong-armed Republicans to push Cromnibus through the House of Representatives to fund Obamacare and Obama's amnesty. The Last Resort: Replace John Boehner. It could take years replace or seize control of the Republican Party, by which time everything this country has stood for could be destroyed. However, there is a clearly viable short term strategy. Oust Boehner from the speakership — now! If the 2014 and 2010 elections are to have any meaning at all, if all the work and promises made to elect Republican majorities in both houses of Congress are not to be completely nullified, replacing Boehner must be considered the top priority. Poll: Republican Voters Overwhelmingly Want Members to Remove Boehner as Speaker. Republican voters nationwide overwhelmingly want their House representative to elect somebody other than Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House, a new poll from Pat Caddell's organization Caddell Associates shows. A whopping 60 percent of voters who voted for Republicans in the last election either definitely or probably want their member of Congress to elect someone other than Boehner on Jan. 6, when Congress convenes, according to the poll. The voters were asked: "As you may know the new Congress will select its leaders in January. If it were up to you, would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you elect someone new?" Budget Battle Looms, Boehner Approval Dwindling. The establishment believes the liberal left narrative that the GOP dominated the last election because the voters were sending a message that they just want the Republicans to get along. In reality, the election was a resounding rejection of Democrat Party policies, and the Obama presidency, and it was the voters' message to the Republicans to shut the liberal-left train of destruction down, and soon. The federal budget will be where a lot of the war will be fought between President Obama and the new Republican Congress in 2015. The limited government platform of the Republican Party, and the voice of the voters, demands that the GOP reduce the size of government, beginning with a massive reduction in unconstitutional, and unnecessary, federal spending. Conservative Rep: "I will Not Vote for John Boehner". Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) says he will not vote for House Speaker John Boehner's reelection as speaker. "I Will Not Vote for John Boehner," reads the subject line of a news release the congressman's office posted Friday [1/2/2015]. In a lengthy statement, the Oklahoma lawmaker laid out some of his issues with Boehner's current tenure. He specifically cites the "Cromnibus," the government-funding measure that passed before lawmakers ended the 113th Congress in December. Nancy Boehner Surrenders All Leverage Over a Rogue Administration Through 2015. In effect Speaker Boehner essentially surrendered the majority which the American people gave the House GOP and with it, the greatest leverage — the power of the purse. Some 1,800 pages, no doubt including pork, has passed which most did not read. 'Nancy Boehner' Ushers in Era of Unaccountable Oligarchy. In 2009, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rammed through a half-trillion dollar omnibus bill without affording members the requisite time to read through it. At the time, John Boehner led the chorus of complaints against her lack of transparency. [...] Now we have come full circle. Despite making the same earlier calls for transparency and insisting legislation be available for at least 72 hours before a vote, as Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) closes out his first four years sitting in Pelosi's chair he has now completely co-opted her tactics. A Conservative Waterloo: John Boehner Must Go. It is time to stop thinking of John Boehner and the rest of the Republican congressional leadership as being cowardly and recognize them for what they are: part of The Ruling Class that believes it has the right to tell the rest of us how to live. Since conservative voters handed a majority in the House of Representatives to the Republican Party in 2010, there have been countless missteps and opportunities to stop Democrats. [...] Four years later, after seemingly countless battles where Boehner and company caved to Democrat demands, the conventional wisdom has been that Boehner and the like are cowards who are unwilling to take on an African-American president out of fear that they will be called racists. Cromnibus Winners And Losers. If you want to know how your tax dollars will get spent next year, the answers are in Cromnibus — the 1,695-page bill that Congress hurriedly passed last weekend to fund the federal government through September 2015. [...] Cromnibus is a monster to read. Almost no one did. They had no time. House Speaker John Boehner broke his promise to give members at least a 72-hour notice before voting, instead of "ramming it down their throats," as he criticized former Speaker Nancy Pelosi for doing. Taxpayers lost out in the rush. House Conservatives Have the Power and Should Depose Speaker John Boehner. House conservatives must summon the courage to oppose Boehner's nomination on the floor in January. It is a moral imperative. You cannot consistently complain about Leadership's many failures — and the treachery involved with a Speaker fresh off a successful wave election conspiring with President Obama to fund amnesty and enjoy a celebratory phone call in the aftermath — and then vote for him to continue in this role. [...] House conservatives need to understand that they are not conspiring against a family member or team member. They are conspiring against an adversary intent on thwarting the change they came to Washington to bring. It is that simple. Boehner and Obama Join to Pass Bill Funding Obamacare and Amnesty. House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama joined forces today [12/11/2014] to push their respective party members to provide 219 votes — one more than was needed — to ensure passage of an omnibus government funding bill that permits the administration to spend money implementing Obamacare and Obama's planned unilateral actions that will effectively amnesty as many as five million illegal aliens. The bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will allow the administration to spend $1,188,927,000,000 on discretionary government programs. It provides funding for amost all of the government through the end of this fiscal year — which occurs on Sept. 30, 2015 — and for the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27, 2015. Hannity: Did Boehner Cut Backroom Spending Deal? The House of Representatives has passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Sean Hannity explained tonight that the spending bill funds executive amnesty and ObamaCare. Michele Bachmann and Steve King were on "Hannity" tonight, where they slammed the bill. Bachmann charged that the political establishment wants "full-on amnesty," and that this vote would have never happened a week before the election, calling it disrespectful to voters. Forget ObamaCare, Boehner Wants Congressional Hearings on Garner. No reason to waste time on crazy stuff like defunding ObamaCare. Let's pander to the left and the rioters instead. Boehner Broke Pledge to Give Americans 'At Least 72 Hours' to Read Every Bill. House Speaker John Boehner has broken his pledge to give Americans "at least 72 hours" to read every bill taken up by the House before it is brought to a vote on the floor. In his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2010, Boehner vowed that if he became speaker members of Congress and the American people would be given "at least 72 hours" to read all bills before they were brought to a vote. Boehner Doing Exactly What He Accused Nancy Pelosi Of In 2009. If lawmakers in the House vote this week on a "CR-omnibus" spending package, House Speaker John Boehner will be doing exactly what he accused former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of doing on a similar bill in 2009: Ramming it down Americans' and lawmakers' throats without anyone having time to read the bill. No guts. Boehner Won't Commit to Defunding Executive Amnesty Next Year. John Boehner said he would not commit to bringing up a bill to strip critical funding from the Department of Homeland Security in the next Congress. Instead, the speaker of the House says there are "lots of options" for blocking President Obama's executive order on immigration. At a Thursday [12/4/2014] press conference in the Capitol, Boehner did not guarantee the House would vote to block or cut off funding from DHS once Republicans had control of both houses of Congress in 2015. Boehner Poised to Deal With the Devil to Avoid Shut Down? With House conservatives wanting to keep the pressure on Barack Obama given his end run of the political process when it comes to illegal immigration, reports indicate Republican House Speaker John Boehner may be considering doing the un-thinkable — abandoning House conservatives to do a deal with Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi to keep the government open long-term. John Boehner and Harry Reid Agree to Bipartisan Funding of Obama's Amnesty Plan. News reports indicate that the House GOP plans to surrender to the President and avoid taking a stand against his unconstitutional executive amnesty. Even leftwing media outlets agree that the plan is a unilateral surrender. According to Politico, they will vote on a "symbolic" bill opposing the President's executive action that the "Senate will likely ignore", then pass a massive omnibus spending bill that stays silent on amnesty. Boehner's Two-Step Plan to Do Nothing About Amnesty. House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A has no problem letting Obama have everything he wants, as long as the government doesn't shut down. His "two step plan" is to first erect a billboard at the border on Obama's road to amnesty. It will say "Stop. You can't do this." All the while the Obama convoy of undocumented aliens will continue to flow, knowing that their permiso will allow them to stay, work, and possibly vote. Boehner Negotiates Terms of Surrender to King Barack's Executive Amnesty. Republicans in Washington, under the tutelage of House Speaker John Boehner, are planning a full-scale cave to President Barack Obama's executive amnesty, by aiming to fund Obama's immigration action in full this week. Boehner on Tuesday [12/2/2014] pitched colleagues on a plan that utilizes bills from the reliably conservative Reps. Ted Yoho (R-FL) and Tom Price (R-GA), but ultimately fully funds Obama's executive amnesty until at least March — and then will likely do so at that point in time as well. Jarrett: Boehner Asked Obama For Help Avoiding Conservatives' Ire. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) requested that President Barack Obama avoid making a "very public push" on immigration during the midterm primaries, according to White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Speaking to the Chicago Sun-Times' Washington Bureau Chief, Lynn Sweet, Jarrett claimed that the Speaker asked Obama to wait until after the primaries to publicly move with the immigration issue. The Editor says...
Boehner Is Under Obama's Thin Skin, Let's Hope He Stays There. As a long-time Boehner detractor, it's been a relief to write a couple of things praising him. It would be nice to see the Republicans take the victory handed to them by the American people and be as forceful as legally possible to slow down a president who is likely to become more unhinged as his celebrity in-chief days wind down. Dem Panic According to the New York Times. If the president simply ignores Congress and governs by fiat — having taken care to pack the courts and civil service with apparatchiks sympathetic to his statist ambitions — then there is not much the Congress can do unless it is willing to confront the president directly and call him to account. The spineless John Boehner has shown just how likely that contingency is. Barack Obama flagrantly disobeys the law. John Boehner threatens to sue the president. Ha ha ha. With what Justice Department were you planning to do that, Mr. Speaker? Boehner: I Haven't Spoken to Ted Cruz 'Since He's Been Elected'. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) talks to a lot of people in the course of doing his job, but for some reason, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) isn't one of them, how very curious. "I've not talked to him since he's been elected," Boehner revealed in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, and left it at that. Boehner rakes in cash for openly gay Republican candidate. Speaker John Boehner vowed last year that he'd back gay GOP candidates. Now, he's making good on his word. The Ohio Republican is heading to California this week, where he'll raise cash for openly gay Republican candidate Carl DeMaio in defiance of several conservative groups. Boehner and Pelosi Unite to Pass Bill Funding Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, Syrian Revolutionaries. House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) joined forces early Wednesday evening as the House passed a continuing resolution that will fund the government after the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and that will permit funding for Planned Parenthood (the nation's largest abortion provider), the entirety of Obamacare, and an amendment requested by President Barack Obama "to train and equip appropriately vetted elements of the Syrian opposition." The bill passed 319 to 108 with four members not voting. But there were not enough Republican members to pass the bill without significant support from Democrats. While Pelosi sided with the Republican leadership and voted for the bill, 53 Republicans joined with 55 Democrats in voting against it. Ten Things You Need to Know About Boehner Suing Obama. [#1] Can you sue the president? Yes. Presidents enjoy immunity from lawsuits for civil damages resulting from their official acts, but they are not immune from all lawsuits. For example, the Supreme Court allowed Paula Jones' suit for sexual harassment against President Clinton to proceed while he was in office. Further, members of Congress have filed dozens of lawsuits against presidents over the years. Changing Border Bill and Re-Voting Before Saturday Would Violate Boehner's Own Rule. If the House makes any changes whatsoever to the immigration bill that blew up and died before Speaker John Boehner tried to bring it back to life — and then votes on those changes on Thursday evening [7/31/2014] or on Friday — it would be a violation of Boehner's own 72-hour rule. "I proposed a 72-hour minimum time for members to read bills," Boehner said as House minority leader on May 14, 2009. "I think it's important that members do have a chance." "Americans not only expect lawmakers to know what they're voting on, they deserve to know what's in these bills as well," Boehner added on Sept. 22, 2009. The Conservative Case Against Boehner's Border Bill. Capitol Hill conservatives are not happy with Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) $659 million response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis at the Texas-Mexico border. They are circulating a series of memos, including the one [shown in this article], detailing why the Boehner bill will fail to solve the problem. Count Down to Impeachment. Speaker Boehner's ineffectiveness and timidity have sewn considerable doubt as have the shenanigans of the RNC in their cynical race-baiting tactics to gin up democrat support for their RINO-man Thad Cochran, who went on to defeat the Tea Party Candidate by the narrowest of margins in Mississippi. The complicity in supporting amnesty for illegal aliens shown by many Republicans also has conservative voters rightly miffed. In spite, the few Tea Party victories — including the stunning victory over Eric Cantor — have given many freedom-lovers hope that the pendulum is swinging in favour of Liberty and populist politics. Jeff Sessions: John Boehner 'Surrenders to a Lawless President'. At issue is the House GOP bill to address the border issue, which does not include language sought by [Sen. Jeff] Sessions and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to attempt to stop Obama from expanding his "deferred" deportation of certain illegal aliens to as many as six million people. [...] Sessions said the omission of language addressing Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is infuriating. Key GOP Rep: the Fix Is in, Boehner Quiet on Obama Amnesty Threat for Campaign Ca$h. With President Obama vowing to ignore Congress and move on his own on immigration, potentially providing unilateral amnesty to as many as six million illegal aliens, criticism is mounting from the right over Speaker John Boehner's failure to engage more directly on Obama's threat. Now Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), an ardent anti-amnesty voice in the House of Representatives, is accusing the speaker of his own party of throwing the game in exchange for campaign funds from the pro-amnesty business lobby. Jeff Sessions: Boehner Group's Border Plan an 'Institutional Surrender' to Obama's 'Planned Illegality'. Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), an immigration hawk, shredded House Speaker John Boehner's working group border crisis recommendations in a Wednesday afternoon [7/23/2014] statement, calling Boehner's plan an "institutional surrender to the planned illegality" of President Barack Obama. "The border crisis is the direct and predictable result of the President's sustained policies undermining America's immigration laws," Sessions said in his statement on the Boehner working group proposal. Boehner says no to impeachment. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday [7/9/2014] said he doesn't support calls from members of his party to impeach President Obama. Asked about former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's comments that Obama should be impeached over the influx of child migrants illegally crossing the border, Boehner said, "I disagree." Then asked about members of the House GOP who have also urged for impeachment, Boehner repeated, "I disagree." The Editor says... Report: Boehner Promised Latino Group Amnesty Legislation Last Year. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly promised a prominent Latino group last summer that Republicans would try to pass an amnesty bill last fall, just months after the Senate passed its comprehensive immigration bill that would give a pathway to citizenship to all of the country's illegal immigrants. According to a report in Politico, Boehner last summer "privately told the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference that if" pro-amnesty advocates "won the August recess, then Republicans would move a bill in the fall." John Boehner's friends plot tea party crackdown. They've given John Boehner constant headaches during his three years as speaker. Now, Boehner's friends are trying to make sure that a small pocket of tea-party-aligned Republicans won't have a chance to derail his speakership next year. And if they try, they could be punished. A group of his closest allies — including fellow Ohio Republicans like Pat Tiberi — are discussing tactics such as trying to change GOP Conference rules to punish members who do not support the party's nominee during a floor vote. A lawmaker who bucks the Republicans' choice for speaker could lose committee assignments — or worse. Boehner's allies have already stripped some Republicans of their committee assignments for straying too far from the team. Boehner and Company Circle the Wagons. Since the beginning of his speakership, John Boehner has been trying to find a middle ground between his conservative flank in the form of the Tea Party and the GOP's more moderate faction. Boehner has become known for an unusual style of leadership, described as hands-off and willing to let the groups fight. A new story from Politico, however, indicates that his method might be changing. Back in 2012, Boehner faced a very rowdy and heated caucus when it came to his re-election as speaker of the House. Nine Republicans voted for someone else while Congressman Steve Stockman voted present. Both Congressman Mick Mulvaney and Congressman Raul Labrador refused to vote. Boehner Camp's Threats Could Spark Battle. Speaker John Boehner's friends are trying to design new, more effective punishments for the conservative members that might vote against him on the House floor come January, but the message from the right is, "don't even try it." "Look, intimidation tactics and threats do not take the place of leadership," Rep. Jeff Dunacn (R-SC) told Breitbart News. "I feel like the embers are gathered on the fire pit, and there just needs to be a spark for the flames to go up," a senior GOP aide said, predicting the move could backfire. Boehner's allies, as first reported by Politico, have been quietly plotting how to prevent a small group of conservatives from denying Boehner a victory in the speakership election next January, something that members on the right have been actively discussing. Boehner stands by Shinseki. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is quickly becoming one of the only lawmakers on Capitol Hill who isn't demanding Eric Shinseki's resignation. The Speaker on Thursday again declined to call for Shinseki to step down as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, despite a growing chorus from both Republicans and Democrats following the release of a damaging report for the agency's inspector general. Conservatives float alternative to Boehner. Some conservatives unhappy with House Speaker John Boehner's leadership are looking for a replacement, and recent moves by Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling are fueling speculation he wants Boehner's job in the next Congress. Hensarling, who was part of Boehner's leadership team two years ago but left to chair the House Financial Services Committee, gave an expansive speech last week hosted by Heritage Action for America, a group that frequently and publicly clashes with Boehner. Boehner: 'Hard Time' Distinguishing Establishment GOP From Tea Party. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has been frustrated by the Tea Party movement that gave him his Speakership after the historic 2010 midterm elections, but he said on Thursday that there was not much of a difference between establishment Republicans and those in the Tea Party. "I'm not going to get into this distinction between the Tea Party and Republicans," Boehner said, according to Talking Points Memo. "It's a distinction you're going to have a hard time finding." Valerie Jarrett: 'We Have a Commitment' From Boehner on Amnesty This Year. After hailing the Senate's amnesty bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's senior advisor, told attendees at the yearly invitation-only SkyBridge Alternatives Conference that Boehner would help the White House make a push get immigration reform enacted in the next three months. Poll: Pelosi Highest Negative Rating of Congressional Leaders — 49% 'Unfavorable'. Although all four top leaders in the House and the Senate are viewed more negatively than positively by Americans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was viewed the worst with a 49% "unfavorable" rating, according to a new Gallup survey. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) came in second with a 45% "unfavorable" rank. Boehner Won't Issue an Arrest Warrant for Lerner If Holder Fails to Prosecute Her. House Speaker John Boehner indicated on Sunday [5/11/2014] that if Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't proceed with the contempt charge against former IRS official Lois Lerner, that will be the end of it. "The contempt charge has gone to the attorney general. And it's up to the attorney general, Eric Holder, to prosecute this. And to assign someone to prosecute the case. Now will they do it? We don't know. But the ball is in his court," Boehner told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo. The Editor says... Arresting Lois Lerner. Use it or lose it. That's the message for House Speaker John Boehner. If he thinks Congress has the power to arrest Lois Lerner for contempt, now is the time. If he shrinks from sending the sergeant at arms to bring Lerner to the Capitol jail after the full House held her in contempt, he's weakening his own institution. And if this case is not worth a fight, what is? Torches and pitchforks? John Boehner's mocking speech increases tension with House conservative faction. House Speaker John Boehner, recorded last week mocking conservative GOP lawmakers over their opposition to immigration reform, tried to smooth things over in a private meeting with Republicans on Tuesday [4/29/2014]. But some Republicans left unconvinced, saying Boehner's actions could threaten his speakership and make it even harder to pass an immigration reform bill this year. Boehner: No 'secret conspiracy' to jam through immigration overhaul. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday [4/29/2014] told a private Republican Party meeting that there is no "secret conspiracy" to jam through an immigration overhaul, according to one member in the room. Boehner used the meeting to walk back his comments last week, which were seen as mocking his own members for lacking the courage to tackle immigration reform that he has advocated but that many conservative in the House Republican conference continue to resist. John Boehner: Just 'Teasing' Fellow Republicans on Immigration. Speaker John Boehner dismissed comments he made last week when he made fun of fellow Republicans for moaning about taking votes on immigration reform. "It wasn't mocking, listen, you all know me," Boehner told reporters this morning. "You tease the ones you love. John Boehner's Tea Party Whopper. Politicians may be known for stretching the truth, but Speaker John Boehner's claim he's attended "hundreds of Tea Party events" over the past four years apparently pulled it well past the point of breaking. In reviewing press reports, Breitbart News was only able to identify three Tea Party events Boehner has attended, all of which occurred before he became speaker. Boehner Must Be Stepping Down as Speaker. For the past two years, while I've sometimes criticized Speaker John Boehner, I may have been, of all unabashedly conservative pundits, the one who has defended him the most often, by repeatedly recognizing just what a difficult political position faces a Speaker of the right in today's divided government. But yesterday's adolescent lament from him making fun of colleagues who won't take up immigration reform was beyond the pale. He gives absolutely no credit to any legitimate motives his colleagues might have — such as, for instance, that they really disagree philosophically and strategically with his whole approach. Meanwhile, his determination to keep pressing forward on the issue, despite the obvious political drawbacks of doing so, shows such a political tin ear as to be astonishing. Boehner mocks GOP colleagues on immigration reform. House Speaker John Boehner theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday [4/24/2014] before the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district. [...] Boehner said he's been working for 16 or 17 months trying to push Congress to deal with immigration reform. Let's build a fence around John Boehner. The headline in the Cincinnati Enquirer said it all: "Boehner mocks GOP colleagues on immigration reform." Say what? Why would the titular leader of the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., make fun of his own party and his own caucus on an issue of huge importance to the future of the country? Could it be that he has no moral compass? That he, in fact, has no deep understanding of the damage that illegal immigration has done and is doing to this country? That like Jeb Bush, another ersatz Republican, he thinks illegally crossing the border is "not a felony" but "an act of love"? Or that like Vice President Biden he thinks illegal immigrants are "already American citizens." Well, yeah, it might very well be true that Speaker Boehner is just a political hack, but why exactly do principled Republicans put up with him? John Boehner's double-speak rattles House immigration foes. Boehner has assured members who oppose comprehensive immigration reform that nothing will be done on the issue until the Obama administration "can be trusted to enforce our laws." Given the average GOP Congressman's view of Barack Obama, that means "never." That's certainly how many members interpreted the speaker's words. But last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Boehner, while speaking to donors in Las Vegas recently, said he is "hellbent" on passing immigration reform "this year." But Seriously, Just How Slow-Witted is John Boehner? As he moves from lobbyists to the golf course, from press conferences to the tanning bed, he remains oblivious to all that is around him. He has power, incredible power, and yet to this day he has no understanding of the election that made it so. Moreover, all around him are astonishing opportunities for him to be an historic figure — one who could and should be the man who did more than any other single person in turning back the red tide of Obama. It's all there for Speaker of the House, and yet John Boehner manages to miss it all — as he guarantees his spot as the most spectacular failure in the history of Speakers of the House. Report: Boehner 'Hellbent' on Passing Amnesty This Year. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is "hellbent" on passing amnesty legislation, and other GOP leaders are signaling to donors and lobbyists that they also want to pass legislation this Congress, even though attempting to do so would depress the GOP base and create divisions within the party ahead of 2014's midterm elections that could give Republicans control of Congress. According to the Wall Street Journal, Boehner told donors at a Las Vegas fundraiser in March that he was "hellbent on getting this done this year." Boehner 'Confident' House GOP Will Re-Elect Him as Speaker. House Speaker John Boehner addressed the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by House conservatives mobilizing against his reelection as Speaker on Monday, telling Fox News host Megyn Kelly that he's "confident" he'll win reelection next year. Obama Secretly Rewrote FOIA to Exclude His And All WH Docs. On April 15, 2009, a mere four months after he was sworn into office, the president decided to secretly rewrite the Freedom Of Information Act, which is designed to inform the public and provide oversight of various government activities and behavior to keep any of what it called "White House equities" from being released without a White House review. [...] An actual Speaker of the House who had respect for congress and cared about the Constitution would make a major public stink, bring charges in the House and submit them to the senate for trial to force the Democrats to vote against such an outright violation of law — if they dared. Unfortunately, John Boehner isn't that kind of Speaker. 2014 Midterms Heat Up Speculation on GOP Race for House Speaker. Top Republicans are hoping for a happy beginning to the next, 114th Congress, with the GOP taking control of the Senate and forcing President Obama on his heels for the last two years of his term. But in the House, the clouds are already gathering over the first day of the next session, when the chamber votes to elect a Speaker. "My sense at the present time is that the Speaker doesn't have the support of the conference," says South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan about John Boehner. Obama Trusts Boehner to Be His Amnesty Poodle. Leave it to Speaker Boehner to rescue the President from the worst political fiasco in a century (Obamacare) by working to hand him the biggest win for the Democrats since the 1986 amnesty that flooded America with millions of Third Worlders who prefer big government. John Boehner on Amnesty: 'I Want to Get It Done'. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he wants to get amnesty legislation done this year even as he insisted that the immigration reform he and President Barack Obama discussed in their White House meeting was not "amnesty." Boehner Wants to Wear Us Down on Amnesty. Tony Lee at Breitbart's Big Government reported a few days ago that John Boehner still craves immigration reform this year. Boehner also wants to be speaker again in 2015, goes a Washington Times report. No, he doesn't. The speaker's immigration drum-banging has him acting more like a man who's already signed his own political death warrant. Boehner's insistence on pushing immigration reform this year only harms his party's candidates — up and down the ballot — this November. Rep. Huelskamp: Time to Retire Boehner's Excuses. Speaking at an event marking the five-year anniversary of the Tea Party movement in Washington, D.C. that helped elect him, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said it was time to retire House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) excuses. [...] He said that conservatives are not only "fighting against Obama and his progressive allies but the Republican elites and their consultants who have never wanted the Tea Party in the first place and have lost two straight elections." House Speaker John Boehner is not retiring, he insists. House Speaker John Boehner already has the right tan for Florida's beaches, but he insists he's not headed south to retire any time soon. [...] Speculation in Washington has run rampant since news broke a week ago that Boehner and his wife had purchased an $835,000 luxury condominium in the posh Florida community of Marco Island. Retirement Watch: Boehner Buys FL Condo. The new purchase is likely to prompt a new round of speculation about whether Boehner will retire at the end of this Congress, although he has been adamant — both publicly and privately — that he intends on staying on for another term. Boehner shared the happy news he had just closed on a place to colleagues at the National Republican Congressional Committee's recent winter meeting in Sarasota, prompting gossip among GOP lawmakers about what it might mean for his future. The Editor says... GOP Reps Grill Boehner On Amnesty. Other than the basic fact that he dearly wants a bill, Speaker John Boehner's specific plans on immigration have remained shrouded in mystery since the 2012 elections. Now two key immigration hawks are pressing him for answers in a letter you might mistake as coming from Darrell Issa to Kathleen Sebelius. Conservatives rally against debt ceiling 'surrender,' call for Boehner's head. The House voted Tuesday [2/11/2014] to raise the debt ceiling with no conditions attached, and conservative groups are calling for Speaker John Boehner's head. The vote was 221-201, with just 28 Republicans joining 193 Democrats to vote for it. Speaker Boehner cast a rare vote in favor of the bill. But the attacks began before the vote even took place, as soon as it was known that Boehner would bring a no-strings-attached debt ceiling hike to the floor. Boehner's Office on Obama 'Rewriting' ACA: 'We Are Examining All of Our Options'. House Speaker John Boehner's office said today that he is examining options on how to respond to what the speaker yesterday characterized as President Barack Obama's "rewriting" of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "on a whim." "We are examining all of our options," Boehner's spokesman Michael Steel told CNSNews.com on Tuesday [2/11/2014]. The Editor says... Conservative group calls for Boehner's head. The Senate Conservatives Fund says that it is time for House Speaker John Boehner to go and they will keep track of the GOP lawmakers that support their effort to oust him from his leadership post. The group, which is targeting several incumbent Republicans in primary races this year, said Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has sold out small government principles on too many occasions and the last straw came this week when House GOP leaders signaled they were going to support a bill to increase the nation's borrowing limit without attaching any strings to reduce spending. No Replacement, No Vote. Last week, U.S. House speaker John Boehner backed down on immigration surrender. It took a firestorm of grassroots opposition to make the speaker drop Paul Ryan's cave-in to big business interests (led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and the left, arrayed throughout the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, show biz, academia, and whatever other crags and holes they inhabit. [...] The speaker isn't to be trusted — on immigration reform and other vital issues. With Anger Building, Boehner Puts the Brakes on Amnesty. In an abrupt switch from his months of work to bring immigration reform back from life support, Speaker John Boehner told reporters today [2/6/2014] that the issue cannot move forward until President Obama proves he can be a trustworthy partner to implement the law as written. Dem Support of Amnesty 'Principles' May Hurt Boehner's Credibility with House GOP. The openness of top Democrats to the House GOP's immigration "principles" could undercut Speaker John Boehner's credibility on the right as he seeks to sell his conference on moving forward. Obama had previously said he would not sign an immigration reform bill that does not provide a pathway to citizenship. Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit. Once considered a leverage point to extract massive concessions from President Barack Obama, the debt ceiling has all but been scratched from House Republicans' negotiating playbook this year. Put simply, the GOP has lost its willingness to fight on the issue, [...] What is Boehner's secret immigration plan? What did House Speaker John Boehner really mean on Thursday [1/30/2014] when he announced that the GOP will back a multi-stage amnesty for 12 million illegals, and increase the flow of foreign workers into the country? The various GOP legislators and advocates can't tell if Boehner is faking solidarity with the GOP's immigration-boosting business donors, or is moving slowly to muffle voters' worries about competition for jobs and wages. Boehner Courts a GOP Civil War. There aren't pejoratives adequate enough to describe and deride Boehner's resolve to tackle immigration surrender this election year. Either the speaker has one of the greatest tin ears in the history of American politics or he's got his sights set on a cushy post-speakership job and a corner office somewhere in DC. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will gladly provide references for the speaker. Those big business interests have got Johnny's back, all right. Perhaps the speaker is pimping immigration reform from spite, having disparaged his party's grassroots for calling him out, often and loudly, on his jellyfishness. Boehner: I Agree With Tea Party '90% of the Time'. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) says he has "no problem" with the Tea Party and that he agrees with them "90 percent of the time." Boehner appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night and told the host, "I don't have any problem with the Tea Party. Those people have brought great energy to the political process, most of them have never been involved before." "When you agree with someone 90 percent of the time they're not your enemy," Boehner continued. 1.1 Trillion Reasons to Dump Boehner and McConnell. Late Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that's best described as a fix — fix, as in an act of Republican perfidy and chicanery. The process was rigged by Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell (doubtless with a wink and a nod from Harry Reid) to push through the gargantuan spending measure while giving House and Senate Republicans cover on ObamaCare funding. The bill was an incomprehensible 1,582 pages. Judicial Watch to Boehner: Create Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi. There is little doubt that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is dodging a thorough, top-to-bottom, no-holds-barred investigation of the Benghazi terrorist attack. The only question is, "Why?" As the only non-governmental organization in the country litigating in federal court to uncover the full story about what happened before, during, and following the Benghazi massacre, Judicial Watch knows first-hand that the full story has not been told and that a massive cover-up is underway. Fed up tea party and conservative critics attack John Boehner over 'ideologically bankrupt' GOP. There's a public petition against the Ohio Republican, an advertising buy, a new website — all coordinated by a group that claims to be the nation's largest political action committee for the grassroots movement. "John Boehner has declared war on conservatives demanding lower taxes and limited government," says talk radio host Rusty Humphries, spokesman for new campaign. "Today we declare war on him. We intend to send a message to his fellow 'Republicans In Name Only' that such ideologically bankrupt leadership must come to an end." Tea Party Leadership Fund to Recruit Boehner Primary Challenger. The Tea Party Leadership Fund will announce on Friday [1/10/2014] an effort it plans to undertake to search for a candidate to primary House Speaker John Boehner, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. The group is funding a $25,000 ad campaign against Boehner and a petition drive at PrimaryBoehner.com with a goal of collecting 1 million signatures by Jan. 31. Radio's Rusty Humphries, a spokesman for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, is leading the group's effort to find a candidate. Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2013. [At the top of the list,] Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH): House Speaker John Boehner has apparently become a master at what Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer calls the "Tollbooth Strategy." As Schweizer explains in his new book, [...] "You pay money at a tollbooth in order to use a road or bridge. The methodology in Washington is similar: if someone wants a bill passed, charge them money to allow the bill to move down the legislative highway." According to Schweizer, Boehner apparently used the Tollbooth Strategy to collect more than $200,000 in political donations from executives just days before holding votes on bills critically important to their industries. Will 2014 Be the Year of Amnesty? House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) seems determined to undo the political advantage the GOP has gained from the disastrous implementation of ObamaCare. According to the New York Times, Boehner "has signaled he may embrace a series of limited changes to the nation's immigration laws in the coming months," bringing up a series of bills to advance that agenda. Boehner's Christmas Wish: To Roll the Tea Party. Boehner certainly wants to overhaul immigration laws and realizes he'll need to marginalize the right wing groups to have any chance. But that's a much riskier proposition than press coverage has implied, and the budget deal is only a tentative first step. To pull it off, Boehner would basically have to carry out the same strategy as hardline conservatives, but pushing in the opposite direction. The Air Boehner Tax. He is the new tax collector for the welfare state. And House Speaker John Boehner's latest gift to the American people — a 124% tax increase on air travel — can aptly be called The Air Boehner Tax. Business lobbyists cheer Boehner smackdown of conservative groups. What corporations large and small seek more than anything else is stability. If that means going along with Democrats on a bad budget deal, so be it. If it means amnesty for some illegals, so be it. If it means raising the debt ceiling without a lot of fuss, so be it. Boehner's Ineptitude Has Created a Leadership Vacuum in GOP. John Boehner is the visible leader of the Republican Party. As Speaker of the House, the only Republican-led institution in Washington DC right now, it is his duty to press a Republican agenda. His office should be, at all times, rallying the base of the party in order to create a groundswell of support for future electoral gains. Instead, he is personally, actively working to diminish, purge, and destroy those who do not fall in lock-step behind him. Boehner: Amnesty After GOP Primary Filing Deadlines. A new report from the Texas-based Quorum Report, published by longtime Texas journalist Harvey Kronberg, says that House Speaker John Boehner plans to push amnesty legislation through the House, after the primary filing deadline for candidates. The move would prevent Tea Party from challenging GOP lawmakers who support amnesty in 2014. Speaker Boehner Collected 'Tollbooth Fee' Before Key Votes. An explosive new book alleges Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) collected over $200,000 in donations from executives and companies just days before holding votes on three bills of critical importance to their industries. Nobody but us. [Peter] Schweizer describes "John Boehner's 'Tollbooth', by which the Speaker of the House extracts money by soliciting political donations before he holds crucial votes on the House floor. He details the Obama "Protection Money" racket, where the Administration targets industries for criminal investigation but passes over the lintels of those who are key political donors. Poll: Most want John Boehner ousted. As anger toward the Republican Party grows, a majority of Americans say a GOP-controlled House is bad for the country and want Speaker John Boehner replaced, according to a new poll out Monday [10/21/2013]. US debt ceiling crisis: John Boehner's leadership has been a failure. After days and days of shutdown, after banging on the debt ceiling, after 800,000 people were sent home without pay, after war memorials were barred and parks closed — what have the Republicans achieved? Some negligible tweaks to Obamacare. Oh, and now only about four people are prepared to admit to pollsters that they are Republican. The Grand Ole Party leveraged its reputation when it tried to use the shutdown to injure Obamacare. And it got almost nothing in return. The Tiny Mind of John Boehner: A Jail With No Bars. It's the big house for little minds — drones held captive by the absurd assumption that the entire nation thinks the way the Beltway population does. [...] Moreover, this mindset is combined with a childish and insecure need to be loved, a yearning so strong that jettisoning everything one stands for is a price well worth paying at any time, including in what could well be a seminal moment in history. Obama and Boehner agree on one thing: Giving the shaft to Americans. Over the weekend, the House held a vote and agreed — without a single exception — that when this government shutdown is all over, all these "nonessential" government bureaucrats who have been loafing around at home all this time will be given back pay for work they did not perform. So instead of getting a little taste of the furloughs, layoffs and firings actual American workers have been suffering for years in this nasty economy, these federal bureaucrats would be granted extended paid vacations. A Figurehead Speaker. Speaker John Boehner's goose is cooked. House conservatives' rebellion against Boehner's lame leadership has begun in earnest. How do we know this? Two names: "Cruz and Lee." Remarkably, Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are leading from the House side of Congress. That's right, House conservatives, in a gutsy move, are consulting with both senators, seeking their leadership while spurning Boehner's. Boehner again proves Cowardly and Worthless. Do you remember how tough Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) talked when he was in the minority? Well, ever since kicking off his tenure as majority leader after the 2010 elections with a series of good cries, he has caved on every single issue brought before him. Boehner's Syria Surrender. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated yesterday he trusts President Obama to carry out military strikes against Syrian government targets as punishment for that government's alleged use of poison gas against its own citizens. [...] Boehner's action amounts to siding with the same administration that lied its way into war in Libya, tried to cover up the deadly fiasco in Benghazi, Libya, and that even now sides with the Islamofascist terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Is Speaker Boehner Deliberately Throwing the House to Pelosi in 2014? The GOP is operating on fumes, and the leadership within the party appears intent upon destroying the one segment within all of the elected Federal government that has the moral courage to stand against the tyrant occupying our White House. Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy must realize that their actions are extinguishing what little trust exists for those within the GOP, leading to the possibility, even probability, of more conservatives not voting in 2014. Boehner says he 'absolutely' trusts Obama. House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama — not that they don't have their differences. Boehner: House Will Fund Obamacare in CR. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he would not include language to defund Obamacare in the continuing resolution bill when it returns to the House, stating, "our goal" is "not to shut down the government." Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) offered an amendment to the Senate version of the CR that would have defunded Obamacare. However, the Senate is controlled by Democrats and, on Wednesday [3/13/2013], Cruz's amendment failed. Let There Be Amnesty! There's still a real chance that the Captain Schettinos of the House Republican brain trust will rescue Obama's presidency by passing an amnesty. But some in the open-borders crowd are getting nervous about John Boehner's ability to achieve Obama's objectives. Boehner Not Only 'Made a Deal w/Obama' — but Fears Being Implicated in Benghazigate Himself. Appearing on Fox, Pat Caddell said Monday that John Boehner quietly went-along the harebrained Libya-Syria gun running scheme that blew up in the Obama regime's face last year — without proper congressional approval — and now fears the consequences of his own grave errors. Caddell: "Boehner... Suppressing Anything on Benghazi". Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has turned down a select committee to investigate Benghazi, even though more than 160 of his colleagues in the House, 1,000 Special Operations veterans and many other Americans have called for one. Could statements made on Fox News' Political Insiders be a reason why? House of Representatives no longer observes monthly moment of silence for troops. Frustrated that the traditional practice no longer exists, a Republican congressman has introduced legislation that would require Speaker of the House John Boehner to personally lead a moment of silence for the country's fallen troops on the House floor every month. In a Tuesday interview with The Daily Caller, North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones said it "really quite frustrates me" that such an observance hasn't happened on the House floor since February. The Editor says... Boehner Defends Decision Denying Select Committee on Benghazi. House Speaker John Boehner Monday defended the way he has handled the investigation into last year's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, insisting a select committee is not needed to probe the incident. The Ohio Republican told the media that he has resisted lawmakers' calls for a select committee because he doesn't think one is necessary. No More - Mr. Nice Guy. Much of the focus has been on the Senate. But if anyone thinks that the House — and specifically Speaker John Boehner — is our fail-safe to killing gun control in the Congress, they had better think again. Speaking on Meet the Press on March 10, Speaker Boehner said that he has "made clear if the Senate acts on gun control legislation, the House will consider it." Quite simply, that means that House Speaker John Boehner will allow the House to consider votes on gun control legislation. Boehner Says He 'Absolutely' Trusts Obama — We Are in Trouble Now. Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), on March 17, 2013, on ABC's This Week, said that he "absolutely" trusts Obama. Boehner also said that he and Obama have a good relationship, and that they are "open with each other ... honest with each other." [...] Where to start? Well, how about these specific examples of Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama not being "absolutely" trustful? Boehner-Obama Deals Produce $2.5T New Debt in 2 Years; $21,817 Per Household. The federal debt has increased $2.5 trillion over the past two years, during a time when federal spending has been governed by a series of deals cut between Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic President Barack Obama. Boehner Plans to Permit and Fund Obama's Attack on Religious Freedom. When the Obama administration finalized its regulation requiring health care plans to provide cost-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs, House Speaker John Boehner — as this column noted last year — was one of those who correctly argued that the regulation was an attack on religious freedom and that Congress must not let it stand. On Wednesday [3/6/2013], in craven contradiction to that position, Boehner plans to [...] Boehner Tepid in Response to White House Gun Control Push. After Obama finished announcing 23 executive orders aimed at guns on Jan. 16, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rep. Tim HuelsKamp (R-Kas.), and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus lined up to criticize what they saw as a straightforward assault on liberty. [...] While these and other GOPers were quick to voice their disgust with Obama's overreach, notably missing was any strong opposition from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). At least 24 Congressmen agree with me: Boehner reelected as Speaker; nine Republicans defect in vote. Boehner was reelected just days after facing one his toughest tests as Speaker of the House — the negotiations over the fiscal cliff. The final will add $4 trillion to the debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and it won the support of a minority of Boehner's conference who criticized the measure for a lack of spending cuts. House Speaker Boehner Votes for Obama's Marxism. Mostly with Democratic votes, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday [1/1/2013] voted for what the Obama Administration said was "the most progressive income tax code in decades." It was Karl Marx who called for a "heavy progressive or graduated income tax" system in order to redistribute the wealth and establish a socialist state. The bill was brought to the floor by Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who voted for it, without a spending cut amendment. He says he will seek "entitlement reform and pro-growth tax reform" sometime later this year. Trouble for Boehner's Speakership? John Boehner's speakership is suddenly "on the ropes," says at least one outside conservative group after Thursday night's head-spinning developments that saw the Republican leader scrap a vote on his own plan to avert the year-end "fiscal cliff" because not enough members of his party would support it. Boehner's House Has Increased Debt $18,944 Per Household. Under the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio), the 112th House of Representatives has thus far approved legislation that has increased the debt of the federal government by $2,176,949,774,695.46 — or approximately $18,944 for per American household. The 112th House of Representatives has achieved this in a little more than 20 months time — and it may not be done yet enacting laws to approve new federal borrowing and spending. Boehner Can't Give Away the House Fast Enough. What is worse than striking out? Grounding into a double play. Not only is Boehner prepared to raise taxes — both through capping deductions and increasing marginal rates — he is now prepared to preemptively surrender our last point of leverage in one fell swoop. The media is now reporting that Boehner offered Obama a clean 1-year debt ceiling extension as part of the deal to raise taxes in return for fake spending cuts. Boehner Plays Santa With Major Concessions To Dems. In this season of giving, no one's been more generous than John Boehner. Three times in fiscal cliff talks, he has offered Democrats more — only to get nothing in return. Replacing Speaker Boehner. John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. [...] But face it. Boehner is no match for Obama on the national stage. He cannot press the economic arguments articulately. He does not have a compelling personality. Obama is running circles around Boehner with outrageous falsehoods, and Boehner cannot raise a peep to challenge him. Boehner's Boners. What's up with John Boehner? Has he lost his mind or something? There are a lot of conservatives who think he's gone around the bend. He's done precious little to convince anyone otherwise. He sounds more like a Democrat than a Republican these days, and he's giving credence to those who believe, "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats." Bring in the genuine conservatives! Report: House leadership concerned Price will challenge Boehner for Speaker. Concerns are growing that Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) could mount a conservative challenge to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), according to a new report in the National Review. The story cites one leadership aide expressing concern that the Georgia lawmaker, who recently lost his bid to become conference chairman, could mount an outside bid for the Speaker's gavel. Boehner faces ouster threats within GOP. House Speaker John A. Boehner is facing increasing pressure as several rebellious Republicans hinted that they won't vote to re-elect him to run the chamber, and a conservative interest group announced a bid to recruit someone else to run against him for the speakership. Only 16 Members Can Unseat Boehner, Group Says. The president and CEO of conservative group American Majority Action (AMA) is demanding Republicans band together to fire House Speaker John Boehner. "Speaker Boehner has been an abysmal failure as speaker, and his latest purge is the nail in the coffin for conservatives," AMA's Ned Ryun said in a statement. Boehner Has To Go. By his actions, Boehner has made himself the tanned poster child of everything that is wrong with Washington. Palin: Boehner's Sellout Won't Be Forgotten in 2014. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Tuesday [12/4/2012] that she thinks House Speaker John Boehner's purge of conservatives from powerful committees is a sign the GOP establishment is out of touch with America. Purged conservative reps: Boehner planning to 'run over' conservatives, vote for tax hike. Conservative Republican Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan hit back at Republican leadership on Tuesday [12/4/2012], following their Monday removal from prominent committees, calling the move "petty" and "vindictive," and accusing Speaker of the House John Boehner and his deputies of silencing independent conservative voices in preparation to steamroll a tax hike through Congress. Conservative groups rebel against John Boehner. Heritage Action, long a thorn in the side of the House Republican leadership, told its members in an email that Boehner was asking his "members to go back on their promise not to raise taxes on the American people" by putting $800 billion in new revenue into the mix of the negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff. No, Mr. Boehner, the Constitution is the Law of the Land. Yesterday, Diane Sawyer asked John Boehner in an interview if he planned to push for repeal of Obamacare. He responded that "the election changes that" and "Obamacare is the law of the land." No, Mr. Boehner, the Constitution is the law of the Republic. [...] They were sure we'd win the election. Ironically, by running away from the Obamacare issue, they ensured that we would not win the election. Now that they lost, they say tough luck on Obamacare. General Colin Powell Colin Powell: I Am No Longer a Republican. Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state in a Republican administration, told CNN on Sunday that he no longer considers himself a member of the GOP. "I can no longer consider myself a fellow Republican," said Powell. "I'm not a fellow of anything right now. I'm just a citizen who has voted Republican, voted Democrat throughout my entire career and right now I'm just watching my country and not concerned with parties." Powell, who during the 2020 presidential campaign, supported Democrat Joe Biden, told CNN that, following the siege of the U.S. Capitol, it was a time for accountability. The traitors who fooled us. Colin Powell was another general gone bad, but by the time President Trump arrived, we already knew his conservatism was a gimmick. He supported Obama. Twice. All The Republicans Who Have Endorsed Joe Biden For President. Though Trump has largely seized control of the Republican party and the loyalty of GOP officials, a number of prominent former GOP officials, and even some of his ex-staffers, have come out in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. [...] Biden has won the endorsements of four Republican cabinet secretaries; Obama administration Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell and EPA Director Christine Whitman, who appeared at the DNC alongside Kasich. Colin Powell: I'm Voting For Biden. Tom Cotton: Big Deal. You Haven't Voted GOP In 16 Years. Despite the fact the he hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, retired General Colin Powell, who served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, made headlines in the mainstream media when he stated on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that he would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, in November. Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton quickly fired back, stating, "I respect Colin Powell's service and he's entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn't voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were 'too extreme' for Secretary Powell." Colin Powell says he's voting for Hillary Clinton. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell plans to vote for Hillary Clinton, his staff confirmed on Tuesday [10/25/2016]. Powell's announcement, which came at a Long Island Association luncheon, is the latest example of Republicans who are ditching their own party's nominee. But his move isn't a complete surprise: Powell, a retired four-star general who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Fake Republican Colin Powell Gives an Outrageous Performance on Meet the Press. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been dragged out for a repeat of his previous interview performances aimed at bringing down Republicans. It's just in time to distract from Hillary Clinton's disastrous campaign and Obama's failed policies. It's geared for the low-information voters. Powell claimed he is still a Republican during an interview with Meet the Press Sunday [9/6/2015] and then proceeded to dismiss the entire party because, according to him, it is moving into radical right territory and has a serious, "dark", racist bent. Powell doesn't, however, mind the violent, dangerous, racist hate group #BlackLivesMatter (BLM). That group is funded by Socialist George Soros whose goal is to destroy American Capitalism and replace it with his Open Society. Colin Powell Still Sees 'Dark Vein' of Intolerance in GOP. Speaking on the day following the 50-year anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama, the first African-American Secretary of State Colin Powell said he still sees a "dark vein" of intolerance in the Republican Party, echoing comments that he made in 2013. "I still see it. I still see it in the Republican Party and I still see it in other parts of our country. You don't have to be a Republican to be touched by this dark vein," Powell told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Sunday [3/8/2015] on "This Week." Colin Powell, Once GOP Dream President, Is Socialist. Colin Powell, George W. Bush's secretary of state, has confirmed the suspicion that derailed his plan to run for president: He's not just a liberal, but a socialist. Colin Powell: America Needs Socialized Medicine. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell believes the United States should have a socialized, single-payer healthcare system similar to those in Canada and Europe. "I think universal health care is one of the things we should really be focused on, and I hope that will happen," Powell reportedly said last week. "Whether it's Obamacare, or son of Obamacare, I don't care. As long as we get it done." Colin Powell slams NC's new voting law in speech. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday [8/22/2013], saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote. 'Republican' Colin Powell thinks Obama doing 'Reasonably Well'. IRS scandal, Benghazi cover-up, James Rosen/Fox News scandal. Those are the main scandals in the news these days. There are also other scandals such as the HHS demanding private corporations fund ObamaCARE, the CIA giving bags of money to Hamid Karzai, and the EPA scandal with Lisa Jackson and her Richard Windsor e-mails. Colin Powell, who still claims that he is a Republican is doing a reasonably well in his second term. Did you know the economy was booming? Colin Powell thinks it is. Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell in $1 million pro-gay-marriage campaign. The pro-gay Respect for Marriage Coalition has launched a $1 million media campaign, complete with full-page newspaper ads and a television bit with President Obama, to rally for legislative reform. Colin Powell: Latent Democrat? Recently the former secretary of state — rumored to be a Republican — has been quite vocal in criticizing his own political party. In no way am I saying Republicans are above criticism and do everything right. But there's something about Colin Powell's recent attacks that sound so, so, well, so Democratic National Committee-ish. Is Colin Powell a Republican? Why did Colin Powell recently trash the Tea Party? Isn't he a Republican who wants to see his party do well in the upcoming election? Or is he someone else? His comments about compromise regarding the selection of the Republican nominee are revealing about his own identity as a Republican. Eric Cantor Eric Cantor Strongly Defends Democratic-Republican Party. Eric Cantor, who was sent on to the politician's afterlife (the private sector) by the voters of his district, penned an article strongly defending his former boss, John Boehner. His views are important to read, as they fully expain the Democratic Party/Republican Party collusion that has taken place over the past six years. Cantor Campaign Spent More at One Steakhouse than Brat on Entire Campaign. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) campaign spent more money at one posh steakhouse before his shocking Tuesday primary defeat than his opponent Dave Brat spent on his whole campaign. Cantor's campaign spent $124,177 at Bobby Van'S Grill and Steakhouse and $44,460 at Blt Steak for a total of $168,637. Limbaugh: House Could Still Push Amnesty, Cantor Has 'Nothing to Lose'. Conventional wisdom today [6/11/2014] dictates Eric Cantor's devastating primary loss means immigration reform is dead, but Rush Limbaugh isn't so sure. [...] Limbaugh charged that Cantor was serving his donors and President Obama more than his constituents, because he's part of that brand of Republican that won't dare "be confrontational" with Obama. But Limbaugh predicted that Cantor is likely so angry, he could very well push for the very thing that got him pushed out of office. Why We Fired Eric Cantor. For almost as long as I've lived here, which is coming up on 20 years now, the purpose of the seventh district has been to re-elect Eric Cantor every two years. It's a strongly Republican district that spans across a very conservative stretch of rural Central Virginia, from the Richmond suburbs to Culpeper. So what were we going to do, vote for a Democrat? No, we were going to vote for Cantor. And Cantor knew it. Because he didn't have to worry too much about getting re-elected every two years, his political ambition was channeled into rising through the hierarchy of the House leadership. Dave Brat Wins One for Federalist 44. Virginia has been an epicenter of the establishment GOP's war on the Tea Party, and vice versa I might add, with political shenanigans and bullying known as "slating" designed to keep conservatives out of political party positions. Eric Cantor and his team were in it up to their necks. The best explanation of Brat's win, however, may have been given on January 25, 1788. The Top 8 Consequences of Cantor's Defeat. On Tuesday night [6/10/2014], one of the most stunning upsets in Congressional primary history took place, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) losing his primary to economics professor Dave Brat. Brat campaigned on the platform that Cantor was a backer of amnesty legislation; heavy conservative media coverage of the thousands of illegal immigrant youths pouring across our inundated southern border contributed to a sense of urgency. So Cantor is out. After Eric Cantor 'earthquake,' stunned House GOP seeks direction. Many Republicans believe Cantor tried to play both sides of the street on the [immigration] issue, on one side working on measures to ease the way for more young illegal immigrants to move into mainstream American society, and on the other assuring fellow Republicans that serious immigration reform would not happen this year. Looking Back at the Tea Leaves on Cantor. Eric Cantor's loss is historic. No sitting House majority leader has lost an election since the office was created in 1899. While Cantor's loss was a stunning surprise, the warning signals were around for a while. Cantor out in Tea Party shocker. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Speaker-in-waiting, was defeated Tuesday in a primary election by a little-known conservative economics professor, David Brat, in one of the most stunning upsets in modern political history. The GOP and Syria: Feckless, and Fecklesser. Speaker John Boehner and his boy, Sherman (aka, Eric Cantor), came out yesterday in support of President Obama's efforts to embroil the U.S. in the Syrian civil war (or proxy war, to some). Clearly, Boehner and Cantor aren't bucking for Red Badges of Courage, unless, once again, thumbing their noses at grassroots conservatives (and a majority of Americans) counts as courage. Let's chalk up Boehner's and Cantor's support for Mr. Obama to the same timidity and left-footedness that has marked too much of Boehner's tenure. Cantor's 'Pledge' At Center Of Secretive Immigration Push, Chairman Says. House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said that a promise Majority Leader Eric Cantor made last year is a major force behind the push to grant amnesty to illegal alien DREAMers who enlist in the military. Cantor "made a pledge that he would help" Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) enact the proposal, McKeon said at a roundtable on Thursday morning [4/10/2014] in Washington, D.C. As reported last week by Breitbart News, House Republicans had been quietly working working to insert the text of the proposal into an related Defense authorization bill, but after the issue became public McKeon announced he would not include it bill as introduced. Denham, a sophomore Republican who represents California's central valley, has been leading the push for the provision, which he has introduced as a stand-alone bill called the "ENLIST Act." Cantor sabotages conservatives in quest for speakership. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is intentionally sidelining one of his own Republican committee chairmen — and the chairman's attempts to pass conservative reforms — in order to better secure his own path to the speakership. Informed sources in the House, Senate and outside groups tell The Daily Caller that a shift in leadership is going to come sooner than expected, and Cantor is fighting hard for the new spot. Eric Cantor falls hard from good graces of conservatives. Conservatives are increasingly targeting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, arguing that he has abandoned conservative principles and protesting his planned meeting with moderate and liberal Republicans. Mr. Cantor, who just a few years ago was seen as a champion for conservatives in the House and a possible candidate to replace House Speaker John A. Boehner, now is viewed with suspicion, said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican. Exclusive: Cantor Challenger Calls for Investigation of New Executive Director of the Republican Party of Virginia. David Brat, the long-shot challenger to Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, is demanding an investigation into the new executive director of the Virginia Republican party, Shaun Kenney, after it was revealed Kenney's consulting firm is now on Cantor's payroll. "If Eric Cantor's campaign or any of his affiliates has hired Shaun Kenney's consulting firm, any pretense of fairness in the upcoming Seventh District Congressional Race is diminished," Brat wrote in a letter to Pat Mullins, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPVA). Palace Intrigue: Right Searches For Cantor Alternative. Eric Cantor has never been closer to wielding the speaker's gavel, but he may want to keep an eye over his right shoulder. As speculation heats up about whether Speaker John Boehner will return in 2015, Cantor is in the midst of a kind of shadow job interview with House conservatives, and it isn't going all that well. Cantor recently enraged many Republicans by sneaking a Medicare bill through the House by voice vote. Child Alien Crisis Obama's Fault, But GOP Won't Pounce. What is at the top of the Republican wish list? A vibrant economy? An America strong and respected in the world? Capturing the Senate? A Republican elected to the White House in 2016? Nah. The GOP wants amnesty for illegal aliens. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., made that abundantly clear in an interview with a local Virginia TV station WTVR last Friday [6/6/2014]. Sen. Sessions Comes Out Swinging Against Secretive House Immigration Push. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and arguably the leading intellectual force against amnesty in Congress, is coming out hard against a proposal backed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor to grant amnesty to illegal alien DREAMers who enlist in the military. Banana Republicans: New Head Of Virginia GOP on Eric Cantor's Payroll. [Majority Leader Eric] Cantor is now campaigning to retain his seat in Virginia's 7th Congressional District. Cantor's challenger for the GOP primary on June 10 — Dave Brat — is politically on Cantor's right, and is thus receiving national interest from conservative/Tea Party groups that are disappointed with Cantor's record as majority leader. The magnitude of the revelation can not be overstated: GOP voters in Virginia's 7th District have just learned that the person appointed to manage the primary election season for the party is being paid by one of the candidates. The Biggest Crony: Cantor Campaign Leader Paid $12.3M by Virginia GOP. At issue is the appearance of a "fixed" primary environment for Eric Cantor's opponent, Dave Brat. Yet further examination of the RPV's finances reveals that the situation with Eric Cantor's long-time campaign chief is much more lucrative than previously reported, and began far earlier than 2013. Dave Brat is not the first Cantor challenger to face a party and an incumbent with the appearance of alignment against his campaign's fortunes. Every Cantor opponent has faced that situation. Cantor's Camouflage Conservative Cant. [W]here the now defunct "Sequester" once supposedly limited the rate of growth of our national insolvency, the Republican leadership has caved once again, abdicating even the appearance of frugality and giving the green light to virtually unimpeded federal spending far into the future. [...] Instead of combating the corrupt efforts of the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the White House unilaterally to "enact" amnesty for illegal aliens by executive fiat, senior Republicans have agreed to join the Democrats' push for an endless supply of cheap foreign labor — legal or illegal — to please their corporate masters. Karl Rove The Editor says... Karl Rove Under Fire for Redistricting Failures: He's 'Costing Republicans All Over the Country'. Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove is under fire hours before he is set to speak at a major gathering of Republicans in Missouri, Breitbart News has learned, all while his failures on redistricting nationwide become clearer. Rove, who is scheduled to keynote the Missouri Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in St. Louis on Saturday night [2/12/2022], is a senior adviser nationally to a group called the National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT). Why does Karl Rove want to send our sons to war? Karl Rove is, once again, beating the war drums. He is ready to send 18-year-olds like my son to fight nuclear Russia over Ukraine's border so that he and the other neocons can talk like tough guys on TV. On Jan. 28, Karl Rove shared an article on his Twitter page written by Noah Rothman attacking American populists who are opposed to sending our troops to war with Russia. My view is that Mr. Rove despises "America First." He loves war and the global economy that all these wars prop up. [...] The fact that he wants to send 18-year-old Americans like my son to fight nuclear Russia over Ukraine's border — again, so he can talk like a tough guy on TV — makes me sick. He can put on the uniform and go fight the Russians himself. Mr. Rove is part of the consultant class that is never held responsible for the failed product of their decisions. It is only the American people who suffer the consequences. The GOPe Just Doesn't Get It. The establishment Republicans could make me into a Trump supporter. Establishment leader Karl Rove — the Architect — proved once again that there is a good reason why they've disenfranchised the base. Mr. Rove was on the O'Reilly Factor Wednesday evening [3/2/2016] and was asked by Bill O'Reilly why he doesn't like Donald Trump. Rove said it was a matter of policy and character. One of his complaints is that we shouldn't be funding Planned Parenthood as he suggested Trump would do. First of all, Trump said he would defund them as long as they are providing abortions and secondly, it was Rove's RINOs in Congress who funded Planned Parenthood and the entire Obama agenda with the recent omnibus. Understanding Karl Rove's "Operation Hummingbird". "Operation Hummingbird" an identifier given (by me) to describe a very strategic approach of Karl Rove in getting Jeb Bush the republican nomination. "Hummingbird" describes a very a specific strategy to overcome a hurdle currently blocking Rove's path, Donald Trump. Often it is easier to use a descriptive term, rather than spend 300 words having to re-explain a strategy as it expands and becomes increasingly visible over time. Something Sketchy In The GOPe Works — Emperor Karl Rove Campaigning for RNC. Political campaigns don't normally sell you the $1-$3 trinkets or gimmicks until the last month of a fiscal reporting calendar (March, June, Sept, Dec.). So when a trinket email hits in August, that usually means a big infusion of cash is coming from somewhere (usually Wall Street) and they need to dilute the visibility of it with lots of smaller donations. Karl Rove vs. the 2nd Amendment. Guns don't kill people, the Constitution kills people, at least according to Karl Rove, Republican strategist and architect of George W. Bush's election and reelection as president. Rove, speaking on Fox News Sunday, and in the wake of the South Carolina church massacre, embraced the liberal mantra that there are too many guns on the street and went a step further and a step too far, saying the way to avoid more such tragedies is to repeal the Second Amendment and its guarantee of our right to keep and bear arms. Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment. Republican strategist Karl Rove said on "Fox News Sunday" the only way to stop gun-related violence, like the Wednesday [6/17/2015] massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C., was to repeal American citizens' Second Amendment rights. Glenn Beck Unloads on Karl Rove. Last night [3/20/2015], we reported Karl Rove's comments dismissing Glenn Beck's departure from the GOP, calling it "old news." Well, Beck picked up on it and went on quite a lengthy Facebook tirade hours after Rove made those remarks. And by the looks of it, Rove's comments only confirmed for Beck every single problem he has with the Republican Party. Karl Rove's Strategic Concealment Initiative. Karl Rove has come under fire for masterminding the Bush Administration policy of hiding the discovery of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Rove, along with Bush, had a policy befitting a schoolyard bully victim, and he no doubt believed the argument was lost and didn't want to reopen old wounds. Apparently soldiers in Iraq were under strict orders not to talk about the many canisters of mustard gas and nerve gas found hidden by Saddam Hussein's regime. The principle argument in defense of this practice is that it was intended to keep these weapons out of the hands of the insurgents; the Administration didn't want the terrorists to know about them, to allow them to use them against U.S. forces. This argument seems weak. Karl Rove: Weapon of Mass Delusion. So Karl Rove was involved in a cover-up. Well, leave it to Karl — the "boy genius" and the "architect" — to orchestrate a cover-up that actually hides information exculpatory to his President and his party. He did just that on the issue of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. This is not an outlier either — this is just Rove being Rove. And 'Rove being Rove' has sown the seeds of destruction that gave us Barack Obama in 2008, and again in 2012, and has scattered political germs that still haunt Republicans to this day. This goes back to late 2000 in fact. Karl Rove Is Ruining the GOP. Rove has never cared about conservatism and has spent his entire career opposing any Republican who might be successful in promoting or implementing a conservative agenda. Rove belongs to the same tradition of moderates who fought Barry Goldwater in 1964, who pushed back against Ronald Reagan in 1976 and did everything they could to stop Reagan again in 1980. They said Reagan would be a disaster for the party and even the country. Today, Reagan is one of the most well-remembered American presidents and remains the standard-bearer for what it means to be a conservative Republican, popularizing a small government message that GOP moderates said was too extreme to resonate with voters. As with Rove's predictions about Mitt Romney's chances in 2012, GOP moderates couldn't have been more wrong about Reagan. Karl Rove Leaves Illegal Immigration Out Of GOP Senate Victory Plan. GOP establishment strategist and talking head Karl Rove conspicuously omitted illegal immigration in his advice to GOP Senate candidates on how to close the sale to voters in this year's midterm elections. In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Rove urges Senate candidates to talk about "pro-growth policies like tax reform and regulatory relief, spending restraint to reduce the debt, health-care reforms to replace ObamaCare and energy policies like the Keystone XL pipeline" in addition to national defense. Does Karl Rove Want The GOP To Capture The Senate Or Help a Bush Restoration? Doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results was Albert Einstein's all-too-familiar definition of insanity. Yet that's exactly what Karl Rove recommended in the Wall Street Journal last week to help Senate Republicans "close the sale" in the midterm elections. We all should be wondering why. Rove warns candidates and incumbents "not to be cautious, timid, or unclear" but pushes a playbook largely followed by Republicans with little success since the 1990s. Why Does Anyone Listen To Karl Rove's Empty Advice? Why does anyone listen to Karl Rove anymore? After his epic meltdown on Election Night 2012, when he insisted in the face of the counting of real votes that his little white board projections still gave Mitt Romney "a path to victory" and after the expenditure of something like $325 million found Rove winning only 9 of the 31 races his American Crossroads Super-PAC played in during the 2012 election cycle. Karl Rove, who declared war on the Tea Party, now whining that donations to establishment GOP candidates are down. GOP establishment lover Karl Rove claims that the GOP may not take back the Senate because Republican donors are not supporting his moderate candidates. This despite the fact the Tea Party, contrary to his war on it, fielded several candidates in the last midterm elections of 2010 who won. It appears that to the contrary, Rove is becoming toxic for Republican Party candidates. Rove and the Establishment GOP Nitwits May Have Committed Electoral Suicide. The geriatric and senile Republican establishment could very well have destroyed their ability to take the Senate this year, a year that should have been ripe for a GOP landslide. From Mitch McConnell's vow to "crush the Tea Party" all the way to rampant vote fraud in Mississippi, the Reince Priebus- and Karl Rove-led band of numbskulls have wagered that corrupting the primary process, demonizing the conservative activist base, and using borderline criminal tactics would unify the party. Karl Rove Frets GOP Establishment Candidates Not Getting Enough Donations. After declaring war on the Tea Party and often showing nothing but contempt for grassroots conservatives that powered Republicans to record gains in the 2010 midterm elections, Karl Rove whined that the GOP may not take back the Senate this year because of the lack of enthusiasm for his establishment-approved candidates. Karl Rove's PAC Trying to Win Arkansas, North Carolina by Running Left of Pryor, Hagan. Karl Rove and his Crossroads GPS PAC are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the senate — by campaigning to the left of incumbents Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan on behalf of Republican challengers Tom Cotton and Thom Tills. So blatant is this attempt in the latest round of TV ads that the Washington Post teased Rove with a headline that taunted him as a "bleeding heart liberal." Why Karl Rove and the GOP Establishment Will Lose Again. Karl Rove is at it once again. The so-called "strategist" is again confusing strategy with tactics, and is about to blow easy Senate pickups in Arkansas and North Carolina. This is not merely snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — this is snatching defeat from the bowels of victory — in astonishing tone-deaf fashion. There is absolutely no excuse for not winning these two races. So how is the one-time "boy genius" doing this? By running ads attacking Senators Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan from the left. Yes, you heard that right. Rove's Crossroads GPS PAC is insisting in their latest ads in both states that Republican candidates Tom Cotton and Thom Tillis are better liberals than Pryor and Hagan, at least on Social Security. The ads attack Hagan and Pryor for wanting to raise the eligibility age for the defunct program. Karl Rove to GOP: Work with Obama. Unlike many of his Republican colleagues, Karl Rove advocated Thursday for bipartisan compromise on immigration. "Republicans have to look at this as an opportunity that they have to work," the Republican strategist said on the Fox News program "Happening Now." "It's an opportunity to get some things done to help secure the border." Donations to Karl Rove's Groups Drop 98% after Targeting Tea Party. After wasting nearly $325 million during the 2012 election cycle with nothing to show for it and then declaring war on the Tea Party, donations to Karl Rove's three Crossroads groups decreased by 98% last year. Karl Rove and the GOP Socialists. Welcome to the 2014 election. An election which, by all accounts, both historically and in terms of the specifics of President Obama's sinking ratings, should be a winner — a big winner — for the GOP. Unless. Unless there is a deliberate, willful attempt to sabotage the GOP from within. Using the GOP Establishment as a launching pad to ensure that Reagan-style conservatives — the base of the Republican Party — are defeated by Establishment, statist Republicans. Republicans who will in turn so anger the GOP base that the base simply refuses to turn out in November. Karl Rove's Crossroads Reloading Against Tea Party. Even though Karl Rove's American Crossroads brand has been damaged after the group declared war against conservative candidates, the group will reportedly try to influence the 2014 midterm elections by bullying campaigns and creating groups that, on the surface, do not seem to be affiliated with them. How Karl Rove went from GOP mastermind to the right's political punching bag. A decade ago, Karl Rove was President George W. Bush's right-hand man and one of the most powerful political figures in America. [...] But today, with a GOP civil war raging between establishment types and upstart conservatives in the mold of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), Rove's once-strong influence has begun to wane. If Humpty Wore Glasses, Karl Rove He Would Be. The more I'm forced to watch this rotund little man scribble on his whiteboard like a toddler with crayons, the more he reminds me of the Humpty Dumpty character in Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass. Look closely at Karl and what do you see? If Humpty wore glasses, Karl Rove he would be. Mr. Rove's scorn toward the Tea Party and the conservative base of the Republican Party is indicative of the fear he and other RINOS have of their destructive lurch to the left coming to an end. The Rogue Helping Obama Steal America. The deadly, almost under-cover assassin of conservatism in America is not the Fundamental Transformation of America-pushing Barack Obama and the Democrats but Karl Rove and his big-money financiers. Conservatism is the dead man walking in the politics of America today, and there's no way to revive the corpse as long as Karl Rove is still at the GOP helm. Karl Rove's War. Arguably no Republican had a deeper post-election hole to climb out of than Rove. His personal brand was badly damaged by his triumphal forecasts last cycle, including an embarrassing election night that found him on Fox News disputing the network's decision to call the race for President Obama. More materially, American Crossroads and its sister organization, Crossroads GPS, failed to deliver. Karl Rove: The biggest loser. Rove and the professional "consultant class" think that only Washington D.C. insiders like them — not the American people — should get to decide who runs for public office. That's why he is launching the "Conservative Victory Project" — a Super PAC whose mandate is to wrestle local decision-making power away from the American people, so that only Washington DC insiders can hand-pick our candidates — against our will — again. Trump and Levin are Right About Rove. If you're a donor or potential donor to Karl Rove's group American Crossroads, I recommend you listen to Mark Levin's recent interview with Donald Trump, because they disclosed some long overdue truths that needed to be said. Trump and Levin made several points that donors, the media, and the political class can no longer ignore and frankly should have picked up on long ago. The Civil War Has Begun. America is in trouble. Supporting candidates who are willing to come to Washington to increase our national debt will only hasten our decline. Conservative donors must think twice about giving Rove money in support of this road to nowhere. Of course, those in the establishment will say that Rove was the "architect" of President George W. Bush's electoral wins. But you only have to look at Bush's second term when Rove was the Deputy Chief of Staff and see he was an architect of disaster. Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative. In 2000, George W. Bush ran for president not as a conservative, but as a "compassionate conservative." This was presumably because unadulterated conservatives are not compassionate. But to take the term "compassionate conservative" seriously, one must assume that a person in political office deserves credit for showing compassion when he employs the coercive power of the state to take money from one person and give it to another. 'We're Being Stabbed In The Back'. Conservative radio host Mark Levin went after former George W. Bush advisor, Karl Rove, during his radio show on Monday [2/4/2013] after Rove announced the formation of a new PAC that would aid moderate Republican politicians against tea party challengers in primary races. Levin called Rove's effort 'diabolical' and listed the many GOP officeholders who would not be in power but for the tea party insurgency. GOP control freak Rove launches new effort to snuff out Tea Party. This is war. But of course, for Beltway establishment strategist and GOP control freak Karl Rove, it has been war on grass-roots conservatives for years now. The New York Times reported this weekend that Rove and the deep-pocketed donors whose coffers he drained futilely this past year are doubling down on stupid. Rove, Inc. will re-commit to a new group that will "protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party's effort to win control of the Senate." The Editor says... The Snakes in the GOP Grass. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that the power players at American Crossroads are financing a new group to help fund candidates in the primaries who oppose conservatives. [...] In an Orwellian attempt to obfuscate their agenda, they will be naming their PAC "the Conservative Victory Project." They will never tell you how they plan to achieve conservative victory without running conservative candidates. On the other hand... Tea Party Groups Attack Rove Machine. With Karl Rove under heavy fire after his group, the Conservative Victory Project, took to the pages of the New York Times to attack the Tea Party, donors are beginning to turn on the Project. Politico reports Friday morning that the Project will "essentially preform [sic] oppo research and grade potential candidates on a variety of factors that might affect their ability to win a general election contest." Karl Rove and the definition of insanity. While he may call his latest super PAC the "Conservative Victory Project," Rove most decidedly does not wish for conservative victory. The aim of his group is to push moderate candidates while posturing as the savior of the embattled Republican Party. This is what disgraced Republicans do all the time — turn away from the base in an effort to win praise from the liberal mainstream media. Rove Declares War On Tea Party. The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party has begun. On one side is the Tea Party. On the other side stand Karl Rove and his establishment team, posing as tacticians while quietly undermining conservatism. Establishment Forms Anti-Conservative Super PAC. [Pollster Scott] Rasmussen said, "The Republican establishment has two choices. They can act as mature party leaders of a national political party, or they can protect their own self-interest. Mature party leaders would spend a lot more time listening to Republican voters rather than further insulating themselves from those voters." Rove founds new PAC to protect establishment from conservatives. This is the kind of news that makes me believe more than ever that it's time to seriously consider a new, conservative political party to offer something different from the status quo being foisted on this country by the Remocrats and Depublicans. Hilariously, this new organization designed to protect establishment Republicans from being challenged by actual conservatives has the audacity to call their entity the Conservative Victory Project when in reality it should be called "RinoPAC". Karl Rove leading effort to stop the Tea Party and conservative grass roots. Rove's back and looking for a fight. Has he realized that the GOP lost because 3 Million Republicans stayed home? Does he understand that they largely did so because they viewed the candidate as too wishy-washy and not conservative enough? Is he suggesting that the party mend fences with its own base in order to choose better candidates and move their cause forward? Nope. He's decided that he needs to wipe out the Tea Party. The End Of The Karl Rove Death Grip Signals A Reagan Renaissance. Many of the same Mandarins that delivered a stagnant economy to President(s) Bush had a hand, directly or indirectly, in misguiding McCain, and then Romney, to resounding defeat. Republican 'leaders' have it all figured out. In other words, it seems the Republican establishment hasn't figured out that it is the problem with the Republican Party. It's hard to point the finger at oneself. Instead, it has learned all the wrong lessons from 2012. There are several people who have to go if the Republican Party is to reinvent itself in a way that will allow it to be more competitive in future elections: [Mitch] McConnell is one. John Boehner is another. And Karl Rove is the third member of the arrogant, self-interested triumvirate. George W. Bush I spent eight years quietly grumbling about George W. Bush, because he was doing everything Al Gore would have done as President. Who outlawed incandescent light bulbs? Who proposed a trillion-dollar mission to Mars? Who said Islam was a "religion of peace" right after they proved otherwise? In spite of all his efforts to be a "centrist" and "reach across the aisle" and "build up political capital" (which he never spent), the Left and the news media and the war protesters still hated him. This pretty well proves that there's nothing to be gained by taking it easy on the Leftists. Time Of Death: Oct. 3,
2008. Republicans had branded themselves as the Party of low taxes, responsible spending and
limited government. Virtually everything President Bush has done since his tax cuts in 2001 has been
the exact opposite. Continued on this page. Senator Jeff Flake Note to Jeff Flake: Joe Biden Is Not the 'Decency and Civility' Candidate. On Wednesday [10/28/2020], former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) released an ad for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, arguing that the Democrat "will best restore decency and civility in the White House." He lists "character, moral leadership, and integrity" as reasons to vote for Biden. Yet Biden is not some shining example of moral integrity. If Flake wants to make the integrity argument and he cannot stomach President Donald Trump, he should abstain from voting for president as he did in 2016. Republican former Sen. Jeff Flake endorses Joe Biden. Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, the former vice president's campaign said Monday [8/24/2020]. Flake, who retired from the Senate early last year, will deliver remarks later on Monday as part of the launch of the "Republicans for Biden" effort featuring two dozen GOP former members of Congress. The former senator was an early and frequent critic of President Trump during their few overlapping years in Washington, DC, becoming more vocal in his disapproval of the commander-in-chief after announcing he would not seek re-election. Gasbag Jeff Flake Wants to See a Democrat Win in 2020. Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that he would rather see a Democrat win in 2020 than have President Trump elected to a second term. Flake made his comments at a debate in New York hosted by the nonprofit Intelligence Squared. "Are you willing to lose a cycle for the Republican Party because of the principles that you're arguing?" moderator John Donvan asked. "Oh yes, yes," Flake responded, citing Trump's policies on issues such as immigration. Jeff Flake Lands Job as CBS News Contributor, Won't Run in 2020. Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is joining CBS News as a contributor, the network announced Tuesday [1/29/2019]. Appearing on CBS This Morning Tuesday, Flake discussed his future role at the network and revealed he will not launch a primary challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020. Guess Which Former Senator That Trump Disliked Is Reportedly Seeking A TV Job? Guess which former senator is speaking with CBS News about a job at the network? It's Jeff Flake, former senator from Arizona, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR). THR reports that Flake visited CBS' Manhattan office, adding, "Flake could serve in the standard role for ex-politicians as an on-air contributor — or as something more, according to knowledgeable sources." Jeff Flake Will Introduce Bill To Raise Taxes Before Leaving Senate. Outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake will soon co-introduce legislation to tax carbon dioxide emissions, according to news reports. Flake, who will not be returning to Congress next year, and Delaware Sen. Chris Coon, a Democrat, will introduce their carbon tax bill as soon as Wednesday. The bill is unlikely to go anywhere with just two weeks left in the current legislative session. Flake and Coon's bill will be the Senate companion to bipartisan House carbon tax legislation introduced in November. The Washington Times first reported of Flake's carbon tax bill Wednesday [12/19/2018], and The Hill later confirmed it. Jeff Flake: Somebody From Within the GOP Needs to Challenge President Trump in 2020 — Maybe ME? Outgoing Arizona Senator and RINO of all RINOs Jeff Flake told CNN's Jim Acosta on Friday [12/28/2018] that somebody within the GOP needs to challenge Trump in 2020. "The country needs to be reminded what it means to be conservative... and what it means to be decent," Flake told Acosta. The Editor says... Judicial Nightmare: Jeff Flake Has Pretty Much Destroyed His Party's Agenda On Judges This Year. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is leaving, but not quietly. The immensely unpopular Republican has decided to totally trash his party's judicial agenda. Flake is the key 11th vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he's not budging until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holds a binding vote on a bill protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice's Russia investigation. It's frustrating. It's deplorable. And it just comes to show you why Flake would never have won re-election if he decided to execute a suicidal banzai charge concerning that effort. He would have been knocked off in a primary, but I digress. The Senate Judiciary Committee has pushed back votes on judges. In all, he's holding up the advancement of 21 judicial nominations, along with the confirmation of an additional 32 nominees whose votes are now stalled on the floor. Jeff Flake's Sad Exit. Usually when Congress cancels a committee meeting the country misses nothing more than grandstanding. But this week the Senate Judiciary Committee had to halt progress on confirming talented judges thanks to GOP Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona. The committee was scheduled to meet Thursday to move some 20 judicial nominees. But Mr. Flake has said he will block all judicial nominees until he receives a vote on a bill that would insulate Robert Mueller's Russia investigation from normal political accountability. The GOP's one-seat majority on Judiciary means the party can't report judges out of committee with a favorable recommendation without Mr. Flake's vote. Grassley cancels vote on judges in face of Flake opposition. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley canceled panel votes scheduled for Thursday on 25 executive and judicial nominations. The Iowa Republican announced the cancellation late Wednesday, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blocked an effort by Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., to bring up a bill that would prevent President Trump from firing special counsel Robert Mueller. Senate Cancels Votes on 21 Federal Judges After Jeff Flake Blocks Committee. Outgoing U.S. Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona has given the American electorate the big middle finger for Christmas. Flake has followed-through on his vow to block more than 20 judicial nominees; forcing the Senate Judiciary Committee to abandon six federal circuit court nominees, and 15 federal district court nominees. Flake to halt judicial nominees until Mueller protection bill passed. Sen. Jeff Flake announced Wednesday [11/14/2018] that he will not vote to advance any new judicial nominees through the Judiciary Committee, nor will he vote to confirm picks on the Senate floor, until he gets his way on unrelated legislation to prevent the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Flake made the announcement on the Senate floor minutes after his bid to pass the bill failed. His threat could block the committee from approving any more judges this year, since the GOP only holds a one-seat majority on the panel. Trump proud of forcing Jeff Flake from Senate. After complaining that the GOP retirements hurt the party in the midterms, President Trump on Wednesday proudly credited himself with forcing out Sen. Jeff Flake. "In Jeff Flake's case, it's me, pure and simple. I retired him. I'm very proud of it. I did the country a great service," Mr. Trump said at a White House press conference. Jeff Flake: 'We Can't Have That on the Court'. As the Senate awaits the results of the FBI investigation into the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Jeff Flake, one of the lawmakers who spurred the inquiry, criticized the judge Tuesday [10/2/2018] for his recent appearance in the upper chamber. Speaking with Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, and Democratic Senator Chris Coons at The Atlantic Festival on Tuesday morning, Flake called the judge's interactions with lawmakers "sharp and partisan." "We can't have that on the Court," said the Arizona senator, who didn't elaborate on which interactions he was referring to. Flake: Not Exactly Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. At least the likes of Mazie Hirano, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris et all [sic] have the honesty to put a "D" next to their names. Whether that D stands for Democrat, demagogue, demented, or merely delusional is up to the reader. Not so honest has been the likes of RINO poster child Sen. Jeff Flake, who found he couldn't be elected the proverbial dogcatcher in his home state of Arizona and decided to leave the Senate, but not before he had his "Benedict Arnold moment" in a Senate elevator. Jeff Flake has not exactly been Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but rather been a profile in porridge who cannot claim to be risking his political career, because he has none. It evaporated the moment Arizona voters realized Jeff Flake is a political chameleon with no backbone and no color palate. He is quite simply a grandstanding political coward whose true nature has been revealed by the Trump revolution and the Kavanaugh nomination. Senator Jeff Flake Attends Soros-Sponsored Globalist Festival With Democrats. Here he is yesterday [9/30/2018] standing shoulder-to-shoulder with "good friend" and fellow globalist senator, Chris Coons at a George Soros-sponsored "Global Citizen Festival" where Flake makes a joking reference to the elevator confrontation that he says made him request a one-week FBI investigation into allegations against Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The women who confronted him in that elevator were paid Soros operatives. The entire thing was a sham, a set-up, and now Mr. Flake himself appears to be directly on the Soros payroll. Sen. Flake: 'Not a Chance' I'd Call for FBI Investigation If I Were Up for Reelection. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who broke with his GOP colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday [9/28/2018] and joined with Democrats in calling for another FBI investiagtion of Supreme Court nominee Jeff Kavanaugh, told CBS's 60 Minutes that he never would have done what he did if he were running for reelection this year. "No, not a chance," he said, smiling. Flake has served one term in the U.S. Senate and announced earlier this year that he would not run for reelection in November. Flake has been a staunch critic of President Donald Trump and compared him to the Soviet genocidal dictator Joseph Stalin. Report: Flake wasn't pressured, he masterminded the Kavanaugh delay. According to a report published by Politico, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) chose to appear pressured when, in fact, he masterminded the latest Kavanaugh delay. His subsequent media statements about his motivations and his media appearances in light of this report suggest Flake's true motivations are far less pure than he would have us believe. Flake's focus on optics, on his raw ambition (for 2020?), and on the kind of "swamp creature" political maneuvering surrounding this planned reversal paints for the American people a hideous and disturbing portrait of the Arizona senator. We Are Finally Getting Rid Of The Treacherous Sissies Who Used To Control The GOP. That simpering sap Jeff Flake — he's the kind of guy who voted for Evan McMullin and still doesn't regret it. It's sad to see what was once allegedly a man be utterly emasculated in public and then proceed to dance to please his new masters. He ought to be, and henceforth shall be, known as Jeff! since he's essentially Jeb! without the pedigree or — here's the scary part — the spine. [...] Flake does not care about you Normals, especially you Normals from the Grand Canyon state who are now regretting your decision to send McCain Superlite to the Senate. At least John McCain, for all his faults, flew fighters and took no guff; Jeff! takes a little guff from some shrieking leftist in an elevator and he's suddenly primed for his Democrat buddies to talk him into helping carry some of the wood for the Brett Kavanaugh witch burning. The "Democrat buddies" part is key. See, they are his real constituency. Like all Fredocons, he chose trying to please his elite pals over keeping his promise to serve Normals like you. Jeff Flake Isn't A Truth-Seeker, He's A Coward. There's a great quote from the poker movie "Rounders": "If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." Time and time again, Sen. Jeff Flake has allowed the left to use him as a tool to advance their agenda. Flake's desire to be accepted and loved by the left all too often ends with him knifing conservatives in the back. Repeated attempts to be liked by his enemies has now morphed into Flake working against the small-government ideals he once claimed to champion. The Flaky Flakery of Jeff Flake. Jeff Flake is the best player on the left's team. He can always be counted on to aid the enemy when the stakes are high. Whenever Trump says something "controversial," Flake seems always to be available to the press to throw Trump under the bus. Whenever the left does something unthinkable, Flake seems always to be around to legitimize the left's lunacy. Late last week, Flake gave the left exactly what it wanted by delaying the Supreme Court nomination process. That's the very purpose behind these baseless Kavanaugh accusations, after all, and Flake folded like a cheap suit. Flake's treachery is so predictable that it almost makes you suspect he has a Cultural Marxist handler and that his disloyalty is less a matter of stupidity than design. Late Friday night [9/28/2018], some left-wing radical screeched hysterically and aggressively at Jeff Flake in a Capitol Building elevator. Rest assured: Flake buckled, as he always does, to come to the left's rescue in the 25th hour and perhaps change the course of history. Dear Senators Flake, Collins, and Murkowski. Senator Flake, you were confronted on national television by two activists, both claiming to be rape survivors. Maria Gallagher and Ana Maria Archila gained national fame over the video of that confrontation, and both say they've never spoken about their experiences before. The testimony of Christine Blasey Ford gave them the strength, they said, to come forward. But they haven't, at least as far as I've seen so far. These women have an opportunity to tell their stories and hopefully get justice. I hope they do. And I hope journalists who've granted them hero status, follow up and air their stories so other women won't risk being victimized by their attackers. But they're also dedicated liberal activists. There is no investigation, no piece of evidence (or lack thereof) that will change their opposition to Kavanaugh. Jeff Flake Confronted By Protestors in Jawdropping Moment — You're Telling Women 'They Don't Matter!'. Moments after stating that he plans to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) was confronted by protestors while on his way to vote in a Senate Judiciary Committee session. A woman who identified as a sexual assault survivor told Flake, "What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit on the Supreme Court! This is not tolerable! You have children in your family. Think about them! I have two children. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl. What are you doing, sir?!" The Editor says... Who Was behind the Flake Set-Up? On Friday morning [9/28/2018], two women raced past reporters and security officers and blocked a senators-only elevator in the U.S. Capitol. They cornered Arizona senator Jeff Flake, who had just announced he was going to vote yes on moving Brett Kavanaugh's nomination out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor for a full debate. The women wouldn't let Flake leave until they had yelled at him, face to face, for several minutes. Anyone who thinks the two left-wing activists acted without a well-thought-out plan hasn't read The Intimidation Game by Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal. A CNN camera broadcast the event live, and from there it went viral. The Genius of the Elevator Women. The Elevator Women sniping Senator Flake in front of so many journalists was a deliberate move. And it worked beautifully. Public tongue-lashings of this sort are wonderfully effective against men. Flake was caught in an enclosed space, unable to escape, maneuver, or construct a hasty defense. Off guard and off kilter, he simply stuttered out half-hearted responses in the face of overwhelming pressure. I admire the Left's strategic and tactical understanding. Find your enemy's weakness and then strike at it, hard, in the moment he least expects it. Senate Judiciary Committee advances Kavanaugh nomination in party-line vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed Judge Brett Kavanaugh in a party-line vote on Friday afternoon. That sent his Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate a day after an emotional hearing in which a California professor leveled sexual assault allegations — allegations that Kavanaugh emphatically denied. The committee voted 11-10 to recommend Kavanaugh, with previously undecided GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona supporting him. However, that support came with a last-minute caveat that holds major implications for a final vote. After meeting with Democrats behind closed doors, Flake, who earlier in the day announced he would endorse the nominee, emerged to call for a delay in a full floor vote to allow for an FBI investigation "limited in time and scope." While backing Kavanaugh at the committee level, Flake said he'd only be "comfortable" moving ahead on the floor if the FBI investigates further. What Sen. Jeff Flake just did on the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, explained. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., created some late drama in the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon. On Friday morning [9/28/2018], Flake announced he would support Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. But by the time the committee was supposed to vote to advance the nomination to the full Senate floor at 1:30pm, Flake, well, flaked a little bit. Although he voted to advance the nomination to the floor, Flake asked for a short delay — up to a week, he said, but perhaps shorter — for the FBI to conduct an investigation limited in scope and time on the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh (Flake did seem to say "allegations" plural, rather than limiting it to just the initial allegation from Christine Blasey Ford). But Flake's request is nonbinding. Flake Flakes in Senate Judiciary Committee — Asks to Delay Senate Floor Vote on Kavanaugh for One Week. Outgoing Senator Jeff Flake asks for the US Senate to delay the House floor vote for a week. Flake also asked for an FBI investigation into the baseless charges against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee then moved to confirm Judge Kavanaugh 11 votes to 10 nays for the Democrats. This was after Flake met with several Democrats this morning outside the hearing room. Earlier Flake said he would vote to confirm Flake — so he had a change of heart. Senator Jeff Flake Supports The Democrat DC Scheme — Kavanaugh FBI Investigation To Be Manipulated By Michael Bromwich. Today [9/28/2018] the democrats in the judiciary committee, fully engaged political operatives, talked Jeff Flake into supporting a call for a week-long delay in the full senate confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. Flake, who is not running for re-election, advances the nomination out of committee — and simutaneously states he will not support a full senate vote until the FBI conducts an investigation into the ridiculous claims against Kavanaugh. Flake Flakes Out. Earlier this morning [9/28/2018], Senator Jeff Flake said he would vote Yes on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. But when the Judiciary Committee met and voted, he threw a curve ball: Flake voted Yes and the nomination went to the Senate floor on an 11-10 party line vote. But Flake said he will ultimately vote for the nomination only if there is a brief delay to permit another FBI investigation. Lisa Murkowski followed up by telling an interviewer she supports Flake's call for a delay. So it seems doubtful that the final vote can be held tomorrow as planned. That isn't good, but an FBI investigation isn't problematic in itself. The Agency will interview the people who have already been interviewed and report that they said the things they already have said. It will add nothing to our knowledge, particularly if, as Flake suggested, "It would be short and limited in scope to the current allegations here." Which means, I take it, the Christine Ford allegations. If there is a delay, it needn't be long. The FBI could probably re-interview the small number of relevant witnesses in the next 24 hours if it wanted to. Jeff Flake and the Kavanaugh / Ford Story. "Traitor" is normally considered a harsh word, but it is the only printable thing I have called "Republican" Senator Jeff Flake since he announced, a few hours ago, that he is "not comfortable voting yes" on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. His concern is the ridiculously stale allegation by Democrat professor Christine Ford that Kavanaugh groped her and tried to kiss her at a party when they were both high school students more than 30 years ago. You might reasonably think this is a joke. Unfortunately not. Kavanaugh unequivocally denies Ford's allegation, and the only witness to the event (per Ford), Mark Judge, says "It's just absolutely nuts. Tancredo: Jeff Flake is a Fake. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is acting like a spoiled teenager. In the midst of the Democrats' grandstanding and obstruction over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, Flake — who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee — decided to go to Africa for three weeks in order to further stall Kavanaugh's confirmation process. Mitch McConnell cancelled the August recess specifically to ensure that Kavanaugh is confirmed as soon as possible despite Democrat obstruction. But Flake's last-minute sabbatical means he will be absent when the Senate reconvenes this month. Jeff Flake takes to Senate floor to suggest Trump committed TREASON by giving 'aid and comfort' to 'enemy' Russia. The Trump-Helsinki summit brought new accusations in Congress Thursday, as GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona accused the president of providing 'aid and comfort' to the enemy. Flake's choice of words evoked the Constitution's definition of treason — at a time when President Trump is facing a new level of scrutiny for his refusal to forcefully condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for election meddling during their summit meeting Monday in Finland. Flake Confirms He's Stalling Trump's Judicial Nominees Over Tariffs. Sen. Jeff Flake has gone public with his threat to stall judicial nominations seeking action to rebuff President Donald Trump on tariffs. It comes more than a week after the Arizona Republican first held up the nomination of Britt Grant to be a judge on the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals at the Judiciary Committee. Why Is This Anti-Trump GOP Senator Considering Holding Trump Judicial Nominees Hostage. Yes, under President Trump, the most federal judges have been confirmed in the first year of a presidency — ever. Yes, we have Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, but more work needs to be done. There are plenty of nominees in the pipeline, but we have a potential clog. And that clog's name is Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ). Mr. 18 percent is threatening to hold Trump judicial nominees hostage over the president's actions on tariffs. The GOP has a one-seat majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee. If Flake decided to take a bunker mentality on these nominations and dig in, we're stuck. This is why the chair of the committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), is not putting up any more nominees for a vote until Flake agrees to support these judges. Jeff Flake: Trump Needs To Be Challenged In GOP Primary. Lame duck Republican Sen. Jeff Flake appeared on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday [3/11/2018] and said that President Trump should be challenged in the 2020 primary election. The Editor says... Sen. Tom Cotton: Flake-Graham-Durbin Bill Gives Amnesty to DACA 'Children' AND Their Parents! — Millions of Illegals! Democrats hold a minority position in the US Senate but they do have the support of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Senator Jeff Flake and others. The Gang of 6 bill would have offered Mr. Trump less than 10 percent of his border wall, and only a 3 percent cut to existing paths of family-based chain migration. The president does not support this. Neither do Americans. Jeff Flake Was a Foreign Lobbyist for a Firm with Ties to Iran. Before he was a senator, Jeff Flake was a foreign lobbyist who worked for a uranium mining firm with ties to Iran. Between 1990 and 1991, Flake was a registered foreign agent for Rossing Uranium, a company which operates a mine in Namibia that is among the world's largest suppliers of the nuclear fuel. It was quite lucrative for his company Interface Public Affairs. Flake likes to pretend he's a D.C. outsider and a conservative, both of which are untrue. Flake said he never hid it, but what he doesn't say is he never spoke of it either. Are Trump-haters giving up on Hitler comparisons? Yesterday [1/17/2018] saw two famous Trump-haters eschewing Hitler in finding murderous tyrants with whom to compare President Trump. J. Marsolo notes elsewhere on these pages that just prior to the release of President Trump's Fake News Awards, Republican Senator Jeff Flake described President Trump's criticism of media reporting as similar to Stalin's practice of imprisoning and executing critics of his regime because Trump once employed the words "enemy of the people" to describe fake news media. I guess that Flake is unaware of Henrik Ibsen, the world-famous Norwegian playwright who popularized the expression in the late nineteenth century. Jeff Flake urges White House not to pull out of NAFTA. Sen. Jeff Flake warned the White House against pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that leaving the deal would harm the economy and lead to increased immigration. To think otherwise is an "illusion," he said on the Senate floor Thursday [12/14/2017]. "Allow me to briefly describe what America would look like without NAFTA. It's an America with fewer jobs and higher unemployment. Some of these jobs that are lost will not return for a generation, others will likely never return. It's a poorer America. The gross domestic product will drop. Much of the positive growth we have seen recently will be erased," the Arizona Republican warned, adding later, "Let's not be fooled by those who would have us believe that the impact of exiting this trade agreement would somehow be minor or short-lived." The Aptly Named Jeff Flake. "Country over Party" outgoing U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) wrote on the $100 check he sent to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones (D-NARAL). Jones, now trailing Roy Moore, the Republican, by a few percentage points, told Chuck Todd on MSNBC in September that he doesn't support restricting abortion after 20 weeks or really at all. [...] Jones says on his web site he "will ... stand with Planned Parenthood" — as in the odious fetal-parts-trafficking organization that Flake voted to defund. In short, there is no situation where having Jones in the U.S. Senate will benefit the country. So why did Flake write him a check? Jeff Flake Signs $100 Check To Roy Moore's Abortion-On-Demand Democratic Opponent. On Tuesday [12/5/2017], Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who recently announced that he would not run for re-election on the floor of the Senate and tore into President Trump while doing so, issued a tweet showing that he had signed a check to Democratic Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones in order to oppose the candidacy of Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Moore, who has been credibly accused of sexual molestation of underage women, earned an endorsement from President Trump this week, and the monetary support of the Republican National Committee as well. Jeff Flake Shoots Blanks. One of the easiest ways to gain 15 minutes of fame as a Republican is to attack another Republican. The cameras will roll, the pundits will marvel, and we will soon be assured of a collapsing conservative movement. This week, Jeff Flake of Arizona garnered himself a full 17 minutes of fame with his defiant speech on the U.S. Senate floor. RINOs Mourn the Retirement of Jeff Flake. The liberal wing of the "conservative" movement has the sadz about this, claiming that we lost a "libertarian" voice and a staunch advocate of limited government. How is the guy voting repeatedly for huge omnibus spending bills and clean (no strings attached) debt increases a fighter for limited government? The guy who fought for the Import-Export bank and for the Newton gun grab is a "libertarian"? On the other hand, or perhaps not... Is There Anything Honorable About Arizona Senator's Exit, Or Is He Just A Quitter? [Scroll down] It still doesn't cover-up the fact that it looks like you're a quitter, Senator. The Senate is too gridlocked, so I quit. The partisan atmosphere is so toxic, so I quit. Trump is a bad, bad man, so I quit. I can't win an election, so I quit. First, not faring well in a primary is not a forgone conclusion. There is a lot of time between now and Election Day 2018. Anything could've happened. Also, Flake voted with the Trump agenda the vast majority of the time. If Flake started out as a Tea Party conservative, his exit will peg him as a moderate who couldn't hack it, but he's not the only one. Flake: 'I Didn't Vote for This President Last November'. Wednesday on NBC's "Today," Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) revealed he didn't vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and said those conservative Republicans that had done so made a "Faustian bargain" by voting for Trump. Gang of Eight Senator Jeff Flake: Voting for Evan McMullin Over Trump 'A Possibility'. Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says it's "a possibility" that he will vote for #NeverTrump candidate Evan McMullin over his own party's presidential nominee. "That's a possibility," Flake told ABC, which noted that Arizona voters can write his name in on their ballot. Flake bemoaned the fact that as a result of his efforts to undermine Donald Trump, his own "popularity has dropped at home because of it, and that he's relieved he's not up for re-election until 2018," ABC reports. GOP Senator: It's Time To Confirm Obama's SCOTUS Nominee. Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told reporters that Senate Republicans should take up the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Though Flake consistently supports putting Garland's nomination up for a vote, Thursday [10/20/2016] he implied Republican nominee Donald Trump was likely to lose the November election. Therefore, the Senate should confirm Garland before Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has the opportunity to nominate a younger, more liberal nominee. Jeff Flake urges Congress to move on Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination in lame-duck session. Sen. Jeff Flake said it is time for Congress to move forward as if Hillary Clinton is president-elect and plan to take up President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court during the lame-duck session of Congress. "I said if we were in a position like we were in in '96 and we pretty much knew the outcome, that we ought to move forward. But I think we passed that awhile ago," Mr. Flake, a Republican, told Politico this week. "If Hillary Clinton is president-elect then we should move forward with hearings in the lame duck. That's what I'm encouraging my colleagues to do." GOP senator: 'Nobody really believes' next president should fill Supreme Court vacancy. Sen. Jeff Flake is knocking his party's Supreme Court strategy, arguing the opposition to taking up President Obama's nominee boils down to politics. The Arizona Republican, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee, told The Daily Beast that "nobody really believes" a Supreme Court seat should remain vacant until the next president is sworn in. "Our position shouldn't be that the next president ought to decide. Nobody really believes that, because if this were the last year of a Republican presidency nobody would say that," Flake said. Republican Jeff Flake Agrees with Jeb Bush: Illegal Immigration Is an "Act of Love". Republican Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said he agreed with former Governor Jeb Bush that illegal immigration can be considered an "act of love". Flake posted the comments on Facebook Monday [4/21/2014]. 'Gang of 8 Members Jeff Flake & John McCain Face Recall Petitions. A new website is asking Arizona residents for their signatures to recall Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain for supporting the immigration-amnesty bill. Senator Flake is Failing Arizona! Senator Jeff Flake is not representing Arizona voters, conservatives, or American citizens, even though he is our employee and ran under the Republican ticket. [...] Jeff is showing us his true colors — he is as blue as they come, a RINO, a Liberal Democrat in everything but official party designation. Recall Senators McCain and Flake. Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake are liberals representing a conservative state. By their statements and actions, they have proven that they are no longer worthy to be the U.S. Senators from Arizona. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who once described the mainstream media as his political base, has declared war on conservatives and the people of Arizona; reportedly leading a purge of the state's GOP apparatus to pave the way for an easier reelection bid should he decide to run again in 2016. Senator Mitch McConnell McConnell: 'MAGA movement is completely wrong'. Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said former President Trump has hurt the Republican Party's ability to compete and that the "MAGA movement is completely wrong." "I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn't recognize today," McConnell said, according to a new biography penned by Michael Tackett of The Associated Press. Progressivism Makes the World Smaller, In A Bad Way. There are people in prison right now just for posting memes, or simply for being in the vicinity of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. We've all seen the stories. But at least, as of now, we still have the thinnest veneer of a Constitution to protect us, though, clearly, if it rests in the hands of a progressive judge, all is lost. How tragic that you have to hope you get a non-progressive judge to have even a prayer of a fair trial. We can thank Mitch McConnell and our garbage Senate Republicans for gaveling through dozens upon dozens of judicial nominees when Obama was president for the current spate of tyranny on the bench. And why did the Republicans do it? All in the name of "governing." We should just call "governing" what it is: Uniparty capitulation to corruption. That's what "governing" is nowadays. Trump Verdict Is Indictment Of GOP Leaders Who Can't Be Bothered To Resist Republic-Wrecking Lawfare. Republican leaders have remained largely tight-lipped about Democrats' anti-Trump lawfare despite holding the House and control of several states in which Biden surely could be brought up on charges pertaining to the porous border or defying the Supreme Court. But Republicans did and continue to do nothing. Take, for example, the belated and worthless response from Senate Minority "Leader" Mitch McConnell. "These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal," McConnell posted to X hours after the verdict was delivered. McConnell is right that the charges never should have been brought. So then why did Republican leaders sit on their hands for a year while Bragg devised his lawfare campaign? [...] When McConnell finally spoke about the lawfare, he called for increasing funds for federal law enforcement agencies — which act as the enforcement arm of such lawfare. Why Is Mitch McConnell Still In Charge? The role of the Senate minority leader requires a master tactician when the chamber is in session and a charismatic strategist when an election is on the line. Mitch McConnell is only one of these things and not the one his party desperately needs over the next six months. He has already announced his intention to step down from leadership but not until after November's vote, leaving Republicans undermanned in the campaign underway. Whatever their sense of loyalty, their chances will be better if they replace him now. The problem is one of both style and substance. The 81-year-old's health problems and lapses during public appearances would make him an ineffective spokesman in any cycle, let alone one where Republicans seek to make President Joe Biden's similar issues a major liability. But even were he at the peak of his powers, McConnell's core beliefs would still preclude him from effectively supporting his side. Report: Mitch McConnell Urges Republicans to Oppose Term Limits. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) has reportedly told his colleagues to oppose the idea of term limits, which aligns with his past public statements. A report from Axios said two sources indicated McConnell told Senate Republicans that "imposing term limits on the Senate leader is a bad idea during a Wednesday [3/20/2024] meeting about the direction of the conference": ["]McConnell was one of several senators who spoke during an hour-and-a-half conference meeting, which was called by conservative Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.). McConnell spoke against imposing term limits for the top GOP position, calling it a bad idea, according to two sources in the room.["] The Editor says... International Intrigue on a Ranch in Texas — The Angela Chao Story. Angela Chao, the sister of Elaine Chao (wife of retiring Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate Minority Leader), died in her car on February 11, 2024. Angela was found in a submerged car, unresponsive, first responders attempted to revive her, but were unsuccessful. The pond was on a ranch close to Johnson City in Blanco County, Texas, about 40 miles west of Austin. The ranch was reportedly owned by a business entity of Chao's husband, Jim Breyer, a Venture Capitalist who has offices in Austin. The Sheriff of Blanco County is Don Jackson, and the matter has now been deemed a criminal investigation, which blocks the release of many details to the public. In a letter to Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, Sheriff Jackson said, "This incident was not a typical accident." Angela Chao was also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Foremost Group, a privately held business entity that was the largest American owner of bulk shipping merchant vessels (all the vessels were flagged in other countries). The ships alone were valued at $1.2 [billion] five years ago, but there were other activities of the Foremost Group that because it is privately held, are not fully known. McConnell's Retirement Marks The End Of The Disastrous Bush Era. Mitch McConnell and his friends are keen to paint the outgoing majority leader as the bookend of the Age of Reagan. Even some of his liberal opponents are happy to repeat the lazy mantra, if only to contrast gooey 1980s nostalgia with the populist conservatism of the new right. They'd like to remind us how the Kentucky Republican was married on the Gipper's birthday, but while it can feel nice to reminisce on a young man's nerdy romance, any serious attempt to understand history's longest-serving Senate leader needs to focus on the age in which he rose to power: those eight years of Republican rule in the early 2000s. A 42-year-old McConnell may have won his first Senate race at the height of the Reagan years, but by the time he won the mantle of minority leader, those days were gone. More than anything, Mitch McConnell was a Bush Republican. The GOP Is Changing, And That's Good. [Scroll down] We saw another big change with the announcement that Mitch McConnell will soon resign. There's been a lot of ink spilled about Cocaine Mitch, a man who was simultaneously unbelievably frustrating and unbelievably proficient in his prime. Is it time for him to go? Yes, because he's 82 and he's in poor health — it's commonly understood in Washington, DC, that he suffered a debilitating stroke. And yes, his game seems to be slipping with the border fiasco and the obnoxious gun control thing that may very well keep John Cornyn, who is inexplicably a senator from Texas, from taking the Murder Turtle's job. Conservatives will not miss the old-school aspects of McConnell, who seems to find it an intolerable imposition to have the grassroots offer its input regarding his plans. But love him or hate him, he was the most effective legislative genius of this century and maybe more. If for nothing else, he deserves huge credit for keeping that obnoxious progressive lackey Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court. Dot-Connecting Between Angela Chao and Mitch McConnell. On Feb. 12, 50-year-old Angela Chao was found dead in her Tesla that was submerged in a pond on private property in Blanco County, Texas, according to the incident report from fire department EMS personnel. Chao was the sixth and youngest daughter of Chinese-American shipping magnate Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao, who founded the New York-headquartered Foremost Group in 1964. Angela had been CEO of the company since 2018 and was a founding member of The Asian American Foundation. On Feb. 28, 82-year-old Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced his intention to step down from his leadership position in November. Angela Chao was the sister-in-law of Mitch McConnell, and speculation has been rife about these two seemingly unrelated events. Is there any connection other than familial? Let us examine the topic. Death of Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao under 'criminal investigation' weeks after Texas crash. The death of Sen. Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law is being investigated as a crime weeks after her body was pulled from her submerged car in Texas. Angela Chao, 50, was found dead in her sinking vehicle in a pond on a ranch in Johnson City, near Austin, on Feb. 11. "Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff's Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity," the Blanco County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Thursday letter to state Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to CNBC. "This incident was not a typical accident," the agency added. McConnell may not stick around. Sen. Mitch McConnell announced this week he is leaving his leadership post in November and will serve out his current term, which ends in 2026. However, he may be planning to leave earlier than that. [...] McConnell would go on to shepherd a record number of conservative justices onto the court, thanks in large measure to Harry Reid ending the appointments filibuster when the Democrats ran the Senate. McConnell would never have changed the Senate rules by his own volition, but Harry Reid crossed him with the Nuclear Option. McConnell was then only too glad to repay the Democrats with their own rules when the GOP took back the Senate. So the most consequential SCOTUS appointments in 80 years came about, not because of ideology, or grand strategy, or intellectual brilliance, but mere partisan tit-for-tat. That's how a lot of things happen in DC. And it explains how the least popular politician in America was also the longest serving Senate leader in history. Mitch McConnell's Entire Legacy Is 'Misunderstanding Politics'. "I have many faults," intoned Mitch McConnell after announcing he would be surrendering his leadership of the Senate GOP at the end of the 2024 term. "Misunderstanding politics is not one of them." That McConnell would provide this assessment of his own career was predictable. He was just echoing the take of the average GOP establishment politician or D.C. operative. He was also completely wrong. In fact, throughout his career, few people understood politics more poorly, and of the many flaws he had as a leader, his misunderstanding of the nature and purpose of politics was perhaps his worst. [...] McConnell is great at counting votes, seeing what egos need massaging, making the threats he needs to make, etc. These are very useful skills for climbing the greasy pole in D.C. — and for a party whip whose job it is to wrangle votes — but they are not the primary skills needed for a party leader who sets the agenda. McConnell could have been a very useful cog in a machine led by a strong majority leader who would have set the ideological tone for the party in alignment with the voters and then relied on someone like McConnell to twist the arms to get the votes to execute that vision. But we never had that. Instead, we had almost two decades of "leadership" from an antiquated backroom pol who almost never delivered on his voters' priorities. Mitch McConnell's Legacy: $27.6 Trillion in National Debt. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday announced plans to step down as GOP conference leader in November, marking an end to his more than 20-year stint in Senate leadership that saw the U.S. accumulate a mountain of debt. "One of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter," he said on the Senate floor. "So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. However, I'll complete my job. My colleagues have given me until we select a new leader in November and they take the helm next January." McConnell has served as GOP leader since 2007 after serving as party whip since 2003, at which time the U.S. national debt stood at $6.783 trillion. As of Wednesday, that figure stood at $34.405 trillion. Texas
Sheriff: Suspicious Tesla Drowning Death Of Mitch McConnell's Chinese Communist Party
Sister-In-Law Under "Criminal Investigation". Last week, we reported on the
suspicious death of Chinese Communist Party member, shipping CEO and sister-in-law of Kentucky
Senator Mitch Mcconnell after she backed her Tesla into a pond and drown, or was she hacked?
Now, a "criminal investigation" is under way, according to a Texas sheriff. First, here's a
recap of what took place, and keep in mind that this story was largely not covered by the
Mockingbird media. [...]
U2VlIEhUTUwgY29tbWVudHMu Death of shipping CEO Angela Chao under 'criminal investigation,' Texas sheriff says. The death earlier this month of Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is currently under "criminal investigation," a Texas sheriff's office said Thursday. Chao, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 after being pulled out of a car that had gone into a pond on a private ranch in Johnson City, Texas, about 40 miles from Austin. Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao died after car went into Texas pond, sheriff says. Angela Chao, CEO of Foremost Group and the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, died after her car went into a pond on a private ranch about 40 miles west of Austin, Texas, authorities said Friday. Chao's family on Wednesday announced she died in a car accident on Sunday, but did not disclose details of the incident at that time. On Friday, the Blanco County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that on Saturday, it "responded to a possible water rescue on a private ranch located in Blanco County, TX." "On arrival Blanco County deputies along with Blanco County EMS and Fire recovered the body of Angela Chao from a pond on the ranch," the statement said. Angela Chao, sister of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, dies in Texas car accident. Angela Chao, chief executive of a major shipping company and former board member of the state-owned Bank of China, died in a car accident in Texas on Sunday, according to her family and multiple published reports. Ms. Chao, 50, was head of the Foremost Group and the sister of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is married to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that I announce the passing of my beloved youngest daughter, Angela Chao," her father, James S.C. Chao said in a statement. No details of the accident Feb. 10 were available. Good Riddance To Mitch McConnell: A List Of GOP Senate Chief's Worst Blunders In Leadership. Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced Wednesday he will step down from his leadership role this fall, citing his age and health. [...] Here are some of McConnell's worst moments as Republican Senate leader. [#1] 2024 Senate Border Bill: One of McConnell's latest blunders came in the form of a bipartisan spending bill to codify the Biden administration's open borders into law. Earlier this month, the Republican Senate chief deputized Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford to put forward a $118 billion spending bill with $60 billion for Ukraine and $20 billion for the border. The legislative package not only gave disproportionate funding to Ukraine, but would have allowed 5,000 crossings per day and asylum for all. "[McConnell] didn't just bless the deal. He wrote the deal," said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrats' lead negotiator on the bill. The GOP Senate leader's team "were in the room every single day." McConnell's Leadership in Jeopardy After Sending Lankford on a 'Suicide Mission' in Border Negotiations. When Senate negotiators unveiled their 370 page supplemental funding bill Sunday night, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer planned to schedule a vote on the legislation Wednesday. How things have changed in less than 72 hours. The bipartisan-negotiated supplemental is dead. It's dead not because of Senator James Lankford, the head Republican negotiator, but because of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. With the Senate now set to consider a stand-alone supplemental for Ukraine, a country whose border security McConnell values more than his own, one can't help but wonder if this is what McConnell wanted all along. Schumer Celebrates McConnell on Senate Immigration Plan: 'Have Never Worked More Closely'. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) celebrated Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with the reveal of the new immigration plan, adding that the two have "never worked more closely." "I have never worked more closely with Leader McConnell on any piece of legislation as we did on this," Schumer told reporters on Sunday, according to Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News. [Tweet] As Breitbart News reported on Sunday, the newly revealed bill had some concessions made on border security along with other glaring red flags: ["]The establishment authors of the bill have largely hidden its contents — along with many possible loopholes, exceptions, modifications, and caveats that can turn apparent restrictions into government-funded welcomes. The bill was assembled behind closed doors by a tight circle of establishment advocates — and their business donors.["] McConnell Returns to Back Ukraine Funding Joined to Immigration Bill. The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally Republican liars we call DeceptiCons. They are a select group of around 16 "Republican" senators who scheme, lie and support the left-wing of the UniParty vulture. McConnell is their leader. Yesterday, on the heels of the New Hampshire primary win by Donald Trump, Senator McConnell intentionally fed a media narrative that a border crisis deal could not be reached because candidate Trump didn't want one. The media ran with the story based on comments by Republican senators who were in the meeting. McConnell made those comments intentionally, because he is trying to create as much friction for MAGA and Trump as possible. Today, McConnell says he supports the Ukraine funding proposal connected to the "border security" proposal being negotiated by James Lankford (U-DC). The red-haired DeceptiCon from Oklahoma, shifted from his prior role on the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI) to his current role in supporting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce plan for amnesty and expanded illegal entry (cheap labor) at the border. Rand Paul Says Mitch McConnell Plans 'Sellout' on Border Security. The GOP's Senate leadership is preparing to betray their voters on President Joe Biden's migration flood, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), told Fox News on Tuesday. The still-secret draft deal "is a sellout — it's going to continue to allow illegal immigration" because Democrats are threatening Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with an aid cut-off for Ukraine, Paul said before adding: ["]It's saying, 'Oh, we'll let 5,000 people come illegally a day, and then after that, we might try to stop the next 5,000 that day.' It's completely a sellout. But it's because people like Senator [Mitch] McConnell care more about Ukraine than anything else — more than the border, more than anything else. He wants to send $60 billion of your money to Ukraine. On this issue, he is more aligned with Biden.["] Only Six Percent of Americans Approve of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Job Performance. We reported earlier about the new Monmouth national poll showing President Joe Biden has dropped to his lowest approval rating ever, earning a meager 34 percent. But voters are even more unhappy with another politician, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who received an exceptionally low six percent approval rating. Meanwhile, 60 percent of respondents disapproved of the job he's been doing. [Tweet] McConnell supports Biden's Israel and Ukraine aid bundle. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is openly championing President Joe Biden's push to bundle Ukraine and Israel aid together while also wishing for a "functional" House. Biden delivered a his second primetime Oval Office address last Thursday seeking to gin up support for the White House's proposed roughly $106 billion package entailing $61.4 billion for Ukraine, $14.3 billion for Israel, and $30.1 billion for other projects like border security. "It's correct. No Americans are getting killed in Ukraine. We're rebuilding our industrial base. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that," McConnell (R-Ky.) told CBS' "Face the Nation" in an interview that aired Sunday. Dozens of Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate have publicly implored the Biden administration to decouple aid to Israel and Ukraine. You can vote all you want, but the Swamp will do as it pleases. Mike Lee Calls for 'New Leadership' as Mitch McConnell Plans to Ram Ukraine Aid Down 'House's Throat'. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Friday night called for new Senate Republican leadership, citing a story that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) plans to ram Ukraine aid down the "House's throat." Citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Kimberly Strassel that discussed how McConnell will help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) force the House to agree to $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. "Mitch McConnell has been making daily floor speeches on the need for more Ukraine funding, worried Mr. McCarthy can't get this crucial aid past House GOP spending hard-liners. So Mr. McConnell is ... signing up to help Mr. Schumer ram the whole package down the House's throat," Strassel wrote. This Is Why Mcconnell Should Serve Out His Term. No, not I'm not a fan of Glitch McConnell. In fact, I hate him as much as any Democrat. But there's a problem that Republicans calling him to resign aren't understand. If McConnell steps down, the governor of Kentucky gets to pick who would fill the seat until a special election is held. Kentucky's governor is far left Marxist Andy Beshear. He would appoint a communist if McConnell stepped down, probably the loser of the last two Senate elections. Either Charles Booker or Amy McGrath. I'll stick with McConnell at this point, and replace [him] in 2026. Leo Terrell Calls on Mitch Mcconnell to Resign After Sad Second 'Freezing' Incident. Ardent Donald Trump supporter and popular news commentator Leo Terrell has not minced words after U.S. Senator and minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has had a second apparent "freezing" incident while publicly speaking. "Resign Mitch. Put Country First!" Terrell said with a repost of a Media Right News X. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Has Another Episode. This one is worse, significantly worse. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell freezes again while taking questions from reporters on Wednesday at an event in Kentucky. This very disturbing cognitive disconnect is raising additional concerns about the 81-year-old's health. The episode happens after a reporter asked him about running for re-election in 2026. [Video clip] Mitch McConnell Urges House Republicans to Avoid Biden Impeachment. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has urged House Republicans to avoid impeaching President Joe Biden. Speaking to the New York Times in an interview published Tuesday, McConnell said that he does not want to continue the impeachment cycle that Democrats started two years ago when they impeached former President Trump on dubious charges. "I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing," McConnell said. "Impeachment ought to be rare," he added. "This is not good for the country." The Editor says... Mitch McConnell Endures 5-Minute Heckling During Speech. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was interrupted and heckled for five straight minutes during his speech in his home state at the St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic on Saturday, a premier political event in Kentucky. Instead of a respectful silence, the audience delivered a relentless, clear, and loud message for a full five minutes, drowning out his speech. Foot-stomping and chants echoed around the venue, making it abundantly clear that the senator's reception was far from warm in his home state. He is done. The dissenting voices underscore the sentiment that McConnell, at 81 years old and with nearly four decades of senatorial service, is more of a representative of Washington's political 'Swamp' than the average American he's supposed to represent. Senate Republicans Despise Their Voters. Lisa Murkowski is the perfect mascot for Senate Republicans. She is a Democrat in all but name, an aristocrat who inherited her office, and a beneficiary of rigged elections. She has more in common with Nancy Pelosi than the average Republican voter, and every time Alaskan Republicans attempt to throw her out of office, Mitch McConnell's minions manipulate the rules to save her. For McConnell, Murkowski is another beholden senator kept securely in his pocket who will vote how he wants on any given day. That might not be so bad (except for the good people of Alaska, whom she purportedly represents) if McConnell were not also an aristocrat who routinely betrays Republican voters. However, because his loyalties lie with President Xi, multinational corporations, the World Economic Forum, and his good friend Joe Biden, China Mitch uses the leash around Murkowski's neck only when he needs help sticking it to the American people. Mitch McConnell Agrees to Attend Debt Ceiling Negotiations at White House. Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters he accepted President Joe Biden's invitation and will attend debt ceiling negotiations at the White House next week. Last week, House Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act with no Democrat support. This legislation would lift the debt ceiling through early next year while saving the government an estimated $4.8 trillion over the next ten years. After months of refusing to negotiate with House Republicans, Biden caved and invited Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders to sit down with him to negotiate on May 9. Mitch McConnell Stays Silent on Trump Indictment. After Tuesday's arraignment of former President Trump, Republicans rushed to defend him against the political persecution of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. However, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his top allies stayed silent. McConnell, who reportedly hasn't spoken to Trump since December 2020, refrained from making any statement responding to Trump pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts. In fact, the Republican has not said anything regarding the indictment of Trump overall. "If we issue a statement, we will let everyone know," is all McConnell's top spokesman, David Popp, said following the arraignment. Mitch McConnell Leaves Hospital After Suffering a Fall Last Week. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was discharged from the hospital after a nasty fall last week. The incident occurred at a private dinner, and he was briefly hospitalized for a concussion. Based on reports from his staff, the leader for Senate Republicans was eager to get out of the facility. He will need to undergo physical therapy, which draws questions about the severity of his injuries, given his age. The Editor says... It's Time for Mitch McConnell to Retire. Whether or not Mitch recovers fully and resumes his role as the leader of the Democrats' controlled opposition, there ought to be a lesson in this for him: when people get very old and frail, they begin to be susceptible to falling, and those falls can be deadly. Maybe it's time for Mitch to retire to his Old Kentucky Home. This is, after all, not the first time this has happened. Newsweek reported Thursday morning that "in 2019, the 81-year-old suffered a shoulder fracture after falling outside on a patio at his home in Kentucky." There are going to be more falls. Is this octogenarian really up to carrying out his serious and solemn duties as the water carrier for Chuck Schumer? Dear Mitch McConnell: You Were Not Elected To Do The Bidding Of Chuck Schumer And CNN. [Scroll down] [Mitt] Romney said that showing Americans footage from Jan. 6 meant Carlson had gone "off the rails," and compared him to Alex Jones. He also went after McCarthy for being transparent with the American people. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., took a break from working on an amnesty bill to tell Raju that Carlson showing new footage of the protest that countered the left's narrative was [bad]. South Dakota Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer also fell for the media campaign against Carlson. Leading the group was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Raju invited him to bash McCarthy. It's not saying much, but McConnell was at least smart enough to decline that opportunity. But he did take the opportunity to attack a media outlet for daring to say something different than what a police leader said. Really. He said, "It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that is completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks." With His SOTU Ukraine Tie, Mitch McConnell Advertised Which Country He's Most Concerned About. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has never shied away from shilling for Ukraine. But for Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the Kentucky Republican took it up a notch with a wardrobe statement piece. While attending President Joe Biden's largely incoherent speech, McConnell forwent America's red, white, and blue, instead wearing a tie emblazoned with the colors of the Ukrainian flag: blue and yellow. Like a NASCAR driver, McConnell was apparently just sporting the hues of the brand he represents. [Tweet] Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, the Senate minority leader has been one of Congress's biggest proponents of shipping endless U.S. taxpayer dollars overseas to fund the conflict. Back in May, for instance, McConnell issued the most tone-deaf statement imaginable by claiming that "we all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine." The remark came at a time when voters said "lowering inflation and fixing the economy" was their most important issue heading into the 2022 midterms. Rather than encourage the Biden administration to push for a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict, McConnell has been at the forefront of Senate efforts to throw more dollars and military help at Ukraine. During December's negotiations on the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, which passed as a result of Senate Republican support and will further increase America's ballooning national debt, McConnell made more aid to Ukraine one of his top spending priorities. In 2022 alone, McConnell helped approve over $100 billion in aid and military assistance to the eastern European nation. Senate Republicans: Time to ditch Mitch. According to a poll released earlier this month by Morning Consult, and reported by a number of websites, including The Hill, Mitch McConnell, the senior senator from Kentucky and Senate Republican leader, is not very popular in his home state. His disapproval rating is 64%, and his approval rating is less than half that figure at 29%. [...] Does anybody recall McConnell demanding that Jan. 6 defendants be treated fairly, with the full protection of due process rights? How can we recall a non-event? Next question: Did McConnell speak out against the Jan. 6 kangaroo court? Here is the answer to that question from The New York Times: "McConnell Denounces R.N.C. Censure of Jan 6 Panel Members." What more evidence is needed that the Senate Republicans have as their leader a Deep State mole, with a brief to undermine conservative populism whenever it raises its liberty-enhancing head? Just What Kind Of A Republican Is Mitch McConnell? [Scroll down] Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump had his second term. Vladimir Putin is a very dangerous man, but Ukraine was not the way or the place to best confront him. [Mitch] McConnell, like so many RINOs, wants a continuation of endless foreign wars. This assures a continuous flow of tens of billions of dollars going out the door regularly with no accountability. The American people will never know who really benefits from these misadventures. Pfizer drops $1 million on Big Pharma delegate Chinless Mitch. Boy oh boy does this stink, and it's a story that cruised relatively under the radar. According to reporter Tom Loftus writing for the Kentucky Lantern, Pfizer "donated" a whopping one million dollars last month to the Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund; to put that into perspective, the same fund only raised $6,000 in the first three quarters. [...] The pharmaceutical giant "donated" the money? Yeah, right. Seems more plausible that Pfizer took a cue from BlackRock's Laurence Fink and bought the Kentucky turncoat's political favor — Fink recently gifted Zelensky with "pro bono" advice on how to implement a "special patronage" system in Ukraine which currently sees municipalities, buildings, really whatever, auctioned off to the highest bidder. Or, perhaps it was payment for McConnell's rabidly aggressive push in favor of the Covid-19 vaccine? Pfizer Gives $1 Million to Kentucky GOP to Expand Its Headquarters — The "Mitch McConnell Building". Pfizer donated $1 million to the Kentucky Republican Party in 2021 in what is being called the highest donation to a political party in state history. The donation will be used to expand the Frankfort Mitch McConnell Building in the state capital. The donation seems like a perfect fit. Mitch McConnell has been a staunch supporter of the COVID vaccine and COVID legislation. Gaslighting of the highest order. [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell states that he is looking forward to "working together to check and balance Washington Democrats, bring oversight to this reckless Administration, fight the far left's radical policies, and defend America." Apparently, McConnell thinks the rest of us were born sometime in the last few days because he literally just got done doing what was essentially a joint campaign stop with Joe Biden in Kentucky. Together, the two lauded the passage of a massive infrastructure bill, seen as a key victory for the White House's agenda prior to the last election. McConnell himself helped whip the votes for that spending package. How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways. There is perhaps no better example of the disconnect between the ruling elites than last month's utterance from the clown who runs the GOP in the Senate, Mitch McConnell. He said of America sending another $45 billion to Ukraine: "Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans." That may be the biggest lie in American politics since Bill Clinton told the American people, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Ukraine is not and has never been even close to the top of the list of important things to either the American people or Republicans. According to data Statista published the day before the election in November 2022, of the 15 top priorities for Americans, foreign policy came in at #15, with only 37% finding it "very important." Inflation was #1, with 69%, followed by healthcare and jobs at 62% and 61%, respectively. National security came in #4 with 60%, but most Republicans feel like the invasion on our southern border is far more threatening to the Republic than anything going on between Russia and Ukraine. Democrats, not so much. If that's all you were after, then congratulations. Now you can retire. Joe Biden Teaming Up with Mitch McConnell in Kentucky to Promote Infrastructure [Spending]. President Joe Biden plans to appear with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in Kentucky on Wednesday, to promote infrastructure. The president will use his appearance with McConnell to signal bipartisanship with establishment Republicans even as they take control of the House of Representatives. Biden and McConnell are expected to celebrate the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed in 2021, which McConnell and establishment Republicans worked with Democrats and the White House to get passed. The Editor says... The most revolting people of 2022. [#5] Mitch McConnell: The man is responsible for the GOP Senate' underwhelming midterm performance, which cost them a winnable majority. McConnell didn't financially support many MAGA candidates and even withdrew money at key junctures. He badmouthed MAGA candidates prior to the elections, which is the equivalent of calling for their defeat. His primary concern is the well-being of Ukraine and not of the country whose citizens pay his salary. McConnell reportedly told Joe Biden that he wanted to blunt President Trump's influence in the party. The Republicans' Mitch McConnell Problem. One of the annoying tendencies of our conservative-populist movement is to conflate objective evaluations of individuals in the arena with the approval of those individuals. For years, I have found Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell to be a frustrating and imperious charter member of the GOP establishment while simultaneously being the best parliamentary leader we have had in living memory. [... But] It's time to face facts. The Mitch McConnell of today is not the savvy and savage killer of yesteryear. The Mitch McConnell of today is hapless and hated, weak and tone deaf, barely competition for the second-rate hack who is Chuck Schumer. He is perhaps the most unpopular major politician in America, a group that includes Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. It's sad, but at 80 years old, Mitch McConnell is fading, and he is not going quietly. Instead, he is raging at the GOP base for daring to object to his increasingly opaque and bumbling schemes. Mitch McConnell Was OK with Purple-Haired Crazy Lady Sitting at Omnibus Table But No House Republican Was Present. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans really, really hate their voters. The Senate Minority Leader approved the $1.7 trillion spending bill this week along with 17 Republican Senators. Mitch was OK with the purple-haired crazy lady, Democrat Rep. de Lauro sitting at the Omnibus table but NOT GOP's Appropriations Committee ranking member Rep. Kay Granger. Rep. Kat Cammack told Maria Bartiromo 98% of all Democrat earmarks made it into the package. This $1.7 trillion-dollar circus demands a new debate over term limits. Term limits were always a peripheral debate. If you'd ask most Americans, it wouldn't be shocking if this proposal got supermajority support, but all politics is local. The same old folks keep getting re-elected no matter how bad the anti-incumbent bias becomes. That's the paradox: voters might not like other people's representatives, but they want theirs. I was indifferent to the whole affair, but I might be more open to it, though it only took multiple trillion-dollar omnibuses to get my head straight here. The latest $1.7 trillion omnibus is an atrocious bill, filled with the Democrats' last-minute items they know wouldn't see the light of day under a Republican House majority next Congress — and Senate Republicans went along with it. [...] Then, on the omnibus itself, McConnell has the gall to say that this bill, fraught with liberal initiatives, was a good piece of legislation that showed Republicans could get their agenda aims accomplished under a Democratic Congress. Also, he added that billions more in aid to Ukraine is a top priority for Republican voters. Two patently false things were uttered by one of the faces of the GOP and our leader in the US Senate. To make things worse, McConnell does know that billions were allocated to the Internal Revenue Service to harass Americans, right? McConnell Stabs House GOP in the Back, Speeds Democrat Omnibus Boondoggle. As if it were not painful enough for Republicans to watch the vaunted red wave merely ripple across their ankles, they now must endure 2022's final insult: A red wave of deficit spending courtesy of lame-duck House Democrats, triumphant Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York, and Senate GOP "leader" Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Fiscal responsibility [notwithstanding], Democrats are riding one whale of an omnibus spending bill. The $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 washed in on Monday at 11:48 p.m. Its 4,155 pages are thrice as long as Leo Tolstoy's classic doorstop, "War and Peace." This averages $409,145,607.70 per page. Taxpayers should be seasick. McConnell 'proud' of $1.7 trillion spending deal that funds Planned Parenthood, woke gender programs. Eighteen Republicans joined Democrats in passing the $1.7 trillion package: [List] [...] McConnell claimed that the omnibus, despite having to meet the approval of Democrats, achieved "essentially all of our priorities," including assistance for Ukraine's defense against invasion by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin (an issue that has divided conservatives). Specifically, he said that the deal provides the U.S. military "the funding increase that it needs, outpacing inflation" while "non-defense, non-veterans spending will come in below the rate of inflation, for a real-dollar cut." [Tweets] That sunny assessment is contrary to many of the details highlighted by conservatives such as Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), who identified numerous examples of pork for lawmakers' constituencies as well as numerous left-wing priorities, including $286 million for the Title X family planning program, which in turn will fund abortion giant Planned Parenthood. It also funds left-wing environmental, gender, and immigration priorities, and increases funding for a vaccine injury trust fund. GOP Can't Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone. Comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made on Tuesday show why he has become the single biggest obstacle to GOP success. The Kentucky Republican claimed giving more money to Ukraine is "the No. 1 priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans." The new $1.7 trillion Democrat spending bill he enthusiastically supports would give Ukraine another roughly $45 billion in assistance, bringing the total over the past eight months to more than $100 billion, a staggering figure even if it weren't happening during a time of inflation, looming recession, and other serious domestic problems. [Tweet] The comment about Republican priorities is so false as to be completely delusional. Among the many concerns Republican voters have with Washington, D.C., a failure to give even more money to Ukraine simply does not rank. A large coalition of conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute, publicly opposed ramming through more Ukraine support during the lame-duck session before Republicans take over control of the House on Jan. 3, 2023. Strong pluralities and majorities of Republicans have told pollsters they want decreases, not increases, in foreign spending and global military involvement. Mitch McConnell Says America's 'Number One Priority' Is Helping Ukraine. In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. Capitol, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was talking about priorities for the United States as lawmakers rush to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. According to Leader McConnell — who said he was speaking for "most Republicans" — the "number one priority" for the United States is not any of the pressing domestic issues plaguing Americans as a result of President Joe Biden and his administration. No, McConnell said that "providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans." Really? [Tweet] McConnell Caves to Pelosi, Schumer, Allows JCPA Media Cartel Bailout Bill to Be Included in Defense Package. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and will allow the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News. Over objections from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, the likely next speaker of the House come January 3 of next year, other congressional leaders acquiesced to lobbyist pressure and agreed to include the JCPA in the base text of the NDAA. McCarthy was the only member of congressional leadership to fight back against the inclusion, but was overruled three to one after McConnell caved. Chinless
Mitch continues to galvanize reputation as an Establishment yellow-belly. Yesterday morning, Resident RINO
Mitch McConnell addressed a crowd of reporters; but instead of embracing the role he's hired to do — advance
political conservatism — he took the opportunity to attack President Trump. [...] Funny, I don't recall him,
or any other Never Trumpers condemn the following:
McConnell Ended 2022 Midterms with $40 Million in the Coffers — Refused Funding to Blake Masters Who Was Outspent by $70 Million. On Tuesday, after a week of counting ballots in an obviously fraudulent election where Republican voters were blocked from voting when they went to the polls, Blake Masters conceded his race to far left Democrat Mark Kelly in Arizona. Arizona was a dependable red state until Democrats and secret sleeper Republicans turned the state over to mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and broken and fraudulent voting machines, and election tricks by the communist left. [The] Republican Leadership [is] Worse than Worthless. In the run-up to the 2022 election, Mitch McConnell came out, and naturally not in private where it would be most appropriate, but rather in public to provide the Democrats a great talking point, and disparaged many of the Republican senate candidates as "bad candidates." One of those 'terrible' candidates, J.D. Vance, just won handily in Ohio and another, Arizona's Blake Masters, who yesterday, was closely behind his Democrat opponent — Masters sure could have used some of the money McConnell sent to Alaska to defeat a Trump-Republican. That race has since been called in favor of radical leftist, Mark Kelly. McConnell seems more interested in defeating Trump-affiliated firebrands than he is in defeating Democrats. 2022 Midterms: No Stink on the Republican Establishment? Case in point, the august Mitch McConnell, who, in fact, has become the poster boy for everything cynical, smarmy, and loathsome about the Swamp. At least, on the Republican side of the aisle. R or D, Mitch isn't alone. Elaine Chao's — Mitch's wife — family has made a fortune in shipping, primarily off the People's Republic of China. McConnell and Chao, per Peter Schweizer, have both played key roles in furthering the Foremost Group's interests. That's James Chao's — Elaine's dad's — company. Since 2004, the McConnells' fortune has ballooned to as much as $36.5 million. How do two D.C. lifers get that rich? But no stink on Mitch and Elaine for — as Schweizer terms it — "corruption by proxy." And no stink on Mitch for publicly remarking during the midterms that "candidate quality" among Republican Senate hopefuls was lacking, which meant don't expect the GOP to win the Senate. But Mitch wasn't done. Caring more about retaining his Senate leadership position (even if that meant minority status), McConnell's PAC pulled badly needed money from Blake Masters' race in Arizona and Don Bolduc's New Hampshire contest. Worse — if there is a worse — well, yes, there is — Mitch has poured money into propping up Lisa Murkowski's campaign in Alaska. Murkowski, who just radiates political whore. But, hey, that's the ilk Mitch runs with. So Trump lost the midterms? I am amazed at what I am seeing. President Trump goes 174-9 on endorsements and it's his fault it was a Pink Mist, instead of a Red Wave? Cocaine Mitch is the one who held back the money and support. Was he out campaigning? Nope. Could Mitch ever draw the crowds Trump has? Nope. Sorry — that dog will not hunt. In my humble opinion, what you're now seeing is the establishment hacks, media, and big money globalist hedge fund hooligans like Ken Griffin trying to get rid of Trump and coronate DeSantis, before either has even announced. Griffin, the GOP's $100 million Soros-style donor, has poured a lot of money into DeSantis and the GOP with the expressed goal of "blunting the vein of populism that has complicated the party's relationship with the corporate world." In other words, destroy MAGA and get the rubes back in line with the corporate fascists. This Election Was an Unmitigated Disaster, and It's Time to Air Some Grievances. Buckle up and understand that my anger is about wanting to win, not pushing any specific politician or direction. My family matters more than protecting party leaders. With that said, let's talk about Mitch McConnell first. That'd be the same Mitch McConnell who decided to pass gun control, give Joe Biden his infrastructure bill, break his promise on the debt ceiling, and proclaim Ukraine the top issue for Americans while shoveling tens of billions in unaccountable money overseas. If McConnell wanted to validate the attacks on him as leading a nefarious "establishment," what would he have done differently? It is time for new leadership, and that includes replacing the 80-year-old, deeply disliked GOP Senate leader whose biggest brag was getting through conservative Supreme Court justices with a Republican Senate. The Case Against Mitch McConnell For Leader. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is making a play for another term in leadership next week while control of the upper chamber remains in the balance after the Kentucky lawmaker's chess game sabotaged chances for a GOP majority. In September, McConnell inaugurated the fall midterms by undermining Republicans in key races when the GOP Senate chief complained of "candidate quality." "I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," McConnell said on Fox News just before Labor Day, the unofficial start of the fall campaign season. "Senate races are just different, they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome." McConnell's super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, went on to gut desperately needed campaign cash from conservative candidates in Arizona and New Hampshire who refused to kiss the ring of Washington monarchs. Trump Calls for the Impeachment of 'Old Crow' Mitch McConnell. Former President Trump is calling on Republicans to impeach Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for "allowing" Democrats to pass their agenda items. During an interview on Real America News, Trump insisted that the Democratic Party must "have something" on McConnell since he has often made deals with them on the debt ceiling in the past. "Mitch McConnell keeps allowing [them] to have it. I mean, they ought to impeach Mitch McConnell if he allows that. Frankly, Mitch McConnell, something has to be — they have something on him. How he approves this thing is incredible," Trump said. With just days until the midterm elections, Trump insinuated that McConnell is colluding with Democrats or the left is blackmailing the Republican, threatening to impeach him if he betrays them. Looks Like Mitch McConnell Wants to Lose Winnable NH Senate Seat. Just a few days after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he would pull his Senate Leadership Fund PAC out of New Hampshire on the 25th, two polls showed the Republican candidate surging into what is now virtually a tied race. According to an Emerson poll released Monday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc has surged five points since last month and is now down only three points — 45-48 percent — to incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan. [...] Either way, that seat looks winnable ... and McConnell's fleeing? Why? Obviously, the super PAC ads combined with an overall national GOP surge helped Bolduc. Why pull the rug out from under him now? McConnell Pulls Money From GOP Senate Candidate In Close Race — And Gives it To Murkowski? The Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC aligned with Mitch McConnell, is pulling money from New Hampshire's Senate race — this is despite the fact polling shows the race close. Beginning on October 25th, $5.6 million in spending will be slashed from the state. Mitch McConnell Pulls PAC Ads Out of New Hampshire, Effectively Sabotaging GOP Candidate Don Bolduc. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will pull all his super PAC's money out of New Hampshire, effectively sabotaging Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc. The McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund will pull all its ads off television starting October 25, Shane Goldmacher of the News York Times reported Friday afternoon. The decision will rip $5.6 million away from Gen. Bolduc's candidacy and greatly help incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). The general will now be all alone in the Granite State. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has also reportedly removed its financial support from the state. Time to ditch Mitch. A few days back it was reported that a GOP super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) would withdraw a significant $5.6 million reserved for TV ads from New Hampshire's Senate race. A spokesperson for the PAC claimed they "are shifting resources to where they can be most effective to achieve our ultimate goal: winning the majority[.]" That follows a similar move made by the Senate Republicans' campaign earlier this month to pull its resources from New Hampshire, claiming it was because of other Republican spending going toward the race. Recent polls show both candidates in New Hampshire, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and her Republican challenger Don Bolduc, evenly poised in the contest. Despite Hassan outspending Bolduc by a whopping $9 million during the third quarter. [...] Where is McConnell spending his funds? Why of course in Alaska on Sen. Lisa Murkowski who running against Trump-endorsed GOP challenger Kelly Tshibaka. McConnell's PAC is spending about $9 million on Murkowski. Murkowski voted to impeach Trump in the Senate and voted 66.7% with Biden, a high number for a Republican. She voted to send billions of tax dollars in aid to Ukraine and myriad other Democrat-backed bills. She also voted to approve most nominations of Biden's cabinet members and even his Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson[.] Poll: Just 7 Percent View Mitch McConnell Favorably. Just seven percent view Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) favorably, down from 31 percent in 2020 when former President Donald Trump was leading the Republican Party, a Civiqs poll found Wednesday [9/21/2022]. The Civiqs poll averaged 214,149 responses tracked between November 18, 2017, and September 20, 2022. The Civiqs tracking model captures the shifts in attitudes of various groups over time across all 50 states and Washington, DC. These changes can happen either rapidly or over time. The poll showed McConnell's favorability took a huge hit the month former President Donald Trump left office, plunging from 17 percent to 8 percent. As the Biden administration assumed office and began weaponizing federal agencies and prosecuting political foes, McConnell's favorability rating sank and has hovered in the high single digits. McConnell Abandons Arizona Senate Race to Maintain a GOP He Can Control. The top elected Republican in the country, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is abandoning the competitive Arizona Senate race — and potentially a Senate majority — to maintain a conference he can control in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, Axios reported that McConnell's super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), is pulling another $9.6 million in television ads from the Arizona contest where Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters remains locked in a tight effort to unseat Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly. "The cancellations mean that the GOP's leading super PAC won't be spending any money in Arizona, one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country," Axios reported, adding that McConnell's allies are "confident other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference." Is Mitch McConnell sabotaging the GOP's chances to win back the Senate? [Senate candidate Blake] Masters isn't the only candidate receiving a cold shoulder from McConnell. Senate Republican nominees such as J.D. Vance (Ohio), Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania), Adam Laxalt (Nevada), and Herschel Walker (Georgia), all of whom were endorsed and backed by President Donald Trump during their states' respective GOP primaries, haven't exactly received much financial support, either. This financial support is vital because it enables campaigns to counter Democrat smear campaigns and reach out to independent or ignorant voters. In August, McConnell questioned the caliber of some of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate. McConnell said the following regarding the midterms: "I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome." This is shocking and unprecedented. McConnell Remains Silent on Biden's Speech Attacking MAGA Movement. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remains silent regarding President Joe Biden's speech that labeled "MAGA Republicans" a threat to America. Five days after the speech, McConnell has not publicly remarked on Biden's rhetoric. His office did not respond to several requests for comment from Breitbart News that spanned several days. The McConnell betrayal: Why Republicans never win. Conservatives wonder why the party leaders that are supposed to represent them do such a poor job of doing so, and why, frankly, they as voters keep getting cynically shafted by these same Republican leaders. Unfortunately, many establishment-Republican leaders do not appear to grasp that the rise of Trump was due precisely to rank-and-file anger at weak undependable Republican leadership that was not put there to enrich itself but to represent the Republican base and stick to conservative principles, on the economy, on education, on guns, and on immigration. Perhaps the most important of these, Sen. McConnell, does not appear to be bothered by the fact that he is both the most unpopular senator but also that he has lost the confidence of most Republicans. Astonishing, it appears that McConnell may prefer to lose the Senate and continue to subject the country to Biden's hellish policies rather than lose his status as minority leader if a sufficient number of Trump-Republicans win their Senate races. The fact that the Republican base still prefers Trump should settle the debate for McConnell no matter what his private views. McConnell says election fraud [is] rare, threats to democracy [are] not a problem. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says election fraud is rare but "happens occasionally" and that threats to democracy, an important issue to U.S. voters in a recent survey, are not a pressing issue. The chamber's top Republican made the remarks a day after the release Sunday of an NBC News poll that show the plurality of respondents, 21%, ranked "threats to democracy" as the most important issue facing the country. "I do think it's an important issue. 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," said McConnell, referring to the post-2020 presidential election results. Trump Is Right. Mitch McConnell And Elaine Chao Spent Decades Getting 'Rich On China'. For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family's deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican's problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent. "Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate[?]" Trump asked in a Truth Social post on Sunday. "This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!" It didn't take long for the corporate media to mock Trump's assertion, framing his legitimate criticism of McConnell and Chao as unfair and unjust. Some outlets such as Vanity Fair even hinted that Trump's comments were revenge against Chao for resigning from the Trump administration following the 2021 Capitol riot and subsequently cooperating with the illegitimate Jan. 6 Committee. Trump's criticism of McConnell and Chao, however, is not something to be taken lightly. Mitch McConnell is unwilling to help floundering MAGA candidates. Republican leadership — I'm looking at you, Mitch McConnell — would rather hand the country over to the Democrats than risk any leadership roles. Trump focused on Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in Pennsylvania. His opponent, John Fetterman, is a radical leftist who lived off his family's wealth until he was almost 50 before getting in politics, has been part of the government that has presided over Pennsylvania's partial collapse into anarchy, and is only somewhat recovered from a stroke. Pennsylvania is a conservative state outside the cities, and, while the cities are (of course) Democrat, they are getting destroyed by the crime wave Democrat politics have unleashed. Spineless: 6 Ways McConnell Betrays the Republican Base. I sure wish we could move on from Mitch McConnell. Or rather, I wish we could find an effective way to compel Republican senators to move on from McConnell (and his lackeys) as their leader. I don't like him. I don't like the way he conducts business in the Senate. I don't like his imperious nature and his backroom double-dealings. I don't think he represents the vast majority of Republican voters, and even worse, I don't think he even cares. I find him off-putting and arrogant and a terrible spokesperson for the Republican Party. I do not think he has ever convinced a single non-Republican voter to come onboard. I'm not certain he believes in much aside from the accumulation and maintenance of raw power. And to the extent he actually does have sincere beliefs, those beliefs seem hopelessly aligned to an outdated Republican Party still grazing in the country-club safe spaces of bourbon-swilling "elites." His fingerprints are all over the Senate's new gun control bill, of course, because nothing gets done on the Republican side unless Mitch first snaps his fingers or gives his blessing. Did Sen. Mitch McConnell want a riot on January 6? It's possible that, without Julie Kelly's dogged journalistic efforts, almost no one would remember the January 6 martyrs, immured in dirty, cruelly-managed D.C. prisons for the sin of entering the Capitol last January. For 15 months, Kelly has lived and breathed the story, ferreting out every bit of information that the government isn't hiding from defendants and journalists alike. That knowledge, combined with a book revealing Sen. Mitch McConnell's feelings about Trump, lead her to suggest that McConnell encouraged the breakdown on January 6 to avoid protest votes against Biden's assuming the presidency. McConnell's 'Exhilarating' Insurrection. A dirty little secret about January 6 — one of many — is that Democrats and establishment Republicans, not Trump supporters, wanted to shut down the official proceedings of that day. Just as the first wave of protesters breached the building shortly after 2 p.m., congressional Republicans were poised to present evidence of rampant voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Ten incumbent and four newly-elected Republican senators planned to work with their House colleagues to demand the formation of an audit commission to investigate election "irregularities" in the 2020 election. Absent an audit, the group of senators, including Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pledged to reject the Electoral College results from the disputed states. The Hail Mary effort was doomed to fail; yet the American people would have heard hours of debate related to provable election fraud over the course of the day. And no one opposed the effort more than ex-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Why Mitch McConnell? If we've heard it once, we've heard it a million times: 80-year-old Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is the indispensable man. McConnell's indispensability, we're told, stems from his skill shepherding Republican judicial nominees through the process and onto the federal bench. Alternatively, McConnell's mastery of Senate rules keeps more than a few Democrats off the bench. This is practically lore among Republicans. But McConnell's prowess is overstated. As the saying goes, graveyards are full of indispensable men. Okay, give McConnell his due. He's been an effective manager, advancing and opposing judicial nominations. But are we to believe that among McConnell's 49 Senate Republican colleagues not one has the chops to lead on judicial nominations? Mitch McConnell Just Announced Support For This Big-Time Anti-Trumper. Can Mitch "the RINO" McConnell be trusted to stand up for conservative interests and the values that his ruby red voters presumably elected him to fight for when he ran as a Republican? No, no he can't. His spine is weaker than overcooked spaghetti and Mitch rarely has the guts to stand up to the radical left on anything other than judicial appointments. For some reason, he takes that issue seriously and fights as he should but can't take that attitude and apply it to other areas, as we saw when he shamefully retreated on the budget issue. So, it should come as no real surprise that now Mitch has thrown financial support behind another anti-Trump RINO, Liz Cheney, and is trying to keep that Never Trumper in the House instead of replacing her with the more conservative, pro-Trump and Trump-backed Harriet Hageman. If DC Fears Trump, He Deserves Four More Years. I do try not to get angry when government actors confirm my belief that they are lowly human beings not worthy of respect. [...] Still, there are things that boil my blood faster than I can tend to my passions and mediate my hatred. And one of those instances came this week, when Mitch McConnell pushed the D.C. Leviathan's lie that January 6 was a "violent insurrection" in his clear attempt to set the stage for a time in the near future when the power-mad monsters of Washington declare to the country that President Donald Trump will not be "permitted" to run for election in 2024. I could write an avalanche of essays explaining how important I believe Trump's presidency has been for this country. But that seems secondary to the need to roll up six years of government-orchestrated hoaxes, crimes, and propaganda used to undermine the 2016 (and, in my opinion, 2020) election(s) and shove all of Washington's corruption right down its collective throat. McConnell joins Cheney and Kinzinger in giving aid and comfort to the swamp's denizens. Mitch McConnell obviously has never met a conservative populist (a/k/a Trump supporter) he ever liked. That clearly is indicated by his gratuitous defense of GOP turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger. [...] No one tried to prevent "the peaceful transfer of power." The January 6 demonstrators — by far most of them — were concerned about the wrongful transfer of power. But it wasn't enough for McConnell to identify with the radical Democrats who are weaponizing "Jan. 6" in a desperate bid to hold Congress in next November's elections. He had to defend the vicious attacks by the turncoats on Republicans, declaring Cheney and Kinzinger merely have different views that most GOP officials, and that it was not the purview of the RNC to censure such views. What rot. [...] One senses that Mitch McConnell has thrown down the gantlet: "It's either Trump or me. If Trump remains titular head of the GOP after the midterm elections. I'm out of here." McConnell States the People Can Never Be Permitted a Voice in Politics, and January 6th Was a Terrorist Attack. Mitch McConnell and his team of UniParty leaders made a strong statement today against anyone who would ever have the audacity to stand in opposition to the upper elite within the United States government. The timing of McConnell to align with Joe Biden is not coincidental. First, to the status of the January 6th protestors, DeceptiCon party leader Mitch McConnel affirms the united DC position that all J6 protestors were violent domestic terrorists, carrying out an insurrection attempt, intent on destroying the carefully constructed democracy the DC elites are providing to the people. Stunningly, the second point was McConnell admonishing the RNC for rejecting Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as members of the Republican Party platform. McConnell now states the Republican Party should have no input in determining who is supported by the Republican membership. This is your leader? McConnell breaks with RNC: Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized the Republican National Committee (RNC) for its censure of Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and broke with their language on the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, calling it a "violent insurrection." "It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election. ... That's what it was," McConnell said. The RNC sparked fierce backlash after it described Jan. 6, when a mob of former President Trump's followers breached the Capitol, as "legitimate political discourse" in a resolution censuring Kinzinger and Cheney. Mitch McConnell says January 6 defendants should not have their sentences shortened. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell countered former President Donald Trump on Tuesday saying those charged with crimes for the January 6 Capitol attack shouldn't have their sentences shortened. 'What we saw here on January the 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the other, which had never happened before in our country,' McConnell said at a press conference with GOP leaders. 'My view is I would not be in favor of shortening any of the sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes.' At his Texas rally on Saturday, Trump dangled pardons for January 6 defendants. 'If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,' he told the crowd. McConnell, Emblematic of Republicans' Past, Is The Least Popular Politician In America. Even with bad approval ratings, the nation's top four Democratic leaders are more popular than Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to an aggregate of polls maintained by RealClearPolitics, just 24 percent of Americans view McConnell favorably, compared to 59 percent who say otherwise for a net negative of 35 percent. McConnell's Democratic counterpart in the upper chamber, Sen. Chuck Schumer, enjoys a 32 percent favorability rating, while Nancy Pelosi's stands at 34 percent, Vice President Kamala Harris at 40 percent, and President Joe Biden at 43 percent. The low ratings signal a challenge for McConnell in the GOP leader's effort to maintain control of the Republican conference beyond next year's midterms. With one seat needing to flip in a hostile year for Democrats, Republicans hold the advantage to reclaim a Senate majority. The season's primary battles, however, showcase McConnell's simmering unpopularity in a changing Republican Party outside the Beltway. McConnell dismisses GOP's Biden impeachment chatter: 'That's not going to happen'. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday dismissed the notion that President Biden would be impeached over the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing that a Democratic-controlled Congress would never allow it. The impeachment question came during an event in the Republican leader's home state of Kentucky. "The president is not going to be removed from office. There's a Democratic House, a narrowly Democratic Senate. That's not going to happen," Mr. McConnell said. "There isn't going to be an impeachment." Mitch McConnell: 'President Is Not Going to Be Removed from Office'. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters Wednesday that President Joe Biden will not "be removed from office" in wake of the deadly Afghan evacuation that left 13 U.S. military personnel killed, an estimated 200 American citizens stranded, and billions of dollars worth of equipment in the hands of the Taliban. "Well, look the president is not going to be removed from office ... I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box," the Wall Street Journal reported McConnell's remarks. "There isn't going to be an impeachment," the Kentucky Senator who lost his majority in the 2020 election cycle added. Cocaine Mitch Speaks on Possible Biden Impeachment. Joe Biden's dangerous incompetence crescendoed earlier in the week when US forces pulled out of Afghanistan, unconscionably leaving American citizens behind. Prior to that, questions of the president's mental and physical acuity were already widespread, and his latest moves only compounded that. That includes the revelation that the president asked former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to lie about the Taliban's successes in exchange for support. Given that, the calls for impeachment are growing louder. After all, Donald Trump was impeached over supposition about a phone call. Is abandoning Americans to terrorists and asking a world leader to lie in the process somehow less egregious? Remember, we've been previously assured that impeachment is a political act and that no actual high crime or misdemeanor has to exist. On that front, Sen. Mitch McConnell has chimed in, and he's not exactly leading the charge. Mitch McConnell Has Run America Off A Cliff. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has led the charge of 19 senator republicans, hell-bent on running off a cliff. Like a bunch of lemmings, 19 GOPers sided with Democrats and signed onto an infrastructure bill that isn't about infrastructure[. I]t's a debt and bureaucratic disaster in the making. Although we are told it will "pay for itself", it won't. Repurposed Covid funds are insufficient to fill gaps, and "Covid funds" were funds created out of thin air in any event so claiming it pays for itself with fake money, is just more mafia-style creative accounting. Democrats included a whole bunch of "equity" language throwing money at "disadvantaged groups". The purpose is to create equal results, not equal access. Apparently, a disadvantaged group is "female truck drivers". Weird because the bill also includes an effort to create traffic jams with a thing called "Traffic Calming". Traffic Calming would deliberately create traffic congestion in an effort to force people to use public transpiration [sic]. Dirtbag Mitch McConnell Threatens to Defy Trump and Pick His Own Candidate to to Run Against Herschel Walker in GA Senate Race. Mitch McConnell threatened to defy Trump and pick his own candidate to run against Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate primary race in 2022 against Marxist Democrat Raphael Warnock. Shouldn't he be more focused on challenging the Democrats' latest trillion-dollar infrastructure garbage dump? Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law Angela Chao served on the board of Chinese defense firm CSSC. [Thread reader] Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law Angela Chao served on the board of Chinese defense firm CSSC that builds missiles, warships, nuclear submarines & aircraft carriers one day will by used to attack America. CSSC also builds infrastructures on fake islands in South China Sea. McConnell sister-in-law Angela Chao also served on the board of Carnegie-Tsinghua Center. Tsinghua U has been designated as "Very High Risk" over its links to military researches and cyber espionage. Angela Chao currently serves as a director at Bank of China, which has been involved in money laundering, terrorist financing, and Hunter Biden's investment fund. Mitch McConnell Says Something So Dumb, It'll Make You Question Everything About Him. Perhaps no figure in Washington has caused more damage over the last year than Dr. Anthony Fauci. The once-obscure government bureaucrat has taken a leading role in pushing disastrous lockdowns and mask mandates. He also championed a vaccine strategy that possibly kneecapped the effectiveness of the roll-out. Through all that, Fauci has been relentlessly arrogant despite his many, many mistakes and misstatements. Given that, you'd expect Republicans to be unified around the idea that he's not someone to be propped up or respected at this point. Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell didn't get the memo, delivering this unbelievable endorsement of Fauci. Mitch McConnell's Grand Guignol performance in the Senate. [Scroll down] McConnell knows, as does every Democrat Senator, that once the Democrats pass HR 1, which opens an express lane to Democrat fraud in elections; end the filibuster; fast tracks citizenship for all the illegal aliens in America (possibly more than 10% of our population); pack the Supreme Court; and add Puerto Rico and Washington DC as new states, there will never again be a two-party system in America. It is laughable to think that the Republicans could one day regain power. When will Joe Biden step down ... or be removed from office? [Scroll down] So how does the swamp manage to remove a clearly feeble Joe Biden and maintain the tie-breaking vote in the Senate? The answer, as always, is Mitch McConnell. [...] It is highly unlikely an 85 year-old McConnell would even run for reelection in six years, so why resign now? Could it possibly be due to a deal regarding McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, the recent Inspector General's report, and the Biden Justice department's decision to not investigate? That is speculation, but is anything beyond the realm of possibility in 2021 America? Suppose McConnell resigns, the Senate is then 50-49 in favor of the Democrat majority. Kamala Harris is installed at that time as president and quickly puts forth a nominee for vice president while the Democrat governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, slow walks a replacement for McConnell. The Democrats confirm a new vice president, and maintain control of the Senate by way of the tie-breaking vice presidential vote. No Republican senator has to explain to voters why they voted for the new vice president, handing total control of the government back to Democrats, and so all have plausible deniability. Alternative viewpoint: Report: Mitch McConnell working on leaving the Senate before his term is over. A new report from The Intercept presents strong evidence that Mitch McConnell is preparing to leave office before his Senate term expires. Coincidentally or not, this report closely follows release of a report by the Department of Transportation's Inspector General stating that McConnel's wife, Elaine Chao, used her office staff to promote her wealthy family's shipping interests, and could face federal prosecution. Currently, if Senate Minority Leader McConnell were to leave his Senate seat, his successor would be named by Kentucky's Governor Andrew Beshear, a Democrat, leaving wide open the possibility of handing an actual 51-49 Senate majority to Chuck Schumer, and liberating Kamala Harris from her role as a tiebreaker and freeing her to take over more duties from fading Joe Biden. According to The Intercept, McConnell is working closely with the Kentucky legislature to change the manner in which a successor is chosen. Mitch McConnell Says He Will Throw His Support Behind Trump-Hating RINO Lisa Murkowski in her Reelection Bid!. Republican leader Mitch McConnell trashed President Trump on the Senate floor following his second acquittal by the US Senate. McConnell brutally and needlessly trashed President Donald Trump following his acquittal. McConnell and the GOP elites (GOPe) worked against President Trump for years preventing him from passing his wildly popular agenda to protect America, its workers, and its citizens. McConnell claimed that the protesters stormed the Capitol because they had been "fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth," and that Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day." And then Mitch McConnell suggested that President Trump may still be charged in the criminal justice system! 3 More Kentucky GOP County Leaders Call on Mitch McConnell to Step Down. The Nelson County Republican Party wrote Senator Mitch McConnell on Tuesday [2/16/2021] demanding he immediately resign from his leadership position with the Republican Party's caucus in the United States Senate. This comes after McConnell's comments on Saturday and an explosive editorial in the Wall Street Journal viciously attacking and smearing President Donald Trump. Nelson County Chairman Don Thrasher pointed out McConnell's "complete and total disdain for the will of your constituents" for the reason for the letter. The Uniparty's Wishful Thinking. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) committed a mortal political error on Saturday [2/13/2021] when, after voting to acquit President Trump on constitutional grounds, he accused the former president of the crime of being "practically and morally" responsible for the invasion and vandalization of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and the deaths of five people. McConnell not only signed on to the ultimate NeverTrump loyalty oath of submission to the totalitarian big lie there was no possible doubt about the legitimacy of the election verdict; he also declared Trump had no choice but to accept the result and quietly leave Washington with his tail between his legs. McConnell took it upon himself to declare the end of the Trump era in the Republican Party, nailing his flag to the mast of return to the McCRomBush swamp of alternating Democrats with Dem look-alikes in the White House, and leaving the overwhelmingly Democratic political establishment serenely undisturbed. McConnell's Bitter Turtle Soup. [Scroll down] McConnell should have mocked the whole [impeachment] affair as obscene. Instead, his decision to browbeat the president right after finding him "not guilty" reeked of cowardice. He gave every appearance of having raised a wet index finger in the air before determining how to proceed, and when it was clear from recent polling that Republican voters had not abandoned President Trump en masse, as McConnell no doubt had hoped, the minority leader decided to turn King Solomon's wisdom on its head by cutting the impeachment baby squarely in half — acquitting the president on procedural grounds while verbally excoriating him nonetheless. It was a striking reminder that, with President Trump now sidelined from power, two-faced, stand-for-nothing Republican leadership is back on top. O glory days! And McConnell would rather destroy the MAGA movement than ever win again. [...] If the Republican Party does, indeed, wither and die in the near future, it is this kind of underhanded duplicity that will finally do it in. Poll: Mitch McConnell Favorability Under Water at 18%. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) favorability is under water, a Politico/Morning Consult survey reveals. The survey, taken February 12-15, among 1,987 registered voters, asked respondents to rate a number of prominent politicians, including the minority leader. Trump Responds: 'Mitch Is a Dour, Sullen & Unsmiling Political Hack'. Former President Trump issued a statement in rebuttal to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling him a "business as usual" politician with "status quo policies" and "a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack." [...] The former president reiterated that he "received the most votes of any sitting President in History, almost 75,000,000" and concluded with, "This is a big moment for our country and we cannot let it pass by using third rate 'leaders' to dictate our future!" Kentucky County Demands Mitch McConnell Resign as GOP Leader of the US Senate Over Disgusting Attacks Against President Trump. The Nelson County Republican Party wrote Senator Mitch McConnell on Tuesday demanding he immediately resign from his leadership position with the Republican Party's caucus in the United States Senate. This comes after McConnell's comments on Saturday and an editorial in the Wall Street Journal attacking and smearing President Donald Trump. Trump won Nelson County in Kentucky 67.5% to 30.9% in the 2020 election. Mitch Miscalculated Bigly. [Scroll down] McConnell's goal is to separate President Trump from his supporters as a repeat performance of his somewhat successful efforts to destroy and marginalize the Tea Party (who have never really gone away). An organized Tea Party was a direct threat to the political class and McConnell's key backers at the US Chamber of Commerce. He was happy to reach across the aisle to undermine upstart Tea Partiers who dared to question their "betters" in Congress during the disaster for the country that was the Obama regime. And those "betters" included Establishment Republicans like McConnell, who were ready, willing, and able to make deals with Barack Obama to the detriment of Main Street Americans. McConnell capitalized on Democrat-media attacks on the Tea Party. After beating down his own Tea Party-backed challenger in 2014, he was happy to work behind the scenes to undercut Tea Party people at every opportunity and elect "his kind of candidates" — those he could control through campaign contributions and other perks — as opposed to the limited government conservatives whom the Tea Party supported. Trump urges ouster of 'unsmiling political hack' Mitch McConnell. Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday [2/16/2021] issued a blistering attack on the most powerful Republican in post-Trump Washington, calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell an "unsmiling political hack" who should be thrown out of office. "The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political 'leaders' like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm," Trump said in an emailed 626-word statement that all but declared political war on the Kentucky Republican. "McConnell's dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse," Trump said. Mitch McConnell Deployed His Anti-Trump Ploy in The Exact Same Manner He Deployed Against The Tea Party. An interesting, insightful and accurate article from Christopher Bedford in The Federalist outlines how Mitch McConnell delivered his impeachment floor speech as a ploy to destroy the MAGA movement. Bedford notes how Senator Lindsey Graham even outlined how McConnell's attack was purposefully written and delivered to give any Democrat opponent in 2022 ammunition against Republican senators up for re-election. However, what Bedford and Graham did not directly speak about is: (a) the historic pattern within exactly what Mitch McConnell did; and (b) the motive for him doing so. Several DeceptiCon senators have already announced they will not run for re-election in 2020 [Shelby, Toomey, Burr, Portman and Johnson]. In the 2022 Senate races there are 34 seats up for grabs. 14 are held by Democrats and 20 are held by tenuous Republicans. McConnell's Impeachment Ploy Was Not Statesmanship, But An Attack On The Base. McConnell isn't a man used to public rebukes from the corporate wing of his party, but after the past month's antics they are rightly deserved. Friday's [2/12/2021] floor speech was no quick tantrum: It was the last stupid moments of the minority leader's plan to purge the GOP of Donald Trump — a plan that began to unravel nearly immediately after its poorly conceived Jan. 12 rollout in the pages of The New York Times. So what's all behind this? After four years of yelling "MAGA!" while pushing his own classic, corporate Republican policies, McConnell had hoped to rid himself and his conference of the conservative populist nationalism the former president had championed and go back to the way things were. He wants a return to promising to tackle illegal immigration before winking at corporate America that nothing will change. He wants to raise money on fighting the abortion of our infants while comfortably lifting nary a finger. He wants to shrug and change the subject when asked about men dominating women's sports and using women's bathrooms. He wants fewer taxes and more wars. Mitch McConnell deepens GOP civil war by warning he could oppose Trump-backed candidates. Mitch McConnell has said he is open to opposing any 'unelectable' candidates in 2022, even if they are strongly backed by Donald Trump, as he wrestles with how to handle a deeply-divided party following Trump's impeachment hearing. McConnell voted on Saturday [2/13/2021] to acquit the former president, but then publicly attacked him, accusing him of a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty' in his most critical remarks ever uttered. His tightrope walk between defending and demonizing the former president impressed few. McConnell's home newspaper, The Lexington Herald-Leader, accused him on Sunday of having 'contorted himself into a strange pretzel-shaped politician hated by everyone'. Graham: McConnell 'put a load on Republicans' back' with anti-Trump speech. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for speaking out against former President Donald Trump after voting to acquit Trump at his impeachment trial. Despite voting in Trump's favor, McConnell, R-Ky., blamed the former president for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Graham warned on "Fox News Sunday" that this will be used against Republicans as they try to retake control of Congress in 2022. "I think Sen. McConnell's speech, he got a load off his chest, obviously, but unfortunately he put a load on the back of Republicans," Graham said. "That speech you will see in 2022 campaigns." After His Second Acquittal The Democrats Push Plan To Ban Trump From Running For Office Again - This Can Be Done With A Simple Majority Vote. McConnell and the GOP elites (GOPe) worked against President Trump for years preventing him from passing his wildly popular agenda to protect America, its workers, and its citizens. McConnell did not hold back as he ripped Trump apart for a "disgraceful dereliction of duty" and attempting to "overturn the election." He claimed that the protesters stormed the Capitol because they had been "fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth," and that Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day." The Editor says... Mitch McConnell launches all-out attack on Trump AFTER voting to clear him. Mitch McConnell tore into Donald Trump Saturday [2/13/2021] after voting with 42 other Republicans to acquit him of 'incitement of insurrection' — but then immediately argued the former president is solely to blame for Capitol storming. 'President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,' McConnell said in Senate floor remarks. On the fifth and final day of the impeachment trial, the Republican Senate leader argued in a speech following the 57-43 vote that Congress does not hold the jurisdiction to criminally or civilly prosecute the former president. Top Republicans, Ex-White House Officials Pressing McConnell to Convict Trump. On January 6, there was a riot on Capitol Hill. Five people died. The Capitol Building was stormed. New impeachment articles were filed against President Trump as well. Trump addressed the Save America rally on the same day as the riot. He's being accused of inciting a riot and insurrection on this day; the day Congress certifies the 2020 election results. This appears to be the straw the broke the camel's back. McConnell blames Trump for losing the GOP majority in the Senate. There's no love lost between the two men. He is even supportive of the Democrats' impeachment push, seeing it as not being grounded in politics as with the first attempt regarding Ukraine. He also reportedly sees this as an avenue to purge Trumpism from the GOP. The Daily Caller reported that key Republicans and former White House officials are conducting a whisper campaign to urge the Kentucky Republican to convict Trump. Report: McConnell Wants Trump Gone As GOP Big Shots Lobby For Conviction. Now that the date has been set for the unprecedented second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump, the only question remaining is whether enough Republicans join Democrats in convicting him on bogus charges. There will need to be 17 Republicans willing to pull the trigger in order to prevent Trump from ever running for president again. And while it has been reported that there are few outside of the klatch of die-hard Never Trumpers who would convict, one key GOP senator wants him gone. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly siding with the lynch mob although the powerful Kentuckian hasn't come out publicly in favor of conviction. Nelson Co. GOP leaders censure Senator Mitch McConnell after floor speech saying Capitol riot was 'provoked' by Trump. On his last day in the role before becoming minority leader, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell pointed fingers at President Trump, directly accusing him of playing a role in the January 6th insurrection of the U.S. Capitol. [...] Senator McConnell went on to say the "marching orders" from the American people are to now find bipartisan agreement and seek "common ground." "This is by far and away the most extreme and dramatic break between McConnell and Trump that has been seen publicly," UofL professor and constitutional law expert Sam Marcosson said. [...] McConnell's speech prompted Nelson County GOP leaders to hold an emergency meeting, voting unanimously to issue a resolution censuring the senate majority leader for his comments. Mitch McConnell's betrayal hurts the nation. Just when Washington has a chance to turn the page, fresh signs emerged Tuesday that the past is not yet past. It is almost certain now that the Senate will hold an impeachment trial of President Trump next week. Even worse, it looks probable he will be convicted of a single charge stemming from the Capitol invasion. The history-making event got the green light from McConnell (R-Ky.) on his last day as Senate majority leader. Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell said of the Jan. 6 incident: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like." The comments build on earlier reports that McConnell was glad House Democrats were impeaching the president and that he might vote for conviction. The speech signals he is likely a yes vote, which would open the GOP floodgates and yield at least the 67 Senate votes needed for conviction. Mitch McConnell Blames President Trump, Says Mob "Was Provoked By The President". If there has been one politician on these pages we have warned about over the years it is Senator Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is the most conniving, cunning and Machiavellian member of the republican party. With his positions solidifying CTH warnings for well over a decade, his actions over the past several weeks now highlight the dark background of his politics. Today [1/19/2021], McConnell took the final stab at the people's president as Donald Trump prepares to depart the White House. Schweizer: Mitch McConnell, Wife Elaine Chao Financially Tied to the Chinese Government. Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer on Sunday detailed how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his wife Elaine Chao are financially tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Schweizer said on Fox News Channel's "The Next Revolution" that McConnell's "position on China has softened over the years," which he argued is due to the growing relationship between the Chinese government and the Chao's company. "Really, it goes to the fact that Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, his wife, are financially tied to the Chinese government," Schweizer outlined. Mitch McConnell 'believes Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses' and wants him purged from the party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling support for the House Democratic impeachment effort that includes an article charging the president with 'incitement of insurrection.' The view of the GOP powerbroker emerged shortly before Rep. Liz Cheney, a member of the House GOP leadership, announced that she would vote for impeaching President Trump. 'On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic,' wrote Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president. McConnell is said to believe impeachment would make it easier to purge Trump from GOP. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting Wednesday to formally charge Trump with inciting violence against the country. At the same time, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the minority leader and one of Trump's most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he ought to call on Trump to resign in the aftermath of last week's riot at the Capitol, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations. It's Time For Mitch To Go. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who currently holds what I suppose we now call the Office of the Outgoing Senate Majority Leader, has to go. He's a man unsuited for the times. The results prove it. It is McConnell who has been the architect of Republican defeat in the Senate. Heading into the 2016 election, there were 54 Republican senators. After the election there were 52. Then, in 2018, McConnell backed the disastrous candidacy of Martha McSally for an open seat in Arizona. It was McConnell who picked her and crowded out other viable candidates. That year McSally lost by 2.4 percentage points to Kyrsten Sinema while, at the same time, Republican Doug Ducey cruised to a nearly 15-point win as Arizona's governor. Voters didn't reject Republicans as such; they rejected McSally. McConnell then lobbied for McSally to be appointed to the seat vacated by John McCain, setting up another McSally defeat at the hands of Mark Kelly in November. Mitch McConnell lied on the floor of the Senate Wednesday. Soon-to-be minority leader of the Senate today [1/6/2021] lied to the American people when he said there was not sufficient evidence of fraud to overturn the election results or the certification votes of the electoral college. There are mountains of evidence, especially from the six contested states. McConnell betrayed the President, his supporters and his own constituents who only just re-elected him in November. His recent re-election is probably why he felt comfortable breaking faith with the 74 million Trump supporters. Mitch McConnell Will Reach Out to Senator-Elect Tommy Tuberville and Urge Him Turn His Back on Trump in Electoral College Vote. Last week news broke that senator-elect Tommy Tuberville may challenge the Electoral College votes on the US Senate floor in January. Several states were stolen from President Trump in his landslide 2020 election. Democrats and the media claim it is perfectly normal to lock out GOP observers while you manufacture tens of thousands of votes to overcome a massive Trump win. Trump supporters disagree. But Mitch McConnell does not stand for President Trump and he does not stand with Trump's voters. Mitch stands with the globalists and the Democrats and he is reportedly reaching out to Tommy Tuberville to warn him about creating a messy situation next week. Mitch's Betrayal: Senate Majority Leader Tells Republicans Not to Object to Electoral Votes. Kentucky Republicans sure must be glad they elected "Cocaine Mitch" to another six year-term this year. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly told Republican members of the chamber to refrain from objecting to electoral votes when they arrive to be counted by Congress next month. According to The Hill, McConnell made the remarks during a caucus call on Tuesday. The outlet reported that an objection "isn't in the best interest of everybody." "McConnell warned that any GOP senator who signed onto a House Republican objection to a state's electoral votes would then force the Senate to debate and vote on the objection, putting fellow GOP senators in a bad position," The Hill reports. Of course it would put them in a bad position, as it would force the Senate's Republicans — who claim to be conservatives and constitutionalists, and many of whom have won their elections on the basis of being President Trump's allies — to reveal on record where they really stand on the issue of the Democrat Party's attempted theft of a presidential election. Fighting On. So Mitch McConnell thinks it's over. We need to congratulate Biden (whom I have taken to calling "President Asterisk"), forget everything, put it all behind us, and move on. According to Mitch, the greatest political crime in American history is something you just walk away from. Mitch is not alone in this, nor was he the first. [...] The consensus among this crowd is that there is no upside to continuing the fight, no benefits to be gained, nothing at all to be achieved. Instead, we should back down, as Republicans and conservatives have done a thousand times before, take our whipping, resign ourselves to the fact that no honest election from dogcatcher on up will ever again occur in the U.S., and prepare the single suitcase we're allowed while we wait for the truck to take us to Alger Hiss Reeducation Camp at Prudhoe Bay. A crafty old turtle? [Scroll down] Conclusion: there is no reason Senate Republicans should vote for the Biden slate of electors. We are left with the possibility of some crafty positioning. McConnell, Thune, and Blunt may be pretending to roll over for the Democrats in order to help win the two open Senate seats in Georgia. If they were to come out strongly now for the pro-Trump electors, that could sufficiently incentivize Democrat donors to open their wallets further, and energize the Democrat base in Georgia to head for the polls and lead to a possible win for the two Democrats in the special election on Jan. 5 and the subsequent loss of the Senate to the Democrats. This of course would be a disaster, as the Democrats could more easily enact their insane communist legislative agenda. As usual the cagey Turtle hasn't shown us all his cards. The Editor says... Mitch McConnell pleads with his Senators not to force public vote challenging Biden's Electoral College victory. Mitch McConnell warned Senate Republicans on a Tuesday call not to join colleagues in the House in challenging the Electoral College votes because the last-ditch effort to overturn the election results would split the party and ultimately fail. The Senate majority leader pleaded with the caucus, according to Politico, to not object when Congress moves to certify the election for Joe Biden on January 6. He said it would be a 'terrible vote' for Republicans because they would have to slash the attempt down, which would end up making them look anti-Trump. The Editor says... Mitch McConnell warns Republican senators not to object when electors are certified on January 6th. The mask is off the Turtle and the Republican Senate. According to the Politico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his lieutenants are warning Republicans not to object when the electors are certified on January 6th. [...] The terrible vote as McConnell put it would be the bad optics of Senate members voting against President Trump and affirming Joe Biden. Better to keep the treachery hidden than out in the open, eh Mitch? And it would certainly put a crimp in the campaign donations if 80 million Trump supporters witnessed a Republican Senate selling out the president, wouldn't it Mitch? This was the second example on Tuesday of McConnell undermining the efforts of Trump and his legal team to fight back against election fraud. The first shiv came Monday night. In a 10-minute speech on the Senate floor, the Turtle congratulated China Joe and Kamala Harris as the first woman vice-president elect. Mitch McConnell congratulates Biden and lobbies colleagues to oppose a final-stage Republican effort to overturn his victory. Breaking with President Trump's drive to overturn his election loss, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on his victory and began a campaign to keep fellow Republicans from joining a last-ditch effort to reverse the outcome when Congress tallies the results next month. Although Mr. McConnell's moves came weeks after Mr. Biden was declared the winner, they amounted to clear effort by the majority leader, who is the most powerful Republican in Congress, to put an end to his party's attempts to sow doubt about the election. They were also a bid to avoid a messy partisan spectacle on the floor of the House that could divide Republicans at the start of the new Congress, pitting those loyal to Mr. Trump against institutionalists. Mitch McConnell congratulates Biden and lobbies colleagues to oppose a final-stage Republican effort to overturn his victory.. Breaking with President Trump's drive to overturn his election loss, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on his victory and began a campaign to keep fellow Republicans from joining a last-ditch effort to reverse the outcome when Congress tallies the results next month. Although Mr. McConnell's moves came weeks after Mr. Biden was declared the winner, they amounted to clear effort by the majority leader, who is the most powerful Republican in Congress, to put an end to his party's attempts to sow doubt about the election. They were also a bid to avoid a messy partisan spectacle on the floor of the House that could divide Republicans at the start of the new Congress, pitting those loyal to Mr. Trump against institutionalists. The 'Ditch Mitch' McConnell Campaign Is Just Democrats Lighting Their Money On Fire. Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath raised more than $2.5 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign against Mitch McConnell. It is reportedly the most money ever raised in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. The people who donated may as well have lit their money on fire. Unless Mitch McConnell is found to have dated teenagers while in his thirties, McGrath is losing, probably in a landslide. NYT Confirms Schweizer 'Secret Empires' Bombshell on Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell's China Ties. Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao "repeatedly used her connections and celebrity status in China to boost the profile of [her family's shipping] company, which benefits handsomely from the expansive industrial policies in Beijing that are at the heart of diplomatic tensions with the United States," according to a New York Times exposé on Monday [6/3/2019] that builds off research from Peter Schweizer's bestselling book Secret Empires. Chao, who is also the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), has been the subject of intense criticism over the years due to the deep financial ties between her family's shipping business and China's communist regime. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "in the Senate there will be votes to pass the resolution of disapproval". Mitch gets what he wants (a UniParty approved budget) by walking his political opposition (in this example the president) into a tenuous position, and informing them of his support. Then, when it really matters, Mitch retreats and isolates his opposition, forcing them to carry the consequences for the position that he really never did support, while protecting his UniParty position. This is so typical of Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's About to Betray the President. Republicans in the Senate actually prayed the day the President was supposed to sign that absolutely awful spending-border bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to support the President with a National Emergency Declaration if he signed the bill. Well, that's changed. Now McConnell isn't sure it's legal. It's clearly legal since the Congress ceded that power in the 1970s for then-President Jimmy Carter. If they want to change it in the future, they should, but for now, it's perfectly legal. This is a very bad sign for the vote in the Senate to stop the declaration. If Republicans side with the Socialists against the President, what hope does this country have? Senator Mitch McConnell Announces He is "Especially Proud" of Legislation Rebuking President Trump. [Scroll down] Every time this happens victims of battered conservative syndrome start a process of reconciling the reason for their abuse by excusing and justifying their abuser, Mitch McConnell. Let's be clear, CTH has watched this process, on a very granular level, for well over a decade; specifically about Senator McConnell. Mitch McConnell doesn't give a hoot what any voter, constituent, or member of the national electorate thinks about his action. He is entirely unfazed and bound to a power ideology that sets him above all considerations. Senator Rand Paul Calls Out Mitch McConnell for Undermining President Trump. Senator Rand Paul delivers a righteous speech supporting President Trump's decision to begin removing the US military from the Middle East, and calling out Mitch McConnell and the UniParty for undermining the president. Rand is fired up. [Video clip] Beware Senator Mitch McConnell. Sometimes we must call the baby ugly. CTH has followed and mapped how Mitch McConnell operates for over a decade. [...] Mitch McConnell is stealthily working against the efforts of President Donald Trump. The effort is to support his primary Wall Street financial benefactor, Donohue. However, Mitch McConnell cannot directly be connected to underhanded efforts against President Trump because it would lead to: (A) questions about a confrontation; and (B) public exposure. Decepticon Mitch Fires Trump Impeachment Warning with U.S. Senate Demand to Keep Troops in Afghanistan/Syria. The front-story is that Mitch McConnell organized his Decepticon coalition to warn President Trump not to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria. However, the more true back-story is McConnell warning President Trump that he has assembled his impeachment coalition. The Senate passed a "sense of the senate" resolution today demanding that President Trump keep troops actively engaged in perpetual war. Mitch McConnell's Complicity with Democrats. While [Mitch] McConnell and his team may bemoan their lack of the 60 votes needed to overcome Democrat opposition, the truth is, neither he nor his team has ever even tried. Because the wall, or anything else related to Trump's immigration agenda, isn't a McConnell priority. This is obvious when you look at things that are among his priorities; that is, what happens when the congressional GOP and the White House align. On tax reform, McConnell clearly communicated his priorities, he worked closely with his House colleagues, he engaged K Street, Wall Street, Main Street, and the White House. He worked his Senate colleagues, horse-traded for votes, and made sure all of them were prepared to vote favorably. Debunking a Few Myths About Mitch McConnell. The Weekly Standard published a gusher last week on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Fred Barnes, the magazine's executive editor, fell all over himself praising McConnell's "pragmatism and political skill ... [which] allows little to get in the way of winning." Barnes went on to brag about the majority leader's cool demeanor, his close advisors who are "team players," and his willingness to dismiss "conservatives who insist on pushing right-wing issues with no chance of passage." Barnes practically genuflects before the 84 judges confirmed to the lower courts over the past two years, in addition to two confirmations to the Supreme Court. To the latter point, Barnes attributes the Senate midterm victory to McConnell's deft handling of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. These claims deserve examination. How Mitch McConnell Stole the 2016 Congressional Elections. [Scroll down] McConnell's scheme is clandestine, far more shrewd and effective. His method was to allow everyone to vote, then cut off the input voters have on congressional bills at the Senate level. If the House passes 768 bills and Senate Leader McConnell ties up 569 in the Senate, then 74% of those House bills may as well not exist. [...] What McConnell did violates the constitution in the most direct way possible. Since all spending every two years must be decided by the voters — this is why the entire House is elected every two years — for McConnell to deprive the voters a Senate vote on the House bills is identical to denying them their opportunity to express their will and consent. Mitch McConnell's In-Laws Bought 10 Massive Ships from the Chinese Government Since His Wife Elaine Chao Became Transportation Secretary. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) in-laws have ordered 10 massive cargo ships from the Chinese government since the senator's wife Elaine Chao became Secretary of Transportation. The deep financial ties between the Chao family's shipping business Foremost Group and the Chinese regime were first revealed in the #1 New York Times bestseller Secret Empires. Watch Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell Lie About Funding the Trump Border Wall. President Trump promised to build a border wall with Mexico at nearly EVERY campaign stop he held in 2015-2016. The president won the election in an electoral landslide with a promise to build a border wall with Mexico. In January 2017 Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to pass funding of $12-15 billion to build the Trump border wall. [Video clip] But it was all a lie. Levin: Mitch McConnell should be removed after 'shocking' and 'disgusting' corruption allegations. Wednesday [3/21/2018] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin called for Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to step down as Senate majority leader and be investigated for corruption. Levin cited a New York Post article detailing new corruption allegations made against McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. The story refers to a forthcoming book by "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer. "Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends" details how the majority leader and his wife softened their approaches to China over the years due to Chinese business interests. The book claims McConnell and his wife grew rich selling political power. Ryan & McConnell Worked Hand-In-Hand With Pelosi & Schumer To Fracture POTUS Trump's Support With Omnibus Bill. President Trump signed the 1.2 trillion dollar Omnibus bill today [3/23/2018] with open frustration over both the process and the product of that bill. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer heaped praise on Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for their help in what Pelosi called a great bill for the American worker. What wasn't said was how the Republican and Democrat leadership worked together to force POTUS Trump's hand and create a voter backlash they hope will fracture Mr. Trump's base of support among millions of Americans. How McConnell and Chao used political power to make their family rich. In 2004, current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, current US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, had an average net worth of $3.1 million. Ten years later, that number had increased to somewhere between $9.2 million and $36.5 million. One source of the windfall, according to a new book from Peter Schweizer, was a 2008 gift from Chao's father, James Chao, for somewhere between $5 million and $25 million. But this gift could be seen as more than just a gift. It may have been acquired, according to Schweizer, thanks to the couple's fealty to China, the source of the Chao family fortune. And that fealty may have occurred at the expense of the nation they had pledged to serve. Republican Party Is Allowing 'The Resistance' To Run The Score — And The Government. Senate Republicans are heading toward midterm elections with control of their chamber and the biggest advantage any majority party has had since 1790. Yet every week, the Democrats are allowed to work just 2.5 days before returning home to duke it out with their Republican challengers. That is, Mitch McConnell is allowing Democrats to hit the campaign trail hard while obstructing 139 of the president's nominees. In eight months, eight Republican seats and 26 Democratic seats are up for grabs. That's less than one sixth of GOP seats, and more than half of Democrats' seats, including 10 in states President Donald Trump won in 2016 — half of which by 10 or more points. King Mitch is the star of the stupidest show on Earth. Some are out there asking, "When do you think Mitch and his ilk will realize it's over for them?" My money says never. We will be ushering in a Democrat-run Senate next year, and that will be his own doing. And it won't bother him, because he keeps his influence either way. King Mitch knows the grassroots want him out of leadership, so he'll keep throwing NRSC money at losers, because dammit — if Republicans win the majority with conservative candidates, he loses his position. And position is all that matters. [...] Mitch McConnell is a bumbling buffoon who is propped up by the slimiest political hangers-on imaginable — those who do not care about the outcome for the nation and who do not trust the electorate. Judge Roy Moore Will be the 52nd GOP Vote [and] Would Help Break RINO Hold of Senate: So Why Is McConnell for the Democrat? Mitch McConnell is afraid of his shadow. The good news is that Mitch McConnell may not get his wish. Report: Mitch McConnell Camp Planted Roy Moore Story To Help Clear Path For Trump Impeachment Attempt In 2018. What a disgusting cesspool of self-serving corruption is the nation's capital and no better example of that can be found today than Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell who, according to longtime political activist, Ned Ryun, was a primary source of the anti-Roy Moore stories that are now attempting to sway the upcoming Alabama special election and help clear the path for a Trump impeachment attempt in 2018. Ned Ryun on Roy Moore: 'I Strongly, Strongly Suspect Somebody out of the McConnell Camp Planted the Story'. American Majority founder Ned Ryun talked about Roy Moore and the Alabama Senate race with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon and SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday's [11/17/2017] Breitbart News Daily, broadcast live from the Restoration Weekend event. Bannon asked Ryun about celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred's involvement in the Roy Moore case, representing a woman who accuses Moore of assaulting her in 1977 when she was 16 years old. Ryan said Allred is "basically a human vulture when you look back at some of the things she's been involved in." "Remember the incident with Arnold Schwarzenegger?" Ryun asked. "She brought all these women in front of him, said they're going to sue, they're going to file suit against Schwarzenegger. Guess what? After the election, absolutely nothing happened." Al Franken To The Rescue. [Scroll down] At this point, regardless of what happens McConnell loses — if Moore wins, the leadership will have to seat him and tolerate his sure-to-be maverick behavior for having alienated the GOP's own candidate and seen him win anyway, and if Moore loses they'll have found a way to lose a Senate seat in one of the deepest-red states in the country. Either way, McConnell's utility as the Senate's Majority Leader seems to have passed his expiration date. If he's unable to deliver a tax reform bill to a conference committee on top of the Alabama debacle, it will be an urgent necessity to force him out. The GOP is in a civil war, and Mitch McConnell is making it worse. The Republican Party is in the middle of a civil war. And instead of trying to resolve it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is making it worse. According to a recent report, the Senate majority leader has decided to escalate his feud with Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump and current Breitbart News executive chairman. McConnell's allies cite the decision as evidence of his toughness. But it illustrates instead the limits of his leadership. While long considered a canny operator, the reality is that McConnell has been unsuccessful in leading Senate Republicans in the current environment. And the decision to treat his critics as adversaries suggests that he would rather deflect blame for his missteps than rise above a conflict that threatens to tear his party apart. Mark Levin: 'I'm Calling on Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to Resign'. Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin called on House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to resign over allegations made by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) earlier in the day. Speier had claimed two members of Congress had engaged in sexual harassment and remain members of the body. Levin said since these alleged incidents occurred on Ryan and McConnell's watch, they should be held to account and resign. Rand Paul Infuriates McConnell By Going Public With Plan To Eliminate Obamacare Mandate Via Tax Cut Legislation. Both are Kentucky senators but one, Rand Paul, remains a free-thinker removed from the trappings of the D.C. Swamp. The other is Mitch McConnell, the epitome of the swamp and the current Senate Majority Leader. Today [11/15/2017] Senator Paul broke rank and went public with his plan to tie the proposed tax cut/reform legislation to the elimination of the Obamacare mandate — a move that would effectively kill the highly unpopular and insanely expensive federal healthcare program[.] McConnell was apparently okay with Robert Byrd, but... Mitch McConnell Fights Back Against POTUS Trump With Roy Moore Scandal. It was a rather cagey move via Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The longtime anti-Trumper was barely able to conceal his smirk as he informed the media that should Roy Moore win next month's Alabama special election to fill the vacant Senate seat created when Jeff Sessions became the U.S. Attorney General, it would be up to President Trump to make the final decision regarding whether or not Moore would be allowed to actually serve in the Senate. The Despicable Mitch McConnell. [Scroll down] The plan to replace Moore escalated in synch with the Washington Post and liberal lawyers floating unproven allegations that 40 years ago Judge Moore sought relationships with teenage girls when he was a thirty-something attorney. And now National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner (R-CO) has issued a written statement going further. "If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him," Gardner said. He told reporters afterward that Moore "doesn't belong in the United States Senate." If Roy Moore doesn't belong in the U.S. Senate based on unproven 40-year old allegations, then Senator Thad Cochran certainly doesn't belong in the U.S. Senate based on his proven conduct — but will Mitch McConnell call for him to step down? Of course not. There's a despicable double standard at work here. Mitch McConnell urged Roy Moore to 'step aside' with a new accuser set to speak today. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday said that Roy Moore should "step aside" following allegations of sexual misconduct against the Alabama Republican Senate candidate. "I believe the women," he told reporters in Louisville, Kentucky when asked if he believes the allegations against Moore are true. McConnell Urged to Resign. A coalition of grassroots conservative groups has urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to resign over his inability to get the Senate to pass President Donald Trump's agenda. The Senate Conservatives Fund, ForAmerica, ConservativeHQ, Tea Party Patriots, and FreedomWorks have joined forced to urge the majority leader to step down. Move Underway To Push Mitch McConnell Out As Senate Majority Leader. The Tea Party Patriots, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the rest of Senate leadership to resign over their inability to pass President Donald Trump's agenda, which includes repealing and replacing Obamacare, confirming federal judges, and funding a southern border wall. The grassroots conservative leaders chastised the members of Senate leadership, which includes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY). The conservatives argued that the Senate leadership should resign to make way for more effective lawmakers who will enact the president's populist agenda. Panic Mode: Mitch McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund Dumps Another Nearly Million Dollars into Alabama. Allies of establishment-backed Senate candidate Luther Strange, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are in full panic mode over the Senate race here just a week away. The Senate Leadership Fund, a PAC affiliated with McConnell, has dumped another nearly million dollars into Alabama to try to sway the race toward Strange and away from conservative Judge Roy Moore. Conservative PAC: It's Time for McConnell to Go. A conservative political action committee has sent out an email in an attempt to drum up support to remove Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his leadership role. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Is Actively Working To Undermine M.A.G.A Agenda. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a speech today in Kentucky. A speech which yet again personifies the disconnect between the insufferable professional republicans within the party and the MAGA insurgency that has taken it over. CTH has been transparent with our support for Donald Trump, and the specific reason for it. We want the GOPe machine torn down, dispatched to earth orbit, and nuked while there regardless of consequence, because we're sick of having to be brutalized and used by Republican liars hiding within it. Period. Mitch McConnell tosses white towel on Obamacare, cedes to Dems. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw in the white flag on Obamacare repeal on Friday, admitting defeat and telling his Republicans in a voice that seemed close to cracking that it's "time to move on" to other matters. After Nine Consecutive Years Without a Budget Mitch McConnell Now Worried About "Trump Deficit". The last federal budget was signed into law in September 2007 for fiscal year '08 by George W Bush. Since then, congress has facilitated nine consecutive years of continuing resolutions, debt ceiling increases and Omnibus spending bills. [...] President Obama never spent a single day in office with a budget. Not one day. It's time for the GOP to demand a "McCexit". According to Gallup polls, McConnell is far more unpopular than even President Obama. President Obama has a national favorability rating just under 50 percent. McConnell's favorability rating, however, is only 11 percent nationally. There also appears to be a strong correlation between the Republican Party's general popularity and McConnell taking over the Senate. In May, Pew Research showed that the Republican Party was more unpopular than it had been in the past two decades. Why does this matter? There is a tremendous amount at stake if Republicans lose the Senate. [...] McConnell has clearly become a burden on the party. A true statesman that cared for his constituency and country would step aside and allow new leadership to step in. Mitch McConnell: Hillary 'Intelligent and Capable,' Trump 'Clearly Needs to Change'. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was busy praising presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Wednesday, criticizing his own party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. McConnell lauded Clinton as "intelligent and capable" while casting Trump as not yet credible. He told Time Warner Cable (TWC) News that Trump is "getting closer," but that he "clearly needs to change." Mitch McConnell Says He May Be 'Open' to Post-Orlando Gun Control. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he be may be "open" to placing new gun controls on law-abiding citizens following the terror attack on Pulse Orlando. According to CBS News's Steven Portnoy, McConnell has a meeting with FBI director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday. Portnoy Tweeted that McConnell has signaled he may be willing to consider new gun controls after that meeting. Mitch McConnell Complains About 'Unreasonable' Conservatives, Points Blame at Talk Radio. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell takes pride in his reputation as a great compromiser. But the Republican leader won't concede on one point: He refuses to let conservatives fight the White House for lower spending levels. McConnell, R-Ky., outlined his political roadmap for government spending on Tuesday, sketching out the routes he sees available: an omnibus package, individual appropriations bills, or a government shutdown. The Editor says... Mitch McConnell: It's 'Disrespectful' to the Voters for Republicans to Refuse to Back Trump. Mitch McConnell has gone from making it clear he's not a fan of Donald Trump to getting in line behind the Republican nominee, using the will of the voters as his excuse. He said on CBS This Morning today [5/30/2016] that Trump won fair and square, and so "it's disrespectful of the Republican electorate to say 'I'm smarter than you are and I'm not gonna support your choice.'" The Editor says... McConnell: 'I Suppose' Women Should Be Required to Register With Selective Service. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he does't anticipate "going back to the draft," but nevertheless, he thinks "it would be appropriate" for young women to register with the Selective Service. A reporter asked McConnell on Tuesday if he anticipates a separate Senate vote on an amendment requiring women to register for the draft. The amendment is attached to the Senate's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Why do I not believe him? Mitch McConnell: Why no, the Senate won't pass a resolution affirming Cruz's eligibility like it did for McCain. If you're going to stand on the Senate floor and call the majority leader a liar and a crony, I guess you shouldn't be surprised when he won't do you a favor. Although ... this is sort of a favor to Cruz, isn't it? Every time he gets to tell his fans that it's McCain or McConnell who's behind the attacks on eligibility rather than Trump, it makes it easier for populist voters to dismiss them out of hand. Sen. Ted Cruz Goes After Sen. McConnell For Being Democrats' Puppet. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went after House Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Monday [12/21/2015], arguing that he works for Democrats — including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — to help get their liberal policies passed in Congress. "I have said that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the most effective Democratic leader in modern times" wrote Cruz in Politico. Congress Rushes Vote for Trillion Dollar Bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is setting up the Senate to wrap up its work for the year on Friday [12/18/2015] as lawmakers race to leave Washington for their holiday recess. The Republican leader said senators have reached a deal to speed up votes on the year-end omnibus spending bill, as well as a separate tax package. McConnell's Reelection Emergency. We live in a time of great peril, in the final year of an imperial presidency. There are about a dozen items Republicans could prioritize in the upcoming omnibus budget bill, most prominently, defunding refugees from predominantly Muslim countries, executive amnesty, and funding for Planned Parenthood. Yet, instead of using the budget process to thwart Obama's fundamental transformation of this country during his most lawless year in office, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced his intention to attach a rider... blocking Obama's restrictions on party funding of campaigns! There's a reason why McConnell's approval rating is lower among Republicans than Democrats. This is why the establishment candidates are getting crushed in the presidential election. Ted Cruz Goes Nuclear on GOPe: Mitch McConnell "Has Proven to be a Very Effective Democratic Leader". In a speech Thursday [10/29/2015] on the Senate floor, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sharply criticized the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a budget deal between former House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama. Cruz said the deal is yet another example of the failure of the "so-called Republican majority" to deliver on their promises to the American people. The Senate GOP Plan to Surrender Debt Control to Obama. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), are reportedly planning legislation allowing President Barack Obama to lift the nation's debt ceiling on his authority, according to sources on Capitol Hill. Under the potential Senate Republican plan, Congress would merely retain the right to "disapprove" of the President's action to lift the nation's debt limit. But disapproving the action would require a hard-to-reach two-thirds vote of both chambers of Congress. Another EPA Scourge Presents Chance for GOP to Stand for Something. With the release of another regulation targeting ground level ozone, President Obama and his cohorts at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are once again poking a stick in the eyes of Americans. The new ozone regulation and EPA's recent release of its Clean Power Plan rule show Obama's zealous commitment to his radical agenda at the expense of the welfare of Americans. An even bigger tragedy than the predicable slew of left-wing environmental dictates is the unwillingness of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block them. The Establishment Republican Party Takes Aim To Destroy Conservative Ranks and The Tea Party. The uncivil war within the GOP will immediately stop if Mitch McConnell can be defeated in the Kentucky primary race. Between now and that moment the uncivil war will continue in exponentially increasing intensity as piles and piles of cash are demanded by the Decepticon Establishment class. If McConnell wins his primary challenge — Then King George will advance his financial army to defend his other interests. Everything today, tomorrow and in the future is contingent upon Mitch McConnell and Kentucky. Mitch McConnell Calls for the Destruction of the Republican Party. In the wake of establishment Republican John Boehner's forced resignation as Speaker of the House many conservatives have called for establishment Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down as well. The Conservative indictment of the "leadership" of Boehner and McConnell has been that they have regularly failed to stand for conservative policy and have all too readily caved-in to Obama on matters such as funding Planned Parenthood, Obama's illegal executive amnesty, spending, the deficit and raising the national debt ceiling. So what is Mitch McConnell's response to conservative calls for his resignation? He called for another deal with Obama, this time on a two year spending plan. McConnell Only Wants to Shutdown Ted Cruz. In lieu of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, or the disastrous Iran deal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is opting to shutdown Ted Cruz. Case in point, the latest Politico article in which the Leader takes credit for muscling his entire operation — enlisting scores of aides and fellow senators — to "quietly and methodically... quarantine" the senator from Texas. McConnell's cheerleaders will tell you it's good politics. Well, how is that working out for them? McConnell pushed to resign as Senate Majority Leader. With John Boehner now departing as House speaker, an influential Republican Party official is now seeking the ouster of another GOP leader who has frustrated conservatives: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "McConnell needs to resign!!" Louisiana GOP Chairman Roger Villere wrote in a Facebook posting. Mr. Villere isn't just any Republican. He's the longest-serving state GOP chairman in the nation, with 12 years on the job, and is the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, the GOP's national governing body. Show Mitch McConnell the Door. Last week, House Speaker John Boehner decided to retire rather than chance being ousted by his own colleagues. Despite this lucky break, the congressional GOP has little chance of winning back disenchanted Republican voters unless it also shows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the door. Continued Republican control of the Senate is on the line. Why
can't Mitch McConnell be removed just like Boehner? As with Boehner, here's what McConnell has given Obama: Mitch McConnell Doesn't Even Project Leadership. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a fascinating book. It's filled with quotable material and people use it all the time. I am thinking of sending a copy to Mitch McConnell because it is clear he doesn't have a clue what it means to be a leader. His attitude and comments in the face of the organ harvesting by Planned Parenthood reveal a weakness of character that I have not seen in a political leader in some time. Mark Levin to McConnell: You will have blood on your hands for the rest of your life. Mark Levin eviscerated Mitch McConnell tonight, telling him that he'll have blood on his hands for the rest of his life over this Iran Deal, and so would the Republican Party because of his unconstitutional leadership. Levin said McConnell is worse than Obama because at least we know who Obama is, as McConnell pretends to be someone he clearly is not. McConnell: Planned Parenthood funding protest 'exercise in futility'. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview Friday he will back a plan to fund the government into December with no conditions, rejecting in his strongest terms yet calls from within his party to defund Planned Parenthood as part of a larger budget bill. "It's an exercise in futility," the Kentucky Republican said of a strategy that would likely provoke a government shutdown. "I'm anxious to defund Planned Parenthood" but "the honest answer of that is that's not going to happen until you have a president who has a similar view." McConnell rejects Iran delay. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is dismissing a House Republican Hail-Mary attempt to kill the Iran nuclear deal by postponing a vote on a disapproval resolution. House conservatives want to delay the vote and argue that the 60-day congressional review period has not yet elapsed because the administration has yet to submit paperwork detailing "side deals" between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). If John Boehner can face a no-confidence vote, why can't Mitch McConnell? It's looking bad for John Boehner, who may be forced out of the speakership due to his cooperation with the Obama agenda. But what about Mitch McConnell? He has been at least as complicit as Boehner. McConnell has given Obama: 1) 100% of his budget requests. 2) Fully funding Obamacare without any restraints. 3) Fully funding Obama's illegal amnesty without any restraints. 4) Raised the debt ceilings repeatedly without any restraints. 5) Effectively given away the Senate's treaty deciding powers. 6) Refused to set up select committees to investigate the abuse of powers of this administration McConnell: Defunding Planned Parenthood is 'Another Issue' That Will Have To Wait. Congress got pro-lifers' hopes up when it announced that defunding Planned Parenthood would be a priority upon their return from recess next week. That is, until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave them a dose of reality. Mitch McConnell Announces Plans To "Work With" Obama On Budget. [Scroll down] Remind us why we needed to give you a majority in both the House and Senate again? Yeah, thought so. Waiting for Jeb are ya? Yeah, and things will be all better then right? Mitch McConnell: sorry, we only have a majority, we can't defund Planned Parenthood. The media has managed to ignore the videos by Center for Medical Progress but they will not be able to ignore them if the government is shut down because of funding Planned Parenthood. The biggest reason for this fiasco is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell has hundreds of tools he can use to bring the Obama administration to its knees but he refuses to do so because he is a loser and he likes to lose. He's willing to toss away about a million babies each year, children ripped from the womb, torn apart and sold for lab specimens. But when it comes to real stuff, like funding the Ex-Im Bank, he's there on the front lines: manipulating, lying to colleagues, and wallowing in crony cash. McConnell: Defunding Planned Parenthood must wait for new president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says that defunding Planned Parenthood will have to wait for a new commander in chief in 2017. "The president's made it very clear he's not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that's another issue that awaits a new president, hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood," McConnell said Monday [8/31/2015] on the Kentucky station WYMT's "Issues and Answers." Mitch McConnell is Professor Chaos. I've long contended that if RedState had an archvillain nemesis, it would be Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). He is the absolute antithesis of just about everything RedState stands for, and more than once he has actively tried to squash any conservative uprising that RedState has backed. However, I am starting to feel that I was perhaps too generous in likening him to Lex Luthor or The Joker. The D.C. Idiocracy: Remember The Really Dumb Kids In School? They're Now In Charge Of Your Life. Keep in mind that Mitch McConnell's favorite negotiating tactic is to declare that Republicans won't shut down the government right before he starts telling Obama what he wants. Even Obama, who's about as sharp as a bowl of spaghetti, knows all he has to do is wait until he gets close to the deadline for a shutdown to get everything he wants. McConnell's counterpart in the House, John Boehner, is just as habitually incompetent. His idea to stop Obama's illegal immigration policy was to refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security until Obama gave in. Then, when Obama refused to give in, Boehner immediately caved because the Department of Homeland Security is important and he couldn't risk defunding it. Mitch McConnell: Planned Parenthood Should Be Funded. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) moved swiftly Thursday [8/6/2015] to shut down any possible conservative attempt to block funding for Planned Parenthood, the federally-funded abortion provider weathering a political scandal. "There's no education in the second kick of the mule," McConnell said, referring to an attempt by conservatives to block government funding for ObamaCare. "We've been down this path before," McConnell added. McConnell: No Planned Parenthood defunding in fall spending fight. The Senate Republican leadership gave its strongest signal yet that they will not attach a provision to defund Planned Parenthood to critical government spending legislation in September. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Thursday [8/6/2015] that he has learned a lesson from past attempts by the GOP to try to use spending legislation as leverage to win concessions on other issues, and it has backfired politically. McConnell: No Government Shutdown Over Planned Parenthood Because It Would Distract from Scandal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared today that there will not be a government shutdown because it would distract from the effort to defund Planned Parenthood. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said he's open to whatever motions are necessary to achieve this, including potentially shutting down the government by blocking the spending bill to fund government operations at the end of September. "We're not doing government shutdowns and we're not threatening to default on the national debt," McConnell said at a press conference. Which is worse, Obama's plan to shut down coal plants, or McConnell's 'plan' to fight it? President Obama is about to release a plan to fight imaginary global warming by shutting down many coal fired power plants. Coal fired power plants produce a lot of carbon dioxide, which is a key element in the imaginary theory that CO2 causes global warming. I say imaginary because (1) there hasn't been any global warming in 18 years, (2) man-made CO2 accounts for only about 3% of global CO2, which is mostly natural, and (3) CO2 is a tiny percentage of the upper atmosphere, and is not present in enough volume to be substantially trapping heat. But Obama's plan to shut power plants is very real. Boehner, McConnell 'Destroying Party From the Top'. Congressional Republicans are headed toward summer recess in turmoil, and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says it's because Republican leaders are acting like big-spending liberals and conservatives have had enough of it. The House of Representatives is the scene of the latest unrest, as Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed a motion to remove House Speaker John Boehner from his leadership position. Boehner said he will not allow a vote before recess. Things are just as intense in the Senate. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn Push Through Voice Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood, Protect Obama's Iran Deal. On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable — a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless — happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran. The reason the voice vote is significant is because McConnell, especially, and his Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), purposefully launched what appears to be an unprecedented effort to duck accountability for their votes — and the votes of every other GOP member who joined with them in supporting Obama's Iran deal and funding for Planned Parenthood. More about Planned Parenthood. The establishment Republicans live very comfortably and don't want to rock the boat. Levin: McConnell and Boehner 'Are a Disgrace;' They're 'Endangering This Country'. On his show Monday, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin lamented the direction that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are leading this nation. They "are a disgrace," and they are "endangering this country" by delivering the trade deal to Obama, said Levin. "These men are a disgrace. They're endangering this country," Levin said on his July 27 broadcast. "It's not Obama alone. It's the Republican phony leaders in the House and the Senate, too." [Audio clip.] Mitch McConnell is actually worse than Reid. On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable — a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless — happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran. The reason the voice vote is significant is because McConnell, especially, and his Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), purposefully launched what appears to be an unprecedented effort to duck accountability for their votes — and the votes of every other GOP member who joined with them in supporting Obama's Iran deal and funding for Planned Parenthood. Lindsey Graham Confirms that McConnell Lied. [Scroll down] Roll Call proudly published an article disseminating Hatch's narrative by showing how the revered KKK Kleagle, Robert Byrd, once complained about a senator calling Clinton a liar and ruining the decorum of the chamber. Fox News's Brit Hume is frothing at the mouth with disdain for Cruz. But somehow none of these ruling class individuals were the least upset about the underlying issue — that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the GOP party leader, had indeed told a bald-faced lie both privately and publicly, as confirmed by every major news outlet on May 21 and... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)! Levin: It's Time for Boehner and McConnell to Resign. As usual, Levin is spot on. The Republican Congress was elected in large part to fight against Obama and his far left policies. And yet, they have caved on every issue. They fund Obamacare, they fund Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty, and they made themselves irrelevant in the Iran deal by passing Sen. Bob Corker's bill that turned the treaty provision of the Constitution on its head. Where have Boehner and McConnell been on the issue of sanctuary cities and Kate Steinle's murder? Where is the forceful action and leadership on the defunding of Planned Parenthood after these horrific videos of them admitting to illegally selling the body parts of aborted babies? Cruz accuses McConnell of 'flat-out' lying. In a stunning floor speech Friday morning [7/24/2015], Republican presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz accused Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying to Senate Republicans about whether there was a secret agreement to allow a vote on an amendment to extend the Export-Import Bank, which conservatives staunchly oppose. Cruz unleashed his anger at McConnell moments after the Senate voted to move ahead on a highway funding bill that will include amendments to extend the Ex-Im Bank and to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Ted Cruz Exposes the Lies, Dissembling and Deceit of Mitch Mcconnell: Now This is Speaking Truth to Power. Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb Conservatives they're playing to for allegedly "trying." Each of Boehner's and McConnell's "defeats" are in fact planned in advance. They are not trying to advance the conservative agenda; they are attempting to con conservatives into believing they have attempted to implement conservative policy, when in fact they were delivering their political deliverables to their Donor Class paymasters all along. The exceptional campaign timing of Ted Cruz's ferocious floor speech. During a speech from the Senate floor on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in direct terms on an arcane topic. "What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what [McConnell] told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie," Cruz said. "We know now that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment, that he is willing to say things that he knows are false." Ted Cruz on the Senate floor: Mitch McConnell's a liar and our new majority is a cronyist fraud. I'm not going to excerpt it for you, despite the length. You need to watch it all; if you can't spare 20 minutes, at least watch the middle third where he gets into corporate cooptation of the one-party state. This is one of the most brutal attacks — not incorrect, mind you, just brutal — you'll ever see by a senator on his colleagues, starting with his own majority leader. Sample quote: "[This majority] does get things done, but it listens to one and only one voice: That is, the voice of the Washington cartel, of the lobbyists on K Street, of the big money and big corporations." This guy is talking about his own caucus. Senator Ted Cruz Accuses Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Deceit and Lying During Senate Speech. Multiple layers of deceit, deception and manipulation lay within this story. In addition, the fundamental principles of the Decepticons in the Senate surface with increased clarity. Rand Paul Pushes Ahead to Defund Planned Parenthood, Circumvent Mitch McConnell Blocking Of Amendments. [Senator Rand] Paul tried to get the floor to stand up and offer an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood and another one to arm servicemen and women on military bases. He intended to offer these measures as amendments to the highway bill that is currently on the Senate floor. Whoever was presiding over the floor refused to recognize Paul to offer his amendments. Conservatives Blame GOP Leaders For Not Stopping 'Fundamental Transformation of America'. Republicans are not keeping the campaign promise they made to voters in 2014 to halt President Obama's "fundamental transformation of America," conservative and Tea Party leaders charged in an open letter to Congress on Monday [5/18/2015]. On April 28, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cited fast-track trade legislation and a bill requiring congressional review of the administration's nuclear deal with Iran as the major accomplishments of the GOP-led 114th Congress so far. Fast Tracking an International EPA. American businesses are subject to many levels of regulation. But federal, state, and local levels of environmental regulation are not enough for President Obama. He is currently negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) which will add the equivalent of an international Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama's enthusiasm for international regulation is no surprise. More surprising is that Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is helping Obama. Washington's Got a New 'Odd Couple'. President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have found an area of common ground in the wake of Democratic infighting over recent legislation, going as far as to send each other "handwritten notes." On Sunday [5/10/2015], McConnell gave a speech at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston, where he admitted to receiving a personal thank you for getting newly-minted Attorney General Loretta Lynch confirmed. McConnell introduces bill to extend NSA surveillance. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night [4/21/2015] to extend through 2020 a controversial surveillance authority under the Patriot Act. The move comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is preparing legislation to scale back the government's spying powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Pathetic Mitch McConnell finally plays "hardball". I guess it's nice to see McConnell trying to run the Senate but where was this on DHS/amnesty funding? Human trafficking is an abominable thing and the people who engage in it should rot in jail and then hell but... it's already illegal. People do rot in jail for this under current law. It's not as if without this bill it will suddenly be open season on the young and vulnerable. But this is where Mitch elects to play this card? Mitch McConnell says he will fight really, really hard this time. In other words, we are looking at more Failure Theater. Mitch McConnell Pre-Surrendering on Debt Ceiling Just in Case. [Scroll down] This may, of course, be McConnell and Boehner's way of "paying back" conservatives in the House and Senate for throwing a wrench into the DHS deal, as well. Boehner has used some old school legislative tactics on bills like DHS, threatening extreme measures in order to get a more acceptable compromise, not realizing that legislative compromise isn't always in the best interests of, say, potential 2016 Presidential candidates. When those tactics are soundly rejected, he seems to take it personally, thus birthing this new and exciting "tactic:" compromising from the start. A Dumb Playbook Written by Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs. In case you were wondering where Republicans in Congress would do for an encore after having completely dispirited and depressed their voting base in less than 60 days by flubbing a slam dunk abortion bill and passing a clean DHS funding bill without anything more than a token fight over Obama's executive amnesty, well, you're going to want to sit down [...] Why we are sinking into tyranny. What, you thought that with Republicans taking that chamber in January following the historic November election that Mr. McConnell is Majority Leader? No, that would be Harry Reid, the once and former Democratic Majority Leader, who obviously still calls the shots in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. There's no other way to explain the Republican-dominated Senate's 68-31 vote on Friday [2/27/2015] on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through September without addressing President Obama's illegal granting of amnesty to more than four million illegal aliens. Clueless: McConnell vows to raise debt limit without threatening shutdown or default. Republicans will raise the government's borrowing limit without threatening a default, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell guaranteed Sunday [3/8/2015], placating the markets but potentially surrendering the party's leverage as Congress gears up for another debt showdown. The current debt-ceiling holiday, to which Congress agreed a year ago, expires Sunday, starting the clock on debate and sending the Treasury Department scrambling to tap into its "extraordinary measures" to keep from breaching the limit. Dear Mitch. Dear Senator McConnell, I mean this with all due respect — you're worthless. Actually, you're worse than worthless; you're the problem. You were better as minority leader. Your steering the Senate is worth [sic] than Harry Reid's corruption. It's almost enough to make me wish you could switch back places. What happened to all the tough talk when you were running for re-election last year about standing up for conservative principles? McConnell strikes a moderate tone for new Congress. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is "not opposed" to negotiating with President Obama, he said in an interview with CNN that aired Sunday, and expressed eagerness to work with the president to find a middle ground in the coming year. "Now he needs to talk to us," McConnell said. "And that's good, because when the American people elect a divided government, they're not saying they don't want anything done. What they are saying is, they want things done in the political center, things that both sides can agree on. We talk about the things where there may be some agreement." More commentary on the 2014 mid-term election. [Scroll down] Just five days before the election, Mitch McConnell was campaigning on a promise to repeal ObamaCare. Just one day after the American people handed the Republican Party a historic victory in the House and Senate Mitch McConnell has betrayed us saying he's not interested in a full repeal of Obamacare. Republican Majority, Day One: McConnell Surrenders. While President Obama was defiant and borderline delusional, claiming that the American people had not repudiated him and boldly proclaiming that he still had a mandate, and openly declaring that he would veto everything the Republicans sent his way and act on his own, Mitch McConnell was ruling out the use of the most potent weapons in his arsenal. Moderate Mitch McConnell says he won't shut down the government or abolish all of Obamacare. Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is poised to take over control of the upper house of Congress in January, but his mild-mannered governing style won't include a push to repeal the Obamacare health insurance overhaul law completely. Mitch McConnell's Vision for a GOP Senate Doesn't Focus on Obama Probes. Sen. Mitch McConnell told ABC News today [11/3/2014] that Republicans would not make investigating the Obama administration a priority if the GOP wins control of the Senate. The poster boy for term limits: Mitch McConnell Campaigns on Clout Despite Anti-Insider Mood. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the U.S. Senate, is building his re-election campaign around a concept that hasn't been heard much recently: Vote for me — I'm powerful. A Big Fight Over Small Differences. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is mad as hell, and it's not going to take it anymore. This is the third election cycle in a row where incumbent Republicans and the NRSC's hand-picked candidates have faced stiff primary challenges funded by Tea Party groups. No less than Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is being primaried, and he's made it clear what he plans to do to groups going after the national GOP. "I think we are going to crush them everywhere," McConnell told the New York Times on March 8. "I don't think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country." "Drunks," "Bullies," "Traitors": What Mitch McConnell Calls Us. Mitch McConnell is doing his best to walk back his comments about conservatives. He told the New York Times he intended to "crush them everywhere." Now he says he was only talking about the Jim DeMint founded Senate Conservatives Fund and its candidates — candidates like Ben Sasse supported by Paul Ryan, Mike Lee, Club for Growth, RedState, National Review, and others. Conservative PAC Launches New Anti-McConnell Ad. The Madison Project launched a new ad Monday that bashes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, for failing to stop the health care law during budget negotiations. "After allowing his conference to sabotage the House Republican fight against Obamacare, McConnell unilaterally agreed to surrender every aspect of this unworkable law. He has also made it clear that he will preemptively surrender any future leverage against Obamacare as long as a Democrat is in the White House," Project president Drew Ryun wrote in a press release. Madison Project Releases Blistering New Ad Exposing Mitch McConnell's Failure to Lead. The Madison Project PAC today released a new web ad highlighting Senator Mitch McConnell's failure to take a stand on critical issues, despite his status as GOP Senate Leader. Gunning for McConnell. A group that played a crucial role in Ted Cruz's primary win is taking on a new challenge this cycle: The Madison Project has made it a top priority to take down the current Republican leadership, and one front in that war is Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin's primary race against Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. Republicans declare war on the Senate Conservatives Fund. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is punishing a Republican advertising firm for its work with the Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative group that has fostered controversy within the Republican Party by challenging some GOP incumbents. [...] The SCF has devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars so far this year to targeting McConnell in favor of another Republican candidate, businessman Matt Bevin — but its broader national strategy is to turn the Senate more conservative by engaging in open races for safely Republican seats. The Bluegrass Backstabbing! The GOP's 'supposed' leader within the Senate crushed the valiant efforts of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and freedom-loving patriots absorbed another salvo designed to destroy our constitutional republic. Apparently, we know the price for zipper-lip McConnell's treason. Two billion dollars is the price for the latest Judas-like abandonment in the 'ObamaCare-OBoehnerCare-O'ConnellCare' saga. A Kentucky kick-back? Mitch McConnell is taking criticism for a provision in the Senate compromise bill that allocates [actually raises the cap for what can be allocated later] almost $3 billion for a project the Minority Leader previously has backed for a dam and lock project on the Ohio River. The dam project reportedly would benefit Kentucky as well as Tennessee and Illinois. As Eliana Johnson reports, this provision has been characterized as the "Kentucky kickback." Olmsted Dam Supporters Defend $3 Billion for Kentucky Project in McConnell-Reid Deal. Pushing back against criticisms that's it's a "kickback" for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, business leaders in Western Kentucky are defending efforts to pay for the Olmsted Dam and Lock in the bill ending the government shutdown. The language in the McConnell-Reid deal increased the funding cap on the project from $775 million to $2.9 billion, which conservative critics blasted as a so-called "Kentucky Kickback" earmark. Tea Party Nation Withdraws Its Endorsement Of Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell has been a disaster as the GOP's "leader" in the Senate and he's extremely unpopular in Kentucky. In a sane world, some of the heavy hitters in the Republican Party would pull him aside and tell him that he needs to retire instead of risking a crucial seat in deep red Kentucky, but sadly we're not that lucky. McConnell, Cornyn Whipping Votes Against Ted Cruz. A source in Congress tells Breitbart News that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn are using their leadership positions to pressure other Republicans to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his campaign to defund Obamacare. [...] Instead of helping Cruz with their power as Senate GOP leaders, McConnell and Cornyn are working against him, this senior staffer said. Lindsey Graham: Socialist Ratcheteer. [Scroll down] Lindsey Graham is not alone out there as an example of just what's wrong with the GOP. The Graham mindset in fact dominates not only the Republican House and Senate leadership of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell but in fact is the animating force behind several would-be GOP presidents and the consultant class advising these candidates. Senate Intel Committee Refuses to Give GOP Senators Documents From Russia Investigation. Of all the tells that have surfaced in the past four years, this is the biggest. This is the one that reveals just how corrupt and duplicitous the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence really is. Do not pass over this information without pausing and evaluating just how explosive this refusal is amid the largest, most corrupt scheme in political history. The republican led Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) is refusing to provide documents to republican senators from their Russia investigation. Citing archaic justification within senate parliamentary rules current Chairman Marco Rubio (R) and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner are refusing to allow Senator Johnson and Senator Grassley to review the evidence the SSCI assembled to create their report on Russian election interference. The reason and motives for the denial are simple, yet the majority of Americans have no idea. The SSCI was the legislative entity, both republicans and democrats, who participated in the unlawful effort to remove President Trump from office. The risk of exposure is exactly why Mitch McConnell put Senator Marco Rubio on the committee as chairman to replace Richard Burr. The Senate was participating in the soft-coup. Marco Rubio Skips Critical Vote to Fund Government, Avoids Voting to Fund Planned Parenthood. GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)'s plan to fund the government, including Planned Parenthood, to move forward without risking a shutdown. That means Rubio and Graham, for whatever reason, skipped a key vote that would have shown where their allegiances lie regarding funding for the highly controversial abortion provider, which, based on recent undercover video investigations, is in the business of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder. Boehner, McConnell and Obama package another two-year budget blowout and debt limit increase. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Barack Obama have crafted yet another out-of-order budget deal in secret. Par for the course with this egregious crew, members of Congress and the American public were not consulted. Their "deal" would increase the debt limit for another two years, adding another trillion dollars to our kids' bill, increase spending by $80 billion, and yields the hilarious promise of "entitlement reform" at some point in the future. Leaked Instructions — GOPe Leaders Give Senators Talking Points For August Recess. The Mitch McConnell legislative agenda was written for him prior to taking his position as Senate Majority Leader. The author of the agenda was a group of Wall Street financiers who organize under the construct of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue as CoC President. Donohue then spends millions through K-Street lobbyists to insure his legislative priorities are maintained. In the run-up to the 2014 mid-terms Donohue was very specific on what his demands were of the GOPe team, Boehner and McConnell: [...] The D.C. Idiocracy: Remember The Really Dumb Kids In School? They're Now In Charge Of Your Life. Keep in mind that Mitch McConnell's favorite negotiating tactic is to declare that Republicans won't shut down the government right before he starts telling Obama what he wants. Even Obama, who's about as sharp as a bowl of spaghetti, knows all he has to do is wait until he gets close to the deadline for a shutdown to get everything he wants. McConnell's counterpart in the House, John Boehner, is just as habitually incompetent. Boehner, McConnell 'Destroying Party From the Top'. Congressional Republicans are headed toward summer recess in turmoil, and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says it's because Republican leaders are acting like big-spending liberals and conservatives have had enough of it. The House of Representatives is the scene of the latest unrest, as Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed a motion to remove House Speaker John Boehner from his leadership position. Boehner said he will not allow a vote before recess. Things are just as intense in the Senate. The very real consequences of the effort to remove John Boehner. North Carolina Republican Representative Mark Meadows has filed a motion to remove John Boehner as speaker of the House. Technically it's called a motion to "vacate the chair," though it feels as though the chair has been vacant for some time already, given the absence of any meaningful opposition to Obama's agenda. Meadows is unhappy with Boehner's unwillingness to fight for Republican or conservative values (which used to be the same thing). Of course, his motion has no chance of passing, and publicly Boehner and his cronies will probably smirk and laugh at Meadows as it is voted down, the very same way Mitch McConnell and his Chamber of Commerce mafiosi smirked at Ted Cruz when Cruz confronted McConnell about his lies concerning the Export-Import Bank. Levin: McConnell and Boehner 'Are a Disgrace;' They're 'Endangering This Country'. On his show Monday, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin lamented the direction that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are leading this nation. They "are a disgrace," and they are "endangering this country" by delivering the trade deal to Obama, said Levin. "These men are a disgrace. They're endangering this country," Levin said on his July 27 broadcast. "It's not Obama alone. It's the Republican phony leaders in the House and the Senate, too." [Audio clip.] Levin: It's Time for Boehner and McConnell to Resign. As usual, Levin is spot on. The Republican Congress was elected in large part to fight against Obama and his far left policies. And yet, they have caved on every issue. They fund Obamacare, they fund Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty, and they made themselves irrelevant in the Iran deal by passing Sen. Bob Corker's bill that turned the treaty provision of the Constitution on its head. Where have Boehner and McConnell been on the issue of sanctuary cities and Kate Steinle's murder? Where is the forceful action and leadership on the defunding of Planned Parenthood after these horrific videos of them admitting to illegally selling the body parts of aborted babies? The Obama-Boehner-McConnell 'Fast Track' to a Poorer America. President Barack Obama is negotiating a multilateral trade agreement with the governments of 11 nations. These include Malaysia and Vietnam — as well as Japan, Brunei, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. This so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership would govern most of the commercial relations between the nations that sign it. Even in the minority, Democrats seize control of Congress from feckless, cowardly boobs McConnell and Boehner. Are the Democrats in charge of Congress? On its face, this question certainly seems ridiculous since Republicans regained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives last November. But as we have witnessed over the last several weeks, just because Republicans have the most seats in the Senate and the House doesn't mean they are actually in control. Just consider the Department of Homeland Security funding debate. 1.1 Trillion Reasons to Dump Boehner and McConnell. Late Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that's best described as a fix — fix, as in an act of Republican perfidy and chicanery. The process was rigged by Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell (doubtless with a wink and a nod from Harry Reid) to push through the gargantuan spending measure while giving House and Senate Republicans cover on ObamaCare funding. The bill was an incomprehensible 1,582 pages. Rove and the Establishment GOP Nitwits May Have Committed Electoral Suicide. The geriatric and senile Republican establishment could very well have destroyed their ability to take the Senate this year, a year that should have been ripe for a GOP landslide. From Mitch McConnell's vow to "crush the Tea Party" all the way to rampant vote fraud in Mississippi, the Reince Priebus- and Karl Rove-led band of numbskulls have wagered that corrupting the primary process, demonizing the conservative activist base, and using borderline criminal tactics would unify the party. Jeb Bush Introduction by The Editor: Jeb Bush is in the news every day, which is somewhat suspicious, since he hasn't even declared his candidacy. Jeb Bush Wants 'Action' on Climate Change. Jeb Bush has returned to brighten your Labor Day weekend with a message: It's time for Republicans to take "action" on climate change. Yes, with everything that's going on right now, including the country being led off a cliff by Joe Biden, 2016's low-energy candidate has his finger on the pulse. Inflation, American hostages in Afghanistan, the border crisis, etc. pale in comparison to the urgent need to tax carbon and spend more money we don't have on useless green energy projects. But it's not just the message that's dumb. It's also the presentation. Jeb Bush's Woke Tweet About the Olympics Is Shockingly Anti-American. [Scroll down] Listen, Jeb, I get that you don't like Trump, and you're probably still a bit bruised by the way he wiped the floor with you in the 2016 GOP primaries. Still, it seems incredibly anti-American to imply that American-born athletes are inferior to foreign-born athletes. I'm sure you thought it made you sound woke and inclusive, but instead, it just makes you sound anti-American. I honestly have no idea which athletes competing on Team USA are foreign-born. I'm surely not gonna waste my time looking into it. But surely our American-born athletes have performed well. Clearly, the USA's athletes have done well enough to win more medals than any other country. Jeb Bush Consultants Working to Help Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Win Florida. Former consultants for failed Republican presidential primary candidate Jeb Bush are now working with a "Never Trump"-associated group to help Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris win the swing state of Florida. The group "Republican Voters Against Trump," funded by Never Trump's Bill Kristol, Sarah Longwell, and Tim Miller, is spearheading an initiative to flip Florida blue this election cycle. The group has tapped former Bush consultants Mike Murphy and David Hill to help elect Biden. Jeb Bush uses deadly hurricane to mock Donald Trump. Failed GOP presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has managed again to anger both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. How? By mocking President Donald Trump with a Hurricane Dorian-related retweet. The retweet from documentary filmmaker Billy Corben consisted of a viral video of a Palm Beach man suggesting that the military just drop some ice in the water to stop the devastating storm. Jeb Bush Uses Democrat Talking Point: 'Not Sure' Sanctuary Cities for Illegals Are a 'Problem' in Florida. Former Florida governor and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush (R) is questioning why Florida's current governor, Ron DeSantis (R), is pushing to ban sanctuary cities that protect criminal illegal aliens in the state. As Breitbart News has chronicled, DeSantis has led an initiative in Florida to ban sanctuary city jurisdictions across the state. The plan, which has already passed the state Senate, would fine a locality or county $5,000 every day that it enforces a sanctuary policy. Knucklehead Jeb Calls for Republican Primary Against President Trump. In a universe of parallel political parties RNC Jeb Bush is mirror image of DNC Beto O'Rourke. [Video clip] Jeb!'s super-PAC got a little too globalist, accepting 1.3 million from Chinese-owned company. The Federal Election Commission has imposed almost a million dollars in fines on the super-PAC founded by Jeb! Bush in early 2015 and its Chinese donors of $1.3 million. In other words, "foreign interference in our presidential election." The move represents a blow to the NeverTrump faction of the GOP, for the super-PAC caught being too globalist is headed by NeverTrump Mike Murphy, and the Bush family has been signaling its opposition to President Trump and comfort with Democrats like Bill Clinton, whom the late George H.W. Bush reportedly looked upon "like a son." Red China helped finance Jeb. Low Energy Jeb turned out to be Red China's Bush Boy as well. The Sun Sentinel in Florida reported, "A Super PAC that spent more than $100 million in support of Jeb Bush's failed 2016 presidential campaign has been hit with a massive fine by the Federal Elections Commission for soliciting more than $1 million in political contributions from Chinese nationals." Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush's Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush's brother, Neil, according to FEC documents obtained by Mother Jones. It is illegal for foreign nationals to be involved in making donations to political committees. Neil Bush, who has extensive business dealings in China, solicited the $1.3 million contribution from American Pacific International Capital (APIC), an international investment holding company where Neil is a board member. Although the contribution to Jeb's super-PAC came from the American arm of APIC, the company's owners are Chinese, and Neil Bush initially solicited the money from two Chinese nationals — Gordon Tang, the chair of APIC, and Huaidan Chen, a board member. The FEC has fined APIC $550,000 and Right to Rise $390,000. Jeb Bush: Americans Urging for Immigration Controls 'Threatened' by 'Less White' Country. Failed 2016 presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush says Americans who are urging for immigration controls are "threatened" by their perception that the United States is "changing" and becoming "less white." In a podcast interview with National Review Editor Nordlinger, Bush said immigration controls were "foolhardy" and that illegal alien crime gets too much attention compared to crimes committed by American citizens. Top Ten Most Under Reported Stories of 2016. [#10] Jeb's failure to launch: When you think about the years of strategic planning that went into a Jeb Bush presidential campaign, well, the scope Jeb's failure to launch just exemplifies how disconnected the professional republican apparatus was from the average voter. The party apparatchik genuinely believed Jeb Bush had a chance at winning the nomination. Hundreds of millions of corporate and individual dollars, from major GOP donors, contributed to a campaign that was intensely futile, but the people supporting Jeb seemed oblivious to the reality. Almost every incumbent republican politician aligned with his campaign. Their collective disconnect from the feeling of the average American voter was definitely under reported. Trump Destroys Elites' Assumptions: Autopsy of the 2012 'GOP Autopsy'. We learned last night that the punditry's "GOP autopsy" after the 2012 Mitt Romney loss was dead wrong. Also called the "Growth and Opportunity Project," the autopsy scolded the party, insisting that new immigration policies and racial pandering were necessary to win future elections. Naturally, such policies would have been a growth and opportunity project for the consultants who would be paid to create them. Had Jeb Bush been on the ballot yesterday, and had he followed the autopsy recommendations, Hillary Clinton would be president. Any candidate following the autopsy's recommendations of pandering to racial identity politics would have lost precisely in the states that gave Trump his win: Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Jeb's Graceless Decline. Writing with uncharacteristic acidity in Friday's Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan offered up an explanation as to why Jeb Bush has thus far failed to deliver on his promise. "Reporters," Noonan proposed, have tended to assume without cynicism that Bush must be a "national candidate" because he is part of a "national family." The last few weeks have served to disabuse us of that notion. We have learned, Noonan records, that Jeb is "only a governor" — no more guaranteed success or assured of greatness than any aspirant with a less recognizable surname. Certainly, his pedigree has ensured that the supply side of his campaign would be taken care of: For almost half a century now, America has been furnished with an ample supply of ambitious, well-funded Bushes. On the demand side, however, things have been far less rosy. If, as I consider likely, Bush eventually recognizes that his overtures have been met with jaded indifference, he will have struck an inadvertent blow for meritocracy and demonstrated an age-old truth, to boot: However much polish and gold the masters of the universe can dispense, there is no easy way to sell a superfluous product. Jeb Bush says it would make a 'powerful statement' if everybody didn't vote. Jeb Bush is denying a report that claimed he's voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Bush says he hasn't made a decision and suggested he may not cast a ballot at all. 'If everybody didn't vote, that would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn't it?' he said, according to CNN, after he was asked what would happen if other voters followed his lead. Priebus: RNC could block Kasich, Bush from running again. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could be barred from seeking the Republican Party's presidential nomination in the future if they refuse to get on board with Donald Trump, party chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday [9/18/2016]. Bush's three delegates cost $50 million each. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's three delegates at the Republican National Convention cost him and his campaign about $50 million each. Bush, who ended his presidential campaign in February after a poor showing in the South Carolina primary, had only three delegates vote for him at the Republicans' nominating convention Tuesday [7/19/2016]. Gary Johnson hints at possible Jeb Bush endorsement. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson hinted Wednesday [7/20/2016] that former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush might be considering an endorsement. "I can't say that we haven't had conversations," Johnson said in a Wednesday afternoon conversation on CNN from Cleveland. "But no push on the conversations." Johnson said he has also had conversations with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. The Republican Party is already dead — they just don't know it yet. [Scroll down] What went wrong? Jeb Bush was the presumptive nominee. [...] Jeb! was, "Willing to lose the primary to win the general." He didn't need the annoying conservative base, the pesky Tea Party, those against illegal immigration, Common Core, reckless tax and spend policies, and a politically correct war on terror. But someone else wanted those voters, spoke to those issues, and threw an insurmountable roadblock in Jeb's path to the nomination. [...] Why didn't they go after Trump earlier? Why did other candidates only go into attack mode at the most recent debate? In their arrogance, they expected Trump to implode, from the time of his announced candidacy last June. His rude comments, his gaffes, his political incorrectness all should have ended his campaign. But he kept growing stronger. In the face of reality, the establishment convinced themselves that Jeb! was the anointed one. How Jeb Bush Spent $130 Million Running for President With Nothing to Show for It. When Jeb Bush formally entered the presidential campaign in June, there was already more money behind him than every other Republican candidate combined. When he suspended his campaign on Saturday night [2/20/2016] in South Carolina, Mr. Bush had burned through the vast majority of that cash without winning a single state. It may go down as one of the least successful campaign spending binges in history. US election 2016: Jeb Bush drops out of Republican race. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Republican race for US president after failing to rank high in the first three state contests. He came a distant fourth in Saturday's [2/20/2016] South Carolina vote, which was won by billionaire estate mogul Donald Trump. "Today I am suspending my campaign," an emotional Mr Bush told his supporters. Jeb Bush Suspends 2016 Presidential Campaign. Jeb Bush announced that he is suspending his presidential campaign following a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary. "The people of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really respect their decision," Bush said in South Carolina tonight [2/20/2016]. "So I am suspending my campaign." And with those few words, an entire era of American political history was over. The Editor says... Governor Jeb Bush Has A Much More Serious "Eminent Domain" Problem Than Donald Trump. Former Governor Jeb Bush has a much more serious eminent domain problem to reconcile than current media reports are discussing. During his tenure as Florida Governor Bush initiated the largest eminent domain private property confiscation in the history of the Sunshine State. Bush's action is now costing the State of Florida hundreds of millions in lawsuits and legal fees. Bush: 'I will not blame Barack Obama for a single thing'. Jeb Bush vowed Monday [2/8/2016] that he will not scapegoat President Obama for any challenges he faces should he be elected president. "My pledge to you: When I'm president I will not blame Barack Obama for a single thing," he told listeners at the Nashua Country Club in Nashua, N.H. "The day that I'm sworn into office, I'm on watch — whatever it is." "I am really tired of politicians that blame their predecessors," the Republican White House hopeful added. "I have a personal kind of feeling about it having watched it for a while. The Editor says... Jeb Spends $2,884 Per Iowa Vote. Florida governor Jeb Bush received 5,165 votes in Iowa. His vote total constitutes 2.8 percent of the Republican turnout, placing him in sixth place in the Iowa caucus. Yet no candidate in either party spent more in the race than Bush. According to MSNBC, Bush spent $14.9 million in Iowa, all coming from Bush's super PAC. Time to Uproot the Bushes for Good? [I]sn't it time we got rid of the Bush family in politics for good? Look, George H.W. Bush is a very decent man, but his political malpractice in the White House — squandering the Reagan legacy on purpose — opened the door for Bill Clinton. George W. Bush is another decent man, with much to recommend him, but he left the Republican Party even more demoralized than his dad, and for similar reasons. Now Jeb may be responsible for killing off the most electable conservative candidate in the field and leaving us with Trump. The problem with Jeb Bush is Jeb. Since his term ended in 2006, the once very successful Florida governor has committed malpractice many times over, not only alienating conservative voters on disputes over issues but showing contempt for them, viewing them less as constituents to be persuaded than as obstacles to be overcome. Overcome, as it happened, with money — tons of it, raised from people who had given to his family since before1980, now giving to their third persons and fifth runs for president — meant to run over the children of pastors and immigrants, just the right thing to appeal to a country suspicious of privilege that did not want a Bush-Clinton duel again. America's Toxic Brew: "Diversity". A perfect example of the arrogance that pervades the elitists' thinking is Jeb Bush's recent row with [Donald] Trump on the immigration issue. Poll after poll reveals that Americans want the flood of illegals coming into our country stopped. So how did good 'ol Jebbie respond to Trump's plain speaking? He attacked Trump by claiming that he is "not a conservative" — in Spanish! Jeb Bush claiming someone else is not a conservative? Forget the fact that Jeb makes Mitt Romney seem like Ronald Reagan by comparison; Jeb trying to claim the mantle of conservatism by speaking in Spanish is not simply tone-deaf — it demonstrates an alarming (even if amusing) case of obtuseness. Donors Abandon Ship: ¡Jeb! campaign running on fumes. Apparently they were watching a different debate. Immediately following the recent Fox Business debate, vintage media positioned Jeb Bush's performance as having breathed new life into the carcass of his dying campaign. [...] You and I saw an unhappy candidate; someone who is obviously uncomfortable at the dais, less than eloquent, and unsuccessfully marketing unpopular positions on virtually every issue imaginable. Jeb Bush Wants You To Leave the Republican Party. Mark Levin isn't talking about it. Sean Hannity isn't talking about it. Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are not talking about it, yet it remains one of the biggest structural benefits to Team Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary presidential race: Independent political registration is the fastest growing base of electoral voters, and that plays nicely into the hands of the GOPe who are working diligently to avoid accountability for their progressive agenda. It's Time to Remove the (!) from Jeb! His self-serving attack on protégé Marco Rubio in the last debate might well be the straw that breaks the back — if not the bank — of the Bush candidacy. Naturally, the Bush camp is denying all pessimistic prognosticating. And there are plenty of talking heads who still stick to the scenario that Bush could win the GOP nomination. Their reluctance to write Jeb off is based to some extent on the assumption that it is still too "early" in the primary season to determine winners or losers. A second premise is that the massive war chest of the Bush campaign, while dwindling, is still impressive enough to keep him in the race[.] Keep him in the race? Well, sure. Elevate him to the status of front-runner? No way. Why Jeb Bush Should Not Be The Republican Nominee in 20 Quotes. Although Jeb Bush was a conservative governor of Florida, he has "evolved" to become more liberal since then. He also acts as if he's entitled to be the Republican Party's nominee because of his last name and all the money his daddy's friends are giving him. As a practical matter, Bush is a moderate Republican with no charisma, a last name that's a huge liability in a general election and the only thing he seems to have a talent for is sticking his foot in his mouth as you're about to see as you read these quotes [...] What Size Cement Shoes Does Jeb Bush Wear? Jeb is a big government progressive. He, like his brother, undoubtedly agrees that the federal government cannot do without a single dime, or even one less employee — that the federal budget can never be cut. [...] Jeb and Hillary are like two peas in a pod. Both candidates are bought and paid for. It's been said of Hillary thousands of times — big money donors, domestically and internationally, are literally purchasing the White House in the form of the election of Clinton. The same can be said of Jeb. These Superpac mega-donors don't give hundreds of millions of dollars because they like Jeb's campaign promises. They, like the Clinton donors, are buying access and influence. In full meltdown mode, ¡Jeb! goes running back to Nana and Papa for help with donors. [Scroll down] Speaking of which, is there a better endorsement for Ted Cruz than George W. Bush's disparaging remarks regarding the brilliant Senator from Texas? Here's a guy who won't utter a peep regarding Barack Obama's ongoing scandals, his "pen and a phone" Constitutional Convention, his arson in the Middle East, and a simultaneous economic obliteration of the Middle Class — but a guy who stands up and fights? Now, that can't be tolerated. Young woman who aggressively questioned Trump yesterday was a Bush plant. The television networks gleefully featured footage from yesterday's "No Labels" meeting in New Hampshire of a young woman aggressively challenging Donald Trump on abortion and equal pay for women (video below). But thanks to work by Subdance of Conservative Treehouse, we know that she was a plant, a paid staffer of Senator Kelly Ayotte, and a Bush campaign volunteer. Political Hit Job: Bush Staffer Planted in Audience to Ambush Trump. Yesterday [10/12/2015] at the "No Labels" event put on by Jon Huntsman, Trump spoke to a semi-hostile crowd. I don't even know why Trump bothered going there. This is a group of 'moderate' Republicans. Let me translate — they are liberals pretending to be Republicans. They are progressives on the right. This is right in line with what I would expect them to pull. A female in the audience started grilling Trump on his political stances. That woman was Lauren Batchelder, who is a paid operative of the GOP and a staff member of Jeb Bush's campaign. Video: Bush 'plant' at Trump event? If this question from a townhall in New Hampshire last night came as part of an aggressive strategy from Team Jeb! to attack Donald Trump's weakness with women, it might create a little backfire. Lauren Batchelder challenged Trump on his treatment of women without revealing that she volunteers for the Bush campaign. Busted! CNN Uses Jeb Bush Staffer Planted In Audience To Frame Donald Trump Narrative/Hit Job. During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman "No Labels" event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump. However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She's a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush. Trump Accuses Tough Questioner Of Being A Bush Plant. After a member of the audience defiantly challenged Donald Trump at an event in New Hampshire Monday evening [10/12/2015], Trump said the young woman was a plant by the Jeb Bush campaign. Trump tweeted quoting a conservative website that said the woman was an intern for Bush. Wanted: A President of Good Character. Today the establishment wants Jeb Bush. After all, he has "government experience," and is now scoring 4% in the polls. I'd be happy to have a beer with Jeb, but I would never, ever vote for him at a time of national crisis. He's been groveling to the Leftist mafia in the most nauseating way. Jeb Bush calls for a return to 'civility' as he reminds [Trump] that President Obama is 'Christian' and 'an American'. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush reacted on Friday to the latest controversy roiling the GOP race by identifying President Barack Obama as 'an American' and 'Christian', and calling for a return to civility in national politics. Bush was alluding to an episode on Thursday [9/17/2015] in which rival Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner who called Obama 'Muslim' and 'not even an American'. 'Barack Obama is a talented man — and by the way he's an American, he's a Christian — his problem isn't the fact that he was born here or what his faith is,' Bush said in a speech. 'His problem is that he's a progressive liberal who tears down anybody that disagrees with him,' Bush said. The Editor says... The Obnoxious and Important Questions I Would Ask At The GOP Debate. Jeb! Bush: You support amnesty and Common Core, you won't undo the Iran sellout of Israel on your first day in office and — as we always expected — you've come out in support of more gun control. Since you have adopted Hillary's platform, why are you running as a Republican? Why are you so [very] special that despite there being 320 million other Americans, we can't do any better than a third Bush? Jeb: The 10th Amendment Can Trump The 2nd Amendment. Presidential candidate Jeb Bush told Stephen Colbert Tuesday [9/8/2015] that gun control — including but not limited to ramped up mental health background checks — should be left up to the individual states. Jeb Bush Says Obama Isn't a Bad Guy, Impersonates Trump on Colbert's Late Show Debut. Bush kicked things off with a rehearsed answer about why he wants to be president, but Colbert pushed him to explain how he'd get past the partisanship in Washington. "So I'm going to say something that's heretic, I guess: I don't think Barack Obama has bad motives. I just think he's wrong on a lot of issues." The Editor says... La Raza Backs Jeb, Slams Trump for English Language Patriotism. In a Spanish-language address, Bush declared, "El hombre no es conservador," which — in English — translates to, "The man [i.e. Trump] is not conservative." Trump replied by asserting that if Bush wants to be a leader, "he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States." Technically, becoming a U.S. citizen requires one to achieve English language proficiency. As such, when Bush delivers his attack message in Spanish, he is undermining one of the core tenets of American citizenship — albeit one that is already in tatters as one in five U.S. residents now speaks a language other than English while at home, according to a 2014 report. Donald Trump Fires Back at Jeb Bush: He Should Lead by 'Speaking English' While in the United States'. 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told Breitbart News that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should be speaking English — not the Spanish he spoke to attack Trump in Miami this week — on the campaign trail. Brilliant: Failed Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to Join the Dying Campaign of... Jeb Bush. [Eric] Cantor was rejected by his Virginia constituents in 2014 for backing a plan developed by Democrats, Republicans, and business leaders that would triple the nation's huge inflow of migrants. Bush is promoting a similar migration-boosting policy in his 2016 campaign. Bush has picked Cantor — who is now working as an investment banker in New York — because of his ability to raise huge funds from business investors, Politico said. Slipping in polls, Jeb Bush pushes to rack up establishment endorsements. Sinking in the polls amid the rise of renegade party outsiders, Jeb Bush is turning to something not in style this summer: establishment support. The Republican presidential candidate has accumulated pledges from a steady trickle of mayors, state legislators, former governors and about two dozen members of Congress in recent weeks, including former House majority leader Eric Cantor on Thursday [8/27/2015]. The tally puts Bush ahead of other 2016 contenders in racking up endorsements but far behind previous GOP candidates at this point in a presidential campaign cycle. The size of the Republican field, plus the sustained dominance of flamboyant businessman Donald Trump, is causing many to refrain from picking sides. Blast off: Shaky Jeb Bush campaign ready to soar thanks to coveted Eric Cantor endorsement. Right now, if you're Jeb, there's nothing you can do about Trump except hope that Republicans are having a summer fling and that old-fashioned establishmentarianism will reassert itself this fall. In the meantime, you focus on sidelining Walker and Rubio by winning the donor primary. New survey shows depth of Jeb's Bush dynasty problem. The national survey shows Bush running well behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson, tied for third place in the GOP race with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. But that is not the most serious problem for Bush in the poll. Quinnipiac pollsters asked respondents a simple, open-ended question: "What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Jeb Bush?" Jeb: Hey let's do "free tuition" and pay back students who don't graduate in four years. Jeb Bush has a fantastically awful idea when it comes to college education. He thinks community college students should get "free" tuition for two years. If that's sounds familiar, it's because it's the exact same thing President Barack Obama proposed in January. Which shows how completely hypocritical Bush is because he came out against Obama's plan in January. Jeb Bush Fights for Air. Amid the constant "What is Trump up to today?" coverage — and the corresponding reactions from every politician and media representative to Trump's latest remarks — Jeb Bush seems to be fighting for air time by reaching out to the conservative base. In the past, however, Bush has explained his reasoning for intentionally ticking off the conservative base, misread its influence and concerns, and has spent most of his time up until now marginalizing conservative voters. Why Jeb's Not Catching Fire — And Probably Never Will. The good news for Jeb Bush is that he's the perfect candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The bad news is that he's the perfect candidate in the year 2000. That's the counterfactual scenario that most Bush-watchers have spun over the years. Had Jeb won the 1994 race in which he first pursued Florida's governorship, the theory goes, it would have been him rather than his older brother who became the GOP's standard-bearer in 2000. Instead, Jeb narrowly lost the '94 race to Democrat Lawton Chiles, George W. won his contest in Texas in the same year and the younger sibling looked on six years later as his brother ascended to the White House. That historical twist may have permanently thwarted Jeb's White House aspirations. It's not just that the American people are inherently resistant to the dynastic impulse that would see three consecutive members of the Bush family serve as Republican presidents. It's also that the legacy of Jeb's family has ineluctably changed the dynamics within the GOP. Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank. For Florida taxpayers, the move by the administration of then-Gov. Jeb Bush to forge a relationship with Lehman Brothers would ultimately prove disastrous. Transactions in 2005 and 2006 put the Wall Street investment bank in charge of some $250 million worth of pension funds for Florida cops, teachers and firefighters. Lehman would capture more than $5 million in fees on these deals, while gaining additional contracts to manage another $1.2 billion of Florida's money. Then, in the fall of 2008, Lehman collapsed into bankruptcy, leaving Florida facing up to $1 billion in losses. But for Jeb Bush personally, his enduring relationship with Lehman would prove lucrative. In 2007, just as he left office, Bush secured a job as a Lehman consultant for $1.3 million a year, Bloomberg reported. Jeb Bush Would Expand NSA Spy Powers at Expense of Civil Liberties. Speaking at an Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security forum at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on August 18, former Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush was critical of the very modest restrictions on the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records that were enacted into law in June. He advocated reversing those restrictions to increase the NSA's snooping powers. "There's a place to find common ground between personal civil liberties and NSA doing its job," Bush asserted. "I think the balance has actually gone the wrong way." Jeb Bush: NSA needs broader powers to combat 'evildoers'. Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday [8/18/2015] that the government should have broad surveillance powers of Americans and private technology firms should cooperate better with intelligence agencies to help combat "evildoers." The Editor asks... Jeb Bush: Birthright citizenship is "a constitutional right". Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday [8/18/2015] that birthright citizenship is a "constitutional right," casting doubt on fellow 2016 candidate Donald Trump's plan to do away with it. "That's a constitutional right," Bush said. "Mr. Trump can say he's for this because people are frustrated that it's abused. We ought to fix the problem rather than take away rights that are constitutionally endowed." The Editor asks... Hillary Clinton Is Rooting for Jeb Bush. There is an obvious subtext to the panicked effort to purge the GOP of Donald Trump: to allow the party's true hero to emerge to vanquish Hillary Clinton and restore peace and justice throughout the land. To most GOP elites, of course, the savior is Jeb Bush, complete with the Clark Kent glasses and aw-shucks good guy demeanor. The Chamber of Commerce crowd is so convinced that Jeb is the man that it (so far) has placed a bet of more than $100 million on that proposition. There's just one problem — the Clintons want Jeb Bush to be the GOP nominee, too. The Futility of a Third Bush. If Republicans nominate a third Bush to face a second Clinton, they will suffer their third consecutive loss in the battle for the White House. Each of those losses will have been rooted in one undeniable fact: a milquetoast, Washington establishment-backed nominee is unelectable. Grassroots conservatives, rank-and-file Republicans and Tea Party supporters have figured this out. Since the Washington establishment blessed Jeb Bush with the title of front-runner last December, he has steadily lost support. I know this base. I have worked with them for over three decades. I have raised tens of millions of dollars for Republican candidates only to see one after another betray the very constituents who put him (or her) in office. Bush's Common Core Obfuscation. Given Bush's past support for Common Core, Marco Rubio wasn't buying Bush's disavowal of support for federal standards. He responded: ["]Here's the problem with Common Core: the Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion, they will turn it into a mandate... They will use Common Core or any other requirements that exist nationally to force it down the throats of our people and our states.["] Bush countered: "If states want to opt out of Common Core, fine; just make sure your standards are high." Jeb's Illegal Immigration Problem. Jeb Bush and other Establishment Republicans have a huge problem with illegal immigration. They are on the wrong side of the issue — opposed by a majority of Americans. [...] The Constitution makes the President, Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces. Ultimately he (or she) is responsible for the nation's security. Including border security and controlling illegal immigration. Congress has legislated illegal immigration in the past. In 1986 it passed, and the president signed, a law to "grant legal status to illegal immigrants, crack down on employers who hired illegal workers and secure the border once and for all." So if our border has been "secure" since 1986, how are millions of illegals crossing it? Jaw Dropping Nonsense — Erick Erickson: "Jeb Bush is The Most Conservative Republican Governor". Erick Erickson became the center of the GOP discussion this week with his disinvite of Donald Trump from the Red State gathering of political candidates. In addition, Erickson did not invite Dr. Ben Carson saying: "he'd seen him appear at charity benefits and talk about himself". So Erickson takes to the stage to introduce his friend: "I love this guy", "the most conservative governor", Jeb Bush. [Video clip] Third Party Trump is better than RINO Jeb Bush. The Republican establishment is terrified of Trump, who can finance a third party campaign and is independent of special interests. They will continue to mercilessly attack him, hence Trump is smart to maintain "leverage" and keep open the third party alternative. It may also provide a needed choice for the American people. If the presidential nominees are Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush, or another RINO, Trump should enter the race to give voters a real alternative. The last thing the country needs is another Bush or Clinton in the White House. Hillary Clinton's Mega-Donors Are Also Funding Jeb Bush. For some wealthy donors, it doesn't matter who takes the White House in 2016 — as long as the president's name is Clinton or Bush. More than 60 ultra-rich Americans have contributed to both Jeb Bush's and Hillary Clinton's federal campaigns, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by Vocativ and The Daily Beast. Seventeen of those contributors have gone one step further and opened their wallets to fund both Bush's and Clinton's 2016 ambitions. Bush believes in man-made global warming and wants plenty more of it. Jeb Bush said today [7/31/2015] that he believes that people cause global warming, saying, "The climate is changing; I don't think anybody can argue it's not." Of course the climate is changing! It's called weather. And Jeb is supposed to be the smart Bush? The Editor says... Jeb Bush supported Planned Parenthood before he opposed it. In the world of politics, flip-flopping is an art. Unfortunately for Jeb Bush, he's clearly not much of an artist. Jeb Bush Sat On Board Of Philanthropy That Gave Millions To Planned Parenthood. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was one of the directors of a charity that gave tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, LifeSiteNews first reported. Named a founding director to the tax-exempt Bloomberg Family Foundation in 2010, Bush sat on the board until the end of 2014 when he began to prepare for his presidential run. Bloomberg Philanthropies announced in March of 2014, while Bush was still on the board, it was giving $50 million to strengthen "reproductive health rights in Burkina Faso, Nicaragua, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda." Here we have proof that Jeb Bush is unfit for office, for indeed Obama doesn't speak the truth about anything. Jeb Bush: Obama [is] 'Speaking the Truth' on Racial Injustice. A Republican presidential candidate saying something positive about President Barack Obama is so rare that it counts as news. And though it was followed by some caveats, Jeb Bush did give the president credit for "speaking the truth" on racial injustice during a speech to the National Urban League on Friday [7/31/2015]. [...] "When President Obama says that 'for too long we've been blind to the way past injustices continue to shape the present,' he is speaking the truth," Bush said to applause from the audience in attendance. "But we should be just as candid about our failures in addressing injustices of the more recent origin," he added in an attempt to move the focus from past to present. False Flag 101: Democrat Fundraisers Said to Back Jeb Bush. How dim do you have to be to believe that Jeb! can win a general election against any Democrat? How's that Bush brand name doing? Is Common Core suddenly popular? How about illegal immigration in the wake of Kate Steinle's senseless murder? Friends, this is a course called False Flag 101, and Jeb Bush is the subject. As well as the antithesis of an electable candidate for the GOP. Jeb Bush Insists on 'Path to Citizenship,' Says Deportation is Not an 'American Value'. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a Hispanic audience on Monday [7/27/2015] that illegal aliens must be given U.S. citizenship, and encouraging them to "self-deport" is not an American value. Bush made his remarks at church in Orlando, where he discussed his Christian faith and support for amnesty for illegal aliens, the same day a CNN poll showed that 64 percent of Republican voter[s] support deporting illegals. Jeb Bush's waffling on transvestite soldiers and Iran tells us about his character. Jeb Bush talks frequently about a big tent. But it wasn't until yesterday [7/17/2015] that I realized that his reference to a "big tent" was actually about a man wearing a dress. [...] This is Bush's way of passing the buck, of approving of a far-left policy without appearing to endorse it directly. This is a policy that was a joke on a TV show called M*A*S*H thirty years ago, wasn't even on any one's radar two years ago, and now all of a sudden is a "civil rights imperative." Jeb Bush Supports Transgender People Serving in U.S. Military. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told Yahoo News that he supports the Obama administration's move to allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the U.S. military. Bush reportedly said he was "fine" with transgender persons openly wearing the uniform as long as the Pentagon determines that doing so would not undermine U.S. troop morale. Jeb's haul: $114 million. Jeb Bush has officially become the $100 million man. The Republican front-runner's Right to Rise super PAC, which will take on an unprecedented role in tandem with his presidential campaign, announced on Thursday [7/9/2015] that it has banked $103 million in the past six months, exceeding its own ambitious goal of $100 million. Jeb Bush's Wealth Soared When He Left Governor's Office, Tax Returns Show. After he left office as governor of Florida, Jeb Bush's net worth grew to at least $19 million from $1.3 million, a significant leap in wealth that reflects the power of his connections and the breadth of his entrepreneurial pursuits. Mr. Bush and his wife, Columba, reported $28.5 million in adjusted gross income from 2007, the year he left office, through 2013, according to tax returns he released on Tuesday [6/30/2015]. Nearly $10 million came from his speaking engagements. Jeb Bush dogged by decades of questions about business deals. In early 1989, seven weeks after his father moved into the White House, Jeb Bush took a trip to Nigeria. Nearly 100,000 Nigerians turned out to see him over four days as he accompanied the executives of a Florida company called Moving Water Industries, which had just retained Bush to market the firm's pumps. Escorted by the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, Bush met with the nation's political and religious leaders as part of an MWI effort to land a deal that would be worth $80 million. Jeb Bush Campaign Says It's 'Encouraged' By Support From Corporate Lobbyists. Responding to a report detailing Jeb Bush's extensive ties to corporate lobbyists who had business before his administration, the former Florida governor's presidential campaign issued a statement Wednesday [6/24/2015] saying it welcomes support from lobbyists. The statement comes about a week after Bush announced his Republican presidential campaign with a speech railing on lobbyists and asserting that he fought the influence-peddling culture in Tallahassee. Bush and Clinton: Death by Dynasty. [Scroll down] Now, I'm not alone in noting that neither of these mediocre people really seem to want the job. Both of them seem to labor under the burden of unmet expectations. Neither one seems genuine, neither one seems to have anything new to say, and as I said, neither one seems to be having very much fun at all. You know, they have something else in common, these two, and that's the scathing contempt for the common person. This is another reason to avoid dynasties like the plague. Both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton use expressions like, "my lifelong love of service", as if this was, in fact, actual service and not a continuation of the privileged and pampered lifestyles that they've both enjoyed for virtually their entire lives. You know, they've been using language like this to mask their love for power for so long, I bet they actually believe it. Jeb, though 'next in line,' is not the GOP favorite. By the rules of royal succession — and the voting habits of the Republican electorate — Jeb Bush should be the 2016 Republican nominee. For five decades, you could make good money simply betting in the GOP presidential primary on the establishment candidate whose "turn" it was. But that rule no longer seems to apply. Jeb, despite the history, is hardly inevitable. He's not even the frontrunner. Jeb Bush argues persuasively why he shouldn't be nominated. [Scroll down] In his speech Bush [...] touts Florida as a great state that "looks like America." That may be true, but it doesn't look like America should be. There are large parts of Miami where English isn't spoken, huge populations of (dare I say it) Hispanic immigrants and/or illegal aliens who haven't bothered to learn English. This is not a model for America, and Bush, by telling people it is, is essentially telling voters who want foreigners to assimilate not to vote for him. Bush repeatedly talked about the need to hasten economic expansion, calling for 4% economic growth. But such a growth rate is impossible when a country imports tens of millions of people with no skills, many of whom are illiterate in their own language, and many of whom end up on welfare. The Most Dangerous Candidate: Jeb Bush. I don't think enough people understand that Bush must be defeated at all costs. In less than a year, we will have a nominee, and if it is Jeb, this nation will sink further. It is the Bush legacy that caused the progressiveness of this current Republican Party, and the grip they have on the party must be broken, smashed, crippled, if we are ever to restore this republic. Fox News is already backing Jeb, he has the party loyalists even though they are acting like they just don't know who to back right now, they will back Jeb. Your local Republican Party will back Jeb without officially saying so. Your Republican lawmaker will be in the tank for Jeb, this is how the Republican Party has become a bunch of lock-step fascists, and why so many conservatives have left the party. The Mobilization Error. Every serious presidential candidate has to answer a fundamental strategic question: Do I think I can win by expanding my party's reach, or do I think I can win by mobilizing my party's base? Two of the leading Republicans have staked out opposing sides on this issue. Scott Walker is trying to mobilize existing conservative voters. Jeb Bush is trying to expand his party's reach. Do high-level meetings imply Germany backs Jeb Bush? Is Jeb Bush getting the royal treatment in Berlin? Bush's high level meetings in Germany Tuesday appear to push the line on German protocol in foreign elections, and perhaps could imply support for his campaign. The former Florida governor and likely Republican presidential candidate arrives a day after President Barack Obama wrapped up a two-day summit in southern Germany. Jeb Goes from Fragile Frontrunner to Underdog. With each passing day, Jeb Bush looks weaker and weaker. While he has a top notch political team and (reportedly) tons of cash, he is dropping, not, rising in the polls. For a party desperate to win back the White House, Bush is looking more and more like a risky bet. Five reasons Jeb Bush should not go for it. [#4] The name won't go away as an issue. While we've had examples of presidents from the same family, father-son John Adams and John Quincy Adams and cousins Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, the country has not had three presidents from the same family. President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq will not, as Jeb Bush has learned, go away as an issue. He will be questioned more than he wants about issues from the presidencies of his brother and his father, George H.W. Bush. Jeb Bush could find himself painted into a corner of criticizing decisions of his brother and father, not a congenial prospect for him or his family. Even if he were nominated, the idea of a father and two sons ruling the White House will remain a hard sell. Not the Bush You Think He Is. Jeb Bush is more ruthless than he looks, more conservative than moderates like to believe, and possibly more appealing to Latinos than Marco Rubio. Jeb Should Withdraw to Save the Country from Hillary. Jeb Bush should withdraw from the presidential contest of 2016. He should do so soon to become a true hero to our country that sorely needs one. And he should accompany his withdrawal with a detailed explanation of his reasons. It is not just because his mother Barbara Bush was correct in her original assessment that the United States does not any more Bushes or Clintons. It is far more. Poll: 35 Percent Of Republican Voters View Jeb Bush Unfavorably. [A] Pew survey found that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the most well-known among registered GOP voters, but he also has the most unfavorable rating, with 35 percent of Republican-leaning voters viewing him unfavorably. Jeb Bush: Young Socialist? [Scroll down] According to his mother, he seriously thought about registering as a conscientious objector, a claim Jeb later disputed. Although he never volunteered to fight, he did register for the draft in 1971. Rebellious? Check. Long hair? Check. Weed? Yup, and apparently a lot of it. He was, as one former classmate put it to Vanity Fair, a "budding hippie" at an establishment bastion rapidly veering leftward. But while Young Jeb had a certain Prodigal Son thing going on, there's nothing to really back up the claim that he was ever a socialist. Jeb Bush Implodes: Embraces Amnesty, Invasion of Iraq, Common Core. Appearing on Fox News' The Kelly File on Monday night [5/11/2015], 2016 prospective presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush explained that he would not try to undo President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. Jeb Bush, Common Core cronie$, Pearson, PARCC, and your kids' privacy. Last week, Jeb Bush was in New Hampshire, pressing on with his sordid campaign to delude conservatives into swallowing Common Core and massive, unfettered immigration policies. He has fashioned himself a champion of the American worker, even as he pompously pushes Gang of Eight amnesty as the "adult" plan in the room. And he has fashioned himself a champion of American parents, students, and "school choice," even as he zealously crusades for failed Fed Ed rackets and data-mining schemes masquerading as "higher standards." (Amnesty and Common Core are two sides of the "same sides of the coin," in more ways than one.) The condescending Bush attitude is familiar to grass-roots activists and parents in Florida and across the country who have fought Club Bush and Common Core, Inc. Jeb Bush: We Have To Show Respect to Illegal Immigrants. In a preview of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly that will be aired Monday night, Bush said, we need to "fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show some respect for people." Jeb Bush dismisses dip in polls, defends immigration stance. In the roughly 22-minute interview, Bush addressed Common Core, immigration reform and his family's political dynasty — all issues posing early challenges for him in a potential GOP primary. Jeb Bush Says Respect Law Breakers. Jeb Bush, the candidate/non-candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, says we should show illegal aliens some respect. [...] There's no doubt which people Bush is talking about here. They are the line-cutters, the border crashers, the law-breakers. Poll: Jeb Bush trails most of Republican field in Iowa. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush may be the most popular Republican presidential hopeful nationwide, but he trails his rivals badly in the critical state of Iowa, according to a new poll released Wednesday [5/6/2015]. Only 5% of likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers told Quinnipiac University pollsters that they planned to vote for Bush, placing him No. 7 in the field of declared or potential 2016 candidates. G.W. Bush's CIA, NSA Director Gen. Hayden Endorses Jeb Bush. Retired Gen. Michael Hayden's endorsement of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) seems to be playing right into the hands of critics who say the potential presidential candidate's foreign policy will mirror his brother's, George W. Bush. Hayden, who served as deputy Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) head under President Bush, is now advising the former president's brother on foreign policy. Jeb Bush misfires with evangelicals over gay marriage supporters in [his] inner circle. Jeb Bush's latest effort to court evangelical voters boomeranged when a Christian radio network boss challenged him for hiring two political aides who support same-sex marriage, and the former Florida governor conceded that he couldn't identify any "genuine" conservatives in his inner circle. The details of Mr. Bush's private phone call in mid-April with Rich Bott, whose religious radio network of 100 stations stretches from California to Tennessee within potential reach of 51 million listeners, were confirmed to The Washington Times by Mr. Bott and top aides to Mr. Bush. Jeb Bush Pulls an Obama Trick. Jeb Bush did a decent job as governor of Florida, and he can sound conservative when he wants to. Most presidential candidates start by running to their ideological base. But Jeb is doing the opposite, running hard left. Immigration? Jeb is Obama II. There isn't much daylight between Jeb and Hillary, either. Jeb Bush is Dead Wrong on Common Core. Jeb Bush has a new immature insult for parents, university professors and teachers who recognize Common Core standards are a hindrance to your children's education: "You believe in unicorns." [...] If you don't believe in Common Core like he does, Jeb Bush says you're an ignorant fantasist. Conservatives have been reporting on Common Core problems since the federal government first shocked Americans with the scheme, threatening states by refusing billions of dollars in education funding if they don't blindly accept the deal. Liberals snickered. Parents working exhaustedly with their school children began studying the assessment tests and learned firsthand of the problems. Soon after, college professors researching Common Core discovered the standards will not help high school students be ready for college. Jeb Bush: Let 11 Million Illegals 'Receive Earned Legal Status'. "Immigration is a key element of our country's success," Jeb Bush, a possible contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, told the National Christian Hispanic Leadership Conference in Houston on Wednesday [4/29/2015]. An advocate of immigration reform, Bush said the 11 million people who are in the country illegally "should come out from the shadows and receive earned legal status." Jeb Bush on immigration: 'I think I'm right about this'. On Thursday [4/30/2015], Jeb Bush faced one of his most unwavering critics on the issue of immigration. The questions were sharp, the answers were heartfelt, and the result was ... inconclusive. Jeb Bush Endorses Puerto Rican Statehood in Spanish Speech. Jeb Bush confronted one of the Republican Party's touchiest debates head-on Tuesday, telling Puerto Ricans that conservatives should be proud that America is "an immigrant nation" and value the contribution immigrants make to the country. Jeb Bush Endorses Puerto Rican Statehood in Spanish Speech. Jeb Bush confronted one of the Republican Party's touchiest debates head-on Tuesday, telling Puerto Ricans that conservatives should be proud that America is "an immigrant nation" and value the contribution immigrants make to the country. More about the 51st state. Jeb Bush Says Spending $1 Billion on a Campaign Is Unnecessary. Jeb Bush said he thought it was unnecessary to spend $1 billion on a presidential campaign, a figure reached by both Mitt Romney and President Obama in 2012, saying a smart team could run a leaner operation. It was an implicit critique of the emerging campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose supporters estimate she will raise and spend that amount in her bid for the White House. Marco Rubio is Paving the Way for Jeb Bush. Marco Rubio is the strategic plow for a Jeb Bush GOP primary win. Jeb Bush's Record Fund-Raising Total. Jeb Bush told donors here that he believed his political action committee had raised more money in 100 days than any other modern Republican political operation, according to those who heard him. The remark suggests that the so-called shock and awe financial effort underway by his team is meeting or exceeding its internal goals and will represent a formidable threat to his Republican rivals in the 2016 presidential contest. He offered no specific figure. Is anyone afraid of Jeb Bush? Jeb Bush jolted his prospective rivals for the Republican presidential nomination last winter when he dived with unexpected aggressiveness into the 2016 campaign. Few of them seem to be quaking now. The former Florida governor is still the biggest name in the GOP field, with a fundraising network unmatched by any of the others. But Bush's considerable assets so far have done little to reshape the early polls or keep others out of the race. If anything, it's the opposite. Jeb Bush: NSA Snooping 'The Best Part of the Obama Administration'. Plenty of Republicans (Rand Paul especially) have been railing against the NSA's bulk metadata collection for a while now, but not only does Jeb Bush support it, he thinks it's the best thing about the Obama administration. Bush was defending NSA surveillance months ago as "hugely important program to use these technologies to keep us safe." Today, he was on Michael Medved's radio show, and was asked directly what he considers the best part of the Obama administration. Bush said, "I would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs." The Editor says... Jeb Bush Endorses UN Climate Change Treaty Process. A big supporter of Common Core? Check. A big supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens? Check. A big supporter of Doing Something about "climate change"? Check. Did Jeb Bush Just Support A UN Global Warming Treaty? Jeb Bush told a crowd in New Hampshire Friday that the "climate is changing and I am concerned about that." Jeb added that the U.S. must "[b]e cognizant of the fact that we have this climate change issue and we need to work with the rest of the world to negotiate a way to reduce carbon emissions." Environmentalists with the group NextGen Climate Action were quick to praise Bush for his statement, saying that he "demonstrated leadership today on the issue of climate change — distancing himself from the other Republican presidential hopefuls and demonstrating why climate change doesn't have to be a partisan issue." Assistant Democrat Jeb Bush Calls for Loretta Lynch's Confirmation. No enemy is more dangerous than the enemy within, as supposed Republican Jeb Bush demonstrates by demanding the confirmation of the irresponsible leftist Loretta Lynch as Attorney General. Jeb Bush: raise the retirement age. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), looking for a way to break through in the Republican presidential race, announced his support for major "reforms" to social-insurance programs this week, including a call to raise the retirement age to 69. In the larger political context, the question was whether — and when — the more competitive GOP candidates would follow suit. Now we know. Obama toadie Jeb Bush backs confirmation of radical leftist Loretta Lynch as Attorney General. Obama has been trying to get Loretta Lynch confirmed as the new head of the Department of Justice but the Senate has been dragging its feet. This is a woman who has refused to say if she would investigate Hillary's email violations and said that illegals have every right to work here in the USA like legal citizens do.But Jeb says she deserves to be confirmed. Jeb Bush calls on Republicans to Confirm Loretta Lynch. Jeb Bush says that the Senate should confirm the nomination of Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama's choice for attorney general. A number of Senate Republicans oppose her nomination. "I think presidents have the right to pick their team," Bush said, according to reports of his stop at the "Politics and Pie" forum in Concord, New Hampshire, on Thursday night [4/16/2015]. Jeb Bush: Legal Status for Illegals 'Rational, Thoughtful'. On Friday [4/17/2015] in New Hampshire, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said giving illegal immigrants a pathway to "earned legal status" is a "rational, thoughtful" way to deal with illegal immigrants in the country. Speaking at the Politics and Eggs breakfast, Bush, who said last year that illegal immigration is an "act of love," proposed giving illegal immigrants provisional work permits after they pay taxes and fines and granting them legal status that they can "earn over an extended period of time." Jeb Bush 'concerned' about climate change. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush acknowledged on Friday [4/17/2015] that he's "concerned" about climate change, but argued that the U.S. has largely addressed carbon emissions through private sector innovation that has led to a natural gas boom. Jeb Bush Pushes Republicans to Cave to Obama Executive Amnesty, Approve Loretta Lynch. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has joined Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in calling for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to abandon his pre-election promise to fight President Obama's executive amnesty by holding a vote to confirm U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as Attorney General. "I think that presidents have the right to pick their team," Bush said in New Hampshire at an event with about 95 voters and "a horde of media," according to Time Magazine's Zeke Miller. Flashback: Jeb Bush Awarded Hillary Clinton 'Liberty Medal' on the Eve of 1st Anniversary of Benghazi Attack. At a gala ceremony in Philadelphia on September 10, 2013, former Governor Jeb Bush honored former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton with the prestigious Liberty Medal on behalf of the National Constitution Center. The medal was presented "in recognition of her lifelong career in public service and for her ongoing advocacy efforts on behalf of women and girls around the globe." Jeb Bush admits mistake: He's not Hispanic. Jeb Bush is not Hispanic, even if he somehow said so on an old voter registration form. The New York Times obtained a copy of Bush's 2009 voter registration application from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department in which the former Florida governor marked "Hispanic" in the section asking about race and ethnicity. Jeb Bush Listed Himself as 'Hispanic' on Voter Form. Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor and likely presidential candidate, was born in Texas and hails from one of America's most prominent political dynasties. But on at least one occasion, it appears he got carried away with his appeal to Spanish-speaking voters and claimed he actually was Hispanic. In a 2009 voter-registration application, obtained from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, Mr. Bush marked Hispanic in the field labeled "race/ethnicity." A Bush spokeswoman could offer no explanation for the characterization. However, Mr. Bush took to Twitter late on Monday morning [4/6/2015] to call the situation a mistake. Jeb Bush Pressed Pension Officials On Behalf of Donor's Firm. Jeb Bush received the request from one of his campaign contributors, a man who made his living managing money: Could the then-governor of Florida make an introduction to state pension overseers? The donor was angling to gain some of the state's investment for his private fund. It was 2003, still a few years before regulators would begin prosecuting public officials for directing pension investment deals to political allies. Bush obliged, putting the donor, Jon Kislak, in touch with the Florida pension agency's executive director. Then he followed up personally, according to emails reviewed by the International Business Times, ensuring that Kislak's proposal was considered by state decision makers. Support for Jeb Bush falling in Florida, Rubio rising. Outside of the class of conservative activists, it is not hard to find political analysts and observers who are convinced that the Republican presidential primaries are essentially over, and Jeb Bush won. The argument for why Bush has already sewn up the nomination is not particularly compelling, but it does have its devotees. The case centers on the fact that the former Florida governor has prohibitive access to a set of prolific Republican donors. It's perhaps no surprise that those who believe American politics is hopelessly corrupt as a result of the fact that high-dollar donors can contribute to the campaigns and causes of their choosing also believe that Bush's deep-pocketed backers will inevitably secure for him the GOP nomination. Jeb Bush Can't Be Nominated. Or Can He? The former governor's negatives are obvious and hard to ignore. Bush is the face of the establishment at a time when the party seems overrun by angry outsiders who are frustrated and want change. Even many Republicans don't like the idea of their party becoming a monarchy, and another Bush at the top of the ticket would seem the ultimate example of a party relying on hereditary succession. The former governor's support for a comprehensive immigration overhaul and Common Core places him at odds with a majority in his party, and he has shown little, if any, inclination to pander to the most vocal in his party or tweak his positions to please his critics. Jeb Bush's Nightmare Scenario. He's underperforming in early public polls and is receiving a frosty reception from Republican focus groups. His entitled biography is at odds with the Republican Party's increasing energy from working-class voters, who relate best with candidates who have struggled to make ends meet. The Bush name is a reminder of the past at a time when GOP voters are desperate for new faces. And after losing two straight presidential elections, Republican voters are thinking much more strategically — and aren't nearly as convinced as the political press that Bush is the strongest contender against Hillary Clinton. Jeb Bush Returns to the Washington Fund-Raising Well. "I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington," Jeb Bush told conservatives last month when he was asked about a funding dispute in Congress. Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, has sounded that theme regularly in his fledgling presidential campaign. But even as he positions himself as a Washington outsider, he seems to have mastered a skill that is crucial in this city: tapping into the money-raising clout of the K Street lobbyists, political operatives, superlawyers and business leaders in Washington's permanent class. Jeb Bush Condemned Over Speech at Anti-Israel Conference. Leading talk show host and best-selling author Mark Levin assailed Jeb Bush last night over the revelation that one of his top foreign policy advisers, James Baker, will keynote an anti-Israel conference this weekend. The annual conference of the activist group J Street features an array of anti-Israel speakers, including proponents of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divest (BDS) movement, which seeks Israel's destruction, and advocates for the terrorist group Hamas. Jeb Bush's tie to fugitive Miguel Recarey goes against business-savvy image he promotes. Jeb Bush was a young man building a real-estate business in Miami in 1985 when a health-care entrepreneur named Miguel Recarey Jr. hired him to help locate office space in South Florida. Bush, then the son of the vice president, later provided another service: opening doors in Washington, where Recarey had mounted an aggressive lobbying effort for a waiver from Medicare rules that would allow his fast-growing company to continue to expand. Recarey got what he wanted. But two years later, the firm, International Medical Centers, was shut down as regulators searched for millions in missing federal funds. Facing charges of bribery and bilking Medicare, Recarey fled the country to avoid prosecution. He remains a fugitive in Spain, where a court denied U.S. requests for extradition. Why doesn't Jeb Bush just run for the Democrat nomination? Jeb Bush has zero, none, zippo chance of winning the presidency. Should he somehow secure the Republican nomination — an unlikely prospect given his bizarre and unpopular opinions — the notion that he could both secure the support of a conservative base that he has demonized and insulted and the Democrat masses is delusional. [...] Given that Hillary is damaged goods, why doesn't Jeb try for the Democrat nomination? He has the name recognition, the far Left policy positions on Amnesty and Common Core, and the backing of crypto-liberal Karl Rove. There He Goes Again — Divisive KING RINO Jeb Pushes For Massive Immigration Increases. Using the same logic as President Barack Obama on Iran, Bush condescendingly stated in South Carolina this morning [3/17/2015], "I have not seen, I don't know if you've seen, a plan that says 'we're gonna deport everybody,'" Mr. Bush said at a breakfast event in Greenville Tuesday morning, kicking off a multi-day swing through the state. So, according to Jeb, it's either massively increase immigration on all levels, or deport everyone, a convoluted logic that rules Obama's dealings with Iran; Obama's way or war. The plain fact is, that Jeb is pursuing illegal actions. It is the cornerstone of his campaign that we not enforce immigration law — another thing he has in common with the Imperial Obama. Jeb Denies There's Any 'Bush Fatigue' In Iowa. While the former Floridian Governor might be "leading with his chin" as he gears for a possible 2016 run, he denied there was "Bush fatigue" when he visited Iowa earlier this month. Bush probably knows his views on immigration and Common Core aren't popular with Republican primary voters. Yet, he seems to be banking on presenting himself as a candidate who can discuss a wide range of issues to dilute the attacks that he's too moderate to win the Republican nomination. Jeb Bush Flips And Flops On Amnesty. Republican presidential aspirant Jeb Bush has different positions on amnesty depending on which audience he's talking to. Bush visited New Hampshire this weekend and discussed his amnesty position at a business roundtable held at Integra Biosciences. In front of the business crowd, Bush supported a path to "legal status" for illegal immigrants — a buzzword for non-citizenship that would allow illegals to work for companies that want cheap labor. "The best plan, the most realistic plan, the grown-up plan, once you control the border ... is to say, 'Let these folks achieve, earn legal status,'" Bush said. "If we just keep people in the shadows, we're not going to solve our immigration problems." Jeb Bush Panned by Former Aide to His Father. Curt Smith, a speechwriter for President Bush from 1989 through 1993 as well as after he left the White House, said in an interview that he objected strongly to Jeb Bush's forgiving attitude toward immigrants in the U.S. illegally and believed the former Florida governor wouldn't be a strong general election candidate. "Anyone who says illegal immigration is an 'act of love' ought not to be president of the United States," said Mr. Smith, referring to a line in a 2014 speech. "I'd support him if he was nominated but I'm not sure he's electable." The Trouble With Being Jeb. For some time, polls have found former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with higher negative ratings than one might expect of someone who has never before run for president or, until recently, maintained a high national political profile. Jeb Bush Publicly Endorses 'Gang Of Eight' Amnesty Bill In New Hampshire. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, during a gaggle with reporters in New Hampshire on Friday [3/13/2015], came out publicly for the previous Senate's "Gang of Eight" amnesty bill that would have provided citizenship, public benefits and other goodies such as work authorization for every illegal alien in America. More about the Gang of Eight. Poll: Jeb Bush Fares Horrendously With Middle Class Voters, Only 4 Percent Think He Represents Them. A minuscule 4 percent of Americans think that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush represents middle class values well, numbers far worse than Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama or either political party, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. Bush's biggest electability problems would come if he does survive what will be a bloodbath GOP primary, as it's unlikely conservative Republican voters would even turn out for him in a November general election should he get the nomination. This poll shows yet again why that's the case. Jeb's War on Conservatives. Throughout Jeb Bush's book titled, Immigration Wars, he and co-author Clint Bolick lament that the conservative grassroots are too strident in their opposition to immigration. In fact, Bush frames conservatives as anti-immigrant, and whose opposition to immigration is precisely why Republicans continue to receive less Hispanic votes than the Democrats. Essentially, it is a nasty and insulting lecture about the positive attributes of certain immigrants, aimed at the supposed "nativists" in the Republican base. Bush proposes a massive increase in immigration while denouncing a fence as an example of "Fortress America." In his eagerness to convince us that America cannot prosper without massively increasing immigration, he takes certain pains to put conservatives who oppose illegal immigration in their place. Jeb Bush: The Leading Anti-Conservative Candidate. America has had enough insults and apologies under the current White House Resident. No one I know wants a repeat of that. But lately "Republican" Jeb Bush has praised illegals as "economic-driven immigrants" and has been pushing for amnesty. Can someone please explain to me how, if invaders are going to be so good for our economy, why do we need money from the federal and state budgets to facilitate them? If they are good for the economy, communities that have high invader population should be thriving, shouldn't they? Shouldn't California's economy be through-the-roof vibrant by now, with all those family-oriented, entrepreneurial invaders in their state? Shouldn't Arizona's border be lined with Hilton and Holiday Inn properties to facilitate the traffic of these wonderful families, seeking to become American citizens? Shouldn't Texas border towns have excess education funding, farmers cheering them on as they show up to be the best employees they've ever had? No, that is not the case. People along the border are in DANGER. Sex trafficking, drug trafficking, assaults, robberies, murder and disease are what is thriving. And yet Jeb Bush apparently wants to invite more of it, just like the current Resident. Anyone toying with the ideas of amnesty by any name is inviting more crime and destruction including increased death against law-abiding Americans. Jeb Bush Touts Conservatism In New Video. Did you know Jeb Bush is a conservative? That's the message the former Florida governor, preparing to run for president as a Republican in 2016, makes in a new video released Friday, likely targeted at GOP primary voters who may be suspicious of some of his political views. Won't you please not donate $1 million to Jeb Bush's campaign. [T]his month the fundraisers for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have a real problem: Too much money coming in. So much money coming in that they're worried people may get the idea that these presidential candidates are somehow beholden to mega-donors. You know, like Bill Clinton renting out the Lincoln Bedroom or Barack Obama making his finance chair a Cabinet secretary. Money = access. Big money = Big Access. Awash in cash, Bush asks donors not to give more than $1 million — for now. An unusual request has gone out to wealthy donors writing large checks to support former Florida governor Jeb Bush: Please don't give more than $1 million right away. The requested limit, confirmed by multiple people familiar with the amount, may mark the first time that a presidential hopeful has sought to hold off supporters from contributing too much money. The move reflects concerns among Bush advisers that accepting massive sums from a handful of uber-rich supporters could fuel a perception that the former governor is in their debt. Jeb Bush Speech Prompts CPAC Walkout. It's clear that there is a division within the GOP and that it is not likely to go away any time soon. With establishment Republicans routinely selling-out the constituents in a Quixotic quest to gain longterm political survival, the conservative base has grown tired and angry with these establishment candidates. Sources Near Jeb Bush Say He's "Evolving" On Gay Marriage And Might Just Embrace It. ...should the Supreme Court make it the law of the land in June, which they, you know, probably will. So [he is] not a "moderate" Republican but a liberal one. Ah, whatever, that's fine. I suppose I should credit him, at least, for being somewhat honest about it. Well, if the party is craving a liberal candidate, he would be a decent choice. Report: Jeb Bush Attempting To Rig CPAC Straw Poll With Bused In Supporters. Perhaps in fear that he didn't have enough backers willing to show up on their own, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign organized to bus supporters to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to cheer during his appearance on stage and vote for him in the straw poll. Jeb Bush Fails CPAC, Can't Even Stack Straw Poll Successfully. Republican voters rejected former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the straw poll, as he earned only 8 percent of the vote and came in fifth. That came as, according to reports and several other campaigns, Bush attempted to rig the straw poll by busing in "supporters" from Washington, D.C., and K Street. Laura Ingraham: Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton Should Run on the Same Ticket. Jeb Bush will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference this afternoon. But Laura Ingraham wasn't going to let him have an easy welcome. In her speech Friday morning, the conservative talk-show host opened with a warning shot at Bush, asking attendees to raise their hands if they were skeptical of another Bush presidency. The crowd applauded. CPAC attendees plan to walk out on Jeb Bush. A movement is underway to stage an informal protest when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hits the CPAC stage Friday [2/27/2015]. Jeb Bush tries to ease concerns over support for Common Core. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, trying to tamp down conservative criticism over his support for Common Core, told thousands of activists on Friday [2/27/2015] that he opposes the federal government pushing any kind of educational standards on states, as President Obama's Department of Education has been doing. "This president, and this Department of Education, there's a risk that they will intrude, and they have as it relates to Race to the Top," Bush said as he spoke to the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Obama Tells Jeb to Lobby Fellow Republicans to Support Immigration. In a town hall in Miami, President Obama encouraged probable Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush to lobby folks in his party to support immigration reform: [Video clip] Jeb and the 'immortal 306'. The Washington Post recently christened Jeb Bush the frontrunner, and for good reason. He is pulling in the top Republican talent — the donors, consultants, and various policy advisors necessary to fund and run a top-notch campaign. Yet, his polling numbers are anemic. The average from Real Clear Politics (RCP) shows Bush pulling in just 14 percent nationwide. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush. Phyllis Schlafly has long argued that the American conservative movement's purpose is to influence, not echo, the Republican Party. And still going strong at age 90, Mrs. Schlafly wants to influence the GOP anew by warning against letting the party's "kingmakers" — the Wall Street elite and political consultant class — coronate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the presidential nominee in 2016. Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife. In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris. The incident left the Florida first lady deeply mortified and her husband politically chagrined. Jeb Bush said the first lady had misled customs officials because she did not want him to know that she had spent about $19,000 on the trip. Clint Bolick: Jeb Believes in Amnesty Bill 'With His Absolute Heart & Soul'. A top Jeb Bush ally said that Jeb Bush will not back down on his support for comprehensive amnesty legislation and is willing to win or lose the GOP nomination based on the issue. On Thursday [2/19/2015], Clint Bolick, who co-wrote Immigration Wars with the former Florida governor, said Bush "is either going to win or lose with a mandate on immigration." Jeb Bush vows to set his own course while tapping longtime family advisers. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush on Wednesday promised to chart his own course on foreign policy — even as he announced a campaign brain trust associated, in part, with the most contentious policies of his brother's and father's presidencies. The lethal political ledge Jeb Bush must navigate. So far in the 2016 presidential race — and we are not yet very far into it — Jeb Bush has been the key player. His December announcement of interest completely changed the timetable of the entire field of wannabes. He's already ahead in some key state polls like New Hampshire, even before announcing a candidacy. And his fundraising prowess is apparently off-and-running, though actual numbers won't be available until mid-July's report. Bush blows away GOP rivals with 2016 war chest. Jeb Bush's money juggernaut is far eclipsing the efforts of his would-be rivals for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, putting his two political committees on pace to amass an unprecedented sum of tens of millions of dollars by early spring. Jeb Bush's eye-popping event: $100k per ticket. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will raise money on Wall Street on Wednesday [2/11/2015] at an eye-popping $100,000 per-ticket Park Avenue event hosted by private equity mogul Henry Kravis and his wife. The price of admission to the event, which will raise funds for Bush's "Right to Rise" super PAC, surprised even Wall Street veterans used to high-dollar fundraisers. Jeb Bush Email Dump Contains Sensitive Personal Information Of Florida Residents. In the lead up to a likely 2016 presidential run, Jeb Bush made his eight years worth of emails as Florida governor public on a website set up by his political action committee, Right to Rise. The emails, which span from 1999 to 2007, document Bush's time in the Florida governor's mansion. They also contain sensitive information about those who corresponded with Bush, including email and home addresses, social security numbers, and details of personal turmoil. Jeb Money Train Makes Two More NYC Stops. On Wednesday night [2/11/2015], several dozen people with the means to attend an event so pricey its invitation doesn't list an expected contribution will gather in the Park Avenue apartment of Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis to meet Jeb Bush and add to the quickly filling coffers of Right to Rise, the PAC set up to aid Mr. Bush's presidential ambitions. Jeb Bush: We will lose our liberties if we control the border. Jeb Bush made a series of astonishing remarks about immigration Wednesday [2/4/2015]. [...] So if the parents commit a crime, like robbing a bank, and give the money to the kids, we can't take the money away, because it's not fair to the kids. If illegals bring their kids here so they can benefit from the American taxpayer, there is no reason why we should let those kids benefit. Jeb Bush: We Must 'Dramatically Expand' Immigrants Coming to Work. Wednesday [2/4/2015] at the Detroit Economic Club, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said to "create high, sustained economic growth," we need to "dramatically expand immigrants that are coming to work." Jeb Bush admits toking at private prep school: 'I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover'. Jeb Bush, the newest front-runner among Republicans seeking their party's 2016 presidential nomination, smoked marijuana in high school — an activity he describes as 'pretty common' at the tony Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Ingraham: Immigration 'Huge Winner' for GOP If It Avoids 'Jeb Bush Trap'. Talk radio host Laura Ingraham said that "immigration is a huge winner" for the GOP if it avoids the "Jeb Bush trap" on Wednesday [1/28/2015]. Ingraham, citing recent poll numbers, argued "immigration is a huge winner for the Republican Party, if they do not fall into the Jeb Bush trap. They fall into the Jeb Bush trap, and they are going to go the way of the Edsel in the Republican Party." Jeb Bush Fails Common Core Test and Disqualifies Himself for Presidency. Jeb Bush thinks he can ride Common Core to the White House. He is using it as a litmus test to prove he is not a scary conservative and will not upset the federal gravy train. This is a grave misjudgment. It will be as toxic for him, as Romneycare was for Romney. Bush would usher in the complete capitulation of our education system to the progressive agenda. Common Core reproduces everything wrong with Obamacare, and then some. It is unconstitutional, corrupt, and incompetent. And it is a government takeover of our children. Jeb Bush an Iowa no-show. A key figure was conspicuously missing from the conservative confab of presidential contenders at the unofficial 2016 campaign kickoff in Iowa Saturday: Jeb Bush, who many GOP insiders believe is the best choice to battle Hillary Clinton. Bush cited a previously unannounced "scheduling conflict" as his reason for being a no-show, but it's clear the 1,000 religious activists and tea party backers aren't his natural base. The Editor says... Jeb Bush: We Need to Control Border By Politely Asking Illegals to Leave. This weekend in San Francisco while speaking to the National Automobile Dealers Association, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said, "First and foremost we need to control our border." "The 40 percent of the people that have come here illegally came with a legal visa and overstayed their bounds," he added. "We ought to be able to figure out where they are and politely ask them to leave." State and local enforcement should partner with the federal government to encourage illegal aliens to return to their home countries in a "compassionate" way, Bush continued. Jeb Bush lays out plans for 60 fundraisers for 2016 bid. Jeb Bush on Tuesday met with Republican lobbyists in Washington to provide an update on his expected run for president and let supporters know how they could boost his budding campaign. Bush operatives who joined the former Florida governor at the afternoon event announced that 60 events in cities across the country have been scheduled to raise money for his federal leadership political action committee, which can accept money only in limited amounts, and his super PAC, which can accept checks in unlimited amounts. Republicans Like Romney More Than Jeb Bush — WSJ/NBC Poll. Mitt Romney begins the 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign with significant advantages over Jeb Bush, his chief rival for GOP establishment support, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. More than half (52%) of all Republicans still maintain a positive view of the party's 2012 nominee, compared to just 37% who said the same about Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor. Mr. Romney does more than 20 percentage points better among self-identified tea party supporters and core Republican voters than does Mr. Bush, who last ran for office in 2002. Jeb Bush kept key roles in Florida firm amid signs of trouble. After attending his second meeting as a board member for InnoVida, a Miami-based company that marketed prefabricated housing materials for use in disaster zones and other places in need, Jeb Bush had some follow-up questions. [...] Previously unreported court documents suggest that Bush was more involved with the company than has been publicly known — and that he deepened his role even as others associated with Inno-Vida grew concerned about its financial practices. Can't We Do Better? I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist [...] but I can't help but wonder if the "mainstream media" is playing up the potential presidential candidacies of Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum simply to depress Republican voters. [...] And then there's Jeb Bush. The mainstream media keep rattling on about his great "name recognition." Sure, we all know his family, but how many Americans actually know anything about Jeb. How many even know in which state he served as governor? The Editor says... Jeb's fundraising host ripped GOP's 'fixation' with Christian agenda. Emerging Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, kicking off a West Coast fundraising effort, is opening the door to criticism from skeptical conservatives by attending one event hosted by a former moderate GOP senator who blasted the party for giving in to the Christian right's agenda. A Bush fundraiser Thursday in Indian Wells, Calif., is being hosted by former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, one of a group of former Republican lawmakers who have criticized the party for shifting focus to a Christian social agenda. Mitt Romney Thinks Ted Cruz Will Destroy Jeb Bush's Candidacy. A tidbit buried at the end of a Romney adviser's longish rationalization of why Mitt Romney may yet again run for the GOP's nomination suggests Romney does not think Jeb Bush has what it takes to win the GOP nomination. Jamming Jeb: The press starts scrutinizing how conservative he really is. When Bush ran as a harsh right-winger in 1994, he lost. When he moderated his tone in 1998, he won. Therefore, he has "grown" into the more moderate Republican he is today, and that makes him more electable. Sure, Bush adviser Sally Bradshaw is quoted as saying "he didn't change his core principles." But in our polarized media atmosphere, the ex-governor is likely to face an intense round of scrutiny over this question: Which one is the real Jeb? Jeb's government in waiting. Jeb Bush, more than any other potential Republican presidential candidate, brings to the table a government-in-waiting of executive branch veterans experienced in domestic and national security policy. The Bush family network of political operatives is thousands deep and scattered across Washington and the nation, throughout politics and the private sector. The group was formed over three White House administrations, not to mention Jeb Bush's two terms as Florida governor, during a period spanning 30 years. The Bush alumni are rich in the critical experience needed to run the federal government day to day. Jeb Is Hillary's Weakest Opponent. Jeb Bush may be the most electable Republican against a generic Democratic candidate, but against Hillary Clinton, he would be the weakest nominee we could field. [...] The leading negatives against Hillary also apply to Jeb. As Cokie and Steven Roberts noted recently, both are too old, each is too tied to Wall Street, and the two are equally dependent on a last name someone else made famous. In a sense, Bush and Hillary are co-dependents. Each makes the other into Teflon over their biggest negatives. Read My Lips: No New Bushes. If the opposition is going out of its way to insist — wink! wink! — that there's only one Republican candidate capable of victory, the GOP had better wise up and opt for somebody else! The fact is that the Democrats would like nothing better than to see a Bush run for president. Just his last name alone would drive liberals to the polls in droves to oppose him. For the past six years, "Bush" has been the name blamed for everything gone wrong, both domestically and abroad. Big red flag: The New York Times is excited about Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush calls for 'respect' of same-sex marriages. Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, called for "respect" of same-sex marriages on Monday as his home state of Florida began allowing gays to wed following a court ruling. Bush, a former governor of Florida, said in a statement that even those like him who oppose same-sex marriage must "respect the rule of law" now that the state's ban on gay marriages has been ruled unconstitutional. Jeb Bush's burden. As Florida governor, Bush compiled a long domestic record on issues like education and immigration. Yet at a moment when America is winding down one war and ramping up another, he remains untested and opaque when it comes to war and peace. Jeb Bush Announces PAC in English, Spanish Facebook Videos. On Tuesday, former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush announced the launch of his new "Right to Rise" political action committee in English and Spanish on Facebook. Jeb Bush announces new leadership PAC. Former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush announced on Facebook Tuesday [1/6/2015] that he is launching a leadership PAC called "Right to Rise" as he explores the possibility of running for president. Whistling Past the Junkyard: The Establishment's Attempt to Make Jeb Seem Inevitable. For several weeks now, the mainstream Jurassic media has been up to their old psychological warfare tricks, and naturally, the Republican establishment is falling for it hard. They always do, and this includes "the architect," Karl Rove. This time it's the media's attempt to get Jeb Bush the Republican nomination for President in 2016. Articles that fawn over Jeb, either from a formidability standpoint or in the vein that he's a "reasonable" conservative are everywhere. A Republican Battle Royal: Jeb Bush vs. Chris Christie. Jeb Bush's possible entry into the 2016 Republican presidential primaries has raised many questions. Here's just one: What happens to Chris Christie? Not long ago, the New Jersey governor looked like the safe establishment choice for the GOP nomination. Conservative enough to possibly be palatable to the base, not so conservative to necessarily be kryptonite to swing voters — a blue-state governor cozy with the party's Northeast donors. For 2016 — Mitt, Jeb, and Christie, Please Stay Home. My endorsement record for successful political candidates is very, very spotty. That could be because I live in a very blue city in a blue state and I am a conservative. My endorsements of Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush succeeded only because their opponents were a non-issue. I do have the ear, however, of many right wing and tea party voters and it is quite clear that they feel the media is pushing Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney down our throats. I dare say that neither of these men nor Chris Christie would win a Republican primary. Jeb Bush on gay marriage: Ought to be a 'state decision'. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday that gay marriage should be a "state decision," weighing in on the thorny social issue that could figure prominently in the 2016 GOP presidential nominating contest. "It ought be a local decision. I mean, a state decision," Mr. Bush told the Miami Herald. "The state decided. The people of the state decided. But it's been overturned by the courts, I guess." Why Jeb Bush might not run for president. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's number has come up on the Republican Party's presidential roulette wheel, making a possible third President Bush the talk of Washington, D.C. and fodder for breathless news reports. [...] But Bush's family could drag along enough heavy baggage to sink a White House run, including his daughter Noelle's 2002 arrests for prescription drug fraud, stealing pills at a rehab clinic, and possession of crack cocaine. Jurassic Media Desperate for Jeb. The Jurassic media is on the march, and their goal is to help the Republicans nominate Jeb Bush in 2016. In order to achieve this goal, they have started to soften the battlefield of ideas with their stockpile of shallow psychological tactics. This is just the same old psy-ops the left always tries. And why not? It almost always works on the Republican establishment in Washington. Inside the GOP-e in DC, reality does not matter — only polls and media opinions do. It's Orwellian, as we can tune in and watch polls and media opinion work it's voodoo on elected officials like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, not to mention wizards like Karl Rove and other clueless Republican "strategists." Why Jeb Bush Can't Bypass Conservatives. Before Jeb Bush announced he was "actively exploring" a presidential bid came news he was just as actively seeking a way to avoid appealing to conservatives. (The Bushies prefer the word "pandering.") The would-be King Bush III consulted one of the country's foremost experts on excelling in the Republican Party without being too conservative: Arizona Sen. John McCain. "I just said to him, 'I think if you look back, despite the far right's complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,'" McCain told Bush, according to The New York Times. Absurd Polls That Favor Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush is polling as the man to beat in 2016, and it's completely absurd. Most people outside of Florida have little idea what Jeb Bush has done in office and even fewer voters know what he plans to propose or the direction he seeks for the Republican Party. But in poll after poll, John Ellis Bush (J.E.B.), the privileged son of President G.H.W. Bush, brother of President G.W. Bush and grandson of a banker and Rockefeller-type Republican senator from Connecticut, Prescott Bush, is leading the list of Republican nomination contenders by a wide margin. So far though, he's the only one who has announced his desire to run for the office. Everyone Says Jeb Bush Is A Conservative — Except Conservatives. We here at CHQ have observed an interesting phenomenon about former Florida Governor Jeb Bush — hardly a week passed after he met with Senator John McCain to discuss how to obtain the Republican presidential nomination without being a conservative until testimonials started flowing about how conservative Jeb is. Of course these testimonials are mostly coming from Democrats and the establishment media, but they are slowly, but inexorably filling the top pages of Google, so that soon they will become the conventional wisdom. The Overrated Candidate: The Case Against Jeb Bush. Ever since Jeb established an "I'm Thinking About Running for President Committee" (translation to English: I'm running for president) a week or so back, the conventional wisdom, whooped up by the chatterati and the various great mentioners, is that this latest Bush is a lock for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. They also say he's that party's best hope for reclaiming 1600. He's probably neither. Jeb Bush "Owns" Common Core. George Will understands why conservatives are revolted by the Common Core standards. Jeb Bush either does not understand or, perhaps worse, does not care. Either way, Bush owns his insistence upon the highly controversial education initiative, a position that will likely cost him with most conservatives in a presidential bid, and should also matter to all Republicans. The lucrative Obamacare connection that Jeb Bush is trying to cut. The for-profit hospital chain Tenet Healthcare announced on Christmas Eve that Jeb Bush would be stepping down from its board of directors by the end of the year. Bush, who has served on the board of Tenet since 2007, is starting to cut his business ties as he explores a run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. And there's one obvious reason why keeping Tenet on his resume might not look so good politically: Tenet has benefited greatly from the Affordable Care Act, which much of the GOP base is still committed to repealing. Jeb Bush eases out of some businesses, such as firm helped by Obamacare. Bush is quitting Tenet Healthcare Corp. — a company that has profited from Obamacare — and is ending a consulting contract with Barclays Bank to focus on his political future. Aides say he also has stopped giving highly paid speeches to focus on traveling America, meeting with potential donors and testing what a friend calls a "visionary" brand of campaigning. Jeb Bush to Step Down From Tenet Healthcare Board. Jeb Bush will resign from Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s board effective Dec. 31, the hospital operator said Wednesday [12/24/2014]. Mr. Bush, the Republican former governor of Florida, announced last week that he is exploring running for president. Jeb Bush and Tenet Healthcare Corp. Jeb Bush left the Florida governor's office in January of 2007, after eight years of service. Three months later, he joined the board of a hospital company that had been pillaging government health programs and abusing patients, in Florida and around the country, for most of the years he sat in the governor's office. Apart from a very generous compensation package, why did Bush sign on with such a tarnished company? 'We've Had Enough Bushes'. According to [Jeb] Bush's own "political vision," the 2016 Republican nominee must be willing to, "lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles." Which of course means he doesn't think conservatives really matter, and that the Republican most willing to [anger] the base, in his view, will win the general. Ok, that's his view, which was shared by Nixon, Ford, his granddaddy, his father, his brother, Dole, McCain and Romney. And you know, if you think about it, none of them represent me, so what do I care what flawed logic and reasoning leads to these vapid comments? Jeb Bush's Unseemly Love Affair with Communist Core. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush embraces one-size-fits-all national education standards that would turn schools into re-education camps for the left. His decision could cause trouble with GOP primary voters. Jeb Bush: I Can 'Persuade' Conservatives on Amnesty. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush believes he can "persuade" conservatives to support comprehensive amnesty legislation during a potential 2016 presidential campaign. In the second part of his interview with a local Florida television station this week, Bush was asked about the "immigration issue" and whether he could "get through the primary" with his pro-amnesty positions. Bush replied to NBC 6 in Florida that "a candidate gets to persuade." 5 Observations About Jeb Bush Running for President. [#2] Jeb Bush's support for Amnesty is wildly unpopular among a huge majority of Americans: 88% of Republicans, 66% of independents and even 50% of Democrats believe that the border should be locked down before any Amnesty efforts are undertaken. Wall Street Journal to Jeb: Don't Budge on Amnesty, Common Core. The pro-amnesty and open borders Wall Street Journal wants former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to not back down on Common Core and amnesty, the two issues that may represent the greatest divide between the bipartisan political class and Main Street. Flashback: Jeb Bush Said LBJ Would Be His Role Model As President. In February of 2013, Jeb Bush told several hundred people at a Catholic Florida university that, were he to become president, he would strive to be like Lyndon Baines Johnson. As the Miami Herald reported, while speaking at St. Leo University, Bush praised LBJ's strong, practical leadership "that among other things produced a 25 percent across-the-board income tax cut." Jeb Bush Is Dismissing the GOP Base at His Own Peril. Republican voters aren't looking for reforms. They want to cut the size of government. Jeb Bush: The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's Waterboy. Allow me to unite America's left, right and center in just three words: No, Jeb, No. Former GOP Florida governor Jeb Bush made the obvious official this week when he announced on Facebook that he's "actively exploring" a 2016 White House run. Of course, he's running. That's what inveterate politicians do. More commentary about the Jeb Bush candidacy. I don't have as much of a problem with the Bush Brand as other people; I have a problem with the Jeb Bush Brand. I think it's absurd for a candidate's main selling point to be how much he hates the party whose nomination he's seeking. First Presidential Attack Ad of 2016 Cycle Jabs Jeb Bush. American Bridge just put this nifty little anti-Jeb attack ad, that will surely be a sampling of what is to come for the former governor of Florida[.] [Video clip] Six Reasons Conservatives Oppose Jeb. On Tuesday, former Florida governor Jeb Bush announced via Facebook that he would "actively explore" a presidential run — in other words, Bush announced that he would be entering the 2016 primary sweepstakes. His early jump effectively bars the candidacies of 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney as well as Florida Senator Marco Rubio. It also disheartens members of the conservative base, who see Bush as too moderate, unlikely to fight the Clintons tooth and nail, and as a representative of a family that helped destroy the Republican brand not once but twice. Dems fundraise off Bush announcement. The Democratic National Committee is fundraising off former Gov. Jeb Bush's (R-Fla.) announcement that he will "actively explore" a White House run, by trying to tie him to the policies of his brother, former President George W. Bush. "Jeb Bush is starting to run for president," the DNC said in an email to supporters hours after his announcement. "Think about how President Bush worked out last time." Jeb Bush may follow Mitt Romney script to 2016 Republican nomination. Jeb Bush, the Florida governor, was a darling of the conservative movement who championed tax cuts, pro-growth policies, the end of raced-based college admissions and fiscal discipline in one of the most politically important states in the country. Jeb Bush, the retired politician, hasn't fared as well with the same movement, earning distrust over his views on such thorny topics as immigration, Common Core education reforms and tax increases. Best-Selling Author Brad Thor: 'If Jeb Bush is the Nominee, I Will Never Vote Republican Again'. Best-selling author Brad Thor is expanding the tweet that started a social media firestorm. [...] "The whole of idea of a Jeb Bush candidacy and potential Presidency is managing the country's decline, not fixing it, not repairing it," Thor told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, shortly after his tweet exploded across the conservative blogosphere. "At this point America doesn't want another Bush," Thor told Breitbart News. "I don't want Jeb Bush for President and I will not vote for him." The Jebster's First Run at a Political Slogan Seems Strangely Familiar. As you gentlemen and ladies well know, Jeb Bush is testing the POTUS waters, with the encouragement of the GOP Establishment's donor class and the liberal media (e.g., see WaPo, NYT, Politico and HuffPo). Jeb's doubtless trying to impress same with his abilities to attract financial support. Leaking his 2016 plans: How Jeb Bush is working the media refs. After more than a year of playing Hamlet, Jeb Bush had left most media and political players wondering if he was just too ambivalent to mount a presidential campaign. And he needed to send a clear, unambiguous signal that he wants to be a contender in 2016. Voila: the magic leak. Well-placed sources orchestrated a doubleheader, the message delivered simultaneously on the front pages of two major newspapers. The former Florida governor followed up by announcing he'll release all 250,000 e-mails he sent during his tenure and telling a Miami station that he plans to write an e-book. My translation: he's in. Report: Jeb Bush Asks McCain For Advice On Not Pandering To Conservatives. Jeb Bush has quietly consulted former Republican presidential nominee John McCain about how to run for president without pandering to conservatives in a GOP primary, according to a new report. The New York Times, in a story published Friday, examines the former Florida governor's thinking on a possible campaign. The story notes that Bush seems to be leaning towards running, but has no desire to change some of his political positions to win over the party's base. Barbara Bush backtracks on disapproving words about Jeb's presidential prospects. Barbara Bush has backtracked on her comment that "we've had enough Bushes in the White House," when asked in April 2013 if her son Jeb should run for President. Now the straight-talking former First Lady has "thought about it" and thinks he is the best candidate for the job. Will The GOP Lose To Hillary In 2016 By Nominating A Loser Like Jeb? It's crystal clear that Hillary Clinton has a glass jaw and is poised to be knocked out in 2016. With Barack Obama and his legacy of failure weighing her down, Hillary must cobble together a coalition by recovering the normal Americans who used to help Democrats win while at the same time satisfying the freak show that is the Democrat base. [...] So with the GOP facing this crew of future footnotes, why are we toying with potential nominees whose only qualification appears to be the ability to implode? Is Jeb Bush really prepared to lose in order to win? Jeb Bush might or might not run for president in 2016. If he runs, he might or might not emerge as a winner. But his formulation for how to think about waging a successful presidential campaign suggests he already is ahead of some of his potential competitors — in both parties. Jeb stalling in neutral. Guess who isn't running for president? Jeb Bush. Just listen to him. The GOP presidential race is frozen until the former Florida governor makes his decision, and he sounds like a man ready to run for the hills. Asked about his thinking this week, Bush was blunt: "It's a big sacrifice because it's a pretty ugly business right now," he said. Progressive Icon Jeb Bush: Obama Executive Amnesty Didn't Go Far Enough. ["]He [Obama] granted a deferral of the execution of the law for a couple of years. So these people are still in limbo. What we need to do is get to some certainty for people, the 11 million people that are here, five million of which he dealt with. We need to find some ... give them some legal status and move to a system that is more economically driven.["] Jeb girds for battle with base. Jeb Bush is steeling for a fight with the GOP's conservative base, signaling he will not bend from his centrist positions on immigration and Common Core education standards in 2016 — even if it costs him support with grassroots conservatives. In what could be read as a swipe at 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Bush told a Washington audience this week that "no one really knows" if a presidential candidate can survive the primaries without sacrificing his core principles because "it hasn't been tried recently." The Editor asks... Jeb Bush: Republicans Don't Need Conservatives to Win White House, Should Not Defund Executive Amnesty. Even though moderate Republican candidates lose presidential elections without the conservative base (see: George H.W. Bush '92, Bob Dole '96, John McCain '08, Mitt Romney '12), former Florida Governor and potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush thinks conservatives are not needed to win the White House. Bush believes that a presidential candidate who is "willing to lose the primary to win the general" has the best shot at the White House. Conservative leaders gang up to block Jeb Bush, say he opposes Reaganism. Conservative leaders who had a hand in key Republican victories including Ronald Reagan's presidency, the Contract with America and the birth of the Tea Party, are ganging up to oppose a Jeb Bush presidential bid, declaring him easier to beat than Bob Dole or John McCain. "I don't know of any conservatives who are supporting him," said Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com. "Jeb is a very good moderate Democrat," added top-rated talk radio host Mark Levin. "He's very boring. He doesn't elicit excitement and energy outside a very small circle of wealthy corporatists and GOP Beltway operatives. Time to move on." Family Affairs. In terms of American political dynasties, the Bushes are about as good as it gets. And, with apologies to the remarkable former governor of Florida, nobody is clamoring for another one. Jeb Bush: Time for Congress to Pass Amnesty Bill. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush called on Congress to pass bipartisan comprehensive amnesty legislation after President Barack Obama unilaterally granted nearly five million illegal immigrants executive amnesty on Thursday [11/20/2014]. Bush, a potential 2016 presidential candidate who has come under fire for his support for comprehensive amnesty legislation and Common Core, said Obama's "ill-advised unilateral action on illegal immigration undermines all efforts to forge a permanent solution to this crisis." Jeb Bush Is Reportedly Making 'Secret Visits' To Wall Street To Prepare For A 2016 Campaign. According to a Daily News report published Wednesday night [11/19/2014], [Jeb] Bush visited an unnamed downtown Manhattan bank earlier in the week to secure financial backing for a potential White House bid. It wasn't his first such trip, either. "He's been having these secret visits with guys who can write six and seven-figure checks," a finance industry official told the paper. Jeb Bush meets with major Wall Street donors to prepare for potential 2016 presidential run. The former Florida governor quietly met with Wall Street executives on Monday [11/17/2014] in a Manhattan bank to lay down the necessary ground work for a run by lining up donors. It was his fifth visit to the city since June. Dynasty: It's not just a TV show. [Scroll down] Does anyone really think there is no one more qualified than either Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush to run the country? I can probably think of 100 people from both parties (or no party) I would rather see as president before either one of them. Everyone says they want change, but then when they have the chance to make it, they run scared. Jeb Bush Promises GOP Immigration Reform To Spanish Speaking Media. A great many Republican House and Senate candidates may be staying away from talking immigration, or immigration reform this cycle, but not Jeb Bush. George P. Bush says dad 'moving forward' on 2016. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is "moving forward" on a potential 2016 White House run and it appears more likely he will enter the Republican field, according to his son, who's running for office in Texas. Don't dismiss Jeb Bush just yet. Many Republicans, especially conservatives in crucial early voting states such as Iowa, shudder at the idea of the type of comprehensive immigration reform that Bush advocates. Others bristle at the mere idea of Common Core in their kids' schools, another policy Bush backs. Many remain irked at his refusal to sign a no-new-taxes pledge. Still more must hold their noses before the idea of another Bush in the White House is even palatable. Round Three for the Bush Dynasty? It's not that I think this Bush would make a bad president; I actually think he'd make a very good one. It's just that, come on, this is America. And when one family — or a handful of families — appears over and over at the top of the government, things start looking and feeling a lot more like an aristocracy than a representative republic. No one has said this better than the Bush matriarch herself, former first lady Barbara Bush, who has famously said she doesn't want Jeb to run for president. Jeb Bush will 'more than likely run for president, son says. Jeb Bush's son, George P. Bush, said his father will "more than likely" seek the Republican nomination for a 2016 presidential run. "I think it's actually, I think it's more than likely that [Jeb Bush is] giving this a serious thought in moving forward," George P. Bush told ABC News' Jonathan Karl aboard his campaign bus in College Station, Texas. The younger Mr. Bush is running for land commissioner in Texas. Dear Mitt and Jeb: No, Thanks. There is a long list of people I admire whom I do not wish to see in the GOP field. Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush are two of them. Report: Jeb Bush Thinks Fox News [is] Annoying. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush reportedly told South Carolinians that Fox News annoys him. Bush, a potential 2016 establishment Republican presidential candidate who has already come under fire for his support of amnesty legislation, Common Core, and potential tax increases, reportedly made his remarks in the first-in-the-South primary state on Thursday [10/23/2014]. He was in South Carolina to meet with activists and campaign for Republican Governor Nikki Haley. Jeb Bush talks 2016 run with donors. Jeb Bush was blitzed with questions Thursday [10/23/2014] about his presidential ambitions in a private session with top South Carolina donors and business leaders, multiple sources at the meeting told CNN. Bush was politely non-committal, as he is in public, but said he was seriously considering the possibility and would make a decision after the holiday season. Jeb Bush in Grand Rapids touts immigration reform, Common Core. Jeb Bush voiced support for immigration reform and Common Core education standards while stumping for Gov. Rick Snyder and U.S. Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land on Monday [10/13/2014] in Grand Rapids. Jeb Bush: GOP Must Work With Dems On Amnesty If Republicans Control Congress. On Monday in Michigan, former Florida Governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush again said Republicans need to pass comprehensive immigration legislation if they control Congress. No to 'Jeb Bush for President'. Republicans are divided into three parts: the Charlie Crist utter opportunists who care about nothing but his ego and his power; the Bush/Romney dynastic clan who feel a sense of noblesse oblige toward their countrymen; and the true conservatives, who see in liberty the only real function of government. The first group — the Jim Jeffords, Lincoln Chaffee, and Chuck Hagel types — are enemies, pure and simple. The second group, however, are profoundly misguided and will never lead a conservative revolution because they would not understand the need for it. These are the sorts, like Jeb Bush, would think making government more efficient and honest will cure our nation's ills: dead wrong, of course, but not malicious. American Conservative: The Jeb Bush Fantasy. According to fairly recent polling, most Floridians (53%) don't want Jeb Bush running for president, and in a hypothetical match-up with Clinton he receives just 44% in the state where he was governor for eight years. So it's not just fantasy to imagine Bush carrying Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio, which have all become impossible or very difficult states for Republican presidential candidates. Why Are the Bushies Attacking Ted Cruz? [Senator Ted] Cruz is a foreign policy hard-liner, not an isolationist, but he is a tough-minded realist in a party contaminated by the ideological impulse to export America's political system to the Middle East. Jeb Bush Produces Spanish Ads For 3 GOP Candidates. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't said whether he's going to run for president in 2016, but he's going on the air in three races this year — in Spanish. The Truth About Jeb Bush's Presidential Ambitions. There are currently two factions in American presidential politics: Those who are absolutely sure Jeb Bush will run for president in 2016 and those who are absolutely sure he won't. The first group points to Bush's recent weeks on the road — he hit a variety of long-planned Republican political and policy events in advance of the midterms, and put on an impressively lively and incisive show. George W. Bush: Jeb 'wants' presidency. Former President George W. Bush said Thursday [10/2/2014] that he thinks his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), wants to be president. "I think he wants to be president, I think he'd be a great president. He understands what it's like to be president," Bush said in a Fox News interview. "He's seen his dad, he's seen his brother. He's a very thoughtful man and he's weighing his options." The Bush brothers met in Dallas on Wednesday [10/1/2014], and the former president said he was "pushing" his brother to run. Why Boehner is wooing Jeb Bush. It's been a yearlong courtship, but no one quite knows if it will pay off. For the past year, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been wooing his longtime friend Jeb Bush to jump into the 2016 presidential race, even as he has shunned potential Tea Party rivals like Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Boehner stepped up his lobbying efforts this week, singing the former Florida governor's praises in a pair of media interviews. George W. Bush: Brother Jeb 'wants to be President'. President George W. Bush says his brother Jeb would like to enter the family business of presidential politics. "I think he wants to be President, I think he'd be a great President," Bush told "FOX & Friends" on Thursday [10/2/2014] as the President marks the start of the fourth annual Warrior Open golf tournament in Dallas to honor veterans. "He understands what it's like to be President ... he's seen his dad, he's seen his brother. He's a very thoughtful man and he's weighing his options." Boehner: Jeb Bush has 'real shot' in 2016. Count House Speaker John Boehner as a fan of Jeb Bush for president. He also hasn't spoken to Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in two years. The driving issue of the 2016 election will be "competence," and if former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush runs, "he's got a real shot" at winning, the Ohio Republican told the Cincinnati Enquirer on Tuesday. Jeb Bush Suggests Republicans Should Pass Amnesty if They Win Back Senate. Even though Republicans may take back the Senate by running against amnesty, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush pushed amnesty legislation while stumping for North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis on Wednesday [9/24/2014]. Bush, according to the New York Times, reportedly said that comprehensive immigration reform "will restore and sustain economic growth for this country." And even though a recent Gallup poll found that illegal immigration is now the top concern among Republicans, Bush said that if immigration reform is "framed in that way, I don't think there's a big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this." Jeb Bush Returns to Fray and Finds Going Rough. In one of his first public appearances of the 2014 campaign, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida had a vivid preview Wednesday [9/24/2014] of the challenges he would face with his party's conservative base should he seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Standing alongside Thom Tillis, the North Carolina House speaker and Republican Senate candidate, Mr. Bush outlined his views on two of the issues he cares most passionately about: immigration policy and education standards. But as Mr. Bush made the case for an immigration overhaul and the Common Core standards, Mr. Tillis gently put distance between himself and his guest of honor, who had flown here from Florida on a dreary day to offer his endorsement in a race that could decide which party controls the Senate. A Clinton Versus a Bush? Jeb Eyes the Family Business. While a broad, deep coalition of Democrats is urging Hillary Clinton to run for president, Republicans so far aren't rallying behind the politician in their party from a famous political family: Jeb Bush. In the spring, at the height of the controversy over lane closures in New Jersey that implicated the staff of Gov. Chris Christie, GOP donors talked publicly about drafting the former Florida governor and the son and brother of ex-presidents into the race to be the Republican establishment candidate they had expected Christie to be. Pat Roberts to bring Jeb Bush to campaign in Wichita; Sarah Palin in Independence. Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, will come to Wichita on Sept. 29 to stump for U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts in a tight Senate race that has drawn national attention. Washington Post Interview with Jeb Bush. A former GOP governor is traveling extensively, speaks passionately about the lack of presidential leadership, is conversant in foreign policy and has a comprehensive vision for domestic reform. A presidential contender? Well, that is what everyone wants to know about Jeb Bush. Sitting in his educational foundation's offices in Washington, Bush is animated and — if you think this has political implications — looks thinner than I have seen him over the past couple of years. No, he didn't say whether he has decided to run for president, but he gave every appearance of being ready and capable of doing so — if he wants to. Jeb Bush To Appear At String Of Republican Campaign Events. Former Republican Florida governor Jeb Bush will hit Illinois, Florida and Michigan in a tour of GOP campaign events over the next several weeks. As the Washington Examiner detailed, Bush will make three high-profile appearances this month and next: a campaign stop with Illinois gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Rauner in Chicago on September 18; a September 23 fundraiser in Florida for five competitive Republican Senate candidates including hawkish Arkansas prospect Tom Cotton; and an up to $5,000 per head fundraising gala for Michigan governor Tom Snyder in October. Report: Better than 50% Chance Jeb Bush Runs for POTUS. There is reportedly better than a 50-50 chance that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will run for president. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Bush's inner circle of "advisers have been quietly spreading the word that they should avoid committing to other possible presidential candidates until he decides on his own course after the November election" and have been actively dismissing "speculation that the former Florida governor has ruled out a 2016 run." Will Republican Recycling Bring Back the Bushes? Whatever else environmentalists might say about Republican policies, there's no denying the Grand Old Party practices recycling. Talk of Jeb Bush for president is back in circulation as the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday [9/4/2014] that the former Florida governor, who is the son of one former president and the brother of another, is sending signals about a potential White House bid in 2016. Just the fact that he has a "team" is a pretty good clue. Sure sounds like Jeb Bush is getting closer to running for president. I tend to think the only rational explanation for the Jeb buzz is that it's some sort of sly "Romney 2016" psy op. There's just no way, no way, that the Republican Party's going to take another bite at the Bush apple. The donor class may despise the base and would doubtless enjoy sticking it to righties by handing the nomination to the RINO-iest member of the Bush clan but the baggage that would come with it is too heavy. Florida Newspaper: Jeb Bush's Embrace of Common Core Hurts 2016 Chances. One of Florida's top political editors labeled former Florida Governor Jeb Bush the "loser of the week" and noted that his full-throated embrace of Common Core is making it less likely that he would secure the GOP nomination if he decides to run for President of the United States. Jeb Bush quietly ramping up potential presidential bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has been traveling to New York in the past month to quietly meet with high-flying business leaders to ramp up interest in a potential presidential bid, sources tell Page Six. "He's been meeting with groups of up to 15 people at private homes to tell them about some of his moderate points of view," a source said. "He's been meeting with Republicans, Democrats and independents." Jeb Bush's Fundraising Pushin 2014 Could Help in 2016. The fundraiser for Republican Senate candidates to be headlined by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be coordinated through a joint fundraising committee called Floridians for a Senate Majority, according to a filing Wednesday [7/30/2014] with the Federal Elections Commission. The New Aristocracy. If Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush were to become president of the United States it would mean the power and influence of the presidency remained in the hands of the Clinton family for possibly sixteen years, and that's not even counting the princess in waiting, Chelsea; and in the case of the Bush family, possibly twenty years, and that's not counting the heir apparent, George Prescott Bush. Have we devolved into a nation of bleating sheep, or screaming teenagers at an episode of American Idol? Can it be true that there are no other citizens in this great nation worthy of serving in the highest office of our land? Is Mrs. Clinton truly the only woman? Is Mr. Bush truly the only man? It is my hope that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bush would in a moment of quiet patriotic introspection discover in themselves a generous humility that would cause them to realize that enough is enough. 2016 Rehearsal? Jeb Bush to Headline Big Senate Fundraiser. Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida is planning to headline a fundraiser for at least four Republican Senate candidates, seeking to make an impact on the 2014 election while exploring the possibility of his own presidential bid in 2016. The fundraiser is scheduled for Sept. 23 in Tampa, Fla. The chosen candidates are crucial to a Republican takeover of the Senate, including Cory Gardner in Colorado, Joni Ernst in Iowa, Monica Wehby in Oregon and Tom Cotton in Arkansas. The event may also benefit the winner of the Aug. 26 Republican primary in Alaska. Jeb Bush for Veep? Speculation among Republican strategists is that Bush won't run for president in 2016, but might be willing to be a strong conservative's running mate. The Editor says... Jeb Bush's Common Core problem strikes at heart of his foundation. Jeb Bush is one of the country's most visible advocates of Common Core, forcefully defending the K-12 standards even as it puts him at odds with a conservative base he would need to mount a viable campaign for president. But his problem is deeper than policy. Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education has collected millions of dollars from pro-Common Core organizations — from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the for-profit education giant Pearson — giving critics something to sink into and drawing attention to the venture that has allowed the former Republican governor to expand his profile beyond Florida. Jeb Bush Gives Party Something to Think About. As Mr. Bush, 61, weighs whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, he is dogged by fears of voter exhaustion with a family name indelibly linked to his older brother, a self-assured Texan who prized instinct over expertise and once acknowledged a lack of interest in slogging through long books. Oh, Brother. For the first time in more than 20 years, Jeb is emerging from George W.'s shadow and being seriously talked about as a contender for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Most of the chatter about his prospects focuses on whether, as a fairly moderate Republican who's taken heretical stands on immigration and education, he can win over the party base. And if he does run, a thornier issue for Jeb could well be the tense relationship he now has with his older brother's presidential legacy. Why Democrats Are Aching to Run Against Jeb Bush. [Scroll down] If Republicans are smart, they'll do everything in their power to avoid this debate. First, because they want to portray Hillary as running for Barack Obama's third term, not her husband's, since the Obama legacy is trickier to defend. Second, because the 2016 GOP nominee needs to embody change, which is hard to do when you're depicted as George W. Bush. Third, because Bill Clinton is about 20 points more popular than Bush, and that's highly unlikely to change over the next two years. For 2016, Rice says Jeb Bush would be 'fantastic'. Condoleezza Rice is hopeful that Jeb Bush runs for president in 2016 but said it's unlikely she'd be seen on a ballot with the potential candidate. [...] "Jeb hasn't said whether he will run. He's a friend. I hope he does, frankly," she told Ozy's Carlos Watson in the interview published Thursday [5/15/2014]. Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the "Great Society," if he were elected president. According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy. Bush did not address Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "We had a war on poverty, and poverty won." Condoleezza Rice: I Hope My Friend Jeb Bush Runs For President. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hoped that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush runs for president in 2016. "I think Jeb would be fantastic," Rice said. "Jeb hasn't said whether he'll run. He's a friend. I hope he does, frankly," she said in an interview with OZY. Rice explained that she also liked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for his stance on immigration reform. John Boehner: My Friend Jeb Bush Would Make a 'Great President'. House Speaker John Boehner signaled support for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to run for president during a press conference on Monday [5/12/2014]. "Jeb Bush is my friend," Boehner said. "I think he'd make a great president. And I've been nudging him for some time." Boehner made his remarks during a Q&A session with Texas Tribune at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. Jeb Bush: Opposing Amnesty 'Makes No Sense To Me'. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush courted Wall Street donors on Monday, saying that he could not understand amnesty opponents who made no sense to him. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Bush addressed a Manhattan Institute crowd along with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who has also embraced amnesty legislation, and doubled down on his support for an immigration reform bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers while not securing the border. Why Jeb Bush's turn may not come. It's well known that Republicans tend to pick the candidate whose "turn" it is. Except for 1964 and 2000, the guy who came in second the last time or who in some way was perceived as next in line got the nomination. [...] It should be obvious that, even among Republicans, nostalgia for George W. Bush doesn't run nearly so high as it did for his father. This is a key difference between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush; Democrats are nostalgic for Clinton, Republicans aren't for Bush. Why Jeb Bush might not run for president. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's number has come up on the Republican Party's presidential roulette wheel, making a possible third President Bush the talk of Washington, D.C. and fodder for breathless news reports. A House aide close to Speaker John Boehner told MailOnline on Tuesday that he will 'go to the mat for Jeb.' 'He doesn't want someone in office who's going to keep splitting the party between the center and the right,' the staffer said. John Boehner says he is encouraging Jeb Bush to run for president. House Speaker John Boehner said he is "nudging" former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to run for president and he wants to take up immigration reform legislation in small pieces, starting first with border security. Boehner made the remarks at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce during a question-and-answer session with the editor of Texas Tribune. Hillary Outpolls Jeb in His Own State. To be sure, the presidential primaries and caucuses are still nearly two years away, but if [Jeb] Bush were to begin the campaign trailing the likely Democratic nominee in his own state, the GOP establishment might be shopping for another white knight. 3 Cheers for Jeb Bush. Longtime Bush family loyalists at the John F. Kennedy Library yesterday to honor former President George H.W. Bush say not only is the country ready for another Bush run, but also they believe John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is the Republican Party's "most-qualified" hope for its future in the White House. Bias alert! Sources: Jeb Bush seriously considering 2016 bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, egged on by his parents and brother, former President George W. Bush, is seriously considering a 2016 bid, according to sources close to the Republican. They claim that Bush wants to run but will test the waters to gauge the reaction to his ideas, such as immigration reform and support for the controversial Common Core education standards, and his last name. He is also wants to see reception of his wife and family, who they said are not keen on him running. Jeb Bush raps federal lawmakers for inaction on immigration. After the Florida House on Friday gave final approval to a bill granting in-state tuition to the children of some immigrants in the country illegally, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush used the occasion to criticize Washington lawmakers — including members of his own party — for inaction on immigration reform. [...] Bush's comments were in keeping with his outspokenness on immigration as he mulls a 2016 presidential run — testing his ability to win over the conservative elements of his party who dominate the early state primary and caucus contests. Tim Pawlenty cites John McCain, Mitt Romney in predicting Jeb Bush can win GOP nomination. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Wednesday he believes former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush can win the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, dismissing the notion that conservatives wouldn't elect an "establishment" candidate by pointing to the party's standard bearer the past two presidential cycles. This is a huge red flag: Poll: Hillary Clinton would beat Jeb Bush in Florida. Hillary Clinton is running 8 percentage points ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his home state, the Quinnipiac Poll said Thursday [5/1/2014]. For a guy who isn't running (yet),
Jeb sure gets a lot of inexplicably favorable press coverage. Here is some of the free publicity provided by
the New York Times (another red flag). Bush Alumni Test Whether Family Name Is Liability in 2016. As a key player in George W. Bush's administration, Ed Gillespie was a vocal supporter of Bush's unsuccessful plan to revamp U.S. immigration law. [...] Gillespie, 52, is one of more than two dozen former Bush administration officials seeking state or federal offices this year in contests from New York to Nebraska. How they embrace the Bush brand — running on it, or running away from it — could be an early market test for Jeb Bush, now considering his own presidential campaign. Are you ready for Bush/Paul 2016? Here's the X factor: Will establishment hawks and the GOP's donor class tolerate having [Rand] Paul on the ticket? If he wins an early primary or two, they're going to kitchen-sink him with harsh attacks — he hates Israel, he fraternizes with racists, he'd destroy respect for American power in the world even more thoroughly than Obama has, and certainly he wouldn't stand a chance against Hillary in the general. Palin To Jeb Bush: They're 'Called Illegal Immigrants For A Reason'. On Sunday [4/27/2014], former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin reminded former Florida Governor Jeb Bush that no matter how much of an "act of love" he thinks illegal immigration is, it is still illegal. "I think that anybody who breaks a law in America as their first action putting their first foot on our homeland illegally, it may be an act of love from the heart, but it's illegal," Palin told NBC News after attending a rally for Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst. Poll: Just 18% of conservatives want Jeb Bush to run in 2016. With the GOP considering a slew of conservative potential candidates, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, a new Economist/YouGov poll found that among the right, Bush is considered too moderate. A word bubble produced by the poll showed the hurdles he faces entering the presidential race. The acronym RINO, or "Republican in name only," is prominent, as is "legacy" and "Bush," and the polling firm said that the public isn't keen on having a third Bush presidency. Perry defends Jeb Bush on immigration. Texas Republican Gov.Rick Perry defended Jeb Bush's remark that illegal immigration is an "act of love," claiming he "understands about people breaking a law to take care of their family" — particularly when for decades U.S. policy was "come on over, don't worry about it." Perry spoke with Fox News' Stuart Varney about the former Florida Republican governor's illegal immigration apology, which inspired a ferocious backlash from the right. Son: George H.W. Bush wants Jeb to run. Barbara Bush may believe her son Jeb should pass on a 2016 bid because there have been enough Bushes in the White House already. But her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, disagrees and thinks Jeb should go for it. So revealed Jeb's younger brother, Neil Bush, in an interview with CNN on Thursday [4/24/2014] that shed additional light on the conflicting sentiments within the former first clan about another potential Bush presidential run. Neil Bush spoke about his father's desire to see another son seek the White House and said Barbara Bush's cautionary words won't affect Jeb Bush's decision. Blitzer: If Republicans 'Want to Win,' They Need Jeb Bush. In late 2011, nearing the eve of the formal start of the 2012 presidential election cycle, America's liberal commentators had already watched a series of Republican presidential debates and formed their opinions of the prospective GOP candidates. Most determined that former Massachusetts governor and eventual nominee, Mitt Romney, was an unsavory conservative, but he was a preferable alternative to his Republican competition. In fact, the left-leaning political press was so much more concerned about Romney's arch-conservative competitors that they were willing to overlook the former governor's offenses to liberal orthodoxy. According to the left-of-center press, virtually all of the Republican Party's presidential aspirants in 2012 were literally crazy. Jeb Bush Pushes Amnesty, More High-Tech Visas at Education Conference. At a prominent conference of education innovators, Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is considering a 2016 presidential run, called for more guest worker programs and a path to amnesty for all of the country's illegal immigrants. Jeb Bush: 'I'm thinking about running for president'. Jeb Bush said Wednesday [4/23/2014] he's "thinking about running for president," in his most direct statement yet about a possible 2016 run. The former Florida governor spoke at a Catholic school benefit in New York Wednesday morning. He previously has said he'll make a decision on whether to run for president before the end of this year, making clear that he was considering the possibility. Jeb Bush and the GOP Donor Problem. Jeb Bush — the Establishment personified — is being pushed by all manner of GOP donors, insiders, and the party's consulting class. Yet mere mention of Bush's name at a New Hampshire gathering grassroots conservative activists elicited a chorus of boos. Notably, Bush himself was nowhere in evidence at this event attended by several prospective 2016 GOP nominees. An event composed of the activist base of the Republican Party. If the Republican Party Establishment isn't careful, it will blow yet another presidential election. Jeb Bush's Rush to Make Money May Be Hurdle. As it sought to recruit well-heeled investors, an untested and unprofitable Miami company named InnoVida brought aboard a trusted Florida figure in 2007: Jeb Bush, the former governor and the brother of a sitting president. For potential stockholders, the imprimatur of Mr. Bush, who joined InnoVida as a paid consultant and a member of the board of directors, conferred credibility on the young start-up. Fox News Poll: Christie, Bush and Paul are top GOP picks — today — for 2016. With about 20 months to go before the Iowa precinct caucuses, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul lead the pack for the Republican presidential nomination. Meanwhile, former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton continues to hold a huge lead among Democrats, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday 4/16/2014]. Voting against Bushes is an act of love. Jeb Bush seems like a nice, even smart, enough guy. But if he runs for president, he looks like he will campaign on his father's domestic policy and his brother's foreign policy. Jeb also favors the immigration policy of both previous Bushes. His father signed a bill increasing legal immigration by 40 percent. His brother tried very hard to pass an amnesty. How else can one explain the former Florida governor's predilection for riling conservatives even before the primaries? Standard GOP operating procedure since Nixon has been to run to the right in the primaries and then tack back to the center in the general. Will Jeb Run? Only if the Bush Clan Says Yes. Want to know whether Jeb Bush will run for president? Don't listen to the learned pundits pouring over Electoral College maps and crunching poll numbers, weighing the former Florida governor's chances against the rest of the putative 2016 Republican field. Put aside for a moment, the very real questions about his immigration stance and whether he's too much of an Establishment guy in a Tea Party world. Electability matters, of course, but if you want to get Jeb, it's the last name that counts, and the family history you should consult for clues as to whether he will seek to join his father and brother in the Oval Office in what would be the boldest act of dynastic ambition in American history. Can This Marriage Be Saved? Jeb Bush's recent musings on a possible presidential run — and his comments on immigration, rankling many in the Republican grassroots — sparked a familiar clash. Jeb, the establishment's preferred candidate, some said, could neutralize the fiery GOP base in 2016. Conservatives shot back that Jeb would depress conservative turnout, and his last name would play poorly with the general electorate. It's a constant tension: The base is unhappy with the establishment, and vice versa. Rubio, not Bush, is the right name for the GOP in 2016. Let's get one thing clear: If someone could wave a wand and make Jeb Bush president it would be a very good thing for the world and this country. As his mother said, he is the best-prepared person. But as his mother also said, he shouldn't be running. And the reasons are becoming more clear by the day. [...] Problem four, which is really the big one, is that the party needs someone to unite and excite all the wings of the party, and Bush clearly isn't the one. Jeb Bush's wife, family issues key to 2016. Republican donors and operatives are chattering about Bush's publicity-shy wife, so worried she isn't on board with a 2016 White House run that they're urging people in the family's orbit to make the case. Columba Bush has long been deeply averse to the spotlight, especially after an embarrassing encounter with U.S. Customs while her husband was still in office. Donors also wonder whether Bush is willing to subject his family and their personal lives to the inevitable scrutiny that comes with a national campaign. Two of his children have been in the news in past years for arrests linked to drug problems and public intoxication. Rand Paul for President. Republicans, let's get it over with. Fast forward to the finish line. Avoid the long and winding primary road. It can only weaken the nominee. And we know who he — yes, he — has to be. Not Jeb Bush, who plainly is unsuited to be president. He is insufficiently hostile to Mexicans. He holds heretical views on the Common Core, which, as we well know, is the defining issue of our time. And he's a Bush. Another installment of a political dynasty just isn't going to fly with the American people, who want some fresh blood in their politics. Jeb Bush immigration remark could be 2016 problem. With a single phrase of compassion for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Jeb Bush has prompted questions about his viability as a potential presidential contender and underscored how divisive the immigration issue remains for the Republican Party. The former Florida governor sparked a conservative furor this week when he described illegal immigration in an interview as an "act of love" by people trying to provide for their families. Bush draws boos from conservatives. A mention of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), a potential 2016 presidential contender, brought boos from a conservative crowd in New Hampshire on Saturday [4/12/2014]. Speaking at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit, a gathering of conservative activists and figures organized by Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United, billionaire Donald Trump said Bush's recent comments on immigrants coming to the U.S. as an "act of love" were "out there." "You know, I heard Jeb Bush the other day," he said, with quiet boos and angry murmurs erupting from the crowd at the mention of Bush's name. Jeb Bush Ties to [Wall] Street Could Be Hurdle in Presidential Run. When Jeb Bush comes to New York City Thursday, his main purpose won't be to raise money for his possible 2016 presidential bid, but to begin two days of meetings with his employer, the big Wall Street firm Barclays Capital, FOX Business has learned. Bush's trip, confirmed by people close to the former Florida governor, is raising eyebrows among some Republican fund raisers that he remains too cozy with to the financial industry at a time when many voters view Wall Street as toxic. How to tell if a presidential candidate is an establishment Republican. [Jeb] Bush, who is being pushed by the establishment republicans to run for the 2016 election and recently gave Hillary Clinton a "Liberty Medal," is also a fan of Common Core. His nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education has been running pro-Common Core advertisements, as reported at Saint Peter's Blog. As reported at NPR last month, "... the Florida Board of Education recently approved minor changes to Common Core and renamed them The Florida Standards." Oh, yes. Jeb Bush is also clearly not a fan of the Tea Party. 35 'Acts of Love'. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush insisted that many of the instances of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. were "acts of love." Though many of the human beings who enter the U.S. illegally or overstay their legally permitted time in the U.S. are doing so to earn more resources and provide for families, many of the illegal immigrants who come into the U.S. are doing so for highly criminal reasons — a fact often left out of the discussion or otherwise barely mentioned. Breitbart Texas has provided 35 of these other "acts of love" for our readers. Jeb Bush defends 'act of love'. Bush's initial "act of love" comments ignited a firestorm of criticism from conservatives. Bush hasn't campaigned for elected office in 12 years, but is weighing a bid in 2016. Bush has long advocated for immigration reform. But the issue has taken center stage in politics recently in a way it hadn't in almost a decade, as President Obama and Senate Democrats have pushed for a comprehensive reform package the past year. The GOP's legacy underdog. Jeb Bush fans — call them Jebbies — argue that his resume is exactly what the GOP needs. Even though Barack Obama won their state twice, Floridians love their former governor. His wife is Latina. He speaks Spanish at home. He's not a knee-jerk Republican. He gets things done. He supports Common Core State Standards. He could draw new eyeballs to the Grand Old Party. I see the appeal. [...] But it would be a mistake to vote for this Bush, because like Mitt Romney, he cannot win a general election. Media Hacks Who Have Never Voted Republican Continue To Tout Jeb Bush For 2016. The "moderates are the GOP's only hope" argument is made by both the Democrats in the media and the old guard in the Republican party, which is yet another reason not to trust them. I have no hope that the old guard will finally learn not to listen to what the media is telling them what's best but I do think there might be enough voters who are grasping that it's a bad idea. The Incoherent Idiocy of Jeb Bush, Illustrated. The hilarious thing about the videotaped interview with Bush is that, like, 50 people were in the audience. Mark Levin Calls Jeb Bush 'Act of Love' Remarks 'Utterly Irresponsible,' 'Typical Liberal Tripe'. "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know how many laws there are out there — federal, state, local laws that are not felonies but are misdemeanors and have a real impact on American citizens? This is an utterly irresponsible statement. Every violation of law is not a felony. And by the way, it's not a felony because Congress said it's not a felony. But it is a misdemeanor. But here we have really typical liberal tripe justifying that which is illegal, justifying that which is destructive." Jeb Bush Talks Approach If He Runs for President. With eyes increasingly on him, Jeb Bush signaled on Sunday [4/6/2014] the kind of campaign he would mount if he runs for president, one arguing against ideological purity tests while challenging party orthodoxy on issues like immigration and education. If Jeb Bush fears 'mudfight,' he's not ready for 2016. Does Jeb Bush sound like a man who wants to run for president? In an extended interview with Fox News' Shannon Bream, the former Florida governor gave the impression of someone who would like to be president but has been out of the game for a while and isn't particularly eager to jump in the trenches and fight for it. The only problem is, whoever wins the 2016 Republican nomination — and there will be a field full of candidates in top form — will have to jump in the trenches and fight for it. Bush Aides Push Jeb To Run For President. More than a hundred Republican Party elders gathered this weekend in Texas to celebrate George H.W. Bush's legacy. But many of the event's participants had another, much simpler agenda: launching a Jeb Bush presidential campaign. The two-day festivities featured a widely covered speech by Jeb. And on the sidelines, former Bush retainers were frank about their hopes that the eldest son could save a party the family has led on and off since 1988. Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an 'act of love'. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Sunday that many who illegally come to the United States do so out of an "act of love" for their families and should be treated differently than people who illegally cross U.S. borders or overstay visas. The comments came during an event marking the 25th anniversary of the presidency of George H. W. Bush at the library and museum that bears the name of the Bush patriarch. The event was closed to reporters, but moderated by Fox News anchor Shannone [sic] Bream and portions of the event were later broadcast on the Fox News Channel. The Editor says... Republican elites felled by horrible new sickness: Jeb Bush fever! Can the Republican Party base catch Jeb Bush fever? They may have no choice. According to the Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, GOP donors panicked over Gov. Chris Christie's implosion are going all out to draft the long-ago Florida governor to run for president in 2016. Jeb Bush is certainly tanned and rested, if not ready: He left the governor's office in 2006, and has done little since then besides work for disgraced and defunct Lehman Brothers and write a book that reversed his once progressive stance on immigration reform. Rucker and Costa quote a former Mitt Romney bundler saying the "vast majority" of Romney's top 100 donors would like to see a Bush run. War party oligarch. This time Sheldon [Adelson] wants to buy himself a winner. Ari Fleischer, press secretary to Bush 43, and a member of Adelson's RJC fiefdom, put it plain and simple: "The 'Sheldon Primary' is an important primary. ...anybody running for the Republican nomination would want to have Sheldon at his side." One such man is Jeb Bush, son and brother to presidents, who was the prize bull at Sheldon's cattle show. Bush family's return to the spotlight may benefit Jeb. It's a big weekend for the Bush family, which is enjoying a renaissance of sorts after several years in the political wilderness. Throngs of former administration officials, members of Congress and others descended Friday on College Station, Tex., to fete former president George H.W. Bush on the 25th anniversary of his arrival in office. One of the highlights of the weekend will be a live interview with his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has quietly been exploring a 2016 presidential campaign. 5 Reasons Why Republicans Should Say No to Jeb 2016. [Reason #2] Jeb would split the party. Conservative activists/Tea Party Republicans who are the majority of GOP primary voters are not lining up for Jeb 2016 due to his support for "Common Core" academic standards and his support for "amnesty" immigration legislation. Jeb, although he considers himself a "practicing conservative" is also viewed as a "moderate" establishment Republican in the mold of Mitt Romney. The good news is that means he does not scare independent voters and is capable of raising millions from the "country-club" Republicans. The bad news is Jeb reinforces and epitomizes the "Establishment verses Tea Party" divide currently raging within the party. Jeb, Hillary and the curse of tarnished political brands. Some Republican fat cats are trying to coax former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — brother and son to two former presidents — into making a bid for the White House. [...] For obvious reasons, these developments have generated a lot of discussion (including on this page) about political dynasties in America. That's understandable. After all, in a democratic republic, the prospect of dynasties should make everyone at least a little uncomfortable. Populists of the left and the right like to focus on the more sinister problems of dynasties — the suspicion that the elites have rigged the system in favor of a few powerful families. The Jeb Bush boomlet. Inevitably, considering the absence of a clear Republican frontrunner for the 2016 presidential election, the name of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of the family dynasty has been rushed to the fore. On his record in office and his soft-spoken personal appeal, he would seem a natural to go to the head of a list of only moderately impressive wannabes. But the immediate question is: Do American voters, after a double dose of Bushes, want another one? The fact is that memories of the two George Bush presidencies now set few GOP hearts aflutter. If U.S. is going to have dynasties, at least have good ones. [Scroll down] Jeb seemed pretty jubilant last fall, at a Philadelphia event, where he and Hillary Clinton, the odds-on favorite for the Democratic nod in 2016, "basked in a mood of bipartisan bonhomie." Bush was there to give his potential 2016 rival the National Constitution Center's "Liberty Medal." "Hillary and I come from different political parties, and we disagree about a few things," he joked, "but we do agree on the wisdom of the American people — especially those in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina." Opposing viewpoint: Jeb Bush has good creds, bad name. Jeb Bush would appear to be a perfect general election candidate for the Republican Party: A record of success and competence as governor of Florida. Moderate conservative principles. A history of bipartisanship. Thoughtful leadership on vital policy issues like education. Fluency in Spanish, a Mexican-born wife, and a sincere searcher for a way out of the country's immigration mess give him appeal to the growing Hispanic vote. Just one problem: His last name is Bush. Even his mother has opined that a nation of more than 300 million can do better than turn to dynastic control of the White House. The Editor says... Jeb Bush team awaits 2016 decision. A powerful network of Jeb Bush loyalists, from previous high-ranking campaign staffers to top donors, increasingly have been communicating and coalescing as they await a decision from the former Florida Republican governor on whether he will run for president in 2016. "We are keeping our powder dry," said Justin Sayfie, Bush's former communications director and chief speechwriter. The inevitable "draft Jeb" campaign shifts into high gear. The chore of determining who is the inevitable candidate for Republicans — at least in the minds of beltway insiders and the media — is clearly becoming more difficult. But the Washington Post takes a swing at the problem this weekend as they delve into the number of big donors who are now courting Jeb Bush to get off the bench and toss his hat in the ring. 'Vast Majority' of Romney Donors Want Jeb Bush Run in 2016. A "vast majority" of Mitt Romney donors, establishment pooh-bahs, and an anti-conservative consultant who is the epitome of permanent political class want former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to run for president in 2016. Bush was in Las Vegas this week meeting with Sheldon Adelson, and, according to the Post, "many if not most of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney's major donors are reaching out to Bush and his confidants with phone calls, e-mails and invitations to meet." One bundler even said that a "vast majority" of "Romney's top 100 donors would back Bush." The Editor says... The Political Party Elites Have Spoken: It's Bush vs. Clinton in 2016. I have no objections to Jeb Bush running for president. He obviously has a wide appeal as a potential candidate. With a Mexican wife, and as a man who speaks fluent Spanish, he would be able to increase the Hispanic vote in the GOP column. On the other hand, many in the Republican base find his position on immigration untenable, and would fight him tooth and nail during primary season. He is also a serious advocate of education reform. His support of Common Core, however, will also find many who are in the conservative ranks objecting, since they fear that Common Core represents educational centralism and having the government ram federal standards down their throats. Did someone mention Common Core? Influential Republicans working to draft Jeb Bush into 2016 presidential race. Many of the Republican Party's most powerful insiders and financiers have begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the 2016 presidential race, courting him and his intimates and starting talks on fundraising strategy. Concerned that the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal has damaged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political standing and alarmed by the steady rise of Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), prominent donors, conservative leaders and longtime operatives say they consider Bush the GOP's brightest hope to win back the White House. The Editor says... Top GOP pollster: Hillary Clinton's rise 'opens the door' for Jeb Bush. It may not be conventional thinking, but Hillary Clinton is good for Jeb Bush, according to an influential GOP political pollster. Ed Goeas, the go-to pollster for top Republican candidates around the nation, said that Clinton's dominance among likely 2016 Democratic contenders will inspire Bush and make him change his mind that the nation has enough of political dynasties and Bushes in particular. "I actually think the fact that Hillary is doing well actually increases the chances for Bush to make a positive decision about running, because all of a sudden it's no longer 'Too many Bushes,'" he told [the Washington Examiner]. Jeb Bush is thinking about running for president. Here's who he talks to about it. He's the headliner at an event hosted by mega donor Sheldon Adelson in Las Vegas on Thursday. He was actively involved in Rep. David Jolly's special election victory in Florida earlier this month. And he is breaking with his party's orthodoxy on Common Core. So, as Jeb mulls a bid whose advice does he seek? Who does he trust to give him an unvarnished view of what the race might look like? Jeb Bush Praises Illegals as 'Risk Takers,' Has Common Core Ally in Hillary. Well, isn't that a good thing, this alliance between "center-rightest" Jeb Bush and radical leftist Hillary Clinton? I mean, it's what the American people want, right? Compromise? Comity? Common ground among the parties? I know this because the GOP establishment and mental giants like Colin Powell and Nancy Pelosi keep telling me so! And no, it doesn't really matter what the compromise is. Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton together again to talk education. Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton — two central figures in modern politics with 2016 prospects — joined forces Monday to talk global education. In her keynote address, Clinton praised Bush's dedication to education reform since serving two terms as governor of Florida, where he overhauled the state's education system, introducing a school voucher program and banning using race as a factor in university admissions. Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton to discuss education. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush, potential foes in the 2016 presidential contest, said Monday [3/24/2014] that higher education has the power to transform lives and be a force for democracy around the globe. Clinton and Bush spoke separately at the Globalization of Higher Education conference, but chatted briefly offstage. The event, co-organized by Bush, offered a bipartisan twist for the nation's two dominant political families, both of whom could return to the presidential campaign trail next year. Sheldon Adelson plans VIP dinner for Jeb Bush at GOP gathering in Vegas. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will get top billing when he and other potential 2016 presidential candidates join billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson for an exclusive Republican gathering next week in Las Vegas. Bush, who is quietly exploring a run for the White House, will be the featured speaker at an exclusive VIP dinner on Thursday hosted by Adelson and his wife, Miriam, at his company's private airplane hangar at Las Vegas Macarran International Airport, according to a draft itinerary obtained by The Washington Post. Jeb Bush seeks common ground in higher education. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday the partisan divide isn't as wide when it comes to improving the nation's higher education system as it is in many other areas. Jeb Bush Praises Illegal Immigrants as 'Risk Takers,' Defends Common Core. In a speech Friday [3/21/2014], Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised illegal immigrants as "risk takers" who embody the entrepreneurial spirit of America and doubled down on his defense of Common Core. According to the Miami Herald, Bush made his remarks in front of business leaders in Florida. [...] Speculation has intensified about whether Jeb Bush will become the third person in his family to seek the White House. GOP Gets Dumber And Dumberer On Immigration. Ann Coulter wondered on Thursday how dumb Republicans were on immigration. That day, two prominent GOP reform advocates — Sens. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush — rushed in to provide the answer. Jeb Bush to Award Hillary 'Liberty Medal' on Eve of Benghazi Anniversary. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) will honor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with this year's Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center. The award will be presented to Clinton on September 10th, the eve of the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States mission in Benghazi that killed four Americans. Jeb Bush to award Hillary Clinton with 2013 Liberty Medal. Jeb Bush will present Hillary Clinton with the 2013 Liberty Medal this September in Philadelphia. Mr. Bush is chairman of the National Constitution Center, which is honoring the former first lady for her career in public service and her advocacy efforts on behalf of women, The Hill reported. Glenn Beck Tears Apart Jeb Bush: 'Maybe It's Time to Stop Listening to the Bushes'. Beck listed a whole array of things brought to life by the Bushes, from the PATRIOT Act to John Roberts to "never-ending wars" to No Child Left Behind, and asked why on earth any conservative would ever have voted for them in the first place. Senator Lamar Alexander Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment. Invited Media Only at Tennessee Common Core Event Featuring Jeb Bush and Sen. Lamar Alexander. Avid Common Core supporter and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) met in Nashville Wednesday with U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN), for a roundtable discussion that was sponsored by the pro-Common Core Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Tennessee Business Roundtable. The event, which was held at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, was closed to the general public and available only to invited guests and media. Jeb Bush: Follow through on Common Core standards. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday urged state officials to follow through on Common Core education standards despite what he called an "avalanche" of criticism from those who oppose them. Bush said at an education forum with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., that the standards are key to improving educational achievement around the country. Mike Huckabee Fans Revolt After He Endorses Lamar Alexander. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee angered his Facebook fans after endorsing Sen. Lamar Alexander against conservative state Representative Joe Carr last month. Carr has been endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham for the August 7th primary. And Carr has been relentlessly hammering Alexander for voting for the Senate's amnesty bill even after law enforcement officials warned Alexander that it would lure more illegal immigrants from Central America. Republicans look at eliminating filibuster for SCOTUS nominees. A group of Republican Senators led by Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are floating the idea of further extending the nuclear option enacted by the Democrats to take filibusters off the table when considering nominees to the Supreme Court. Clearly wiser heads than myself have been able to determine why this is such a great idea, because I'm not seeing it at the moment. Senate cloture vote tells us one thing: the GOP as a national party is dead. If John McCain and Lindsay Graham and Lamar Alexander are in your party — and carry much weight in that party — you are in the wrong party. [...] I proposed this half-seriously back in 2008-9, but it's now time to reintroduce it in earnest: the time has come for a third party. Now, that third party may lose, at least initially, but at least those who join it can point, laugh, and say I told you so. If we're going to lose anyway — and at this point, a vote for either national party is a losing proposition — we may as well do so with our integrity intact. Mike Huckabee Mike Huckabee's appalling crusade. Huckabee, who won Iowa's 2008 caucuses, aims to become the second person to win two contested Iowa caucuses. Bob Dole, who won in 1988 and 1996, spent the intervening eight years at the center of politics. Huckabee has spent much of the past eight years at Fox News, which is dandy but hardly the Senate. In 1998, Huckabee vowed to "take back this nation for Christ." And to repel Satanic threats to Iowa's subsidized ethanol industry, which he says is vital because "we need the broadest possible energy portfolio." Never mind today's bountiful energy. Huckabee's Hucksterism vs. Clintons' Cash. Behind former Gov. Mike Huckabee's warm smile, inclusive rhetoric, and gee-whiz populism lies an ethics record that would make a Clinton blush. [...] While Huckabee can claim legitimate accomplishments in Arkansas (he raised taxes for schools, highways, and children's health; he welcomed into the state refugees from Hurricane Katrina and the children of immigrants), there is a side of this complicated man that political reporters often miss or ignore. Kinda like the Clintons. More reasons not to like Huckabee. When asked what I think of the Republican presidential field, I have said — until now — that I like everyone in it, in various ways. That changed yesterday when Mike Huckabee threw his hat into the ring. A reader expresses my view of Huck: ["]The Huckster is a left populist. It's just pro-life statism.["] Particularly appalling, as this reader points out, were Huckabee's promises on Social Security and Medicare. Why The Republican Party Doesn't Need Mike Huckabee Right Now — Or Ever. Sometimes, probably because he's such an affable media presence, I forget why I dislike the political version of Mike Huckabee so much. Maybe it's the awe-shucks populism that isn't substantively very different from the class-conflict rhetoric we hear from so many on the Left these days. Or maybe it's that everyman Huckabee has been running for one political office or another for the past 25 years — a fact that might escape the attention of anyone listening to the nuggets of blue-collar wisdom found in his speeches and those God, guns, grits, and gravy books he writes. Mike Huckabee's Love Affair With Big Government. Mike Huckabee had a pretty good record as governor. It's too bad he can't run on it. Better known in recent years for saying occasionally outrageous things as a commentator, Huckabee governed Arkansas for more than a decade as a pragmatist, devoting his attention to basics such as roads, schools and health care. On those issues, though, Huckabee generally took positions too liberal to suit a Republican presidential prospect in 2016 — posing a conundrum for him as he plunges this week into the 2016 presidential race The Dreariness of Huckabee 2016. Instead of being the amusing gadfly that helps the frontrunner to win, he will presumably be trying to establish himself as a major contender. That always makes a candidate less inclined to "let it rip." In 2008, he was the insurgent upstart who overcame a vastly better-funded Romney in Iowa. Now he is the one that the other lesser-known candidates will be seeking to defeat there. That is probably going to make for a more defensive and scripted campaign that could make the second Huckabee run a much drearier affair than anyone imagines possible. Mike Huckabee and The Dynamics of 2016. There was a time when I thought that Mike Huckabee had a chance to win over enough "somewhat conservative" voters that, when added to his pre-existing base among conservative white evangelicals, would give him a good chance to win the 2016 Republican nomination. I don't think that chance exists anymore (if it ever did). He hasn't done any of the maneuvering he would need to do in order to expand his base of support. Thirteen months is not a long time and he has shown no inclination to make the moves he would need to make in order to expand his base. If he does run, I don't see how his ceiling is higher than a strong second. Mike Huckabee Is a Poison Pill for Conservatives. [Scroll down] Keeping Huckabee from consolidating the evangelical vote will be important for some of the other candidates. If Jeb Bush follows his brother's lead, he will marry the evangelical vote to the establishment, making it difficult for any movement conservative challenge to get off the ground. True, Dubya was an evangelical himself, albeit one who still belonged to a mainline Protestant church, while Jeb is Catholic. But that's not necessarily an obstacle. Buchanan and Santorum have proven that evangelicals will support socially conservative Catholics. Mike Huckabee: Isn't it time we retire the term "RINO"? Apparently someone applied this term to Huck himself and it brought him up short. You'd think he'd be used to it after the millionth time. I'm fine with swapping it out for another term, but how do I describe myself then? Mike Huckabee wants to ban the term 'RINO'. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wants to ban the term "RINO" — "Republican in Name Only" — in the Republican Party. The former governor complained in a letter to supporters that during a recent social media outreach, he was disturbed that too many Republicans were attacking each other and calling them names. "Many of you used a term that I'd like to see outlawed from the vernacular of the party: RINO," he said, calling it a "pejorative term" that questioned one's purity. South Carolina Tea Party Slams Huckabee for Supporting Lindsey Graham. Joe Dugan, executive producer of the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention that will be held in Myrtle Beach from January 18th to the 20th, criticized former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for supporting incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in an ad that ran on television networks in South Carolina during the Capital One Bowl Game Wednesday [1/1/2014]. Mike Huckabee Fans Revolt After He Endorses Lamar Alexander. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee angered his Facebook fans after endorsing Sen. Lamar Alexander against conservative state Representative Joe Carr last month. Carr has been endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham for the August 7th primary. And Carr has been relentlessly hammering Alexander for voting for the Senate's amnesty bill even after law enforcement officials warned Alexander that it would lure more illegal immigrants from Central America. Huckabee Threatens To Leave GOP Over Gay Marriage, Abortion. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he will leave the GOP if Republicans abandon their ardent opposition to gay marriage and abortion. Appearing on the American Family Association's radio show this week, Huckabee was discussing gay marriage and said: "If the Republicans want to lose guys like me — and a whole bunch of still God-fearing Bible-believing people — go ahead and just abdicate on this issue, and why you're at it, go ahead and say abortion doesn't matter, either." "Because at that point, you lose me," Huckabee said. "I'm gone. I'll become an independent. I'll start finding people that have guts to stand. I'm tired of this." Representative Renee Ellmers Pro-Life Groups Defeat "Pro-Life Traitor" Renee Ellmers, Who Almost Sabotaged Abortion Ban. For a short time last year, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was public enemy number one of the pro-life movement. Congressional leaders had planned for weeks to bring up a bill to ban abortions after 20-weeks on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But Ellmers sabotaged the bill by insisting that broad rape and incest exceptions needed to be added to the bill that many pro-life groups were worried would undermine the bill entirely and render the ban moot. Due to her attacks, Republican leaders were force to pull the bill and rework it — and it eventually passed. GOP Rep Slams 'Childish' Pro-Life Groups. A Republican lawmaker whose concerns about language in the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act resulted in GOP leadership canceling a vote on the bill accused the pro-life groups of acting childishly in response to the disappointment. Representative Renee Ellmers (R., N.C.) faulted Republican leadership for canceling the vote rather than changing the provision that requires victims of rape and incest to report the crime to the police in order to get a late-term abortion. "I am appalled by the abhorrent and childish behaviors from some of the leaders of the outside groups," Ellmers wrote in a blog post on her website. Republicans Surrender To Infanticide. Evidently, Republicans don't feel competent enough to make a case against infanticide. Why else would the GOP pull its 20-week abortion limit bill? GOP Abortion Bill Punt: Sell Out or Smart Politics? There they go again, those accident-prone Republicans, down the rabbit hole on abortion and rape — just as voters said in November that they cared most about the economy. That's how some viewed what happened in the House this week, when Republican leaders swapped out a bill that would make abortion after 20 weeks illegal after some members objected to a provision that would allow exemptions in rape and incest cases only if the victims had reported the crime to police. The controversy could also be read as the rise of the GOP's more moderate wing after years of conservative domination. ERLC's Russell Moore 'Disgusted' by GOP's Decision to Drop Pro-Life Bill. Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, responded to House Republicans' decision to drop the "Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," a major pro-life bill that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. "I am disgusted by this act of moral cowardice. If the House Republicans cannot pass something as basic as restricting the abortion of five-month, pain-capable unborn children, what can they get done? Republican Woman Derails Abortion Ban. Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina led the charge against a 20-week abortion ban that was defeated in the House on Wednesday, saying its mandate that rape must be reported to police prior to obtaining an abortion is too extreme. "The thing is — I am pro-life. I believe in the sanctity of life. I believe that life begins at the point of conception," said Ellmers, who is also a former nurse. Ellmers stressed but said she was worried about "that particular bill, and the path it was taking. It became more about rape and the victims of rape." Not even babies' screams stop politicians from allowing late pregnancy abortions. They ought to rename the Republican Party that gained majority control of both the House and Senate in November's midterm elections only to turn around and renege on campaign promises immediately after being sworn in, the Pontius Pilate Party, PPP for short. No other name better suits a party that staged an 11th-hour revolt against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the 20-week abortion ban that had already got a green light in the last Congress with overwhelming GOP support. Why everyone should be terrified of the GOP's abortion bill debacle. Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court legalizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy. The pro-life movement commemorates this day with marches, worship services and lobbying for bills to protect unborn children. Pro-lifers were promised by the Republican leaders they just helped elect and re-elect that the House of Representatives would pass a bill today banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a point after which infants can feel pain and survive if born prematurely. Republicans Abort Their Moral Authority. On Tuesday [1/20/2015], Republican Senator Joni Ernst, a Tea Party favorite, used her State of the Union response to completely ignore President Obama's executive amnesty. On Wednesday [1/21/2015], Republican Renee Ellmers, a Tea Party favorite, undercut legislation that would have effectively banned late-term abortion after 20 weeks — five months. She pulled her name from the legislation, saying it was not the right time politically. Renee Ellmers Says She Won't Flip-Flop on Bill Protecting Viable Infants from Late-Term Abortion. Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, a Republican of North Carolina, has been raising concerns about a late-term abortion ban that the House is scheduled to vote on this week, but she said Wednesday afternoon [1/21/2015] that she will vote for the bill even if it comes to the floor without changes she wants in it. House GOP abruptly drops plans to debate abortion bill after backlash. In an embarrassing setback, House Republicans abruptly decided Wednesday to drop planned debate of a bill criminalizing virtually all late-term abortions after objections from GOP women and other lawmakers left them short of votes. Republicans Unanchored. This past week, the national media and the Republican base both scratched their collective heads perplexed by the un-anchoring of the Republican Party. The climax came last Wednesday night, 12 hours before pro-life supporters gathered en masse in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life. Republicans had promised to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. They passed the legislation in 2013, but Senate Democrats then blocked it. The legislation would prevent most abortions after five months of pregnancy because most scientists agree children can, by that point in their development, feel pain. It seems cruel to kill a child, in sometimes gruesome ways, when the child can feel it. Protesters gather at Rep. Ellmers' DC office as she explains concern. Protesters gathered outside the office of U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers on Thursday [1/22/2015] to urge the Congresswoman to act on anti-abortion legislation that was pulled from an expected vote. Ellmers played a key role in delaying the bill, which would ban abortions at 20 weeks and later, and has been swept up in a storm of concern about her effort. Ellmers and a spokeswoman said the Republican lawmaker from Dunn was mainly concerned about a requirement in the bill that a woman would have to report rape or incest to police before it could be a legal exception to the ban. Ellmers said she wants the bill tweaked so that requirement is removed, according to the Washington Examiner. Ellmers told the National Journal earlier that the politics weren't right, either, for the House to take up an abortion bill early on in the term, suggesting a more careful vetting of legislation that might be viewed as harsh on women or young people. Exclusive: Pro-Life Leaders Call for Ellmers' Ouster from Congress. On a usually happy and even triumphant day, pro-life leaders found themselves angry at a vote in the U.S. House that never happened. Much of the talk today at the annual March for Life, that likely brought close to 500,000 mostly young people to Washington DC, was about how House leaders canned a bill that would have banned abortion after the 20th week of gestation, the point at which an unborn child is said to feel pain. Governor John Kasich The GOP declares war on the mainstream media. Back in 2017, Ohio GOP governor John Kasich appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher's show is often a platform for the most vicious voices on the left. They often slyly hide behind "it's just humor" when they go too far. Maher began with a backhanded compliment for Kasich, calling him "one of the good ones" (among Republicans). This caused Kasich to beam with bliss all through the conversation, despite Maher's derisive questions and tone. All through the interview, Kasich proceeded to water down and even renounce the principles of conservatism in an attempt to appease the left. Kasich was not the only one; in the past, GOP presidential candidates such as McCain and Romney were compelled to squirm uncomfortably and laugh awkwardly in the face of the ridicule they received. Kasich: 'January 6 Is One of the Darkest Moments in Our History'. Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Thursday [2/10/2022] on CNN's "The Situation Room" that the House Select Committee investigating the riot on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol was important because it is getting to the bottom of "one of the darkest moments in our history." Guest-host Jim Acosta said, "As you know, the top-secret designation means if those documents were released, it could cause grave damage to national security, so what's your reaction to this report? Can you imagine removing top-secret documents from the White House?" All The Republicans Who Have Endorsed Joe Biden For President. Though Trump has largely seized control of the Republican party and the loyalty of GOP officials, a number of prominent former GOP officials, and even some of his ex-staffers, have come out in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. [...] Former Gov. John Kasich, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination in 2016, has been one of Biden's most vocal Republican backers, lauding his "experience and his wisdom and his decency" at the Democratic convention on Monday. Chris Christie Absolutely Savages John Kasich After ABC Tries to Play Up 'Republican' Biden Endorsements. Last night was one of those nights I was glad to have other commitments. The "virtual" DNC occurred last night, and if the highlights are any indication, it was an absolute cluster of awkwardness. In the same hour you had John Kasich proclaim that Joe Biden wouldn't govern as a left-winger, Bernie Sanders took the stage and presented Biden as a puppet for his revolution. There was no congruent message except the orange man being bad, which culminated in a dark, fear packed speech by Michelle Obama, or at least that's what it would be called if Trump gave a similar presentation.
DNC Night One — I Think the Democrats Want Trump to Win. Well, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kinda/sorta got underway on Monday night and we're still waiting to hear from the twelve people who aren't in political media who watched it. [...] One of the more perplexing things was the DNC giving a speaking slot to former Ohio governor and noted mailman's son John Kasich. Kasich brings slightly less excitement than dryer lint to any gathering he graces but what was most amusing was that during the somnambulant lead-up to the DNC, the Democrats were acting like Kasich was a real big get for them. He's a milquetoast squish Republican whom no Republicans like anymore, so he tucked tail and went begging for attention crumbs from the Democrats, which is the way of the spineless squishes. After backstabbing his own party to score points with the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media, Kasich then — as Matt details at Townhall — [betrayed] his hosts by disparaging Bartender of the Year Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ex-Republican stalwart John Kasich touts Joe Biden for president. John Kasich is an enlightened convert to the cause of Joe Biden's presidential campaign. Or the former Ohio GOP governor is an apostate Republican. That's how some Democrats and most Republicans are likely to view Kasich's convention speech at the virtual Democratic National Convention Monday night. "I'm a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country. That's why I've chosen to appear at this convention. In normal times, something like this would probably never happen, but these are not normal times," said Kasich, 68. Four former top Republicans back Joe Biden at DNC. Four former top Republicans formally backed Joe Biden at Monday night's virtual Democratic National Convention festivites, with 2016 GOP hopeful John Kasich promising his fellow party members that the Democrat wouldn't become too liberal. 'I'm sure there are Republicans and independents who couldn't imagine crossing over to support a Democrat, they fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind. I don't believe that,' Kasich said. 'Because I know the measure of the man — reasonable, faithful, respectful and you know, no one pushes Joe around.' Seriously? John Kasich? What Is the Biden Camp Thinking? The Associated Press reports that the Joe Biden campaign has reached out to former Ohio governor John Kasich to speak on his behalf at the Democratic National Convention. Kasich, an anti-abortion, pro-gun Republican, ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. When he didn't win, he voted for... John McCain, even though McCain wasn't even on the ballot. [...] I do not think it is a good idea for the Democratic National Convention to feature failed Republicans. I don't think that having a "big tent" means it's necessary to highlight people who would knock down your tentpoles. John Kasich's ego-driven grift marches on. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is reportedly gearing up to speak at the Democratic National Convention — what there will be of it — to support Joe Biden over President Trump. It is the natural conclusion of the presidential run he flamed out of in 2016. That Kasich has retroactively inserted himself into the Republican resistance to Trump is a masterful grift from start to finish. It was Kasich, after all, who made Trump's win possible in the 2016 primary. Despite having no shot at victory (he wasn't alone in this), he stayed in well past his expiration date, further splintering the anti-Trump vote. If anything, Kasich was more anti-Ted Cruz than anti-Trump; he refused to give up his no-hope bid until the day after Cruz dropped out of the race. Kasich spent his waning days as Ohio's governor vetoing pro-life and pro-gun bills before turning his anti-conservatism into a CNN gig. John Kasich will speak in support of Joe Biden at Democratic Convention. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Joe Biden's behalf next month — one of several prominent Republicans being courted to back the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, a report said Monday [7/20/2020]. Biden's team would not confirm specific discussions with Kasich, who served as the Buckeye State's chief executive from 2011 to 2019, but deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield told the Associated Press that the campaign has begun working with Republicans, just as it had worked with progressives in recent months. At the least, she said GOP backers could help blunt President Trump's efforts to paint Biden as a far-left, radical Democrat. Kasich Wants to Impeach Trump. Former governor John Kasich (R., Ohio), [...] said Friday [10/18/2019] that he has been pushed "across the Rubicon," and now thinks President Donald Trump should be impeached. [...] The former Republican presidential candidate, who was one of the many political opponents humiliated by Trump during the 2016 GOP primary, announced his impeachment swing during an interview with Ana Cabrera on CNN, where he is currently employed as a political commentator. CNN Hiring John Kasich Is Another Never Trump Payoff. If a restaurant already has more than enough cooks, why hire another cook? If a car dealership is already overflowing with cars, why buy another car? If a construction site already has more than enough day laborers, why hire another day laborer? If a far-left news organization already has a massive pile of Never Trump voices, why hire John Kasich? John Kasich exits stage left. Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, took office as a Tea Party hero, unafraid of the union bosses and welfare lobbyists who would fight his efforts to shrink Ohio's bloated government. He leaves as an honorary union member who was inducted to a hospital lobbying group's Hall of Fame. Kasich beat incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 by promising to deliver job growth with smaller government, labor reform, and opposition to Obamacare. Kasich "was in the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party," he said during the campaign, leveraging a reputation for fiscal conservatism built when he was House Budget Committee chairman in the 1990s. But after eight years with Kasich in the governor's office and Republican supermajorities in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly, Ohio's government spending is higher than it's ever been. Medicaid enrollment has exploded, and private sector job growth trailed the national average every month from 2013 through 2017. Ohio's union laws, municipal tax system, and unfunded public pension liabilities remain among the nation's worst. Ohio Lawmakers Override Gun-Grabber Kasich's Veto. I've been hammering Ohio Governor John Kasich and his fondness for stomping all over Ohioans' constitutional rights. Frankly, it's warranted. The man has turned his back on principles and is instead trying to set up another presidential run by catering to the NeverTrumpers and Democrats, which isn't going to be a winning strategy. Especially since "NeverTrump" doesn't necessarily mean they're anti-Second Amendment. Recently, Kasich vetoed a bill that would benefit gun owners involved in self-defense shootings. The bill was watered down from the Stand Your Ground bill originally proposed, but even that was too much for Kasich's liberal sensibilities. Ohio Heartbeat Bill Goes Down in Flames after GOPs Side with Kasich, Planned Parenthood, and Democrats. Ohio's "heartbeat bill," which would have prohibited killing unborn children with a detectable heartbeat, went down in flames on Thursday after the Senate failed by one vote to override Gov. Kasich's heartless veto of the bill. The bill passed both chambers earlier this month — the House by a comfortable majority and the Senate 18-13 — but Kasich followed through on his promise to veto the bill. In Ohio, a three-fifths majority is required to override a veto, which meant that two additional votes were needed in the Senate. Ohio state Senate comes up one vote short of overriding Kasich's heartbeat bill veto. Ohio's pro-life heartbeat bill was officially defeated Thursday after the state senate failed to override a veto from Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio. The Ohio House voted to override Kasich's veto of one of the strongest pro-life bills in the nation, 60-28, but the state Senate came one vote short of saving the bill. Kasich denies leaving GOP: 'The Republican Party left me'. Ohio governor John Kasich is a masochist. He is sounding more and more as if he wants to challenge Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020. To deliberately set oneself up as a Twitter piñata for Trump when there's a ghost of a chance of prevailing takes a special kind of ego. This is especially true when you insult the majority of Republicans who side with the president. Kasich Deletes Pro-Gun Section From Campaign Website. Very strange that the horrific massacre of kindergarteners in Newtown didn't convince him to crack down on gun rights when he was preparing to run for the Republican nomination in 2016, yet now that he's eyeing a run as a centrist independent, the horrific massacre of high-schoolers in Parkland has convinced him that enough's enough. Watching Kasich try to prove, futilely, to Democratic voters that he's suddenly abandoned 35 years of Republican policies in hopes of winning some of their votes will be one of the great guilty pleasures of the next presidential cycle. John Kasich Is Already Running. One year after his failed run at president, John Kasich is plotting his path to another, his third, for 2020. You'll remember Kasich from the last campaign, as his party caved to Donald Trump. At the Republican debates, he was the one at the farthest end of the stage — television Siberia — flapping his arms and shaking his head while making a case for himself as the voice of reason. John Kasich might leave the GOP if he can't fix it. Remember John Kasich? He's the Ohio Republican governor who refused to attend his party's national convention there last year because you-know-who was the nominee. Kasich was the last one standing of the 16 other GOP members who offered themselves for the White House during the party's brutal 2015-16 primary campaign and were turned down by Republican voters in state after state. He's remained a vocal opponent of the president. John Kasich, Obamacare Lobbyist. John Kasich is not a hospital lobbyist, but you'd never guess that if you've seen him on TV attacking the latest Republican health reform proposal. Kasich, the term-limited Republican governor of Ohio, has been sniping at congressional attempts to repeal Obamacare all year. Wednesday [9/27/2017] he tore into Senate Republicans' last-ditch Obamacare repeal efforts in appearances on MSNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg. Gov. John Kasich on DACA: 'We Want All the Immigrants to Come to Ohio'. Former Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich expressed distaste in President Trump's plan to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and invited all immigrants to come live in his state. [...] Kasich prefers a "simple solution" and that is, granting the Dreamers "permanent status." He argues that it isn't fair to ship these "contributors" out of the U.S. and into countries they know nothing about. The Editor says... Kasich Veto Draws Cheers From Environmental Lobby. Once again, Ohio Governor John Kasich (shown) used his veto power to kill yet another bill favored by conservatives in his state. On Tuesday, he killed a bill that would have made renewable energy benchmarks voluntary, rather than mandatory, for the next two years. Kasich defended his action, saying, "Ohio workers cannot afford to take a step backward from the economic gains that we have made in recent years, however, and arbitrarily limiting Ohio's energy generation options amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our state's near and long-term economic competitiveness." Of course, how suspending mandatory benchmarks imposed on electric companies would limit the companies' "energy generation options," as opposed to doing exactly the opposite, Kasich did not explain. Kasich votes for McCain instead of Trump. John Kasich has made good on his vow not to vote for Donald Trump. The Ohio governor voted today by absentee ballot, writing in the name of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) instead of the Republican presidential nominee. Kasich voted for the GOP candidates in other contests, according to his spokesman Chris Schrimpf. The Editor says... Priebus: RNC could block Kasich, Bush from running again. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could be barred from seeking the Republican Party's presidential nomination in the future if they refuse to get on board with Donald Trump, party chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday [9/18/2016]. Kasich: Give McCain a lifetime Senate appointment. Donald Trump might be unwilling to support Arizona Sen. John McCain's re-election bid, but Ohio Gov. John Kasich thinks McCain deserves a lifetime appointment to the Senate. "Honestly, I don't even think they ought to have an election. They ought to tell McCain, as long as you want to be in the Senate, you can have it," Kasich told WGN radio. "He's just the greatest guy." Kasich: I don't know if I'll vote for Trump. John Kasich says he's no closer to endorsing Donald Trump for president, cementing his place as one of the most prominent holdouts in the Republican Party. Kasich, the governor of Ohio, a state that Trump almost certainly must win to take the White House, said he didn't know how he would vote in November. Gov. Kasich: We Want Immigration - Population is Stagnant in Ohio. Ohio Gov. and former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) told an audience in Cleveland that he looks at immigration as an opportunity because Ohio has a "stagnant growth of population — we want people to come to Ohio." "When I look at immigration I look at a new level of energy," Kasich told an International Republican Institute gathering on Tuesday [7/19/2016]. The Editor says... Kasich To Skip GOP Convention But Will Address NAACP Convention. Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has no plans to attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week, but he does plan to speak at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Annual Convention in Cincinnati on Sunday [7/17/2016]. Kasich, a former GOP presidential candidate this election cycle, joins presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock and others at the convention. Sure looks like Kasich's goal was to stop Cruz. With the news that Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) will suspend his fruitless campaign for president Wednesday [5/4/2016] at 5PM it's worth asking the obvious question: Why now? Kasich lost every single caucus and primary over the past several months except for his home state of Ohio. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has more delegates for the nomination than Kasich and he's been out of the race for weeks. So why stay in as long as he did just to drop out when the race finally comes down to just two candidates? John Kasich wishes more Republicans liked Democrats' ideas. In a Wednesday [4/20/2016] interview with The Washington Post, [John] Kasich — continuing his sad presidential campaign's efforts to equate Ted Cruz with Donald Trump — whined about being one of few Republicans who cares about ideas. "See, I am a fundamental believer in ideas," Kasich said. "If you don't have ideas, you got nothing. And frankly, my Republican Party doesn't like ideas. They want to be negative against things. Every word of this is trademark John Weaver, the sometime Democrat consultant running Kasich's campaign. Within a few hours, lefty opinion columnists were using Kasich's words against other Republicans. Top 17 Left-Wing Moments of John Kasich's Endless Political Career. As we are learning throughout this primary season, the Republican Party is divided and diverse. But the common denominator between all Republicans is that they want to move in a new direction, far away from the Obama agenda. What is clear about John Kasich is that far from being a fresh alternative, he is the embodiment of what is fueling everyone's anger. Here are the top 17 times Gov. Kasich's left-wing tendencies on the most critical issues of our time have been on display: [...] What Does John Kasich Think He's Doing? The Ohio governor has won a single state: his own. He has 143 delegates. That puts him fourth in the count behind Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio — who is no longer a candidate. To win the nomination on the first ballot of the Republican convention, Kasich would have to win 138 percent of the remaining delegates. This is impossible. Even a politician should be able to do that math. Kasich's Delusional Dishonesty About His Obamacare Expansion in Ohio. Just a few months ago, few would have predicted that John Kasich would be one of the last three candidates standing in the GOP presidential primary. Now, a lot of GOP voters are looking at Kasich with fresh eyes and considering voting for him. However, that's not an easy decision for a lot of principled conservatives. Kasich expanded Obamacare in Ohio, and on top of the law being broadly unpopular with the American electorate, it's particularly unpopular with Republican voters. But given that the GOP frontrunner has repeatedly praised socialized health care, you'd think Kasich's policy transgression could be overlooked. Unfortunately, Kasich is making that very, very hard to do. As we saw last night at CNN's town hall, he sanctimoniously keeps insisting that expanding Medicaid in Ohio to get his hands on Obamacare money was the right thing to do, and he portrayed it as a smart fiscal decision. The former assertion is highly debatable, and the latter is utterly delusional. Is ISIS Faithful to Islam? "We are not at war with Islam," said John Kasich after the Brussels massacre, "We're at war with radical Islam." Kasich's point raises a question: Does the Islamic faith in any way sanction or condone what those suicide bombers did? For surely the brothers and their accomplice who ignited the bombs in the airport and set off the explosion on the subway did not do so believing they were blasting themselves to hell for all eternity. One has to assume they hoped to be martyrs to their faith if they slaughtered infidels to terrify and expel such as these from the Islamic world and advance the coming of the caliphate of which the Prophet preached. And where might they have gotten such ideas? Kasich rules out vice president role, is open to Dem running mate. Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he isn't willing to serve as anyone's vice president, but he indicated party affiliation would not matter to him when choosing his own running mate. After losing the Arizona primary and trailing a candidate who is no longer running for president, Kasich hit the campaign trail in Wisconsin and told voters only he could beat the Democrats in November. He ruled out the possibility of serving with any GOP nominee, but would not oppose putting a Democrat near the top of the Republican ticket himself in November. John Kasich Lone GOP Candidate Preaching Tolerance of Muslims. It seems unlikely that such moderation will earn the Kasich campaign any traction. While blanket targeting of an entire religion may prove impractical, immoral, and illegal, Republican primary voters clearly respond to tough talk about taking the fight to terrorists. An appropriate response to Kasich's assertion that we are at war with radical Islam might be to ask: really? Because war between the world's largest superpower and literally anyone shouldn't take that long. Why have we been at it for 15 years? What would he propose to secure victory? John Kasich's Utterly Strange, Bizarre Campaign. If you like John Kasich, it's time to celebrate! The Ohio governor finally won a primary — his home state's. Of course, he flopped in last week's other contests, ending the evening with almost two dozen fewer delegates than Sen. Marco Rubio, who exited the GOP race. Kasich's campaign has bordered on the bizarre. He has survived for two reasons: First, he has refused to get out, no matter how badly he has done. And second, he has been so irrelevant that nobody attacked him, leaving him generally unscathed in a race where there is plenty of blood on the floor. John Kasich Warns Against Singling Out Muslims for Monitoring. Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday [3/22/2016] cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country's ability to gather intelligence. His comments came after one of his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, called for law enforcement "to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." Mr. Kasich told reporters in Minneapolis, "We are not at war with Islam; we're at war with radical Islam." The Obama Republican: John Kasich's Medicaid expansion is a $7 billion disaster. Ohio Gov. John Kasich's expansion of Medicaid under the 2010 federal health law has cost taxpayers $7 billion in a little more than two years. The federal government — which is $19 trillion in debt — paid $390 million for Ohio Medicaid expansion benefits in February, bringing the program's total cost since January 2014 to $7.1 billion. Kasich frames his Obamacare expansion as a fiscally responsible way to keep drug addicts and the mentally ill out of prison, even as costs zoom past his projections. The expansion was $1.5 billion over budget after 18 months. Kasich on Mass Deportation: We're Not Going to 'Yank Them Out'. Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during CNN's "Final Five" forum Monday night that a mass deportation of illegal immigrants is not only impractical, but also immoral. "The idea that we're going to go around in the neighborhoods, picking these people up is just not — first of all, it's not practical, and secondly, that's not the way we behave," said Kasich, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Kasich on Nominating Merrick Garland If He Were President: 'Of Course We'd Think About It'. GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday [3/20/2016] that as president, he would consider nominating D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick. "Well, you know, he received overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch. So, of course we'd think about it," Kasich said when asked if he would "take a look" at Garland if he were president. John Kasich Wants to End Deportations and Enact Amnesty in His First 100 Days in Office. Because the Kasich campaign was largely ignored as a non-factor prior to Rubio's polling collapse, Kasich went months with virtually no scrutiny of even his most bizarre statements on the campaign trail. However, in recent days, Trump has increasingly set his sights on Kasich — whether it be Kasich's role at Lehman Brothers during the time of the economic collapse, as well as Kasich's support for NAFTA and Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — a deal which Donald Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have warned would destroy Ohio's auto industry. In particular, Trump has zeroed in on Kasich's heretofore overlooked push for massive amnesty. Though it has transpired without much attention, Kasich has quietly amassed a string of bizarre, peculiar, and extreme statements on immigration that places him to the furthest leftward reaches of not just the Republican President field, but the Democratic Presidential field as well. John Kasich: I'd consider nominating Merrick Garland to Supreme Court. Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich gently criticized Senate Republicans' approach to President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, suggesting lawmakers should at least meet with the nominee, and even saying he'd consider nominating Garland himself, as president. "I never thought the president should send it because I knew nothing was going to happen," Kasich told "Face the Nation" in an interview taped for Sunday's [3/20/2016] broadcast. "Frankly," he added, "they probably ought to all sit down and meet with the guy." Gun-Banner John Kasich: His Horrible, Terrible, Awful Track Record on the Second Amendment. John Kasich is more than a presidential "candidate" that has no legitimate chance to win the Republican nomination. He's more than a big government Republican who loves the federal takeover of education known as "Common Core". He's also more than a rabid pro-Amnesty advocate for open borders. Despite his newfound respect for the Second Amendment, he's also a gun control advocate who once joined with the Clintons to pass the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Flashback: John Kasich's Diabolical Obamacare Expansion, Bypassing the Legislature and the Will of the People. Ohio Gov. John Kasich went around the state legislature to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in 2013, but that's not the story he's telling voters on the campaign trail. Kasich, a Republican candidate for president, introduced a budget in February 2013 that included the expansion of Medicaid to working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities that was part of the 2010 health care overhaul. For months, Kasich pressed the state legislature to approve the expansion. And they steadfastly refused. John Kasich Thinks He Is Running In The Democratic Primary. A lady goes to a John Kasich rally and asks him about why she should support him in the Democratic Primary. Kasich never corrects her that he is in the Republican Primary. Considering how he has been running and his public statements, he might as well be running in the Democratic Primary. [Video clip] Bully Pulpit: Kasich Says He'll Send Bibles to Enemies of Medicaid Expansion. Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is thumping his Bible at detractors of his decision to take advantage of Obamacare by expanding Medicaid, adding 600,000 (mostly) able-bodied, childless adults to the welfare rolls. [...] I'm just going to be blunt here — the man is a serial scripture twister who picks and chooses Bible verses to promote his liberal political agenda. Kasich seethes with condescension at conservatives — Christian conservatives — who disagree with him while claiming the biblical high ground, but he has no idea what he's talking about. (Or worse, he does know better and he's intentionally misusing God's word to further his agenda.) John Kasich to ObamaCare critics: Do I need to buy Bibles for you people to remind you to care about the poor? [Scroll down] Jeb Bush at least has the good sense not to antagonize conservatives who already dislike him. As it is, this is like Rick Perry telling righties in 2012 that if they "don't have a heart" if they don't support in-state tuition for illegals — times a hundred. I don't get it. And the worst part is, if you're all about helping the poor, Medicaid is one of the worst ways to go about doing so. What is the point of you, John Kasich? In listening to an interview John Kasich had with Sean Hannity, I was struck by what he clearly wants the Hannity audience to think is his message: I knew Ronald Reagan. I can't recall a many sentences in which he didn't use Reagan's name (possibly in vain) to justify his candidacy, and only in passing (and upon Hannity's insistence) did he even mention the Ohio budget. Instead, he spoke of the past, of his days as a congressman, and about what they accomplished. One of those Reagan sentences was the tired line about how Reagan was willing to negotiate with Tip O'Neill. Kasich is, of course, missing the key point here: Reagan negotiated from a position of strength. He didn't capitulate or compromise his party's views before negotiation even started. He also wasn't afraid to shut down the government, either. John Kasich scores backing of Trent Lott, ex-Senate majority leader. Longtime U.S. Senate leader Trent Lott of Mississippi is endorsing Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president. [...] "I look forward to doing all I can to help him take back White House and strengthening our great nation," Lott said in a Kasich campaign news release. Lott represented Mississippi for 35 years in Congress, including 16 years in the House and 19 years in the Senate, culminating in his selection as majority leader. Rick Perry criticizes John Kasich's decision to expand Medicaid. Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized Republican governors who expanded Medicaid, the state- and federally-funded health insurance program for poor and disabled Americans, targeting Ohio's decision to accept federal funding to allow more people to qualify for the program. In explaining his decision to expand Medicaid, Gov. John Kasich has said the more than $13 billion federal dollars Ohio receives for the program belong to Ohioans and would be spent in other states if Ohio did not accept them. Perry, without mentioning Kasich's name, said that argument was "just nonsense." John Kasich: The GOP Establishment's Spare Prince. The Republican establishment has always had its suspicions about Jeb Bush's "fire in the belly" to be President, and its Wall Street wing never likes to put all of their money in one sector of the market, so they've adopted the monarchist "heir and a spare" model in this year's Republican presidential nominating contest. The "heir" is of course Jeb Bush and the designated "spare" has rotated among a cast of establishment candidates including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and now Ohio Governor John Kasich. John Kasich: Conservatives 'Focus too Much' on Abortion. GOP presidential contender John Kasich said during an interview Sunday [8/16/2015] he thinks conservatives "focus too much on just" abortion as a social issue. Speaking with CNN host Dana Bash on State of the Union, Kasich said he doesn't "read a Bible to figure out" what he thinks. John Kasich Is The Liberal Media's Darling. Ohio Governor John Kasich has become the darling of the liberal media for his "touching response" to a question about same-sex marriage (as well as his "stirring defense" of accepting Obamacare Medicaid expansion money) in the debate last week. A Google search for "Kasich gay marriage" yields over 10,000 largely fawning articles, such as [a] piece by Slate's LGBTQ editor extolling his "gracious and humane view." John Kasich, the anti-conservative, cuts into Jeb Bush. For all the talk about Donald Trump not being a conservative, the real anti-conservative in the field is John Kasich. From his tenure as a pretty conservative representative from 1983-2001, keeping in mind this was mostly in the Bob Michel [...] era, to a corporatist, big government Republican as Ohio governor. If you have any doubt, his campaign manager is former Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 53% and 'strategist' for Jon Huntsman. In between times he worked for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee — that would be the organization that elects Democrats to the House — and slimed his former boss, McCain, to the New York Times. Weaver hates conservatives. Kasich defends immigrants as 'contributing significantly'. Republican presidential candidate John Kasich defended millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally as "people who are contributing significantly" to the nation, taking on a divisive issue Wednesday [8/12/2015] as he promised to redefine conservatism during his latest New Hampshire appearance. If Governor John Kasich is on the Republican ticket, Obamacare repeal is off the table. Republicans can forget about campaigning against Obamacare in 2016 if Ohio Gov. John Kasich is on the party's presidential ticket. Conventional wisdom says Kasich will need to explain his Obamacare Medicaid expansion to Republican primary voters — but he's been explaining it for two years. That's the problem: most of Kasich's arguments for Medicaid coverage for working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities sound like they were written by Democratic strategists. The longer Kasich is in the presidential race, the greater the potential for Democrats to capitalize on Kasich's promotion of Obamacare. John Kasich should be punished for expanding Obamacare. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has made clear that he's seriously considering running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. If he formally announces, it will be important for conservative voters to punish him for his expansion of President Obama's healthcare law in his state. Kasich is currently polling in the low single-digits, has no clear path to the nomination, and the grassroots aren't exactly clamoring for him to run. Yet he is being egged on by a group of Republicans who want to see the party move in a direction that's more comfortable with a larger role for government. Ohio Governor John Kasich: a tax-happy, liberal RINO. The liberal media calls him a "conservative Republican" but don't you believe it. Ohio Governor John Kasich is an Obama appeasing, tax crazy RINO, and the citizens of Ohio need to watch out. This past week we reported here at Poor Richard's News that Kasich was preparing to cave in to Obama and implement a massive expansion of Ohio's medicare program under Obamacare. Now Kasich is taking his RINOism a giant step even further and planning to expand Ohio's sales tax to include a giant list of transactions that have previously been exempt. John Kasich — Common Core loving RINO to run for president. John Kasich the Common Core loving Ohio RINO governor will announce he is running for president in late July. In a way, this is kind of good news. With Kasich, Christie and Bush splitting the RINO vote, this gives real conservatives an advantage. The Obama/Clinton duplicates in John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie will also have to split their share of the money that can be raised. This is the third GOP candidate that I will refuse to vote for in 2016. I will NOT vote for another Bush, Christie or Kasich under any circumstances. I will vote third party.
Paul Ryan: One of the first to have the Steele dossier in hand as he sent investigators out to probe Trump. What kind of a political leader sends members of his own party on a wild goose chase to find out whether their party leader was a Russian spy while sitting on a phony dossier full of lies and not telling them? Well, we now know the answer: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan. I've defended him for a long time and have never been a Ryan-hater, but this is not a pretty picture. Steve Bannon: "Paul Ryan Was The One That Set Up President Trump To Get Impeached". [Video clip only.] The Fraudulent Republican Paul Ryan. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said that he does not plan to vote for former President Trump in November. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Ketanje Brown Jackson's brother-in-law is happy to oversee the downfall of our nation as Democrats turn it into a communist nation with one-party rule and perpetual illegal immigration. [...] He wasted two critical years when Republicans had all the power. It was likely our last chance to save this nation. It's past time for Ryan to join the Democrat Party. He doesn't support Republicanism. [...] "It was not rigged. It was not stolen," Ryan said in an interview in 2021. "Donald Trump lost the election. Joe Biden won the election. It's really clear." He did lose, but the election was very unfairly influenced by Democrats in every imaginable way. People were barred from speaking truthfully about it. Republican Paul Ryan Throws Votes to Biden. Justice Ketanje's brother-in-law, Paul Ryan, will not vote for Donald Trump. He wants it both ways so he said he will write in a Republican. "Character is too important to me, and it's a job that requires the kind of character that he just doesn't have — having said that, I really disagree with Biden on policy. I wrote in a Republican the last time. I'm going to write in a Republican this time." He doesn't know who yet. Ryan was a disaster as Speaker and gave Democrats whatever they wanted when this onslaught of communism began. [Tweet with video clip] The Editor says... Dominion Lawsuit Showcases Paul Ryan's Influence over Fox News Channel's Editorial Control. Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News highlights former House Speaker Paul Ryan's alleged influence over Fox News Channel's (FNC) editorial control, reportedly urging the network to move away from former President Donald Trump. Dominion filed the lawsuit months after the 2020 presidential election, asserting that FNC essentially suggested that Dominion rigged the voting systems, contributing to Trump's loss. How RINO Paul Ryan is Connected to Biden's Radical Leftist SCOTUS Pick. Think Paul Ryan, the RINO that used to be Speaker of the House and ran as Mitt Romney's VP is on your side? Think again. Not only is he trying to take down Trump, but he's deeply connected to Biden's far-left Supreme Court Justice nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. In fact, she's married to a man named Patrick Jackson. Patrick is the twin brother of Paul Ryan's brother-in-law, William Jackson. And while Ryan the RINO claims that their politics are different, he's done what he can to advance her legal career, a legal career that means advancing leftism in the courts. As ABC reported back in 2016: Ryan even testified on Brown's behalf when she was nominated to the district court in 2012, offering his "unequivocal" endorsement of her qualifications in recommending her for the bench. The Time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism Is Over. Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party. [...] Boy, just thinking about all those yahoos makes me that much more thankful that Donald Trump came around to expose the Republican Brahmin class for what it is. To be so off-putting yet so capable of putting on airs is a tremendous talent that distinguishes the serpent-tongued Republicans of D.C. from the unkempt and unworthy horde of voters who know only how "to say what they mean and mean what they say." Honest plain speaking is for the rubes; real sophistication requires lying to voters every two years and then mocking them for their beliefs while wine-and-cheesin' it up with Chuck Schumer's friends on the cocktail circuit in Northwest D.C. Paul Ryan's Impotent Appeal. Of all the reactions to Paul Ryan's speech Thursday [5/27/2021] at the Reagan Library in California, I thought the funniest was the one titled "Paul Ryan Begins to Re-emerge." I found that idea funny because the speech I heard signaled the opposite: not burgeoning "re-emergence" on to the political stage but, on the contrary, an almost comical confirmation of obscurity. Ryan is a careful man, well-pressed, armed with all the best clichés, and utterly feckless. He salted his talk with plenty of gems calculated to appeal to conservatives. He appealed early and often to the ghost of Ronald Reagan — understandable given the auspices of his talk. And his speechwriters dropped all the right phrases about keeping government off the people's backs, the evils of identity politics and political correctness, the desirability of low taxes, and economic prosperity. He was also careful to rehearse some of the achievements of the last four years, the years when his nemesis Donald Trump ran the roost. He was happy to associate himself with those triumphs. Be gone, Paul Ryan, be gone! Paul Ryan, the last Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, gave a talk at the Reagan Library in violation of Ronald W. Reagan's Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." Indeed, it was, as they say in basketball, a flagrant foul that Ryan committed. It's Time to Kick Paul Ryan to the Curb Once and For All. Paul Ryan delivered a Thursday night speech at the Reagan Library calling on the Republican Party to move on from President Trump. The speech shows, far better than any outside attack could, why the GOP actually needs to move on from Paul Ryan. Ryan's speech at the Ronald Reagan Library came two years after he retired from the House after three disappointing years as Speaker of the House. As Speaker, Paul Ryan pledged to support the Republican nominee, then attempted to renege on that pledge when the nominee ended up being Donald Trump (Ryan even told Republicans he thought Trump was in the pay of Putin). Former House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner Conduct Fundraising Rallies for The Shameful 35 House Decepticons. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan previously held a fundraising event for Liz Cheney (March 2021). Former House Speaker John Boehner previously held a fundraising event for Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez (March 2021). And now Paul Ryan announces he will host a fundraising event for Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger. What do Liz Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez and Adam Kinzinger have in common? If you notice they are all members of the shameful 35 HOUSE DeceptiCons, you are correct. Trump-Hating Backstabber Paul Ryan Will Hold Fundraiser for Never-Trumper Liz Cheney. For years Paul Ryan lied to President Trump and his voters. Paul Ryan lied about funding a wall. He continued to fight hard for the globalist agenda even after President Trump shocked the elites with his huge election win in 2016. Even after he left office Paul Ryan continues to attack President Trump. The traitors who fooled us. Paul Ryan was another matinee idol of the right. We loved it when Mittens picked him as a running mate. He was a fiscal conservative. 4 years later, he dumped on Donald Trump. As House Speaker, he may as well have been Nancy Pelosi for all he cooperated with a real conservative president. By the way, Ryan came to Washington as a pauper. His net worth is now $8 million. Former Speaker Paul Ryan calls efforts to block Congress certifying Biden as 'anti-democratic and 'anti-conservative'. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan admonished fellow Republicans Sunday [1/3/2021] in a rare statement that called planned GOP efforts to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's win 'anti-democratic and anti-conservative.' Ryan, of Wisconsin, who left Congress in 2019, said in a lengthy statement Sunday that it 'is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans.' He also urged the lawmakers to reconsider, saying 'the fact that this effort will fail does not mean it will not do significant damage to American democracy.' The Editor says... Republicans [are] Pushing Themselves Off the Cliff. During the 2012 presidential election, the far-left Agenda Project Action Fund produced a video showing vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan pushing granny off the cliff because he had the supposed audacity to propose a sensible budget, rather than the money-tree approach of Democrats. Instead of becoming vice president, Ryan landed only one step behind the VP in the presidential succession as Speaker of the House. While he didn't push granny off the cliff, he did push himself and his party off a cliff by undermining the president of his own party as often as he could. Ryan ended up on the board of Fox News, reportedly wanting to use his position to "do something" about President Trump. It seems other fellow congressional Republicans, including Ryan's 2012 running mate Mitt Romney, had similar aspirations. Paul Ryan calls for Trump to concede. Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is calling on President Donald Trump to concede. The former Wisconsin congressman made his first comments on the election while speaking at a European Credit Conference. According to Politico, the Janesville Republican said the attacks on the voting system need to stop. Trump's lawyers are offering "baseless conspiracy theories," he said. Ryan also said a divided government would be more fruitful for Joe Biden's presidency. Trump Exposes Paul Ryan and Romney Republicans. One of the greatest public services President Donald Trump has done for the nation is forcing institutions and people to reveal their true character. While this has been the most valuable when it comes to the media, it has also been valuable when it comes to unmasking globalist Republicans. This was again on display this week, most notably in the revelation that Paul Ryan was inciting Fox News from his position on the board of Fox Corporation to "decisively break" with President Trump. Ryan has apparently graduated from providing the worst advice to the president as the speaker of the House to providing the worst advice to Fox News. Paul Ryan Is "Embarrassed" by Trump, Pushes FOX News to Break from President. Paul Ryan never liked Donald Trump. Paul Ryan repeatedly lied to President Trump and the American public. Paul Ryan wanted to be the Republican leader and he lost it thanks to Donald Trump. Paul Ryan still hates Donald Trump. After leaving office earlier this year #NeverTrumper Paul Ryan joined the board of FOX News. Now Paul Ryan is pushing FOX News to dump Trump. Paul Ryan reportedly wants to use his position on the board of Fox to 'do something' about Trump. Former Rep. Paul Ryan was the Speaker of the House for the first two years of the Trump administration, but he believes his new job as a board member of Fox Corporation will finally allow him to "do something" about President Donald Trump, according to a new report in Vanity Fair. Ryan, who joined the Fox Corporation board in March, is now reportedly one of the most important voices pushing Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to transition Fox New and pivot away from Trump, according to Vanity Fair. Who is responsible for the impeachment circus? [Scroll down] Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House from October 2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party running with the hapless Mitt Romney. When Donald Trump became president, this gave the Republicans control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate. This was a golden opportunity to move the Trump agenda forward. And it would have been accomplished — except for Ryan. As leader of the GOP in the House of Representatives, he engaged in ankle-biting the president and dragging his feet otherwise. Trump has thundered that Ryan was "weak, ineffective, and stupid" as House speaker. Ryan was all that only if one assumes he was on the same team supporting the president and the American middle class. But if Ryan was instead serving big moneyed globalists and Wall Street, then he was smart and highly effective — as a saboteur. MAGA vs. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. [Scroll down] MAGA is at war with Big Biz and the bought-and-paid-for political establishment. And this explains much of the resistance to Trump's tariffs and trade position. A closing observation says a lot. Thomas Donohue, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, is 80 years old. His board is pushing him to retire. The replacement they are looking at is former Congressman Paul Ryan. A perfect fit given the Chamber's agenda. President Donald Trump: Paul Ryan Blocked Subpoenas of Democrats. President Donald Trump is not happy that former House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of people and entities Trump thinks the House GOP should have been investigating during the first two years of his administration. Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive lengthy Oval Office interview that Ryan blocked issuance of subpoenas to people he thinks should have been investigated on the political left, and now that the Republicans no longer have the majority in the House, people Trump says Ryan protected may have gotten away with whatever they did that warranted investigation. Paul Ryan's Favorability Bottoms Out as Former Speaker Leaves Congress. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan leaves Congress with one of the lowest favorability ratings a Speaker has ever had, bottoming out at a negligible 12 percent in a final poll from Civiqs. [...] The survey showed only 12 percent viewed Ryan favorably, while a supermajority of 71 percent viewed him unfavorably and 17 percent were unsure. Never Forget: Paul Ryan Repeatedly Promised to Fund Trump Border Wall — Repeatedly Lied. President Trump promised to build a border wall with Mexico at nearly EVERY campaign stop he held in 2015-2016. The president won the election in an electoral landslide with a promise to build a border wall with Mexico. In January 2017 Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to pass funding of $12-15 billion to build the Trump border wall. But it was all a lie. Speaker Ryan's Legacy: He Betrayed the President. Speaker Ryan has never supported the President and said from the time of the Billy Bush tapes that he would not. He has been true to his word. Look at what we have found out about his prior knowledge of the fake dossier. Never once did he try to address the legitimacy of the Russia-Trump 'dossier', so named to make it seem like intelligence instead of Hillary's opposition research and propaganda. Hillary's campaign and her DNC created this dossier. It was then pushed to the media to damage or destroy the President. Also selling it at the time was his chief of staff Jim Burks and John McCain's chief of staff, a Democrat, David Kramer. Kramer is the one who fed it to BuzzFeed. Paul Ryan's Chief of Staff Jim Burks knew about the dossier from the beginning, but they DENIED IT. He knew before the President knew and never alerted him. Louie Gohmert spills the beans, says Paul Ryan urged GOP lawmakers to campaign against Trump. On the very same day that resigning House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered his farewell address on the floor of Congress, fellow House Rep. Louie Gohmert revealed what may perhaps be the real reason why his relatively young colleague's career has come to an unexpected end. "Just a few weeks before the [2016] election, we were told by Paul, by our elected leaders that, gee, the only way we can keep the House majority is just all of us start running against the president," Gohmert claimed during an interview on radio station WMAL[.] A Stooge Leaves Congress: Paul Ryan's Career in Perspective. On January 3, current House Speaker Paul Ryan gets to retire at the ripe old age of 48, but don't worry, as an entrenched Washington politician, we won't be finished with him at that point. He has many years of lobbying — for six or seven figure salaries — ahead of him until he inevitably is recycled by the GOP establishment to do what he does best: undermine and sabotage the "America First" agenda of President Donald Trump. Ryan has done such a poor job that it has become impossible even for the paid sycophants of Conservative, Inc. to whitewash his record. Paul Ryan: Immigration Rules Should Offer Jobs to 'Anyone'. Retiring Paul Ryan today [12/19/2018] lamented his failure to deliver a global supply of migrant labor to businesses and investors — regardless of ordinary Americans' desire for decent wages. Ryan's failure was ensured by Donald Trump's 2016 election — and so Trump's "Hire American" policy is now allowing Americans' wages to rise amid a shortage of blue-collar workers and protests by business leaders. Paul Ryan: The Establishment Savior That Wasn't. Ryan has done such a poor job that it has become impossible for even the paid sycophants of Conservativism Inc. to whitewash his record. As House Speaker, Ryan failed to fund the border wall, repeal or replace ObamaCare, defund Planned Parenthood, or even curb porous immigration policies. While Trump has used his bully pulpit and executive power unlike any Republican in history to advance his agenda, backup support from the House hasn't been there. Ryan's lack of will has even made Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell look meritorious by comparison. Good riddance, Paul Ryan. The moment Republicans gained the majority in the House in 2010, Ryan jumped into action as House Budget Committee chairman, unveiling his signature budget plan entitled "A Path to Prosperity." The plan was economically unrealistic, politically unfeasible, and wildly unpopular with the American public, yet Republicans ate it up. When the plan went nowhere, and in fact cost the GOP valuable House seats in special elections, still Ryanmania continued. Believing — falsely — that there was a large voting bloc of economic libertarians in America, Mitt Romney tapped Ryan as his running mate in the 2012 presidential election in which the Wisconsin congressman failed to swing even his home state. Still, Republicans in Congress ignored Ryan's faults and rallied around him when John Boehner resigned as speaker in 2015. Then, as speaker of the House, Ryan betrayed both his own true Republican supporters, as well as Trump followers who delivered Republicans the presidency and Congress with their votes. Ringside Politics Turkey of The Year: House Speaker Paul Ryan. This year, our radio listeners nominated several dozen individuals and groups, all with outstanding credentials to become our Ringside Politics Turkey of the Year. Nevertheless, the clear winner with the most votes and the best choice for our 2018 award is House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan is an establishment Republican who has been a very weak House Speaker. He has not pursued an aggressive congressional agenda and has none of the leadership qualities of a successful House Speaker, such as Newt Gingrich, who campaigned on the ambitious Contract with America. [...] In the mid-term election, Ryan barely campaigned and strongly advocated few, if any, real issues. What really motivates Ryan is the opportunity to criticize Donald Trump. Ever since Trump burst upon the political scene, Ryan has relished occasions to appear before the media and make critical comments. There's Growing Proof that Paul Ryan Was to Blame for GOP Midterm Losses. The Gateway Pundit can confirm that Paul Ryan withdrew funding from a battleground House seat in Michigan two weeks before the election despite the Republican leading in the polling. This Republican later last by a few thousand votes. So Where Was Paul Ryan and the Republican Party? Paul Ryan was undercover during the election. Ryan did go on national TV to poke President Trump one week before the election. Ryan accused the Republican President of using "Alinsky tactics" and "tribal politics" just one week before votes were cast. Paul Ryan did nothing to stop the Facebook decimation and elimination of conservative content since the 2016 election. And Paul Ryan declined his duty to protect battleground Republicans. Swamp creature resists any further drainage: Paul Ryan's Amnesty to Increase Number of Anchor Babies on Welfare. A plan being pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to give amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens will increase welfare use by United States-born children who were given birthright citizenship despite their parents being illegal aliens. These children are commonly known as "anchor babies," as they serve as an anchor to their illegal alien parents in the U.S. There are approximately 4.5 million anchor babies across the U.S., Breitbart News reported. Lou Dobbs: If Paul Ryan 'Deceives' Trump into DACA Amnesty, GOP Will Lose House Majority. Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs says if President Trump is "deceived" by the Republican establishment and House Speaker Paul Ryan into supporting an amnesty for illegal aliens, it will "most certainly" cost the GOP their majority in the House. During a segment of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs blasted a plan by Ryan and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) which would grant amnesty to at least 1.8 million illegal aliens who have been shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Steve King: Republican House Members Considering Forcibly Removing Paul Ryan from Speakership. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told Breitbart News Tonight earlier this week that House Republicans are considering forcibly removing House Speaker Paul Ryan from the speakership via a "motion to vacate the chair" over Ryan's efforts to undermine President Donald Trump's agenda. Amnesty By Consensus. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) called a two-hour family meeting of Republicans on Thursday [6/7/2018] in a last-ditch attempt to head off amnesty votes on the floor of the House. As reports have trickled out about the meeting, however, it's clear Ryan bought himself nothing but time. Paul Ryan: FBI Did Nothing Wrong Spying on Trump Campaign. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told reporters Wednesday he believes the FBI acted appropriately in using an informant to contact Trump campaign members during the 2016 presidential election. "I think Chairman Gowdy's initial assessment is accurate," Ryan said in support of his colleague Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who recently told Fox News that he sees no wrongdoing in the FBI's use of an informant. Ryan Puts Cheap-Labor Amnesty Bill on Fast Track to Floor Vote. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday [6/7/2018] he hopes to quickly write up an amnesty bill and get it passed through the House. "The next step is putting pen to paper so we can start getting legislation to the floor," Ryan told reporters shortly after he held a Thursday-morning meeting with the GOP caucus to push for a wage-cutting amnesty. Freedom Caucus tries to put Ryan out to pasture. The big news in Washington today was that members of the House Freedom Caucus united to defeat a farm bill, backed by soon-to-be-former House Speaker Paul Ryan. It's not that caucus members oppose the legislation itself. In fact, the reason they were able to kill the bill was that it had been made in their likeness. Agriculture legislation in the United States has to do with a lot more than soybeans. One of America's principle welfare benefits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, is a $70 billion behemoth that supplies more than 1 in 10 Americans with food. We call them "food stamps," but by any name they are a key component of U.S. domestic policy. Ryan wants to finish out his term as Speaker having said that he had done something about welfare reform. Speaker Ryan Splits From President Trump Over Amnesty. Retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is using the "discharge petition" process to decisively split from President Donald Trump's election-winning, pro-American immigration policies. Ryan's disguised break from Trump leaves his successor, Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, in the hot seat, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. McCarthy must quickly decide whether to block or support Ryan's unpopular push before it wrecks GOP turnout in November, she said. Why Paul Ryan Failed as a Politician. Ryan's plans explained the price of everything but the value of nothing," so concludes Henry Olsen in an important piece for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. Make sure to read the whole thing. Paul Ryan promised to be a different kind of Republican politician. He was principled, they said. He was a man of solid character, they said. And all of those things, undoubtedly, are true. Olsen argues, however, that these virtues were also his vices. He may be a good man, but he was and is not a good politician. Paul Ryan to Push DACA Amnesty for Millions of Illegal Aliens Before Leaving Congress. House Speaker Paul Ryan will push his open borders agenda during his last months in Congress, telling the media that he is interested in passing an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Ryan announced this week that he will leave Congress after his current term is up, but now he says he will continue pushing for a DACA amnesty despite his exit. In a comment to Fox News's Chad Pergram, Ryan said he would "certainly" be interested in passing a DACA amnesty before his term ends. 9 Times Paul Ryan Put American Workers Last, Foreigners First. [For example, #4] Ryan's Attempt to Slip Amnesty for Illegal Aliens into Year-End Spending Bill: Last year, Ryan attempted to slip an amnesty for illegal aliens into a year-end spending bill, a move that would have attempted to force an amnesty at the expense of American workers or have the federal government shut down. Just as Trump's labor market was tightening at the end of the year, securing historic wage gains for America's workers, Ryan's amnesty plan would have crushed those salary increases, giving big business an immediate new flow of cheap, foreign workers. This is a good sign: Spending more time with his family. Ri-i-i-ight. Scramble is on to replace Ryan as speaker. Rumors have been swirling for months on Capitol Hill that Speaker Paul Ryan will either resign his seat or not serve as speaker if he returns to Congress next year. This has set off something of a scramble among top Republicans to position themselves to replace him if the speaker exits the stage. Paul Ryan's Omnibus Bill Provides More Money to New York to New Jersey Tunnel than to Trump Border Wall. Speaker Paul Ryan is set to pass the second largest spending bill in US history next to Barack Obama's trillion dollar failed stimulus. The budget funds all of the Democrat priorities including sanctuary cities and Planned Parenthood. The bill will also funnel billions of dollars to Obamacare markets. Paul Ryan's $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill Funds Planned Parenthood, Sanctuary Cities — Won't Fund Trump Wall. Speaker Paul Ryan is set to pass the largest spending bill in US history next to Barack Obama's trillion dollar failed stimulus. President Trump spoke on Monday [3/19/2018] about the importance of the border wall with Mexico to enhance national security and battle the opioid crisis in America. But once again it is unlikely that funding for the border wall will be included in the spending bill. Democrats don't want it. So it is unlikely Ryan will include it in the bill. UniParty At Work — Paul Ryan SuperPac Campaigned to Elect Democrat Conor Lamb. It's well known that Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan doesn't want to be in an actual leadership position; and it's also well known — enhanced by the campaign, and victory, of Donald Trump — that Republicans did not want to win the majority position and face having to reveal their true UniParty agenda. The evidence of this UniParty positioning has been staring the electorate in the face, repeatedly and brutally, since candidate Donald Trump actually campaigned on key tenets of the Republican party and found himself being openly opposed by GOP leadership. Paul Ryan Flip-Flops On Fiscal Responsibility To Prop Up Obamacare. In February 2010, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), then Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, spoke at the White House health care summit decrying Obamacare as "a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke-and-mirrors." His comments became a viral sensation, so much so that the Wall Street Journal published a condensed version of his remarks as an op-ed. [Video clip] Watch a Painfully Choreographed Interview Between Paul Ryan and Dana Perino. From the House, to the Senate, to the President, Republicans are doing everything they can to sell their tax plan to a clearly skeptical electorate. For House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), that meant a pop in on Fox News Wednesday [12/13/2017] to speak with Dana Perino on The Daily Briefing. And it became clear at the beginning of the six-minute conversation that this was not going to be a probing interview. The questions were amiable from the outset. But at approximately the 3:25 mark of the video above, the segment veered toward full-on choreography — and bad choreography, at that. Top
9 Immigration Objectives Paul Ryan is Blocking. [House Speaker] Ryan is said to be using the humungous year-end
spending bill as a Trojan Horse to conceal an amnesty plan for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens. Fortunately, as
Breitbart's John Binder reports, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) appears to be organizing serious opposition to Ryan's
plan. [...] Binder also notes that Ryan's plan fails to address any of President Donald Trump's popular immigration
priorities: Speaker Ryan Asks GOP Panel For Amnesty Plan. House Speaker Paul Ryan has created a ten-member panel to draft a response to President Donald Trump's no-wall agreement to support the Democrats' huge 'dream' amnesty for at least 3 million illegals. [...] Ryan's private priorities are key. He a long record from the 1990s favoring mass-immigration and "any willing worker" legislation which allows companies to import foreign workers whenever wages rise. His statements and his records show that he favors some form of amnesty deal, likely packaged with provisions for more foreign workers and some modest border security measures. Paul Ryan Buckles Under Trump Pressure — Announces Border Wall Funding Happening Now. The media hasn't mentioned it much because it proves that Donald Trump is decisively outmaneuvering the opposition Republicans. The tactic was simple. Mr. Trump reached out to Democrats with a basic "can we get something done for the American people?" request. This put enormous pressure on Paul Ryan and his cadre of obstructionist Republicans to start moving on at least some of the Trump agenda. This is Ryan buckling under that pressure. This is Ryan conceding the power of Trump and the millions of Trump supporters have forced his hand. Paul Ryan Won't Rule Out Full DACA Amnesty, Claims 'Attacks from Breitbart' a Constant. In an interview with the Associated Press (AP) Wednesday [9/13/2017], Speaker of the House Paul Ryan refused to rule out citizenship for so-called "dreamers" and then complained of "attacks from Breitbart." "Is the speaker supporting legislation that will give DACA recipients a chance for citizenship?" a viewer question to Ryan read, with AP Chief Congressional Correspondent Erica Werner adding, "Do you believe your conference would accept that?" Ryan would not state that this "path to citizenship," an amnesty for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens that has been rejected by Congress every time it has been proposed for more than 15 years, was off the table. Paul Ryan Reportedly Says No Chance for Border Wall at Private Dinner. House Speaker Paul Ryan, at a private dinner earlier this year, said he thought only "one member" wanted to build a wall across the entire U.S.-Mexico border, Breitbart News has learned from multiple sources with direct knowledge of the comments, including former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). The dinner, sources said, took place on the eve of the House's passage of two relatively minor immigration bills at the end of June: Kate's Law and sanctuary city reforms. The far wider reaching Davis-Oliver Act was tabled at the same time. The Paul Ryan problem. It is tough to play hardball with your friends. Have you ever known someone who was exceptionally smart, very personable and highly accomplished, but was not particularly good at managing a large number of independently minded people? I have. His name is Paul Ryan. National Reciprocity Reportedly Going Nowhere Due To Paul Ryan. Republicans are supposed to be pro-gun. Not only is that how Democrats paint them, but it's how Republican lawmakers paint themselves. After all, the Second Amendment is a sacred right and must be defended. Following the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise at the hands of a deranged liberal terrorist, Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a bill for national reciprocity. This bill would make it so concealed carry license would be treated like marriage licenses or drivers licenses; a permit in one state would be recognized in every other state. The bill, however, has stalled, and Massie points the finger for this squarely at Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan In 2014: Executive Amnesty Is 'Blatantly Unconstitutional'. House Speaker Paul Ryan said last week that he doesn't think President Trump should end DACA, although in 2014 he called it "blatantly unconstitutional." "I actually don't think he should do that, and I believe that this is something that Congress has to fix," Ryan said of Trump's decision to end the Obama executive order that protects undocumented children. However, in a 2014 interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Ryan sang a different tune. Following Nancy Pelosi's Lead, Paul Ryan's Spokeswoman Finally Condemns Antifa as 'Scourge'. A spokeswoman for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan condemned the radical left-wing protest group Antifa on Thursday evening [8/31/2017], describing them as "left-wing thugs." In a statement provided to The Daily Caller, Ryan's spokeswoman AshLee Strong said: "Speaker Ryan believes, as is obvious, these individuals are left-wing thugs, and those who are committing violence need to be arrested and prosecuted. Antifa is a scourge on our country." In recent weeks, Ryan has repeatedly failed to condemn the group, and actively contradicted President Donald Trump's claim that there were "many sides" responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, following clashes between white nationalists and Antifa protesters. House Speaker Paul Ryan Stands Against Arpaio Pardon. Jeff Flake, John McCain and now House Speaker Paul Ryan all stand in opposition to President Trump pardoning Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Paul Ryan, John McCain break with Trump on Arpaio pardon. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan opposes President Trump's pardoning of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an aide said Saturday, joining Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain in criticizing the decision. "The speaker does not agree with this decision," said Doug Andres, a spokesman for Ryan. "Law enforcement officials have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the United States. We should not allow anyone to believe that responsibility is diminished by this pardon." The Clownish Commissars of the Culture. Paul Ryan, deferring to the propaganda of the commissars, says Trump "messed up" with his post-Charlottesville remarks. Leave it to the stupid party to ratify the lies of the left. Trump said nothing untrue and has behaved far more honorably than his cowardly "conservative" critics. They joined the anti-Lee mob; he didn't. Remember that the next time one of those critics clears his throat pompously about the "threat that Trump poses to the conservative movement." Those who use that phrase the most advance it the least. Maybe Republicans want to lose the House. [Scroll down] And what is Paul Ryan's incentive to stay on as speaker? He could make five to ten times as much money as a lobbyist. He's never going back to Wisconsin. He is a creature of the swamp. He has lived in Janesville only one year since turning 18, and that was to run for Congress the first time. College in Ohio followed by living in Washington. Eric Cantor lost a primary to David Brat. Cantor was rewarded with a nice lobbying job. 'Tis their nature. Washington has become a magnet for men of weak will and poor character. Capitol Hill Republicans — Starting With Paul Ryan — Need a Backbone. Where are the Republicans? Where are the demands to Mueller that if he is to expanding his Russia investigation then it's past time to bring in the Clintons and investigate the pay-to-play use of the Clinton Foundation, that expensive Bill Clinton speech in Moscow, and the use of the State Department as the ultimate pay-to-play Clinton toy. Newsflash: Democrats and their media allies are playing hardball. They don't want a debate on health care or taxes, they want to delegitimize and overthrow a duly elected President of the United States because they still can't believe they lost the last election. Weak-Kneed Ryan Stalls National Concealed Carry Reciprocity. Our friends at the Virginia Citizens Defense League recently put out an alert letting gun owners know exactly where the problem is with the national concealed carry reciprocity bill — with Democratic Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Poll: 48 Percent in Paul Ryan's District Would Vote for a Replacement. A poll released Thursday [5/11/2017] finds 48 percent of voters in Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan's Wisconsin district want someone new to take his seat. The poll, conducted by progressive firm Public Policy Polling on behalf of a liberal group opposed to the Speaker, also found that 51 percent disapprove of Ryan's job performance, while 43 percent approve. Paul Ryan is proving to be all talk and no action. Now that President Trump has survived his first 100 days, a burning question in Washington is whether House Speaker Paul Ryan will survive the second 100 days. A miracle might be needed. Ryan's repeated inability to pass anything resembling a repeal of ObamaCare goes beyond simple failure. It's shaping up as a potential disaster for the Trump presidency and the GOP congressional majority. With every Republican talking about little else for seven years, and with Trump in the White House, producing a repeal-and-replace bill should have been relatively low-hanging fruit. Paul Ryan's Catastrophic Lack of Political Skill and Judgment. [Scroll down] As the 2016 primary election season was about to begin, Ryan negotiated with the Obama administration an omnibus budget bill once more without bothering to find out what his party would and would not accept. And so he was surprised to find that his Republicans were more than disappointed: they were furious. His agreement funded almost every hot button issue that Obama was desperate to have funded and Republicans were just as determined not to fund: Obama's illegal executive amnesty was funded, his Muslim refugee program funded, sanctuary cities funded, yet there was no money for a border fence. Ryan unmasks himself as biggest threat to GOP, Trump presidency. House Speaker Paul Ryan didn't just step in it again, big time, on the Ryancare bill this week. The Wisconsin Republican unmasked himself as the man most capable of demolishing his own party and the Trump presidency. The Ryan American Healthcare Bill is a piece of moderate GOP trash that Mr. Ryan owns and has been trying and failing miserably to sell as the long-promised Republican repeal and replacement of Obamacare. By telling conservatives in the House and across America to go have intimate relations with themselves and not meddle in the medical-care matters of him and the rest of what passes as House GOP leadership, he has done American politics a favor. Paul Ryan Is Solely To Blame For RyanCare's Demise. Friday's decision to pull the American Health Care Act from the House floor because it lacked enough votes to pass was a culmination of months of bad decisions, poor planning, and terrible messaging by the GOP leadership in the House. This failure undermines not only the party's credibility, but President Trump's purported ability to "make great deals." Worse, it emboldens the left-wing "resistance." Discussion About GOP Replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House Intensifies in White House, Congress. Republican officials in Congress and the White House are now openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House, after Ryan failed to pass the American Health Care Act out of the House and misled the public and President Donald Trump when he promised repeatedly the bill would pass. Ryancare Will Destroy The Republican Majority. So eager was Obama to pass the bill it required shady deals like the infamous "Cornhusker Kickback," false promises ("if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor"), and playing games with House rules to pass it under the reconciliation procedure reserved for tax measures. Even after all that, 34 Democrats joined every House Republican in voting against the bill. The story was the same in the Senate where not a single Republican voted for Obamacare. Still, the healthcare bill offered by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) seems like a premeditated act of defiance against the expressed desires of his own base. And it is an obvious contradiction of Ryan's own rhetoric. Lou Dobbs: Speaker Paul Ryan Should Resign. House Speaker Ryan should resign his post, says Lou Dobbs, the radio host, and anchor of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business Network. Dobbs Tweeted his resignation call Tuesday morning [3/14/2017] after Breitbart posted a pre-election recording of Ryan saying he would never defend President Donald Trump, and as multiple GOP legislators walked away from Ryan's Obamacare replacement proposal, the American Health Care Act. Audio Emerges of When Paul Ryan Abandoned Donald Trump. On a never-before-released private October conference call with House Republican members, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his members in the U.S. House of Representatives he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump forever and would never defend him ever again. In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump was leaked in the weeks leading up to the election, Ryan does not specify that he will never defend Trump on just the Access Hollywood tape — he says clearly he is done with Trump altogether. "I am not going to defend Donald Trump — not now, not in the future," Ryan says in the audio, obtained by Breitbart News and published here for the first time ever. 2 Words That Spell Doom For The GOP's ObamaCare Replacement Plan. When selling the House Republican's health care bill, Speaker Paul Ryan says that ObamaCare is failing and must be replaced. He also promises that the GOP bill will "ensure vital protections for patients with pre-existing conditions." There is just one problem with this formula. ObamaCare is failing precisely because of those very "vital protections" Ryan wants to preserve. Cutting the Obamacare Knots. Conservatives in Congress are not buying Paul Ryan's proposed ObamaCare revisions mainly because Ryan seems have accepted, as Trump implicitly did when he promised nearly universal coverage, the idea that health care services should be provided federally. In effect, Ryan's plan is unacceptable because it accepts the unacceptable: the replacement of individual responsibility for health care by collective responsibility and so drags the nationally socialized health care camel's nose further into the tent. Speaker Paul Ryan Targets His Own Republicans, Not Democrats, with Ads on Health Care. House Speaker Paul Ryan is openly targeting House Republicans with television advertisements — while conspicuously not hitting Democratic members — to try to browbeat them into supporting his healthcare legislation. The remarkable development, in which a GOP leadership-connected organization is now opening fire on the airwaves against Ryan's own members, is ultimately one of the main tactics employed by Ryan's predecessor, former House Speaker John Boehner — one that was instrumental in forcing his resignation in 2015. Ryan: 'We are not planning on erecting a deportation force'. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday [11/13/2016] despite Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric, lawmakers are not prepared to form a deportation force to round-up and deport undocumented immigrants. "We are not planning on erecting a deportation force. Donald Trump's not planning on that," Ryan told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "I think we should put people's minds at ease: That is not what our focus is. That is not what we're focused on. We're focused on securing the border. We think that's first and foremost, before we get into any other immigration issue, we've got to know who's coming and going into the country — we've got to secure the border," he added. Ryan gets unanimous nod to lead GOP in next Congress. House Republicans on Tuesday [11/15/2016] unanimously nominated Paul Ryan to serve his first full term as speaker in the next Congress, casting aside the fears of some conservatives that he would not carry out President-elect Trump's populist agenda. Oh yeah, NOW he's on board. Chatter grows that Ryan could step down. Chatter is growing louder on Capitol Hill that Paul Ryan's days as Speaker are numbered. Four House Republicans, including a senior lawmaker close to leadership, told The Hill they expect Ryan to step down after Tuesday's elections, arguing that he faces a daunting path to the 218 votes he needs to win a full two-year term leading the House GOP. Aides to the Wisconsin Republican insist he isn't going anywhere and that he's completely focused right now on protecting the GOP's majority in the lower chamber. "He is running. The Speaker's only focus until Election Day is defeating Democrats and protecting our majority, and nothing else," Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said. But even some Ryan allies are conceding that the Speaker now finds himself in an untenable position after just a year on the job. Speaker Ryan bracing for GOP attacks after the election. Rep. Paul Ryan has become the top target of pro-Trump forces lurking in the halls of Congress. Although the Wisconsin Representative said he cast his ballot for the party's nominee on Tuesday, the House Freedom Caucus reportedly held a "secret meeting" Wednesday morning [11/2/2016] to discuss their post-election plans. Allegedly on the agenda: a challenge to Paul Ryan's position as Speaker of the House. He's With Her: Inside Paul Ryan's Months-Long Campaign to Elect Hillary Clinton President. Donald Trump made headlines this week when he questioned whether Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wanted him to prevail over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. "Maybe not," Trump told Good Morning America on Tuesday [10/18/2016]. "Because maybe he wants to run in four years... or maybe he doesn't know how to win. I mean, who can really know?" Trump said. The view that Ryan "doesn't know how to win," however, neglects the reality that both Ryan and Clinton share a progressive, globalist worldview, which is at odds with Trump's "America first" approach. The Legend Speaks — Schlafly Thunders for Ryan Ouster: 'Get Rid of Him!' Coming on the heels of her pivotal endorsement that helped propel Donald Trump to becoming the Republican nominee, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is once again entering the 2016 electoral fray. After ending the presidential ambitions of Sen. Marco Rubio, the living legend now has her 91-year-old sights set on the highly controversial House Speaker Paul Ryan, who leads America's globalist political sect and is nominally a member of the Republican Party. Ryan has faced a spirited challenge in his August 9th open primary election from Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen. Double Agent: Paul Ryan Races to Media to Join Hillary's Attacks Against Trump. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan opted to join in on Hillary Clinton's latest attack against his party's nominee. In recent days, the establishment media has devoted a great deal of coverage to Khizr Khan, a Muslim father whose son died serving in Iraq and who spoke at the Democratic National Convention. During his DNC speech, Khan attacked Donald Trump for wanting to curb the record-high rate of Muslim immigration into the U.S. Following the media's practically round-the-clock coverage of Khan's attacks against Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan decided to join in on the pile on. Paul Ryan Comes Out Against Religious Test To Get Into US. House Speaker Paul Ryan defended slain Muslim U.S. soldier Capt. Humayun Khan's military experience after his father spoke at the Democratic National Convention, adding he doesn't believe the country should add a religious test to the immigration process. Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan's Betrayal of GOP Nominee Beneath Dignity of His Office, Morally Disqualifying. Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan for his "repeated betrayals" of both Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and the American electorate, who "who want a leader that will put the interests of America and her citizens first." "Paul Ryan's repeated betrayals of the GOP nominee is beneath the dignity of the Speakers' office and is morally disqualifying," Nehlen declared. Moms Who Lost Kids to Illegals to Rally at Wall Around Paul Ryan's Home. On Saturday [7/23/2016], American mothers who have buried their children as a result of illegal alien crime will be holding a press conference in front of Paul Ryan's personal border wall that protects his family and his estate. These "angel moms" say that Ryan has ignored the American families that have been torn apart by open borders for too long. Paul Ryan Caving on Gun Vote is Exactly Why We Lose. Did you ever hear the saying "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?" Well that is what Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., did yesterday [6/30/2016] when he announced the House would vote next week on a measure that would prohibit people on terrorism watch lists from purchasing firearms. The Hill is reporting that Ryan caved to the demands of Democrats and he is scheduling a gun control vote on the House floor when they come back from recess next week. Paul Ryan Blinks: Will Allow Vote on Gun Control Next Week. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) will allow a vote on legislation dealing with terrorism and guns next week. The details of the legislation have not been made available, but Roll Call reports that Ryan told House Republicans about the vote during a June 30 conference call. During the call, Ryan said it is "common sense that suspects on terror watch lists not be able to buy guns." His announcement of this scheduled vote comes one week after House Democrats ended their 25-hour sit-in for gun control. President Obama Signs Paul Ryan Bill and Immediately Suspends 5th Amendment. Today [6/30/2016] President Obama signed the PROMESA (Puerto Rico Bailout) bill created by representative Paul Ryan, and with it the immediate suspension of the Fifth Amendment which was supported by a Senate vote yesterday [6/29/2016]. The Fifth Amendment protects U.S. Citizens from federal seizure of property without compensation. It applies in this instance to Puerto Rico via the general obligation bonds (property) purchased by municipal bond holders (investing citizens), which were supposed to be repaid, and which congress has now determined can be frozen. In addition, PROMESA suspends legal redress, by blocking bond holders (property owners) from suing the debtor (PR) to recover their property. In essence the Fifth Amendment is suspended, and the rights of those whose property has been confiscated to use the courts has been preemptively denied. Anti-Paul Ryan Billboards Shred the Speaker's Sellout of Ordinary Americans. [Scroll down] While polling data shows that the Republican electorate overwhelmingly backs proposals to temporarily pause Muslim migration, Ryan has rejected such proposals. He has repeatedly ruled out the possibility of making any cuts to Muslim migration — insisting that "that's not who we are," and that such a proposal is "not reflective of our principles." However, Ryan has not explained how importing hundreds of thousands of migrants from nations that hold sentiments that are anti-women, anti-gay, anti-religious tolerance, and anti-America benefits the United States or helps to protect our Western values. Indeed, as a result of large-scale Muslim migration, the U.S. has imported several practices and values that are antithetical to Western principles. House gun control sit-in a media coup, but party gets a pass on disruption. [Scroll down] Unlike the Senate, where anyone can filibuster, the majority party rules the House with an iron hand. So Ryan was basically on target in telling CNN the move was a "publicity stunt." The speaker, like Nancy Pelosi before him, can keep any bill he wants off the floor. What's more, and some of the stories acknowledged this, if there had been a vote, the Democrats would have lost, just as they failed to win approval for four Senate measures, two sponsored by each party. So this is pure protest politics. Back in 2008, when Democrats ran the House, the GOP tried to block an adjournment, refusing to leave while insisting on a vote on an energy bill. Pelosi was dismissive, accusing the Republicans of "obstructing common-sense proposals." She and her party left town for summer recess anyway, darkening the chamber and having the C-SPAN cameras turned off. Paul Ryan's Treason. In an awkward interview with the Huffington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan threatened to sue Donald Trump if he were to ban Muslim immigration or build a border wall with Mexico. Considering the current track record of suing Obama over abuses of power, this is little more than a confession of impotence. And yet it's deeply troubling that a top Republican is willing to go to such lengths to fight for Muslim migration or for that matter illegal immigration in general. Paul Ryan insists that he will continue to "speak up in defense of our principles, in defense of not just our party's principles, but our country's principles", but it's telling that these principles seem to involve illegal immigration and Muslim migration. Since when are either of these representative of our party's principles or our country's principles? And yet they are indeed core principles for Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan: We Have Not Pushed Kate's Law Because We Do Not Want to Clog Up Jails with Illegal Drunk Drivers. In a Wednesday Fox News interview, Speaker Paul Ryan seemed to suggest that the reason the House has not pushed Kate's Law is because he is opposed to "clogging up our jails" with illegal alien drunk drivers. Kate's Law — named in honor of Kate Steinle — would increase the penalty for illegal immigrants who return to the U.S. after being deported. Last year, Steinle was gunned down in broad daylight by a five-time deported criminal alien. [...] On his Wednesday [6/15/2016] program, Bill O'Reilly pressed Ryan — who is the leader of the pro-illegal immigration wing of the Republican Party — on why the House has yet to push Kate's Law nearly a year after her murder. The Saboteur: Speaker Paul Ryan Plans to Sue a Future President Donald Trump Over Muslim Migration Pause. In a sit-down interview with the anti-Trump publication the Huffington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested that he might sue President Trump if he were to enact a temporary pause on Muslim migration into the United States. With his omnibus spending bill, Ryan funded President Obama's expansion of Muslim migration — funding visas for nearly 300,000 (temporary and permanent) Muslim migrants within the course of 12 months. Yet more significantly, Ryan's omnibus fully funded Obama's unconstitutional 2012 executive amnesty for illegal immigrants who allegedly entered the country as minors. Decepticons In Sunlight — Paul Ryan Threatens To Sue Donald Trump Over Temp Muslim Ban. House Speaker Paul 'Omnibus' Ryan is quoted in a Huffington Post interview as threatening to sue President Trump if he attempted to initiate his proposed halt on Muslim immigration: [...] "I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers", Ryan says. That's rather strange, because there's a disconnect. When President Obama declared his November 2014 "executive action on amnesty" or DAPA, neither Paul Ryan nor any other body of congressional authority attempted to sue the president. Exactly the contrary is evident. Through Ryan's Omnibus spending approach, all of President Obama's priorities were fully funded through the end of his entire term in office. Ryan on Trump's Muslim ban: 'I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers'. Though House Speaker Paul Ryan has endorsed Donald Trump, he has made it clear he does not support some of his policies and said he's prepared to take him to court should the presumed Republican presidential nominee move forward with one of them. "I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers," the Wisconsin Republican told the Huffington Post in an interview published Friday [6/17/2016] when asked about Trump's proposed Muslim ban. The Editor says... 'Muslims are our partners': Paul Ryan insists U.S. battle is 'not a war with Islam'. House Speaker Paul Ryan drove another wedge between himself and Donald Trump on Tuesday with a stinging rebuke of his party's presumptive presidential nominee's proposed pause on non-citizen Muslim immigration — saying 'Muslims are our partners' in the war on terror. 'I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest,' Ryan said during a press conference at the Republican National Committee's Capitol Hill headquarters. 'I do not think it is reflective of our principles — not just as a party, but as a country,' he said. Ryan Pushes Passage of Puerto Rico (Bain Capital Bond Seller) "Rescue" Through House. Rat Fink Paul 'Omnibus' Ryan quickly scampers out of view after strategically timing the Puerto Rico Rescue bill to occur on a heavy news days containing White House endorsement and presidential election politics. Let there be no doubt the "rescue bill" vote was timed via scheduling coordination with Obama (heavily supports) and Pelosi (also heavily supports). Exclusive: Longtime GOP Backer Says Ryan Wants Trump To Lose. A longtime Republican financial backer who attended a New York fundraiser held by Chris Christie for Donald Trump Thursday tells The Daily Caller that most Republican donors are on board with Trump, yet House Speaker Paul Ryan is hoping Trump loses so he can run in four years. The source tells TheDC that the reason Ryan has not been coming out strongly for Trump is because of his desire to run in four years. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has been fervently anti-Trump, also wants to run in four years, according to the longtime Republican backer. Romney will be 73 in 2020. David Brat: The Paul Ryan Puerto Rico Rescue Bill "Turns People Into Subjects". Yesterday [6/9/2016] House Speaker Paul Ryan pushed through a Puerto Rico Rescue bill called PROMESA. The details of the bill are fundamentally challenging to understand in scope, however, the key aspect to remember is the underlying benefactor(s) — Wall Street. While Ryan is severely adverse to PROMESA being called a bailout, that's exactly what it is — only worse. The plan structurally changes the dynamics of how State debt is repaid, and the considerations for bondholders under the 5th amendment (seizure of private property w/out compensation); which will lead to a guaranteed bondholder bailout. However, beyond the 'bailout' aspect there is a framework to override state legislative authority and use unelected "control board" appointed by congress to subvert citizen voices and make independent decisions. Ryan changes rules for spending bills. House GOP leaders on Wednesday announced that they will begin restricting contentious amendments on spending bills, a move that critics say violates the party's commitment to regular order. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) used most of a conference meeting Wednesday morning to outline the party's new strategy to unjam the appropriations process. For remaining spending bills, all amendments will be approved by the House Rules Committee before the debate reaches the floor. GOP leaders hope the new rules will lend control to what has been a chaotic appropriations process this spring. Several Republicans in the room said Ryan described it as a last-ditch attempt to block Democrats' "poison pills," amendments they say are designed to derail the underlying spending legislation. House Speaker Paul Ryan is ready to jump off the fence and endorse Trump in bid to unify party, a top Trump official says. House Speaker Paul Ryan is finally ready to endorse Donald Trump for president, a senior-level Trump source said. ABC News reported that a top Trump official said Ryan will be making the endorsement. The story gave no time frame, but Ryan meets with House Republicans Wednesday [5/25/2016] during the regular meeting of the GOP conference. Paul Ryan Says U.S. Must Admit Muslim Migrants, Sends Kids to Private School that Screens Them Out. After the Paris terrorist attack, House Speaker Paul Ryan declared that the United States cannot turn away the hundreds of thousands of Islamist migrants now being approved for visas to enter the United States. Ryan declared that it is not "appropriate" to consider the religious attitudes of would-be migrants seeking admission. After the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Ryan echoed President Obama in condemning what was described as Donald Trump's "religious test." However, a Breitbart News investigation now reveals that while Paul Ryan wants no 'religious test' for who gets admitted into America, Ryan sends his children to a private school that uses a "religious test" in its admissions process. Paul Ryan Declines to Take Position on N.C. Bathroom Law, Mississippi Freedom of Conscience Law. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) declined [4/21/2016] to take a position on the North Carolina law that requires people to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex or the Mississippi law that protects religious organizations and individuals from being forced to act against their consciences on matters involving same-sex marriage, sex outside marriage or transgenderism. Ryan steers clear of transgender bathroom fight. Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday declined to take a position on North Carolina's controversial law forcing transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond to their biological sex. But the Wisconsin Republican also said there should be a "well-maintained balance" as states address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues. "I'm not going to comment on what various different states are doing," Ryan told reporters at a news conference. "Again, all of our committees that have jurisdiction in this area will look at this issue, but it's not my place to get involved in what each state is doing." Speaker Paul Ryan Pushes Puerto Rico Bondholder Cram Down on Conservatives. House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants Congress to pass a law that would cause Puerto Rico bondholders who own $73 billion in notes from the territory's government to be treated the same way the federal government treated Chrysler bondholders back in 2008 and 2009. Friday morning [4/15/2016], Ryan addressed a special meeting of the GOP caucus to attempt to persuade recalcitrant conservatives the cram down is a good idea. Alien Crime Victims to Wisconsin on Eve of Vote: Stop 'Traitor' Ryan from Stealing Delegates. On the the heels of new reports indicating Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) could likely emerge as the GOP nominee should the "#NeverTrump" clique keep Donald Trump from getting 1,237 delegates outright, the American victims of illegal alien crime are now speaking out against the possibility of a President Ryan. Paul Ryan's position on immigration is "treasonous," said Dan Golvach, whose 25-year-old son Spencer was murdered and shot in the head during a drive-by shooting carried out by an illegal alien. Businessman Paul Nehlen to challenge Paul Ryan from right in primary. Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen announced Tuesday [3/29/2016] that he is the tea party-allied candidate who is challenging House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in the Republican primary, saying he's "had it" with the speaker betraying conservatives. Sources first confirmed to The Washington Times earlier this week that a wealthy businessman was mounting a primary challenge to Mr. Ryan in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, but Mr. Nehlen did not reveal his identity until now. [The] Republican Establishment [is] the Next Whig Party. [Scroll down] The other half of the 2012 GOP comedy team, Speaker Paul Ryan — another Republican defeatist — also took a shot at Trump. As speaker, Ryan worked with Nancy Pelosi to pass the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, fully funding ObamaCare, executive amnesties and Planned Parenthood. Conservatives gave the GOP the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. In return, the Republican leadership gave us empty rhetoric and vague promises. The Republican establishment believes it has a divine right to pick the party's nominees. Ford, Dole, McCain, and Romney — the elite has an unerring instinct for disaster. For them, vision and values are irrelevant. It's all about credentials (who's next in line for the nomination) and who won't upset the media by being "divisive." Paul Ryan: 'We're Not Going To Be Talking About Visa Caps'. In a remarkable interview with popular Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) declined multiple times to answer whether he would, as Speaker of the House, allow legislation to proceed curbing the rapid growth of America's foreign-born population. Ninety-two percent of GOP voters want immigration frozen or slashed, according to Pew polling data. Media Chatter: House Speaker Paul Ryan Is The Establishment's Next Challenger to Face Trump. House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) may become the GOP establishment's 2016 candidate who can snatch the nomination or the leadership of the GOP away from pro-American populist Donald Trump, according to D.C. media chatter. But the move — if it happens — may be too late. Any fight between the increasingly popular Trump and the decreasingly popular Ryan would mark a last-ditch effort by the GOP's establishment-business-wing to deny any political power to its conservative voters, likely splitting the party just before the elections that will decide which party gets to control the White House and the U.S. Senate. Laura Ingraham: 'The Bearded Wonder' Speaker Paul Ryan Enabled Barack Obama's Executive Gun Control. Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Laura Ingraham says that "the bearded wonder," House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), is a failure who enabled President Barack Obama's gun control by executive action. "I would love to see the bearded wonder Paul Ryan [...] giving Obama funding for his lawless behavior for the next 12 months," Ingraham said. Executive Gun Control: House Speaker Paul Ryan Supported Background Check Expansion In 2013. With Barack Obama announcing an executive expansion of background checks that is certain to draw ire — and lawsuits — from conservatives and gun rights groups around the country, it is important to remember that House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) supported a very similar background check expansion just two years ago. Paul Ryan — Meet the New Speaker, Same as the Old Speaker! So after the political professional wrestling a few months ago in Washington that resulted in the resignation of John 'Boo Hoo' Boehner, the Republicans replaced Boehner with Boehner! Paul Boehner! New Speaker Paul Ryan appears to be Boehner on steroids after his $1.1 trillion spending bill was passed. Ryan, the head of the (so-called) loyal opposition gave Obama and the Democrats everything they wanted in the bill except repeal of the Second Amendment. He must have forgotten that part. Tea partyers fume over Ryan's spending bill, seek conservative challenger. Conservative activists are targeting House Speaker Paul D. Ryan for a primary challenge next year as retribution for the massive spending bill the Wisconsin Republican ushered through Congress at the end of the recent session. The effort is spearheaded by Wisconsin tea party groups and pro-life activists, who feel betrayed by Mr. Ryan's nearly $2 trillion package. Paul Ryan Blames Sessions and Internet for Omnibus Muslim Migration 'Hyperbole'. [Scroll down] Indeed, Ryan's omnibus not only fully-funds all visas for Muslim immigrants but funds the President's announced expansion of Muslim refugee admissions along with dramatically increasing the caps on H-2B visa issuances. By definition, as Sessions, Cruz, and Shelby all tried to warn Congressional Republicans, the omnibus will fund the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Jihadi regions. That is because Ryan rejected multiple proposals to reduce visa issuances, while instead increasing them. Buyer's Remorse? National Review Slams Omnibus After Backing Paul Ryan As Speaker. The editors of National Review are slamming House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for pushing his omnibus spending bill through Congress. The editors' rebuke of Ryan — in which they accuse him of having far different priorities than GOP voters — comes just two months after the publication endorsed Ryan for Speaker and, in so doing, helped place a man with a two-decade long history of pushing open border immigration policies in charge of the GOP conference. Pelosi Explains Support for Ryan Budget: 'They Were Willing to Concede So Much'. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained her support for the $1.2 trillion spending bill that the Republican Congress passed yesterday and President Obama signed into law by pointing out to reporters that the Republicans "were willing to concede so much" to get the bill passed. The bill, Pelosi noted, did not stop funding of Planned Parenthood, and the Republicans "had to take out their provisions to destroy ACA" — the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare. Pelosi argued that the Republican leaders were so intent on getting a provision to allow exports of U.S. crude oil that they were "willing to give up so much." "Loyalty Has Been Repaid With Betrayal" Jeff Sessions Slams Paul Ryan for Mocking American Workers. [Scroll down] [Senator Jeff] Sessions went on to lay out what the GOP-led Congress would have to do if it wished to claim that it represented Americans, saying, "Congress should defend the citizens of this country with the same passion as the President defends the citizens of other countries." Earlier in the week, Sessions said, "The voters put Republicans in a majority in the 2014 midterm elections — a vote which constituted a clear decision to reject the abuse of our immigration system. That loyalty has been repaid with betrayal." In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly described Jeff Sessions as "the best guy in Congress." Boehner with a beard: Paul Ryan's legacy of surrender. On Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, Congress held up a white flag and surrendered its constitutional authority to make laws and to regulate spending on behalf of the United States government. Instead, Congress has decided to give the president whatever he wants, however much it costs, because they are terrified of being accused of shutting down the government if they insist on responsible spending, representative government, and constitutional separation of powers. In a span of two days, Congress received a 2,000 page bill that authorizes spending $1.1 trillion on a smorgasbord of hundreds of programs both good and bad, and then passed it with hardly any discussion because... well, um, because they wanted to get home for the Christmas break! Paul Ryan Betrays America: $1.1 Trillion, 2,000-Plus Page Omnibus Bill Funds 'Fundamental Transformation of America'. [#1] Ryan's Omnibus Fully Funds DACA [...] [#2] Ryan's Omnibus Funds Sanctuary Cities [...] [#3] Ryan's Omnibus Funds All Refugee Programs [...] [#4] Ryan's Omnibus Funds All of the Mideast Immigration Programs That Have Been Exploited by Terrorists in Recent Years [...]
Paul Ryan's 11 Christmas Gifts to Obama. At 1:34 on Wednesday morning [12/16/2015], the party of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan dropped their Christmas package off at the White House lawn in the form of a 2,009-page omnibus spending bill and a 233-page tax subsidy bill. The House plans to vote on the tax bill today and the spending bill tomorrow. The enormity of this betrayal is breathtaking. At the same time, however, it perfectly illustrates why the American people are done with the Republican Party as currently constituted, as witnessed by the direction of the presidential primary. Amazingly, many "D.C. conservatives" are giving Paul Ryan a pass. Paul Ryan's Omnibus Budget Surrenders to EPA Radicals. Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) continues predecessor Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)'s tradition of surrendering to liberal Democrats. Ryan's decision to remove critical riders from the Omnibus budget bill that intended to stop the EPA's radical and statutorily unauthorized new rules that could devastate America's coal and farming industries is just the most recent version of the GOP white flag. Paul Ryan Builds Border Fence Around His Mansion, Doesn't Fund Border Fence in Omnibus. While Paul Ryan's omnibus spending bill does not provide funding for the mandatory completion of a 700-mile double-layer border fence that Congress promised the American people nearly a decade ago when it passed the 2006 Secure Fence Act, Paul Ryan has constructed a fence around his property. As Breitbart News's photographic documentation reveals, Ryan's home is surrounded by a tall border fence reinforced by equally high bushes — ensuring both privacy and security. Moreover, the fence is manned by an on-duty agent who guards his property's perimeter. Time for Paul
Ryan to go. Paul Ryan is acting like every Democrat's [...] dream. The massive budget he is shoving down
America's throat is a wish list full of everything the Democrats could possibly want. Obama Gives 'Kudos' To Paul Ryan For Helping Pass Omnibus. Obama said John Boehner deserved credit for raising the spending levels before he left office, leaving more room for his successor Paul Ryan to negotiate. But he also pointed out that Speaker Ryan deserved credit for working with Democrats to pass a bill. "I think he is respectful of the process and respectful of how legislation works," Obama said. Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year. The House passed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, negotiated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A majority of House Republicans voted for the measure, which fully funds Obama's refugee resettlement operation, all Mideast immigration programs, Sanctuary Cities, Obama's continued executive amnesty for DREAMers, and the resettlement of illegal aliens within the U.S. interior. In perhaps a display of loyalty to Ryan, three-fifths of the Republican conference supported his legislation, and even gave him a standing ovation following the bill's passage. Do we really want an 'inclusive' political agenda? I suppose Paul Ryan is some improvement over John Boehner, superficially at least. He's sober and doesn't look over-tanned, although his beard is starting to look a little Mufti-ish. But in substance, I see no improvement at all. Ryan Becomes First Bearded House Speaker in 90 Years. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled a new beard on social media [11/30/2015], making him the first House Speaker to sport the facial hair in 90 years. Paul Ryan calls for GOP to support $1 trillion spending bill. House Republican leaders say they're confident the $1.1 trillion spending bill now on the table will be approved by the deadline of Dec. 11, averting a government shutdown. New Education Bill Pushes A Liberal Agenda. After seven years of rule by decree by President Obama's Chicago crony Arne Duncan, why are Republicans about to reauthorize the federal government's authority over the nation's public schools? And why is the new speaker, Paul Ryan, rushing a 1,059-page bill to a floor vote only two days after the text was released on Nov. 30? Report: Speaker Ryan Expanding Taxpayer Bailout For ObamaCare Insurers. This year we taxpayers get yet another round of usurpation from the Progressive Republican GOPe critters, led now by Paul Ryan, who infect the spending body. Speaker Ryan and his team of spending enthusiasts is getting ready to "bail out", meaning give, the ObamaCare health insurance carriers an influx of even more money. How's That Paul Ryan Vote Working Out for You "Conservatives?" Had the Freedom Caucus held firm in mass (nine honorable exceptions did not vote for Ryan), they could have blocked his election. I realize that they didn't have the votes to get their man, but they could have and should have blocked the particularly troublesome Ryan for someone less overtly noxious. For those of us who recognized Ryan for what he is, an errand boy of the Establishment, the brief term of Speaker Ryan is already turning into a disaster. Paul Ryan Rejects Cuts to Muslim Immigration — "That's Not Who We Are". House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is ruling out making any cuts to Muslim immigration. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Ryan declared that considering an applicant's religion would not be "appropriate" and would be fundamentally un-American — insisting "that's not who we are." Rand Paul Says Marco Rubio 'Had Secret Deal With Chuck Schumer' on Immigration. Rand Paul appeared on Mark Levin's radio show Tuesday evening [11/17/2015] to share his thoughts on the refugee crisis and the lack of vetting of Muslim refugees arriving in America. The conservative senator had some other things to say, especially about Marco Rubio. Rubio has always supported an open-borders policy and was part of the Gang of 8, the group of senators that tried to pass amnesty for illegal aliens and would have opened the floodgates to Islamic refugees. Last week Senator Ted Cruz blasted Rubio, saying the Floridian had voted against every single amendment conservatives put forth to the Gang of 8 bill. Paul Ryan's Breathtaking Ignorance of Religious Liberty and Immigration. In case you thought suicidal immigration policies were limited to Obama and his allies, think again. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) evidently believes there is a constitutional right to emigrate to this country. In addition, he appears to believe that the First Amendment of religious freedom applies to everyone in the world and compels us to bring in anyone from every religion, irrespective of the problems endemic in some of its practitioners. Paul Ryan abandons his promise. Well, it was nice while it lasted. Three weeks ago, Paul Ryan accepted the speaker's gavel with a vow to return to "regular order," in which the Congress runs by deliberation rather than fiat and lawmakers have loose rein to amend and shape legislation. "The committees should retake the lead in drafting all major legislation," he said, adding that "when we rush to pass bills, a lot of us do not understand we are not doing our job." That dream died about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday night [11/17/2015]. That's when House leaders announced that they would take up a never-before-seen piece of legislation, written that very day, to rewrite the rules of the U.S. refugee program for those coming from Syria and Iraq. There had been, and would be, no hearings or other committee action before the legislation was rushed Thursday to the House floor, where no amendments would be allowed. Huckabee to Paul Ryan: Stop the 'Importation' of Refugees, or Resign. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Monday [11/16/2015] called on House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to "reject the importation" of refugees into the U.S., or resign the speakership. "If Speaker Ryan will not lead & reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East he needs to step down today & let someone else lead," Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, tweeted. Huckabee's response to the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people is the most forceful thus far of those who seek to prevent refugees from entering the U.S. House Freedom Caucus Chairman: No Commitment From Paul Ryan To Block Import of Muslim Refugees. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) reveals that conservative House members have received no commitment from Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) that he would in any way try to curb the nation's importation of Muslims on visas. By the end of the year, Congress will have to pass a government funding measure to appropriate funds for all federal operations. The Boehner-Obama debt deal, backed by Ryan, established the spending levels — but Congress still has to pass the actual spending bills which contain the money. Boehner II: The Revenge — Ryan Will Fund Planned Parenthood. Paul Ryan is a movement conservative. But he may not be a good Speaker of the House. Being a movement conservative means having conservative instincts on the issues: recognizing the power and virtue of the free market, believing in a government that protects individual rights instead of forwarding imposed notions of material equality. Being a good Speaker of the House means using all the tools at your disposal to stop the agenda of the left. Ryan elected 54th House speaker. The House on Thursday elected Rep. Paul Ryan to serve as its 54th speaker, as Republicans rallied behind the Wisconsin Republican after weeks of infighting over who should take the gavel from retiring Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Dem Whip says Ryan an 'outstanding' choice for speaker. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Wednesday [10/28/2015] that he thinks Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would be an "outstanding" speaker of the House. Paul Ryan handcuffs the next president to Obama's budget. Paul Ryan has endorsed a huge, secretly put together mega-budget that was created in precisely the manner in which he said he wouldn't create budgets. And Democrats love it. Paul Ryan: A Poor Choice for Speaker. Contrary to Republican establishment propaganda, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is not reliably conservative. He has strayed so far from the conservative mainstream that his recent voting record alone ought to instantly disqualify him from consideration as the next speaker of the House. He is the wrong man at the wrong time. If Ryan ends up wielding the speaker's gavel, the low-intensity civil war bubbling in the Grand Old Party may quickly go nuclear. And the fact that Ryan wants to make veteran Beltway lobbyist David Hoppe his chief of staff in the speaker's office should concern conservatives. Speaker Ryan and the Depth of Amnesty Immigration Trickery by GOPe. Having watched the full PBS outline any conservative pundit, media outlet, blogger or activist who doesn't immediately begin pulling back the curtain on this construct doesn't deserve to be considered as legitimate. The PBS story absolutely appears to be the initial thread to discover that Speaker John Boehner's decision to abdicate his position, and the decision by McCarthy to withdraw from consideration, was/is a planned scheme to advance Paul Ryan specifically to attain immigration reform. Paul Ryan Pledges: No Immigration Reform under Obama. Specifically, it extracts Ryan's word that he will not bring up comprehensive immigration reform "so long as Barack Obama is president" and, as speaker, Ryan will not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless a "majority" of GOP members support it. Alabama representative Mo Brooks wrote the letter and will enter it into the Congressional Record on Tuesday morning [10/27/2015]. The Editor says... Paul Ryan Says He'll Run for House Speaker. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., informed his GOP colleagues late Thursday [10/22/2015] that he would run for House speaker, likely ensuring Republicans avoid what could have been a divisive battle to become the party's next leader in the lower chamber. "I never thought I'd be speaker. But I pledged to you that if I could be a unifying figure, then I would serve — I would go all in," Ryan said in a letter to his Republican colleagues. "After talking with so many of you, and hearing your words of encouragement, I believe we are ready to move forward as one, united team. And I am ready and eager to be our speaker." Paul Ryan taps GOP power broker David Hoppe for top job. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has selected David Hoppe, a former adviser to Republican congressional leaders and a longtime Washington lobbyist, to serve as his chief of staff, should Ryan be elected House speaker this week, as is widely expected. The hiring was finalized after Hoppe and Ryan, both Wisconsin natives and proteges of the late New York congressman Jack Kemp, had conversations about Ryan's desire to staff the speaker's office with seasoned aides who are also deeply familiar with conservatism, according to people briefed on the talks. Paul Ryan Says Corporate Lobbyist Would Be Chief Of Staff If He Becomes House Speaker. The Washington Post reported [10/25/2015] if he wins the speaker's job, Ryan will name as his chief of staff registered lobbyist David Hoppe, a former aide to Sens. Trent Lott and John Kyl. The announcement comes a decade after congressional Republicans' so-called K Street Project, which sought to bring lobbyists closer to the Republican policymaking machine, resulted in federal indictments. Federal records show since 2010, Hoppe has lobbied for major financial industry interests such as insurance giant MetLife, the National Venture Capital Association and Zurich Financial Services. Paul Ryan Announces Chamber of Commerce Lobbyist Will Be His Chief of Staff. With this announcement representative Paul Ryan is openly announcing his intention to destroy the conservative elements within the republican party. And yet again, its doubtful anyone will try to stop him. The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue, recently announced his intentions to eliminate opposition to their progressive big government positions and destroy fiscal conservatives (Tea Party). PBS Documentary: House Freedom Caucus Founder Was Key to Paul Ryan, Luis Gutierrez Open Borders Effort. A new PBS documentary has exposed the motivating factors behind House Freedom Caucus members' decision to propel donor-class favorite Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) into the most powerful position in Congress. As Speaker of the House, Ryan will have unilateral control over many aspects of the congressional agenda, including passage of Obamatrade in the lame duck session and amnesty legislation in 2017. How Paul Ryan Went From Wingnut to RINO. It's important to establish two things. First, even when the Tea Party set loved him, Paul Ryan was never a perfect conservative. And second, Ryan was, and continues to be, a very good conservative — and he would certainly be the most conservative Speaker of the House in modern history. Let's begin with conceding the fact that Ryan's voting record has its blemishes. Levin Asks Why Bushtablisment Media Allies Have "Conservatism" Double Standard. Is Paul Ryan a true conservative? The Bushstablishment wants you to think so. Even some in conservative media are pushing Rep. Ryan as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Conservatives Worry About 2017 Amnesty Push From Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio. Conservatives movement-wide worry that the donor class's concerted effort to push House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) into the House speakership — a post he's almost certain to win now that he's running — would ultimately lead to an amnesty push in 2017 alongside Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) if Rubio wins the White House. They are warning now there would be no way to stop such a push since both would be able to woo enough Republicans in Congress into submission on the hot-button issue of immigration, and several say now that 2016 GOP frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump is the last line of defense against such an amnesty blitz. Time To Thank House Rebels For Speaker Paul Ryan? To be sure, it's still possible something could happen that would block Ryan from ascending to the speakership. And it's worth mentioning that a lot of tea party conservatives (I'm thinking here of the talk radio and Breitbart crowd) will continue to undermine him every step of the way. But it's fair to say that if we end up with Speaker Ryan, it will be thanks to House GOP rebels. Paul Ryan's impact on the GOP is only beginning. On one side: Paul Ryan, who said he'd only run for speaker of the House if Republicans were unified, open to reforms, and respectful of his family life. On the other: the House Freedom Caucus, which had influenced John Boehner's decision to retire and Kevin McCarthy's withdrawal from consideration. The Freedom Caucus had a reputation. Combative, aggrieved, empowered. And supportive of Ryan. Even the persnickety Justin Amash of Michigan endorsed him. That adversarial relationship between "conservatives" and "leadership" we had heard about for so long? It melted away. Paul Ryan Unites the Party: 93 Percent of Republicans Oppose His Amnesty Agenda. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) says he'll take the job as House Speaker only if particular groups — including the important House Freedom Caucus — concede to a list of significant demands. Ryan is demanding support across the Republican conference and says he wants to be "that unifying candidate." However, polling data reveals that a Ryan Speakership would do anything but unite the party. Why The Freedom Caucus Betrayed Talk Radio — And Backed Paul Ryan. Despite the vehement protestations of the talk radio (Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham, specifically), Ann Coulter, and the Breitbart crowd, the House Freedom Caucus backed Paul Ryan with a super majority vote (though he fell short of the official endorsement). This paved the way for him to become the next Speaker of the House. You might be wondering how this came to be. Paul Ryan's 'Conservative' Critics. Some of the most prominent political entertainers on the right — Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Mark Levin — have unleashed frantic attacks against soon-to-be Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on the grounds that he's not conservative enough. That is ludicrous. Ryan is among the most articulate and effective conservatives in American politics. The Ryan Test: Do Republicans want to be martyrs or winners? This has been the main question posed to Republicans since the wave election of 2010: governing or rage? The fault line is clearest in the choice of political enemies. For some conservatives, the politically ascendant and intellectually exhausted liberalism of the Obama era is the target. For others, the real enemy is a Republican establishment complicit in a corrupt political order — a GOP establishment that "reflexively surrenders on every issue" (in the words of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)) and must be razed before anything good can grow. Paul Ryan wins broad Republican support in House speaker bid. Rep. Paul Ryan is on the cusp of becoming House speaker after sewing up endorsements Thursday [10/22/2015] from key Republican factions, leaving him in good stead to have the support needed to claim the job when the whole House votes next week. The centrist Tuesday Group and the influential conservative Republican Study Committee blessed Mr. Ryan's bid, showing signs of unity from both sides of the political spectrum after months of internal party warfare. Paul Ryan and the Suicide of the GOP Establishment. Congressman Ryan is one of the world's good guys. But that isn't a qualification to be Speaker of the House. The point of being Speaker, a Republican Speaker, is — to borrow from the late Jack Kemp — to "be a leader." And not just a leader in the sense of pulling people together but a leader who can lead in the direction of a conservative agenda. Not to mention being a leader as a Member's Speaker — not an Imperial Speaker. At least he looks good on paper. Paul Ryan wins House Freedom Caucus support in speaker bid. Rep. Paul Ryan won over most of the members of a key conservative caucus Wednesday night [10/21/2015] as he tried to stitch together enough support to become the next House speaker, amid ongoing concerns about his list of demands and worries that his need to be drafted into the job does not bode well for someone filling Congress' top constitutional post. The House Freedom Caucus, which was a major part of the maneuvers that pushed Speaker John A. Boehner to announce his retirement, met with Mr. Ryan and then took a vote in which about two-thirds said they would back him when the time comes next week. 'Supermajority' of House Freedom Caucus to back Paul Ryan's speaker bid. The decision to back Ryan by the House Freedom Caucus, a group of nearly 40 lawmakers that has risen in power and stature since its founding this year, came after the Ways and Means Committee chairman spent much of his day courting its support. The group stopped short of an official endorsement, which would have required 80 percent support, but members said a "supermajority" of the caucus would back a Ryan bid for speaker. House Freedom Caucus Will Not Endorse Ryan. House Freedom Caucus members confirmed that they were not able to reach the 80% threshold required to endorse Paul Ryan for Speaker. Representative Raul Labrador called it a "supermajority support" for Ryan. "We were not able to reach a consensus" on an official endorsement, he told reporters, but added that "two thirds of the caucus will be voting" for a Ryan speakership. "If he wants to be speaker, he's got the votes," added Representative Mick Mulvaney. Levin: Paul Ryan Told Me We Could Repeal 85% of Obamacare, Then He Did Nothing. The Republican Establishment likes to tell conservatives that they lack the votes to actually do what they campaigned on. If they could just get more members then, they could really deliver on the conservative rhetoric of their campaigning. Conservative Review Editor in Chief Mark Levin just called the establishment's golden boy du jour, Paul Ryan, on that lie. Republican voters are spitting mad at the establishment GOP. And they should be. The establishment to date has tossed aside the grass roots and has worked to undermine the everyday voter at every turn. Why is Boehner out? Because Republican voters didn't trust him and they made it known. Why did McCarthy run into a brick wall[?] Similar reasons. Why is Paul Ryan hesitant to take the Speaker reigns? Because Republican voters are sick to death of being sold out and Ryan wonders if he can handle the heat. Freedom Caucus Balks at Paul Ryan, Refuses to Endorse Him. If House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is true to his word, he will drop out of contention for the House Speakership. The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday evening voted against endorsing Ryan — an endorsement Ryan considered essential to formally launching a bid for House Speaker. Conservatives Rally Against 'Mafioso-Style' Paul Ryan Speakership Demands. Conservatives are coalescing movement-wide against an effort by House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to ascend to the Speakership in the wake of outgoing Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)'s forthcoming resignation. "Paul Ryan is Boehner 2.0, except worse. Boehner didn't keep his promises, but at least he made them," ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell said in a statement. Just Say "NO" To Amnesty and Paul Ryan As Speaker. In the two weeks since establishment Republican House Majority Leader Keven McCarthy unexpectedly dropped out of the race to succeed his mentor, Speaker of the House John Boehner, the inside-the-Beltway elite have scrambled mightily to find a suitably pliable replacement. After postponing the election, so they could stall around until they win, they still haven't been able to find a candidate who can credibly claim to appeal to conservatives, so they've apparently settled upon another strategy — forcing House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan down the throats of reluctant conservatives. And it just might work unless members hear from their constituents that they want no part of a Speaker of the House, like Paul Ryan, who favors amnesty for illegal aliens, open borders and the rest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce agenda that would continue the destruction of the quality of life of America's working families. Paul Ryan Demands Repeal of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson's Rule. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to repeal a rule put in place by the third President of the United States and Founding Father — Thomas Jefferson — before he'd become Speaker of the House. [...] The provision Ryan wants repealed was authored by America's Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, according to National Review, in order to give members of the House power to remove the sitting Speaker of the House. Ryan Wants Conservatives To Sign Their Own Death Warrant. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has conditions to become Speaker of the House. One of those conditions is that the House of Representatives gut the ability to remove a future Speaker. [...] House conservatives would be insane to agree to these terms. Ryan is actually promising very little by way of specifics. Instead, he wants a unanimous election and then he will go into details. Put another way, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 55% wants to get elected after it is made impossible to get rid of him, then he will really get into specifics. Amnesty anyone? Conservatives Call Paul Ryan's Demands a 'Non-Starter'. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said the demands that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making before running for Speaker of the House are "unreasonable," while Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) said one of his demands is a "non-starter." "You know, I'm not sure he wants the job," Massie said on CNN. "His list of demands were so bold, they pass almost into the unreasonable." Everything Wrong With the GOP in One Story. After more than a week of pontificating, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has blessedly emerged to notify the GOP he will reluctantly take up the mantle of the most powerful elected position in the party on one condition. Oh, and it's not really that demanding of a condition, fellow plebeians. All Ryan wants is the same thing Obama wants — unconditional allegiance. Paul Ryan Lays Out His Demands. During his meeting(s) with the Republican caucus, no-one else was allowed to speak, make inquiries, or challenge his presentation. He came, he spoke, he laid down the rules and he walked out without answering questions or allowing questions to be raised. The various descriptions of what took place sound like typical GOPe maneuvers. You get the sense the "establishment" elite are preparing for a vulgarian presidency — and authoritative control over the speakership position is a way to deflect/diminish any lost control, power or influence. Paul Ryan Doesn't Believe in Borders or National Sovereignty. As the donor class continues to push for a Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) Speakership, conservative activists have renewed their scrutiny of Ryan's support for a radical Republican policy of open borders. Breitbart News has discovered yet another little-noticed video in which Ryan articulates his commitment to immigration policies that would dissolve America's sovereignty. Paul Ryan Will Run For Speaker — If Conservative Colleagues Stop Being A 'Problem'. The establishment wing of the Republican party is finally getting its wish. After meeting with House Republicans this evening, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted during a press conference that he was willing to run for Speaker of the House — but only if they met a list of demands of what it would take to get him to run. The Editor says... Obama's OFA Thanks Paul Ryan, John McCain for Helping Push Amnesty. Organizing for Action, the community organizing group rebooted from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign remnants that uses BarackObama.com as its website, has thanked House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and other Republicans supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants. OFA Year-End Immigration List Thanks Paul Ryan, John McCain for Helping Amnesty. Organizing for Action, the community organizing group rebooted from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign remnants that uses BarackObama.com as its website, has thanked House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and other Republicans supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants. Boehner faces treacherous path to the exits. Everyone wants to know whether Paul Ryan is going to run for speaker of the House. No one wants to know more than Speaker John Boehner. Boehner intends this week to set a date for the election to succeed him. But he doesn't know whether Ryan will run, and, if not, the Ohio Republican could be in a serious jam. No Replacement, No Vote. Last week, U.S. House speaker John Boehner backed down on immigration surrender. It took a firestorm of grassroots opposition to make the speaker drop Paul Ryan's cave-in to big business interests (led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and the left, arrayed throughout the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, show biz, academia, and whatever other crags and holes they inhabit. [...] The speaker isn't to be trusted — on immigration reform and other vital issues. Jeb Bush: Opposing Amnesty 'Makes No Sense To Me'. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush courted Wall Street donors on Monday [5/11/2015], saying that he could not understand amnesty opponents who made no sense to him. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Bush addressed a Manhattan Institute crowd along with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who has also embraced amnesty legislation, and doubled down on his support for an immigration reform bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers while not securing the border. Paul Ryan's Pelosi-Esque Obamatrade Moment: 'It's Declassified And Made Public Once It's Agreed To'. Chief Obamatrade proponent House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted during Congressional testimony on Wednesday evening [6/10/2015] that despite tons of claims from him and other Obamatrade supporters to the contrary, the process is highly secretive. He also made a gaffe in his House Rules Committee testimony on par with former Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) push to pass Obamacare, in which she said infamously said: "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." National Journal: Paul Ryan Will Lead House on Amnesty After GOP Primaries. The National Journal's Major Garrett is out with a new report detailing how House GOP leadership plans to push an immigration bill that would grant amnesty to America's at least 11 million illegal aliens in 2014, a bill that would move after GOP primary season and have House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) leading the way. The Wall Street Journal's pathetic attempt to see Paul Ryan become Speaker of the House. Over at the GOP establishment's press release reprint service known as The Wall Street Journal, the panic over Kevin McCarthy's sudden withdrawal from the race for the Speaker's gavel is palpable. Decrying a "toxic crack-up inside the Republican conference", the Journal says the real issues in Washington are the fault of the "Refuseniks" (the party's conservative base and its representatives, albeit a better epithet than "hobbits"). According to the WSJ rocket scientists, conservatives blame the GOPe "for all the country's problems, not President Obama." That kind of sheer unvarnished idiocy is not unexpected from the GOP, which now seeks to install Boehner Lite — Paul Ryan — as Speaker. The Tea Party is the only thing [good] about the GOP. Paul Ryan asks conservatives to trust Congress to make cuts in 2016 as he discards cuts from 2011. The existence of Santa Clause [sic] is more plausible. But if spending reductions do materialize in future budget deals in the only way they ever really can — by making cuts the law of the land as the sequester did — it will be most likely due to the efforts of the Tea Party movement. Congress Fakes Fiscal Responsibility. The most risible aspect of a risible bill is the claim that entitlement spending caps set to take effect a decade hence — after four congressional and two presidential elections — will save tens of billions of dollars. Yet as Congress approved this provision it was abandoning the discretionary spending caps approved just two years ago. Rep. Ryan and his Republican cohorts gave up $62 billion in real outlay increases for fake future cuts. It's the standard Washington game that is constantly replayed. Paul Ryan's Deal Throws away 2014 Advantage. Republicans in the United States just damaged their chances of winning elections in 2014, while trying to increase their chances. That is what is wrong with the Republican Party: A total failure to properly diagnose or understand the Party's circumstances cripples it. What Ronald Reagan saw so clearly, Republican insiders cannot grasp. Mark Levin: 'Entrenched' Republican 'losers' may cost GOP the House in 2014. Conservative talker Mark Levin blasted Republican House leaders on his Tuesday [8/13/2013] radio show, warning that by attacking more conservative members of the GOP, Speaker John Boehner and prominent Reps. Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor are throwing away the 2014 midterm elections. Levin, author of "The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic," said the GOP establishment's disparagement of conservative colleagues, could be a disaster in a midterm "turn out the base" election. Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption of Children by Homosexuals. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, used to oppose adoption of children by homosexuals but now says it is okay for gays to adopt kids and that he would vote to support such a policy. The Catholic faith, which Ryan professes, teaches that such adoptions "are contrary to the divine plan" of God and Pope Francis has said that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children. Governor Nikki Haley Trump 2.0's Team. [Scroll down] The next is Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the UN under Trump. At the end of her tenure, Haley lauded and thanked Trump. But like Graham, she capitulated following the January 6th protests and claimed Trump let everyone down. In 2021, Haley claimed that she wouldn't run for President in 2024 if Trump ran. But Haley ran against President Trump anyway. When she lost the primaries, she didn't endorse Trump, the way other losers such as DeSantis, Ramaswamy, etc. did. This violated the pledge during the primaries to endorse the winner. An endorsement is important since it signals supporters to align themselves with the winner. A week before the election, Hailey slammed Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, claiming that the "bromance and this masculinity stuff" makes women uncomfortable" and is "not the way to win women." Following Trump's victory Hailey was complimentary. Nikki Haley: 'I Don't Know' if Trump Would Follow the Constitution in a Second Term. In a preview of her interview that will air Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) said she didn't know if former President Donald Trump would follow the Constitution in a second term. Anchor Kristen Welker asked, "Do you think Donald Trump would follow the Constitution if he were elected to a second term?" Haley said, "I don't know. I mean, you always want to think someone will, but I don't know." Nikki Haley Is The Media's Useless Idiot. Nobody can blame Nikki Haley for continuing her not-a-chance-in-heaven campaign for president — she has nothing to lose and lots of money to gain — but it's helpful to remember that if not for the media's white-hot hatred for Donald Trump, they would have absolutely razed her life and family months ago. Literally, the only reason she's even still able to show her face in public is because the media know her candidacy is of zero consequence. She's not a threat, she's not popular and her sole contribution to the 2024 election cycle has been to give moms on a midday wine buzz something to chat about. She's utterly useless. She's not even hurting Trump, which is what the media count on Republicans like Haley to do. At the start of the year, the former president was averaging 51 percent support nationally among GOP voters. Since then, there have been three primary contests. He dominated them all and his support increased by 10 points. By contrast, Haley's support among party voters has so far maxed out at less than 20 percent at the end of January and has trended downward since. Women in power abuse it. [Scroll down] Which brings me to Nikki Haley, who is running for president on the platform of being a woman. Democrats are pushing for her nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. The Chicago Tribune said in an editorial, "Trump's derisive nickname for Nikki Haley is an insult to a strong, qualified GOP woman." While acknowledging that he does the same thing to men, the newspaper said calling her Birdbrain is an affront to women, particularly suburban women. I do not recall anyone in the newspaper game object to calling Trump Hitler, except for those who sarcastically said it was an insult to Hitler. I conclude that the editorial staff at the Trib is less concerned about using as a political epithet the man who wiped out two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe than they are questioning the intelligence of a woman who believes slavery had nothing to do with the civil war. The Brainiac from South Carolina stopped tweeting this weekend after she posted this, "12 fellas down. 1 to go." But of course, Nikki did not defeat any of those 12 men. Trump did. Nearly a Dozen Nikki Haley Supporters Greet Her in Her Home State. [Video clip only.] Nikki Haley Doesn't Care If She Helps Democrats Hold the White House. Former South Carolina Governor Nimarata 'Nikki' Haley has indicated that she doesn't care if dragging out the Republican presidential nomination contest damages the former President Donald Trump, the all-but-certain 2024 nominee. A defiant Haley, armed with Democrat and globalist donor cash, has refused to drop her primary bid despite not having won any of the first three primary contests. Haley finished a distant third place to Trump in Iowa, lost by over 10 points in New Hampshire, and didn't even participate in the Nevada Caucus, where Trump secured just over 99 percent of the vote. "I'm weakening Trump because of who Trump is," said in South Carolina earlier this week, adding: "Telling the truth in a primary is very important, so that's what I'm doing." Despite Trump's near-insurmountable position in the primary, Haley has remained confident. Nikki Haley Hilariously Loses to 'None of the Above' in Nevada. Nikki Haley hasn't been faring well in the GOP primaries thus far (to put it mildly). But she appeared to have a foolproof plan for Nevada. While everyone else who bothered to run is competing in the caucus tomorrow, Haley was the only prominent candidate to enter their name in yesterday's primary. As it turns out, that plan didn't work out very well either. Haley managed to lose by a significant margin to "None of these candidates." The "none of the above" option drew more than 60% of the vote in a race with very sparse turnout. Nikki Haley pretends to be 'overwhelmed' by fake messages of praise she may have written herself. Nikki Haley is far behind former President Donald Trump in the polls and we're getting closer to the South Carolina primary. She doesn't want to do badly there because it's her home state, and losing there could not only end her campaign but even if she stays in the race, it might damage any future hopes she might have for office. So Haley seems to be trying to draw in more people, but her latest move may have the opposite effect. She (or someone running her account) posted two messages praising her and a message saying she was "overwhelmed" by the praise. "Americans want a choice in this election, not a rerun," Haley said. "I'm overwhelmed by all of the kind words! We'll keep working hard to make you proud." Nikki Haley appears to fabricate her own fan mail. Yesterday, [Nikki] Haley took to social media to level a passive aggressive attack against President Trump, stating that Americans "want a choice, not a rerun." Now, all the polls[,] and Haley's back-to-back (double-digit) losses[,] and the MAGA energy of the Republican base suggest otherwise, but that's all beside the point — Haley appears to have shared fake fan mail as evidence of her popularity: [Tweet] The Editor says... She's a RINO and a vulture! Is Nikki Haley a Candidate in the America First Mold? Nikki Haley, who is opposing Donald Trump in the primaries for the Republican presidential candidate, has been described as a shape-shifter. This is not without good reason. Driven by ambition, she seems to have abandoned what the Republican Party stands for. Her views on climate change, communist China, free speech, and illegal immigration are out of sync with GOP voters and conservative thinkers. Besides, her wishy-washiness on the Great Reset, DEI/CRT, and gender fluidity raises doubts about her America First bona fides. Voters must cut through the contradictions Haley personifies. She certainly isn't the ideal Republican presidential candidate. Consider the political legerdemain she has adroitly deployed. Also, consider the web that links her to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and influence of the political fiefdoms of the Koch empire and master manipulator George Soros. In a play for young voters indoctrinated with dubious climate hysteria, she proclaimed that climate change is real and that the U.S. needs to tell China and India to cut emissions. As governor of South Carolina, she signed legislation supporting the solar industry. In Iowa, the nation's top fuel ethanol producer, she endorsed carbon capture and storage from ethanol plants as "good for the environment." Nikki is Hillary 2.0. Nikki will take the votes from, well, from wherever. She got 70% of her votes last night from 'unregistered Republicans.' Nikki is like Hillary, a lot. She has the unquestioning support from the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, which has been pushing her for weeks, and even continues to do so. One of the Journal's editorial board members endorsed Hillary in 2016. As had Hillary, Nikki has bundles of campaign cash — from RINOs to Wall Street, to NGO heavyweight pen-pushers — in her political purse, for now. The level of cash support for candidates, as we've seen, can have a heady and indiscriminate moral effect on public-servants-to-be. There is also the U.N. tie, with Nikki. She had those years, under Trump's patronage in New York City, a Hillary stomping ground, and generally hobnobbing with the NGO bureaucratic state and the fantastically rich. Clinton weighed in frequently with the U.N. in her stint as Secretary of State. She's got the Clinton Foundation, having recently reinvented itself via the Ukraine War. Haley quickly set up a non-profit foundation, with the help of anonymous donors, after she left the Trump administration. Two Large Money Donors Ditch Neo-Con RINO Nikki Haley Despite Her Vow to Continue Presidential Race. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will likely be hard-pressed to continue her doomed presidential campaign as large-money donors have begun to abandon ship. CNBC reported Wednesday [1/24/2024] that notorious Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman decided that he had wasted enough money on the Haley campaign and is closing his wallet. As TGP readers know, Hoffman has cut big checks to Joe Biden's reelection effort and also donated $250,000 to a super PAC backing Haley. Nikki Haley's Strategies? Nikki Haley just lost the New Hampshire primary by 11 percent. She had earlier come in third in the recent Iowa caucuses behind Ron DeSantis. But DeSantis, not she, dropped out of the race. He then endorsed front-runner Donald Trump. By contrast, Haley confidently announced that at last there was a two-person, head-to-head race. So she confidently headed to New Hampshire. Her subtext was that if she did not win the upcoming two-person primaries, she would come in "second" rather than "last." Her supporters outspent all the candidates in Iowa and would do so again in New Hampshire. Haley consolidated the Never-Trump voters, won Independents and cross-over Democrats, and garnered millions from the donor class exasperated at the thought of a third Trump candidacy. Moreover, nearly half of those who voted in the Republican primary were not themselves Republicans. New Hampshire was the most Haley-friendly primary in the entire campaign season. Nikki Haley Said in 2021 That She Would Not Run Against Trump In 2024. Nikki Haley previously said that she would not run against President Donald Trump in 2024. Her false promise makes it clear that she is dishonest and not to be trusted. The establishment is trying to force Nikki Haley onto a potential Trump ticket as Trump's running mate, but President Trump and Don Jr. are resisting the ploy. "I would not run if President Trump ran," Nikki Haley said in 2021, making it clear that she is a no-good liar because, as we can clearly see, she is now running for president against Trump in 2024. Nikki Haley Campaign Manager Sends Letter Saying the Haley Plan Is to Use "Open Primaries" and Democrats. Sometimes the reality of the fraudulent plan just hits you harder when you see the people who construct the fraud write it down and promote it. In a letter from Nikki Haley's campaign manager Betsy Ankney, the corporate-funded plan to use "open primaries" is not only admitted, but also espoused as the core element of the Nikki Haley strategy. [...] The only Republican politician I can remember campaigning with such an open intention to defy the will of the Republican base voter was Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who lost the Republican primary to Joe Miller, then openly asked Democrats to vote for her as a write-in during the general election. What Nikki Haley is openly stating, as her intention, is filled with an equal amount of disdain for the Republican voters and off-the-charts arrogance. Seventy Percent of Nikki Haley Voters Not Registered Republicans, CNN Exit Poll Says. Nikki Haley relied heavily on the support of Independents and Democrats in the New Hampshire primary yet still lost by wide margins. Of Haley voters in the Granite State, CNN said, "about 7 in 10 said they were registered as undeclared prior to Tuesday." CNN relied on an exit poll to make its shocking statement. New Hampshire's loose requirements allow for voters to cross over, while future Republican caucuses and primaries will consist overwhelmingly of registered Republicans. Exit Polling Shows That Majority of Nikki Haley Voters Are Not Registered Republicans. As the New Hampshire primary election occurred today, an exit poll showed that the majority of voters who cast their vote supporting former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley were not registered Republican. According to the CNN exit poll, 70 percent of voters for Haley were registered undeclared. Twenty-seven percent were registered Republican, while 3 percent of voters were unregistered before today. Among voters for former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, 70 percent were registered Republican. Twenty-seven percent were registered undeclared. CNN noted in its coverage that it's a "complete reversal" when the two candidates were compared. Forget Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom — Dems' Choice to Replace Biden is Nikki Haley. [Scroll down] LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and "one of the Democratic Party's biggest financiers," also an Epstein Island visitor, gave $250,000 to a Nikki Haley Super PAC. Why would a liberal Democrat mega-donor support a Republican candidate? Hoffman must approve of Haley's platform and plans for America. Reid Hoffman is not only funding Haley's campaign, but also E. Jean Carroll's farcical lawsuit against Donald Trump. Will Haley be beholden to Hoffman's leftist politics and agenda? The open borders, Trump-hating Koch Brothers, endorsed and are financially supporting Haley's campaign, too. Perhaps they like Nikki's position on the border rather than Trump's "build the wall" approach. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who couldn't lobby his caucus to fund a southern border, is lobbying Congressional Republicans to support Haley. Pro-war, former conservative Republican, now liberal Democrat, Bill Kristol also endorsed Haley. Perhaps he shares Nikki's "I love war" platform for America. What are Haley's views on illegal migration? She wants to roll out the welcome mat: "We don't need to talk about them as criminals. They're not. They're families that want a better life." The Constitution Does Not Allow Children Born Of Non-Citizens To Become President Of The United States. [Scroll down] If the only two remaining viable candidates are, in fact, Trump and Haley, it should actually just be a one-person race. That is because of the two, Donald Trump is the only candidate still running who qualifies as a natural-born citizen under the Constitution's Eligibility Clause in Article II, Section 1. Unlike Nikki Haley, President Trump's two parents were both citizens at the time he was born on American soil, in Queens, New York, in 1946. His father was a citizen by birthright, his mother was naturalized — and completed the naturalization process years before Trump's birth. Therefore, he meets the Constitutional standard for eligibility. Nikki Haley, on the other hand, is a much different story. Nikki Haley was born "Nimarata Randhawa" in Bamberg, South Carolina, in 1972. But at the time of her birth, neither one of her parents were American citizens. As recently unearthed by investigative journalist Laura Loomer, both "Haley's parents were Indian immigrants who did not become U.S. citizens until after her birth in 1972. The One County Out of 99 that Trump Lost in Iowa Ran Out of Party-Switch Forms on Caucus Night. The One County Out of 99 Counties that President Trump lost in Iowa on Caucus night ran out of party-switch forms on Caucus night. President Trump won every single county in Iowa on Monday night except Johnson County, where Iowa City and the University of Iowa are located. Nikki Haley won that county. On Tuesday, CBS News explained how this happened. Poll Shows More of Nikki Haley's Iowa Supporters Would Vote for Biden Over Trump. The Iowa caucuses are upon us, and it appears former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has improved her position, according to the most recent poll. But while the survey reveals favorable results for the candidate, what it says about her supporters in Iowa is also noteworthy. The poll revealed that most of her supporters would vote for President Joe Biden if former President Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. While the overwhelming percentage of Republican voters in Iowa would support Trump if he gets the GOP nod, Haley's supporters have a different plan. The unelecting of a president. Trikki Nikki had to cancel a campaign rally in Iowa because no one showed up. John Schan tweeted, "Old: please clap. New: please show up." Haley is 30 points behind Trump in the polls — and that's in South Carolina, where she once was governor. She is being done in by the biggest liberal in the Republican Party: herself. Nikki Haley Cancels Iowa Campaign Event After Nobody Shows Up! Her narrative is dependent on what her largest financial donor wants at the moment. She is the epitome of what is wrong with this country. [Video clip] The Editor says... Karoline Leavitt: Liberal Globalists Rallying Around Their 'Chosen Candidate,' Nikki Haley. Liberal globalists are rallying around their "chosen candidate," Nikki Haley, MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday. "Right now, we are nine days away from the Iowa caucuses, and the open border liberal globalists and the Democrat donors around the world are doubling down on their chosen candidate, and that is Nikki Haley," Leavitt declared, describing the former South Carolina governor as an "open border globalist" and "vessel for the Never Trump establishment movement on both sides of the aisle — both Democrats and Republicans." Nikki Haley Revives George W. Bush's 'Any Willing Worker' Policy to Import More Foreigners for American Jobs. Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley is reviving former President George W. Bush's so-called "Any Willing Worker" policy that sought to import foreign workers for American jobs at the direction of special interest groups. During a CNN town hall in Iowa, Haley endorsed allowing special interest groups such as Big Agriculture, the tourism industry, and Big Tech to set legal immigration levels whenever they claim to have a labor shortage. Some Suggest Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Is Seen As A Plant For Democratic Party. If you're a Republican, you're not imagining things when considering GOP presidential prospect Nikki Haley is being promoted by left-wingers — in an effort to torpedo the right's influence within the Republican Party. The latest example came Thursday from the Epoch Times, which reported that David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, said Democrats and independents could upset former President Donald Trump by voting for Haley. The Times noted that Plouffe seemed to be suggesting that Democrats and left-leaning independents could, in states where it's allowed, opt to vote in the GOP primary to undermine Trump. Trump Totally Should Pick Nikki Haley for His Veep. Let me make it clear from the beginning that I think Nikki Haley (R-Boeing) is a vapid establishment automaton who is basically the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party, a Bushesque mediocrity who represents a dying ideology that peaked in 2005, and good riddance to it. She's the worst — self-righteous, annoying, always spewing grrrl-power nonsense and hack clichés salvaged from the back catalog of the Weekly Standard. She's a disaster on every level, one of those people who is both very aggressive and always wrong, the worst possible combination. Nikki Haley in 2015: Americans Should Not Call Illegal Aliens 'Criminals' Because 'They're Not'. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), now running in the Republican presidential primary, previously said Americans should not describe illegal aliens "as criminals," suggesting that doing so is "disrespectful." In July 2015, a month after then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his candidacy with a speech centered on stemming illegal immigration, Haley joined a panel with the Aspen Institute moderated by then-CEO Walter Isaacson. Nikki Haley Buys $2.4 Million Waterfront Property in South Carolina Five Months After Joining Boeing's Board of Directors. Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and Republican presidential candidate, has made headlines with the purchase of a grand waterfront estate on Kiawah Island, a wealthy beach community known for its seclusion, golf courses, and high-profile guests. This purchase occurred in October 2019, comes approximately five months after she accepted a position on the board of directors for Boeing, the aerospace giant, the New York Post reported. The property, a 5,700 square foot Mediterranean-style mansion that commands vistas of the Kiawah River, is fringed by centuries-old oaks and palmettos and was secured for 2.4 million — a figure markedly lower than the initial 3.3 million asking price. Why Nikki Haley Is The Neoliberals' Favorite Republican. Nikki Haley is campaigning to the wrong crowd. Her campaign would probably say that's part of her strategy. To conservative voters, that's exactly the problem with Nikki Haley: Republican primary voters aren't Haley's real constituency. The individuals Haley is truly trying to appeal to, the people whose opinions she cares about the most, are the neoliberal elites who run establishment institutions like the media and Wall Street banks. Tucker Carlson, my former boss, made this point over a year ago. I was with him in Iowa when he gave a speech explaining why Haley is unfit to lead the Republican Party. In the speech, Carlson recalled Haley's response to George Floyd's death in 2020. Just days after the incident (and notably before any facts had emerged) Haley tweeted that "in order to heal," Floyd's death "needs to be personal and painful for everyone." Nikki Haley rakes in cash — from Democrats looking to stop Trump. As Nikki Haley nabs endorsements from Republican kingmakers, some wealthy Democratic donors also have begun quietly funneling cash to her campaign, On The Money has learned. In a desperate bid to chip away at Donald Trump's odds for the GOP nomination, a coterie of DNC donors are sending checks to Haley — even as they continue to publicly voice support for Biden and push for his White House bid, sources said. Deep-pocketed participants view the unusual diversion of funds as an "opposition effort" against another Trump presidency, according to insiders. "If we're going to lose, let's lose to her, not Trump," one source said of Democratic donors' thinking. Wealthy donors can obscure contributions to candidates by funneling cash through shell companies to political nonprofits — donations that are referred to as "dark money". After Pledging $70 Million, Charles Koch Selects Nikki Haley as the Vessel to Remove His Trump Problem. In the era where they refuse to accept their irrelevance, billionaires and their political money are easy parted. So goes the game of grift amid the professional political class when contrast against the power of We The People. It's actually quite funny to watch and doesn't annoy me one bit. Charles Koch, a man of notorious disposition who loves open borders and multinational trade — which puts him on the outside of the America First movement, had previously pledged to spend $70 million (through his Americans For Prosperity political action committee) to remove President Trump. Today, Charles Koch selected Nikki Haley over Ron DeSantis to be the vessel for his effort. Nikki Haley Wants to Destroy The First Amendment. Presidential candidate Nimarata "Nikki" Haley made national headlines last week proposing to run roughshod over the First Amendment by pledging to use government power to effectively dox every anonymous account on private social media companies. While she failed to mention Elon Musk's platform by name, the clear object of her derision was X — the only major social media company that allows some semblance of the ancient concept of free speech, which is otherwise on life-support if not dead already on much of the rest of the internet, to still exist. Haley explained her policy on Fox News: "They need to verify every single person on their outlet, and I want it by name." The irony of this policy proposal, as noted by many commentators, is that even Haley does not honestly represent herself online by using the fake name, Nikki, instead of her birth name, Nimarata — and so would also be penalized by her own policy. But the more fundamental point is just how anti-American — and dangerous — Haley's statements are. Haley: We Have to 'Humanize' Abortion Issue — We've Got to Stop 'Demonizing' It. Friday [8/25/2023], during an appearance on FNC's "Fox & Friends," former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, argued the correct approach to taking on abortion for Republicans was to "humanize" it. According to the former South Carolina governor, the GOP demonizing it only added to the division in the country. Nikki Haley Is Hillary 2.0. Of all the terrible things about Nikki Haley — her enthusiasm for more foreign war funding, her deference to corporate cultural assault — the cringe-worthy attempts to hype her status as a woman (A mom! A wife!) and Indian ("I'm a minority first!," "I'm as diverse as it gets!") are the least offensive. But it's still really, really bad. Her whole campaign is Hillary 2.0. Haley currently polls nationally at less than 5 percent, and it's the same in early Republican primary states Iowa and New Hampshire, so there aren't a ton of reasons to spend time thinking about her. But it's truly awe-inspiring that there exist Republicans who still believe there's anything to gain from the party's voters by rubbing their faces in identity politics rot. 'Not My Concern" Narrows the GOP Field. Who won the Republican blow-out interview lalapalooza with Tucker Carlson in Iowa Friday night? [...] Nikki Haley was much better than I thought she would be but, at the end of the day, agreed that Joe Biden 1) had actually got 81 million votes (he didn't) and 2) even though there were "irregularities" in the 2020 election, Biden was legitimately elected. In other words, she is part of the problem. Nikki Haley Hits DeSantis, Invites Disney to South Carolina: 'We're Not Sanctimonious'. Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took a jab at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday amid the governor's ongoing battle with Disney. "@Disney, my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida," she wrote on social media. "We've got great weather, great people, and it's always a great day in South Carolina! SC's not woke, but we're not sanctimonious about it either," she said, harkening to former President Donald Trump's nickname for the Florida governor — "Ron DeSanctimonious." Nikki Haley is auditioning for Trump VP slot. Nikki Haley doesn't have a prayer to become the next President of the United States, although she is a viable VP candidate for sure. I've always had a generally positive impression of her. She is smart, was a good governor, and one of the most reliable and well-spoken of the Trump appointees. With that said, I was pretty stunned by her cheap shot at Ron DeSantis. I am pretty sure that it will alienate quite a number of people, although to me it's pretty clear that Republican voters are not the intended recipients of her message. [Tweet] Who needs Nikki? The 116th governor of South Carolina entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination amid 4% enthusiasm among party voters in the polls. She trails Mike Pence but is ahead of Mike Pompeo. However, she may split the South Carolinian vote with Tim Scott who is polling at 1%. USA Today reported, "Asked by Fox News' Shannon Bream why voters should pick her over other GOP candidates, Nikki Haley responded, 'Why not me?'" Well, the answer is long and it begins with the question, what did she accomplish as governor? [...] Oh wait, Nikki signed off on removing Robert E. Lee's statue. That will show him. The main thing she did as governor was fight with her fellow Republicans, who ran the legislature. Nikki Haley Needs To Atone For Her Neocon Foreign Policy If She Wants To Be GOP Nominee. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley officially launched her bid for president this week, but if she really wants to resonate with conservative voters and win the Republican nomination, Haley needs to atone for her long list of foreign policy failures. [Tweet] Haley says she's tired of the Washington establishment failing U.S. voters and she's ready to "rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure the border, and strengthen our country, our pride, and our purpose." Her history of pursuing an interventionist agenda, however, will not be easily forgotten. To have a shot at a successful GOP campaign, she has to prove that the aimless military adventurism that puts America last and the U.S. war machine first is behind her. No to Nikki Harris. Wait, did I say Nikki Harris? I meant Nikki Haley, but it's an understandable mistake. After all, as a good friend deep in politics recently pointed out to me, Nikki Haley is the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party. And now Nikki says she wants to be president, announcing her doomed candidacy with hilariously hackneyed and overwrought fanfare ("Now is the time for a strong and proud America!"), though everyone with half a cerebral cortex can see that she's really just trying to position herself as the vice-presidential nominee when either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis gets the nomination. It's exactly the kind of cynical, shameless move this cynical, shameless striver would make — and that her Democrat doppelganger did make. Mitt Romney in a Skirt Launches 2024 Presidential Bid. We have a deep archived series of articles on Nikki Haley specifically because she is the most transparently manipulative and simultaneously predictable, conniving political entity in Republican politics. [...] Yes, the candidate of lightly held stances, an outlook subject to change based on the poll tested winds of the electorate, a person who frames her political bona fides through the prism of her gender in every single conversation, has officially announced she will be seeking the republican nomination. Here's the Never-Ending List of Why Nikki Haley Would [Not be Good] as President. [From August, 2020.] Wind Testing Complete Nikki Haley Rises in Opposition to, Well, Everything the Polls Say She Should Oppose. Reviewing FEC reports for Nikki Haley's Political Action Committee (PAC), Stand For America, reflects the professional DeceptiCon is in the money gathering phase with no expenditures. This is predictable in the extreme and CTH again issues a warning: Beware Nikki Haley folks. After staying silent on critical issues until after the polling is complete, Nikki Haley now rises to give her opinion on all things currently political. Suddenly Haley is against the corporations that are boycotting Georgia; she is aghast at the border crisis created by Joe Biden, and she supports the efforts of President Trump to fight back against the leftist horde. [...] CTH cannot warn strongly enough of the predictable situation we will soon face. The entire DeceptiCon wing of the professional political class is going to come out advancing the case for Nikki Haley to be the standard-bearer of the GOP. Haley is the Mitt Romney of John McCains. The Establishment GOP Still Does Not Understand the Patriot Movement...and Never Will. Establishment Republicans have yet to come to terms with the fact that they need patriots to keep them in office. Patriots had high hopes for Nikki Haley for 2024 due to her myriad of accomplishments at the U.N. Those accomplishments were at the behest of President Trump and his directive for her as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The fallout from Ms. Haley's post-January 6 anti-Trump statement is irreparable, and now her political career is most likely all but done, all by her doing. The former South Carolina governor did not just turn on the man who elevated her onto the national stage, but managed to invalidate the legitimate concerns patriots still have about the election results. Republicans who were voted in by patriots but choose to kneel to the establishment will find out in less than two years' time that it will hurt their re-election chances dearly. Nikki Haley just got burned, playing the old establishment Republican game. Nikki Haley appears to have discarded her political career by faithfully following what establishment insiders and political "experts" have believed and taught for decades. The former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador seems genuinely baffled that former President Donald Trump refused to meet with her after Haley very publicly trashed Trump. Isn't that simply how the game is played? Well, yes. Haley is doing things correctly the way they used to be done. You posture for the media, distance yourself from any controversy, then later patch it up after the storm blows past. You cynically abandon your friends, hoping that the alligators will eat you last. Then you have a summit meeting and cut deals behind closed doors. However, the Republican Party's base is writing her political obituary. The Coup de Grâce for Nikki Haley's Presidential Aspirations. "I don't think he's going to be in the picture. I don't think he can. He's fallen so far." Thus spoke Nikki Haley — former South Carolina governor, former ambassador to the UN, and now presidential aspirant — exposing once again her self-serving bona fides. In denigrating Donald Trump, the establishment Republican ended up revealing to Trump's loyal base of 75 [to] 80 million supporters just how much she is motivated by opportunism. Also, just how out of touch she is with the rank and file. Nikki Haley splits with Trump: 'He let us down'. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is distancing herself from former President Donald Trump after serving as a loyal supporter. Ms. Haley told Politico Mr. Trump will not run for federal office again and said the 45th president's political star has come crashing down to Earth following the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. "We need to acknowledge he let us down," the former South Carolina governor said. "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again." The Editor says... Your monthly reminder that Nikki Haley is a social climbing political opportunist. Nikki Haley is a social-climbing political opportunist whose most deeply held political belief is Nikki Haley. This has been true since before she even entered the national consciousness, but she blessed us with a quick refresher course Thursday [1/7/2021] when she condemned President Donald Trump during a dinner speech to the Republican National Committee's annual winter meeting. She's not alone in doing so. Corporate media swelled this week with Republicans who, like Haley, spent years working for the president (and were campaigning for him as recently as two months ago) and now are denouncing him with all their might. Most of those resigning will advertise this as a brave decision. But it's tough to pin a medal on spending the remaining two weeks of the president's term trying out for a job on CNN (or at least a pardon from corporate recruiters), and it only gets tougher when compounded with the honest assessment that the same corporate media (and the Democrats they support) share a great deal of the blame with Trump for the events leading up to Wednesday's shameful and depressing riot. Nikki Haley appears to jockey for potential 2024 run, delivers Trump a harsh but carefully crafted rebuke. In what's certain to be seen as early jockeying for a potential 2024 presidential run, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley drew a clear line of separation with President Trump while taking care not to draw Trump's ire or offend his millions of supporters. In a speech to the Republican National Committee on Thursday, Haley said Trump's words and actions since the election "will be judged harshly by history," according to The Washington Free Beacon. Governor Nikki Haley Comes Out Against Gender-Affirmation Law in South Carolina. Gov. Nikki Haley is criticizing a proposed gender-recognition law in the South Carolina legislature that would affirm and preserve the normal practice of reserving separate bathrooms for men and for women. "I don't believe it's necessary," Haley said Wednesday [4/6/2016], amid growing progressive hostility to the gender-affirmation law. Will The Republican Establishment Stand Down? After months of waiting for Trump to self-destruct, the Washington-based Republican establishment has finally found a way to take back control of the party from the outsiders and grassroots. The plan revolves around the newly empowered House Speaker, Paul Ryan, who is openly contemptuous of Trump and has little use for Cruz. To signal his intentions, Ryan tapped South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to give the official Republican response to President Obama's final State of the Union address. Haley admitted she cleared her remarks with the Speaker, who then let it be known that she would be a fine choice for vice president. Haley Attacks the Conservative Base in Response to State of the Union Speech. Barack Obama has ruled the nation like a dictator with no regard for the Constitution. He is responsible for the outlandish spending, heavy regulations, the growth in government, Obamacare, the foreign policy mess, the increase in welfare, the increase in illegal immigration, and on and on. The Republicans didn't do any of this. They should have fought harder against it and they should talk more about the Constitution, but they didn't cause this mess. Why then is Nikki Haley being so "magnanimous" and giving the GOP some responsibility for the Democrats' failure? Does she think it will make Democrats want to vote for her? The president spent his entire speech ripping into the GOP, he didn't need her help. Nikki Haley uses State of Union response to bash Trump and praise illegals. Longtime readers know that I am not exactly the strongest supporter of Donald Trump. As a big employer of illegal aliens and a five-time party switcher, his commitment lends itself to some doubts. But that is no excuse to criticize him in a forum meant to represent the Republican Party response to the Democratic Party. That is, however, just what South Carolina governor Nikki Haley did. Nikki Haley Just Proved Beyond Any Doubt That UniParty DC Republicans are Intentionally Disconnected. There is only one party in DC and that is the UniParty run by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. There's not a hairs difference between them, and Nikki Haley just affirmed the GOPe commitment in that regard. Busted! — Republican State of Union Response Carried Amnesty Pledge in Spanish Version. There is a bigger controversy about to break wide-open that's potentially far more significant than Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell approving Nikki Haley's non-subtle attack on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. That bigger controversy is the Spanish version of the GOP State of the Union rebuttal containing an "amnesty pledge". Clemson poll shows SC GOP with mixed feelings on Sen. Lindsey Graham. A new Clemson University poll shows U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is having trouble with his Republican base here at home. Graham's popularity was not as strong as South Carolina's two other high-profile Republicans up for re-election next year: U.S. Tim Scott and Gov. Nikki Haley. Senator John Cornyn Deep State Hack John Cornyn Signals He'll Sabotage Trump AG Pick. President-elect Donald Trump is entering the White House with a Republican trifecta, but he may hit roadblocks to implement his America First agenda — and not because of Democrats. Instead, Republican swamp creatures like Texas Sen. John Cornyn are signaling their intent to sabotage Trump's cabinet nominees because they threaten the deep state. Trump tapped former Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general. Gaetz, prior to March of 2021, "had been an effective and prominent voice in Congress pushing back against the Washington establishment's worse impulses and abuses of power," as my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote. Gaetz took on the Democrats headfirst, exposing the deep-state's lies during the Russia collusion hoax and sounding the alarm on Washington's excessive (and perhaps unconstitutional) response to the Jan. 6 riot and the weaponized Department of Justice prosecutions targeting everyday Americans caught up in the political crackdown. Texas RINO John Cornyn Declares His Candidacy to Succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP Senate Leader. Senator John Cornyn (RINO-TX) has officially entered the race to succeed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (RINO-KY). As The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, the 82-year-old McConnell announced he would be stepping down as leader of the Senate GOP in November.[...] Cornyn also claimed he would improve communication between members, move spending bills individually and try to include every member in decisions. The AP notes this is in response to constant complaints from some senators about year-end spending bills and McConnell's leadership approach. Top McConnell Ally John Cornyn Warned House Against Impeachment Inquiry. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) cautioned House Republicans not to pursue an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, which he sees as "unlikely to be successful in the Senate," while House Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) indicated he was not keen on an impeachment investigation being tied to negotiations around government funding. Cornyn and Thune, two of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) top deputies, made the comments to the Hill in an article published ahead of McCarthy's announcement Tuesday morning that House Republicans are opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden. Two days later: Texas Conservatives Slam GOP Senators, Cornyn Over Faltering Gay Marriage Stance. Despite 157 GOP state representatives voting against the House's bill to codify same-sex marriage into federal law, few GOP members have loudly spoken out against gay marriage. While plenty of Republicans are willing to vote against the codification of same-sex marriage, few have released hard stances against the issue of gay marriage itself. For same-sex marriage to be codified, 10 GOP senators must vote with the Democrats, should the bill be presented in the Senate. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested he would bring the bill to the floor, adding he was "really impressed" by the 47 House Republicans who voted in support of the bill. Texas's
senior senator needs a reckoning for his gun-grabbing. Let's not let John Cornyn off easy on having to answer
for his unwanted, unnecessary, unwise, and unpopular "bipartisan gun control bill." We need to take action, especially
before Senator Cornyn gets started with another Second Amendment (2A) action. [...] It is difficult to believe how fast the
GOP successfully attacked the 2A for absolutely no reason. The state of this nation is chaotic, but it didn't seem as
if there was a massive push for gun control like after the Parkland tragedy. There didn't seem to be an outcry that
warranted the promotion of red flag laws ripe for undue process and abuse. Instead, it seemed as though citizens were
more focused on paying bills, filling up their gas tanks, finding baby formula, buying generators for this summer's predicted
electrical blackouts, and otherwise dealing with our transition to a third-world country under "President" Biden. There
are many troubling questions about this "bipartisan bill." For example:
Cornyn, Other Republicans Push For Biden Administration To Expand Critical Race Theory In Schools. If you're keeping an eye on what Sen. John Cornyn has in store for your Second Amendment rights, you might want to watch his other hand. He has just recently reintroduced the Civics Secures Democracy Act, which would enable the federal government to impose critical race theory (CRT) — that is, state-sanctioned racism and anti-Americanism — on public school civics courses via federal grants. Of course, the drafters of the bill are too politically savvy to explicitly endorse critical race theory. Instead, the legislation provides for $6 billion in federal grants to states, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and researchers to improve civics and American history education primarily for "traditionally underserved students" (sections 102-106). The bill makes clear that grant applications must demonstrate how the applicant intends to prioritize the education of such students. Cornyn's Gun Control Package Will be Used to Bribe States into Adopting Red Flag Laws. With gun control now heading to President Joe Biden's desk, millions of Americans could witness for the first time in decades, wholesale reductions in their right to bear arms. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz has been one of the most vocal opponents of the recently passed bipartisan gun control "framework." Before this abomination of a gun control package was passed, Gaetz warned about some of the unsettling features of this bill. Namely, how this bill is using "federal money to bribe states to enact red flag laws." AWR Hawkins of Breitbart News noted that Texas Senator John Cornyn was the point man for Gun Control Inc. and was "working on behalf Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell" to pass gun control in the Senate. Cornyn Gun Control Package Is a Way to 'Bribe States to Enact Red Flag Laws'. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) noted during Breitbart News Saturday on June 18 that Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) bipartisan gun control deal rests on using "federal money to bribe states to enact red flag laws." On June 12, 2022, Breitbart News noted that the Senate announced a bipartisan gun control agreement. The agreement was the result of work Sen. Cornyn was doing for gun control on behalf of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Is Senator John Cornyn on Drugs? We need to know if Senator John Cornyn (R-WaPo) is high. Has he been doing bong hits, blasting rails, chasing the dragon, and/or dropping acid? Is he hopped up on goofballs? I hope so, because that is the least-worst explanation for the [mess] he just presided over this week in DC. After all, you can get off drugs, but the alternate explanations are permanent. Here we stand on the verge of a huge red tsunami in November, and even once-thought impossible seats in places like Colorado and Washington state may be within reach because of the incredible incompetence of Grandpa Badfinger. Everything is set for a massive repudiation of the left by an activated and angry GOP base — supplemented with independents who have had enough of this progressive [nonsense] — and John Cornyn and decides that what the Republican voters want is... {drum roll} Gun control! Ta-da! The Democrats are hemorrhaging and J-Corn decides to stop the bleeding? After Blowback, John Cornyn Claims He Was Joking About Immigration Deal: 'No Secret Amnesty Bill'. After facing swift and intense backlash from conservatives and Republican lawmakers, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) claimed that he was joking about striking a deal on amnesty after negotiating a deal on gun control. As the Senate voted to advance gun legislation on Tuesday night, which arose from Cornyn's negotiations with Democrats, Cornyn told Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), "First guns, now it's immigration." In response to Cornyn's comment, Sinema said, "That's right, we're going to do it." The comment drew swift backlash from former Trump administration officials such as Andrew Surabian, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA), and House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (IN). Republicans Who Sold You out on Guns Prepare Their Next Betrayal. On Tuesday evening [6/21/2022], the text of the new Senate gun control bill was released, with it being advanced by 14 Republican votes. Among those who gave their stamp of approval after just an hour of the 80-page bill being released were senators Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Mike Caputo, and John Cornyn, with the latter being the lead negotiator on the legislation, working with Democrats to craft it. RedState covered some of the most troubling provisions, including its funding of "red flag" laws while dumping billions into the partisan DOJ. A cursory reading also finds the funding to harden schools that Cornyn and others promised missing. That was supposed to be the big "win" for Republicans in this bill, but all I see are payoffs to federal bureaucracies and a few billion for community anti-violence programs. John Cornyn [is] Viciously Booed at TX GOP Convention Over Gun Control Bill. On Friday, Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn found out the hard way that his state's Republicans aren't a fan of his work with Democrats to put together a gun control bill. Appearing at the Texas GOP convention in Houston, he took the stage to boos from the Republican loyal gathered to conduct the business of their party. [...] In addition, the Republican Party of Texas' Platform Committee unanimously passed a resolution Thursday condemning the bipartisan framework for new federal legislation dealing with guns announced last weekend. They also issued a rebuke to the Republican senators who sat at the negotiating table with Democrats and continue to cooperate with the plan to finalize legislation that is likely to restrict the Second Amendment and due process rights of law-abiding firearm owners. GOP Senator John Cornyn Viciously Booed at Republican Party of Texas Convention. GOP Senator John Cornyn on Friday was viciously booed at the Republican Party of Texas convention after folding like a cheap suit on gun control legislation. Senator Cornyn (R-TX) was one of the 11 GOP Senators who bowed to Democrat demands on gun control this week. A group of bipartisan senators on Sunday reached an agreement on principle for gun legislation which includes 'red flag' laws. 11 Republicans joined the Democrats and bowed to their demands. John Cornyn Tries to Gaslight Conservatives That He Was a Tough Negotiator With Gun-Grabbing Democrats and Not Just a Chump. Tuesday, the Vichy caucus of the Republican party caved to their genetic impulse to seek approval of people who neither like nor respect them (other than conservative voters). Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support for a gun control "framework" announced by a group of ten senators on Sunday. [...] [T]here is nothing in the "framework" that will have any impact on gun violence other than hardening schools. The embrace of "Red Flag" laws, opening juvenile records to background checks, and linking mental health clinics to gun violence are all guaranteed to do nothing about gun violence while, simultaneously, doing a great deal of damage. GOP Senator John Cornyn Negotiating Amnesty Deal for Illegal Aliens with Democrats. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) confirmed this week that he is negotiating an amnesty deal for likely millions of illegal aliens with Senate Democrats. In statements to PunchBowl News, Cornyn confirmed that he is hammering out the details of an expansive amnesty deal with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) that could give green cards, and eventually American citizenship, to illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, those given Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and illegal aliens who work on farms. Cornyn Splits With Cruz, Will Vote to Certify Biden Victory. Texas' two U.S. senators are split on whether they will vote to certify the electoral votes for Joe Biden in Congress on January 6. Sen. Ted Cruz stated over the weekend he would join at least 10 other Republican senators in objecting to the certification. Instead, Cruz is demanding an emergency 10-day audit of the election results to search for fraud. "I think we can do that. We can do it promptly," said Cruz. "We can do it in 10 days, before the inauguration, but I think we have an obligation to the voters and we have an obligation to the Constitution to ensure that this election was lawful." On Tuesday [1/5/2021], however, Texas' senior Sen. John Cornyn said he would not be joining his colleague, and would instead vote to certify the election results. Cornyn is a 'no' vote on challenging certification of state election results. Yesterday [1/5/2021] Senator John Cornyn was non-committal on whether or not he will join in a challenge to the Electoral College's certification of Joe Biden's victory. Today the senior senator from Texas released a letter to Texans making his position clear — "Unless substantial, new evidence is presented during the challenges to each state's ballots, I will not object to the certification of that state's election results based on unproven allegations." Frankly, I think this is where Cornyn has been all along. He was just keeping his cards close to his vest. He said from the start that he is open to hearing evidence of widespread voter fraud, the kind that can change election results but if none is presented then he will vote to certify the election. Remember that Senator Cornyn was a Texas Supreme Court Justice before he was a senator and he continues to operate with a judicious temperament. BLM Republicans. We also learn of the efforts of Senator John Cornyn, (R-TX), who sponsored a bill to make "Juneteenth" a federal holiday. This day, June 19, marks the anniversary of the last slaves officially liberated in Texas and the Confederacy in 1865 after the Civil War had ended. Senators Ron Johnson, (R-WI), and James Lankford, (R-OK) agreed with the bill but went a step further by recommending exchanging it for Columbus Day, effectively eliminating that holiday, a position advocated by BLM Marxists. Johnson cited concerns over the debt. This, after Johnson and most of Congress had already voted for stimulus packages of more than $2 trillion in the wake of the COVID pandemic and a likely federal deficit of $4 trillion for 2020. Senate GOP Leadership Warns Trump: Any White House Attempt to Dismiss Impeachment Charges Will Fail. They are called "decepticons" for a reason. McConnell is king, and Cornyn, Thune and Barasso are his praetorian guards. Senator John Cornyn (TX), a key member of the Senate GOP leadership; and a member of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees; warns the White House that a vote to immediately dismiss articles of impeachment and avoid a trial won't work. Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges. A slew of Democrats are lining up to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R) in Texas in 2020, showcasing the party's optimism of flipping a Senate seat in the historically red state despite the likely uphill climb. Seven Democrats have entered the primary, and one more could join in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator in more than three decades. [...] But taking out Cornyn, a three-term senator, will not be easy. The Editor says... Texas RINO John Cornyn about to fold on gun control. You knew it was coming. After the clown show today [6/22/2016] when Democrats held a 60's hippie style 'sit-in' to force a vote on gun control, it looks like Texas RINO Senator John Cornyn is about to told and team up with Maine progressive Republican Susan Collins to pass gun control. You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. John Cornyn, like most Republicans today only knows when to fold 'em. 49 Senators [including Cornyn] OK Common Core Advocate as Education Secretary. The Senate voted 49-40 Monday evening [3/14/2016] to confirm John B. King Jr., President Barack Obama's nominee, as secretary of education. A total of 11 senators did not vote on King's confirmation, while those who voted against him cited his loyalty to the system and support for Common Core education standards. Senate Republicans Willfully and Knowingly Lie to Their Constituents. Readers from Texas, Kentucky, Utah, South Dakota, and Georgia all had the same story. They'd called the offices of Senators Chambliss, Cornyn, Hatch, Thune, McConnell, and Isakson to object to those senators funding Obamacare. They were all told by these Senate offices that these Senators had voted to defund Obamacare or, in the case of Senator Cornyn's office, that there had been no vote on defunding Obamacare. These Senators and their staffs are lying. They voted to fund Obamacare. More troubling, they know they did it. Is Texas Sen. John Cornyn ripe for a primary challenge? After his vote to increase the deficit in the so-called "fiscal cliff" negotiations, I think so. Tea-Party Activists Push David Barton to Primary Cornyn. David Barton, an Evangelical Christian historian who recently made headlines for a controversial history of Thomas Jefferson, is seriously considering primarying Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas), per multiple sources. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn Push Through Voice Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood, Protect Obama's Iran Deal. On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable — a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless — happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran. The reason the voice vote is significant is because McConnell, especially, and his Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), purposefully launched what appears to be an unprecedented effort to duck accountability for their votes — and the votes of every other GOP member who joined with them in supporting Obama's Iran deal and funding for Planned Parenthood. Mitch McConnell is actually worse than Reid. On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Sunday evening, something remarkable — a little bit insider-y in Washington, but remarkable nonetheless — happened: The Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), his entire leadership team, and most of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate voice voted through measures to fund Planned Parenthood in its entirety and to help protect President Barack Obama's nuclear arms deal with Iran. The reason the voice vote is significant is because McConnell, especially, and his Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), purposefully launched what appears to be an unprecedented effort to duck accountability for their votes — and the votes of every other GOP member who joined with them in supporting Obama's Iran deal and funding for Planned Parenthood. McConnell, Cornyn Whipping Votes Against Ted Cruz. A source in Congress tells Breitbart News that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn are using their leadership positions to pressure other Republicans to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his campaign to defund Obamacare. [...] Instead of helping Cruz with their power as Senate GOP leaders, McConnell and Cornyn are working against him, this senior staffer said. Senator Orrin Hatch Orrin Hatch is out, Mitt Romney is in, and conservatism dies in Utah. On his Twitter account yesterday Sen. Orrin Hatch — the quintessential example for why America needs to hold an Article V Convention of States — announced that his on again/off again retirement plans were back on. Orrin Hatch is a favorite of Trump and McConnell, but not Utah voters. In the Christmas Day edition of the Salt Lake Tribune, Sen. Orrin Hatch was recognized as Utahn of the Year. While it appears to be complimentary, the honor was actually the exact opposite. As explained in an editorial by the paper, the award goes to "the Utahn who, over the past 12 months, has done the most. Has made the most news. Has had the biggest impact. For good or ill." In Hatch's case, it was for ill, mainly due to his lies about making his current term in office his last and his "utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power." An Unfond Farewell to Un-statesman Orrin Hatch. He begin his occupancy in 1976, when all phones were dumb, the 5.25-inch floppy disk was cutting-edge, the very first Apple computer went on sale for $666.66, the Concorde was flying high, O.J. Simpson was a hero, Blake Shelton was a newborn, the first MRI was still a blueprint, and I was a gap-toothed first-grader wearing corduroy bell-bottoms crushing on Davy Jones. This encrusted longevity will be marketed by Hatch, 83, and his supporters as proof of his "statesmanship." Impeach John Koskinen. Jason Chaffetz wants to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Orrin Hatch doesn't want him to. Chaffetz is in the right this time. Koskinen is not the central figure in the IRS scandal, which found the federal tax agency being used to harass and bully conservative organizations in the run-up to the 2012 election. But he is a culpable figure. Specifically, it was under his watch that hundreds of backup tapes containing tens of thousands of e-mails — e-mails that were under congressional subpoena — were illegally destroyed, inhibiting investigation into the agency's wrongdoing. The intentional destruction of evidence under subpoena is a crime, and a serious one. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has voted 23-15 for a bill that would officially censure Koskinen, who was IRS commissioner when that evidence was illegally destroyed, and demand his resignation or removal, as well as the forfeiture of his pension. Representative Chaffetz has made it clear that if removing Koskinen requires impeaching him, then that is what Republicans will pursue. Indeed, the House Judiciary Committee already is considering impeachment. The Editor says... Senator Susan Collins Sen. Susan Collins Is Hard at Work Crafting Gun Control Legislation for the Troops. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is working on legislation ostensibly intended to prevent mass shootings like the one that happened in Maine on October 27. The tragic incident took place when Robert Card, a member of the Armed Forces, went on a spree in various locations, killing 18 people. He was later found dead after a manhunt. It was later revealed that Card had a history of mental illness and had even threatened violence against his fellow servicemembers at a military base. Yet, he was still able to legally purchase a firearm despite Maine's yellow flag law, which allows for the temporary seizure of firearms from those deemed to be a risk to themselves or others. It appears Sen. Collins seeks to strengthen these laws. Sen. Susan Collins Pushing Gun Control for U.S. Troops. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is putting together legislation to require the U.S. military to adhere to state-level red and yellow flag laws for troops. A red flag law allows family, friends, and others, to seek a court order to have guns removed from someone they view as a danger to himself or others. A yellow flag law is more narrow, allowing law enforcement to seek the court order for firearm removal. Collins bill comes in response to the October 25, 2023, Lewiston, Maine, attacks, which were carried out by a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. The attacker used a sniper rifle which was legally purchased. Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney join Susan Collins in support of Supreme Court nominee. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's "historic nomination" to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated for the court. The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions Monday evening ahead of a procedural Senate vote to advance the nomination. They join Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as Republicans who say they will support Jackson. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins Buck Trump, Vow to Persecute Jan-6ers. President Trump held another packed rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night [1/29/2022]. An estimated 50,000 supporters turned out to see President Trump in Texas. President Trump also promised to release the persecuted January 6 Political Prisoners at the DC Gulag! These poor men and women are held in isolation without any basic human rights. Truly this is a dark stain on America and our judicial system. This morning on the Sunday talk shows dangerous Lindsey Graham and RINO Susan Collins bucked Trump and vowed to persecute the January 6 prisoners. These are not good people. A Republican Senator Perfectly Illustrates the GOP's Screwed up Moral Compass. [Scroll down] Even still, you'd expect high-level Republicans to not actively undercut the case for life. Call it the "if you aren't helping, at least shut up" principle. Yet, Susan Collins can't even manage that. The Maine senator lashed out at the Texas abortion law yesterday [10/2/2021], calling it "inhumane" and insisting that the federal government needs to "codify" Roe vs. Wade legislatively. How's that for limited government? [Tweet] [...] Calling a law that seeks to stop the death and dismemberment of children "inhumane" is truly a statement that would make Orwell blush. Abortion is such a blight on society that even many of the most progressive European nations have far stricter controls on it than the United States does. Yet, Collins has the audacity to actively attack Texas for attempting to do something about the carnage? Susan Collins Censured by Third Republican Committee for Vote to Convict Trump. Kennebec County, Maine, Republicans joined their colleagues from Aroostook and Piscataquis Counties in censuring Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) for her vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in February. The Kennebec GOP voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening [6/22/2021] to formally censure Collins by a vote of 49-18. Helen Tutwiler, chairwoman of the Kennebec County Republican Committee, told News Center Maine Wednesday the vote to censure Collins is "important in re-engaging local voters who, by and large, are very hurt and frustrated with Senator Collins for not supporting even moderate Republican positions." Senate Confirms Biden DOJ Nominee Kristen Clarke with One Republican Vote. The Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division with only one vote from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Clarke was confirmed as the first black woman to run the Civil Rights Division with a close 51-48 vote Tuesday afternoon. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) did not vote. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reportedly called this vote "particularly poignant and appropriate" as it came on the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Susan Collins faces possible censure from Maine GOP over vote to convict Trump. Sen. Susan Collins is facing a possible censure over her vote to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection ahead of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. "Personally, I don't like Trump. He's a rude, arrogant buffoon. But I don't think he was treated fairly," one Republican said during a virtual meeting between the leaders of the state's 16 Republican county committees. The group met on Monday evening [2/15/2021] to discuss a possible censure or another rebuke of Collins and to look into whether to hold a state party meeting to discuss the possibilities. Another Republican said during the meeting that Collins went against her constituents with her vote and characterized the Senate trial last week as "mudslinging." Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed to Supreme Court as Susan Collins is Lone Republican to Oppose. Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the Senate Monday evening, filling the vacancy left by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The vote was nearly entirely along party lines: Senator Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican to dissent, voting with all 47 members of the Democratic Caucus against the conservative Trump nominee over concerns of the proximity to the election. The final vote was 52-48. "Because this vote is occurring prior to the election, I will vote against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett," Collins said in a statement over the weekend. "To be clear, my vote does not reflect any conclusion that I have reached about Judge Barrett's qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court." Susan Collins says she is voting against Coney Barrett confirmation to be 'fair and consistent'. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, took a veiled shot at her party's leadership in the Senate on Sunday [10/25/2020] when she announced that she would be voting against the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. "Prior to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, I stated that, should a vacancy on the Supreme Court arise, the Senate should follow the precedent set four years ago and not vote on a nominee prior to the presidential election.," Collins said in a statement. She added: "Because this vote is occurring prior to the election, I will vote against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett." Sen. Graham reverses earlier statements, supports Trump filling SCOTUS vacancy. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reversed earlier statements on Saturday and said he will support "any effort" by President Trump to seat another Supreme Court justice. The support came as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his GOP caucus to "keep your powder dry" in regard to filling the seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Friday. Separately, Maine Sen. Susan Collins said, "The decision should be made by the president who is elected on November 3rd." New Poll Shows Maine Sen. Susan Collins Losing To Challenger By Five Points. Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is down five points to her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, a poll released Friday [9/18/2020] shows. According to a New York Times-Siena College poll, Collins is behind Gideon 44 percent to 49 percent with less than two months before the November 3 elections. The poll did however show that 50 percent of voters view Collins very favorable or somewhat favorable compared to 47 percent who did not feel the same, The Hill reported. All Eyes On Susan Collins. Senator Susan Collins' speech announcing her vote for Justice Kavanaugh was so memorably principled and well put that her fans — the Sun included — will grant her license to vote however she wants in respect of President Trump. Not that she needs anyone's license. Yet we don't mind saying that the principles the senator articulated in the Kavanaugh case beckon in the case of Mr. Trump for an early acquittal. The principal principle Ms. Collins marked in the Kavanaugh case was due process. 6 Democratic Senators To Watch In Impeachment Trial. [Susan] Collins is a moderate who didn't even vote to convict President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial, even though he'd clearly perjured himself and obstructed justice. Still, Democrats hope that her notorious concern for propriety might be exploited along the way as they seek to save an impeachment for which an acquittal is a foregone conclusion. Plus, Collins is running for re-election. Susan Collins Working with "Small Group' of GOP Senators to Rally Support for Impeachment Witnesses. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is reportedly working with a "fairly small group" of Republican senators to garner support for impeachment witnesses. The moderate Republican, who signaled that she is open to witnesses in a Senate impeachment trial, told reporters on Friday that she is working with a "fairly small group" of GOP senators as part of an effort to solidify support for witnesses in the impeachment trial in the Senate. Only Susan Collins breaks GOP ranks on Democrat-led Obamacare resolution. The Senate voted Wednesday against a resolution that Democrats framed as a measure to reverse Trump administration efforts to undo Obamacare insurance protections for people with pre-existing health conditions. The vote fell along party lines, 43 in favor versus 52 against, with only one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, voting "aye." Democrats forced the roll call vote, putting all senators on the record, through a special procedural tool that allows Congress to disapprove of new regulations with a simple majority. Susan Collins votes with Democrats to restore rule that allowed Obama admin to target conservatives. Amid the end-of-year rush to finish the rest of its agenda, the Senate voted to restore a tax regulation that free speech advocates say enabled the Obama administration to unfairly target conservatives. The House has yet to vote on the resolution. The vote was a narrow 50-49 margin. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted with all 49 Democrats, and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., was absent. The resolution nullifies a rule issued by the Department of the Treasury that would exempt certain nonprofit advocacy organizations "from the requirement to report the names and addresses of their contributors on returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service." The left escalates its vilification of Susan Collins. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the maverick Republican who will cast the deciding vote in the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has got the left unhinged. For years, she's been the bane of Republicans because she's strongly pro-choice (or pro-abortion, depending on how you want it put) and she's also shown a willingness to support the detested Obamacare setup for health care. She famously cast a vote to acquit Bill Clinton of impeachment charges back in 1999. Kavanaugh's fate rests with Sen. Collins. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a prominent moderate voice and one of the Senate's most conscientious members, is poised to make or break Brett Kavanaugh's chance at becoming a Supreme Court justice. A big reason for that is several Senate colleagues are waiting to see what Collins will do before announcing their positions. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) has asked centrist members of his caucus to keep their powder dry on Kavanaugh until they know where all Republicans stand. The Alinsky-ization of Brett Kavanaugh. Democrats undoubtedly consider Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, of Maine and Alaska, respectively, to be free agents, particularly over Roe v. Wade. Kavanaugh was relentlessly questioned by Democrats over abortion; the goal was to create doubt that Collins and Murkowski would vote to confirm him. If uncertainty exists, it's unlikely that Democrats from states President Trump won in 2016 will cross the aisle. It's Susan Collins's Moment. So here we are, just days before what should have been a Thursday vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Since Ms. Ford's name became public, one member of that committee, Jeff Flake, the retiring Republican from Arizona, announced he wouldn't feel comfortable going ahead with a vote without a fuller airing of Ms. Ford's complaint. In a committee of 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, Mr. Flake would give the Democrats the majority they need to stall a vote. [...] But there's another senator who may hold the key to whether the GOP hangs together or heads for the tall grass. On Sunday Maine Republican Susan Collins told the New York Times that she considers the allegations of sexual assault serious and wants Ms. Ford interviewed to get her whole story. Just as telling, she made clear she finds the low and the last-minute nature of the way the Democrats handled the charges fishy. Author Stephen King threatens to destroy Susan Collins if she votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Author Stephen King has threatened to "defeat" Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, if she votes to confirm President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. Presuming to speak for "most Americans," King tweeted that people are "angry" over how the conformation "is being railroaded through." [...] Senate Democrats, backed by the party's hard-left base, have fully embarrassed themselves with their antics to oppose a highly respected Judge Kavanaugh. Collins, Kavanaugh, and the Rewards of 'Moderation'. We have all seen those grisly stories in the news about people who adopt dangerous predators as pets only to be torn limb from limb by the very creatures they have cosseted for years. This is analogous to what is now happening to Susan Collins. The Maine Senator has frequently curried favor with the left by taking "principled stands" against her fellow Republicans on issues like Obamacare, and basked in the praise of progressives. Collins presumably thought this meant she was safe from the left's innate brutishness when she took a perfectly reasonable position regarding SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Abusive calls are the latest in a pressure campaign against Sen. Collins. The campaign of pressure on Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to oppose the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has escalated to include vulgar phone calls, shipments of wire hangers sent to her office and a questionable high-dollar fundraising drive against her that her office likens to extortion. As a potential GOP swing vote, Collins has been at the center of attention for both parties since President Donald Trump announced Kavanaugh's nomination in July. Now, with the Senate Judiciary hearings over and the nomination about to proceed to the full Senate, progressive activists are increasing the pressure, concerned that Kavanaugh would undo abortion rights and roll back health care protections. For her part, Collins has said little about how she might vote on the final confirmation, keeping her in the crosshairs for an onslaught of attacks and providing a target for frustrated activists. Susan Collins tells Left-wing activists to stop bribing her over Kavanaugh vote as Crowdfunding hits $1 mil. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine fired back at progressive activists on Monday who have been raising money to oust the senator in the event she votes affirmatively to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. "I consider this quid pro quo fundraising to be the equivalent of an attempt to bribe me to vote against Judge Kavanaugh," Collins told Newsmax. "If I vote against him, the money is refunded to the donors. If I vote for him, the money is given to my opponent for the 2020 race." The left has dictated, dominated our culture for a generation — time's up. With Judge Kavanaugh, the left has hit a new low. They want Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to vote "no." To get the no vote, they are offering her a financial incentive, an inducement. Some would call it a bribe. Here's how it works. If Collins votes "yes" on Kavanaugh, a crowdfunding website will give $1 million to her opponent in 2020. Her opponent will not get the money if Collins votes "no." Vote the way we want, or we'll spend big bucks to beat you next time around. As of Tuesday afternoon [9/11/2018], 37,000 people had handed over their credit card information and pledged $1,041,000. The pledges are activated if Collins votes "yes." I don't care whether this is legally a bribe or not. It amounts to buying a vote, and it shouldn't have any part in our politics. Democrats target Murkowski, Collins in campaign against Supreme Court nominee. Liberal political strategists hope to block President Donald Trump's next Supreme Court nominee by replaying a strategy they used to help defeat the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year. The multimillion-dollar plan of advertising and grass-roots activism will focus heavily on convincing two Republican defenders of the ACA, Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, to buck the president again by denying his first choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Roe v. Wade and the Confusion of Sen. Collins. We know what the Supreme Court debate is all about — the debate, that is to say, over who shall take retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat. The debate is about abortion. Declares Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican moderate from Maine, whose vote could prove essential to confirmation of whatever nominee the White House puts forward: "A candidate for this important post who would overturn Roe v. Wade would not be acceptable to me. That would indicate an activist agenda that I don't want to see a judge have. And that would indicate to me a failure to respect precedent." The Editor says... GOP Sen. Susan Collins won't support Supreme Court nominee hostile to Roe v. Wade. Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, said Sunday that she would refuse to support a Supreme Court nominee bent on overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, saying such a position would violate respect for judicial precedent. "I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law," Ms. Collins said on CNN's "State of the Union." [7/1/2018] The Editor says... The Two Republicans Who Voted to Keep Late-Term Abortions Legal. While Sen. Orrin Hatch expressed his 'shock' Monday that most of his Democratic colleagues could vote against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, it wasn't just Democrats who opposed the measure. Two Republican senators joined Democrats in voting against the 20-week abortion ban: Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. Senate bill to preserve net neutrality wins [its] first GOP backer. A Senate bill that would stop the Federal Communications Commission's effort to repeal net neutrality has won its first Republican backer on Tuesday [1/9/2018], with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) throwing her support behind the effort. "Senator Collins does not support the FCC's recent decision to repeal net neutrality rules, and she will support Senator Markey's legislation that would overturn the FCC's vote," a spokeswoman, Annie Clark, said in a statement to The Hill. Why Susan Collins Will Vote to Kill Obamacare's Insurance Mandate. [Scroll down] But Collins is no dupe. Her support for the legislation is clearly the right position for any member of Congress purporting to represent the best interests of Maine's 1.3 million residents. That the bill repeals Obamacare's individual mandate is not a betrayal of her constituents, as some have suggested. It will instead remove a significant tax burden that falls disproportionately on the shoulders of Maine voters. Republican Traitors Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski Defend Forcing You to Fund Planned Parenthood. Two of the senators who singlehandedly derailed the skinny repeal of Obamacare were awarded a sit down interview with the admiring Dana Bash Friday on CNN. The bright faced journalist applauded Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) for having the "cajones" to vote against the Republican bill when they knew half the country would view them as heretics. Collins admitted it was an "uncomfortable" vote. But, they both insisted it was the right thing to do, which is why they did not fear backlash from GOP leadership, or even intimidating tweets from the Oval Office. Both women said they were voting for their constituents, not the Republican Party. Is Susan Collins in Trouble? Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has historically been very popular in Maine. She was reelected to the Senate in 2014 by the eye-popping margin of 37 points — the same election which saw conservative Republican Gov. Paul LePage only garner 48 percent of the same electorate. While she's not exactly popular on a national scale due to her centrist tendencies, Mainers seem to like her just fine — until now, maybe. Although Collins isn't up for reelection to the Senate until 2020, there's been quite a bit of chatter that she may make a run for the Blaine House after Gov. Paul LePage is term-limited in 2018 and cannot run again. Collins previously ran for governor in 1994, losing to the now-Sen. Angus King (I-ME). Given her relative popularity in Maine, one would think that she'd be a relative shoo-in for the position, but an interesting new poll is casting doubt on if she'd even make it past the primary. Poll: Sen. Susan Collins Increasingly Unpopular for Vote Against Obamacare Repeal. Conservatives have frequently chastised Sen. Susan Collins' opposition to repealing Obamacare. She opposed Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare in 2015, and she voted against repealing Obamacare this summer. Jason Pye, vice president of legislative affairs for FreedomWorks, asked, "Is Susan Collins actually a Republican? She conferences with the Republicans, there's an R next to her name, but a question mark is more appropriate." Republican Senator Says She'll Be Voting Against Trump's EPA Nominee. [Republican Sen. Susan] Collins, along with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) also voted against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which gave Senate Republicans heartburn due to their slim majority. It also pushed back a vote to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general since they needed his vote to maintain the 50-50 split; Vice President Mike Pence broke the tie. Both women said they announced their opposition only after they had the confidence that the rest of the GOP was lock step behind her. Moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins says she won't vote for Trump and is 'dismayed' by his behavior. Collins also said she does not support Trump's rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Republican Sen. Susan Collins won't vote for Donald Trump. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has become the second and most-senior Republican senator to say she will not vote for GOP nominee Donald Trump for president. In an op-ed published online Monday night [8/8/2016] in The Washington Post, Ms. Collins said it was "not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican." Democrats end gun-control sit-in without winning concessions. House Democrats wrapped up a daylong sit-in Thursday [6/23/2016] without winning concessions on gun control, leaving town empty-handed after Republicans accused them of co-opting the chamber floor for a "publicity stunt" designed to fill party coffers. [...] The measure by Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, was supported by 52 senators in its first test vote — 46 wanted to kill it — yet fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a possible filibuster. Moderate Republican offers compromise on gun control. Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent Senate Republican moderate who has helped put together major bipartisan deals in the past, has proposed compromise legislation to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. She is working with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), one of the chamber's most endangered Senate GOP incumbents, as well as Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Republican Senator Susan Collins Says She Might Support Hillary Clinton. This week, after Donald Trump said that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge in a case against Trump University, had a conflict of interest because of his Mexican heritage, many Republicans distanced themselves from Trump and condemned the candidate's remarks. [...] But no matter how much they have condemned Trump, none of these high-ranking Republicans have said that they would consider supporting his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. In an interview with me, on Wednesday [6/8/2016], Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, made herself the exception. Republican Senator Calls for Hearing for Obama's Supreme Court Nominee. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday [4/5/2016] that she met with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland, and she is "more convinced than ever that the process should proceed" despite the GOP leadership's assertion that the next president should nominate the next Supreme Court justice. The Editor says... Some Republicans Begin to Cave on Potential Obama Supreme Court Nominee. Two moderate Republican Senators have broken ranks with GOP leadership. Both have declared their support for giving President Obama's nominee to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court a hearing. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) have both indicated they believe the President has a right to appoint a successor to Justice Scalia and that the Senate has a duty to consider that nominee. Speaking on CNN, Collins said "I believe we should follow the regular order and give careful consideration to any nominee that the president may send to the Senate." Senator Claire McCaskill RINO Lisa Murkowski May Leave Republican Party Over Trump. Lisa Murkowski has never really been a Republican in the first place[.] So losing her to become an independent wouldn't be losing anything. The fact is, this filthy RINO from Alaska who probably thinks Planet Fitness is cool is now threatening to leave the GOP all because of Trump or something. [...] Maybe she should just quit the Senate and get a job at NBC. [Tweets] Former Democrat Senator Says Trump Is More Dangerous Than Hitler. MSNBC contributor and former Democrat U.S. Senator of Missouri, Claire McCaskill, recently went on air and wrongly claimed Donald Trump is "even more dangerous" than dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. While on MSNBC's Dateline, McCaskill stated, "A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like 'vermin' and the drive that those men had towards autocracy and dictatorship." She continued, "The difference, though, I think makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is he has no philosophy he believes in." McCaskill: 'Disgusting' GOP Fine with Trump Election Lie — Feeds 'Domestic Terrorism'. Thursday [2/4/2021], former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) criticized Republicans on MSNBC for supporting President Donald Trump feeding the country the "mother's milk of domestic terrorism" by claiming President Joe Biden's election win and "government was illegitimate." McCaskill said, "What we have to do for a moment is take a time-out from the QAnon lady and crazy town and get back to the big lie because what we know about domestic terrorism, the mother's milk of domestic terrorism is believing that their government is illegitimate. The illegitimacy of government is what feeds domestic terrorism. No one did more to feed that lie than Donald Trump. That's why he was impeached while he was in office." [Video clip] Trump: 'Air Claire' McCaskill Is 'So Phony' Flying Around 'In a Luxurious Private Jet During Her RV Tour'. President Trump ridiculed Sen. "Air Claire" McCaskill (D-MO) in a tweet Wednesday, calling her "so phony" because she "flew around in a luxurious private jet during her RV tour of the state." Trump also endorsed her leading opponent, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, for the U.S. Senate election in November. Hawley faces minor opposition in the August GOP primary. Missouri senator told supporters she was hitting the road ... but had her $1 million private plane. A Democratic senator said her campaign was 'hitting the road' in an RV to tour the state, but public flight information indicates her million-dollar private plane followed the same campaign route. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said she was 'very excited to hit the road' for a 'Veterans for Claire' tour. The RV was unveiled late last month by the senator, who is in a tough re-election contest. Claire McCaskill's Private Plane [was] Used on Campaign's RV Tour Through Missouri. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) said her campaign was "hitting the road" in an RV to tour the state, but public flight information indicates that travel also occurred on her million-dollar private plane. The RV, named BigBlue by the campaign, was unveiled late last month by McCaskill, who said she was "very excited to hit the road" in it for an upcoming "Veterans for Claire" tour. The campaign kept a live blog of its three-day RV trip from May 29 to May 31, posting updates of its whereabouts. Claire McCaskill used private plane during much-touted RV 'road trip'. In a report Tuesday [6/12/2018], the Washington Free Beacon determined that the private plane of Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, took the same routes as her much-touted "Big Blue" RV for a May 29-31 tour by "Veterans for Claire" in the week following Memorial Day. Mrs. McCaskill said then that she was "very excited to hit the road." But according to a report by the Free Beacon's Brett Scher, based on flight-data crowd-sourcing sites, the campaign's plane traveled between the same Missouri towns the RV did. Conservative Group Targets McCaskill, Donnelly on Tax Vote. The conservative group Americans for Prosperity is launching a multi-million dollar ad campaign Monday aimed at two vulnerable Senate Democrats over their vote against a bill overhauling the tax code. Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, is dedicating $4 million for television and digital ads targeting Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Senator Lisa Murkowski Resigning RINOs Threaten Trump and America. A handful of RINO members of Congress have either resigned or announced their intentions to do so in the coming weeks to months. They claim this is in protest to the now all but certain nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate. The latest threatened resignation is Senator Lisa Murkowski, a squishy Republican at best. She endorsed Nikki Haley for the GOP nomination and has been critical of Donald Trump. She voted to convict Trump and remove him from office. She also voted against Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to SCOTUS. On those two issues, the Republican Senator voted lockstep with Democrat Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer. Some Republican. Did any Democrats vote to not convict Trump or vote in favor of Kavanaugh? I don't think so. Perhaps Senator Murkowski belongs to the wrong political party. The Editor says... Senator Lisa Murkowski Again Threatens to Leave the Republican Party. It's really not a matter of if Republican senators will leave the party in the lame duck session after a President Trump win in November; the question is: how many? The predictability of the issue is actually quite simple. Almost all senators kneel at the altar of money, nothing else. The GOPe senators will exhaust every weapon in their arsenal on behalf of their multinational financial benefactors, prior to the November 2024 election. Once those narrative attack weapons are exhausted, they will take the deal and quit the party in their final political effort to retain affluence. Accepting this reality, I asked the question a few weeks ago. The largest number of respondents said 1 to 3 senators will resign the party. Senate Republicans Despise Their Voters. Lisa Murkowski is the perfect mascot for Senate Republicans. She is a Democrat in all but name, an aristocrat who inherited her office, and a beneficiary of rigged elections. She has more in common with Nancy Pelosi than the average Republican voter, and every time Alaskan Republicans attempt to throw her out of office, Mitch McConnell's minions manipulate the rules to save her. For McConnell, Murkowski is another beholden senator kept securely in his pocket who will vote how he wants on any given day. That might not be so bad (except for the good people of Alaska, whom she purportedly represents) if McConnell were not also an aristocrat who routinely betrays Republican voters. However, because his loyalties lie with President Xi, multinational corporations, the World Economic Forum, and his good friend Joe Biden, China Mitch uses the leash around Murkowski's neck only when he needs help sticking it to the American people. Lisa Murkowski Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats, Several Republican Senators Including Thune, Romney, Cornyn and Young Agree. For those of us who have been trying to awaken people to the true nature of Republicans in the senate, aka "the Decepticons", the latest self-admissions are very welcome. According to interviews conducted by The Hill, several republican senators are now saying they just cannot be members of the republican party if they are forced to represent the interests of the base voter. These very specifically named republicans have always been members of the UniParty in DC; however, now they are saying "populism" amid the commonsense, America-First voting base is not going to be acceptable. McConnell Dumps Another Million Into Alaska To Save Murkowski After Ditching Arizona's Blake Masters. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's super PAC dropped nearly $12 million in new spending on competitive races in key battlegrounds — but none of that spending is for one of the most competitive races of all: GOP rookie Blake Masters versus Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly in Arizona. McConnell's allies in Georgia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Alaska will each claim a portion of the pot from the Kentucky lawmaker's Senate Leadership Fund, according to new numbers out Tuesday, while Arizona venture capitalist Masters remains abandoned by the top elected Republican in the country. In Alaska, GOP incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski will receive nearly $1 million in support from McConnell's PAC as she fends off a competitive challenge from Republican Kelly Tshibaka, who is running with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. So, That's Why Lisa Murkowski Was Reportedly Silent About the New Voting System in Alaska. The Donald Trump revenge tour is in full swing. The former president has again proven that the 2016 makeover of the Republican Party was no one-off fluke. It was a seismic shift regarding the composition of the party base, which is bluer collar and working class, and the priorities of its voters. The neo-populist moment that burst onto the scene in the 2010 midterms with the Tea Party wave reached full maturation during the 2016 cycle. In 2022, Donald Trump's endorsement not only carries weight — virtually all his endorsed candidates have won their primary races — he's picking off those who joined the effort to impeach him on the bogus charges manufactured by congressional Democrats[.] Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) of Alaska is next. Murkowski and Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) form a trio that has become a political bone spur to Republicans. Murkowski vows to work on legislation in response to abortion ruling. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) announced Friday [6/24/2022] that she would prioritize legislation permitting abortion across the country following the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. "In the wake of this ruling, it is up to Congress to respond," wrote Murkowski, vowing that she would continue "to work with a broader group to restore women's freedom to control their own health decisions wherever they live." She added: "Legislation to accomplish that must be a priority." Murkowski recounted that she had introduced legislation earlier this year "to protect women's reproductive rights as provided in Roe," namely the Reproductive Choice Act. Establishment Sen. Lisa Murkowski Laments 'I May Not Be Re-Elected'. Establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday admitted she may lose her primary bid to Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Kelly Tshibaka. "I may not be re-elected," Murkowski told the New York Times about the possible end of her 20-year Senate career. Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney join Susan Collins in support of Supreme Court nominee. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's "historic nomination" to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated for the court. The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions Monday evening ahead of a procedural Senate vote to advance the nomination. They join Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as Republicans who say they will support Jackson. The Six Worst RINOs In Congress. [#5] Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK): One surefire sign of recognizing a RINO Vs a reliable Republican is how they vote on Supreme Court nominees. Like Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), anytime a SCOTUS vacancy comes about we can count on a vote in favor of conservatives from virtually all the senators in the Republican caucus except for Collins and Murkowski. We saw it with Donald Trump's nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, where it wasn't clear how they would vote until shortly before their ballots were cast. And don't be surprised if, like a good Democrat, Murkowski casts an enthusiastic aye vote for President Biden's current nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson. Yet Murkowski is more than just an obstacle with SCOTUS nominees, we have plenty of other examples of the senator acting more like a Democrat than a Republican, and her vote in favor of convicting Donald Trump after last year's impeachment is probably the best example. There was no evidence to support the claim that Trump had participated in an insurrection, and votes in favor of removing Trump played right in the Democrats' hands. And we're sure Lisa Murkowski was just fine with that outcome. Senator Lisa Murkowski Comes Out in Favor of Even Higher Gas Prices in Order to Adequately Punish Russia. This DeceptiCon, this specific one, owned by the multinational corporate conglomerates, is one of the worst in office. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski tells Politico tonight [3/2/2022] that she is in favor of higher gas prices for Americans if that's what it takes to punish Vladimir Putin. [...] Here we go with the narrative of you being unpatriotic if you are not willing to financially suffer the pain inflicted intentionally by the U.S. government. Not willing to pay $7/gal for gasoline? You're selfish. Not willing to forego a better life for your family, in order to save Ukraine? You are a horrible person. GOP Leaders Betray Their Voters Over Murkowski. In 2013 the National Journal ranked Murkowski the 56th most liberal and 44th most conservative member of the Senate and it has only gotten worse since. More recently, among many more liberal-friendly acts, the Alaska senator waffled forever on the Kavanaugh nomination, even after the most despicable smears, and then, of all things, voted to convict Donald Trump during that fiesta of the most overt leftwing partisan hackery, the second impeachment trial. At the moment, three other candidates, all decidedly more conservative than Murkowski, have declared against her in the primary with two more, one of them being Sarah Palin, having expressed interest. Trump Calls on 'America First' Patriots to Run Primary Campaigns Against RINO Lawmakers. Trump declared war on RINO lawmakers and called on "America First" patriots to run primary campaigns against the turncoats in 2022. "Challenge accepted," President Trump said as he called out Lisa Murkowski, "warmonger Liz Cheney" and other RINOs. "Saving America starts by saving the GOP from RINOs, sellouts, and known losers! In the Senate, the "Disaster from Alaska," Lisa Murkowski (challenge accepted), must go. There is "almost" nobody worse!" Trump said. Every single RINO must go. The RNC and GOP establishment proudly backed Lisa Murkowski after she announced her re-election bid. On Friday [11/12/2021] Murkowski announced she was running for reelection. Senator Murkowski Tells Alaska Radio She Has Not Decided if She Will Run for Re-election. CTH readers know Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowsi very well. Her history of political manipulation and DeceptiCon activity is deep. Murkowski was defeated in the GOP primary in 2010 by Joe Miller (who we supported), and yet the Alaska senator refused to give up her power and ran as a write-in candidate. [...] The RNC club never punished Murkowski for those 2010 shenanigans because, well, the RNC club supports this type of cocktail club ideologue. This reality is part of the entrenched problem with the RNC as an organization, they rebuke the efforts of the grassroots base. Ronna McDaniel is simply one vile person in a long-line of vile RNC people who maintain this corrupt club operation. Lisa Murkowski is a prime example of the type of politician who permits the Intelligence Branch to exist because the superseding branch of government allows her to continue living a life of indulgence and influence. She is a grifter and a liar of the highest order. Alaska GOP Endorses Lisa Murkowski's Challenger As Her Approval Rating Plummets to Low Single Digits. In a sign that state Republican parties might be coming to the realization that supporting inveterate losers like Martha McSally and various quislings in their primary contests, the Alaska GOP has announced that it will be actively supporting Lisa Murkowski's challenger, Kelly Tshibaka. [...] On paper, Tshibaka looks like a solid candidate. She is married, a mother, a Harvard Law grad. She has worked in the IG offices at Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, she was the Chief Data Officer of the Postal Service IG and she served as Alaska's Commissioner of Administration until from 2019 until her resignation in March of this year to pursue a Senate run. Alaska GOP endorses Murkowski primary challenger. The Alaska Republican Party endorsed GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka on Saturday [7/10/2021], breaking from longtime incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska). The state party confirmed to The Hill that members approved the endorsement in a 58-17 vote. Tshibaka said in a statement shared by her campaign team that she was "grateful and thrilled to have the strong support of the Alaska Republican Party," which she said "voted overwhelmingly to endorse" her. Bye bye Lisa. Good luck with your lobbying career. GOP Murkowski Challenger Kelly Tshibaka: Alaskans 'Feel Forgotten' and Are 'Absolutely Fed Up with Lisa Murkowski'. Kelly Tshibaka, a conservative Republican who recently announced plans to run against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), said Alaskans feel hurt, betrayed, and forgotten by the incumbent senator — one of the GOP senators who voted to convict former President Trump — during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday [4/3/2021]. Tshibaka, who has led the Department of Administration since early 2019, announced her challenge this week, stating it is time for D.C. insiders to be accountable "to us." Alaska state commissioner Kelly Tshibaka announces run for Sen. Lisa Murkowski's seat. An early Republican candidate announced plans Monday [3/29/2021] to seek the Alaska U.S. Senate seat that has been held since 2002 by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Kelly Tshibaka, who has led the Alaska Department of Administration since early 2019, in a statement said she is running "for the Alaskans who believe government is of the people, by the people and for the people. The D.C. insiders need to be held accountable to us." Tshibaka posted on social media a copy of her resignation letter as department commissioner, dated Monday, and a campaign video referred to her as former commissioner. Alaska Gov. Dunleavy, in a statement appointing an acting commissioner, thanked Tshibaka for her service. Senator Lisa Murkowski Draws Republican Primary Challenger. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, has a GOP challenger for the 2022 Senate race. Kelly Tshibaka, the former Alaska Department of Administration commissioner, announced Monday that she will challenge Murkowski in a 2022 primary election, becoming the first Republican candidate to declare their intentions to become the next U.S. senator from Alaska. Alaska GOP censures Murkowski, says it will recruit primary challenger. The Alaska Republican Party vows to "recruit" a challenger to Sen. Lisa Murkowski if she runs for reelection next year, but don't expect the Republican National Committee (RNC) or the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to join the effort against the state's senior senator. National party chair Ronna McDaniel emphasized to Fox News in January that "the RNC stays neutral in primaries for a very good reason. Because somebody has to be there to pick up the pieces of difficult primaries and help bring the party back together." On Tuesday [3/16/2021], in the wake of Saturday's move by the Alaska GOP to censure Murkowski and recruit a primary challenger against the longtime senator, an RNC official reiterated that the party committee remains neutral in Republican primaries. Trump To Campaign Against RINO Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Donald Trump is going to launch a campaign against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is exactly the type of Republican the GOP no longer needs or can afford. She caves to the left and sides with Democrats too often. The right needs fighters. Democrats and the media will come to Murkowski's defense and that's precisely why she needs to go. Murkowski: Trump should resign — and this might not be the party for me anymore. This would have been more of a bombshell if Republicans had held at least one of the two seats in Georgia, obviously, as that would have put control of the Senate in Murkowski's hands. Still, having her quit the GOP would be useful to Dems. If Murky starts caucusing with Schumer, that takes some of the pressure off of Joe Manchin on big votes. Murkowski says 'nothing to warrant overturning the results' as GOP group plans Electoral College challenge. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she will vote to affirm the results of the presidential election hours after other members of her party said they would contest the Electoral College certification. The Alaska Republican encouraged her fellow lawmakers in a Saturday afternoon [1/2/2021] statement to not challenge the certification and said that there is no credible evidence to show that President-elect Joe Biden's win was not legitimate. "I will vote to affirm the 2020 presidential election," Murkowski said. "The courts and state legislatures have all honored their duty to hear legal allegations and have found nothing to warrant overturning the results." "I urge my colleagues from both parties to recognize this and to join me in maintaining confidence in the Electoral College and our elections so that we ensure we have the continued trust of the American people," she added. The Editor says... Sarah Palin to Lisa Murkowski: Vote for Trump's SCOTUS Nominee or I May Run Against You. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin criticized fellow GOP member Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a video posted to her Instagram Wednesday, seemingly threatening to run against her in 2022. The video shows Palin showing off her house and telling the camera how much she likes it, but she then says that she would be "willing to give it up, for the greater good of this country and this great state." Her shot at Murkowski comes after the Alaska's senior senator said that she would not support any Supreme Court nominee until after the presidential inauguration in January. Sen. Murkowski relaxes position on SCOTUS nominee, signals Trump pick is on the table. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski unexpectedly threw a wrench the size of the Grand Canyon into congressional Democrats' plans to block President Donald Trump from confirming a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Though she and Sen. Susan Collins had initially indicated they would vote against confirming the president's still-unannounced nominee, she backtracked slightly while speaking outside the Capitol this Wednesday [9/23/2020], according to Alaska Public Media. "I know everybody wants to ask the question, 'will you confirm the nominee?' We don't have a nominee yet. You and I don't know who that is. And so I can't confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don't know who the nominee is," she said. In other words, she's left open the possibility that she may vote for the president's nominee. 'My Position Has Not Changed': Lisa Murkowski Confirms She Opposes Replacing Ginsburg Before Election. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) confirmed in a Sunday [9/20/2020] statement that she opposes replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election. "For weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up a potential Supreme Court vacancy this close to the election. Sadly, what was then a hypothetical is now our reality, but my position has not changed," Murkowski said, according to The Hill. Hours before news of Ginsburg's death, Murkowski said she wouldn't vote on a Supreme Court nominee prior to election. Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in an interview that she wouldn't vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee ahead of the election, just hours before news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Speaking to Alaska Public Media during an interview on an unrelated topic, Murkowski referenced the position she took when former President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in March 2016. Then, she supported Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's refusal to take action on Garland's nomination. Murkowski said that then, she felt "that was too close to an election and that the people needed to decide. That the closer you get to an election, that argument becomes even more important." "So I would not vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee," Murkowski said Friday, noting she had previously stated this position to reporters in recent weeks. Murkowski 'struggling' with whether to support Trump, backs Mattis after rebuke. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday said she is "struggling" with whether to support President Trump in the next election amid his handling of the unrest following George Floyd's death in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, while backing former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' condemnation of the president as "necessary and overdue." Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she was "thankful," after Mattis delivered an extraordinary rebuke of Trump's actions this week. Murkowski says she'll vote against impeachment witnesses Tuesday. That's not her final answer. The impeachment trial of President Trump begins Tuesday with a debate over how to proceed. Senate Democrats are expected to push for amendments demanding witnesses. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters Saturday in Anchorage that she will vote with Republican leaders against those amendments. But Murkowski says no one should assume she will oppose calling witnesses later. Murkowski is 'Disturbed,' All Right. Today the character of Jeff Flake, the former resident Hamlet of the Senate, is being played by GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who originally inherited her Senate seat from her daddy, Frank Murkowski. Murkowski the daughter says she is "disturbed" by Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's statements that he will be working closely with and taking his cues from President Trump in any impeachment trial in the Senate. Imagine that — the leader of her party in the Senate defending the President from her party from a political coup involving one sham investigation after another with no real crime, not even a poll-tested crime. There is no real evidence, except for fake evidence paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton and/or manufactured and manipulated by Obama's corrupted FBI, DoJ, and intelligence community complete with forged documents and hidden exculpatory evidence. Stopping Lisa Murkowski From Playing Lady Macbeth. Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday told KTUU-TV in Anchorage she was "disturbed" that her leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, would be coordinating with the White House in the coming trial — assuming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send over the articles of impeachment passed by the House earlier this month to the Senate. Widely viewed as the quintessential "Republican In Name Only," the Senate Energy and Natural Resources chairwoman and senior Alaska senator, first elected in 2002, said, "we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense" and charged that McConnell "has further confused the process" after House Democrats rushed to get the president impeached before Christmas. Alaska GOP Considering Whether To Throw Murkowski Out Of GOP For Opposing Kavanaugh. The Alaska Republican party has requested that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) submit any information she has that might dissuade them from reprimanding her for opposing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. As AP reports, "Party Chairman Tuckerman Babcock says the committee could decide to issue a statement. Or he says it could withdraw support of Murkowski, encourage party officials to look for a replacement and ask that she not seek re-election as a Republican." Babcock noted that the Alaska GOP has, in the past, withdrawn support for other Republicans who caucused with Democrats. Alaska GOP weighs reprimanding Murkowski over Kavanaugh vote. Leaders of the Alaskan Republican Party are weighing a reprimand for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) for not voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Alaska's GOP has asked Murkowski to send its state central committee any information she thinks may be relevant to its decision, The Associated Press reported on Monday [10/8/2018]. Party Chairman Tuckerman Babcock said the committee may issue a statement or withdraw its support for Murkowski. In the case of the latter, the committee would encourage officials to find a replacement and ask Murkowski not to run as a Republican for reelection. Why Is Lisa Murkowski Still a Republican? Murkowski was the only Republican to vote "no" to bring the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the floor for a vote. Her explanation was long-winded and convoluted, but in the end, she said it was a vote of "conscience." Politicians vote their "conscience" when it is convenient to do so. In Murkowski's case, her claim of conscience would be more believable if she didn't already know that her colleague, Senator Susan Collins, was going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh. This meant that her vote was not needed for confirmation and she could safely indulge her pique against the president without recriminations from her colleagues. Donald Trump hopes some of those recriminations come back to haunt her. The Democrat trick behind Senator Murkowski's 'present' vote. The final tally was 50 to 48, with 99 Senators voting to achieve that outcome. The mathematics are odd because Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) switched her "nay" vote to "present." She says she did this to accommodate her colleague Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) who was attending his daughter's wedding and unable to register his vote in favor of the nomination. Really? If Murkowski had voted "nay," the result would have been 50-49. Kavanaugh still would have won. Her voting "present" had no effect on the outcome. Do you suppose she didn't think of this? Or might she have something else in mind? 'I can see 2022 from my house': Sarah Palin hints she will run against Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Sarah Palin has hinted that she may run against incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate after she voted against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination. The Treachery of Murkowski, Collins and McCain. Previously, we have written how important it is to restructure our health insurance system after the dishonest, unnecessary and destructive law passed by a fully-partisan vote known as Obamacare. We have defined the fact that this is a team effort by Republicans which would orient the insurance market back toward consumer choice and save us from a downward spiral toward government control over the entirety of our healthcare system, handing over the future of our individual health to faceless know-it-all bureaucrats. Yet despite that, three senators — Murkowski, Collins and McCain — vainly thought they were wiser than everyone else and sentenced us to destruction of choice in the health insurance market. Planned Parenthood to send superhero capes to senators who voted against healthcare bill. Planned Parenthood says it's sending superhero capes to the 51 senators who voted against the Senate's ObamaCare repeal bill. [...] The Senate GOP's healthcare bill failed in a 49-51 vote late Thursday night, stifling Republicans' hope of fulfilling their seven-year promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was the deciding vote on the bill, joining GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) in breaking with their party to oppose the bill. What's Wrong With These People? [W]hen the Senate version of an Obamacare replacement foundered and McConnell announced the next step would be, early next week, an up-or-down vote for an Obamacare repeal now and the crafting of a replacement as a consensus for one emerges, that's something an entire GOP caucus can vote for. Minus Susan Collins, of course; Maine's quote-unquote Republican Senator wouldn't vote to repeal Obamacare back in 2015 when McConnell's majority sent a bill doing just that to then-President Obama's desk to die. But outside of Collins and Mark Kirk of Illinois, who is no longer in the Senate, the rest of the caucus was on board with the repeal. And yet Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito, and Ohio's Rob Portman have now joined Collins in announcing they won't support a repeal when the vote comes up next week. What is wrong with these people? Murkowski 'committed' to funding for Planned Parenthood in health bill. GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has maintained in a letter to constituents that she remains committed to funding Planned Parenthood amid Republican efforts to pass a healthcare bill in the upper chamber. "I am committed to ensuring that important provisions of the ACA, such as covering those with pre-existing conditions, continued support for Medicaid expansion, coverage for dependents and no lifetime limits, and funding for Planned Parenthood remain intact," she said in the letter obtained by Politico for a report Friday. Asked about the letter this week, the GOP senator told the newspaper she is a "strong proponent [of Planned Parenthood] and I will fight to keep the funding in." She declined to make promises on legislation she said she hasn't seen. These Pro-Abortion Republicans May Prevent Defunding Planned Parenthood. A few pro-abortion Republican lawmakers could get in the way of plans to defund the nation's largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood. The U.S. House passed a bill in May to defund the abortion group of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and repeal and replace Obamacare, but the U.S. Senate has yet to take action. Politico reports a lot could hinge on U.S. Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, two Republicans who support the abortion chain. To pass, the bill would need 50 of the 52 votes from Senate Republicans, plus a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence, a pro-life Republican. Think Again, Collins and Murkowski. Two Republican senators — Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins — have declared that they intend to vote against Betsy DeVos, putting Donald Trump's nominee for Education secretary at risk of failing confirmation. Murkowski and Collins, and any other Republicans who might be on the fence, should think twice before giving America's teachers' unions a huge victory. Republicans Voting Against DeVos Are Backed By Teachers Unions. Two Republican senators who said they would not vote to support Betsy DeVos Wednesday have a friendly history with teachers unions. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine both announced Wednesday [1/31/2017] that they would not support Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education. Murkowski was endorsed by the Alaska chapter of the National Education Association (NEA) in her 2016 campaign for Senate. Two GOP senators to vote 'no' on Betsy DeVos. GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski in back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor announced Wednesday that they would oppose Betsy DeVos's nomination to be Education secretary. They are the first two Republicans to break with Trump on any of his Cabinet picks, and the votes could make it difficult for DeVos to win confirmation. If all of the Senate's Democrats vote against DeVos, she would have 50 votes if the remaining Republicans backed her — with Vice President Mike Pence potentially breaking the tie. No Democrats have backed DeVos. Murkowski: Obama's Supreme Court nominee should get a Senate hearing. Whomever President Barack Obama nominates to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski thinks the nominee deserves to be vetted by the Senate. The position may put her at odds with her party's leadership, but for some hedging: She noted that a hearing doesn't necessarily mean the Senate will vote to approve a nominee. These Six Senators Lied About Obamacare Repeal. The following Republican Senators demonstrated this afternoon [7/26/2017] that they are liars and frauds: Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Dean Heller (Nev.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Rob Portman (Ohio). [...] These mountebanks, all of whom voted for "clean repeal" when Obama's inevitable veto made it safe and politically expedient to do so, voted against a virtually identical bill today — knowing full well that President Trump would sign it. In other words, they consciously betrayed their constituents, their party, and the nation as a whole. Sources: Graham Wrote Repeal Bill To Cater To Murkowski. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina specifically wrote his bill to repeal and replace Obamacare to provide concessions to Sen. Lisa Murkowki's home state of Alaska, a conservative Hill staffer with first hand knowledge and one conservative strategist told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The Independent Journal reported Thursday afternoon [9/21/2017] that Graham and Cassidy were trying to "buy" Murkowski's vote through a series last-minute changes to their repeal bill before the legislation is expected to go up for a vote next week. Sources told TheDCNF that Graham did not sell the bill to conservatives as trying to purchase Murkowski's vote, but rather set out to craft the legislation at the outset to provide Alaska with what it needed to get to a "yes" vote. Senator Richard Burr N.C. GOP unanimously votes to censure Sen. Richard Burr over impeachment vote. The North Carolina Republican Party unanimously approved a resolution Monday [2/15/2021] to censure Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump's second impeachment trial. Michael Whatley, the state party chairman, said the central committee's decision serves as a symbolic gesture of the party's opposition to Burr's action. "It's important for the party to go ahead and put out a vote and a statement that it disagrees with Senator Burr's vote, but in terms of practical impacts, it is just that. It's a resolution," Whatley said. Burr's Barely Been a Conservative, So No Surprises On the Don Jr Subpoena. Elected Republicans, not to mention Trump supporters everywhere, stand stupefied by Republican Senator Richard Burr's decision to subpoena Donald Trump, Jr. If Burr was trying to hand the Democrats the shot in the arm that they needed to keep their Russia collusion conspiracy theatrics going, it would be hard to imagine him doing a better job than this. Richard Burr Runs Away from Reporters Asking About Rogue Subpoena of Trump, Jr. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee who just issued a rogue subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump, Jr., ducked and covered from the media amid the backlash against his attempt to haul Trump, Jr., before his committee. Burr, who issued the subpoena in contravention of an edict from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the Russia hoax is now "case closed," ran away from reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday when asked about the overwhelming GOP backlash against his move. Trump Jr. Spokesman Says Burr Should 'Drop Whole Charade He's a Republican'. Andy Surabian, spokesman for President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump, Jr., said on Saturday that Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) should officially leave the Republican Party and join the Democrat Party because he has proven he is not a Republican by issuing a rogue subpoena of Trump, Jr. No Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr's Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena. Not one GOP senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee was willing to publicly align himself or herself on Wednesday evening [5/8/2019] with the panel's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), after Burr made the determination, against indications from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to testify again on the Russia probe. News broke late Wednesday afternoon that Burr had issued Trump, Jr. a subpoena to try to compel the president's eldest son to testify again. The subpoena is in contravention of a previous promise Burr made to Trump, Jr. that he would only need to testify once and would not be subpoenaed, and it contradicts McConnell's edict on Tuesday that the Russia hoax is "case closed" after two years of investigating with no evidence of collusion or obstruction. Bill to permanently ban taxpayer abortion funding fails Senate vote. The final vote was 48-47, with pro-abortion Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining Democrats. The GOP currently has enough pro-life senators that a simple majority could have been compiled without them, but GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander, Richard Burr, Mike Crapo, Lindsey Graham, and Rand Paul were either absent or did not vote. Congressman Justin Amash Republican Iraq War Veteran Peter Meijer Wins Michigan District Primary Held by Never-Trumper Justin Amash. Republican Iraq War veteran Peter Meijer won the Republican primary race in Michigan's Third District held by Never-Trumper Justin Amash. [...] Never-Trumper Justin Amash left the Republican Party in July 2019. Justin Amash Won't Seek Reelection to Congress. Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI), the Never Trump libertarian congressman who quit the Republican Party last year, is not campaigning for his seat in the House of Representatives, an aide to the lawmaker revealed Thursday to The Detroit News. "He hasn't been campaigning for any office and doesn't plan to seek the nomination for any office," Poppy Nelson, an adviser to Amash, told the news outlet. Justin Amash Says That He Will Use Federal Dollars to Protect Transgenderism as President. Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI) has announced that protecting transgenderism is high on his priority list, and he would expend federal resources if he were elected president to harbor the delusions of these severely mentally ill individuals. "I would protect transgender Americans under the protections that exist for sex," Amash said during a radio interview on Friday [5/1/2020]. Amash, who claims to be a crusader against government overreach, would expand current federal laws that are on the books to protect trannies. Justin Amash like Gary Johnson? Back in 2016, many of us thought Gary Johnson would take votes from Donald Trump because he had been a successful GOP governor from New Mexico. In fact, a good friend of mine was so frustrated with the Trump nomination that he started working for the Johnson campaign. He did get 3.4% of the popular vote, but did it matter? Did he hurt both sides? It's not clear, frankly. My experience with Liberterians is that they find both parties appalling and can't vote for either one. Representative Justin Amash is exploring a run for president, and once again, we are talking about the impact on now-president Trump. I don't buy it. Justin Amash won't seek reelection to House as he becomes first Libertarian member of Congress. Justin Amash will not seek another term in his House seat as he launches a presidential bid and becomes the first Libertarian member of Congress. "My campaign is paused, but, frankly, I'm running this campaign for president, and I don't intend to return to my congressional campaign," Amash said in an interview with Reason Tuesday night. "It's been an honor to represent the 3rd District, and that was one of the hardest parts of this decision." In comments to the Detroit News, Amash said: "At the end of the day, I'm trying to think about what is best for the country, and I really think, right now, the more important thing is that the American people have an alternative." Justin Amash: a study in vanity. Every Democrat's favorite ex-Republican has just announced he's going to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for president. If he gets it, Justin Amash will be the third ex-Republican in a row to be the LP's standard bearer, tracing the footsteps of former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr (2008) and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (2012 and 2016). Neither of those two had an appreciable impact on the Obama-McCain, Obama-Romney, or Clinton-Trump contests, and the odds are not good that Amash will be any more significant. Rep. Amash, republican-turned-independent, exploring 2020 run for Libertarian nomination. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan said Tuesday [4/28/2020] that he is launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 Libertarian Party's presidential nomination. The Republican-turned-independent said on Twitter that the U.S. was ready for new leadership. He also posted a link to a new campaign website. Amash dumped Trump, and now Michigan district may dump Amash. Amash's is another cautionary tale for GOP lawmakers who consider opposing Trump, whose job approval rating among Republicans has hovered around 90% for the past year, according to Gallup. Those who stand against him quickly find it is a lonely place to be and may spell the end of their political career. Amash officially files as Independent. Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) officially filed as an Independent with the House clerk on Tuesday [7/9/2019], one day after he submitted a letter formally resigning from the Republican conference and his position on the House Oversight and Reform Committee. This only means that the swamp hasn't been drained. Justin China Announces His Republican Departure. Justin Amash, aka "Justin China", chooses the Fourth of July to announce his political departure from the Republican party. No big surprise here; and choosing the Washington Post as the venue for his proclamation is a cherry atop his insufferable nonsense. Justin China is specifically at risk from the 'America First' trade and economic policy of President Donald Trump. With extensive family financial holdings dependent on Chinese manufacturing there is a specific level of transparent self interest. Additionally, as President Trump noted in his response, Justin was likely to lose a republican primary challenge from within his district that was going to see him removed from office. Jonah Goldberg to NPR: Justin Amash 'Might Have More Appeal than People Think'. National Public Radio (NPR) turned to Never Trump pundit Jonah Goldberg on Friday morning to explain the implications of the decision this week by Rep. Justin Amash to leave the Republican Party. Goldberg told Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep that Amash's departure was "a sign of many of the symptoms he's talking about," including the increased partisanship of American politics — which, Goldberg argued, was ironically a result of the weakening of the traditional parties in the face of challenges by outsiders like Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Justin Amash Dumps Republican Party: 'Our Politics in Partisan Death Spiral'. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), the Michigan Never Trump congressman who has consistently backed impeachment of President Donald Trump, announced Thursday [7/4/2019] he is quitting the GOP. [...] His move follows months of criticism of not just the president but of his own colleagues, being the first sitting Republican lawmaker to join Democratic calls for an impeachment inquiry in May. Rep. Justin Amash announces he's quitting Republican Party in op-ed. Rep. Justin Amash, the lone Republican in Congress to open up impeachment talk against President Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that he is leaving the Republican Party. Amash, I-Mich., made the declaration in an opinion piece published by The Washington Post. "Today, I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party," Amash wrote. "No matter your circumstance, I'm asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us. I'm asking you to believe that we can do better than this two-party system — and to work toward it. If we continue to take America for granted, we will lose it." Peter Meijer, heir to grocery chain fortune, to take on Justin Amash. U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, who has already come under fire in his party for being the first House Republican to call for President Donald Trump's impeachment, has gotten a new opponent with a well-known name. On Wednesday, 31-year-old Peter Meijer, whose last name is synonymous with the grocery store chain started by his grandfather Frederik Meijer, announced he is running for the Republican nomination to the seat currently held by Amash in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District. Michigan Poll: Justin Amash Underwater Beneath 20 Percent, Trails Challenger by Double Digits. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), the Michigan Never Trump GOP congressman who recently publicly backed impeachment of President Donald Trump, is now underwater in his own district according to a poll obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. Amash is polling at just 17 percent in the GOP primary, trailing State Rep. Jim Lower by double digits. Lower, who announced his candidacy as Amash revealed his support for impeaching Trump, is at 27 percent — a 10-point lead over Amash. Donald Trump Jr. Ready to Campaign Against Justin Amash in Michigan. Donald Trump Jr. announced Thursday [6/13/2019] he's ready to back the challenger to Republican Congressman Justin Amash. The president's son shared a new political poll of Michigan on Twitter, showing Amash down 16 points against Republican primary challenger Jim Lower. Justin Amash gone from House Freedom Caucus after saying Trump's conduct was 'impeachable'. Michigan Repubican Rep. Justin Amash announced Monday evening he was leaving the influential conservative House Freedom Caucus, just weeks after he attracted the ire of his colleagues by arguing in Twitter posts that President Trump had committed impeachable offenses, Fox News has learned. Amash, speaking at a Freedom Caucus board meeting, insisted his departure was voluntary. Amash said he did not want to continue to be a "further distraction" for the caucus, which is chaired by North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows. MAGA Supporter Brilliantly Skewers Justin Amash. Anna Timmer is a smart and eloquent Trump supporter who had enough of Rep. Justin Amash an his self-serving nonsense. During a Grand Rapids, Michigan, town hall Ms. Timmer stood in a packed hall and let Amash know exactly how she felt after he called for impeachment proceedings against the president. [Video clip] Koch Bros Propaganda Promotes Justin Amash as Crusader 'Against FISA Surveillance Abuse'. While Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is alienating his constituents and conservatives throughout Michigan who do not want to surrender their state to the Democrats in 2020, he is making some friends in high places. The globalist Koch Brothers, who loathe Trump because he opposes their status quo policies of free trade and open borders, have their astroturfed Reason Magazine publication gushing over Amash's history of battling against FISA court abuse. There's only one problem: Amash cheers on the worst abuse committed by the FISA courts in history — the illegal spying operation targeting Donald Trump and the subsequent Mueller special counsel investigation. Army National Guard Member Launches Primary Challenge Against Justin Amash. An Army National Guard member announced Thursday that he will mount a primary challenge against Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) in the wake of the libertarian-leaning lawmaker's remarks about President Donald Trump and impeachment. Tom Norton, who previously served as village president of Kent County, joins Michigan State Rep. Jim Lower (R) in a bid to unseat Amash in the state's 3rd Congressional District. Media Curiously Incurious About What Amash Finds Impeachable on Trump, Dishonest on Barr. Justin Amash got just what many observers say he wanted from his remarks that President Trump should be impeached — a lot of ink from an adoring mainstream media. But that media, which prides itself on asking touch questions and speaking truth to power, mysteriously never inquired what specifically Amash, a Republican who represents the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, saw in the report from special counsel Robert Mueller or in Attorney General William Barr's interpretation of it that led him to believe Barr has misled with his report or that Trump deserved to be impeached. Multiple outlets quoted Amash's tweets. "President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct," read one. "Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," read another. Amash faces fresh GOP primary challenge after Trump impeachment comments. Less than 48 hours after GOP Rep. Justin Amash declared that President Trump "engaged in impeachable conduct," a fellow Republican has vowed to challenge him in the upcoming primary election. Michigan state Rep. Jim Lower made his intentions known Monday morning, announcing that instead of seeking a third term in the state legislature, he will run against Amash for their party's nomination for the 2020 election. Amash has served as the representative for Michigan's Third District since 2011. This Republican Wants To Impeach Trump. [Scroll down] It's actually debatable how "Republican" [Congressman Justin] Amash is, he having described himself as "presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting." Son of a Syrian-born mother and a Palestinian refugee father, Amash staunchly opposed Trump's travel ban on countries that are terrorist threats, as well as voting against reauthorizing the Patriot Act. The now five-term representative attracted the ire of House Intelligence Committee ranking Republican Devon Nunes of California, who five years ago infamously called Amash "al-Qaida's best friend in the Congress." Donald Trump Mocks 'Loser' Justin Amash for Backing Impeachment. President Donald Trump ridiculed Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) on Sunday [5/19/2019] after the rogue Republican accused the president of impeachable conduct. "Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents' hands!" Trump wrote on Twitter. A RINO wants to impeach the President for something the Attorney General did. Rep. Amash Slams McCain for 'Allahu Akbar' Comments. On Friday, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) ripped Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his argument that when jihadists scream "Allahu Akbar" it is no different than Christians saying "Thank God." "Senator McCain's response was completely ignorant and offensive. Good people, whether they're Muslims, Christians, or Jews — don't scream 'Thank God' when they kill people," Amash said on Laura Ingraham's radio program on Tuesday [9/3/2013]. "It's completely outrageous that he would say such a thing." Chris Christie Attacks "This Strain of Libertarianism That's Going Through Both Parties Right Now." Yesterday [7/24/2013] the House voted on Justin Amash and John Conyers' amendment to defund the NSA's mass collection of American phone records. The measure failed, but it failed by a surprisingly narrow vote, and that margin is making some Republicans nervous. One of the nervous Republicans, to judge from Aaron Blake's report this evening in the Washington Post, is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Bill Kristol Never Trumper Bill Kristol Takes Break from Supporting Foreign Wars to Endorse Nikki Haley. Bill Kristol, a former Republican who left the party over its embrace of Donald Trump, has endorsed Nikki Haley one day before the Iowa caucus kicks off. "I'm an ex-Republican. But if I were an Iowan, I'd be crossing back over to vote for Haley Monday. Voting against Trump in Republican caucuses and primaries is the most effective way — and a legal and legitimate way — to oppose Trump this winter and spring. Good for you, Bill, but nobody "in my circle" voted for Biden. Bill Kristol endorses McAuliffe in Virginia governor's race. Longtime conservative commentator and vocal critic of former President Trump Bill Kristol on Tuesday endorsed Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race. Kristol is one of 17 Republicans who will formally endorse the former governor on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post. "He's a moderate Democrat, and he's not going to shut down Virginia's business success, economic success and so forth. He's the kind of Democrat I'm comfortable supporting," Kristol told the Post. Karl Rove to Hold Major Fundraiser for Never-Trumper Adam Kinzinger. Karl Rove will hold a bigtime virtual fundraiser on March 31 for vocal Trump-hater Adam Kinzinger. Top GOP donors from Illinois are expected to attend this fundraiser. Adam Kinzinger, the poor man's Mitt Romney, is one of the most vocal Trump-haters in the US Congress. Kinzinger gladly voted to impeach President Trump in January along with 9 other Republican lawmakers. Bill Kristol reassures everyone there's no crisis on the border and this is all Trump's fault. Columnist and Never-Trumper turned Democrat Bill Kristol tweeted out on Monday [3/22/2021] that there is no crisis at the border, only an ongoing problem that is the fault of the Trump administration and not that of President Joe Biden. Kristol tweeted: "There is no crisis at the border. [...]" Back in February of 2017, Kristol declared that Americans were disposable and proclaimed that population replacement would be advantageous for national power. Never Trump's utterly unprincipled lies. Conservatives have their disagreements with President Trump, even as they continue to support him overwhelmingly for any number of reasons. But a tiny group — a groupuscule, really — of self-styled "true conservatives" would have you believe a large chunk of the GOP is rooting for his Democratic opponents to win. It just so happens that this groupuscule has massive media influence, far out of proportion to its importance to the American right. I'm speaking, of course, of the Never Trump movement: the coterie of failed political consultants, self-proclaimed "experts" and Washington pundits happy to tell the left media exactly what they want to hear about the Trump GOP and to demoralize ordinary Republicans in a crucial election year. From pop-up groups like the Lincoln Project and Republicans for Biden to e-publications like The Bulwark, Never Trump is following a familiar, failed pattern: go all out for any Democrat running against Trump. In a tweet this week, Bill Kristol, Never Trump's de facto leader, endorsed the idea that Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat, should be the next vice president. Elderly Hollywood Celebs Push Vote by Mail for Group Led by Bill Kristol. A group of elderly Hollywood stars, including 98-year-old Carl Reiner, is urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to support vote by mail, saying that it will allow senior citizens to vote without endangering their lives during the coronavirus outbreak. The celebrities made their appeal in a video from Defending Democracy Together, a Never-Trump Republican organization co-founded by Bill Kristol. Bill Kristol finally crosses to the Democrats. Not that Bill Kristol is a guy who merits much attention anymore, but sure enough, the biggest, most recalcitrant, most self-defeating #NeverTrump out there has finally come out as a Democrat. Bill Kristol Reveals His True Colors, And Nobody Is Surprised. Is there anyone on the planet more obnoxiously smug than neoconservative political pundit Bill Kristol? I'm not normally one to put much emphasis on personal appearance, but just a passing glance at that high forehead and pompous, arrogant grin should tell you the man thinks he knows way more than you do about, well, pretty much everything. And he's not shy about telling you what he thinks, especially on all things Trump, and looking down on you disapprovingly if you dare to disagree. The Winter of NeverTrump Discontent. If the last few weeks have been bad for Democrats, imagine the dyspepsia and insomnia of the NeverTrump brigade. [...] Start with Bill Kristol, founder of the failed Weekly Standard and constant Trump critic, who after impeachment had his "coming out of the closet" moment, revealing what everyone has known for years, that he is really a Democrat. The Editor says... Bill Kristol Lets The Cat Out of the Bag: Paul Ryan Is Secretly Working Against Donald Trump. "Never Trump" movement leader Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard seemingly accidentally let the cat out of the bag about House Speaker Paul Ryan: Kristol says Ryan is secretly working against Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president. "Trump is corrupting everyone who has supported him, or who is working for him, and even is accommodating or rationalizing," Kristol said in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday, one his own publication the Weekly Standard promoted online. Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina to support Joe Biden over Donald Trump. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination against Donald Trump, said she plans to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden in November, moving to support a Democrat over her former GOP competitor. "I've been very clear that I can't support Donald Trump," Ms. Fiorina told The Atlantic's "The Ticket" podcast. "And elections are binary choices." She said Republicans need to analyze their support of Mr. Trump because of his judicial appointments and some policies over his character and lack of unifying the nation. The Editor says... Carly Fiorina Says She Intends to Vote for Joe Biden. Former 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has stated she plans to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden (D) in November. Fiorina, who says she is not pleased with President Donald Trump's presidential conduct and was also Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) prospective running mate in 2016, made her remarks during an interview with the Atlantic's "The Ticket" podcast. 'Vital that he be impeached': Carly Fiorina breaks ranks with Republicans on Trump. Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said she supports impeaching President Trump. "I think it is vital that he be impeached, [but] whether removed this close to an election, I don't know. But I think the conduct is impeachable," she told CNN. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who ran against Trump in 2016, said the president's conduct was "destructive to the republic." So this is why Cruz picked Fiorina. I was still trying to figure out why Ted Cruz would pick Carly Fiorina as his running mate. She's basically the exact opposite on policy to Ted Cruz. Then I finally found the answer. The California Republican Convention is this weekend. [...] I watched Fiorina's feeble run for Senate in 2010, in a Republican year. She couldn't even get within ten points of old hag Barbara Boxer who is unpopular, even in this loony state. She may have had a few good GOP debates, but she is about as progressive Republican as it gets. Liz Cheney Liz Cheney Under Fire for Allegedly Improper Contacts with Cassidy Hutchinson. Former J6 Committee Co-Chair and Rep. Liz Cheney has long been criticized for her role in creating a one-sided and at times erroneous record of what occurred on January 6th. That includes editing out Trump's call for supporters to protest "peacefully," burying evidence on Trump's offer to supply National Guard support for that day, and highlighting a false account of Trump in his presidential limo that was directly contradicted by witnesses. She now stands accused of unethically contacting a key represented witness to get her to change her testimony. In my view, ethical proceedings are unlikely after the disclosure of ex parte communications with former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson. However, the evidence seemingly contradicts public accounts of how Hutchinson decided to fire her counsel and change her testimony. Hutchinson was represented by Stefan Passantino, who some clearly viewed as a stumbling block to getting Hutchinson to turn against Trump. Hutchinson would claim under oath that Passantino pressured her to stay "loyal" to Donald Trump and coached her responses to support Trump despite her conflicting accounts. Report: Liz Cheney colluded with anti-Trump witness Cassidy Hutchinson and helped her obtain a lawyer. House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight just exposed how unethical and dirty the January 6th witch hunt was. The Kamala-loving "Republican" Liz Cheney is probably the dirtiest of all the Never Trumpers who used J6 to attack the Bad Orange Man. [...] Yeah, Liz knew communication with Hutchinson in private as a witness would be unethical. So she worked to make sure Hutchinson got an attorney so they could plausibly cover their tracks. Liz Cheney contacted controversial J6 witness on encrypted app behind lawyer's back, messages show. While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel — and possibly ethical rules — with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News. Cheney's Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident. The communications are now raising fresh concerns about the ethical conduct of that Democrat-run investigation. As Regis Philbin used to say, "Who kez?" The Uniparty Turns Literal. [Scroll down] Trump has performed a great service in driving the likes of Cheney to vote Kamala. The feeble charade of TweedleDem vs TweedleRep is designed to obscure the central fact of end-stage western "democracy" — that, on anything that really matters, nothing can be permitted to change. Thus, having Dick Cheney and Ilhan Omar formally on the same team is very helpful. Trump has driven the "respectable" political class to make the Uniparty literal, and its consolidation has freed up space for an actual second party. The Three "Other" Reasons They Want to Stop Trump at All Costs. Pop quiz: Which American is most terrified by the prospects of a Trump presidency? Obviously that's an impossible question to answer empirically but if I had to put odds on one person in particular, it would be Liz Cheney. The sins that have been accumulating for the Deep State and the UniParty Swamp over the past four years are so vast that it would be impossible to cover it all up if someone with White House authority went searching. The same was likely true in 2017, which is why I believe they took out General Michael Flynn. Just having Trump in the White House is not enough. He doesn't know what he doesn't know which means he'll need people like Flynn who know the likely places the bodies are buried. I'm not sure Trump will bring on people who can truly drain the swamp in his next administration, but it's a risk that people like Liz Cheney and her superiors are not willing to take. House May Refer Members of January 6 Committee for Prosecution. House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) announced this week that the House may refer members of the partisan January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for alleged misconduct involving document concealment and destruction. During his ongoing investigation into the January 6 Committee's activities, Loudermilk revealed that the Committee had disposed of documents and records despite being warned by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to preserve all records. This news comes in the wake of a House report that found that the Democrat-led committee withheld exculpatory evidence about Trump from the public. [...] Loudermilk specifically called out Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-Miss.), the previous head of the Jan 6 Select Committee, suggesting that Thompson relinquished decision-making authority to ex-Rep. Liz Cheney. "There's still documents that we need to get hold of. We still don't have passwords for the encrypted documents," Loudermilk said. "It's amazing that you know, when I asked the former Chairman Bennie Thompson, 'all I want you to do is give me the passwords.' He said, 'I don't even know what you're talking about.' Well, I think it's coming down to he probably didn't, because now new information we're getting is that Liz Cheney ran that committee." Report Confirms Liz Cheney's Corruption in Handling of J6. This week, we heard that three days before the J6 riot/rally, Liz Cheney orchestrated the letter from ten living Pentagon chiefs who said the time for contesting the election "has passed," and the military [National Guard included] can't be involved. On J6, the Acting Secretary of Defense Miller wouldn't send the National Guard for hours. Cheney hid exculpatory evidence that showed Donald Trump did request the National Guard. Cheney keeps saying he didn't order them up, but the President can't do that, and she knows it. Now we have Barry Loudermilk's report confirming her deceit and manipulation. She needs to face justice for what she has done. Maybe she will skate, but that would be an injustice. Rep. Barry Loudermilk's report on the J6 panel is devastating if people pay attention. Cheney surprised her own J6 committee with Cassidy Hutchinson's invented story about what happened in the presidential SUV on Jan. 6. New Information on Liz Cheney's Deceit and Perverse Actions Surrounding Events on Jan. 6 Raises Serious Calls for Her Arrest and Prosecution. A May 2021 report revealed that Liz Cheney 'secretly orchestrated the Washington Post op-ed by all ten living former Defense Secretaries — including her father — warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military' prior to January 6. In the Washington Post op-ed, the disgraced congresswoman warned that "involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory." Weeks later, Liz Cheney led the efforts to impeach President Trump and throw him in prison for not securing the US Capitol prior to the January 6 protests. It is now widely reported that it was Pelosi, Democrats, Mayor Bowser, and the Capitol Police who refused President Trump's request to secure the US Capitol with 10,000 National Guard troops. Liz Cheney vs Stefan Passantino: The Jan. 6 Committee Fraud. It's becoming increasingly clear that U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney was dishonest, manipulative, and destructive while serving on the Jan. 6 Committee. [...] The Jan. 6 Committee did everything it could to avoid being reviewed. It has not released transcripts of many interviews. It claims to have destroyed some videos of interviews. In one deliberately opaque move, the committee seems to have sent some of its documents to various other agencies, making them difficult to gather. Further, the committee called in thousands of witnesses to interview. Yet, it never interviewed [Stefan] Passantino. This is the biggest clue that Liz Cheney and the committee were interested in promoting their narrative rather than finding the truth. The Republican House has since brought the Jan. 6 Committee materials back from the National Archives, and they are being studied by the Committee on House Administration. Some surprisingly bad examples of rule-breaking and simply lying to the American people are beginning to emerge. Liz Cheney proclaims DeSantis 'unfit for office' for J6 comments. What is wrong with this woman? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) experienced what can only be described as a positive moment in his presidential aspirations on Sunday, given Liz Cheney's popularity among Republicans. Appearing on Face the Nation, Cheney was asked about DeSantis suggesting that as president he would look at the January 6 defendants on a case-by-case basis and consider pardons in response to concerns about the "weaponization" of government and the rejected ex-congresswoman responded by declaring the governor "unfit for office." Who would benefit most from this? Donald Trump! The Editor says... Liz Cheney Jumps Into the Speaker Fight to Deliver a Desperate Warning. Liz Cheney is jumping into the fight over who will be the next Speaker of the House, and she's brought with her desperate warning: Don't elect Rep. Jim Jordan to the position. [...] Is there any depth to Cheney at this point? It's all just the same accusations over and over, speaking to the same audiences, getting the same tepid applause. What evidence does she have that Jim Jordan was part of some vast conspiracy to attack the Capitol Building? Because if she has such evidence, why hasn't she shared it with the DOJ? Why hasn't Jordan been arrested? We all know if such evidence existed, he'd be pursued vigorously by the current administration. That evidence doesn't exist, though. It's all exaggerated nonsense that Cheney repeats knowing she won't be sued because she's attacking public figures. Tucker Carlson Encourages Jacob Chansley To Sue Liz Cheney. Fox News host Tucker Carlson called on Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman," to sue Liz Cheney "for the crime she committed against him and against our justice system." "The Biden administration is demanding that Chansley serve another six months in a halfway house just to make sure his life is destroyed," Carlson began. "Let's hope that when he finally gets out, he has the energy to sue Liz Cheney of UVA for the crime she committed against him and against our justice system," he added. [Tweet] Liz Cheney Exits Congress 6 Years Later and Millions of Dollars Richer. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will vacate her congressional seat on Tuesday after becoming a wealthy woman during her six years of serving Wyoming. Cheney, who lost her Republican primary by nearly 40 points in August, will depart Congress on January 3 and return home as a defeated 56-year-old never Trumper. Cheney will not depart Congress empty-handed. During her six years in Congress, she has become very wealthy. Breitbart News reported in August that Cheney's net worth ballooned from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020. The most revolting people of 2022. [#3] Liz Cheney: The soon-to-be former congresswoman dedicated her final tenure in the House solely to engaging in a personal vendetta against President Trump. She claimed her opposition to Trump was principled, i.e., that she is conservative and only concerned about the fate of the nation. Yet her voting record revealed that she sided with most of the far-left items on the Democrat agenda. So much for that claim. She claims to be a proponent of democracy yet she was the de facto leader of the Stalinist January 6 committee, hand-picked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and exclusively populated with only the most angry of Trump haters. The Committee didn't even allow Trump's lawyers to question witnesses. She lost in a landslide during her Wyoming primary, disgusting voters across the board in America's reddest state. In her concession speech, she attacked voters who rejected her and compared herself to Lincoln. Liz Cheney's Foreword in Jan. 6 Report Reminds Us There's More of This Nonsense. The January 6 select committee finally released their final report on Friday morning, as Leah highlighted earlier. With soon-to-be former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) serving as the vice chairwoman, she was allowed produce a foreword, which took up approximately four pages of the nearly 850-page-report. As brief as the foreword is, Cheney still looks to make her mark. There's reference to Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, as Cheney has done in the past, when she had even compared herself to the first Republican president. [...] Cheney is also looking to remind readers once more how hellbent she is in preventing him from becoming president again. She herself may even run against Trump. Jan 6 staffers turn on Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney lost her leadership position in the House last year and lost her primary this year. What she got instead was a position on the Jan. 6 committee given to her by Nancy Pelosi and a lot of strange new respect from Democrats. Now, with Democrats losing control of the House, partisan staffers on the committee are turning on Cheney. [...] Reading this I can't help thinking again about the Ryan Grim report about the inability of progressive advocacy groups to get anything done because the level of internal dissent has become so intense. I wonder if that's not the case here as well. It sort of sounds like a group of far left staffers have decided that Cheney's presence is tainting the product and they want her canceled. And the pushback from Cheney's spox makes it sounds like she's trying to keep some woke nonsense out of the final report because a) she knows it's dumb and b) she knows it will be used to discredit the rest of the report. Liz Cheney praises Nancy Pelosi as a 'tremendous leader,' warns against electing a GOP majority. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a "tremendous leader" during an interview on Tuesday, just over a week before the Midterm Elections when Cheney's replacement will be selected. "I want to say a word about Speaker Pelosi. Everyone knows she is a liberal from San Francisco [and] I am a conservative from Wyoming, there are many, many issues, maybe most issues, on which we disagree. But I think that she is a tremendous leader," Cheney said at the City Club in Cleveland with PBS's Judy Woodruff. "I've watched her up close. She is a leader of historic consequence," the Republican added. The Editor says... Liz Cheney's Plan To Divide The Republican Party Has Failed. The widespread and coordinated plan to divide the Republican Party has failed, and it's a major reason why Democrat prospects for the 2022 midterms are so bad. Separating Republican officials from their growing coalition of voters and the issues they care about has been the Washington establishment's goal for several years now. The "divide and conquer" plan is being run by the Democrat Party, its propaganda press, and former leaders of the Republican Party such as Liz Cheney, who see how the GOP's new composition and approach has threatened or destroyed their hold on power. The D.C. partnership has worked overtime to try to marginalize, demonize, and make toxic those Republicans who don't follow the establishment's rules for how supposedly good Republicans, like Mitt Romney, act. They have been running the Jan. 6 show trial and warning Republicans in office to oppose many of the nominees that Republican voters selected during the primary season. These Beltway denizens watched in horror in recent weeks as Republican leaders have done the opposite, descending on tight races throughout the country to help all Republican candidates, not just those viewed as non-threatening to the D.C. establishment. Why wait til then? Note to Liz Cheney: You're No Lincoln. Much has been written about Liz Cheney and her motivations for blowing up her congressional career over a seemingly psychotic obsession with Donald Trump. But there are aspects to the analyses that are missing the larger point that Cheney was not motivated by high principles and a quest to save our country. She was motivated by hatred, self-interest, and vengeance. Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real and It Needs to be Studied. The concept of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" may have started as a joke to describe the over-reaction of hatred toward Trump, but after years of people upending good sense and their own principles in order to get at this man, I'm pretty convinced it's real and that scientists need to study this in the future. I see it every single day and as we drift closer and closer to the 2024 presidential election, I have a feeling we're going to see it even more and in big ways. Right now, the most popular example of it comes from Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who just lost her reelection campaign by 37 points. The congresswoman had seemed to completely forget that she was there to represent the people of Wyoming and, instead, focused on taking down Trump through her January 6 committee. It probably didn't help that Cheney's husband's law firm represents Hunter Biden in the grand jury probe and that Trump's reelection may result in making her husband's job all that much harder, but her hatred of Trump seemed even more personal [than] that. Liz Cheney's Concession Speech May Have Violated Campaign Finance Rules. Soon-to-be former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) may have violated Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules at her concession speech due to an in-kind donation she apparently received from a former TV executive who advises the January 6 Committee. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported earlier Tuesday evening that Cheney's anticipated losing speech would be set against a dramatic backdrop and filmed by James Goldston, the former ABC News president who is also advising the January 6 Committee. [Tweet] Anyone who films a candidate may generally do so, under the protections of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, if the film crew is producing a video especially for a candidate, that counts as a service provided to the campaign. Goldston's services, including his crew, are probably worth tens of thousands of dollars. Liz Cheney's graceless concession speech follows her landslide defeat in WY primary. [Scroll down] Cheney said that that work is rooted in the fight against "the conspiracy and the lies" about the 2020 elections. She called out without naming Republican candidates for governor, secretary of state, and other offices who she claimed support the "big lie." Perhaps Cheney forgot that she had spread debunked conspiracy theories spread by Democrat propagandists in the NYT that the Russian military spy unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban terrorists to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Cheney also claimed to stand for the Constitution and the rule of law. If that were really the case, she would have insisted that Trump-defenders have seats on the January 6 committee. Instead, she willingly participates in a Stalinist show trial, whose mission is not to find facts but to persecute a political opponent. Cheney said she "will do whatever it takes" to deny Trump a return to the Oval Office. While she slammed Trump for inciting violence, her own words where she pledged to "do whatever it takes" to deny Trump a return to the Oval Office could be interpreted as a call to violence. Liz Cheney Compares Herself to Abraham Lincoln in Concession Speech. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) compared herself to former President Abraham Lincoln during her concession speech shortly after her loss to Trump-backed Republican challenger Harriet Hageman. Cheney claimed she lost her primary election only because she failed to "go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election." "It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. That is a path I could not and would not take," Cheney said. Liz Cheney Is No Martyr. Just Another Rich, Entitled Member Of The D.C. Establishment. Rep. Liz Cheney is expected to lose by at least 20 points in today's primary in Wyoming. But she doesn't seem to really care. Long known in D.C. circles as hating interactions with Americans outside the beltway, representing Wyoming voters was not something she ever considered a particularly important aspect of her role in D.C. Listening to the corporate media and the D.C. establishment, one would think Cheney is history's greatest hero, a political martyr who put "principle over party," and who courageously stood up against Republican voters and their strong support of the party's most recent president, support which Beltway insiders find unseemly. Such simplistic and error-ridden sound bites work well in D.C., but not in the rest of America. CNN went to Wyoming to defend Cheney as "Upholding the rule of law, defending the Constitution," referring to her work on the Jan. 6 show trial. Liz Cheney's Concession Speech Was a Mentally Ill Cry for Help. For once, the polls were not just right, but really, really right. Liz Cheney's political career met its inevitable ignominious end last night. The drubbing was spectacular, a most decisive end to the political tenure of the woman who just last year was the third most powerful Republican in Congress. The race was called for Hageman about 14 seconds after the polls closed. What followed were a few hours of every leftist media outlet in America making Cheney out to be the bravest American woman since Rosa Parks. Lizzie herself thought she was more like Lincoln. Rep. Liz Cheney hauls in nearly $1M from Texas donors including George W. Bush and Karl Rove. As U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney fights for her congressional career in Wyoming on Tuesday, Texas donors including George W. Bush and Karl Rove are trying to come to her aid. The two-term congresswoman and one of former President Donald Trump's biggest critics within the GOP has raised nearly $1 million from Texas donors — far more than she's raised from Wyoming residents or from any other state except California, where she has raised $1.4 million. Liz Cheney Epitomizes Never Trumpers' Betrayal Of Our Nation. Liz Cheney may be enjoying being treated like a heroine by the leftist corporate media that demonized her father and family for decades, but she hasn't completely lost touch with reality. The Never Trump turncoat not only became a key leader of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's McCarthyite show trial of Donald Trump under the guise of investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot, but has also been masquerading as that sham's ranking member. But she's aware that being the principal star of the Democrat's prime time television show has made her the object of near universal hostility from Republican voters. That's doubly true in her family's home state of Wyoming, where her defeat in the upcoming August primary has more or less been ensured by Trump's popularity and conservatives' hostility to those who seem to think demonizing GOP voters is a viable political strategy. Liz Cheney Funded by Obama, Hillary Donors in GOP Primary. Many of the Democrat political elites are funding Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) reelection bid in Wyoming's Republican primary against Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. While polling shows Hageman has taken a huge lead with the primary just around the corner, the American donor class has taken notice of Cheney's shrinking chances of retaining her seat on August 16. Fearing Cheney may lose through a series of political miscalculations, establishment donors are coming out of the woodwork to protect one of their own. NeverTrumper and Leader of 'Unselect Committee' Liz Cheney Hugged Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson After Hearing. Liz Cheney hugs her star witness and fraud Cassidy Hutchinson after her ridiculous testimony that was riddled with lies. A photo of Cheney hugging her star witness 'Hearsay Hutchinson', who immediately was caught in numerous lies following her testimony is going viral. Why would Cheney hug a witness if she was supposedly fair and unbiased? Apparently, Liz was impressed. Liz Cheney at Reagan Library: 'Men Are Running the World and It Is Really Not Going that Well'. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) further strutted her woke posturing at the Reagan Presidential Library, where she said the world "is really not going that well" under male leadership. As part of the "Time for Choosing" speaker series, Liz Cheney briefly honored former President Ronald Reagan before segueing into a diatribe against former Donald Trump, calling him a "dangerous and irrational man." Cheney also characterized Republican leadership as being loyal to the former president at the expense of the Constitution. Towards the tail-end of her speech, Cheney celebrated that which gives her the most hope for the future: "young women." Liz Cheney Gets a Rude Awakening. Last week, we learned that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was sending out campaign mailers to Democrats in her district in the hopes of saving her reelection. Clearly, she assumed that her lack of viability as a Republican because she assisted in the Democrats' witchhunt would translate into genuine support from Democrats. [...] Well, Liz Cheney is learning the hard way that she was just a useful idiot for the Democrat Party by being a part of their partisan Jan. 6 Committee and that they really don't look at her any better than they do any other Republican, especially now that she expressed support for the Supreme Court after Dobbs. Also known as her base. Desperate Liz Cheney Begs Wyoming Democrats to Switch Parties and Vote for Her in August Primary. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is mailing campaign brochures to Wyoming Democrats with instructions on how to switch parties to be able to voter for her in the state's closed August 16 Republican primary. Cheney is getting crushed in recent polls by her Trump endorsed opponent Harriet Hageman with Hageman at 56 percent and Cheney at 28 or 26 percent support. Cheney campaign flyers showed up in the mailboxes of Wyoming Democrats starting last week. One county party was not amused, "Cheney sent a mailer out blatantly asking folks to switch parties for the primary. Whatever you think about the 1/6 committee, remember THEY made the party what it is. THEY made Trump possible. We have 3 very different Dems vying for the House. Vote in OUR primary, not theirs." Resistance superstar Liz Cheney now relying on Democrats to save her Wyoming House seat. Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has become a resistance superstar, joining the ranks of other previously despised individuals whose hatred of former President Donald J. Trump has redeemed them in the left's eyes and she is going to need their help to stave off defeat in the upcoming Wyoming primary. Cheney's vicious attacks on Trump as well as her leading of the J6 select committee that is currently conducting an unfair, one-sided show trial against him has earned her the anger of voters in the staunchly conservative Cowboy State where barring a miracle, she is a political goner. Her hopes now rest with Democrats to preserve her hold on Wyoming's only congressional seat and given her celebrity status as Nancy Pelosi's most visible committee attack dog, out-of-state money is pouring in to backstop her. Why Is Liz Cheney so Unlikable? It is no surprise that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) dislikes President Donald Trump. After all, no man has done more to denigrate the Iraq/Afghan War strategy that her father crusaded for than Trump. He not only opposed Cheney's approach to war, but he also mocked it mercilessly. As the former Vice President's oldest daughter, with her own dose of less charm and less savvy, Liz Cheney has now entered on her own crusade. She stands athwart the House floor denouncing Trump, all his pomps, and all his evil works. Instead of Holy Water, she will sprinkle the tears of fellow Republican failure Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on the TV cameras. Six RINOs Who Must Be Ousted In 2022. [#3] Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney: [...] [O]ne of the former president's biggest interparty rivals is the lone House member from that state — sellout RINO Liz Cheney, heir to an established family name in the swamp. She also took home nearly 70% of Wyoming's votes in her own 2020 contest, but it is impossible to reconcile the fact that only one of these two names is going to pave the future for the Republican Party. Either voters stay with the GOP RINOs that do the bidding of their Democrat superiors — or they break from decades of D.C. collusion and actually represent voters' interests. Thankfully, Cheney's departure from the immediate scene seems imminent. Following her participation in the corrupt and illegitimate proceedings of the January 6th Commission, the Wyoming GOP Central Committee voted to no longer recognize her as part of the party. She was also removed from her House leadership position. Mitch McConnell Just Announced Support For This Big-Time Anti-Trumper. Can Mitch "the RINO" McConnell be trusted to stand up for conservative interests and the values that his ruby red voters presumably elected him to fight for when he ran as a Republican? No, no he can't. His spine is weaker than overcooked spaghetti and Mitch rarely has the guts to stand up to the radical left on anything other than judicial appointments. For some reason, he takes that issue seriously and fights as he should but can't take that attitude and apply it to other areas, as we saw when he shamefully retreated on the budget issue. So, it should come as no real surprise that now Mitch has thrown financial support behind another anti-Trump RINO, Liz Cheney, and is trying to keep that Never Trumper in the House instead of replacing her with the more conservative, pro-Trump and Trump-backed Harriet Hageman. The Six Worst RINOs In Congress. [#3] Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY): Of all the names on this list, this is the most disappointing for me. I really thought Liz Cheney had a bright future. It's easy to forget, but Liz Cheney is still new to the game when it comes to Congressional politics. She only first came to Capitol Hill five years ago, having been elected to her first term in November 2016 and taking office in January 2017. She ascended quickly, reaching the #3 spot in the GOP caucus by being named Chair of the Republican Conference only two years later. But it's been all downhill from there. Cheney clearly suffers from TDS, as she was one of only ten Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump in January 2021, but that's not her only sin. As bad, if not worse, was the subsequent media campaign she pursued when she appeared on MSNBC and CNN on a seemingly nightly basis to disparage Trump and other Republicans after the impeachment. Meanwhile, Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer have been destroying the country. Also, let's not forget her vocal support for Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID pandemic. Wyoming GOP Would Like a Word After CNN Claims 'Influential' People Back Liz Cheney. Ah, liberal media — their delusion is something else sometimes and chief among them are the Democratic apologists over at CNN. CNN had a piece on Monday telling us how all the "influential" Republicans are rushing to support Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY) in her race in November. That there are so "many" that a fundraiser for Monday [3/14/2022] had to cap its guest list at 75. That would be about the number of folks in the line at the bathroom for a Trump rally among the thousands, and several of those 75 are Cheney family members. So who are some of those "influential" Republicans who are going to somehow revitalize Cheney in Wyoming? People from the "orbits" of Sen. Mitt Romney and the Bushes. Romney is the event's "special guest." Reject Liz Cheney's War. After nearly two weeks, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues with the Russian military steadily gaining ground and methodically taking control of key assets such as highways, bridges, airports, and power plants. As the Russians advance, they are also encircling and cutting off the main concentrations of the Ukrainian military. If those encirclements are completed, it could get ugly. It's into that cauldron that U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) would plunge the United States. On "Face the Nation" last week Cheney was nothing short of bellicose calling for escalation across the board. Cheney wants Biden to expand already sweeping sanctions and seize the Russian Central Bank's foreign reserves. Weaponizing the dollar and the banking system in this way, she apparently fails to realize, carries with it risks to dollar-supremacy and the global dominance of American financial institutions. Liz Cheney gets toxic even to the GOPe. Now that even the blue cities and states are throwing the bums out and Republicans are soaring in the polls and getting ready to take Congress, something interesting is happening: the Republican establishment is trying to get as far away from Trump-hating Rep. Liz Cheney as possible. Not the Trump faithful, who have despised Cheney for years — the old guard Republicans who have been around forever and who are now rubbing their hands together as November beckons. Liz Cheney Reveals Her True Priorities and That's Going to Sink Her. Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY) has tried to play the pure one — the one who is only siding with the Democrats because she was concerned about the Constitution, the one who wants to bring the Republicans back, and away from President Donald Trump. She stated outright the most important thing was to make sure he wasn't able to run again. Now, that's just so much nonsense. If you were siding with the Constitution, you would know to fight the Democrats at all costs because they are doing all they can to suborn the Constitution and move the country further left. [...] What this says is that she's not interested in being a Republican, nor is she interested in anything they might have to say to her. Not exactly an admirable attribute for someone who wants to be a representative. She's straight-up insulted the Republicans in her state, and then she expects support? Liz Cheney's [...] Husband's firm reps China companies, dictatorial regimes. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called on the U.S. to stand up to the "generational threat" posed by China while unveiling a major report on Beijing's "malign behavior" at the same time her husband's law firm was working on behalf of companies linked to China's military, intelligence, and security services. As Cheney stood at the podium, her husband Philip Perry's law firm was cashing in on legal and lobbying work that his employer — Latham & Watkins (LW), one of the largest law firms in the world — was doing for a host of Chinese companies, some of which were involved in the kind of activity that Cheney was warning had to be stopped. All of LW's work discussed in this article was legal, and Perry didn't work directly on these accounts. But as a partner at the firm, he benefits and profits from all its work. The RNC Finally Punished Liz Cheney. The RNC sure has taken its time dealing with Liz Cheney, the anti-Trump RINO from Wyoming. Though the Wyoming GOP censured her for her collaboration with the left, particularly over her voting to impeach Trump, the RNC itself hasn't done much to reign in the ridiculous RINO. Until now, that is. Whether to revive its popularity among disillusioned MAGA voters or because it's actually furious with Cheney, the RNC's resolutions committee voted on Thursday to censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The vote to censure both was unanimous and was precipitated by the involvement of those two in the January 6th Committee, a leftist ploy to make Republicans look bad. RNC Censures Cheney, Kinzinger for Their Role on Jan. 6 Committee. The Republican National Committee (RNC) advanced a resolution on Thursday [2/3/2022] that would censure Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for their roles on the controversial House Jan. 6 Committee. The resolution would officially strip Cheney and Kinzinger of the support of the GOP and would take away their recognition as members of the Republican Party by the RNC. "The primary mission of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans who support the United States Constitution and share our values," the RNC resolution said. "The Conference must not be sabotaged by Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger who have demonstrated, with actions and words, that they support Democrat efforts to destroy President [Donald] Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022," it said further down. Romney, other Trump critics to raise money for Liz Cheney re-election effort. U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, a leading Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, will help raise money for Representative Liz Cheney, who is fighting for political survival after voting to impeach Trump and contesting his false stolen-election claims. Romney is the featured guest at a March 14 fundraiser for Cheney at the home of Bobbie Kilberg, a well-connected Virginia Republican who lined up against Trump during his 2016 bid for the White House, according to an invitation seen by Reuters. Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 committee: What kind of mendacious operation is this? [Scroll down] What we see here is dishonesty after dishonesty coming from this committee, rendering its credibility absolutely nil. Honesty is not that hard for normal people. But Cheney and her new Democrat pals have a lot of problems with it. Facts that don't fit their narrative that President Trump orchestrated the Jan. 6 incident, which was really a failure of crowd control, not a bona fide coup attempt, is driving them in their rage to make up, alter, and fabricate "evidence." [...] And yeah, it's all about ambition, short- and long term. Short term, Cheney wants to get Trump arrested. Lincoln Project Donors Are Bankrolling Liz Cheney. Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney raked in almost $55,000 from the same donors who fund the Lincoln Project, according to a Federalist analysis of public finance records. After cementing a perpetual feud with former President Donald Trump and Republican voters as a hallmark of her legacy in the lower chamber, Cheney's goals now seem indistinguishable from those of the super PAC cloaking Democrat attacks as Republican. The shared donor base makes that clear. According to receipts dated in August by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway, a "top donor" to the Lincoln Project, gave Cheney and related campaign committees $21,600. The Sanctimonious, Insufferable and Clownish Liz Cheney Seeks Revenge for Republican Ridicule. The intemperate Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney is on a hate-filled kamikaze mission to attack the base of the political party she abhors. Previously, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski set the low bar for contempt against the Tea Party movement, however, this week Liz Cheney says 'hold my beer' and goes all in against the MAGA base. Ugly is as ugly does — inside and outside. Team Cheney Mocks Wyoming GOP Vote To Stop Recognizing Her As Republican. The camp of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called the weekend move by the Wyoming Republican Party to no longer recognize her as a member of their party "laughable." In a tight 31-29 vote on Saturday, the state's Republican Central Committee's decision is mostly symbolic as it will not strip away any power from the lawmaker. Still, Cheney is up for re-election next year, and the vote reinforces the party's disapproval of Cheney. But Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said in a statement that it is "laughable to suggest Liz is anything but a committed conservative Republican," according to CBS News. Wyoming Republican Party Votes: Liz Cheney No Longer Recognized as Republican. The Wyoming Republican Party voted on Saturday to no longer recognize Democrat-allied Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as a Republican. "The 31-29 vote Saturday in Buffalo, Wyoming, by the state party central committee followed votes by local GOP officials in about one-third of Wyoming's 23 counties to no longer recognize Cheney as a Republican," the Associated Press reported Monday evening [11/15/2021]. Wyoming's GOP no longer considers Liz Cheney a Republican. An AP story, called to my attention by TheBlaze, November 15, reported that the Republican Party of Wyoming, on November 13, by A vote of 31-29, withdrew recognition of its lone congressperson, Liz Cheney, as a Republican. Cheney's spokesman, Jeremy Adler, was quoted in the AP story as saying part of the leadership of the Wyoming have "allowed themselves to be held hostage to the lies of a dangerous and irrational man." Mr. Adler's derisive remark, to use the cliché, adds fuel to the fire; Ms. Cheney's attacks on former President Trump, including her impeachment votes to force him out of office (after he no longer held office), led, first, to censure for her vote to impeach by the Wyoming GOP. Now, given her apparently enthusiastic participation in the anti-Republican January 6 Pelosi Select Committee, Cheney is no longer considered a Republican by the leaders of the GOP in her home state. Liz Cheney Sparks Further Speculation She's Running in 2024 As She Rails Against Trump in NH Speech. It made for a good laugh a few months ago when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), a particularly fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, indicated she wasn't ruling out a run for president in 2024. Her actions as of late have only fueled further speculation that she really is going for it. On Tuesday night she not only publicly railed against Trump before a large audience, but she did so in New Hampshire. As the first primary state, even just stepping foot there can get people talking. Cheney begs GOP colleagues at Jan. 6 hearing: Tell our voters the truth, that the election wasn't rigged. There's a cohort of hardcore populists within the House GOP whose loyalty to Trump is such that they'll eagerly parrot any conspiracy theory he likes but most GOP reps who are asked about this tend to mumble something noncommittal about "election integrity" and "unanswered questions" before changing the subject. But that was Cheney's point at last night's January 6 committee hearing on whether to recommend holding Steve Bannon in contempt for defying a committee subpoena. It's not that House Republicans are aggressively amplifying Trump's "stop the steal" claims. It's that hardly any of them are willing to contradict them. That's true within conservative media too. If you're not a true believer but you're afraid of the backlash from true believers if you call the lie a lie, the only way to avoid failing the new party litmus test is to avoid the subject. Which means Cheney knew her plea would fall on deaf ears. Liz Cheney's 60 Minutes Interview Confirms She's a RINO. Any lingering doubts about Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) being a Republican in Name Only (RINO) were dispelled on Sunday [9/26/2021] when she appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl. The puff piece sounded more like a job interview than an objective journalistic effort. It started off with CBS declaring that Cheney was "like a lone ranger riding out of the West.... one of the few Republicans willing to, daring to, stand up to Mr. Trump and the House Republicans who opposed her joining [Nancy Pelosi's January 6 investigation] committee." George W. Bush to hold re-election fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney. Embattled Rep. Liz Cheney is betting on figures from the fading Republican establishment to help her win re-election — setting up a clash between two GOP former presidents. Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has been sidelined by House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy for voting to impeach President Donald Trump, has invited President George W. Bush to hold a fundraiser for her next month in Dallas, the Wall Street Journal reported. Trump is backing her challenger Harriet Hageman in the 2022 Republican primary for Wyoming's sole House seat. In his endorsement of Hageman earlier this month, Trump referred to Cheney as a "warmonger and disloyal Republican." Democrats promote Republican Liz Cheney to vice chair of the January 6 committee. House Democrats leading the investigation into the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill named Republican Rep. Liz Cheney the vice chair of their panel, elevating her profile when she's under attack from members of her own party. The announcement of Cheney's new position came as the conservative House Freedom Caucus tries to remove Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger from the Republican Party for their roles on the January 6th select committee, calling them 'spies' for the Democrats. Cheney and Kinzinger have been vocal critics of Donald Trump's lies that he won the 2020 election. Both were among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over his role inciting the mob that attacked the Capitol (Trump was acquitted by the Senate). Stick a Fork in Liz Cheney — She's Done. Rep. Liz Cheney, recently dubbed a "Pelosi Republican" by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, has lost the support of her constituents and is on the fast track to losing her next election in 2022. According to polling data, a mere 23 percent of primary-voting Republicans plan to vote for her again — a whopping 77 percent plan to vote for someone else. Cheney's image has been destroyed by her vote to impeach Trump earlier this year and her support for the partisan January 6 commission. Republicans Have One Move Left to Make Regarding Liz Cheney and They Better Make It. To say Rep. Liz Cheney jumped the shark yesterday would be to ignore the fact that she's been doing backflips over marine animals for a while at this point. Still, what transpired was ridiculous, and it also completely exposed what Cheney has become, at least to the extent that hadn't already happened. As RedState reported, the Wyoming congresswoman publically came out in support of Nancy Pelosi refusing to seat Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on the partisan January 6th select committee. [Tweet] [...] Republicans have one move left to make — remove Cheney from the GOP caucus. This foolishness has gone on long enough. It was one thing to obsess over on January 6th. It's another to lock arms with Nancy Pelosi, endorsing her ridiculously staffed committee, in order to backstab Republicans who are being denied a seat at the table. Cheney is clearly not running for re-election at this point. Liz Cheney, flamin' hot hypocrite. The term "Republican in Name Only" or RINO is flung around loosely, but it doesn't get more deadly accurate when the person involved is Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Having gotten herself a spot on House speaker Nancy Pelosi's 9/11 commission, and declaring that she was "honored" to have gotten Pelosi's own invitation (kid you not), she decided to horn in on the very real rift between Pelosi and her own party leader, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, over the committee personnel. That rift came when McCarthy yanked all five GOP nominations to the commission after Pelosi rejected Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan as threats to the "integrity" of the commission, in an unprecedented move. McCarthy said Democrats don't get to pick and choose their Republicans for the commission. According to Cheney, as reported by the Federalist and Daily Caller, "I agree with what Speaker Pelosi has done." Liz Cheney holds presser to back Pelosi freezing conservatives from Jan. 6 probe. U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) went rogue on Wednesday [7/21/2021], holding her own press conference to bash Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for pulling out of the Jan. 6 Commission after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked conservative Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks from being on the committee. Cheney stands as the sole Republican backing Pelosi in her biased packing of the commission. She stood on the steps of the Capitol and railed against her fellow Republicans, accusing McCarthy of not wanting to get to the bottom of the Jan. 6 riot. "At every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened, to block this investigation. ... I am absolutely dedicated and committed to making sure this investigation holds those accountable who did this and ensures that it never happens again," she vowed. McCarthy won't rule out booting Cheney from Armed Services. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday did not rule out booting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from the powerful Armed Services Committee amid a partisan brawl over who should serve on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tapped Cheney, who has blamed Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection, as her sole GOP pick for the special panel. But this week, McCarthy came under intense pressure by his rank-and-file members to strip Cheney of her Armed Services assignment after the Speaker rejected two of his five picks for the panel: Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), both Trump loyalists. McCarthy protested by yanking all five of his GOP picks off the committee, vowing that Republicans would carry out their own probe of political violence in the country. Cheney sides with Pelosi decision to block GOP members from riot panel. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the former No. 3 GOP member in the House, said Wednesday that she sided with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her decision to block two GOP lawmakers from serving on the special committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 riot. "I agree with what the speaker has done," Cheney, who Pelosi appointed to the panel earlier this month, told reporters outside the Capitol Wednesday [7/21/2021]. Pelosi blocked Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana from serving as one of five GOP appointees on the committee on Wednesday. The move overruled Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican. McCarthy responded by pulling all five GOP lawmakers from the panel and announcing Republicans would conduct their own investigation into Jan. 6 that would focus on why Capitol security was easily overwhelmed by the rioters. Cheney is poised to be the sole Republican on the committee after accepting an appointment by Pelosi earlier this month. Cheney is a staunch foe of former President Donald Trump. She lost her House Republican leadership position earlier this year after publicly attacking Trump in defiance of McCarthy and other Republicans who said it was damaging party messaging and unity. Nancy Pelosi says Liz Cheney will be the lone Republican on January 6 committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming will be the sole Republican on the House's select committee to investigate the fatal January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. "We're very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee," Pelosi said of Cheney. Cheney has in many ways been ostracized by her own party for refusing to echo former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election. In May, Republicans ousted Cheney from her leadership post as conference chair. The Wyoming lawmaker stands among the small group Republicans willing to openly criticize Trump. Pelosi names Cheney to serve on committee probing Jan. 6 riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday named Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken foe of former President Donald Trump, to serve on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ms. Cheney said she was "honored" to be chosen, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called her decision to accept the appointment from the Democratic leader "unthinkable." He has warned GOP colleagues not to participate in the panel. "I was shocked that she would accept something from Speaker Pelosi," Mr. McCarthy said at a press conference following the speaker's announcement. "It would appear to me, since I didn't hear from her, she's closer to [Mrs. Pelosi] than us. I don't know." Liz Cheney says Trump 'inciting' the Capitol riot is 'the most dangerous thing a president has ever done'. Liz Cheney claimed Trump did 'the most dangerous thing' a president has ever done by 'inciting' the January 6 Capitol attack as she revealed many GOP lawmakers didn't vote for impeachment because they feared for their safety. 'I think what Donald Trump did is the most dangerous thing, the most egregious violation of an oath of office of any president in our history,' Cheney told David Axelrod on an episode of his The Axe Files podcast, which was recorded Saturday but released Monday [6/7/2021]. 'I have had a number of members say to me, 'we would have voted to impeach, but we were concerned about our security,' Cheney said during another part of the interview. Liz Cheney's Honeymoon With the Media Ends Abruptly. If Rep. Liz Cheney thought the "strange new respect" she garnered from the left-wing media over the last several months would be long-lasting, she's learning quickly that's not the case. Apparently, simply being anti-Trump doesn't mean much if you choose to not toe the line on every single issue. With that said, I regret to inform all of you that the honeymoon is over. [Tweet] Who could have possibly foreseen this except everyone paying attention? What Trump Meant to Millions. [Scroll down] And this elite, under Pelosi and Schumer, are plotting to retain power forever and for that power to be indisputable and absolute. And only President Trump stood in the way of that destruction of democracy, and that is why they hate him. Is that also why Liz Cheney, another child of the beltway, displays such animus toward the leader of her party? One could hardly imagine Cheney restoring dignity to the plant worker who'd lost his job to China, the Catholic mom who'd had abortion rights shoved down her throat, the college applicant who'd been passed over in favor of less-qualified candidates, or the patriot tired of hearing their presidents apologize for our nation's "dark past." If she is so much offended by America First, why doesn't she join the Squad and run as a Democrat? An Election Heist Too Big to Fail. Inveterate liar Liz Cheney is running from one news camera to the next like a chicken with its head cut off. [...] If questioning the legitimacy of a national election were tantamount to treason, as Cheney keeps insisting, then where has she been for the last two decades? Gore; Kerry; and the national secrets — spilling, hard drive-shattering, evidence-spoiling Hillary Clinton have all professed their elections "stolen," and party elders Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi have unanimously agreed. Hillary continues to blame her loss on a Russian hack that never happened, and America's Pravda news cabal has so successfully laundered her delusions that a majority of brainwashed Democrat voters still believe that lie to be true. Democrats have literally called President Trump a Russian "asset" and "spy" for five years. Charges that come with the possibility of a death sentence are kind of a big deal (and a lot of Hollywood ignoramuses have, indeed, called for Trump's execution). Has Liz Cheney been running around D.C. since 2016 excoriating Democrats and their disinformation campaigns as "dangerous" to the country's stability? Of course not. Rage of the NeverTrumpers. The apparent suicide plunge of U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) appears to be the psychopathic backlash of NeverTrumpers who are starting to realize Donald Trump's defeat in November and the allegations he was attempting to overturn the election by provoking an "insurrection" at the Capitol on January 6 do not bring back the Republican Party of the Bushes and McCain and Romney, as those families seem to imagine. This is only the first shoe dropping. It will soon be followed by the realization of the role the NeverTrumpers have played in shackling the country and the Western world to the unfolding disaster of the Biden presidency. 'I Never Get Asked About This': Dan Crenshaw Says People Care About Skyrocketing Gas Prices, Not Liz Cheney. Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw explained that the American people don't care about the Liz Cheney drama, they care more about things such as the skyrocketing gas prices and inflation. Crenshaw explained during an interview [5/16/2021] on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he felt the whole situation with Liz Cheney being voted out of her leadership position with the GOP House was drama, clarifying that he felt that a lot of people were getting increasingly frustrated with her because "she kept demanding that everybody else start apologizing." "She refuses to apologize, which is fine, I don't think she should. But, then she demands that everyone else does," he said, pointing out that House Republicans held a vote in February on whether to keep Cheney in her position, to which she won "overwhelmingly." Liz Cheney's Big Lie. On May 12, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was voted out of her position as the chair of the House Republican Conference. The next day, Cheney appeared on Fox News's Special Report for an interview with Bret Baier. It was a revealing, and conservative voters who have any doubts about the righteousness of ousting Cheney from her number three role in House Republican leadership should watch the video. [...] Ms. Cheney got crossways with the GOP caucus when she voted aye in President Trump's second impeachment in January. Liz actually thinks Trump "launched" the Jan. 6 riot in the Capitol, which Democrats call an "insurrection." What this writer finds even more distasteful than Cheney's calumny concerning the Jan. 6 riot is her insistence on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. She refers to Trump's claim that the election was stolen as the "Big Lie." I happen to believe that Mr. Trump is correct that the election was stolen, but neither I nor Trump can prove it. Neither can Cheney prove that the election was legitimate and the vote counts are correct. Liz Cheney, the Captain Ahab of the House. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is one the finest books ever written for many reasons, but the main theme is obsession. The captain of the whale ship Pequod is obsessed with hunting down and killing the white whale, the giant mammal that cost the captain his leg. Despite his having lost the last battle with the whale, Ahab is filled with a terrible resolve that is frustrated by his megalomania, his hubris and overconfidence. He is convinced that the whale is the embodiment of pure evil and that it is his duty to destroy it. Remind you of anyone? Doesn't that character description sound exactly like Liz Cheney, just-ousted from her House GOP Caucus leadership slot? She is obsessed, overconfident and hubristic to the point of insanity. She seems to think she alone has the power to destroy President Trump and is as determined as Ahab to do exactly that. She's a woman on a mission despite being scorned by her own party and her own constituents in Wyoming. While there may be many who eschew the former president for one reason or another, most of them are wise enough not to shoot off their mouths to that end. They know Trump still enjoys massive support among the Republican base. And Cheney's protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, most of those supporters do believe the election was stolen via massive fraud. Liz Cheney Goes on Fox News, Loses Her Ever-Loving Mind. Apparently, Liz Cheney's ouster from leadership has taught her nothing. She went on Fox News this evening [5/13/2021] with Bret Baier. Instead of trying to reconcile with voters or show that she's focused on moving forward and combating Joe Biden, the Wyoming congresswoman lost her ever-loving mind, ranting about "The Big Lie" and refusing to hold Democrats accountable for anything. She even managed to attack Fox News directly, which is an odd thing to do when you are being interviewed by someone as straight and level as Baier. What Voters in Wyoming Say About Liz Cheney's Lonely Stand. On a prairie hill on the rolling highway into Wyoming's capital city looms a billboard with the beaming face of the state's lone congressional representative, Liz Cheney. In huge letters it declares: "Thank you Rep. Cheney for defending the Constitution." Some local Republicans see Cheney's lonesome stand against former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election, and her refusal to back down, as an example of true Wyoming grit and independence. But many others are quick to point out that the billboard was put up by an out-of-state dark money group, a sign of outsiders meddling. And among locals in this state that voted in a landslide for Trump, few are thankful for much of anything Cheney has done lately, and have vowed to vote her out of office. Cheney Teases White House Bid After Being Stripped Of Leadership Spot. On the day after House Republicans voted overwhelmingly to remove her from a leadership position, Liz Cheney made it clear that she isn't going anywhere and could mount a 2024 White House run. The embittered Wyoming congresswoman (who is the toast of the town in the D.C. swamp) embarked on a string of media appearances to spew venom against former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters. Liz Cheney refuses to back down: Republican calls Trump a 'liar on a crusade to undermine our democracy'. Liz Cheney on Tuesday [5/11/2021] refused to back down ahead of a vote to oust her from GOP leadership, calling Donald Trump a 'liar on a crusade to undermine our democracy'. Cheney, who voted to impeach the former president for his role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection, is expected to be ousted from her No. 3 Republican leadership post Wednesday. Trumpism vs. Bidenism. The demonization of Donald J. Trump, at its essence, is a flailing attempt by the Deep State to hold on to power by any means necessary to further its anti-democracy ambitions. And Liz Cheney must be removed as third-ranking House Republican member because she is very much, by family lineage, a Deep Stater, sorely opposed to the concept of populism outlined by Madison in Federalist No. 57 and brilliantly summed up by Lincoln in November 1863. Democratic government, after all, is a nullity where "the humble sons of obscure and unpropitious fortune" do not stand on the same level with "the haughty heirs of distinguished names." Democratic government is a nullity where the insiders lord it over the people, binding them into helplessness with decrees, edicts, regulations, and executive orders. Democratic government is a nullity where Bidenism holds sway. Why Republicans believe they're right to oust Liz Cheney. [Scroll down] Cheney's attention-getting posture in January — she put out a press release announcing her intention the day before, irritating some Republicans — prompted complaints that she wasn't on board with party leadership. On the other hand, the House GOP leadership knew that, unlike 2019, some Republicans would vote to impeach the president, even though Trump only had 168 hours left in his term. There were no leadership plans to punish any member for voting against Trump. Indeed, Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach kept their positions in leadership and on committees. But Cheney felt a mission to keep pushing against Trump, even as he became a former president living in Palm Beach. Cheney's outspokenness grated on some Republicans, and on Feb. 3, some unhappy lawmakers demanded a vote on Cheney's future in party leadership. Trump Drops the Hammer on Traitor Liz Cheney After She Gets Dumped. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump went off on RINO Republican Liz Cheney after she got "fired" from her position as House GOP Leadership. Cheney has made it completely clear in recent months that she will not only backstab former President Donald Trump but also the Republican party in an effort to side with Democrats. Liz Cheney ousted from role as House GOP Conference chair; replacement still unclear. House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney Wednesday morning in a closed-door vote from the No. 3 spot from leadership — but the Wyoming Republican remained defiant on the way out. Cheney had remained steadfast in her opposition to former President Donald Trump and his "dangerous lies" about the 2020 election being stolen from him — putting her at odds with other House Republicans who wanted to move on from the Jan. 6 riot and unite the party to win in the 2022 midterms. Frank Luntz's BFF Kevin McCarthy After Cheney Ousted "I Don't Think Anybody is Questioning the Legitimacy of the Election... It's Over With". House Republicans met earlier Wednesday to vote to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position. Cheney was the third-ranking Republican in the House GOP Caucus. Bitter Liz Cheney lashed out at Trump and his voter base which happens to be well over 80 million Americans. "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office," Cheney said after getting booted from her leadership position. FOX News Anchor Bret Baier: Liz Cheney Probably Got Support Based on this Move — 100 GOP Lawmakers May Form New Party. FOX News anchor Bret Baier, never a huge Trump fan, joined Varney and Co. on Wednesday morning following the House GOP vote to remove Liz Cheney from leadership. Cheney was ousted from leadership in a voice vote. She then ran to the media to attack and smear President Trump and carry the Democrat message to America. House Republicans Vote to Remove Liz Cheney — Bitter Liz Determined to Bring the GOP Down with Her. House Republicans are meeting this hour to vote to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position. Liz delivered another crazyy [sic] speech last night blasting Trump and his voters. Liz was so proud of her speech lashing out at and smearing the former president that she posted it on her Twitter page. She broke into a discussion on "cancel culture" to smear Trump. Liz Cheney and the 'Big Lie'. The vote this week on Representative Liz Cheney's (R-Wyo.) status as House Republican conference chairman vastly transcends her. All sides are correct that it is a battle over the "Big Lie." Cheney, the Democrats, and NeverTrumpers all say the Big Lie is the contention that 2020 was not a fair election. They argue further that Donald Trump tried to promote the violent overthrow of the government on January 6 at the Capitol. They support Joe Biden's claim in his address to Congress last month, that his (unnamed) predecessor had left the country "staring into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy." Trump supporters and many independents say this series of false and defamatory allegations is the actual Big Lie. It is already clear that Cheney, deservedly, will be thrown out of her leadership and presumably defeated in her bid to remain the representative from Wyoming. Romney: Expelling Liz Cheney will drive away voters. Sen. Mitt Romney warned Monday [5/10/2021] removing Rep. Liz Cheney from GOP leadership in the House will drive voters away from the Republican Party. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to hold a vote Wednesday to oust Ms. Cheney as House conference chair. "Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won't gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few," Mr. Romney said on Twitter. When Fools Rule. The No. 3 Republican is the most amusing. Liz Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, is the Republican Conference Chair. Unlike her bosses, she technically had a job in the dreaded private sector. She worked at a law firm that is called White & Case LLP. Granted, it is just a cat's paw for the American empire, but it technically counts as the private sector. After that short run, she was on the dole in one government job after another before landing in Congress. [...] How could Liz Cheney know anything about the concerns of the people she is supposed to represent? Wyoming is just a place she has read about and visited on vacation. The people of the state would be better off hiring a Frenchman who once went on holiday to Jackson Hole. That Frenchman would know he knows nothing about Wyoming and would maybe hire some locals to help him out. Liz Cheney's staff is all pod people from the Washington hack-a-rama. The Big Lie Is That Cheney Is Still A Republican. Good riddance to Liz Cheney — Yo Lizzy, don't go away mad, just go away rejected and humiliated back to the smoldering ruins of your failed dynasty. Her ejection is the minimum act of political hygiene necessary to demonstrate to the base that the Republican Party is no longer the cruise ship fleet of the past. [...] It seems ridiculous to have to say it, but you cannot have a senior leader of the Republican caucus who spends all her time trashing the GOP base as she shimmies and shakes for the delight of her media buddies. They'll always make it rain with praise and applause for a self-hating con. The base has seen this before, and it is in no mood to be lectured about its perfidy by the likes of the Beltway Cowgirl, who never met a corporation she didn't like or a war she didn't expect your kids to fight for her. Will the Left Respect Liz Cheney in the Morning? While it is hardly unusual for the left and its media mouthpieces to reverse their positions on an issue or a public figure pursuant to the political exigencies of the moment, their sudden portrayal of Liz Cheney as a paragon of virtue after reviling her for years has been remarkably hypocritical even by their cynical standards. [...] As the sole member of the Republican leadership to support the impeachment of then-President Trump for his alleged incitement of the January 6 Capitol riot, Cheney is in bad odor with the party's rank-and-file, has been censured by the Wyoming GOP, and may well lose her leadership position. Much of the ire directed at Cheney involves her acquiescence in the failure of House Democrats to observe due process. As an attorney and two-term congresswoman, she knew this killed any claim to legitimacy the impeachment possessed. Cheney, the Caucus, and the Crux. As of this writing, there is considerable doubt as to whether U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) should continue in her House Republican leadership position as its conference chairman. One scenario has her losing a caucus vote; another portends she will walk away from this internecine GOP battle and leave the position rather than betray her principles, most notably her opposition to the past and continued role of Donald Trump within the party. In either scenario, Cheney's expected departure will be hailed by the corporate leftist media as the latest Republican martyrdom in the noble cause of resisting the cult of the "bad orange man." Is it? Cheney is not being run out of Congress. That is solely a matter for her Wyoming constituents to decide next year. Nor is Cheney being removed from her committee assignments; and her congressional office budget is not being reduced. Cheney is on the cusp of being replaced as conference chairman. Nothing more, nothing less. It is decidedly not the end of our free republic or of the Republican Party. Liz Cheney has been plotting with with Pentagon swampers all along. Cheney who claims to be a conservative, also claims to abhor President Trump because of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which she falsely blamed on him. She lost popularity in Wyoming when she cast a vote to impeach him alongside her fellow Democrats, as the trained seals of the media beat their fins, but actually, she hated him a lot earlier. All this plotting had to have been months in planning. Yet look at the people she aligned with — leftist secretaries of defense who brought weakness, appeasers who opened the gates to terrorists, something she claims to oppose. Yes, there are a couple of conservatives, and their signatures to this phony letter of 'concern' for something that never even came close to happening, is kind of disgusting. But leftist signatories in this letter are the clear majority and their signing on seems pretty unsurprising. As for Liz, it all seems pretty convenient that she knew so many of them. Cheney 'secretly orchestrated Washington Post op-ed by all ten living former Defense Secretaries. Rep. Liz Cheney secretly masterminded an extraordinary Washington Post op-ed authored by top military leaders, just three days before the Capitol riot, it has been claimed. The letter published in the Washington Post contained a stark warning from 10 Defense Secretaries from both parties. Now, the Wyoming Republican could be within days of losing her elected leadership post amid a clash with Trump that came to a head with his claim that the 2020 election was a 'BIG LIE.' V2l0aCBmcmllbmRzIGxpa2UgaGVyLCB3aG8gbmVlZHMgZW5lbWFzPw== We're Replacing Liz Cheney With a Pro-Abort, Anti-Border Wall, Pro-Transgender, Anti-Religious Freedom Republican and We're Supposed to Be Happy? It appears that Vichy Republican Liz Cheney's tenure as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference is about to come to an ignominious end with her being defenestrated by her colleagues. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has made it clear that he's had enough of her self-important and self-righteous grandstanding and will not whip votes to support her like he did earlier in the year. [...] My personal view is that Cheney being stripped of a leadership position is months overdue. Her clownish behavior is fanning an internal conflict in the GOP rather than concentrating on taking aback the House next year. I also believe that Cheney's entitled behavior that treats her House seat as though it was some sort of patrimony rather than a public trust is out of step with the new GOP. That said, I'm more than a little unsure as to why Elise Stefanik is the solution. Bernie Sanders Defends Liz Cheney as Republicans Try to Oust Her, Calls GOP 'Anti-Democratic Cult'. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Liz Cheney may hold views that are typically at polar opposites of the political spectrum. But on Thursday [5/6/2021] the progressive lawmaker from Vermont jumped to the defense of the Wyoming conservative, as she's expected to be ousted from her leadership position by House Republican leaders. Liz Cheney's Removal as GOP Conference Chairwoman Is Part of Her Strategy to Win Re-Election to the House. A little earlier today [5/6/2021], House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy let it be known that he would not whip votes to keep Vichy Republican Liz Cheney in her position as chairwoman of the House GOP Conference. [...] While I think this is a move that is long overdue [...] I believe that the commentary that declares this is a symptom of GOP disunity at the worst possible time is not accurate. In the short- and long-run, purging cynical opportunists like Cheney from GOP leadership ranks and from the GOP, in general, is a good and necessary thing if we are going to compete and win in the future. Liz Cheney's Pitch to Republicans Shows Just How Clueless She Truly Is. After being hammered by party leaders ranging from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Donald Trump, on Wednesday Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was trying to convince Republicans why she should stay in her leadership role in the Republican Party as the House conference chair and why she believes that the positions she's taken are correct. But what she did to supposedly reach out to Republicans says everything about how wrong she is. Did she go on Fox to try to convince people? Maybe write a piece for them? Nope. She went to the subscription Washington Post, the haven of liberalism, to write up her case. Liz Cheney reportedly acts like a pig, not just to Trump, but to other Republicans, and may lose her GOP post soon. Liz Cheney is in trouble. After winning handily as chair of the House Republican Conference in Congress in February shortly after her unpopular vote to impeach President Trump, House members are now looking to get rid of her. [...] Things like this get people's attention. Her job requires diplomacy, tact, and maybe nudging if someone is wrong, and above all, supporting the members. She seems to think her leadership position of her conference committee means she should get rid of Republicans and turn the GOP into some other party. Maybe she'd be happier as a Democrat, though I imagine she'd be mean there, too. Liz Cheney Does Liz Cheney Things Again, and Her Colleagues Are Just About Done. Rep. Liz Cheney recently survived a vote on removing her from leadership in the House Republican caucus. She thanked her colleagues by promptly going out and contradicting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly and making the Sunday show rounds to obsess over Donald Trump and January 6th. It was one giant middle finger to those who stood beside her, hoping she would now focus on helping the Republican party instead of fighting pointless, long-past battles. GOP leaders may replace Cheney with a Republican. Because Democrats used to call her daddy Darth Vader, Liz Cheney must think she is Princess Leia. Her act is wearing thin, and congressional Republicans may dump her from her leadership position in favor of someone less full of herself. Axios reported, "Top Republicans are turning on Rep. Liz Cheney, the party's highest-ranking woman in Congress, with one conservative leader suggesting she could be ousted from her GOP post within a month." In a rarity for what passes for journalism in DC, Axios named names. The story said, "The comments by Reps. Steve Scalise, the minority whip, and Jim Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, carry weight because of their close relationship with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — who is openly feuding with Cheney." GOP Congressman Predicts Liz Cheney Will Be Gone by [the] End of [the] Month. Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) predicted Saturday that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be ousted from House GOP leadership by the end of May. Gooden declared, "Liz Cheney has promised she will campaign on impeaching Trump 'every day of the week.' Good luck with that, Liz! PREDICTION: she'll be out of her GOP leadership role by month's end!" Cheney says she'll campaign on impeaching Trump 'every day of the week' amid primary challenges. Rep. Liz Cheney said in an interview with Punchbowl News Thursday that she will stand behind her vote to impeach former President Trump "every day of the week" as she faces multiple primary challengers in her 2022 reelection effort. Cheney, R-Wyo., is the chair of the House Republican conference and has taken heat from many on the right over her vocal condemnation of Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his followers. That has spurred Trump's wrath in multiple forums and triggered a handful of Republicans to announce primary challenges to her — Trump said in a statement earlier this month he will endorse one of them soon. Trump Responds to Liz Cheney After She Sides with Pelosi. Earlier this week at the GOP House members retreat in Orlando, Liz Cheney stabbed GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy in the back and sided with Nancy Pelosi on a January 6 Commission, downplayed BLM and Antifa rioters, trashed Trump and his voters, and then said Republicans lost voters in 2020 — when President Trump crushed the all-time record for most Republican votes ever! Liz Cheney is delusional and didn't rule out a 2024 presidential bid. Republican Voters Would Rather [not] Nominate Liz Cheney for President. [Scroll down] While Cheney is not taking any options off the table when it comes to her political career, it seems that the representative might not be receiving good advice when it comes to considering a presidential run. Republican strategists have intimated that the people advising Cheney appear to be similar to the friends of those people who are rejected in the early stages of American Idol; they can't bring themselves to tell her the truth: There is no way that Republican voters would ever nominate her to represent them in the next presidential race. But there is a silver lining for the lawmaker. When she is voted out of office in 2022, there will likely be a place for her at the Lincoln Project with the rest of the washed-up neocons. Rep. Liz Cheney not ruling out 2024 presidential run. House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is not ruling out a potential presidential bid, The [New York] Post has learned. "I'm not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time," she told The Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future. The Wyoming Republican — who has been a frequent target of former President Donald Trump — said there are a number of contenders she sees as having potential for the 2024 nomination, adding that she believes the lawmakers who led the efforts on challenging the election on Jan. 6 should be out of the running. Liz Cheney Plays the Fool After Anti-Trump 'Bombshell' Collapses. Yesterday, Joe Biden's own intelligence community dropped the news that the "Russian bounties" story used to target President Trump was absolute garbage. Of course, some of us knew it before the 2020 election and reported that (see That 'Bombshell' Russian Bounty Story Was Just Officially Shown to Be Garbage). Once again, "right-wing" news outlets were proven right while CNN and other "unbiased" outlets were made to look like the unreliable, partisan sources they are. But on the political side, there was one figure who went all-in on the nonsense in order to try to keep the perpetual war in Afghanistan going. That person was Rep. Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney Must Explain Why She Thinks The GOP Is A White Supremacist Party. Rep. Liz Cheney seems to think the Republican Party is the party of white supremacy. She is so convinced of this that she feels the GOP needs to make clear this is not the case. CNN and other progressive outlets could barely contain their joy. Here is how the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party down in Atlanta covered Cheney's remarks: "In a speech on Tuesday in Washington, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said something remarkable." "It's very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren't the party of white supremacy," she said at an event at the Reagan Institute. Of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney added: "You certainly saw antisemitism. You saw the symbols of Holocaust denial. ... You saw a Confederate flag being carried through the rotunda. We, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection." We are not the party of Liz Cheney. Princess Liz Cheney signaled her virtue in a speech at the Reagan Institute. She used the storming of Her Castle on January 6 as an excuse to label all supporters of President Donald John Trump as white supremacists. White supremacy is the bogey man in Washington. It is as imaginary as global warming. But like global warming, it serves the purpose of giving more power to the powerful Merrick Garland, the attorney general in waiting, vowed to prosecute Trump supporters as domestic terrorists. This is based on a false report in the New York Times that a Capitol Police officer died after he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher in the January 6 melee. His family now says he had a stroke. It counts as an officer dying in the line of duty but it does not as an act of violence. Liz Cheney not gaining sympathy after complaining about Biden's disastrous energy policies. U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney ironically took to Twitter on Thursday to complain about President Biden's energy policies after she had previously voted to impeach former President Trump, who was pro-energy. Her stance against Trump is exceedingly unpopular in her home state of Wyoming where the chairman of the Carbon County Republican Party is stating that her move to impeach Trump "will have far-reaching implications, including Cheney's possible loss in her next re-election bid." After Cheney betrayed Trump supporters by voting to impeach him, it is no surprise to see the reaction to her plight is highly negative. Liz Cheney says she won't resign after Wyoming GOP calls for her to step down. House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney said Sunday she will remain in office despite the Wyoming Republican Party's call for her to resign over her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. The state party's central committee voted overwhelmingly Saturday [1/6/2021] to censure Ms. Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican who joined nine other House Republicans and all House Democrats in voting in favor of impeaching Mr. Trump in the Jan. 13 vote. The censure motion called for her to resign immediately. Wyoming Republican party votes to formally censure Liz Cheney, demands she resign and hand back all state political donations. The Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Saturday [1/6/2021] to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Only eight of the 74-member state GOP's central committee stood to oppose censure in a vote that didn't proceed to a formal count. The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn't offer Trump 'formal hearing or due process.' 'We need to honor President Trump. All President Trump did was call for a peaceful assembly and protest for a fair and audited election,' said Darin Smith, a Cheyenne attorney who lost to Cheney in the Republican U.S. House primary in 2016. 'The Republican Party needs to put her on notice.' Wyoming GOP Censures Liz Cheney Over House Impeachment Vote. Wyoming Republican officials voted to censure Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), the state's representative-at-large, for her decision to impeach former President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection back in January, when he was still in office. According to The Associated Press, an overwhelming majority of the Wyoming Republican Party's Central Committee voted in favor of a censure resolution, which accused Cheney of voting for impeachment without a "formal hearing or due process" for Trump. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the censure vote happened after only 11 minutes of discussion among the committee members. The Problem for Republicans Isn't Unity, It's Reality. What does the recent vote keeping Liz Cheney in her leadership role among House Republicans mean? It means that the Republican Party may try to claim unity around establishment ideas, but it also means they are not serious about representing the interests of Republican voters. Despite reports of a possible loss, Cheney retained her leadership role among Republicans in the House of Representatives. But what does Cheney "represent"? What issues have she and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who backed her in the vote, led on? What issues are they passionate about? Every establishment Republican has this same problem. What do they stand for? What are they fighting for in Congress? Liz Cheney's and the RINOs' betrayal. Well, now we know for sure that the bulk of the Republican members of the House do not represent their constituents; not at all. They represent themselves and their coveted membership in that school for scoundrels we call Congress. Despite Liz Cheney's gross betrayal of President Trump and her own constituents in Wyoming, 145 of them by secret ballot voted not to remove her from her leadership position. This, of course, demonstrates that those 145 representatives value their standing in the swamp more than they value their oath to uphold the Constitution. They all know Trump in no way incited any insurrection. They all know it was planned in advance, most likely by anti-Trumpers that the left encourages and adores. Pity the several Trump supporters among them who got mixed up in an orchestrated plan to further damage Trump by any means necessary. They all know that the 2020 election was characterized by all manner of fraud; Biden was installed, not elected. House Republicans vote to keep Liz Cheney in leadership role. House Republicans voted to allow Rep. Liz Cheney to keep her leadership role within the chamber after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last month. GOP lawmakers voted 145-61 in favor of keeping Cheney as House Republican Conference Chair — the third highest-ranking party position in the chamber — in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday night, NBC News reported. Lindsey Graham Supports Liz Cheney. The framework of Liz Cheney's DeceptiCon perspective is actually turning out to be a valuable asset. By watching who steps out to defend Ms. Cheney we get a more clarified picture of who the DeceptiCons are. Liz Cheney is a walking 'TOUCHSTONE", a test or criteria for determining the genuine ideology of corrupt political alignment. Last night Mitch McConnell stood up on Cheney's behalf. Today Lindsey Graham does the same. These republican names reflect politicians who are aligned with Globalism, Wall Street, and the leftist agenda of Big Government; these are the DeceptiCons. Liz Cheney's Predestined Future. It doesn't take Nostradamus or Carnac to figure out how the next two years will play out for Wyoming's lone Congressional representative Liz Cheney. It simply takes a little observation of — and interaction with — the Swamp. As an outside the beltway sometimes political operative and consultant, I've had the unhappiness of working with swamp creatures off and on since the 90s[.] Liz's future is easier for me to predict than yesterday's weather. The broad strokes are a fait accompli. I've seen it many times. And while it may seem at first glance that her political career is at a dead end, it is far from it. Liz will be rich very soon, if she is not already. And she will do as much damage to the Trump/MAGA/Republican brand as she can in the process. This is how the swamp works. And she appears to be swampier than her father, and much more so than the smartest of the clan, her mother Lynne Cheney. Gaetz to host Trump supporters in Wyoming as new survey finds Liz Cheney's political support crashing. Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz will host a rally for supporters of Donald Trump in Wyoming on Thursday as support for the state's lone congressperson, Liz Cheney, is tanking following her vote to impeach the former president. Earlier this month Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, voted with nine GOP colleagues to impeach the former president following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building. Cheney, who chairs the House Republican Conference, claimed Trump "summoned," "assembled," and "lit the flame of this attack." "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and oath to the Constitution," she added. But in an interview this week with CNN, Gaetz pushed back. "I have a competing vision for Republicanism," he said. "I believe that we ought to embrace the spirit and style of President Trump." He went on to note that her "principal job" as chairperson of the GOP conference is to "carry the message" of her Republican colleagues. Why Liz Cheney Should Step Away From Leadership. Liz Cheney's problems are piling up, according to Politico. The Republican Conference chair has lost the confidence of more than half of the members she purports to lead as the third-highest ranking GOP member in the House of Representatives. She has also garnered a primary challenge and censure back in Wyoming. "There's a lot of concern in the conference," Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, an influential conservative leader, said about Cheney last week. Much of the disappointment stems from her decision to give her full-throated support to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's rushed second impeachment of President Donald Trump days before he left office. Cheney sided with Democrats and the media in blaming Trump for a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol. Liz Cheney's Congressional Career Appears to Be Over. Last week, in a veritable bacchanalia of virtue signalling, ten Republican congressmembers, including House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, voted with the Democrats to impeach President Trump on the fabricated charge that his speech on January 6 precipitated the riot in the Capitol. One doesn't know whether Cheney just wanted to go out of Congress with a bang; or if she seriously misread the tenor of the GOP both nationally and at home and thought this "maverick" vote was her ticket to more power; or, if being true to her heritage, she couldn't resist getting invovled in a war with no victory conditions and no way out. Liz Cheney gets a primary challenger. She's at least a year away from having to worry about this but there's something to be said for her would-be opponent wanting to strike while the media iron is hot. [...] Basically, the guy primarying Liz Cheney is exactly whom you'd expect the guy primarying Liz Cheney to be — and then some. Reports: More than half of House Republicans sign petition to replace Liz Cheney as conference chair. According to this Politico story from a few days ago, that should be enough to oust her from her leadership position. Twenty percent of the caucus, or 42 members, is needed to force a meeting on whether to strip her of her title as chair of the House Republican Conference. Then a simple majority is needed to actually do the deed. That would require 106 members, less than the number that's already signed a petition supporting her removal. The one wrinkle is that the vote will be held by secret ballot, so in theory someone who signed the petition could secretly switch to no on their actual ballot and Cheney could hang on that way. But I wouldn't bet on it. Wyoming Lawmaker Launches Primary Challenge Against Rep. Liz Cheney After Impeachment Vote. A Wyoming legislator on Wednesday filed for the 2022 race for the congressional seat held by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). State Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican, filed a statement of candidacy, according to Federal Election Commission records. Cheney drew widespread criticism for voting with Democrats and nine other Republicans last week to impeach then-President Donald Trump. "Wyoming was President Trump's best state both times he ran. That's because Wyoming voters are strong conservatives who want our leaders to stand up for America, defend our freedoms, fight for our way of life and always put working people first as President Trump did," Bouchard said in a statement Wednesday. Carpetbagger: Wyoming GOP: 'Consensus Is Clear,' Liz Cheney's Impeachment Vote Has Sparked Unprecedented Outcry. The Wyoming Republican Party on Wednesday published a list of criticisms it received from constituents about House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney's (R-WY) vote to impeach President Donald Trump over last week's deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol. "There has not been a time during our tenure when we have seen this type of an outcry from our fellow Republicans, with the anger and frustration being palpable in the comments we have received. Our telephone has not stopped ringing, our email is filling up, and our website has seen more traffic than at any previous time," the Wyoming GOP said in a statement. "The consensus is clear that those who are reaching out to the Party vehemently disagree with Representative Cheney's decision and actions." Conservatives Should Challenge Establishment Republicans in 2022. Last week, Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney voted to impeach President Trump. Conservatives were outraged. The Wyoming GOP denounced her. Congressman Jim Jordan threatened to oust her from House Republican leadership. Pundits called for someone to challenge Cheney in her 2022 primary. Meanwhile, establishment Republicans rallied to Cheney's defense. [...] Heading into those 2022 elections, conservatives should expect GOP leadership to defend establishment Republicans like Cheney. The argument will go like this: Liz Cheney voted with Trump 90% of the time, while Democrats in swing districts never voted for Trump. Therefore, conservatives should focus on flipping swing districts instead of challenging the establishment. That argument is wrong, and conservatives should reject it. The Lynch Mob Comes for Citizen Trump. "The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack." So alleged Liz Cheney, third-ranking Republican in the House, as she led nine GOP colleagues to vote for a second impeachment of Donald Trump. [...] But is what Cheney said true? Undeniably, the huge crowd that assembled on the mall Wednesday did so at Trump's behest. But that peaceful crowd was not the violent mob that invaded the Capitol. The mob was a mile away as Trump spoke. It was up at the Capitol while Trump was on the Monument grounds. It could not hear him. And the break-in of the Capitol began even before Trump concluded his remarks. It was done as he spoke. Nor is there anything in the text of those remarks to indicate that Trump was signaling for an invasion of the Capitol. How then did he light "the flame of this attack"? House Republican Predicts Half of GOP Supports Ousting Liz Cheney As Conference Chair. One House Republican predicted Wednesday that as many as half of the House Republican conference might vote to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the House Republican Conference chair. Politico's Melanie Zanona reported that one House Republican not affiliated with the House Freedom Caucus said as many as half of the House Republican Conference may support ousting Cheney as the third-ranking Republican over her support for impeaching President Donald Trump. GOP Lawmakers Call for Trump-Hater Liz Cheney to Step Down as Republican Conference Chair After Breaking Conference Rules. On Tuesday [1/12/2021] Liz Cheney said she will vote to impeach Republican President Donald Trump. [...] On Tuesday night Republicans Rep. Matt Rosendale and Andy Biggs called for nasty Liz Cheney to step down, after breaking Republican Conference rules in her statements on President Trump. Read Liz Cheney's full statement in support of Trump's impeachment. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third-highest ranking Republican leader in the House, announced Tuesday that she'll vote to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in inciting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week. Asa Hutchinson The Coming Backlash. It's actually worse. It's embarrassing. You look like a fool. Take Asa! Hutchinson, with his mush-mouthed palaver about "limited government" and citing Reagan to justify his spineless submission to the establishment. This guy literally would rather young children have their genitals mutilated than have to explain to his Walmart masters why he refused to go along with the scalpel zeitgeist. He's not just a weak person. He's not just a stupid person. He's an evil person. And we know it. We see it. And we must speak it. They want to blind us. They want to gag us. They want us tip-toeing through the PC minefield, afraid to take a step less we trigger a detonation of cancellation. Arkansas Legislature Overrides Veto To Ban Genital Mutilation Of Children. The majority-Republican Arkansas General Assembly voted Tuesday to override Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson's veto of a bill banning experimental genital mutilation and hormone treatments for those under 18-years-old. The passage of HB 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, makes Arkansas the first state in the union to prohibit doctors from administering hormone treatment, puberty blockers, or other treatments to minors. The veto passed in the House at a vote of 71 to 24 and in the Senate 25 to 8. Hutchinson vetoed the legislation on Monday, which originally passed on March 29. The governor claimed the measure was a "product of the cultural war in America" and violated the relationship between a doctor and patient. Ark. House and Senate Override Veto on Bill Protecting Kids From Chemical Castration. On Tuesday afternoon [4/6/2021], the Arkansas House and Senate voted to override Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson's veto of H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. The bill would "prohibit a physician or other healthcare provider in Arkansas from providing any gender transition procedures to minors that are intended to alter the gender of a child or delay puberty." Experimental "puberty-blocking" drugs and cross-sex hormones may have long-lasting impacts on fertility, so advocates have branded them "chemical castration." The Editor says... 'Kids can't drink beer but they can be chemically castrated?': Tucker Carlson rips into Arkansas Gov Asa Hutchinson. Tucker Carlson ripped into Arkansas Gov Asa Hutchinson over his decision to veto a bill that would ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, accusing him of supporting the 'chemical castration' of children. Carlson and Hutchinson engaged in a heated debate on Fox News on Tuesday night after Arkansas' Republican legislature voted to override the governor's veto and move forward with enacting the bill. The interview was rocky out of the gate as Hutchinson, a Republican, immediately took issue with Carlson's description of the bill. Tucker Carlson Challenges Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson Over His Veto of Legislation to Block Gender Reassignment in Children. 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host challenged Arkansas Governor Hutchinson on why he vetoed a bill banning youth gender reassignment surgeries. The essential position of Hutchinson is that government should not intervene in medical decisions between parents, children and doctors. Tucker Carlson asked Hutchinson to reconcile laws against children drinking, laws against children getting tattoos, and the absence of a law stopping the chemical castration of children. The interview became very contentious. [Video clip] GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson: 'I wouldn't' support Trump in 2024. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he wouldn't support former President Donald Trump if he tries to make a comeback in the 2024 election. "No, I wouldn't," Mr. Hutchinson, a Republican, said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I would not support him for reelection in 2024." Mr. Hutchinson said he has spent 40 years promoting conservative principles in the GOP and the party should be defined by those core tenets, not by personalities. The Editor says... Glenn Youngkin Did Glenn Youngkin Hire a Woke Far-Leftist or Is There Another Explanation? The surprise victory of Republican Glenn Youngkin to become the next governor of Virginia shocked the political world earlier this month. Down double digits just months prior, Youngkin surged back into the race in the final weeks, eventually defeating heavily favored Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Youngkin didn't make his comeback by prioritizing the normal slate of GOP issues. Rather, he focused like a laser beam on the culture war surrounding leftwing school boards and the harm they are causing to children. That strategy led to big shifts in Loudoun County and other bluish, suburban areas, with the assumption being that Youngkin was a different kind of Republican. But one possible hire by the governor-elect has some scratching their heads. No guts. Mehmet Oz If elected, Mehmet Oz would be the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate. [Wikipedia] Dr. Oz is in serious trouble in Pennsylvania. He's not doomed, for the simple reason that no Republican is doomed in a year like this one unless they're running in a D+15 jurisdiction. Pennsylvania is considerably redder than that. Oz will have a fighting chance all the way to Election Day. And there's something else working for him, the John Fetterman health crisis. It may be that complications from his stroke will leave Fetterman unable to campaign in earnest this summer and fall, either forcing Dems to replace him on the ballot with someone less popular or asking Pennsylvania swing voters to gamble that he'll be able to do the job of a senator if they elect him. Dr. Oz Opponent Absolutely Eviscerates Him at Senate Primary Debate. When Donald Trump decided to endorse long-time liberal and TV talking head Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, I wasn't shy about voicing my displeasure. Neither were a lot of other conservatives, including many who are very pro-Trump. [Tweet] Well, I've got good news, especially if you live in Pennsylvania and get to vote in the primary. There is another option out there that just may check all the right boxes so you don't have to vote for a left-winger like Oz nor an establishment shill like McCormick. Her name is Kathy Barnette, and she stole the show at Wednesday night's primary debate, eviscerating Oz while promoting a very conservative platform. Trump Had Every Reason to Endorse Dr. Oz. he reaction by some to Donald Trump's endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz in the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania seems a bit over the top. I mean, I get it on some levels: Oz isn't great on the issues, isn't a conservative rockstar (as if Pennsylvania produces any), and is an unknown commodity in electoral politics (see Trump, Donald J., circa 2015). But everyone needs to take a deep breath and understand that Oz is 10 times better than former hedgefund CEO Dave McCormick. And in Trump's mind, maybe 50 times better. If you're Trump, you have political capital. The man has clout with the base and given the numbers he's seen, he can be the kingmaker in U.S. Senate races in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona, and Missouri. There are no credible MAGA candidates in the Pennsylvania Senate race; this isn't a potential Jim DeMint versus Oz situation, so Trump really has two choices: Oz or McCormick. The Editor says... Dr. Oz receives Trump endorsement for Senate despite support for abortion, 'transitioning' kids. Former President Donald Trump disappointed some of his most ardent supporters over the weekend by endorsing TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, despite his history of staking out left-wing positions on issues important to conservatives. "I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show," Trump said on April 9. "He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected, and smart. He even said that I was in extraordinary health, which made me like him even more (although he also said I should lose a couple of pounds!)." Trumpworld Goes Into Meltdown After Trump Endorses Dr. Oz. Late Saturday evening, former President Donald Trump officially endorsed his old TV pal Dr. Mehmet Oz in the raucous Republican U.S. Senate primary race in Pennsylvania. In doing so, Trump, while speaking at a rally in North Carolina, ignited fury and ridicule among some of the loudest voices in Trumpworld. At issue among Trump's most fervent supporters is the belief that Oz, a Turkish-American TV physician who has hobnobbed with Hollywood's elite and has flip-flopped on the issue of abortion, isn't a trustworthy "America First" Republican candidate, compared to fellow candidate Dave McCormick, who has ex-Trump administration official Hope Hicks by his side. (Another Trumpworld stalwart, Stephen Miller, stopped all involvement and employment with the McCormick campaign after Trump's Oz endorsement, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast after this story was published.) He must be joking. Trump's Endorsement of Dr. Oz Should Surprise No One Who Understands Trump. Let's begin with a couple of premises. Donald Trump is very careful with his endorsements. They are less about political positions and more about whether he believes a potential endorsement will win. But above all, the singularly most important qualification above all others is crystal clear: loyalty to Donald Trump. [...] Bottom line: In the eyes of any honest conservative, Dr. Oz hardly qualifies as anything near a conservative. Dr. Oz denies writing gun control advocacy columns, business partner claims authorship. Pennsylvania Republican senatorial candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz this week disavowed a series of columns bearing his byline arguing for gun control in a statement to Fox News Digital. Oz's byline previously appeared in a series of articles in his "YouDocs" syndicated column co-authored with business partner Dr. Michael Roizen. At various points in the column's run, notably from 2017 to 2019, the articles praised or advocated a variety of gun control legislation initiatives, including assault weapons bans, red flag laws, New Zealand-style gun buyback programs, universal gun purchaser licensing and mandatory waiting periods. Report: Oz Looks to Exit Senate Race, Return to Television. Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz is already in talks to return to television if his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is unsuccessful, according to a recent report. A source told Radar Online that Oz "knows his campaign is on life support." Dr. Oz tells Oprah to stay away from his Pennsylvania Senate race. Dr. Oz asked his pal and fellow TV star Oprah Winfrey to stay out of the Pennsylvania Senate race where he is seeking the Republican nomination. "I asked her to stay out. Don't support me because if you get involved in any way, you'll get hurt and I don't want my friends hurt," Oz said. Oz made the remarks during a meet and greet with Manhattan Republican grandees at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in midtown on Dec 16. The confab attracted around 50 people and was hosted by billionaire John Catsimatidis and his wife Margo. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and celebrity private eye Bo Dietl were in attendance. Why Is Dr. Oz Running as a Republican? I understand that someone named Dr. Mehmet Oz is running for the Senate seat in Pennsylvania — though he apparently wasn't a Pennsylvanian until five minutes ago — and this raises several questions, like "Who is this person?", "Why should this person be a senator instead of, say, some Amish rando from Chambersburg?", and, most importantly, "Why is this person running as a Republican?" He is apparently a TV reality guy, and I guess he looked at Trump and thought, "Well, he was on TV and he did it, so why not?" But "Why not" is not a great reason for someone to run for a Senate seat we Republicans need. And Dr. Oz is a Republican like Brian Stelter, who is a potato, is a Chippendales dancer. Let's review his track record, with a special thanks to conservative muckraker Jack Posobiec, who has done great work gathering the receipts. [...] Republican Senate candidate Dr. Oz supports transgender surgeries for kids, occult practices. Pro-LGBT talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz announced his candidacy for a hotly-contested Senate seat in Pennsylvania next year, running as a Republican despite a history of transgender activism and support for other liberal causes. The celebrity doctor and host of The Dr. Oz Show made the announcement Tuesday and has been quickly embraced by several high-profile Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota. Top GOP strategists have already joined his campaign, which appears to be gaining traction with President Donald Trump, as well. But while Oz and his supporters have tried to claim that he's a "conservative Republican," his record says otherwise. Dr. Oz Launches Bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician best known as the host of the Dr. Oz Show, announced Tuesday [11/30/2021] that he is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican. "During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions. That's why I am running for the U.S. Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal," Oz wrote in a column published in the Washington Examiner. Mike Pence Mike Pence Says He Will Not Vote for Donald Trump. Playing the role of the faithful corporate Republican, former Vice President Mike Pence appears on Fox News today to advocate for the nation state of Israel and disparage President Donald Trump. One does not need to be a deep weeds political follower to understand the motives of Pence and how they relate to his corporate Republican alignment. The Wall Street Sea Island group, who operate in the multinational financial world, in combination with the professional political class, who organize both wings of the UniParty system, are diametrically opposed to President Donald Trump. This is Mike Pence's tribe, and his influence and affluence are dependent on his association. Turncoat Mike Pence Announces $20 Million to Fight GOP's Turn to Populism. Turncoat Mike Pence was in the news again after announcing he was spending $20 million to fight the Republican Party's turn to populism. Mike Pence made this announcement to slow down President Trump. Once again dirty Mike Pence is doing the will of the DC elites and Democrats to hurt Donald Trump and the country. Pence is most famous for misleading 75 million Trump voters into thinking he had the [courage] to challenge the suspect 2020 election results in six battleground states. Pence lied about this and folded like a lawn chair. After his actions riots broke out on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, after police started firing rubber bullets, gas cannisters, and smoke bombs on the Trump protesters outside the US Capitol. Pence [is] Running Out of Steam. If there's one thing that Politico loves, it's touting a new "Trump alternative" in the GOP field who isn't named Ron DeSantis. To that extent, the left-leaning political outlet seems to have gone through the entire field and then some. First, it was South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. Then, it was businessman and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy. Even Chris Christie was in there somewhere. Former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was Politico's latest pick. But don't forget Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who Politico has speculated might still run despite huge barriers to his entry at this late stage. At this rate, I might be their next viable "Trump alternative." Or maybe you. Pence: "It Should Not Take That Long" To Defeat The Russians; U.S. Must Spend More In Ukraine. Mike Pence explains why he favors sending more money and weapons to Ukraine, telling FNC's Shannon Bream that it won't take "that long" to defeat Russia. "Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address that we're there as long as it takes... I'm going to tell you, it shouldn't take that long," Pence said during an interview on "FOX News Sunday". "I really do believe that what we need is to provide the resources, the — the equipment, the missiles, the aircraft that Ukraine needs to repel that Russian invasion in a much more rapid pace than the Biden administration has done." [Video clip] The Editor says... Poll: Republicans Souring on Mike Pence. Republicans continue to sour on former Vice President Mike Pence, the latest survey from the Economist/YouGov found. Republicans remain relatively split regarding their opinions on presidential hopeful Pence. Overall, 47 percent have a very or somewhat favorable view of the former vice president, compared to 45 percent who have an unfavorable view. For greater perspective, according to a summary of the survey, 89 percent of Republicans had a favorable view of Pence prior to the 2020 presidential election. Mike Pence, 'Constitutional Hero'? If you once served as Vice President of the United States, polling below 5% in your own party's presidential primary can trigger a stream of unbridled bitterness. [...] Like a freezing cold bucket of reality splashed onto Pence's face, losing to a 37-year-old entrepreneur who, six months ago, nobody ever heard of, has apparently unleashed the floodgates of animosity harbored deep within. Embittered by his demise, Pence now fumes against President Trump, the man to whom he owes the Vice Presidency, seemingly siding with rogue prosecutor Jack Smith. "I had no right to overturn the election," Pence told CNN. "And on that day, President Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution. But I chose the Constitution. And I always will." He rambles on. "Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be President of the United States." Really, Pence? You "chose the Constitution," did you? That's your spin? The President asked you to "overturn" the election? To put himself over the Constitution? He said that? Former Pence National Security Adviser Endorses Trump, Slams Pence. Former Vice President Mike Pence's National Security Adviser, Gen. Keith Kellogg, endorsed former President Donald Trump and slammed his former boss Monday [8/7/2023]. "I've worked alongside many leaders in my years of service to this Nation," Kellogg, who worked for Pence for nearly three years, wrote in a statement he shared on Truth Social. "Among them, President Donald J. Trump stands apart as a figure of unwavering determination, a deep vision for America, and the courage to take a stand where others wilt." "Where President Trump is bold and unafraid to challenge the status quo, Pence has often chosen the passive route, avoiding confrontation," Kellogg continued. "This lack of assertiveness, combined with an overreliance on failed political consultants like Marc Short, has demonstrated a laisse-faire leadership style unworthy of the presidency." If You Support Mike Pence You Should Maybe, Probably Stop. Mike Pence is a weasel. His VP staff was littered with left-wing insiders who deliberately undermined the Presidency of Donald Trump so that they could have themselves a President Mike Pence. It seems unlikely Pence knew nothing about it. Yes, Tucker Carlson exposed him, but since then, the evidence of his subterfuge, whether as principle or patsy, continues accumulating. The most recent revelation is that Pence knew he could decertify the sketchy election and send the electors back to the states. But if he had done that, the US House would have re-elected Donald Trump via the 12th Amendment. The Dems didn't want that, nor did the Neocon Never-Trump Establishment. They'd been working for four years to unseat the man and replace him with Pence. Where's the proof? Congress amended the Electoral College Act so the VP could no longer do what Pence should have done. There's no reason to amend it unless Pence had the authority, which he did. He also had an obligation, but it was not the people or the Constitution. It was to the Donor class and Machine Politicians. The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained. Finally, President Donald Trump chose to lob a verbal grenade in the general direction of his old VP Mike Pence last Sunday night — regarding Pence's ability to formally contest the results of the stolen 2020 election. This was, for many Trump supporters, long overdue. The reason that Mike Pence did not exercise the power to lawfully contest the election is because Mike Pence was never a Trump loyalist. He's a GOP establishment loyalist. There were plenty of problems inside the Trump Administration, and Vice President Mike Pence was at the center of many of those problems. In fact, it's always been obvious that Pence and his staff were deeply involved in trying to remove President Trump from office. 'Not My Concern" Narrows the GOP Field. Who won the Republican blow-out interview lalapalooza with Tucker Carlson in Iowa Friday night? [...] It's probably easier to start with the loser, chief among whom was Mike Pence, who might just as well have used the occasion to perform an act of self-immolation. The key moment came in an exchange about foreign policy, in particular U.S. policy with respect to the war in Ukraine. Pence said he was distressed that we had yet to send Ukraine the promised Abrams tanks or train Ukrainian pilots to fly F16s. "You are distressed," said Tucker, "that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse in the last three years... and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians ... don't have enough tanks? Where's the concern in the United States in that?" "Well, that's not my concern. Tucker, I've heard that routine from you before, but that's not my concern." [...] There was, at the margins, a little backsliding and floundering, but I think the consensus was that Pence did himself significant damage. The "not my concern" slip might be corrected, explained away, as was Obama's "57 states" comment. But that suffocating sense that the former Vice President is a priggish, platitude-emitting machine will be hard to overcome. Did Mike Pence Just End His Presidential Candidacy? Before Tucker Carlson had an epiphany, the media establishment was a comfortable place. [...] The Democrats went to every left-leaning channel and attacked the right. The Republicans appeared on Fox News and attacked the left. But nobody on Fox News ever challenged Republicans from the right — i.e., nobody ever asked them about open borders or amnesty to illegals or the lack of action on abortion. [...] Tucker Carlson has changed that norm for the right. [...] We focus on Carlson's interaction with former vice president Mike Pence. Carlson asked Pence about his stance on U.S. foreign policy pertaining to the conflict in Ukraine. Pence claimed that the U.S. had "made progress" in assisting Ukraine. Carlson challenged Pence on why U.S. leaders are more interested in Ukraine than in the rampant crime and downfall of major American cities. Carlson also reminded Pence that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's government is suppressing and arresting Christian priests by branding them pro-Kremlin. Mike Pence Declares "No Room in Republican Party" For Those Who Do Not Support Ukraine War. Presidential candidate Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and affirm Pence's position that the unilateral power of the Ukraine government needs to be supported. Mike Pence then presents himself as the arbiter of what it means to be a Republican with a Twitter message saying, "I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal, and I know who needs to win this war in Ukraine, and it's the people fighting for their freedom and fighting to restore their national sovereignty. There is no room in our party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom." Mike Pence, Anti-Woke Capital Crusader, Caved To Woke Capital. It's hard to notice amid the hullabaloo over The Donald's and Hunter's legal challenges. But lookit who's vying for the coveted "Christian Conservative lane" in the GOP presidential sweepstakes — along with the close-akin anti-woke capital corridor. "I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican — in that order," erstwhile Trump veep Mike Pence trumpeted in launching his candidacy in ... hmmmm ... Iowa a couple of weeks back. Ya don't say. Sure could've fooled the "Christians-and-conservatives-in-that-order" of your somewhat-slighted Hoosier State. One needn't even bother speculating about what Trump's #2 woulda, coulda or shoulda done to prevent the brazen theft of the presidency that fateful day of January 6, 2021. Mike Pence at CNN Town Hall: No Pardons For J6 Participants, Trump 'Should Never Be President Again'. Former Vice President Mike Pence took the stage at a CNN Town Hall Wednesday on his 64th birthday in front of Republican voters in Des Moines, Iowa. [...] Pence appears to have little shot at the GOP nomination, as a RealClearPolitics average shows him at 3.8 percent, compared to 53.2 for his former boss, Donald Trump, and 22.4 for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He's always come across as an eminently decent guy, but he inspires little excitement — quite simply, he lacks electricity. Mike Pence is safe, because he's not a threat to the Deep State. No. And No. Former Vice President Mike Pence is evidently getting into the 2024 Presidential race next week. So evidently is former New Jersey Chris Christie. No. And no. Both men had their time in the sun, and neither's time extends to 2024. Pence's was 2016, when he provided a dull, predictable counterweight to Trump's wild ride. Christie's was 2009-2010, when his unexpected election as governor of deep blue New Jersey gave him a high profile platform to criticize the Obama Administration's many unpopular policy failures. Neither has a prayer of beating Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024. Mike Pence destroys his remaining goodwill among MAGA Republicans. [Scroll down] 'Republican' Liz Cheney branded Pence a hero, and so did Democrat Jamie Raskin. Why? Obviously, because he is pushing the January 6th 'deadly insurrection' narrative and blaming President Trump for it. It must be remembered that as Vice President, Pence wasn't actually averse to the swamp. It was Mike Pence as Vice President who complained about of Trump's first National Security Adviser Michael Flynn lying to him about his contacts with the Russians which led to Flynn's firing. Flynn was among those who had pledged to drain the swamp, so with Flynn gone weeks after Trump was inaugurated the possibility of reforming national security agencies reduced. Pence was in charge of the COVID-19 response that allowed Fauci and others to hijack the proceedings. Even after leaving office, Pence's conduct was suspicious. In the 2024 election, the role of Bob Dull will be played by Mike "Smarty" Pence. The Editor says... Even as Jan. 6 Narrative Implodes, Pence Still Blames Bad Orange Man for Endangering His Life. Mike Pence is running hard to be the Mitt Romney of 2024, the controlled opposition establishment Republican nominee who will run for president and lose gracefully. Or if he somehow wins, he will do the Left's bidding, but in a restrained, ostensibly conservative way. The formerly genuine conservative Pence showed that again Saturday at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where speakers usually keep things light. The famously stone-faced former veep may have been incapable of cracking jokes, but he sure went all-in on making his remarks as heavy as possible and signaling that he would happily carry water for the Left, repeating his claim that Trump endangered his life on Jan. 6 — even as the Left's Jan. 6 narrative is in a full state of collapse. Mike Pence Joins the Scandal, 'Finds' Classified Documents at His House. If the Biden administration was looking for a deflection from the president's classified documents scandal, they've now been handed one. According to CNN, multiple classified documents were found at the home of Mike Pence after he apparently had his lawyer conduct a search. [...] Is it really that difficult for Republicans to not constantly let their political opponents off the hook? This whole snatching defeat from the jaws of victory thing got old a long time ago. But you know what? Let's have some consistency. Throw the book at Pence and Biden if they illegally possessed classified information. I think most have had enough of the two-tiered justice system anyway, and if you or I were in this position, we'd be getting prosecuted. That's not what will happen, though. Because of Pence's stupidity, the narrative will shift to blaming the system in order to excuse Biden's criminality. This was the lifeline the president needed. The Media's 'Strange New Respect' for Mike Pence. Republicans, especially those running for president in 2024, know how to get treated "respectfully" by the mainstream media: denounce or at least distance yourself from former President Donald Trump. Former Vice President Mike Pence has learned that lesson and is being treated much better than he previously was by the media. Expect Mike Pompeo, Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, and Ron DeSantis to follow in Pence's footsteps. But, for now, Pence, who has written a book [...] that highlights what the media describes as his "split" with Trump, has earned what the great Tom Bethell in this journal called the "Strange New Respect Award." Bethell used the award to describe once-reliable conservatives who supported or adopted liberal policies. Today, it describes once-reliable Trump allies or supporters who have turned against the former president. Previous winners include John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom the media disparaged until they turned against Trump. Mike Pence: Dan Quayle and Al Gore [are] his role models, not Trump. Recalling how former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle fulfilled their roles in certifying elections they lost was much more influential in former Vice President Mike Pence's ceremonial ending of the 2020 campaign than his boss, former President Donald Trump. In one of several interviews to promote his new book, Pence said he looked to the examples of Quayle and Gore in deciding to certify the election of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Jan. 6, 2021. There's No Place in the GOP for Stooges of the Blue Media. Former Vice President Mike Pence probably figures that if he is not the early front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, he is certainly in the hunt and probably makes the top five list of contenders. [...] Here's what our would-be 2024 presidential nominee did for us on Friday: he went in front of a group of Republican donors who were assembled at the RNC retreat in New Orleans, and told them that, "There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin." Unless you just wandered out of the forest — and didn't read Jeff Charles' ["]Progressive Media Still Pretending Conservatives Love Putin["] — you're probably aware that Republicans Support Putin is the latest bloody shirt being waved by the Democrats and their degenerate propaganda media in their continuing campaign to divide the country and sow hatred among their base for anyone who dissents from Progressive politics. So, what was Mike Pence doing even talking about "Putin apologists" in the GOP? What's the Deal With Mike Pence? Mike Pence was speaking to the Federalist Society in Orlando, Florida. During the speech, Pence went full RINO, full Deep State, and full Biden/Pelosi/Kamala. Pence told this Federalist Society that "President Trump is wrong. I have no right to overturn the election." Pence went on to state: "The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone." Pence went on to suggest that Biden won the election fair and square. As vice president, Pence has a constitutional requirement not to accept a fraudulent election that was stolen. It was Pence's constitutional duty not to accept voter fraud. And to keep history as history, elected representatives of the Senate and House were only asking for a 10-day delay. Just 10 days to make sure the 2020 was on the "up and up." Trump's former political strategist Steve Bannon said Pence's speech shows that Pence is a "stone cold coward" and it will be forever a "mark of shame" on Pence. Iowa Student Asks Turncoat Mike Pence Who Told Him to "Buck Trump" and Certify the 2020 Election Results. An Iowa student asked Turncoat Vice President Mike Pence why he "bucked Trump" and went ahead and certified the clearly fraudulent election results on January 6th. Pence did this while President Trump was speaking to over a million supporters at the Ellipse in Washington DC. The people knew the election was stolen on Jan. 6th. And today a majority of American voters still believe Democrats cheated to in in 2020. On Thursday night an Iowa student asked Mike Pence for the name of the person who told him to buck Trump and certify the 2020 election results. Pence responded, "James Madison." Did Pence Intentionally Damage Trump? While many know that Pence downplayed allegations of voter fraud and certified Biden's presidency, fewer are aware of Pence's actions on and leading up to that fateful day on Jan. 6. Nor was this the first time that Pence engaged in seemingly specifically timed and crucial actions that impaired Trump's presidency. Why did Pence make public statements supporting an election challenge before making an abrupt about-face? What responsibility does Pence bear from heading the coronavirus task force and keeping Fauci in place? And what responsibility does he bear for the firing of General Michael Flynn and the ensuing Flynn witch hunt? [Video clip] Pence suggests Trump supporters are unAmerican. Mike Pence joined Democrats in accusing supporters of Donald Trump of being 'un-American" for skepticism about whether Joe Biden's election "win" was legitimate. Pence was a seemingly loyal vice president but things changed when he didn't back Donald Trump as he attempted to take a stand against what he believed was a fraudulent election. The truth is the election was very questionable. [...] In a speech this week, he suggested that Trump's supporters are "un-American." According to Pence, "January 6 was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol, but thanks to the swift action of Capitol Police and law enforcement, the violence was quelled, the Capitol secured, and we reconvened the Congress the very same day to finish the work of counting Electoral Votes from every state in the union." Republicans Behaving Like Democrats. By signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law, Indiana governor and GOP presidential nominee wannabe Mike Pence briefly looked like a real conservative, trying to champion the Judeo-Christian morals and principles that made this country great. But within days of signing the RFRA, under unrelenting fire from the secular progressive MSM, Pence's conservative resolve withered, and he decided the RFRA needed to be re-written 'for clarification.' Unfortunately, Pence is not the only Republican in a leadership position who doesn't understand that the only way to stop secular progressive relativism is to actually be a Republican ... and not behave like a Democrat. Two other Republican Governors haven't been acting much like Republicans either. We can now add Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and, if any doubt still remained, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to the list of RINOs. Pence caves, expands Obamacare. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was known as a stalwart fighter for limited government principles as a member of the House of Representatives (one of few Republicans to have voted against President Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan and No Child Left Behind law). But on Tuesday [1/27/2015], he betrayed taxpayers when he embraced an expansion of Medicaid through President Obama's healthcare law. Mike Pence casts tie-breaking vote to cancel Obama-era rule favoring class-action suits against banks. With Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding vote, the Senate voted late Tuesday night [10/24/2017] to undo a rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would bar financial firms from contracts that rule out class-action lawsuits related to their products. The measure now goes to President Trump's desk. Two Republicans, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Kennedy of Louisiana, voted no, forcing Pence to break the tie. Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy is a Fraud. Many people will read this and say, why am I attacking someone who is supposedly part of the America First Movement? The answer is quite simple: he is not part of the America First Movement, he's part of the Vivek Ramaswamy movement — which is to say, he is attempting to infiltrate a legitimate movement by trying to appeal to those who are in it. I'll admit, it's a pretty ingenious strategy. What could be a more effective lane than trying to siphon off votes from both former President Trump's base and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' supporters? But the reality is, Ramaswamy is not running for president to be president, because there is no way in hell he'll actually get elected. He's smart enough to understand that. I doubt he's even running for president to be a potential VP. Vivek Is Not the Guy. Upstart candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is currently enjoying a surge in popularity, and for good reason: he's intelligent, he's articulate, and he has staked out courageous positions on issues that actually matter to Americans. From intelligence agency abuses to the truth behind the January 6 protests, Vivek hasn't been shy about calling out the runaway corruption of our political system. [...] Unfortunately, Mr. Ramaswamy appears to hold some deeply unnerving opinions on trade and immigration, the two issues perhaps most fundamental to solving the problems plaguing our nation. Indeed, as many conservatives understand, our leadership class's reckless trade and immigration policies have done inestimable damage to America and its future. Yet, in a recent conversation with entrepreneur Elon Musk, Vivek sounds more World Economic Forum globalist than would-be reformer. Pharma Tool Vivek Ramaswamy Had Big Plans For Your Private Medical Information. One of the alleged consensus outcomes among legacy media of the recent theater performance using unfortunate-looking actors called a "GOP debate" — in which nothing much was litigated except vapid talking points — was that the only "outsider" candidate, one Vivek Ramaswamy, formerly a biomedical entrepreneur, handily won. I have previously praised Vivek for, however tepidly, dipping his toes in 9/11 truth, but, aside from a hors-d'œuvre of tasty rhetoric now and then, he is decidedly not any kind of principled dissident or "outsider" candidate. He's an opportunist who carved a lane for himself by pantomiming Trump, which unfortunately a large contingent of the populist right appears to have fallen for. Vivek Ramaswamy's Voting Record Shows He is Not a Registered Republican, and Donated to Anti-Trump Democrat Candidate in 2016. In a recent revelation, GOP presidential candidate Hirsh Singh has brought to light controversial details concerning Vivek Ramaswamy's political affiliations and voting history. Documentation obtained from the Franklin County, Ohio Board of Elections suggests that Ramaswamy is not a registered Republican but, rather, a registered "Unaffiliated" voter. In an X post (formerly Twitter), Singh wrote, "Per documentation received by Vivek Ramswamy's Franklin County, Ohio Board of Elections Vivek is not a registered Republican, but Registered Unaffiliated and never voted in a Republican Primary in his entire life." There's a Major Problem With Ramaswamy's Defense of Soros Scholarship. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has defended a Soros scholarship he accepted, claiming it came at a time when he "didn't have the money" to pay for Yale Law School. But there is one problem with that argument. According to reports, the entrepreneur was already a multi-millionaire when he took it. Ramaswamy: Cut Off Aid to Israel After 2028. Vivek Ramaswamy, who has skyrocketed to third place in the Republican presidential primary by campaigning as a millennial candidate with fresh ideas, is facing a new hurdle as he attempts to navigate the fraught debate over U.S. military aid to Israel. The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur and self-proclaimed political "outsider," has raised eyebrows for his shifting positions on U.S. military aid to Israel, which he now says he wants to cut off in 2028. While anti-Israel activists have long lobbied for ending U.S. military funding to the Jewish state, Ramaswamy said he supports Israel's continued security. The candidate's stance on the military aid — $3 billion a year, which Israel is largely required to spend on U.S.-manufactured equipment — has changed several times over the past few months. America does not need another unpredictable weird-o in the White House. Vivek Ramaswamy suggests he would let China invade Taiwan post-2029 if elected president. Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy said Monday [8/14/2023] that he would be less attentive to China's threat to Taiwan once he's had four years to attain US "semiconductor independence." "Xi Jinping should not mess with Taiwan until we have achieved semiconductor independence, until the end of my first term when I will lead us there," Ramaswamy told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. Shouldn't they be tried and convicted first? Vivek Ramaswamy repeats the leftist lie that homosexuality is 'hardwired' from birth. The GOP presidential hopeful who kicked off his campaign with a declaration of 10 foundational TRUTHs beginning with "God is real" recently strayed from truth when he declared that homosexuality is "hardwired" at birth and that the burgeoning number of transgendered individuals are folks who are "really just gay." The claims were made by candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during a recent "All-In Podcast." "The gay rights movement was predicated on the idea, which I'm quite sympathetic to, that the sex of the person that you're attracted to is hardwired on the day you're born," Ramaswamy said. His assertion that homosexuality is an immutable trait is based on a lie long advanced by the political left to increase unwarranted LGBT rights, including the U.S. Supreme Court's unconscionable Obergefell decision that shredded society's concept of marriage while throwing open the door to the plague of transgenderism. Senator James Lankford Sen. James Lankford Begs for Public Statements Backing His Open Borders Senate Plan. The Senate Republican's chief negotiator of the open borders deal appears to be feeling the heat. In an email sent Sunday night to outside groups and obtained by Breitbart News, Sen. James Lankford's (R-OK) staff pleads for air cover in support of the Senate border bill. "[I]f you and/or your group agrees that this policy could help at the border today and give the next Administration helpful tools to use, please feel free to share a statement of support with our team that we can amplify," reads the Sunday night email to recipients. The Editor says... 'Internet Rumors' Proven True: Border Bill to Allow 8,500 Migrants per Day. Sometimes you can believe what you read on the internet. The authors of the border bill repeatedly assured Americans that their bill would not permit 5,000 migrants or more per day, attributing those claims as "internet rumors" and "absolutely absurd." "Right now, there's Internet rumors," Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told Fox News Sunday on January 28 when speaking about the claim. "It's all that people are running." "It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day," he said. Those internet rumors appear to possess more truth than Lankford. The numbers allowed per day are even worse than in the leaked details of the bill. The bill would allow up to 8,500 migrants to cross the border in a single day without triggering the declaration of an emergency. Senator
Lankford Doubles Down Denying 5,000 Illegals Will Be Admitted Daily No Matter What the Bill
Says. Last night, the Senate released the draft border security bill. To call
it a fraud would be to engage in understatement. [...] America First Legal finds a lot more to hate.
Scandalous Senate 'Deal' Allows 1.5 Million Illegals Per Year, Slides up to $2.3 Billion To NGOs Trafficking Them, and Gives $60B To Ukraine. While the House has gone full 'Israel or Bust', the Senate has come up with a $118 billion bipartisan agreement which would allow 1.5 million illegals to enter the US every year, allocates $2.3 billion towards NGOs and other organizations which traffic them, gives $14.1 billion in security assistance to Israel, and a whopping $60 billion in support to Ukraine. The bill also locks in green card giveaways until 2030. [Tweet] The agreement was reached by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), whose own state legislature censured him last week for striking such a [bad] border deal, along with Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). [Tweet] Senate Bill Gives Ukraine 75 Times as Much Funding as U.S. Border Wall. A Senate bill would provide a measly $650 million to continue building a border wall at the United States-Mexico border while Ukraine would be sent $48 billion in American taxpayer money. The bill, negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), would give Ukraine nearly $50 billion in U.S. tax dollars to defend its borders from Russian invasion. At the same time, the bill spends just $650 million "to build and reinforce miles and miles of new border wall," according to Lankford's office. That funding is likely to build only a couple dozen miles of border wall. Lankford Plan Helps Biden Migration, Hinders Trump Crackdown. Sen. James Lankford's (R-OK) border proposal helps President Joe Biden import more migrants — and hinders President Donald Trump from reducing the inflow, says Rosemary Jenks, at the Immigration Accountability Project. The key problem is the so-called "trigger" authorization that automatically curbs immigration once 8,500 illegals arrive at the border in one day, or 5,000 people arrive for seven days in a row, Jenks told Breitbart News. [...] Yet advocates, including Lankford and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) — who strongly supports more labor migration — describe the trigger as a key feature of the proposal. Oklahoma Republican Party Ends 'All Support' for Sen. James Lankford over Senate Deal to Expand Immigration. The Oklahoma Republican Party is ceasing "all support" for Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) as he leads negotiations with other Republicans and Democrats for a Senate deal that would expand illegal and legal immigration to the United States. As Breitbart News has detailed, Lankford is negotiating the deal alongside other Republicans such as Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Thune (R-SD) with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and others. Two years earlier: Others / various combinations Pointless Mike Pence. In his narrative poem The Divine Comedy, 14th-century Italian sage Dante Alighieri reserved the ninth and deepest circle of his Inferno for those scoundrels who betrayed their comrades and leaders — Brutus, Cassius, Judas Iscariot, Satan himself. [...] I would argue for a lower circle still, a tenth circle. Although Dante did not say, as alleged, "The darkest places of hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis," someone did, and it makes sense. After all, one can respect the traitor for taking a stand, however evil. But it is hard to respect those who, in times of moral crisis, sit on their hands. Dark these hellish places may be, but in Republican circles, they are popular nonetheless. Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, the Bush family, half the staff of the National Review — they have been there for years. Pence is a late arrival. 6 Dirty RINOs Sign Pledge with Democrats to Certify the Results of the 2024 Election — Without Knowing the Details. In yet another clear sign that the swamp is alive and well in Washington, more than 30 House members — including a disgraceful six Republicans — have joined hands with Democrats to sign a so-called "bipartisan" pledge that seeks to undermine the true voice of the American people before the 2024 election even takes place. The pledge, deceptively named the "Unity Commitment," pretends to "safeguard" the election, but in reality, it's nothing more than an effort to rubber-stamp the will of establishment elites and globalist politicians. Leading this charge are Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who are rallying members of Congress to commit to upholding whatever result comes from the 2024 election — even as concerns about voter integrity and election security remain at an all-time high. Biggest Traitors to the Conservative Cause — the McCain Family or the Cheney Family? The Kamala Harris campaign has been actively courting some of the biggest Republican retreads they can find to earn their endorsement. The race has led them to scrape the bottom of the barrel with once revered political family names. Earlier this week, the son of late Republican Senator John McCain, Jimmy McCain, offered a voice of support for the Vice President. "I feel that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz embody a group of people that will help make this country better. That will take us forward. That's really what matters at the end of the day," he said. Not to be outdone was the dynamic Cheney duo — Liz and Dick — who came out of the closet as full-throated Harris supporters as well. In doing so, the former vice president issued a statement nearly indiscernible from something you might expect from an AOC or an apoplectic Rashida Tlaib. It's shameful, frankly. The Uniparty Turns Literal. [Scroll down] Trump has performed a great service in driving the likes of Cheney to vote Kamala. The feeble charade of TweedleDem vs TweedleRep is designed to obscure the central fact of end-stage western "democracy" — that, on anything that really matters, nothing can be permitted to change. Thus, having Dick Cheney and Ilhan Omar formally on the same team is very helpful. Trump has driven the "respectable" political class to make the Uniparty literal, and its consolidation has freed up space for an actual second party. Anti-Trump GOP group launches $11.5 million ad buy in swing states. Republican Voters Against Trump launched an $11.5 million ad buy in key swing states on Tuesday, marking the group's largest ad buy so far this cycle. The group is targeting voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona. Additionally, the ad buy will also run in Nebraska's competitive 2nd Congressional District. $4.5 million of the ad buy will be spent in Pennsylvania, while $3 million will be spent in Michigan and $2.2 million will be spent in Wisconsin. The group will spend $1.5 million in Arizona and $375,000 in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District. Stopping Illegals from Voting. A handful of House Republicans are hoping to attach the new SAVE act to the upcoming continuing resolution to be passed September 30. The act would mandate all states to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in the November elections. There is already such a law on the books, but because there is a lack of enforcement, there is little confidence that it will be followed. So why would anyone follow the new SAVE act? Mitch McConnell has already said he — and about 17 of his RINO cronies — are opposed to the SAVE act. So where does that leave us? Hundreds of Former Aides to Bush, Romney, and McCain Endorse Harris. Hundreds of former aides who served under Republican lawmakers endorsed Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, stating that "another four years" of a Trump administration would "hurt real, everyday" Americans. In a letter that USA Today obtained, a group of more than 200 former aides for former President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), and former Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) write that they are reuniting and joining with former staffers for former President George H.W. Bush to endorse Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). "We reunite today, joined by new George H.W. Bush alumni, to reinforce our 2020 statements and, for the first time, jointly declare that we're voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz this November," the letter states. Check Out All The 'Notable Republicans' Who Didn't Show Up At The RNC. It appears that MSNBC is shocked to see some of the biggest names in Republican politics conspicuously absent from the RNC. Who are these conservative luminaries? [Advertisement] [Video clip] Among the "notable Republicans" absent from the convention: George W. Bush, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney and Paul Ryan. What an unfathomable loss; how can the convention go on without these critical thought leaders? More importantly, how could their consciences permit them to forsake the voters who look to them for leadership? House Republicans Fail To Hold Merrick Garland In Contempt Of Congress. The Republican majority under House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana failed to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress on Thursday. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., introduced the resolution to hold Garland in "inherent contempt" over the attorney general's refusal to release audio tapes of President Joe Biden's interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Luna released a statement immediately after the vote to announce she refiled the motion to fine Garland $10,000 per day until the tapes are made public. "Today's vote on my inherent contempt resolution and the legislative appropriations bill did not pass due to some Republican absences," Luna said. "I have refiled the resolution and will be calling it up again in a couple of weeks when Congress is back in session and Members return." The contempt vote failed 204 to 210, with four Republicans voting with Democrats against the resolution. Those Republicans were Reps. Tom McClintock and John Duarte of California, and Mike Turner and David Joyce of Ohio. J.D Vance: I Support Access to the Abortion Pill Mifepristone. Senator J.D Vance (R-OH) said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he supported Americans having access to abortion pill Mifepristone[.] Host Kristen Welker said, "Let me move on to my next question. I want to talk about the Heritage Foundation. It's a conservative think tank in Washington. It shapes the agenda they would like to see in a Trump second term." North Dakota's Republican Leaders Defy Voters, Promote Climate Alarmism. North Dakota's leading Republican politicians have defied conservative voters and bought into Al Gore's climate alarmism. In doing so, they are pushing policies that will increase North Dakota energy prices and limit consumers' energy choices. North Dakotans are not being harmed by purported human-caused climate change. Despite this fact, some Republican leaders in the state — including Sen. Sen. Kevin Cramer and Gov. Doug Burgum — have embraced the language and policy goals of climate alarmists. This is a big mistake and a new policy brief by The Heartland Institute explains why. Among the reasons: Republican voters are far from supportive of climate action. In fact, only 29 percent of Republicans think climate change needs to be addressed, according to a 2024 YouGov poll. And Only 12 percent of Republicans think fossil fuels should be phased out. The Editor says... Missouri presidential delegates rejected by Republican National Convention committee. The Missouri Republican Party must replace 54 national convention delegates and alternates selected at its chaotic state convention because of "alarming irregularities" in the process, the Republican National Convention Committee on Contests ruled Friday. The list of rejected delegates includes two of the major GOP candidates for governor, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Sen. Bill Eigel. "The committee holds that the State Convention was not properly credentialed, and that any slate of delegates and alternate delegates adopted at the State Convention must be discarded," states the report signed by Chairwoman Jeanne Luckey of Mississippi. The committee acted after investigating complaints from state convention delegates Daniel O'Sullivan of St. Louis County and Derrick Good of Jefferson County. Missouri GOP Rinos Remove the Pro-Trump Delegates Elected at the State Convention in May. At the GOP's Missouri state convention in Springfield, Trump supporting members of the GOP took over and prevented RINOs in the state from setting the agenda and the delegates for the RNC. This was reported on May 4. [...] Please contact the man who messed this all up and encourage him to stop playing games and let the pro-Trump delegates selected at the GOP convention represent the state at the RNC. Voters kick all the Republican women out of the South Carolina Senate. The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In return, they lost their jobs. Voters removed Sens. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member "Sister Senators," a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban. For Republicans, the departure of Senn, Gustafson and Shealy likely means there will be no women in the majority party of state Senate when the next session starts in 2025. Idaho clamps down on its RINOS. The Republican Party has long been haunted by the specter of platform infidelity on the part of the party's elected officeholders. Far too often, a Republican candidate fervently vows fidelity to the party platform during a campaign but, once elected, sheds this fervor like a duck sheds water. The officeholder's primary agenda becomes re-election, and his/her stance on issues is determined by its probable effect on re-election rather than advancing platform values. [...] At the June 2023 Idaho GOP summer meeting, the state GOP central committee adopted a platform-enforcement rule authorizing the state and local central committees "to call into question the conduct of a Republican official" regarding fidelity to the party platform or the state and federal constitutions. [...] Almost immediately, using this authority, Bonneville County's Legislative District 32 censured three Republican legislators for platform infidelity. Rejecting the Status Quo Is the Only Way to Survive. [Scroll down] Republican voters have spent decades demanding smaller government, less illegal immigration, balanced budgets, and renewed deference to constitutional constraints and the Bill of Rights. Republican leaders have promised to get right on that — just as soon as they build the Department of Homeland Security, provide sixty million illegal aliens with amnesty, add trillions to the debt in war spending, and expand the PATRIOT Act so that the federal government can spy on every citizen of the United States! [...] What do RINOs want? If you listen to Romney, McConnell, Graham, Thune, and other Decepticons, they're most interested in starting WWIII with Russia over Ukraine. Twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan was apparently insufficient to line the pockets of politicians whose retirement portfolios depend upon hefty defense industry profits. The Deep State and Globalism. [Scroll down] By 1980 it was hardly a secret that change agents had infiltrated major American institutions, intent on undermining this country's culture and dismantling the America we all knew. It triggered a culture war, and as the 20th century waned it became evident that the drive to change this country included grooming Americans for life in a global society (a project for the U.N.?). That objective was in fact announced publicly in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush when he declared (with a straight face), that a New World Order was coming that would end wars and establish peace throughout the world. In essence this was a recycling of the mission of the 1920 League of Nations that failed because the U.S. would not sign on. In 1945 the idea of global governance was resurrected with the launching of the United Nations, resuming the challenge to national sovereignty. I watched, dumbfounded, as the commander in chief of our country stood ready to cede the sovereignty of the United States to a ruling authority above it. Beware of Climate Activists Cosplaying as 'Conservatives'. As a general rule of thumb, if the only reason you would identify somebody as a conservative is because they repeatedly insist they are a conservative, they likely are not a conservative. Readers should keep this general rule in mind if they read self-proclaimed conservative climate activist Benji Backer's new book The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future. Backer has created a niche for himself claiming conservative politicians can and must embrace climate activism as a way to hold true to conservative principles and win over young voters. His message runs along the line of, Hey, conservatives, I am one of you. You can trust me that climate activism is truly a conservative issue. Most conservatives, however, would not recognize Backer's words and actions as those of a conservative. [... For example,] Backer praises the Clean Water Act for its brevity, which allows the EPA to interpret the Act any way it wants and become a runaway authoritarian entity. Backer bemoans the "overconsumption of coffee" because coffee cultivation sometimes occurs on previously undeveloped land. GOP Rep Who Voted To Impeach Trump Gains Primary Challenger. Former Republican Senate nominee Tiffany Smiley launched a primary challenge on Monday to Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, who is one of two remaining House GOP members who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021. Smiley ran against Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray in the 2022 midterms, during which she lost to the longtime senator by roughly 15 points. The Republican emphasized her support for veterans in an announcement video on X, and touched on issues like government spending, immigration and inflation. "We can do better. For almost 20 years I have worked to change the government from the outside, and now it's clear — the best way for me to continue my work and deliver change for Washington families is inside Congress. So I'm running," Smiley said in the video. Kansas Ban on Child Sexual Mutilation Fails After Two RINO Traitors Flip Their Votes. A proposed ban on child sexual mutilation in Kansas failed on Monday when two RINO Republicans switched their votes. Having passed the state Senate, supporters of the bill needed a two-thirds majority in the Kansas House of Representatives in order to override the veto of Democratic governor Laura Kelly. Conservatives Rally Around Brandon Herrara for Congress After Texas RINO Tony Gonzales Slanders Top MAGA Lawmakers as "Neo-Nazis". Following the vote on Saturday to fund the Ukraine War with $60 billion of borrowed money — Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) went on CNN and did not hold back when attacking several of his Republican colleagues in Congress. Appearing on CNN's 'State of the Union' with host Dana Bash, Gonzales discussed the recent passage of the multi-billion foreign aid package and the possibility that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson may be removed from office. Rather than taking a diplomatic tone in favor of party unity, the Texas Congressman unloaded on Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VI), making various spurious allegations about their political and private lives. Rand Paul: Mike Johnson [is] Officially No Longer Republican Speaker, but 'Uniparty' Speaker. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) no longer represents the Republican House majority after he betrayed conservative ideals and worked with the Democrats to pass the President Joe Biden-endorsed Ukraine aid agenda, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared Friday. [...] Johnson was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid by his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war, Breitbart News exclusively reported Wednesday: [...] 86 Republicans Vote To Allow Warrantless Spying Of Americans With FISA. Eighty-six House Republicans voted against an amendment to the FISA reauthorization bill which would have added a warrant requirement to prevent the U.S. government from spying on Americans without their knowledge. The vote tally on the amendment, introduced by Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, was 212-212, with House Speaker Mike Johnson casting the tiebreaker vote against it. Among the Republicans who voted for the legislation without Biggs' amendment are Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw. The House ultimately voted to renew the 2-year reauthorization bill without Biggs' amendment Friday, 273-147, but not without a last-minute procedural hurdle introduced by Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. In doing so, the congresswoman helped delay a final vote until Monday. DC RINOs Attempt to Sabotage President Trump's Re-Election With Retirements, Insurrection Legislation. The fact that over a dozen House Republicans have recently announced their early retirement, or their intention to not seek re-election, should raise alarm bells for everyone, because these decisions are not by happenstance. They are coordinated and serve the specific purpose to keep President Trump off the ballot. As their attempts at lawfare appear to be falling apart one-by-one, from the debacle in Georgia involving Fani Willis's rendezvous with the special prosecutor Nathan Wade, to the kangaroo show trials in NYC, with petty judges and prosecutors such as Letitia James, Arthur Engoron, and Juan Merchan, being exposed for the radical, far-left operators they are — President Trump's political enemies are getting increasingly desperate, and as a result of that desperation, are strategizing to now switch control of the House of Representatives before election day. The Editor says... Mutiny on the MSNBC. Let us review. The New York Post reported, "NBC News dropped former Republican National Committee boss Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor — a humiliating turnaround after a mutiny among the network's stars. [...] This may seem odd to you because you know Ronna for who she is — a Romney roach and not the kind you smoke. Ronna's support for Trump was superficial. She was a frenemy who tried to sabotage the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections because the last thing RINOs wanted was another Tea Party shellacking of their dear Democrat friends. The executive who hired Ronna overlooked the fact that while she worked against Trump's election behind the scenes, she publicly praised him. As superficial as that was, the media is superficial. The Mutiny on the MSNBC delighted Trump supporters because we know what she didn't do at the RNC — help Trump — and we know what Democrats plan to do to everyone: destroy us. Let her feel some of that pain first. Ronna McDaniel, Now Paid by NBC, Fully Rips Off Her Mask: 'I Condemn What Happened on January 6'. Ronna McDaniel appeared on Sunday's "Meet the Press," but not as an NBC News political analyst as was assumed after a Friday announcement that she'd joined the network. Instead, her appearance was as an interviewee, in a pre-scheduled interview with host Kristin Welker. Welker asked McDaniel about a bunch of hot-button topics but first asked about her record at the RNC, highlighting that one RNC committee member called McDaniel a "failed chair" and asking if McDaniel deserved to still be in her role after the shellacking the party repeatedly suffered at the ballot box during her tenure. Of course, McDaniel believes she did a great job, and any shortcomings were because of the candidates running, or Donald Trump and his supporters. Anyone but Ronna. The Editor says... Another RINO bites the congressional dust, or is something more sinister going on? News broke today that Rep. Mike Gallagher (RINO-WI) is leaving the house well before his term ends. He'll join former Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Ken Buck, both of whom bowed out before their terms ended. I can think of four reasons for a politician to bow out early: necessity, pique, changed alliances, and one other thing more sinister than the other three. What Mike Gallagher and the Uniparty Are Plotting to Deny Trump His Presidency. RINO Representative Mike Gallagher (WI) will exit the House as early as next month. Gallagher, who is currently serving as the chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, last month announced that he will not seek reelection. Instead of serving out the rest of his term, Gallagher will retire early leaving the GOP with a one-vote majority! But it's worse than that. Gallagher announced he will leave in mid-April. If Gallagher would have left before April 9th he would have triggered a special election in his district. Because he is leaving after April 9th but still in April, there will be no special election so the seat will remain empty. This ensures that Republicans will lose another seat in Congress. This is how the Uniparty works. Listen to the Way He Says It — John Thune: "I hope to be" Senate Majority Leader. This is an interesting response to the question of whether South Dakota Senator John Thune intends to seek the position of senate majority leader. Listen to the way he says it and the transparency of the long-discussed plan is crystal clear. [Video clip] We have written about this plan for several years. Mitch McConnell personally groomed Thune for the position and has introduced him to all the key financial players that keep the DeceptiCons (Deceptive Conservatives) in office. Thune talks about assuming the role as the natural outcome of his time with McConnell. Unfortunately, almost all the GOPe Republicans will support this passing of the baton. NY State GOP Leader is a Progressive Green New Deal Double Agent. Ed Cox must resign. He is a donkey in Elephant's clothing. It has been discovered that Cox, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, sits on the board of "League of Conservation Voters" ("LCV") — which controls a network of at least five PACs, all registered as liberal and attached to a broader national network of far left Super PACs, including the "Beat Trump Climate Unity Fund." The mission of these PACs is twofold: support Democratic and far-left politicians, such as "Squad" members Rashida Talib and Ayanna Pressley, and even Letitia James, Tom Suozzi, and Kirsten Gillibrand, who received thousands of dollars and were all endorsed by the Cox-backed PAC. Indiana Republicans Move To Let Democrats Kick Any Republican AG Off The Ballot. An amendment to an Indiana bill would allow an unelected, Democrat-stacked committee that works in secret to control whom Hoosiers are allowed to vote for as state attorney general. The amendment would bar from appearing on Hoosier ballots any candidate for attorney general who, within one year of the election, has been disbarred or suspended from his law license without an automatic reinstatement. Law license challenges have since 2020 become a political tool for Democrats to deny their political opponents legal representation. Multiple Democrat pressure groups such as The 65 Project and Lawyers Defending Democracy now exist specifically to harass, intimidate, and force potentially tens of thousands of dollars of representation costs on their political opponents for constitutionally protected free speech. This means any Republican attorney general is at high risk of an ethics complaint unless he represents no challenge to Democrat priorities. 20 Wyoming Republicans help spike "What Is A Woman?" bill. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats? Wyoming, yeah, the state that elected Dick and then Liz Cheney as their "Republican" representatives in Congress, seems to have a similar problem at the state level. [Tweet] 20 Republicans shot down a bill that legally defined gender to be the same as biological sex, a bill crafted in direct response to the insane trans sorority story we've covered on our site multiple times. The court wouldn't define a woman, so the legislature tried to. But Republicans could not pass the "What is a Woman Act." These 22 RINO Republicans Just Voted to Waste $95 Billion in "Aid" to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and Gaza (Hamas). Once again, Republicans betrayed American by giving over $95 billion in foreign "aid" to Ukraine (mostly), Israel, Taiwan and the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Thanks a lot worthless RINOs... If Mike Johnson allows this to come the floor in the House, he needs to vacate the chair. Anyway, these are the 22 worthless RINOs who prioritize Ukraine over America. [List of names.] DC Uniparty Spends Another $95 Billion to Protect Ukraine and Israel Borders; USA, Not So Much. Republican senators Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cramer, Crapo, Hoeven, Ernst, Grassley, Kennedy, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Romney, Rounds, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, Young, and Cornyn all voted to send $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to protect their borders while leaving our borders unprotected. This is the UniParty in all its glory: [List of names] Most people just don't realize the nature of the opposition we face. The elected representatives simply don't care what our opinion is, they will do whatever serves their interests [regardless of] the voters. 'Straight-up treason': McConnell among 22 Republicans torched for helping Dems pass $95B foreign aid. Nearly two dozen Senate Republicans thumbed their noses at colleges and constituents by joining with Democrats to pass a massive $95 billion foreign aid bill. Adding insult to injury, a final vote of 70-29 with 22 Republicans in favor pushed through the bill that pours American taxpayer money into aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan while doing nothing to secure the U.S. border. With more than half of Senate Republicans voting against it during the overnight session, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was clear he placed no value on their arguments. He led the minority of 22 GOP lawmakers to hold hands with Democrats and get the bill passed[,] even delivering a drama-filled speech in defense of the measure from the floor. Senator J.D. Vance Explains How Senate RINOs Pulled a Fast One to Take Down President Trump!. On Monday morning, Trump-supporting Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) posted a shocking report at The American Conservative and on X about the Senate RINOs' plot to take out Trump and destroy the MAGA movement. According to Senator Vance, the Senate funding package that was passed on Super Bowl Sunday thanks to 18 RINO Senators, included language that makes it impossible for President Trump to terminate the Ukraine War funding into his second term. Once again — Here are the 18 Senate RINOs who voted on this Ukraine funding package that is designed to destroy Trump and the MAGA movement. [List of names] The legislation passed cloture in a rare Super Bowl Sunday vote. What's to Blame for GOP Fundraising Woes. For those confused by the odd paradox of the Democrats out-raising the GOP by a 3:1 margin despite historic unpopularity at the top of their ticket, consider this anecdote from October 2017. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) resigned from his congressional seat after it was revealed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair. The scandal was compounded by the fact that Rep. Murphy, a staunch defender of the pro-life movement, reportedly encouraged his mistress to get an abortion when they thought she might be pregnant. The real gut-punch of the scandal was the text that Rep. Murphy sent disavowing pro-life messages released from his own campaign. Upon his mistress calling out his hypocrisy in suggesting an abortion despite his anti-abortion advocacy at events such as March for Life, he responded: "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will." Hypocrites, at the very least, know that what they are doing is wrong. Romney and Pro-Migration Senators Try to Revive McConnell's Border Giveaway. Pro-migration Republican senators are trying to revive the border giveaway plan amid GOP splits, establishment finger-pointing, and growing public opposition. The establishment backlash on Thursday morning came after the Wednesday admission by Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell that GOP voters and swing voters are increasingly alarmed by President Joe Biden's ruthless pro-migration economic policy. A RINO in Nebraska Starts Sweating. [Scroll down] While the conservative base bravely mans the wall, these Republicans in Name Only (RINO) make sure the back door remains open to the enemy, ensuring there will never be a time without impending disaster, which, of course, only they can prevent. This is what Don Bacon calls leadership: breaking the hearts of his voting base with his shameless flirtations and seedy dalliances with those who would as soon see everyone to the right of Chairman Mao imprisoned than permitted to speak. The lesson Bacon has yet to learn is that those on the left would vote for a greasy fast food bag before they would cast a vote for a Republican, even one as dithering and feckless as he is. MTG: Brian Kemp Opposes Criminally Investigating Fani Willis for Corruption. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp (GA) opposes launching a criminal probe into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, instead preferring an oversight committee investigation that would slow-walk accountability, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exclusively told Breitbart News. Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr are seeking to use the state's oversight committee to investigate Willis for her alleged improper relationship with a top prosecutor in their case against former President Donald Trump, according to Greene. The committee operates like a disciplinary commission with the power to remove county prosecutors from public office. As with all committees, they move very slowly and often are highly political. The committee would not be ready for months to launch a probe, Greene said. Meanwhile, Greene added, Willis's prosecution is drying up Trump and fellow co-defendants' resources. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Has Lost His Mind on Transitioning Children. On Friday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who claims to be a Republican, signed an executive order banning transgender surgeries for children under the age of 18 at any Ohio hospital or ambulatory facility. That's good, right? Wrong. The order comes a week after the governor vetoed sub-HB 68, a bill that not only would have banned transgender surgeries on children, but also would have outlawed chemical castration, puberty blockers, and men participating in women's sports. It also included a provision that would allow recourse for women harmed by men participating in their sports. When he vetoed the SAFE Act, DeWine parroted left-wing trans activists, claiming, without evidence, "Ultimately, I believe this is about protecting human life. Many parents have told me that their child would not have survived, would be dead today. They would have taken their life when they were teenagers." Apparently, he isn't worried about suicide when it comes to banning mutilating irreversible surgeries for mentally ill children. The blowback from Ohio leaders and citizens was enormous. 15 GOP Senators Warn Against Secret Border Deal With Democrats. Nearly one-third of Senate Republicans are asking their leaders not to finalize a border agreement with President Joe Biden and other Democrats without allowing members to review it. The 15 GOP members sent a letter dated Sunday to Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., to ask for a meeting of all Senate Republicans no sooner than Jan. 8, when the House reconvenes. "Rushed and secret negotiations with Democrats who want an open border and who caused the current crisis will not secure the border," the GOP senators' letter to Barrasso says. A spokeswoman for Barrasso told The Daily Signal on Monday: "Chairman Barrasso received a request from 15 colleagues for a conference meeting on immigration. He will work with all Republican senators to schedule the meeting." Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., was named as the GOP point man to negotiate a border agreement with Senate Democrats. This would be part of a larger deal to fund border security within a national security spending bill to provide U.S. financial aid both to Ukraine's defense against Russia and Israel's war with Hamas. Hydrogen Bomb. [Scroll down] Hydrogen is typically made by reforming natural gas or by using an electrolyzer to split water, not by "a process called carbon capture utilization and storage." When people refer to "natural gas and coal emissions," they almost universally understand this to mean carbon dioxide (CO2). There is no "H" in CO2, of course, which makes [Republican Congresswoman Carol] Miller's prose indistinguishable from alchemy. After having read the entire opinion piece a half-dozen times, our best guess is that Miller must have been referring to the prospect of turning coal bed methane into hydrogen via steam reforming, burning the hydrogen thus produced as a fuel source, executing a water-gas shift reaction to convert the byproduct carbon monoxide into CO2, capturing the resulting CO2 emissions for storage, and having the federal government pay handsomely to have all this done. But honestly, who knows? Senate 'Gang of Six' Negotiates Republican Giveaway on Migration. Roughly 30 Republican senators are backing the House's H.R. 2 migration stabilization bill — but a gang of six senators, including three Republicans, are drafting a giveaway "compromise" bill. "H.R. 2 should be the focus," said a policy analyst who favors pro-American migration laws, adding: ["]There's no reason to preemptively surrender good border security legislation before we're forced to negotiate [with the House]. What the Senators who are supporting that [compromise] package are doing essentially is preemptively surrendering, preemptively giving away very important pieces of H.R. 2 before they're even being forced to do so.["] "They're negotiating with themselves" instead of with Democrats, he added. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and James Lankford (R-OK), are working with three Democrats to write a pretend compromise in the end-of-year budget battles over funding for Israel, Ukraine, and President Joe Biden's border security agency, he said, adding that their plan is "not going do anything of any substance." GOP Reps Vote With Dems To Kill Motion To Impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas. The U.S. House voted Monday to refer articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to committee. The resolution was introduced by Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday. The House did not end up voting on the legislation as eight Republicans voted with Democrats to refer the resolution to committee. The vote was 209-201. In the past 23 months since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2022 there have been at least 269 known or suspected terrorists that have been apprehended between ports of entry at the border and likely many more among the "got-aways." Marjorie Taylor Greene's Impeachment Motion Shot Down as Eight Republicans Vote With Democrats. The House of Representatives voted to refer a motion to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas back to committee on Monday night, basically killing the measure. Mayorkas has been a bugbear of Republicans over his department's handling of the southern border. The move to sanction Mayorkas was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), but was shelved by a vote of 209-201. Twenty-three members did not vote. The eight Republicans who voted to refer Greene's resolution back to the Homeland Security Committee were: Cliff Bentz; (OR); Ken Buck (CO); John Duarte (CA); Virginia Foxx (NC); Darrell Issa (CA); Tom McClintock (CA); Patrick McHenry (NC); Mike Turner (OH). These 70 Republicans Just Rewarded The FBI With New Headquarters Worth $375 Million. On the day that the DOJ announced arrests related to a brothel that focused on political clients, these 70 Republicans voted to give the FBI brand new headquarters. Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz moved to defund plans for the new office building with an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for 2024. House Democrats were unanimous in opposing the Gaetz proposal and were joined by 70 Republicans. Gaetz's proposal failed 273 to 145 in a Wednesday vote, the same day the Justice Department unveiled three arrests over a "sophisticated high-end brothel" ring operating in Virginia and Massachusetts. Despite decades of misconduct revealing an agency politicized beyond repair on behalf of Democrats dispatched to prosecute political opponents, House Republicans have given the FBI a multi-million-dollar new complex to interfere in foreseeable elections. Kay Granger, Republican Ringleader Against Jim Jordan's Speakership Bid, Won't Run for Reelection. Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), a top Republican ringleader who fought Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as he sought the Speaker's gavel, will not run for reelection, according to reports. Granger, 80, had begun taking heat in her Fort Worth district for opposing Jordan and faced a primary challenge. She voted against the Republican nominee Jordan on the first ballot and continued to oppose him until Jordan was stripped of his nomination by a Republican conference secret ballot. [...] "I think she's tired," a source told the Fort Worth Report, which broke the news, citing "five well-placed sources." House rejects Tlaib censure resolution after Republicans defect. The House voted down a measure seeking to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), dealing a blow to conservative Republicans who sought to punish the Michigan Democrat over accusations of antisemitic behavior related to comments she made about Israel last month. Lawmakers voted 222-186 to table the motion, overcoming the simple majority vote needed to kill the vote on the House floor. The measure failed after 23 Republicans joined all Democrats in tabling the motion, pushing it past the 217-vote threshold. Republicans who voted to table the motion include Reps. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Ken Buck (R-CO), John Duarte (D-CA), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rich McCormick (R-GA), Max Miller (R-OH), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), John Moolenaar (R-MI), Chip Roy (R-TX), Austin Scott (R-GA), Victoria Spartz (R-IN), Mike Turner (R-OH), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), and Tim Walberg (R-MI). Good Riddance! Colorado RINO Ken Buck Not Running for Re-Election. Ken Buck, one of the super RINOs who voted against Jim Jordan for Speaker will not seek re-election in 2024 (because he knows his deep red Colorado district would throw him out in the primary). Good riddance [...]. The funny thing about Buck is that establishment Republican didn't want Buck to run for Senate in 2014, claiming he was too "extreme", instead they had Cory Gardner who lost re-election in 2020. Buck's district is deeper red than Boebert's district. [Tweet] The Republican Caucus in Chaos? Hardly.. When the current Congress convened in January of 2023, Kevin McCarthy was the man the Uniparty put forward for speaker of the House. [...] How about rejecting omnibus spending bills in favor of presenting individual appropriations bills to the House? Never happened. McCarthy also balked at allowing an official impeachment inquiry into President Biden, despite compelling evidence of Biden's corruption coming to light. He agreed only after being threatened with removal. Finally, the Freedom Caucus had enough and voted McCarthy out. The ensuing struggle over the speakership wasn't caused by a personality clash between McCarthy and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). It wasn't caused by politicians with outsized egos making ill considered decisions "without a backup plan." This was all brought about by the Uniparty working behind the scenes to bring the House back under its tight control. Don't forget: McCarthy was originally a Uniparty pick. Over time, the Uniparty managed to pull McCarthy mostly back onto the reservation, and that's the reason he ended up being voted out. Tom Emmer withdraws bid for House speaker hours after winning nomination, leaving new cycle of chaos. Republican Rep. Tom Emmer abruptly abandoned his bid to become House speaker Tuesday, withdrawing within hours of winning the internal party nomination after Donald Trump objected and hardliners refused to support him for the gavel. Emmer becomes the third House Republican to fall short in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy's ouster as GOP factions jockey for power. Refusing to unify, far-right members won't accept a more traditional speaker and more moderate members don't want a hardliner. Ha! Rep Tom Emmer Called President Trump Yesterday for a House Speaker Endorsement. As noted by Politico in 2021, when asked about Donald Trump getting involved in midterm primaries, head of the National Republic Congressional Committee Tom Emmer told reporter Jacob Rubaskin, "He's a private citizen, and he's entitled to his own opinion." "I would tell him that it's probably better for us that we keep these people and we make sure that we have a majority that can be sustained going forward." Emmer followed later in March saying Trump getting involved in the GOP congressional primaries was "not gonna be helpful." Fast forward to 2023, Emmer is now the House Republican Whip and wants to be Speaker of the House. Apparently, Emmer called President Trump this weekend seeking an endorsement. [Video clip] Trump: Voting for 'Globalist RINO' Tom Emmer for Speaker Would Be 'Tragic Mistake'. [Scroll down] Breitbart News noted that Emmer received more opposition for his House Republican Conference vote than Jordan received at the height of the establishment Republican opposition to the Ohio congressman's floor vote for Speaker. "Tom Emmer had a less than stellar performance against backbench members. That was a weak showing and embarrassing. His team said it would take 2 ballots to secure the nomination; it ended up taking 5," one House GOP source said. "He has compounding problems with social conservatives for his support for the transgender agenda and MAGA members for his opposition to President Trump. I would expect strong opposition to tank him on the House floor." "Tom Emmer should hold a national popular vote for the Speakership," another House GOP aide said. Republicans Move to Elect Ex-George Soros Spox as House Speaker. After pushing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) out of the race, Republicans are now moving to elect former George Soros spokesman Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) as speaker of the House. Emmer currently serves as the House Majority Whip. He has already been endorsed for the top job by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The preparations to usher in Emmer come after GOP members secretly voted to remove Jordan as a candidate for speaker on Friday. "He is the right person for the job," McCarthy said. 20 House Republicans Blocked Jim Jordan on First Ballot — Here's Who They Are. Keep this list handy. These are the twenty Republicans who are stealth Democrats and voted against Jim Jordan. Yes, there are some surprises, including John James of Michigan. [List] Accept things as they are, not as we would pretend them to be. These House Republicans Voted To Fund CISA's Criminal Censorship And Election Interference. On Wednesday night, 109 Republicans voted against an amendment proposed by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) that would strip the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of 25 percent of its funding. CISA, a subsidiary of the Department of Homeland Security, has made a habit of censoring the American public and interfering in our elections by policing speech. According to federal lawmakers, CISA is the "nerve center" of federal government censorship. CISA's intended purpose is to prevent cyberattacks and defend the physical infrastructure of the country. Beginning in the run-up to the 2020 election, however, the agency pivoted its focus from foreign threats to domestic spreaders of so-called mis- and disinformation (code words for information deemed inconvenient to the state). GOP-Controlled House Approves Security Assistance to Ukraine. The United States House of Representatives has approved an additional $300 million aid for Ukraine. The decision came late Thursday night with a 311-117 vote. The aid for Ukraine was initially part of a larger Pentagon funding bill for the fiscal year 2024. House GOP leaders, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), had initially planned to hold a separate vote on the Ukraine aid. The decision to separate the aid came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and a group of conservative Republicans sank a procedural vote to advance the Pentagon funding bill, The Hill reported. Speaker McCarthy later backtracked on his decision to separate the Ukraine aid from the defense bill. He cited complications arising from the fact that a State Department appropriations measure also included assistance for Ukraine. McCarthy stated that it would be "too difficult" to remove the Ukraine aid from the State Department legislation and decided to leave both as they were. Good Riddance to the Bush Regime. Reagan was a principled conservative, an excellent communicator, and a generation leader. His two terms were highly successful, and he left office with high approval ratings and eight years of impressive accomplishments. He was so popular that his bland and uninspiring Vice President was elected in 1988 as a third Reagan term. Yet, Bush was nothing like Ronald Reagan. He believed in a "new world order," military adventurism, and raising taxes. Bush was also an elitist who cared little for average Americans. His indifference was on perfect display in the 1992 presidential debate when he was caught looking at his watch, wondering when the "insufferable" questioning would end. It eventually ended with his defeat to Bill Clinton in the presidential election. As he retired, it was time for his eldest son, George W. Bush, to assume the family business and climb the political ladder. Bush was elected Governor of Texas in 1994 and then barely won the presidency in 2000. GOP Senators Cotton, Wicker, Collins, and Graham Urge Joe Biden to Send Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) have penned a letter to Joe Biden, urging him to send MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine. The senators argue that not doing so will "only prolong the war" between Ukraine and Russia. The senators' proposal is misguided and perilous for the United States and global stability. The senators' letter comes on the heels of the Senate Armed Services Committee's unanimous approval for the Department of Defense to send long-range missiles to Ukraine. The senators claim that the U.S. can provide these weapons "without any appreciable risk to its own combat capability." They further argue that Ukraine "only requires a small portion of our stockpiled ATACMS" and that the U.S. can easily replenish its inventory. Six Republicans File Lawsuit to Remove Trump from 2024 Ballot in Colorado. A coalition of six Republicans and unaffiliated Colorado voters, including former state and federal officials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state's 2024 presidential ballot. The plaintiffs are represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit and "nonpartisan" watchdog organization, alongside law firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC. The plaintiffs are Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola, Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian. The Veil of National Security. I can't get into minute detail here, but in Texas there's the "Prior Term Doctrine" which states that if the issues were known prior to someone's election, (in Paxton's case, they were) the candidate cannot be impeached for something that happened in the prior term. This is exactly what is happening to Ken Paxton in particular and Texans in general. The reason for the Prior Term Doctrine is to demonstrate that the voice of the people will not be ignored. This impeachment, investigated in secret, with testimony not held under oath, violates the rules of the House, jurisprudence and the Prior Term Doctrine all at the same time. There is no criminal charges here, only some unusual or questionable reactions to impropriety Paxton was investigating. This is a bigger issue than just for Texans, because it affects the border issues. If Ken Paxton is impeached and they get someone like George P. Bush into that office, forget any border enforcement that Texas might strive for going forward. In fact, Bush would likely sue Abbott for what little he has done to enforce the border. Why do I bring up George P. Bush? Guess who Paxton beat in the last election for Attorney General. Yep, George P. Bush. This is a way for the establishment to win the election they just lost. McCarthy's Time as Speaker May Be Coming to an End: Report. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is facing stiff opposition to the latest spending bill and might have to risk his speakership by compromising with Democrats to get it passed, according to reports. The California Republican had a rocky road to confirmation as speaker when he suffered 14 failed votes before finally winning a majority of his caucus to take the speaker's gavel in January. McCarthy also has faced many calls to step down during his short time heading the lower chamber of Congress. But the fight over the coming vote on the budget bill is shaping up as a particularly perilous time for the speaker, according to CNN. The Neocons Are Back. If the obvious impacts of America's proxy war in Ukraine are lives lost and debt accrued, a quieter impact is the neoconservatives' revival. A few weeks ago, the Biden administration conferred the deputy secretary of state position on Victoria Nuland, a policymaker in almost every 21st-century American intervention abroad and an ardent supporter of our involvement in Ukraine. Recently, William Kristol, who along with Nuland's husband Robert Kagan co-founded the Project for the New American Century, which drove the push for the Iraq invasion, launched a $2-million organization, Republicans for Ukraine, encouraging congressional Republicans to fund the proxy war despite a majority of the public turning against it. Even if history truly does come as tragedy and repeat as farce, the neoconservatives' re-emergence is extraordinary, because Iraq isn't the only tragedy, or farce, on their sixty-year record. Kevin McCarthy Appears to Take the Out on Impeaching Joe Biden. Opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy becoming House Majority Leader was palpable on the right at the beginning of 2023. During a drawn-out fight, Rep. Chip Roy and other conservatives held up his promotion to secure a new rules package and guarantees surrounding investigations. Eventually, McCarthy secured the votes after making several concessions, and at that point, it was fair to wipe the slate clean. He deserved a chance to prove himself, and for the most part, he's been a fairly good leader who has kept his promises regarding investigations into the weaponization of government and the Biden family's corruption. I suppose it was just a matter of time before he gave cause for disappointment, though. According to a new report, McCarthy has now put up a big roadblock to impeaching Joe Biden. Namely, he wants to hold a vote before even beginning an impeachment inquiry. Gov. Brian Kemp Stands by Fani Willis, Dismisses Calls to Impeach Fulton County DA. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) stood by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and dismissed Republican calls to impeach Willis over her 41-count indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 others. Kemp dismissed calls to impeach Willis as "political theater" during a press conference on Thursday. After President Trump's 4th Arrest, the RINOs Said Nothing to Defend Him. This worthless group of clueless RINOs said NOTHING when President Trump was indicted and arrested on bogus criminal charges the past six months. On Thursday night President Trump was arrested on 13 more bogus charges. President Trump's only crime was speaking out against the stolen 2020 election. And now the Marxists have arrested the most popular sitting president in history with 91 felony charges. If the leftist courts convict President Trump for unapproved speech, he could face over 400 years in prison. Neocons and the 'Freedom Conservatism' Movement. Last week David Azerrad posted on American Mind a detailed critique of the 'statement of principles" issued by Freedom Conservatism, a movement that came into existence this summer. David recognized in his subjects the remnants of a desiccated Reaganism, from whence arose the Never Trump persuasion. Almost all signatories to the document have been outspoken opponents of the former president and profoundly upset by the rise of the populist Right. Most of their rhetoric has an unmistakably shop-worn appearance. "Fiscal sustainability," "American exceptionalness," "the shining city on a hill," "a nation of immigrants," and "immigration is a driver of prosperity" are among the document's less than inspiring tropes. [...] What we are offered are warmed-over neoconservative positions, plus the promise of returning us to some Reaganite golden age, presumably with due recognition of LGBT and other socially leftist victories that have been achieved since the 1980s. Not at all surprisingly, Jeb Bush, Karl Rove, and Bill Kristol's surrogate and son-in-law, Matthew Continetti, are featured prominently among the statement's endorsers. Equally present are the signatures of such reliable neocons as Mona Charen, George Will, Charlie Sykes, and Noah Rothman. Arizona RINOs Vote Against Hand Counting Ballots, Say Election Integrity Too Expensive. "Republican" officials in Mohave County, Arizona have voted down proposals to strengthen election integrity by hand-counting ballots in 2024. They claim that secure elections would be an unaffordable indulgence. The Board of Supervisors for the county — comprised entirely of so-called Republicans — decided not to swap dubious machine counting for a traditional hand count by three to two, with one of those who voted against the proposal, Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter, saying that "the first thing that we have to do in Mohave County in good conscious [sic] is to balance the budget." Ron DeSantis Effectively Ends His Race for President — Says "Theories" by Donald Trump about 2020 Election Being Stolen Were "Unsubstantiated". According to a FOX News poll in December 2021, 78% of Republicans believed the 2020 election was stolen. At least 70% of Republican voters still believe Joe Biden's win was illegitimate, according to a recent poll this week by far-left CNN. In January 2022, only 17% of Republicans and right-leaning independent voters said they would vote for a candidate that believes Joe Biden won the 2020 election. On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the theories by President Trump about the 2020 election being stolen were "unsubstantiated." Ingraham Names and Shames Republican Live On Air For Voting With Democrats. Fox News host Laura Ingraham went rogue on her show and called out a prominent House Republican for coming on Fox News to talk tough, yet he continues to vote with Democrats. During a segment on "The Ingraham Angle," Ingraham put Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner on blast for voting with Democrats to shoot down two amendments that would have defunded DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) initiatives that are included in the budget for the U.S. Department of Defense. The House Armed Services Committee blocked both measures in votes of 30 to 29. Turner and Nebraska Republican Don Bacon were the only two Republicans to join Democrats in voting against the measures. Veto Rampage in Texas Discredits Anti-Trumpers. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed more than 75 bills before Sunday night's deadline, mostly sponsored by conservative Texas state senators. Never before in the 178-year history of Texas has its governor vetoed so many bills passed by his own party. Texas Republicans would override most of these vetoes if they could, but the legislature was required by the state constitution to adjourn in May until 2025. Tens of thousands of hours of work that went into all these bills were washed away by Abbott's retaliatory strike against conservatives. One of the bills that Gov. Abbott vetoed was SB 335, authored by conservative state Sen. Dr. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown). It passed the state senate by a unanimous vote of 31-0, and passed the state house by an overwhelming 119 to 19. This bill sought to require the Texas Family and Protective Services Council, which makes recommendations to the notorious Department of Family and Protective Services, to post online videos of its meetings so that the public can see what they are doing at taxpayer expense. Yet Abbott vetoed this with a petulant message about an unrelated issue. Twenty Republicans Save Adam Schiff from Censure. Fox News reports that twenty Republicans in the House of Representatives sided with most Democrats in voting against a resolution that would have censured Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), for repeatedly peddling the hoax that former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. The reprehensible Schiff was one of the foremost proponents of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. He repeated the falsehood in every forum possible. With every appearance, the lies became more ridiculous. He even claimed that Trump was an asset to the Kremlin. This wasn't a mistake on Schiff's part. Schiff knew these were fabrications but he said it anyway. His actions were purposeful and malicious. The Democrats had assigned him the task of running their biggest disinformation campaign and he did it without caring about the effects it would have on the nation. Such was his desperation that Schiff fell prey to a prank by Russian radio hosts who told him that they were in possession of compromising images of President Trump. Resolution to Censure Adam Schiff Fails Because Republicans Can't Do Anything Right. Are you ready for another round of failure theater? A resolution put forth by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to censure Adam Schiff failed on Wednesday after 20 Republicans joined with Democrats to kill it. The names of those who defected are listed below along with another oddity, which was Rep. George Santos voting present despite putting out a video earlier in the day urging members to vote in favor of the measure. Four other Republicans did not vote or were not present to vote. 20 Republicans Join With Democrats To Kill Schiff Censure. Twenty House Republicans joined with Democrats to table a resolution that would have censured and fined Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff. The resolution, introduced by Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, asserts that Schiff "purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people" during the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. It would have fined him $16 million, half the special counsel investigation's cost. Republicans Are Trying To Sneak A Carbon Tax Through The Back Door. Fresh from the looming trainwreck that is the deal to increase the debt limit, four Republican senators recently signed onto legislation that would require the Biden administration to study the feasibility of ... a national tax on energy that would be collected at the gas pump and in electricity and heating bills. The four Republicans — Senator Cramer (R-ND), Senator Cassidy (R-LA), Senator Graham (R-SC), and Senator Murkowski (R-AK) — joined five Democrats in asking Team Biden to determine the amount of energy used — and carbon dioxide emitted — by various countries in the production of essentially everything that makes modern life possible (aluminum, iron, steel, plastic, crude oil, batteries, etc.). Eventually, the information would be used to impose tariffs on those countries who — in the view of the Biden crew — emitted too much carbon dioxide while creating those products. Most House Democrats, Eight Republicans Help Biden Shield China's Solar Industry from U.S. Tariffs. Nearly all House Democrats, along with eight House Republicans, helped tank an effort to override President Joe Biden's veto of a bipartisan plan that would have restored United States tariffs on China-made solar panels. In June 2022, Biden announced a 24-month tariff moratorium on solar panel imports from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Commerce Department officials suspect that the solar panels are actually made in China but have been routed through the four southeast Asian nations to avoid U.S. tariffs on China-made solar panels. The suspension of tariffs came even as Biden's Commerce Department found that BYD Hong Kong rerouted its production through Cambodia, Canadian Solar and Trina through Thailand, and Vina Solar through Vietnam for the sole purpose of avoiding the tariffs. This week, after Biden vetoed a House and Senate-approved plan to reinstate the tariffs on solar panel imports, 197 House Democrats and eight House Republicans voted to help the administration stave off the tariffs. Why I'm Not a Republican. When placating their base is in their political interest they placate them for a time, thereby giving the impression that they actually have some principles. However, when they decide that betraying their voters is in their political interest, they simply betray them. For example, following the mass school shooting in Uvalde Texas by a crazed gunman, 13 Republican senators and one Republican House member committed to a "bipartisan" piece of gun control legislation. This includes many of the usual suspects, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and House member, Todd Young (R-Ind.). Their "reasoning", so to speak, is that since the back door on the school was unlocked and since the Uvalde police failed miserably to protect the children, it is necessary to take some constitutional rights away from Americans who have done nothing wrong. Brilliant! Another important part of their "reasoning" is "Do-Somethingism." That is, instead of trying to figure out what might actually solve the problem of gun violence, which is unpopular because that requires genuine thinking and courage, neither of which is ever in oversupply in D.C., one hears the plaintive refrain: "We have to do something." 8
House Republicans vote in favor of the Chinese Communist Party. Just yesterday
Breitbart News reported that eight House Republicans joined the Democrats to support Joe Biden's
suspension of United States tariffs on suspected Chinese-manufactured solar panels. Last
2022, Biden announced a 24-month suspension of tariffs on solar panel imports from Cambodia,
Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The suspension came despite Biden's Commerce Department
official's discovery that the solar panels in question were actually manufactured in China. [...]
It is important that the names of the eight House Republicans who backed Biden's attempted tariff
waivers be known and remembered. Five among these Republicans happen to be from New York;
the rest are from Utah, Kentucky, and Iowa
Nebraska Republican Kills Pro-Life Bill to Ban Abortions on Babies With Beating Hearts. Nebraska could have been the next state to protect babies from abortions if not for a recalcitrant Republicans who sold out unborn children. Republican Sen. Merv Riepe has cosponsored the measure to protect babies from abortion when their heartbeat can be detected, but today he abstained from voting on the measure. That allowed a Democrat filibuster of the bill to prevail — making it so thousands of babies will continue to be killed in abortions until the legislature can try again next year. Riepe filed an amendment to the bill to allow killing babies in abortions up to 12 weeks, which would have neutralized most of the pro-life protections. Four Republicans voted for unlimited spending. Whose Side Are They On? Republican Senators Help Dems Advance Biden's Judicial Nominees. Some Republican Senators are helping advance Joe Biden's agenda. Due to the absence of Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is on medical leave, the Senate Judiciary Committee is tied with ten Democrats and ten Republicans. This means that without Republican support, Democrats can't advance judicial nominees. On Thursday, The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced seven judicial nominees with the help of some Republican Senators. Republican senators Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, and Mike Lee are among those who voted for Democrat nominees. McCarthy Releases His Proposal to Raise US Debt Ceiling by $1.5 Trillion. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released his proposal to raise the US debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion. "Now that we've introduced a clear plan for a responsible debt limit increase, [Biden and Democrats] have no more excuse, and refuse to negotiate," McCarthy said on Wednesday. "House Republicans have a plan. The Senate does not. And the President is ignoring the debt crisis," he added. Senate Republicans Bungle [an] Opportunity To Curb [the] Democrats' Radical Abortion Agenda. Senate Republicans had a shot at successfully passing a vital resolution in the Democrat-controlled upper chamber that would protect Americans from funding abortions. Instead of allying with their own on an issue that has set the GOP apart from the left for decades, however, at least two of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's closest allies sided with Democrats' radical abortion agenda when they voted 51 to 48 not to proceed with the legislation. Most Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortions yet both Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska publicly committed along with to opposing the resolution that would stop the Biden administration's latest attempt to force abortion costs on U.S. constituents. Cowardly Republican Who Saved TN Insurrectionist Puts Out Incredibly Odd Statement. On Thursday, Republicans in the Tennessee legislature voted to remove two of the three insurrectionists who used a mob to aid their attempt to shut down the day's proceedings. Justin Johnson and Justin Pearson were both expelled from the body while Glorida Johnson survived. Immediately, Johnson illustrated why you never show Democrats mercy in a political situation like this. She ran to the press and asserted that the reason she was spared is that she is white and the two men who were expelled are black. It was the racialized talking point the left wanted, and a handful of Republicans were just dumb enough to hand it over willingly when all they had to do was drop the hammer on all of the so-called "Tennessee Three." One of those Republicans was a state representative named Jody Barrett, and he has released a statement "explaining" why he flipped his vote at the last minute. Ex-GOP Senator Offers Case Study In How The Swamp Works. Readers might remember ex-GOP Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri. His parting gift to the nation was to completely knee-cap the incoming Republican-controlled House as he voted to approve President Joe Biden's $1.7 trillion omnibus bill last December. Well, Blunt is back and is providing all Americans with a perfect case study of how The Swamp works. After not seeking re-election in 2022, he is now joining a lobbying firm connected to his former chief of staff and his own son. On Wednesday, Husch Blackwell Strategies announced that Blunt joined the team "where he will launch and lead our new Leadership Strategies Advisory Services." Never Trump RINOS Celebrate, Underplay DA Indictment. Never Trumpers and all-out RINOS either celebrated or dramatically underplayed former President Trump's indictment at the hands of Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday. [...] As the news poured out over social media, the Never Trumpers giddily welcomed the indictment, acting as if justice had been served despite the obvious political overtones. [Numerous tweets] Republican Senators grant Joe Biden a victory by confirming his controversial envoy to India. On Wednesday, former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti won confirmation in the Senate as US Envoy to India by a vote of 52-42. The confirmation took 20 long months. Garcetti is a close ally of Joe Biden and even co-chaired his 2020 presidential campaign, yet his appointment was held up following accusations that he ignored serious accusations of homosexual sexual harassment against his friend and adviser, Rick Jacobs when he was LA Mayor. [...] Garcetti's confirmation took so long that his nomination expired in January 2023, Biden immediately renominated Garcetti when he could have picked another more suitable individual on moral grounds. [...] Democrats such as Mark Kelly of Arizona, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii broke party discipline to vote against him. Surprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly, seven Republican Senators voted to confirm Garcetti's appointment. The names of these Senators are: [...] McCarthy still doesn't get it about Ashli Babbitt. Sadly, or rather, bizarrely, we are to infer from the Speaker's callous comment that it is the "job" of a Capitol Hill policeman to shoot to kill an unarmed American who is found protesting on Capitol Hill grounds. What makes the Speaker's despicable remark even more bizarre is that the House, on same day, passed House Resolution 9 called "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," sponsored by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, with the support of 109 Democrats, denouncing socialist dictatorships where persons daring to speak their political minds do so at the risk of being shot by police doing their jobs at the behest of socialist dictatorships. [...] Is it too much to ask House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan to put the Ashli Babbitt tragedy on the agenda of his Judiciary subcommittee that will hold hearings on the weaponization of government against the American people? It is deplorable that the new House Speaker cannot comprehend that the shooting of the unarmed 34-year old Ashli Babbitt was, quite literally, an expression of the "weaponization" of a thuggish governmental mindset that intends to transform our free Republic into an oppressive dictatorship. Kevin McCarthy Defends Cold-Blooded Killer Mike Byrd, Throws Ashli Babbit Under the Bus. Just when we were starting to really like Kevin McCarthy he defends the cold-blooded killer who shot Ashli Babbitt dead in the US Capitol. During questioning on Thursday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was asked if he thought Ashli Babbitt was murdered by Officer Mike Byrd? McCarthy answered the reported, "I think the officer was doing his job." Apparently, shooting a 100-pound female Trump supporter in the neck without warning is "doing his job." A handful of Republicans may save Ilhan Omar's committee seat. A handful of Republicans could save Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to fulfill his promise to eject her over what he described as antisemitic remarks. McCarthy is meeting with holdouts Monday in an effort to persuade them to vote for his resolution to give Omar the boot over her repeated comments against Israel that she has since apologized for. Last week, McCarthy unilaterally removed Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from the House Intelligence Committee, a select committee, citing national security concerns. However, the Foreign Affairs Committee is a standing committee, meaning a full House vote is needed for McCarthy's resolution to remove Omar. Electioneering and the Spirit of Democracy. The George Santos story is truly emblematic of our times. He arrived from Brazil full of ambition and running fast from creditors. A man of modest means and talents, he soon sought to increase his status and became involved with the Republican Party. He ran for Congress as a married, Catholic Republican a few years ago, but lost to an incumbent. Determined to win, he then reinvented himself as a gay, Jewish Republican and won the now-open seat. It turned out his opponent and the media were both asleep at the switch. His prior-claimed jobs at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, his college degree, his religion, and even his sexuality may have all been invented in order to win. In other words, he is a liar and fraud on a grand scale, a fabulist, and now his scandal is being used as a cudgel to pressure the Republicans to remove him from Congress. How About if We Hear from the People This Time? During the runup to the 2022 election, [Kevin] McCarthy released his 'Commitment to America' in an effort to position himself for speaker when the expected Republican majority was seated. It was greeted with derision, containing no firm promises or real policy ideas that Republican voters desperately want. I tried to link to the 'Commitment to America' so you could see it for yourself, but it's been removed from McCarthy's website and unavailable on the internet. Add to McCarthy's résumé that he is a known backstabber of true conservatives in his own party. McCarthy used money donated to the Republican Party to primary Trump-endorsed candidates who were vying for otherwise safe Republican seats during the election. He used your money to prevent the candidates you wanted from winning. How about McCarthy's conversation with Liz Cheney after January 6th, when he said he would advise Trump to resign, three weeks before his term was even over? Let's not forget that, when Kevin discovered that certain conservatives were being banned from social media, he wanted to add a few more names to the list. This is the guy the RINOs in the Uniparty and the frauds in the media wanted as speaker? As our elections have been increasingly stolen by the Uniparty over the last three election cycles, the almost fully disenfranchised voters used what they feared could be their last chance when they elected their current representatives. Why does the GOP elite hate its own base? What's becoming undeniable is that core members of the GOP hate their base. We first saw this trend emerge during the Tea Party era. [...] I suggest that this failure is because the GOP is no longer conservative in the sense of being pro-Constitution, pro-free market and, most important, pro-American. Instead, establishment Republicans are ideologically oriented to the same agenda that powers the Democrat party, a toxic soup of globalism, socialism, and nihilism, all of which emerge as anti-religious policies, obeisance to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" and "critical race theory," and a complete buy-in to the radical environmental theories. GOP Senator Formally Resigned on Sunday. Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska resigned Sunday as he prepares for his next position as president of the University of Florida, which he begins Feb. 6. [...] Sasse, who was one of seven Republicans to vote to convict former President Trump in his second impeachment trial, left the Senate two years into his second term. He is reportedly set to make an annual salary of $1 million as UF's president. RINO Sasse Resigns From Senate — But It May Be a DeSantis vs. Trump Plot. On Sunday [1/8/2023], Ben Sasse (R) of Nebraska formally resigned from the US Senate. Sasse voted for then-President Donald Trump's impeachment on February 13, 2021 for inciting the January 6 riots, charges which he was acquitted of. Sasse acknowledges his criticism of Trump will mark his tenure. The Senate seat will be filled by an appointment from new Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) and is widely anticipated to be his predecessor, former Governor Pete Ricketts (R) who was term-limited from re-election. Sasse accepted a job as the President of the University of Florida, which reportedly comes with a $1 million salary. In October, Sasse called UF the "most interesting university in America right now." Nancy Mace Declares She Is a Purple Republican Who Is "On The Fence Right Now" About Supporting House Rule Changes. The true enemy of a constitutional republic are the Mitch McConnell's and Nancy Mace's of the professional political class who build systems to undermine the will of the people under the pretense of representing them. These are the abusers, the professional abusers, the psychologically Machiavellian and inherently evil people within the system of power who operate on false pretense. They are smiley-faced fascists and liars, period. Adam Kinzinger Hired as CNN Senior Political Commentator. In the most predictable breaking news possible, on Wednesday evening, CNN host Erin Burnett announced on her eponymous program Erin Burnett OutFront that former anti-Trump Republican and Pelosi-picked January 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger had been hired as a "senior political commentator" on the network. This, of course, makes perfect sense because other than our friends Scott Jennings and Stephen Gutowski, Adam Kinzinger is the type of "Republican" voice thar gets a lot of airtime on CNN. The thundering herd of impunity. There aren't enough adjectives in the whole English language that can adequately describe the chutzpah of the majority of the 535 members of our two deliberative legislative bodies when it comes to their collective flight from responsibility. The most recent example is the defection of eighteen Republican senators who voted for a $1.7 trillion omnibus budget bill that contains more pork than all of the Jimmy Dean sausages ever made. What were these people thinking? I'll tell you what they were thinking: they wanted to go home and trim their Christmas trees after hanging all their taxpayer-funded goodies on the federal tree, that's what. I'm sure the Republicans who sided with the Senate Democrats thought that nobody was paying attention as they proceeded to do a 180 on all their rhetoric about 'holding the Biden administration accountable.' Or maybe they thought they could come back later in the new year and challenge the very same appropriations that they, themselves, voted for. A Plan for Rescuing America. [Scroll down] Where should we focus right now? Our first action is to get the right leader in the House of Representatives. Kevin McCarthy is a RINO in sheep's clothing tainted by contributions from FTX. He's suddenly become a staunch Conservative making all sorts of promises, but he hates Trump and worked overtime to undercut MAGA candidates, even when it meant the "Red Wave" became a red trickle. If he is elected Speaker he'll pretend to be Conservative, but there will always be excuses why he can't fix anything. Weak RINO Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Dismantles Makeshift Border Wall at Behest of Biden Regime. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, the weak RINO who was a great personal friend of deceased former U.S. senator John McCain, is tearing down his border wall to serve the Biden administration. The makeshift border wall was made of shipping containers that were lined with barb wire. Arizona will bring them all down by Jan. 4, making it easier for illegals to invade the border, after the Biden regime objected. The U.S Interior and Agriculture departments made a filing arguing that "a declaration that Arizona's use and occupancy of lands owned by the United States without the required permits or other authorization constitutes unlawful trespasses." They stated that "hundreds of double-stacked, multi-ton shipping containers... damage federal lands, threaten public safety, and impede the ability of federal agencies and officials, including law enforcement personnel, to perform their official duties." In typical cowardly RINO fashion, Ducey is painting the capitulation as a win, arguing that the Biden regime will take care of the border problem now. House Passes $1.7 Trillion Omnibus with 9 Republican Votes. The House passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill Friday by a vote of 225-201-1. Nine Republicans voted for the bill, which was released just days earlier. The 4,155-page bill will now be signed into law by President Joe Biden before Friday night's deadline for a government shutdown. "This bill is further proof that Republicans and Democrats can come together to deliver for the American people, and I'm looking forward to continued bipartisan progress in the year ahead," Biden said about its passage. Many of the GOP "yes" votes came from outgoing members who lost their reelection bids in the 2022 cycle or are retiring. Nine
Republican 'traitors' vote with Dems to avoid government shutdown. On Wednesday, a bill was passed to
continue to fund the government through December 23 as America once again faces a shutdown. The House of
Representatives passed the funding 224-201, with nine members of the GOP crossing the aisle to vote with the majority of
Democrats. Who are the Republicans that defied the will of their party?
Thom Tillis Will Destroy the GOP. It really is that simple. If you want to wreck our party, do the one thing we absolutely told the party not to do. Give amnesty. The Republican Party is coming off five national losses in a row — and if you think that the dismal results in the 2022 general constitute a victory in light of the historical trends and loathsome opponents we faced, I cannot help you. Right now, the base is disgusted and demoralized. It looks out across the smoldering ruins of what used to be a great nation, and it might be forgiven for thinking that the GOP is irreparably broken. These 7 Trump-Critical GOP Senators Have No Plan To Deal With Unconstitutional, Election-Altering Censorship. Seven Republican U.S. senators who slammed former President Trump for suggesting that new censorship revelations warranted a reconsideration of the 2020 presidential election results have no plan to address the First Amendment-violating censorship Trump was reacting to in "The Twitter Files." More and more evidence is exposing how our corrupt FBI brazenly violated the Constitution by dictating to social media monopolies what speech to censor from public and private discourse ahead of the 2020 election. Yet GOP senators are more preoccupied with Trump talking about altering the Constitution than they are with the deep state committing actual violations of it. House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill with Support of 39 Republicans. The House of Representatives passed legislation with bipartisan support on Thursday that would codify same-sex marriage protections. Lawmakers voted to enact the bill 258 to 169, with 39 Republicans breaking with their party to join 219 Democrats on the motion. Last month, the bill cleared the Senate, with moderate Republican senators Susan Collins, Rob Portman, and Thom Tillis reaching across the aisle to provide the necessary GOP votes. The measure now goes to President Biden's desk for final approval. Many Republicans objected to the Respect for Marriage Act on the grounds that it lacked sufficient provisions prohibiting discrimination against religious institutions and individuals. An amendment adopted by the Senate is intended to ensure that nonprofit religious organizations won't be forced to help facilitate same-sex marriage, but conservatives in the upper chamber argue it doesn't go far enough in protecting dissenters. Treason Lobby Tries To Pass Amnesties In Lame Duck, With Help From Traitor Sen. Tom Tillis (Chamber Of Commerce-NC). Amnesty supporters in Congress desperately want to pass some type of reward for illegal aliens before the GOP takes over the House in January. They offer two proposals. One will legalize illegal farm workers; another will legalize illegals who came to the U.S. as minors (the so-called "DREAMers"). What makes these bills a threat is that some traitorous Republicans support them. Indeed, the new DREAMer Amnesty was crafted specifically to win that support. But these efforts to accelerate the Great Replacement might be the last chance the Treason Lobby and its backers in Congress have to achieve Amnesty for the next two years. Will GOP Commit Political Suicide With Bipartisan Amnesty Bill? One of the more frustrating aspects of being a conservative Republican is the constant need to look over one's shoulder for stealth attacks by moderate squish members of the GOP on important issues like health care, gun control, and amnesty for illegal immigrants. Such ideological shivs in the back always arrive under the execrable guise of bipartisanship. [...] I cannot begin to ponder what [Senator Thom] Tillis's rationale is for signing onto this. He should probably be put into the NFL concussion protocols because a Republican with all of his faculties fully functioning would know that this is a horrible idea. Mitt Romney, Susan Collins Dismiss the Idea of Impeaching DHS Chief Mayorkas. Impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the southern border does not appear to have the support of the some Republican senators. As border patrol has encountered more than 2.3 million illegal aliens at the border, with over 230,000 migrant encounters in October, establishment Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) appear averse to holding Mayorkas accountable for the southern border invasion. Report: Tillis, Sinema Plan Gives Amnesty to 2M DACA Illegal Aliens. A plan being negotiated by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) would give amnesty to about two million illegal aliens enrolled in and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a new report suggests. According to the Washington Post, Tillis and Sinema are negotiating a DACA amnesty plan that would provide green cards — and eventually naturalized American citizenship — to about two million illegal aliens. Senate Passes vote to make same-sex marriage federal law - with 11 Republicans cooperating. The United States Senate voted to enshrine the right to same-sex and interracial marriage into federal law on Tuesday [11/29/2022]. The Respect For Marriage Act passed on a 61-36 vote. Eleven Republicans voted with Democrats on the measure. It now heads back to the House of Representatives, where it's likely to pass the Democrat-controlled chamber swiftly enough to head to President Joe Biden's desk before the current Congressional term is over. It's Time For McCarthy and McConnell to Retire. Americans are ready to move on from the current Republican leadership, choosing to vote out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to a new Rasmussen Reports Poll, just 28 percent of likely voters have a favorable view of McConnell, while 61 percent say the GOP needs a new leader. Following his win, McConnell, who is the longest-serving GOP leader in Senate history, said that he doesn't plan to give up his position anytime soon. However, several Republicans feel that new, younger leadership is needed in Congress. "Nobody, not Republicans, not independents, not Democrats in my state are happy with the leadership in Washington. I'm not either. So I'm on their side, not on the side of these guys," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind) also insinuated that it's time for McConnell to hang up his robe. I don't think we're generating the results politically or governmentally... we don't have an agenda. We don't have a business plan. That doesn't work anywhere else," Braun said. The Editor says... There's an epic civil war raging within the Republican party. Currently, the MAGA and RINO factions are fighting it out within the Republican corporation. This is an existential battle for the RINOs, who currently control the party. They didn't care about the red wave in 2022 because they were focused on driving the MAGA wing out of the party. When they occasionally bow towards the MAGA crowd, "every move they make on an operational level is exactly in line with their previous outlook toward cocktail class republicanism. The MAGA base of support cannot trust this corporate group and we must not be blind or unguarded about the Machiavellian schemes they construct." Disgraced FTX Founder Donated To Six RINOs Who Voted To Impeach Trump. As most are well aware by now, the disgraced founder of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried was the Democrat party's second-largest donor just behind George Soros. As reported by The Gateway Pundit, in the 2020 presidential election, Bankman-Fried dished millions to the Biden campaign and followed it up by handing out over $40 million dollars to democrats in the 2022 primaries and midterms. Forbes reported last year that Bankman-Fried also donated to six RINOs who voted to impeach President Trump. These 12 Republicans Just Voted for Radical 'Respect for Marriage Act'. The United States Senate voted Wednesday to advance the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. HR 8404, which passed the House of Representatives in July, "provides statutory authority for same-sex and interracial marriages," repealing provisions that define marriage as between a man and a woman. The legislation also "repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin," allows "the Department of Justice to bring a civil action," and "establishes a private right of action for violations." Democratic advocates say the legislation promotes equality, but religious leaders strongly warned that it explicitly targets people of faith. Three Primary Factors Stopped That Red Wave. Trump's biggest accomplishment was exposing the Uniparty in D.C. Unfortunately, he was unable to break it up. There are limits to what one man can do when he must fight his "allies" almost as hard as his opponents. For the most part, Republican elites were embarrassed when Trump fought back against Democrat attacks and falsehoods. I can't count the number of times they criticized Trump for being "coarse" and "unpresidential." After working so hard against Trump, the GOP elites are reaping the consequences — less loyalty and enthusiasm from the base. McCarthy Says He Won't Impeach Biden, Administration Officials if GOP Regains House Majority. [Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy last Wednesday downplayed talk of impeaching Biden or officials of the disastrous administration if the GOP regains control. Just one problem. Republican lawmakers have introduced more than a dozen impeachment resolutions targeting Biden, Kamala Harris, and controversial Cabinet members, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. As reported by the Washington Post, McCarthy told Punchbowl News: "I think the country doesn't like impeachment used for political purposes at all," and, ["]You watch what the Democrats. They all came out and said they would impeach before Trump was ever sworn in. There wasn't a purpose for it. If you spent all that time arguing against using impeachment for political purposes, you gotta be able to sustain exactly what you said.["] Even worse, when he was asked if anyone in the Biden administration has risen to a level that would prompt him to consider impeachment proceedings, McCarthy said: "I don't see it before me right now." The Editor says... Kevin McCarthy is a purely political man and that's not what America needs. Kevin McCarthy seems like a nice man — but if Republicans win in November, should he be speaker of the House? I don't think so. He doesn't seem to understand the movement he is, at least ostensibly, leading. Donald Trump was an easy choice in the '16' and '20' primaries. The reason is simple. He is the real deal. What you see is what you get. You may not like who he is, but you do know who he is and if he makes a campaign promise, you can be certain he'll do his best to keep it. He is genuine. The same can't be said for Kevin McCarthy. He has the syrupy, sweet tone of a pure-bred politician. It smacks of duplicity and expediency. I don't believe he could change that if he tried. He uses phrases like "we will allow you" and "we will give you" in much the same way that leftist swamp creatures talk. He does not comprehend that it is we the people who will allow him. He comes across as an elitist who has the whole, uniquely American, servant and boss political arrangement completely backward. Why some polls show a dead heat for a generic ballot. Rasmussen's Mark Mitchell reports that last July, Republicans had a 13-point lead over Democrats on a generic ballot. Today, they don't. [...] Given the horrific devastation Biden-as-a-tool-of-the globalists has accomplished so far, it is shocking that the Republicans are not fifty points ahead in the polls. [...] Why aren't they? Because most of the Republicans in Congress are self-interested squishes who are far too comfortable in their D.C. swamp establishment that has made them all wealthy. As long as they behave and do what the lobbyists tell them to do; as long as they go along to get along with the odious Mitch McConnell and his acolytes — Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski, and every other RINO willing to sell his or her soul for their thirty pieces of silver to betray the American people at every turn. And despite the hard and diligent work of the few legitimate representatives, most elected members of the GOP are willing sell-outs. That is why the Republicans are not winning in the polls by fifty points. We do not and cannot trust them. They cave to the left day after day after day. Thune. One of the more challenging facets to awakening the general public on the scale of corruption within Washington DC is the need for people to drop party designations. This is never truer than within the U.S. Senate where the mistaken "us -vs- them" perspective remains a pesky hurdle. The blue team and red team are mirror images of themselves. They are not opposites, they are mirrored — a big difference. The policy objective is the same, the business model within DC (K Street) benefits the upper chamber the most. Within this dynamic Mitch McConnell is the mirror image of Harry Reid. Mitch has been grooming his replacement for a long time; that replacement is John Thune. Senator Thune is in a position that demands stealth. Ideologically, think of John Thune as the mirror image of Gavin Newsom. They are not opposites, they are mirrored — a big difference. Collins, Murkowski, [and] two Dems introduce bill that would reinstate Roe rules as federal law. I understand why Democrats would want to introduce this. And I understand why Murkowski would want to join them. I'm less clear on why Susan Collins would. Unless she really is royally pissed at Brett Kavanaugh for allegedly having misled her about Roe in their private conversations and now feels obliged to try to make amends to the left somehow. It's not gonna work, if that's the play. I have yet to see or hear a Democrat anywhere since Roe was overruled refer to Collins as anything other than a dupe or a liar for supporting Kavanaugh's confirmation. Senate GOP support for same-sex marriage bill could deny Democrats a wedge issue. Senate Republicans may yet sink House-passed legislation that would essentially codify federal same-sex marriage rights granted by the Supreme Court in 2015. But that was far from certain Wednesday as the Senate began informally considering the Respect for Marriage Act, which cleared the House 24 hours earlier with unanimous Democratic support and 47 out of 204 available Republican votes. There immediately appeared to be four GOP votes for the bill, while several other Senate Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, were noncommittal. In other words, it's quite possible the 10 Republican votes needed to break a filibuster and send the legislation to President Joe Biden's desk could materialize. The Sophisticated Deception of Massachusetts. Instead of the humiliating blunders that incompetents like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Eric Adams commit daily, Massachusetts mostly skates under the national radar. We even have a supposed "Republican" governor, Charlie Baker, actually the softest, squishiest RINO of all RINOs, but to the other 49, he's an "R," so the rest of the country assumes — incorrectly — that yeah, okay, Massachusetts is pretty liberal, but it's not that bad. Wrong. Republican John Thune Asks Biden for More Foreign Workers to Fill U.S. Jobs as Millions of Americans [are] Jobless. Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) is joining Democrats, as well as the big business lobby, in asking President Joe Biden for more legal immigration to the United States to fill American jobs. Even as the nation's foreign-born population has hit record highs, Thune says the Biden administration is not importing enough H-2B foreign visa workers to fill blue-collar seasonal jobs in the U.S. Biden Signs Most Expansive Gun Control Bill In Decades Into Law Following Republican Support. President Joe Biden signed a gun control bill into law Saturday that gives financial grants to states for "red-flag" laws and increases background check stipulations for 18 to 21-year-olds, following Republican support. The bill, dubbed the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," passed after making it through Congress earlier this week with 15 Republicans in the Senate supporting the bill and 14 House Republicans voting in favor. According to the White House, the law "enhances certain restrictions and penalties on firearms purchases; promotes evidence-based best practices for school safety; authorizes grants to expand access to mental health services; and appropriates emergency funding for mental health resources and school safety measures." 10 Republican 'Sell-Outs' Join with Democrats to Pass Gun Control Bill with 'Red Flag' Laws. Ten Republican Senators joined with the Democrat majority to broker a deal on a gun control package that includes funding for "red flag" laws that critics note violate due process rights and will certainly be used to target conservative voters. The deal has been reached and the vote is scheduled to take place later on Tuesday night. "Top Republican negotiator Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who got booed at the party convention in his home state over the weekend, said he, Murphy and the other two top Senate bargainers had reached agreement," Politico reported. "The group of negotiators — which included Murphy, Kyrsten Sinema, Ariz., on the Democratic side and Sens. Cornyn and Thom Tillis, N.C., on the Republican side, had hoped to have the text of the legislation out by Monday — but nothing came through," the report added. The RINOs are out in force on the 'framework' for new gun laws. It was news that sent shudders through every person who supports the Second Amendment: Ten Republican senators have signed on to a "framework" that will allegedly improve gun safety in America. You can guess who these RINOs are — it's the same bunch who will always agree to limit American rights to keep up with their friends on the Democrat side of the aisle. And while there are a couple of good ideas in the framework, the rest of it is either useless, harmful, and/or unconstitutional. Senators, Including 10 Republicans, Reach Agreement on Gun Control, Including Red Flag Laws to Take Guns from Law-Abiding Americans. A group of bipartisan senators on Sunday reached an agreement on principle for gun legislation which includes 'red flag' laws. 10 Republicans joined the Democrats and bowed to their demands. "The group on the release includes Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania." — CNN reported. The actual legislation has not been written yet. House Republican drops reelection bid after outcry over support for assault weapons ban. Rep. Chris Jacobs is dropping his reelection bid after coming under fire from fellow Republicans for backing a ban on assault weapons. The New York Republican said his newfound views on gun control would make a re-election bid difficult and divisive. "The last thing we need is an incredibly negative, half-truth-filled media attack, funded by millions of dollars in special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun violence and gun control," he said in announcing his withdrawal from the race. 'Republicans For Biden' Owe The Nation An Apology. In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Biden campaign was gleeful about the flood of prominent Republicans who'd crossed the aisle to support Joe's candidacy. These Never-Trumpers weren't just expressing their disdain for President Donald Trump, they were heartily, lovingly, making the case for Joe Biden. Back then, they were lauded as heroes by the establishment. Today, everyone knows the truth. These Biden-supporting Republicans were utterly, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong about the man they were touting for president. And we are all now paying an enormous and rapidly increasing price for their arrogant stupidity. Nothing better encapsulates the "Republicans for Biden" mindset than the statement issued by nearly 500 former national security officials in the fall of 2020 backing Biden. Democrats Are Attempting To Jam Through A New Patriot Act That Will Target American Conservatives. Democrats never let a good crisis go to waste. After the tragic shooting in Buffalo that left ten dead and three injured, they are renewing calls to pass a bill that will expand the FBI and Department of Homeland Security's powers to investigate domestic terrorism. Some Republicans were initially supportive of the bill, but after Democrats made a last-minute change to the definition of domestic terrorism that makes it extremely vague, most came out in opposition to it. RINO warmonger Adam Kinzinger (R-Il.) was the sole Republican to vote in favor of the bill in the House. 34 RINOs Voted Yes for Ukraine and No for Americans. On Thursday [5/19/2022] — just hours after approving another $40 billion in US taxpayer dollars for Ukraine — the US Senate blocked a bipartisan $48 billion aid package for restaurants, gyms, and other small businesses that have been struggling in Biden's post-lockdown economy. Presumably, they can't launder that money as easily as shuffling it off to Ukraine, so American business owners get the shaft yet again from its traitorous elected officials. Kathy Barnette Has Crossed a Line in Pennsylvania. I hate that I even have to write this article given my distaste for Dr. Mehmet Oz. It's my opinion that Kathy Barnette has crossed a line in Pennsylvania, and we need to talk about it. Barnette, who is running for the GOP Senate nomination in the state, has been locked in a fierce battle with Oz and Dave McCormick, the latter of whom has moved into third place in most polls. Now, she's letting it be known that she will not support any of the other Republicans if she loses the primary. Big Pharma Owned Republican Lies To Try To Defend Her Record Of Democrat Capitulating. Just yesterday The Gateway Pundit uncovered the twisted campaign finance trail of Christine Drazan, who's running for the Republican nomination for Governor in Oregon, and happens to be funded by many of the same deep pocketed special interest PACs that also fund the democrats, including big pharmaceutical corporations that rake in billions from public funding and push for vaccine mandates. Drazan, former Republican House leader, is also taking hits from her votes in support of a bill that put tampons in every student restroom in the state, including boys' restrooms. Because, you know, boys get periods, too, these days. Especially in Oregon. A Republican Who Might Make Me Vote for a Democrat. The New York Post published an opinion column on Easter Sunday highlighting a "fresh face of the Republican Party, promoting business innovation as well as embracing minority groups. Fans are buzzing that he could be a potential presidential candidate." This extravagantly praised celebrity, Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, is a favorite of "the young" and "one of the top Republican contenders to watch in 2024 and 2028, with rumors that he might join Nikki Haley's presidential ticket if she runs or even emerge as a presidential candidate himself," according to commentator Jacquelyn Powers Maurice. The major strength of Suarez, the son of a Cuban-born former mayor of Miami, seems to be his exuberant accommodation of both large corporations and the LGBT lobby. [...] He challenged Governor Ron DeSantis on masks and mandates, as Suarez believes citizens should not be allowed to decide such things for themselves. Freeing people from masking requirements is also not something that Suarez's corporate friends and sponsors would like done. Look Who's Thinking Of Running Against Trump In 2024 Republican Primary. Perhaps the most annoying characteristic of so many of the dreaded RINOs infecting the Republican Party is their self-righteousness. We see it ooze out of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) every time he comes within 50 yards of a television camera or microphone. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) can't wait to accept invitations to appear on MSNBC or CNN to tell everyone how principled and strong she is. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) loves to preach to us about her affection for the decorum and traditions of the Senate, and we usually hear about it right around the time she's getting ready to vote for a Democratic bill. But there is probably no one in American politics who is more sanctimonious, and no one more worthy of the label of RINO, than Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). The Republican Party will be USELESS until the RINOs are driven out. George W. Bush Meets with Illegal Aliens to Promote Amnesty, Snubbing Angel Families. Former President George W. Bush met with illegal aliens this week to promote his amnesty and legal immigration expansion agenda, snubbing Angel Families who have lost loved ones to illegal alien crime in the process. On Tuesday, Bush and former first lady Laura Bush met with illegal aliens Gerardo Casas, Rebeca Gurrola, and Dip Patel — all of whom are enrolled in former President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — as well as mass migration advocates from Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the American Nursery & Landscape Association. These 6 Republicans Voted Against Ousting Fauci. Six Republican senators voted against an amendment Tuesday that would eliminate the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) position, which is held by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Senators voted on Kentucky Republican Rand Paul's amendment to replace the NIAID with three separate national research institutes on Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C. Republican Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Jerry Moran of Kansas each voted against the amendment. Utah's Woke GOP Gov Betrays Female Athletes. The GOP brand is a joke in some states and I'm skeptical that any Democrat could be more hostile to family values and equality than Governor Spencer Cox, despite talking about family values, the bishop thing, and the usual political resume of anyone running for public office in Utah. [...] Now Cox is delivering wokeness while betraying female athletes by vowing to veto a bill that would prevent men from competing against women. "We care deeply about Utah's female athletes and our LGBTQ+ community. To those hurting tonight: It's going to be OK. We're going to help you get through this. Please reach out if you need help," Cox posted to Facebook. This is typical of Cox's touchy-feely wokeness. GOP establishment taps communist China-loving Iowa governor to give State of the Union rebuttal. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will be giving the official Republican response to installed President Joe Biden's State of the Union address. At a time when Americans are desperately looking outside of Washington, D.C. for political leadership that will put the citizens of this nation first, Reynolds and far too many of her fellow GOP governors instead seem to have another agenda in mind. First and foremost, that involves doing lucrative state business with communist China. Senate Republicans fail to block Democrat-led Vaccine Mandates. If you ask any vaccine skeptics about their objections to the vaccine mandate their answer usually is two-fold. First, they are concerned about the effectiveness and side effects of the vaccine. The authorities are frequently redefining the term 'fully-vaccinated' by adding boosters also alarms them. They are also troubled by government overreach. They realize that once freedoms and rights are encroached upon by the government, they are seldom fully relinquished completely. The Biden administration has successfully mandated vaccines for health care workers, military personnel, and non-citizen air travelers, while their attempts to mandate the vaccine for federal government contractors and employees and private sector employees have failed. There have been proposals to vaccinate children, including those under 5. State administrations have imposed restrictions on movement, access to public spaces, and public assembly. There have been instances of police arresting and fining individuals for merely attending a party or being part of religious gatherings. While other restrictions can be undone over a period of time, the citizen understands that the vaccine once injected into your body will cause permanent changes. Since the Democrats have been dogmatic about vaccine mandates, the people look towards the Republicans for support. Four Senate Republicans Fail to Show Up for Vote on Amendment Defunding Vaccine Mandates, Ensuring Failure. Four Senate Republicans failed to show up to vote on an amendment that would have defunded President Joe Biden's remaining vaccine mandates, thus ensuring its failure. The Senate voted on Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) amendment to the continuing resolution (CR), which would defund Biden's remaining vaccine mandates. The measure failed 46-47, with Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Burr (R-NC) failing to show up, depriving Senate Republicans a potential majority to pass the amendment to the CR. [...] The Supreme Court has blocked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccine mandate for large employers; however, the federal government can still enforce the other four mandates, which include the mandates on medical workers, military personnel, federal employees, and federal contractors. Yet Another RINO May Run for President in 2024. The 2024 Republican presidential primary may see RINO candidates running like Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and now potentially Gov. Larry Hogan, who is prevented from running for the governor in Maryland again by term limits. The comments came towards the end of his appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," when host Jake Tapper pointed out that Hogan announced this week that he would not run for the U.S. Senate. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, is up for re-election in November. House RINOs Push Amnesty for Illegals Plan. At a time when Biden's weakness and terrible policy choices have presented an open flank against which the GOP could attack and win major political victories, or at least score some big points before the midterms to help boost their reelection chances, what are the RINO members of the party doing? Are they temporarily growing a spine, if only so that they can trick voters into letting them keep their cushy Congressional jobs? Nope. Instead, the Congressional RINOs have spent time working on an "amnesty for illegals" plan that they're now pushing. Six Comments On The Canadian Truckers' Freedom Convoy. In [a] brief, and what appears to be unplanned and spur-of-the-moment, video, [Jordan] Peterson goes after the leaders of Canada's "conservative" opposition party leaders. Where are they? Why aren't they rallying around the truckers? Why aren't they seizing this populist movement and harnessing the frustrations and desires of regular Canadians who want only to live in a free society? Part of his appeal to the absent leadership includes some pretty common-sense language: [...] It begs the question: What is it about conservative government officials here and elsewhere? Are they not really conservative? Are they cowards? Do they place their own job security and social standing over the needs of the people they claim to represent? We have seen enough Liz Cheneys, Lindsey Grahams, and Aaron O'Tooles for one lifetime. [Video clip] Turncoat: George Bush Donates Big to Never-Trumpers Liz Cheney and Lisa Murkowski. George Bush spits on Trump voters and donates to Liz Cheney and Lisa Murkowski. He might as well join the Marxist left at this point. [...] W has a nephew running this year in Texas. Can't imagine how this helps George P. Bush in his race this year. A lot of Republican congress members are trying to foil MAGA candidates. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 Republican primary reflected the feelings of ordinary Americans that the political class — especially the Republican political class — had betrayed them. Whether these politicians were simply lukewarm conservatives or actual false-flag Democrats was irrelevant. What mattered was that they, along with the Democrats, sold out America through open borders, sending manufacturing to China, and bowing to the racism industry. These same Republicans-who-are-not-conservatives are now working hard to make sure that Trump's MAGA agenda stays good and dead. [...] Call them quislings, Vichy Republicans, Manchurian politicians, or what you will, but these are the people who, along with the Democrats, want open borders, China's control over all American production, and the continued ascendency of the racism industry. They hate you as much as the Democrats do. The Most Dangerous Time. [Scroll down] The illegal government, empowered by a stolen election, which tipped the Senate from Republican + 2 to even up, allowing Kamala Harris to be the tie-breaker on all of these spending bills that already have and will continue to drive inflation to Venezuelan heights also allows for someone like Hillary Clinton to be named to the Supreme Court. This is why voting is still important and voting in 2022, if that happens, is more important than ever. Getting people out of the senate is more important than getting them into the senate, but backing someone who understands that the strength of the Republican Party in 2022 is due solely to a strong nationalist sentiment is vital. Those who just want to be establishment senators are as much the enemy of the people as communists. It's time to take 2022's Republican primaries very, very seriously. Too many Republicans began paying attention to South Carolina's House of Representatives race for the 1st District in October 2020, when it was Joe Cunningham, the Democrat incumbent, versus Nancy Mace, the Republican. Mace won, but what a disappointment she has been. Mace is barely even a RINO, so left are her positions. "I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality," she stated, and she means it. She supports Roe v. Wade and wants to make marijuana legal, which Colorado's experiment argues against. Mace is a Liz Cheney supporter. Only reluctantly did she vote to remove Cheney as chair of the House Republican conference, but then only because Cheney was "divisive." And of course, Mace is on board with the Democrats' January 6 narrative. Had more voters paid attention during the primaries, though, they might have averted Mace's candidacy and put a real conservative in Congress. Politico Is Rallying Support for Mitch McConnell. The story of Mitch McConnell as leader of the GOP DeceptiCon wing is well known on these pages. Heck, for ten years we frustratingly battled against the members of our own team infected with 'battered conservative syndrome.' Mitch controls roughly 20 members of the Republican wing in the Senate. It's the same names that repeatedly surface whenever Democrat legislation is supported, or rule changes are made, to support the goals and objectives of the UniParty in the upper chamber: Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney. The Politico article is basically saying that despite Donald Trump's repeated attacks against McConnell, the DeceptiCon senators have not followed any effort to replace the minority leader; which, when you know the nature of the system, is not surprising. Liz Cheney is lying to you about Jan. 6. [Scroll down] And the only answer is Liz Cheney is delusional. She's living on another planet, and on that planet with her is the Republican Party's fading leadership class. The people who stopped assessing reality are having new thoughts of any kind, right, around 2003. That's the era in which they are frozen in amber. And those people are sending Liz Cheney a ton of money, huge amounts of money because they wanted to run for president. Cheney has raised millions of dollars just this year, in part from political action committees run by Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell, and, needless to say, Lindsey Graham. Apparently, all of these geniuses think that Liz Cheney has a good shot of being president. So Liz Cheney is this cycle's Jeb Bush, who, by the way, has also given her money because of course he has. Now you should know that none of these people, and they are the very same people who feel perfectly empowered to lecture you about what's conservative and what's not, not one of these people has said a single word about Liz Cheney's performance on the House of Representatives January 6th Commission. Gov. Mike DeWine said he'll veto an Ohio bill that prohibits employers, schools from mandating vaccines. Gov. Mike DeWine will have his veto pen ready if the legislature sends him a bill that would prohibit employers and schools from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine. House Bill 218, in addition to prohibiting mandates on vaccines not fully approved by the federal government, would provide wide exemptions for fully approved vaccines. Eighty House Republicans Vote for More Government Spying. Our lack of privacy, not to mention the increased ability of the government to spy on us, has been ratified by eighty — count 'em eighty — House Republicans, including minority leader Kevin McCarthy (who wants us to see him as a viable replacement of, an actual savior from, Nancy Pelosi) and Burgess Owens of all people (Et tu, Burgess? Who can we rely on now?) What these GOP members of what seems more and more like the People's Congress of Cambodia under Pol Pot have voted for en masse, joining one hundred percent of the Democrats (something suspicious right there), is a bill to fund a Federal Vaccination Database. Known as the Immunization Infrastructure Act (H. R. 550), this baby would provide $400 million of your dollars and mine for an "immunization system data modernization and expansion" of "a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database." In other words, it's a handy way to get the "wrong" people fired, ostracized or whatever, while getting their children kicked out of school. The 80 House Republicans Who Voted With Dems to Create National Vax Database. Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which would fund a federal vaccination database, Breitbart News first reported. We have listed all of the Republicans who supported the measure below — along with links to their email addresses. "The text specifically outlines an expansion of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Public Health Department capabilities and the ability for state and local health departments, as well as public and private health care providers, to share health data with the federal government," Breitbart reported. House passes federal vaccine database bill, 80 Republicans betray their voters — again. Yesterday [12/2/2021], the House of Representatives passed a bill called H. R. 550 that would facilitate the creation of a federal vaccination database. The purpose would be to track the vaccination status of all U.S. citizens. To call this bill a danger to the personal freedoms of every citizen is an understatement. The bill states that $400 million of taxpayer money will be used to "direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take actions to improve data sharing and other aspects of immunization information systems. These are confidential, population-based databases that maintain a record of vaccine administrations." [...] To sum it up, the bill provides sweeping powers to CDC and compels public and private health care providers at both state and local levels to share information with the central government. [...] Not one, or two or ten or even twenty but EIGHTY Republicans voted for this bill, this includes Kevin Owen McCarthy who is the House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives. Turns out There Was More Behind That 'Never Trumpers Quit Fox Over Tucker' Story. As we reported, Never Trump commentators Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg announced this week that they were leaving Fox as contributors because of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 special. Many laughed at the pomposity of their announcement, with some noting they didn't even know they still were working there. Who would really notice or care if they were gone? The two ran to the NY Times to make their announcement, which shows exactly where their minds are at and to whom they are trying to cater. Hint: it's not Republicans or conservatives. The same people who fall for their nonsense were all agog over their announcement and 'character.' Republicans Can Be Just as Woke as Democrats. When Dr. Richard/Rachel Levine was named four-star rear admiral to the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in October most liberals recognized Levine as the "first-ever female four-star admiral" in the USPHS Commissioned Corps. Oh really? Maybe for those who put identity over biology, but for everyone else the first woman had yet to earn that prestigious title. [...] Think about the absurdity of what happened: The 64-year-old Levine who has lived 54 years as a man and only 10 years as a woman is now recognized by Democrats as the "first woman" four-star rear admiral in the Public Health Corps. Before you roll your eyes and mumble that this is Democrat wokeness, consider that some Republicans play the woke game just like the Democrats they frequently denounce. Just recently, Ronna McDaniel, who is Chair of the Republican National Committee, announced that the RNC is launching an LGBT Pride Coalition. This is the same RNC that did so little in the days and weeks following the 2020 presidential election when there were (and still are) credible claims of election fraud. RNC chair apologizes to committee members for poor communication on new gay pride initiative. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel emailed an apology Monday evening to the GOP's 168 committee members, acknowledging she could have done a better job communicating a new initiative to recruit gay voters that upset some in the party's Christian evangelical base. McDaniel's email was sent a few hours after she tried to quell a rebellion inside her ranks, holding a conference call with RNC members that delivered talking points supporting the new GOP Pride coalition but refusing to take questions. She blamed the risk that news media members may have dialed into the call for skipping a Q&A. The Editor says... Virginia: RINO Jen Kiggans Voted With Dems On Transgender Bathrooms, Now She's Trying To Ride Red Wave To Washington. After spending much of her Virginia State Senate career voting alongside the far-left Democrats who have dominated that state's government, establishment-backed GOP'er Jen Kiggans is attempting to ride Virginia's red wave to a Congressional seat in Washington. In a fundraising email sent to voters after Virginia Republicans swept Tuesday's statewide elections and took back the House of Delegates, Jen Kiggans looked to tie her 2022 congressional candidacy to the Commonwealth's historic red wave. In doing so, Kiggans quoted Democrat Kamala Harris who, alongside Joe Biden, she has repeatedly declared a legitimate, duly elected executive of the United States despite severe, documented cases of election irregularities and fraud nationwide, including in her home state of Virginia. Trump unloads on 13 Republicans who backed infrastructure bill. Former President Donald Trump in remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Monday openly blasted the 13 congressional Republicans who supported President Biden's infrastructure bill in a vote Friday. Fox News Digital has confirmed from sources at the dinner that the former president criticized the 13 Republican defectors in a lengthy speech Monday night in a room where at least one of them, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, was present. The House of Representatives voted 228-206 on Friday to pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which could not have passed without the support of the 13 Republicans who pushed it through despite opposition from six progressive Democratic members of the House. Republicans Who Supported Biden's $1.2T Infrastructure Bill Once Opposed $25B For Border Wall. As 32 House and Senate Republicans helped breathe life into President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, some once opposed the prospect of spending $25 billion to build border wall in an effort to reduce illegal immigration to the United States. Last weekend, 13 House Republicans voted with Democrats to send a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to Biden's desk. In early August, 19 Senate Republicans did the same, helping pass the bill through the chamber to the House for approval. The bill includes $0 for construction of border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite proclaiming to be a package of infrastructure projects and a record-high flow of illegal immigration to the nation. Republicans Approve $0 for Border Wall in Democrat Infrastructure Bill. A group of 19 Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans helped Democrats and President Joe Biden pass their $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes no federal funding for infrastructure, such as a border wall, to reduce illegal immigration to the United States. As Breitbart News reported, the group of House Republicans put Democrats over the line to pass the infrastructure bill after a number of Senate Republicans helped Democrats pass the bill out of the Senate in August. The bill provides $0 for constructing a border wall to reduce illegal immigration to the U.S., though it does provide $3.4 billion to fund projects at the southern border's ports of entry — a pet project for moderate Democrats to claim they are helping improve the nation's security. Did the 13 Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill help or hurt Democrats? Righty populists are irate this morning, not so much because they oppose the bill on the merits but because the 13 defectors committed the cardinal sin of 21st-century American politics. They helped the other team to a major political win. 13 House Republicans Save Joe Biden's Agenda in Disgraceful, Idiotic Move. As RedState reported, the so-called "bi-partisan infrastructure bill" passed the House last night, delivering a face-saving moment for Nancy Pelosi. And though the bill was expected to eventually pass, it's how it passed that should have Republicans absolutely fuming. Per the final tally, 13 House GOP members crossed the aisle to breathe new life into Joe Biden's agenda (notably, a group of Republican senators started this months ago). But perhaps worse, they also helped diffuse a highly damaging civil war between Democrat leadership and the "squad," a group of radical progressives led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Republicans Bail Out Biden and Pelosi to Pass $1.2 Trillion So-Called Infrastructure Bill. Thirteen House Republicans voted to bail out President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) agenda and pass the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. The House voted to concur on the Senate amendment to H.R. 3684, or the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, formerly known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill passed 228-206, featuring overwhelming Democrat support and some Republican support. GOPers help House pass $1.2T infrastructure bill. House Democrats eked out an agreement Friday night that allowed them to approve a Senate-passed $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill after a day and night of infighting that nearly sank President Biden's agenda. The measure was approved 228-206 vote with 13 Republicans joining Democrats, sending it to Biden's desk 87 days after it cleared the Senate in August. The vote took place more than 15 hours after the House convened Friday morning and followed a day of frantic intra-party negotiations among Democrats, with Biden himself calling far-left members of his party in an effort to convince them to allow the infrastructure bill to be brought to the chamber floor. Four New York GOPers voted in favor of the infrastructure plan: Rep. John Katko, Rep. Tom Reed, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and Rep. Andrew Garbarino. GOP betrays its base -- again! 13 GOP members help pass Biden's porky $1.2-trillion 'infrastructure'.
Yesterday [11/5/2021], thirteen House Republicans bailed out Joe Biden's and Nancy Pelosi's agenda by voting to pass their $1.2-trillion "infrastructure" bill. This list of
defectors includes [names omitted for brevity] who voted "yes" on the bill. The bill advances the following items promoted by the woke and far-left:
These nine Republican senators failed to sign on for formal challenge to Biden's OSHA vaccine mandate. Senator Mike Braun from Indiana has secured the support of forty other Republican senators to formally challenge President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine rules on employers with 100 or more employees. Braun is the ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety. Biden's mandate, to be written by the Department of Labor and enforced through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is expected to be completed and distributed any day now. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over OSHA. There are some notable exemptions to Biden's vaccine mandate, besides religious objections and medical exemptions. Congress, for example, is exempt from the mandate, as are postal workers. The federal mandate requires the Department of Labor to require employers to give workers paid time off to get vaccinated and sick time to recover if side effects occur. The mandates stack up quickly, don't they? Cindy McCain Completes Her Grift. You'll likely recall the late John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain, as a very outspoken individual during Donald Trump's presidency. For example, she took a special interest in Syria and the plight of refugees there along with generally criticizing the former president's foreign policy moves. Later, she would endorse Joe Biden, claiming principle and a false story from The Atlantic as her reasons. Following Biden's inauguration, in what I'm assured was a total coincidence, McCain was then offered an ambassadorship at the United Nations. But while that give and take already reeked of a political payoff, it was what happened after the nomination that really cemented the grift. [...] Cindy McCain is now in a political position, appointed by the current president. Any assertions that she's off-limits for criticism are ludicrous. Jeff Flake, Cindy McCain confirmed to diplomatic posts on same day. The U.S. Senate confirmed Cindy McCain and former Sen. Jeff Flake to diplomatic posts Tuesday [10/26/2021], formalizing their roles in the administration of President Joe Biden, a man they helped put in the White House. Flake and McCain are Arizona Republicans who separately helped send the message to moderates in their party that they could support Biden over then-President Donald Trump. The Stupid Money on the Right Rides the Grift Train. Recently on the America Moment podcast, Michael Anton named names regarding Conservatism, Inc. [...] There's a lot to unpack just in that one 60-second statement, but Anton is absolutely correct: The overwhelming majority of "conservative" donors, knowingly or unknowingly, are getting played by Conservatism, Inc., which is really about 90 percent of the so-called "conservative" think tanks in D.C. but, quite frankly, it happens even in the smaller ones across the country. I've been observing this phenomenon for over a decade, wondering what on earth people think they're investing in because it can't be effective work. Nice buildings, yes. Six and seven-figure salaries, yes. Self-validating echo chamber meetings? Yes. But work that impacts, truly impacts the direction this country is going in a positive way? Not at all; their work is barely noticeable, like cow flatulence on a windy day. Peter Thiel Helping to Fund MAGA Primary Challenges Against Republicans Who Voted to Impeach President Trump. Progressive Democrats, Wall Street multinationals and the RNC establishment are pouring money into Republican incumbents like Liz Cheney in order to keep the UniParty structure as strong as possible in Washington DC. The RNC, led by Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, is upholding a club rule not to give any Republican Party funding to primary challengers. Ronna McDaniel plays for the other team. Up until now, it has been grassroots donations funding GOP candidates/challengers who seek to defeat the DeceptiCons in the 2022 primary races. However, some big money is coming in on our side to help the cause. Removing Liz Cheney is one of the top priorities. Never-Trump RINOs at work: Former Bushie Matthew Dowd announces run for Lt Governor of Texas as a Democrat. What does a washed-up political strategist do when his network television political commentator gig runs out? If that person is Matthew Dowd, he decides to run for Lt. Governor of Texas. He is the latest in a string of former Bushies who have shown their true colors and are now active Democrats. To be fair, Dowd was always a Democrat in Texas. He worked for Bob Bullock, the last Democrat elected in 1994 as Texas lieutenant governor. George W. had a good working relationship with Bullock during his time as governor. Bush frequently spoke of that friendship, proud to be able to work with Democrats in Texas. Dowd is going back to his roots after a failed attempt to help get a third party going in Texas. Here Are the House Republicans Who Voted for the Red Flag Laws in the NDAA Bill. House Democrats, in their ongoing quest to make it more difficult for Americans to possess firearms, managed to sneak a red flag provision into the latest iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The legislation was passed last week and is headed to the Senate. [...] But what is noteworthy about the passage of this legislation is that 135 Republican lawmakers voted for it. Gun Owners of America (GOA), a gun rights advocacy group, addressed some of the excuses these Congress members used to justify their "yes" vote. With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Democrats? Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) was challenged recently by a caller on the "Jay Thomas Show." The caller asked Cramer to reveal the identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, on January 6. Cramer claimed he did not know the name of the officer, nor did he believe the public had any right to know that officer's name because he had not been found guilty of any wrongdoing. Such pandering to the ruling class and its railroaded investigation is embarrassing enough, as the available evidence (to say nothing of the evidence that the government refuses to release) indicates that the officer recklessly — through the broken window of a locked door — shot an unarmed woman who posed no threat to anyone. But Cramer went further. The public has no right to know, he asserted, "because the person that [sic] shot her is a police officer shooting a criminal not complying with officers' telling her 'stop, don't come through that window, we have guns drawn, don't do it.'" The Editor says... Freedom Caucus tells McCarthy to expel Kinzinger, Cheney from GOP conference. Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Thursday called for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to boot Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney from the House Republican Conference, yet another chapter in the intra-party battle between the two anti-Trump Republicans and Trump's loyalists. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said that having Cheney, R-Wyo., and Kinzinger, R-Ill., in the conference, which is supposed to be an organization where Republican can plan their political strategy, is "antithetical" to its purpose because they sit in the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. "It was antithetical to have sitting in your conference individuals who professed that they want to take out the minority leader and then they want to go join the Democrats on a witch hunt through the Republican Party," Biggs said. He said Republicans should not tolerate "those who've chosen to support the commission... to go after Republicans."
Donald Trump Roasts 'RINO' Anthony Gonzales for Begging to Ride on Air Force One. Former President Donald Trump ripped Rep. Anthony Gonzales (R-OH) on Saturday as "bad news" at a campaign rally in Ohio for the congressman's Republican primary challenger, Max Miller. "He's a grandstanding RINO who is not respected in D.C. who voted for the unhinged unconstitutional impeachment witch hunt," Trump said as his crowd of supporters booed. Gonzalez was among 10 Republican members who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill. The Most Bizarre Moment of Biden's Infrastructure Deal Announcement Was One You Probably Didn't See. As we reported earlier, things got super weird during a press conference President Joe Biden held earlier today where he announced a bipartisan deal on a bloated infrastructure bill, made possible with the help of the below 11 Republican Senators (in case you were wondering if your Republican Senator was one of them): Richard Burr and Thom Tillis (NC), Bill Cassidy (LA), Susan Collins (ME) Lindsey Graham (SC), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rob Portman (OH), Mitt Romney (UT), Mike Rounds (SD), and Todd Young (IN). Why JoeBama Picked Garland — U.S. Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as DC Circuit Judge. [Scroll down] The vote was 53-47 [link here] Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Lindsey Graham voted with Democrats to support KBJ to the circuit court. This Deep State manuever was transparently predictable. This was the real reason why Biden elevated Merrick Garland to AG, to get him out of the way for Ketanji Brown Jackson to work her way to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Obama would then have another tool for total control. [...] We all know that Biden is an avatar for Obama's third-term. Hence the plan by Team Obama (BLM) and James Clyburn (AME) to use a cognitively impaired tool to secure the 2020 club nomination. They then inserted Kamala Harris as the useful radical to manipulate for actual policy objectives. Once you see the strings on the marionettes you can never return to that time before when you did not see them. Republicans who voted for impeachment face barrage of pro-Trump primary challengers. Nine of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are already facing primary challenges — and some of them may have a very hard time holding on to their seats. Trump vows to work against those Republicans as they run for reelection in 2022, and has already endorsed one primary challenger and signaled there are more to come. "Instead of attacking me and, more importantly, the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats," Trump said in his February CPAC speech. Why Did George W. Betray Team GOP? In the year 2000, some 50 million people elected George W. Bush president. Despite his failings, almost all hung with him and re-elected him in 2004. They understood that politics is a team sport. They may not have loved their captain, but they understood he was better for the country than the other guy. The sports enthusiast Bush is, one would think he'd get the concept of teamwork. He did not. At least, he did not seem to. In his bestselling campaign book, Battle for the Soul, Edward-Isaac Dovere gives us a glimpse into what Bush was doing and saying to sabotage Trump and betray the millions of Americans who had backed both men during their presidencies. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp gets BOOED and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is censured at the Georgia GOP convention for refusing to support Trump's stolen election claim. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew boos and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was formally censured at the state's GOP convention Saturday for what critics say were their roles in former President Donald Trump's loss in the pivotal state last November. Kemp has been criticized by the former president and his supporters for his certification of the state's election results that favored Joe Biden, while Raffensperger was chastised for his allowing the use of absentee ballots this past election, which backers of Trump's stolen election claim say allowed for widespread voter fraud. Kemp's supporters tried to drown out the taunts and he pleaded for party harmony. Heading into his 2022 reelection campaign, the governor emphasized his accomplishments, especially an election overhaul that GOP state lawmakers pushed in reaction to Donald Trump's false assertions that he lost in November because of voter fraud. To Save The Republican Party, the GOP Must Die. Scott Brown of Massachusetts lasted a mere three years in office. The anti-Trump Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has declared his retirement, and Marco Rubio finds himself on the outs with strict Constitutionalists who prefer less of a war hawk. #NeverTrump moderates like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker saw their flames extinguished, and some milquetoast moderates who remain, like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, or Lisa Murkowski, find themselves increasingly at odds with their own party. The emergence of MAGA has done nothing if it has not exposed the establishment for what it is: a dying power structure lashing out in self-defense. Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey Vetoes Election Integrity Bill Passed By Arizona Legislature. There's a particular trend pattern to identify DeceptiCons in the Republican party. The Arizona Governor, Doug Ducey, is one easily identifiable member of that club. The DeceptiCons support leftist goals and objectives; they are paid handsomely for their duplicity to support them; but they hide their support through parliamentarian tricks (cloture votes) and obtuse justification. Former House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner Conduct Fundraising Rallies for The Shameful 35 House Decepticons. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan previously held a fundraising event for Liz Cheney (March 2021). Former House Speaker John Boehner previously held a fundraising event for Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez (March 2021). And now Paul Ryan announces he will host a fundraising event for Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger. What do Liz Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez and Adam Kinzinger have in common? If you notice they are all members of the shameful 35 HOUSE DeceptiCons, you are correct. President Trump Highlights The 35 House DeceptiCons: "Sometimes there are consequences", You Know What To Do. President Trump was subtle as a brick through a window with his statement after thirty-five "Republican" members of the House voted to support Nancy Pelosi and the 2022 election effort of the Democrats. "Sometimes there are consequences[.]" 35 Republicans Vote to Walk Into a Partisan Buzzsaw. The vote in the House over whether to create a "January 6th Commission" has ended. The bill passed, which is expected given who runs the chamber. What wasn't as expected (or perhaps it was?) is that 35 Republicans joined hands with their Democrat colleagues, agreeing to walk headlong into a partisan buzzsaw. [...] Now, ask yourself what the purpose of this is. We already have an FBI investigation in conjunction with the DOJ. We have hundreds of arrests that have already been made. There are also multiple investigations going on in Congress at the committee level. What more do those who claim to be operating in good faith want to see?
150 Republicans including four former governors and 27 former House members who have threatened to form a third party unless GOP breaks with Trump. More than 150 Republicans have signed on to a letter calling for people to 'reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative' — signaling the possible formation of a third party as former President Trump cements his takeover of the GOP. The letter, organized by former 'Anonymous' op-ed author Miles Taylor and former CIA officer Evan McMullin, mentions the ouster Wednesday of former GOP conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney. It raises the possibility of a complete break with the GOP and the creation of a third party in the face of what the signers term 'despotism.' Over 100 RINOs Threaten To Start New Party Over Cheney Ouster. The removal of Liz Cheney from her House leadership position isn't going over well with the Never Trump faction of the GOP. They have obviously failed miserably in their effort to reassert establishment control over the party. With the vote on the embattled Wyoming congresswoman's fate expected to take place on Wednesday, over 100 "Republicans" have prepared a letter threatening to start their own political party if the GOP does "not make certain changes." The existence of the group was reported by the New York Times, which also published the infamous op-ed that was written by a Department Of Homeland Security official who came out as a member of the anonymous "resistance" within the Trump administration. Ohio GOP calls on U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez to resign for voting to impeach Donald Trump. The Ohio Republican Party on Friday passed resolutions censuring U.S. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez and calling on him to resign for voting in January to impeach ex-President Donald Trump. Gonzalez, from Rocky River, is the latest Republican to be rebuked by their state parties for supporting impeachment proceedings against Trump in January. Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol as President Joe Biden's electoral victory was being certified, though the Senate did not vote to convict him. As if the black churches are NOT political. Bush Republicanism Must Go Away. The Democratic Party is actively trying to start a race war in the United States, and George Bush thinks it's Republican voters who need lessons in humanity and fellowship. Bush is on the media circuit these days pushing amnesty (while calling it anything but!) for millions of foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally; lecturing Republican voters on being "more respectful about the immigrant"; and trying desperately to reclaim the Republican Party as the slightly less socialist wing of the Uniparty where neoconservative, offshoring, job-destroying, globalist-advancing, Chamber of Commerce-approved, multinationals-funded, (secret) limousine liberal, military-adventuring, surveillance state, Big Government devotees who follow in the footsteps of Nelson Rockefeller while feigning allegiance to President Reagan's "revolution" can offer Americans the opportunity of voting against Democratic Party by pushing a platform identical to the Democrats' own policies ten years earlier. As rabid Dems run rampant, George Bush decides that now's the time to attack his party. George Bush has quite the gift for timing. Just as Democrats whip up riots, threaten juries, plot to pack the Supreme Court, beaver away to end the filibuster, force critical race theory down schoolchildren's throats, open the border to a cartel profit bonanza and untold migrant misery, out he comes, loudly criticizing his own party. [...] Conservatives love immigrants. What they don't love is anyone who illegally breaks into the U.S., partakes in the privileges of citizenship, cancels our votes, drains our welfare system, clogs our hospitals, drags our schools down, presents us with their bills, offers zero education, initiative, or even willingness to learn English in return, and then tells us he's entitled to it, ahead of all the others patiently waiting in the legal immigration lines. That's xenophobia? And human waves of illegal border crossers surging across our border and paying cartels big bucks to do it is calling people names or scaring people about immigration? What planet does this fool live on? Never Trump conservatives are complicit with Team Biden's moral outrages and norm-breaking. For four years, an influential clique of think tankers, Republican operatives and talking heads claimed that any conservative who supported Donald Trump was complicit with a uniquely malevolent presidency. But if Trumpian conservatives are responsible for everything the 45th president was faulted for, then Never Trump should likewise own the evils of the new Biden administration. Never Trumpers spoke of the Trump GOP almost as if it were Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, a dictator's discredited political organ, badly in need of a purge. "President Donald Trump leaves office with a crimson-stained legacy," thundered Peter Wehner, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "A similar stain attaches to those in the party who supported and sustained him." William Kristol, a prominent Twitter user, condemned Trump's "enablers": [...] Uniparty Senate Confirms Rachael Levine As Asst. Secretary of HHS, 52-48 Vote With Collins and Murkowski Supporting. Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted with the Democrats in the senate to confirm Rachael Levine as Asst. Secretary of Health and Human services, despite the abhorrent job Levine did while Health Secretary for Pennsylvania during the COVID crisis. Last month Senator Rand Paul questioned Levine during the confirmation hearing, and exposed the radical agenda behind the nominee. Despite the terrible job in Pennsylvania, and despite the radical outlook toward gender reassignment for teens, the UniParty found a way to continue supporting the far-left. Richard Levine highlights the problem of maverick Republicans. [Scroll down] During both the Bush and the Trump years, Republicans sometimes controlled both the White House and Congress — yet they still couldn't accomplish diddlysquat. If the 75-80 million people who voted for Donald Trump want to see a change in 2022 and 2024, they need to start primarying Establishment Republicans immediately. Otherwise, it's going to be Romneys and Murkowskis all the way down, and endless political losses to go with it. Corporate
Donors Dominate Push to Give Amnesty to 4.4M Illegal Aliens. Multinational corporate executives, who often serve as the
biggest donors for the nation's political class, are the driving forces behind an amnesty plan passed by House Democrats and nine
House Republicans. Last week, the House passed H.R. 6, known as the "Dream and Promise Act of 2021," to provide potentially
4.4 million illegal aliens with amnesty and put them on a track for American citizenship. All 218 House Democrats voted to
support the amnesty and nine House Republicans joined them, including:
Conservatives: Stop Whining and Take Action. [Scroll down] Senators Collins (Me), Murkowski (Al), Sasse (Neb), Toomey (Pa), and Cassidy (La) also populate the No-No-RINO list and must go. Add to these the ten RINO House members who voted to impeach President Trump after he left office, led by Liz Cheney (WY), Tom Rice (SC), Dan Newhouse (WA), Adam Kinzinger (IL), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Fred Upton (MI), Tim Ryan (OH), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA), Peter Meijer (MI), John Katko (NY), and David Valadao (CA). Kinzinger, Katko, and Upton more recently voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her House committee post, for sharing conspiracy theories on social media. Republicans in every state deserve elected officials who represent our conservativism and patriotic values. RINOs betray this trust. House
Passes Gun Control Bill to Expand Background Checks — Here Are the 8 Republicans Who Voted with Democrats. The Democrat-led House on Thursday [4/11/2021]
passed a gun control bill to expand background checks with a vote of 227-203. 8 Republican lawmakers voted with the Democrats to pass the "Background Checks Act"
that prohibits private firearms transfers without having a background check:
Garland Confirmed as Attorney General 70-30, Now Watch the Next Move. Merrick Garland has been confirmed by a UniParty Senate 70-30. [...] A perfect encapsulation of the Republican votes to confirm showcase a who's who list of TWENTY DeceptiCons: Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Lankford, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Thune and Tillis. Please remember these names because CTH keeps getting asked who are Mitch McConnell's DeceptiCon caucus members. Once again, here they are. Trump urges ouster of 'RINOs,' 'warmonger' Liz Cheney. Former President Donald Trump on Sunday urged his supporters to vote out "RINOs" in Congress, while encouraging the party to stay united around a pro-worker platform. Trump said in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., that voters should cast out the so-called "Republicans in Name Only" in the 2022 midterm elections. "Now more than ever is the time for tough, strong and energetic Republican leaders who have spines of steel," Trump said. "Top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy on opposing [President] Biden, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and the Democrats. I've said to some of them, I said, 'You know, during the Obama years and now during Biden, if you spent the same energy on attacking them, you'd actually be successful — as you do on attacking me in many cases'." RINOs, the scourge of the Republican Party. How clueless are the swamp RINOs? Very, very clueless. So confident that they can dismiss President Trump like last week's news, a select few of them are hilariously destroying their own brands — as if the 75M+ people who voted for Trump are just going to forget Trump, the best president they've had in decades, and go their establishment way. This scenario could be a sitcom; that is how comical people like Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Nikki Haley, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, and Mike Pence are at this sad moment in time. They all thought, perhaps still think, that by denigrating President Trump, they will win over those 75M people. They thought that by blaming him for what happened at the Capitol on January 6, they would be rid of the man who so threatened their cushy, establishment lives. How to Push Back Against a Bully. The reason that we face this situation is only quite peripherally related to a speech that Donald Trump delivered to his well-wishers on January 6 or to a previously planned break-in to the Capitol that took place while Trump was speaking. I also don't believe the seven Senators who found Trump guilty of "inciting insurrection" were actually horrified by his supposed insurrectionary actions on January 6. These shameless opportunists are currying favor with the rich and powerful. To their credit, however, they understand from whence power flows in our derailed republic. Since two of them, Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) (whom I'm ashamed to call my senator) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.), of insider stock trading fame, plan to change jobs after completing their terms in the Senate, we may assume they were building their post-political careers by going after Trump. Seven Republican Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump Face Backlash From Within Party. The seven Republican senators who called former President Donald Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection are already facing backlash from within the GOP, where Trump remains a popular figure. The Louisiana GOP's Executive Committee unanimously voted to censure Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) over his vote, the party said in a brief statement. The state party had said earlier this week that it was "profoundly disappointed" when Cassidy sided with five other Republicans and all Democrats in the upper chamber to declare the trial constitutional. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), another guilty vote, was condemned by the North Carolina Republican Party. "North Carolina Republicans sent Senator Burr to the United States Senate to uphold the Constitution and his vote today to convict in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking and disappointing," North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. Seven turncoats. What motivated those Republicans to vote guilty? Burr, (NC), Sasse, (NE), Romney, (UT), Collins, (ME), Murkowski, (AK), Cassidy, (LA), Toomey, (PA) Is it their own moral narcissism as Roger Simon suspects, a misplaced sense of their own moral righteousness? It can't be because their constituents wanted them to vote guilty. They will likely each be censured in their home states for their betrayal. Is it their own insecurity re: their membership in the swamp? Is it money? Were they somehow paid for their guilty votes? That would surprise no one. We've long known that Romney's hatred for Trump ate his brain, destroyed any core values he ever had, if he had them. Murkowski has never been a reliable conservative nor has Susan Collins. They are both Democrats in their heart of hearts. Cassidy was a Democrat all his life until 2006, so he too is a fake republican. As for Toomey and Burr? Pick any of the above suggestions but the most obvious answer is they are both moral narcissists. Senate Votes to Call Witnesses in Trump Impeachment Trial. The Senate on Saturday [2/13/2021] voted 55-45 to allow witnesses to be called in former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined Democrats in voting to call witnesses, extending the trial which had been expected to end on Saturday. Sen. John Thune says he's open to censure of Trump as impeachment trial nears end. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, said Friday [2/12/2012] he's open to censuring former President Donald Trump, as the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump nears a vote for acquittal. "I've seen a couple of [censure] resolutions at least that I think could attract some support," Mr. Thune said of his Republican colleagues. Asked if that includes him, Mr. Thune replied, "Yes." There's Only One Group of Folks Who Constantly Benefit from the Anti-Trump GOP. A bunch of former Republican officials is mulling creating an anti-Trump third party. [...] There is nothing Republican or conservative about becoming prostitutes for the Democratic Party. Period. Also, why? There is a bunch of overlap between traditional Reagan conservatism and populist leaning Trumpism on a host of key issues. Both sides want smaller government, fewer regulations, fewer taxes, a strong military, are against political correctness, pro-free speech, and are cheerleaders for America. We're patriots. I really don't see why some ex-GOP folk are doing this other than failing to recognize that they've been relegated to the kids' table since they didn't do their job for years and disrespected the voters. [...] This whole proposal reeks of a GOP elitist vanity project from a group of folks who do not get that it's not their party anymore. And in their anger, they've decided to go down the path of trying to split the conservative vote, which will only benefit Democrats in elections[.] News from the Potemkin impeachment. What's happening in the Senate has nothing to do with anything Trump did. Instead, it reflects the Deep State's desire to erase Trump from American history [...] As promised, Trump's attorneys moved to have the impeachment proceedings dismissed because they are unconstitutional. This motion was legally correct because impeachment exists to remove bad officials from office without waiting for an election. I will never concede that Trump was a bad official, but no one can deny that he is no longer in office. Nevertheless, all 50 Democrat senators voted against the motion to dismiss the case. Additionally, and disgracefully, six Republicans joined in. For future reference, they are Mitt Romney (Utah), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), and Bill Cassidy (Louisiana). I won't speculate as to their motives, but I will say that I cannot imagine any decent, intelligent, or honest motives for them. Here is the List of 6 Traitors Who Voted With Democrats to Confirm Impeachment Trial of Trump is "Constitutional". Today [2/9/2021], 6 traitorous anti-American RINO Republicans joined the progressive in an unholy alliance against America, its people, and Donald Trump. [...] So, the impeachment trial will go forward. However, based upon this vote and previous comments, a conviction is highly unlikely since a 2/3 majority is required for conviction. But, given the breathtaking and unending duplicity and cowardice of both Democrats and Republicans to in any way respect constitutional rule of law, no one can say for certain. Calling out the Unholy Six Republican senators who voted to advance Trump's impeachment trial. What profit is there in turning to Republicans for succor against the self-aggrandizing, tyrannical Democrats if they lack the will to call to account the GOP turncoats in their own ranks? It is to be expected that the power-mad Democrats will place themselves not only above the law, but above our Constitution. It is unforgivable for elected Republicans to ignore people in their own ranks who are no more committed to the rule of law, to the Constitution, than the malevolent Democrats. The readiness of the Unholy Six to accept the lie of the Democrats that this affront to the Constitution is acceptable is indication enough that these six sorry servants of the left will accept all the lies the rabid left hurls at and heaps upon private citizen Trump, including the malicious accusations that he incited the January 6 events at the Capitol. Louisiana GOP: 'Profoundly Disappointed' in Sen. Bill Cassidy's Vote in Support of Impeachment Constitutionality. The Republican Party of Louisiana said Tuesday it is "profoundly disappointed" in Sen. Bill Cassidy's vote to join Senate Democrats in their claim that impeaching former President Donald Trump is constitutional and that a "trial" should proceed. [...] Cassidy and fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Mitt Romney (UT), and Ben Sasse (NE) voted with Democrats to allow the trial to proceed. On Sunday, Nebraska's Lincoln County Republican Party voted to censure Sasse for "dismissing the legitimate concerns" regarding allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Senate votes trial constitutional; Six Republicans vote 'yes'. The Senate rejected an attempt on Tuesday [2/9/2021] to derail former President Trump's impeachment trial by getting it declared unconstitutional. Senators voted 56-44 that the trial is constitutional. The vote required only a simple majority. Six GOP senators joined with Democrats to say they believe the trial is constitutional, largely mirroring a similar vote from late last month. Only Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who had previously supported an effort by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that would have declared the trial unconstitutional, flipped and said on Tuesday that he believes it is constitutional. Despite Cassidy's vote, the result again underscored the uphill battle Democrats face to get the 17 GOP senators needed to convict Trump. If
You Think Marjorie Taylor Greene's Expulsion From House Committees Is the End You Are Sadly Mistaken. Yesterday [2/4/2021], Georgia Representative Marjorie
Taylor Greene was stripped of her committee assignments by vengeful Democrats and with the connivance of eleven quisling Republicans:
Contest: Red State's RINO Safari.
[Scroll down] I have a couple of lists below, of possible candidates. This in no way, shape, fashion or form, is meant to be a limit on who you consider.
It's just a way to get the conversation going. This first list, contains all those who voted to impeach President Trump, based on no evidence whatsoever.
Biden's Department of Homeland Sleaze Chief. The corruptocracy of the Obama administration is back with a vengeance in the White House. Once more, the "S" in "DHS" stands not for security — but for sleaze. Our nation is back for sale to the highest foreign bidders and their "America last" cronies. Last Thursday [1/28/2021], the Senate Homeland Security Committee pushed through the nomination of Alejandro "Ali" Mayorkas to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Six Senate Republicans sided with Democrats in breaking a GOP filibuster: Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, and Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Adam Kinzinger Shouldn't Be Proud His Family Disowned Him, He Should Be Ashamed. Politics sometimes does strange and sad things to people, especially to elected officials in Washington. Sometimes it makes them forget who they are — or become someone else entirely. In the case of Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, it seems to have confused his loyalties: in exchange for attaboys from Twitter blue-checks and MSNBC, he turned on his own family. Kinzinger is one of just 10 GOP lawmakers who last month voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. He and the other Republicans who broke with their party — including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican — have understandably faced harsh criticism from their constituents and fellow Republicans over what many view as a craven betrayal, not just of Trump but of the voters they are supposed to represent. In Kinzinger's case, it seems some of his own family members are among those who feel angry and betrayed. RINO Senators Suffer Embarrassing Failure As Biden Balks At Stimulus Deal. Things didn't go as planned when a group of RINO Republicans led by Senator Susan Collins met with Joe Biden over the stalled coronavirus economic stimulus package. With the anti-Trump faction of the GOP eager to bend a knee to Democrats who want to destroy them in order to curry favor with the media, Collins and her treacherous team were humiliated when they were rebuffed by Biden and president in waiting Kamala Harris. Mitch McConnell Praises Liz Cheney: 'Important Leader' with 'Courage' to Act. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday lauded House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) in the wake of her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump, calling the congresswoman an "important leader" with the courage to act on "deep convictions." "Liz Cheney is a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them," McConnell said in a statement to CNN. "She is an important leader in our party and in our nation. I am grateful for her service and look forward to continuing to work with her on the crucial issues facing our nation." South Carolina GOP Censures Rep. Tom Rice Over Trump Impeachment Vote. The South Carolina Republican Party (SCGOP) has voted to formally censure Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), who voted with Democrats to impeach then-President Donald Trump earlier this month. Rice was one of ten Republicans who joined Democrats in impeaching Trump for a second time, in a 232 [to] 197 vote in the House on Jan. 13. The chamber alleged that Trump incited an insurrection that resulted in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In a statement, Drew McKissick, who currently serves as State Chairman for the SCGOP, noted that after the impeachment vote, an effort to condemn Rice emerged at the grassroots level from a county in his district. [Dispense] With Unity. The recent betrayal by Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a reminder that the ruling class in Washington, D.C. values nothing so highly as being the ruling class in Washington, D.C. Offer them a choice between maintaining a "good working relationship with their colleagues across the aisle" on the one hand, and democracy on the other, and they'll stick with their colleagues: Their daily lives change little no matter who is in power. Their priority is that they be able to chat amicably at parties with people who just called them liars on cable TV. It's just politics, after all. It's just a game. They don't feel the effects of their policies because they live in the one city in America that gets wealthier when the economy gets worse. But ordinary people will feel the effects. Rep. Young Kim Owes Me $25. Newly elected Rep. Young Kim (California's 39th Congressional District) needs to refund me the $25 I donated to her campaign. Others should join me in seeking campaign donation refunds from those elected officials whose campaign rhetoric differs from what they do and say once in office. [....] Why is it always Republicans reaching out to Democrats? Did anyone see Democrats reaching out to Republicans in 2017 following President Trump's inauguration? Of course not! Democrats were too busy investigating the Russian collusion hoax. Arizona Republicans Stand With Trump, Censure Cindy McCain, Jeff Flake and Doug Ducey. The MAGA movement is a unified common sense political network. No one in the current GOP is ever going to win reelection without the support of the MAGA base and President Donald Trump. The GOPe is dead, they just don't know it yet. One example comes from Arizona where the republican party has voted to censure anti-Trump voices like Cindy McCain, Jeff Flake and Doug Ducey. The republican party is a Trump centric operation now. [Y]ou are either with us, or against us. It matters not. MI County GOP Unanimously 'Censures and Condemns' Rep. Fred Upton Over Trump Impeachment Vote. A Michigan county Republican party has voted to censure U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) after he voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Upton joined nine other Republicans, including fellow Michigander, freshman "GOP" Rep. Peter Meijer of Grand Rapids, in impeaching Trump after House Democrats rushed through a resolution. Mlive reported that delegates to the Allegan County Republican Convention voted to "censure and condemn" Upton's vote. Mitt Romney Shares His Picks for the Future of the GOP, and Laughter Abounds. [Scroll down] I'm trying to think of three worse names to put out there as the future of the party than Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, and Ben Sasse. Christie and Hogan are northeastern moderates who lack just about everything needed to bring the GOP voter base back to the table. Hogan, specifically, is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, and pro-crony capitalism. He's like Mitt Romney if Mitt Romney stopped going to the gym. Meanwhile, Ben Sasse is the consummate do-nothing, rattling off statements from his office while never accomplishing anything of value. GOP Leaders in D.C. Don't Represent 74 Million Trump Voters. [Scroll down] The key to this witch hunt was to use RINO ("Republican in name only"), Trump-hating leaders in D.C. as the cover to convince the world that even the GOP has abandoned and turned against Trump. But it didn't work. Because those famous GOP leaders don't represent the people. They don't represent 74 million Trump voters. They only represent the dirty, corrupt D.C. swamp. The results are in. The support for President Trump is so overwhelming even liberal media and pollsters can't hide the truth. Trump-hating pollster Frank Luntz had to admit 91% of Trump voters would vote for him again and 78% of Trump voters believe the election was rigged and stolen. A poll by the liberal Axios and Ipsos shows that 62% of Republicans support Trump's belief that the election was stolen, while 69% don't blame Trump for the Capitol violence. But a much higher 91% of Trump voters support Trump's contesting the election results. Here Are The 5 House Republicans Who Will Betray Trump And Vote To Impeach. Democrats aren't the only ones who want President Trump removed from office this week. As you'll see below, there are plenty of swampy Republicans as well. Here's the full list of House Republicans who will vote to impeach Trump later today. Make sure to never vote for these people ever again. We will never forget how they betrayed President Trump in his final days. [...] House Impeaches President Trump for a Second Time. The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over last week's riots at the U.S. Capitol in which five people died, including a Capitol Police Officer. The vote to impeach President Trump was approved by the House by a vote of 232 to 197, with 10 Republicans supporting the measure. The following House GOP members voted in favor of the move: Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Rep. Peter Meijer (MI), Rep. Fred Upton (MI), Rep. Liz Cheney (WY), Rep. John Katko (NY), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL), Rep. Tom Rice (SC), Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (WA), Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA), and Rep. David Valadao (CA). An Open Letter To Sen. Joe Manchin: It's Time To Change Parties. Last week's Senate runoff elections in Georgia gave the Democrats full control of the federal governing apparatus. America is now a one-party state, and the Californication of the country will soon begin. But there's one man who can slow it down if not stop it, at least for a while: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. The West Virginian could erase the Democrats' de facto Senate majority (the Democratic vice president is the tie-breaker in the 50-50 chamber) simply by changing parties. This is no radical suggestion. Manchin is the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, if not all of Washington, and the possibility of him flipping parties has come up before. But he remains a Democrat, and as recently as last week said he had no intention to switch. However, we would like to make a formal pitch, inviting him to follow an honorable path taken by others. The Editor says... The traitors who fooled us. Consider this story from the Associated Press, "Arnold Schwarzenegger calls President Donald Trump 'worst president ever'." Remember when he was governor of California? We loved it when he called Democrats girly men. We thought we had our champion. Too bad he was born in Austria and cannot run for president, we thought at the time. But once again, the Constitution protected us. Oh and he apologized for the girly men remark. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls President Donald Trump 'worst president ever'. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling President Donald Trump a failed leader who "will go down in history as the worst president ever." In a video posted on social media on Sunday, the Republican took solace that Trump's presidency was coming to an end and "would soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet." He called for national unity and vowed his support for President-elect Joe Biden. Cindy McCain is censured by county GOP in Arizona. Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, was censured Saturday [1/9/2021] by the Maricopa County Republican Party in Arizona after she supported President-elect Joe Biden in the fall. The resolution, which referred to her as a "troubled individual" who supported "leftist causes," was passed by a committee vote, according to the Arizona Republic newspaper. "I am a proud lifelong Republican and will continue to support candidates who put country over party and stand for the rule of law," Cindy McCain, 66, tweeted in response to the reprimand. The Editor says... Rep. Kinzinger Becomes First Republican to Support Invoking 25th Amendment. On Thursday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger became the first Republican lawmaker to publicly call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump as president. Kinzinger posted his remarks in a video that he published on Twitter. [Tweet] Kinzinger's call came a day after a pro-Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol building where Congress was in session debating challenges to the electoral votes. Abbott's Orders Increase Most Texans' Lockdown Restrictions. Most counties in Texas are under heightened lockdown restrictions due to executive orders from Gov. Greg Abbott. [...] This week, Trauma Service Area Q, which contains Harris County, became the latest area to reach the 15 percent threshold for increased lockdowns. That means that, as of January 5, 149 of Texas' 254 counties are subject to the increased restrictions, including the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, San Antonio, and Galveston. This action comes despite Abbott publicly decrying lockdown policies just weeks ago. "It's time to put behind us shutdowns. No more shutdowns. We need to focus on opening up businesses," Abbott said at a recent press conference. Martha MacCallum grills Raffensperger on leaked phone call with Trump: Feels very much about a grudge. On Monday [1/4/2021], Fox News host Martha MacCallum grilled an evasive Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger regarding the leak of a phone conversation he had with President Donald Trump over the weekend. After stumbling through an explanation as to why he refused to take phone calls from President Donald Trump over the past several weeks, Raffensperger was initially vague about how a recording of the call made its way to the Washington Post. "So, why did you decide to take the phone call this time? What was different this time?" MacCallum asked. The GOP secretary of state responded with a denial. [Video clip] Kinzinger: Upwards of 100 GOP Lawmakers Will Vote to Not Accept Election Results. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., thinks "upwards of" 100 GOP lawmakers will vote to not accept Joe Biden's victory when Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes. "I hope I'm wrong. I'm guessing it will be upwards of 100," Kinzinger told Charlie Sykes Wednesday [12/30/2020] during an appearance on "The Bulwark Podcast." "I think you're going to have some people that come out and take a strong stand but man, I hope I'm wrong. I'm not going to be surprised if it approaches three figures." Kinzinger, one of the few Republicans to speak out against the conspiracy theories President Donald Trump embraces surrounding the election, told Sykes that he's "over the undermining of democracy and frankly, the massive damage that's being done with this. The Editor says... Hey, GOP: This is Your Do or Die Moment. Life seldom offers second chances. When opportunity knocks you can either answer the door or sit idly by as opportunity moves on to the next house, never to return. Opportunity is knocking on the doors of elected Republicans today. [...] President Trump is the door knocker. He started knocking in June 2015 when he rode down the Trump Tower escalator promising to Make America Great Again. Some in the GOP answered his call and stood firm to support Trump's agenda and defend him against the Spygate coup. Others like Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Jeff Flake, and others went out of their way to throw roadblocks in Trump's path, and those still on the political scene continue nagging Trump to this day. The unspeakable, duplicitous cowardice of the Republicans in Congress. While there are a few exceptions who need to be celebrated — Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan, to name the most prominent of the heroes — the rest of the Republicans in Congress are abject cowards. So anxious to go along to get along with the establishment they were oh, so comfortable with, they have been and are willing to betray their constituents to regain their access to power and money. Forget representing the people; they represent themselves. President Trump is the best man for the party to come along since Reagan, and they are nearly all ready to throw him under the bus. It is disgusting. No conservative should ever again donate a dime to any of the traitors who claim to hold conservative values. Very few of them do. Even McConnell of the Senate and McCarthy of the House are working to undermine Trump's legitimate attempt to expose the massive election fraud that took place on November 3. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger says Donald Trump is fueling 'violence' in his supporters ahead of Congress certifying Biden's win. Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger said Sunday [12/27/2020] that Donald Trump is peddling a 'scam' meant to fuel 'violence' in his supporters by claiming Congress could still overturn the election by rejecting the Electoral College results on January 6. 'It is a scam and it is going to disappoint the people that believe this election was stolen, that think this is an opportunity to change it,' he told CNN host Dana Bash. Trump is pushing for Republican[s] in Congress — specifically senators — to jump on board with a plan to challenge Electoral College votes in five swing states that went blue last month. The Editor says... RINOs Should be Ashamed for Turning on Trump. It's been appalling to see so many Republicans desert President Trump in the election fraud challenges, telling him to give in and concede. Fox News started out the trend election night by calling Arizona for Biden. RINO judges piled on, dismissing election challenges with flimsy excuses that no one bought. Gradually, elected officials have turned on him. The MSM loves talking about the politician defectors but never explains why they're deserting. They're deserting because politics has never been about principles for those Republicans. They ran for office looking for fame and fortune; most of them are narcissists. They survive in office based on campaign contributions and other perks. They are beholden to the wealthy corporations, special interest groups and billionaires funding their reelections. Once those establishment players start threatening to withhold the money supply, they cave. TN Gov. Bill Lee Bans Public Gatherings Exceeding 10, Asks Residents to Limit Holiday Events to Household. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) is the latest state leader to urge residents to drastically limit their holiday gatherings by spending them only with members of the same household, signing an executive order limiting indoor public events to ten. In a Sunday evening address, the Republican governor identified Tennesee as "ground zero for a surge in sickness," describing the ongoing pandemic as a "war." Approximately 10,000 Tennesseans are getting sick daily, the governor said, largely attributing the spike to holiday gatherings — namely, the Thanksgiving gatherings. The Editor says... Cruz Blasts "Fraternal Order" GOP on Lynch. Texas Senator Ted Cruz issued a statement Thursday [4/23/2015] blasting "fraternal order" Republicans in the Senate who are set to confirm the Obama nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general. Cruz spoke shortly before Lynch was confirmed — with the aid of ten Republican Senate votes. Those ten GOP senators were: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- UT), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen Thad Cochran (R-MS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Republican 'leaders' have it all figured out. In other words, it seems the Republican establishment hasn't figured out that it is the problem with the Republican Party. It's hard to point the finger at oneself. Instead, it has learned all the wrong lessons from 2012. There are several people who have to go if the Republican Party is to reinvent itself in a way that will allow it to be more competitive in future elections: [Mitch] McConnell is one. John Boehner is another. And Karl Rove is the third member of the arrogant, self-interested triumvirate. Trump's End Game. The good news is it's still entirely possible for Donald Trump to be reelected. The bad news is that it is likely to come down to the RINOs. Joe Biden, in his cough-punctuated speech Monday night, declared victory and enumerated all the ways that he defeated Donald Trump — seven million more votes, a "landslide" in Electoral College votes coupled with Trump's zero batting average in every courtroom to hear his case so far. But there is now also a hugely encouraging fact: on Monday Trump won his most significant battle yet when seven swing states sent pro-Trump electors to Washington. Now, someone must decide whether to accept the Biden slate of electors for those states, which also were sent on Monday, or the Trump slates. Never Trumpers [say] Trump, Giuliani and [the] Texas AG [are] 'Electoral Terrorists'. Renowned anti-Trump activists, including members of the Lincoln Project, which led a campaign intimidating lawyers representing the Trump campaign, are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss a legal challenge to the 2020 election results filed by the State of Texas as they rip into supportive Republicans across the board. "Don't ever forget Republicans TRIED to overthrow this election," wrote former Republican Illinois congressman Joe Walsh. "They TRIED to kill our democracy." Republican senator Ben Sasse hails Supreme Court for 'closing the book on the nonsense' and slams Donald Trump's conspiracy theories. Republican Sen. Ben Sasse commended the Supreme Court for refusing to take a Texas case that President Donald Trump wanted to use to overturn the results of the presidential election. The Nebraska senator also mocked the president and his legal team's conspiracy theories used on Trump supporters to call into question the winner. 'Since Election Night, a lot of people have been confusing voters by spinning Kenyan Birther-type "Chavez rigged the election from the grave" conspiracy theories, but every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court — including all three of President Trump's picks — closed the book on this nonsense,' Sasse said. Never Trumpers Go All in for Democrats Against Republicans in Georgia State Runoffs. The Never Trump Lincoln Project released an ad on Wednesday [12/3/2020] urging voters to give the Senate majority to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) by voting for Georgia Senate Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. [Video clip] Most likely, the feeling is mutual. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Rips off 'Moderate' Mask, Goes Full Metal Dictator in Latest COVID Presser. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has long been one of the mainstream media's favorite go-to Republicans — especially in the Trump era, and each time he makes a public appearance or gives an interview, it's easy to understand exactly why. [...] Though Hogan occasionally throws conservative Republicans a bone, his "leadership" during the coronavirus pandemic should put to bed any notion that there is anything close to "moderate" about this man's approach to responsible, liberty-based governance — especially in times of crisis, which brings us to the other reason why he is so beloved by elitist reporters in and around the Beltway. [...] How any self-respecting Republican can continue to support Hogan is a mystery to me. But considering the fact that Maryland is a blue state, I guess this is the only type of "Republican" who can win a statewide race. Pardon My Perplexity, But Why Should We Be Gracious? At high noon on November 7, when Fox News anchor Chris Wallace announced his network was declaring Biden the victor in the presidential contest, he quoted Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who warned the outgoing president against saying anything "inflammatory." Presumably, noting that scores of irregularities had taken place during the election in battleground states with Democratic governors and in heavily Democratic districts would have the effect of "dividing" our country. On Saturday night, several Fox News pundits were mulling over the question of why Republican congressmen were not yet flooding the newly and duly elected president with notes of congratulations. Marc Theissen stepped in to explain that Trump had "frozen" this natural process, by engaging in what seemed tiresome and unnecessary litigation. Karl Rove was bubbling over with delight as he explained that Biden, in his first remarks as president-elect, appealed to "healing and unity." NeverTrumper and Fox News "all-star" Jonah Goldberg seemed profoundly relieved to see Trump and his "juvenile attitudes" go down to defeat. And former Florida Governor Jeb Bush tried to get out ahead of the others by "praying for our new president." The Last Bush Betrayal. Republicans fought Gore's attempt to steal an election by supporting this drunk brain-damaged cokehead. How does he repay us? By calling Biden "President-elect" and congratulating him. No Bush can be permitted to ever win office again. George W. Bush congratulates Joe Biden and tells Trump that he must concede. George W. Bush congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory Sunday, and delivered an unmistakable message to Donald Trump that he must now concede. The only living former Republican president broke his silence, more than 24 hours after Biden was declared the winner in a call by TV networks and the Associated Press, to say that he had spoken to the Democratic victor, and to Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect. 'I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden,' he said in a statement. No Republican leader has so far called Biden president-elect. Collins, Murkowski Vote Against Going To Session To Consider Barrett Confirmation. Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against going into an executive session to consider the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett Friday [10/23/2020]. The United States Senate voted 51 to 46 to go into executive session to consider the confirmation of Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Democratic senators Kamala Harris of California, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona did not vote. Collins and Murkowski voted nay — a possible indication of how Murkowski will vote on Barrett's confirmation. The Maine senator has already said that she will vote against Barrett's confirmation. 'Never Trump' Lincoln Project appears to have helped spread Iranian disinformation. The Lincoln Project, a group of former Republicans who openly oppose President Trump, shared a message on social media that originated with an Iranian disinformation campaign seeking to influence the 2020 presidential election. "The Proud Boys are attempting to scare voters away from the polls," read a tweet from the group. "This is punishable by up to a year in jail and a blatant attempt to prevent people from voting. Let's find them and make them famous." The tweet has since been deleted. The post, which was retweeted more than 12,000 times, turned out to contain erroneous information. [...] The Lincoln Project was founded by George Conway, husband of former top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, along with Steve Schmidt and John Weaver, both of whom worked for the late Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, and Rick Wilson, a media consultant. Republican senator Ben Sasse predicts Donald Trump will 'LOSE and take down the Senate'. Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse rips President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus [...] in a newly revealed audio recording. Sasse tears into the president in recorded comments from an apparent conference call with his constituents, the Washington Examiner reported — accusing him of having 'ignored' the coronavirus as it spread through the nation. He also accuses Trump of having 'treated the presidency like a business opportunity.' He also predicts that Trump will lose the election. A Nomination to Confound and Confirm. Considering the Democrats' howls of outrage about not waiting to fill the vacancy until after the election, it would behoove Trump to move rapidly and create "facts on the ground" — i.e., to announce the nominee, whoever it might be, Monday or Tuesday at the latest. This is no time to dilly-dally. We also know that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell intends to hold a vote (we don't know when — before or after November 3) and that at least Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) is on board. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is also presumably on board. Lisa Murkowski ("R"-Alaska) — we assume — is not on board. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is not on board with the idea of the vote, but how she would actually vote is anyone's guess. Collins and Murkowski should abstain. As the Holy War concerning filling Justice Ginsburg's seat begins in earnest, one question the Republican side and President Trump should certainly pose is, what would the Democrats do if the situation were reversed? Without question, they would have a Democrat president nominate a new justice, and the Democrat Senate majority would rush to confirm that nominee. In all likelihood, Democrat discipline would work to hold their majority together, and the nominee would be confirmed. Already, two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, have indicated they would not vote to confirm a newly appointed justice before Election Day in November. Collins has gone farther, indicating she would want the newly elected president to fill the seat. Joe Biden's Rabid Pro-Abortionism Is Far More Immoral Than Anything Trump Has Ever Done. For most pro-lifers, Trump's presidency is a cause for jubilation. His pro-life work is, however, a problem for diehard Never Trump figures who claim to be pro-life. They now have to justify sitting out the coming election or, in some cases, supporting the most pro-abortion Democratic ticket in history. It is not easy for those who claim to be pro-life to explain why they are voting for candidates who support taxpayer-funded abortion on demand until birth. NeverTrump 'Conservatives' Have Incited Political Violence. The death, destruction, and mayhem besieging Democratic-run cities across the country, NeverTrump dutifully recites, is all Donald Trump's fault. Team Biden crafted the inane talking points to deflect concerns that the violence in cities such as Portland and Kenosha rapidly was backfiring on Democrats; scenes of angry mobs attacking Trump supporters, including Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his wife, leaving the White House late Thursday night after the president's speech accelerated those worries. But rather than condemn Antifa and Black Lives Matter or devise a legitimate plan to work with Democratic mayors to end the chaos, the Biden campaign decided to blame the president — so NeverTrumpers from Bill Kristol to the frauds at the Lincoln Project are piling on. Charlie Baker should become a Democrat and stop kidding himself. Why doesn't Gov. Charlie Baker just get it over with and switch parties and become a Democrat? By the numbers, he's the worst governor in America. Highest unemployment rate in the U.S.: 16.1%. Third-highest death rate in the U.S.: 131 per 100,000. Of the 8,791 deaths in Massachusetts, 5,781 have been in the nursing homes the governor is responsible for keeping safe. And the nursing-home slaughter continues unabated — 26 of the last 36 deaths this week have occurred in those same death houses whose operators gave $52,000 to the governor Joe Biden calls "Charlie Parker." Average age of Massachusetts decedents: 85. Charlie Parker's prescription? Pinball machines (but not casinos) shut down, no high-school athletics. And now his latest overreach — mandatory flu shots for most children over the age of six months. No hearings, no legislation, no expiration date — just another imperious, tyrannical order, to be enforced selectively against any parent who gets out of line and needs to be slapped down, like a gym owner who wants to reopen. All The Republicans Who Have Endorsed Joe Biden For President. Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential candidate who was briefly the running mate of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), said she cannot support Trump and that "elections are binary choices," while Meg Whitman, another Hewlett Packard CEO, said at the DNC on Monday that Trump "has no clue how to run a business, let alone an economy." Former RNC chair Michael Steele joins anti-Trump Lincoln Project. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has joined the Lincoln Project, a group of "constitutional conservatives" who oppose President Trump, the organization announced. Steele, who served as RNC chair until 2011, will join the "Never Trump" group as a senior adviser, the group said Monday [8/24/2020]. In a statement, the former party bigwig justified abandoning the GOP, arguing that "The chair behind the Resolute Desk has always been bigger than any political party. The Stunning Gullibility Of 'Republicans For Biden'. On the eve of the Republican convention, more than two dozen former GOP lawmakers endorsed Joe Biden for president. Trump Derangement Syndrome is spreading faster than COVID-19. Retired Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake makes his case for supporting Biden by claiming Trump "is not conservative," that Biden "will approach his constitutional role with the reverence and dignity it deserves" and "reach across the aisle." This is the same argument John Kasich, a former congressman and Ohio governor, made at the Democratic National Convention, when he reassured the public that Biden is "respectful" and won't "turn sharp left" when he gets in office. None of this makes any sense, yet a growing number of Republicans are buying into it. We Forgot About Vermont's Phil Scott Who Might Be a Bigger GOP Traitor Than John Kasich. [Scroll down] Still, the media will harp on Scott's defection to drum up this ongoing narrative that a lot of Republicans are leaving Trump despite near-universal praise from the party base. Sorry, but Scott, John Kasich, Christine Todd Whitman, and Meg Whitman are not the real faces of the party. They're the weak, moderate loser brigade. No real Republican thinks it's logical to vote for someone who is diametrically opposed to everything you stand for culturally and politically. You don't advance conservatism or protect it by ushering in a wave of pro-baby-killing, pro-anarchy, pro-Antifa, pro-tax, pro-job killing, and anti-police Democrats into power. Talk about inviting the fox into the henhouse. These people are idiots and should be ignored. They're now Democrats. Ben Sasse Becomes 'GOP Trump Critic' Ahead of 2020 Elections. Axios reported on Sunday that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) has become a "GOP Trump critic" ahead of the 2020 elections. Sasse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Finance Committees, released a statement after President Donald Trump issued executive orders granting Americans a payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance after negotiations with leading Democrats fell through. Never Trumpers Comprise Tennessee's Manny Sethi's Entire Senior Campaign Staff. Dr. Manny Sethi, a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, decided to surround himself with Never Trumpers, including his campaign manager who believes President Donald Trump is a "divisive, short-fingered vulgarian." Sethi has presented himself as a "conservative outsider" in the race against the Trump-backed Bill Hagerty, but all the people he has brought into every senior role in his campaign are devout Never Trump political consultants. A few GOP dissidents ready to let Biden win and look ahead to 2024. President Trump is down in the polls. The Republican National Convention is mostly canceled. And now, some Republicans are contemplating the unthinkable: Would they be better off losing in November and rebuilding for 2024? "The thought is starting to cross people's minds," said a Republican strategist who requested anonymity to speak candidly. "One way or the other, there will be life after Trump." The Editor says... The Conservative Castrati Back Biden. [Scroll down] Ostensibly, this lot stands for the "principles" that President Trump lacks. No one outside of their allies at CNN or their own circle believes that line but, so far as they are concerned, that's all that matters. As a group, they are exemplified by the uniformly anti-Trump publication, The Bulwark. As for specific individuals, a few names come to mind; yet with his recent endorsement of Joe Biden for president, Washington Post columnist and NBC News commentator George Will is an exemplar. Will retreated from the GOP in June 2016, incensed at Donald Trump's then-imminent nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. In a recent conversation with USA Today's Susan Page, Will emphatically pledged his vote to Biden, arguing that Trump and the GOP deserved to lose because they had betrayed conservative principles. BLM Republicans. I watched the interview of my friend and former political opponent, Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, on the Tucker Carlson show recently regarding the topic of BLM and police reform. [...] I would not describe him as a movement conservative, which meant he was likely to move leftward once ensconced in D.C. after winning the Senate seat in 2018. [...] Still, I thought, in most ways, at least, he would have conservative, common-sense instincts as a Jasper man, Midwesterner, and successful businessman. As many have seen, I could not have been more wrong. Braun's response to the post-George Floyd rioting was to introduce a bill named the "Reforming Qualified Immunity Act." This bill would have taken aim at "qualified immunity," which protects police from frivolous lawsuits pursued in the regular discharge of an officer's duties. Braun, in so doing, was accepting the BLM-leftist premise that one of the significant problems confronting blacks in America was the statistically invalid claim that there is widespread police brutality targeting blacks. He neglected to mention the exploding rates of black out-of-wedlock childbirth, welfare dependency, educational failure, drug addiction, criminality, incarceration, and the formation of an entrenched black underclass since the Great Society. Braun felt that cops needed to be held accountable. He brought up the cases of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Breonna Taylor. He signaled his support for Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that has called for the killing of police and the abolition of the "Western-prescribed nuclear family." The Lincoln Project and John Kasich Lack the Credibility to Lead Never-Trump Republicans. There are honorable and honest ways to oppose your own party, and to leave it. As a conservative who took the Never-Trump path and voted for Evan McMullin in 2016, I will grant the good faith of a lot of lifelong Republicans and conservatives who believe that they must support Donald Trump's opponent on the grounds that Trump is unfit for office. And people are entitled to change their minds about what they believe. But it is also important to be honest about what you're doing, and to take responsibility for your own choices. Neither the Lincoln Project nor John Kasich is doing this. Some Flaky Bush Republicans Are Backing Joe. What Else is New in Washington? While the liberal press wants you to believe that the new "43 Alumni for Biden" super PAC is a revolutionary political phenomenon with Earth-shattering electoral consequences, in reality, it's nothing more than a desperate rebrand for the impotent never-Trump campaign that cast its lot with Hillary Clinton four years ago — and lost. Most of the so-called Republicans in this organization never supported Donald Trump or his America First platform in the first place. They are the establishment dinosaurs of the GOP who long ago lost touch with their constituents as they devoted themselves to making a fortune by pandering to the political establishment. NeverTrumpers Out of the Closet as Liberal Democrats in Drag. NeverTrumpers are like gnats in the summer, annoying but largely irrelevant as they don't sting or bite. Their movement hatched when Donald Trump was running for president and they became "the resistance" against the unfit candidate who dared run for president without paying his dues as a senator or governor. [...] NeverTrumpers are well-known former conservatives, at least before coming out as liberals. This is not unheard of. Bill Clinton was once pro-life and Joe Biden was once tough on crime and pro-law enforcement. Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, George Will, and Max Boot all at one time advocated for conservative policies. Now that they have come out, they tossed any and all conservative principles to the wind. Once You See The Strings on the GOP Marionettes. Those who can see the maneuvers of the GOPe may have noticed the recent positioning of two key players, Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney. Both Haley and Cheney are part of a decepticon club positioning to undermine President Trump and the America First agenda. We have previously outlined the agenda of Haley ([elsew]here); so it's time to review Cheney. When Paul Ryan left congress he exited his role as the primary inside resistance operative; however, he did not stop the agenda. Knowing President Trump was now officially the head of the formal republican party, prior to departure Ryan positioned Liz Cheney as an influence agent with her role as Republican Conference Chairwoman. Essentially an explosive anti-MAGA cell with instructions to activate at a time of maximum damage. [...] If we can retake the House of Representatives this fall, Ms. Cheney is going to try and position herself to become "speaker" or "majority leader". Neither position would be good for the America First agenda. Never Trump Republicans Plot to Give Democrats the Senate Majority. Never Trump super PAC the Lincoln Project and other anti-Trump Republicans continue to plot to not only take down President Donald Trump, but also the Senate Republican majority, according to a report released on Saturday [7/4/2020]. Never Trump Republicans believe that preventing a second term for Trump is insufficient, and that Senate Republicans must also pay the price of backing the 45th president. Steve Schmidt, who works for the Never Trump Lincoln Project, said, "The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated. Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney." Hundreds of former George W. Bush officials set to endorse Biden: report. Hundreds of former officials who served under President George W. Bush are gearing up to endorse presumptive Democratic Nominee Joe Biden. The group of officials — which include members of Mr. Bush's cabinet and other senior officers — has reportedly formed a political action committee dubbed 43 Alumni for Biden. Mr. Bush was the 43rd president. "We know what is normal and what is abnormal, and what we are seeing is highly abnormal. The president is a danger," Jennifer Millikin, one of the 43 Alumni organizers, who worked on Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and later in the General Services Administration, told Reuters. Never Trumpers are always wrong. Democrats are despicable in their mendacity, race-baiting and incitement of violence, but they have the excuse of trying to win an election. It's Never Trumpers who deserve the most scorn, especially the inadequates from the Lincoln Project. With anarchy on the streets and China on the warpath, they empower America's enemies. We must never forget their treachery. They claim to be conservatives, yet they do everything they can to ensure America falls into socialist hands in November. They style themselves as defenders of the traditional GOP, yet they endorse Joe Biden, with his problematic moral history, and promise to disarm Americans. The Lincoln Project is the brainchild of embittered former GOP grifters who failed to anticipate the Trump phenomenon and were not talented enough to overcome their miscalculation. Trump derangement is the only occupation open to their washed-up careers, so they are doomed forever to tilt at windmills. GOP congressman who officiated gay wedding loses primary. A freshman Virginia GOP congressman who angered social conservatives in his district when he officiated a gay wedding lost his party's nomination. U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman lost a GOP convention Saturday that was done via drive-thru because of the coronavirus pandemic. He was defeated by Bob Good, a former official in the athletics department at Liberty University. Go ahead, Bush, publicly back Biden. Mr. and Mrs. 41 were actual supporters of Hillary once Jeb! was trumped. But 43 seemed resigned to being viewed as a failure by history, and is too busy painting to bother with politics. Juan Williams: Bush could strike blow for Biden. Will George W. Bush endorse Joe Biden? Congressional Republicans can't even stand up to rebuke President Trump for falsely accusing a cable news host of murder — despite pleas to stop from the family of the woman, who died of natural causes back in 2001. But imagine if former President Bush, as Trump's most recent Republican predecessor, backed a Democrat. Bush's voice has the singular power to reach moderate Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters, freeing them to walk away from the Party of Trump. Former GOP Senator and Secretary of Defense Hagel says he's backing Biden in November. Chuck Hagel, a former GOP senator and Obama administration Defense secretary, says he's voting for Democrat Joe Biden over Republican Donald Trump in November. Hagel said during an interview with AL-Monitor's On the Middle East podcast that his choice is based on the belief that America continues to lose sight of its mission in Iraq and perhaps the entire Middle East. "We can't afford to just abandon Iraq," Hagel told show host Andrew Parasiliti. "I don't think our continued role should be to fight ISIS," on an indefinite basis. "If Iraq is a sovereign nation and wants to continue to exist, they're the ones who are going to have to step up." With Unemployment Rate at 15% — Nine RINO Senators Including Lindsey Graham Push President Trump to Offer More Work Visas to Foreigners. The unemployment in the United States today is at 15%. There are over 39 million Americans who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus. And yet on Wednesday nine US Republican Senators wrote President Donald Trump telling him not to restrict work visas for foreignors [sic]. Lindsey Graham was one of nine RINOs who want to bring in more foreign workers when there are 39 million Americans out of work. Thomas Massie's forced coronavirus vote is irresponsible. The House was expected to pass a $2 trillion relief package Friday morning to ease the economic burden that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic. But Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie may have just delayed that relief from reaching businesses and families. Massie announced Friday morning [3/27/2020] that he would defy GOP leadership and request a roll-call vote on the relief package, which means that if 216 lawmakers are not physically present in the House to vote on the measure, the relief package will remain at a standstill until a quorum is reached. While New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also considered blocking the bill, it seemed set to pass quickly on Friday until Massie announced his intervention. This roll-call vote is irresponsible for several reasons, the most obvious being that it forces representatives to abandon isolation and group together in direct violation of health officials' social distancing guidelines. Some representatives have tested positive for COVID-19, and others have remained self-quarantined out of respect for their other colleagues. Massie is now callously undermining the caution this pandemic demands. Donald Trump: Throw Thomas Massie out of Republican Party. President Donald Trump berated Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Friday [3/27/2020], demanding the Republicans throw him out of the party for obstructing the massive coronavirus rescue package. [...] The president described the famous Republican libertarian as a "third rate Grandstander" who was obstructing the bill. Meet the lawmakers who didn't stick to their parties' position on guns. With the help of eight Republicans, the Democratically-controlled House on Wednesday passed new gun safety legislation that would expand background checks. And while the legislation isn't likely to go anywhere in the Senate, it was a top priority for many new Democratic members who came to power last fall by making gun safety a salient campaign issue. An overwhelming majority of Americans support universal background checks. The eight Republicans who crossed the aisle to support the legislation were: Reps. Vern Buchanan, Mario Diaz-Balart and Brian Mast of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Will Hurd of Texas, Peter T. King of New York, Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey and Fred Upton of Michigan. King has long been the lead Republican co-sponsor of the measure. How One Republican Primary Race Showed The Strength Of Trump's Pro-Life Power Play. Rep. Kay Granger is the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House, and represents the 12th district of Texas, which encompasses half of Tarrant County, the most reliably red, urban county in the Lone Star state. [...] But as Democrats moved the line from "safe, legal, and rare" to "#ShoutYourAbortion," the issue moved to the front of the culture war, forcing politicians to move out of grey areas. In the same way there is no longer room for pro-life Democrats in their increasingly progressive party, Trump's GOP is increasingly hostile to "pro-choice Republicans," a label Granger gave herself in a 2007 MSNBC interview. Here Are The Two Republicans Who Voted Against Protecting Unborn Babies After 20 Weeks. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with Democrats Tuesday against protecting unborn babies after 20 weeks. Both Collins and Murkowski voted with Democrats against the Republican-backed Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, while Democratic Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama voted with Republicans on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Let's Stop Calling Them Never Trump 'Republicans'. The faux "Republicans" behind the Never Trump tantrum "Lincoln Project" are so desperate to destroy Trump and real Republicans running for office that they're OK "even if that means Democratic control of the Senate and an expanded Democratic majority in the House." That's not principled opposition, that's backstabbing. The media and the Nevers insist on using the word "Republicans" because they want to create the illusion of some statistically significant, allegedly principled, resistance to the president from within his own party. Mitt Romney: The Dumbest Smart Person? "Dumbest smart person" should be engraved on an award. Mitt Romney and the three other Republicans considering calling witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial would be the final four. Clearly, Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and Alexander are all smart people. They're successful. They've managed to get elected to the Senate. Romney himself is a near-billionaire in his own right. But they are willfully blind to the obvious-to-everyone-else tactics of the Democrats. That Trio of RINO Rebels. You've got to hand it to the Democrats — they can hold their caucus together for the flimsiest of causes. The GOP, though, has all these RINOs who have to establish their independence; they're willing to break party unity when it serves their own ambitions. Three senators — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitt Romney of Utah — are rumored to be willing for witnesses to be called in the impeachment trial now underway in the Senate. Obviously, such a slowdown benefits the Democrats, who want the impeachment to headline news reports as long as possible. [...] The question is whether the three RINOs mentioned above will put the good of the country above their own emotional needs or self-interest. For Pelosi's Impeachment Democrats, It's All about the Disruption. [Scroll down] But the fact is, this is where Democrats outplay us every time. They knew from the get-go of this impeachment brouhaha that RINOs are our Achilles' Heel. They knew that many Republican senators simply tolerate Trump but aren't really behind him. They knew many of our senators care more about "principle" than party and are so worried about being the bad guy that they'll side with Democrats even though they'll politically shiv Republicans the first chance they get. They might target Mike Lee and Rand Paul knowing they will brazenly defy the president if agreement with him conflicts with a belief or principle they hold, or their views on the Constitution. Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers. One could perhaps have excused them their earlier indiscretions of November 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable conservative pedigree. Indeed, Donald Trump had been a fairly typical New York liberal Democrat for much of his life. And he had led a less than stellar moral life. And so the pile-on at the time by National Review and others could perhaps have been forgiven, although not really, when one considered the alternative. [...] Never Trumpers go under many labels including Globalists, neo-Cons, "moderate" Republicans, RINOs, Democrat-lites, and the "GOP establishment." Some of its better-known members include William Kristol, Mona Charen, the Koch brothers, John Podhoretz, Jeff Flake, Steve Schmidt, the Bushes, George Will, Bret Stephens, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Rick Wilson, David French, Max Boot, and others. Anti-Trump Republican group targets evangelical voters with new ad. A new anti-Trump Republican group, the Lincoln Project, is out with their first ad targeting President Donald Trump as the group looks to chip away at his support among evangelical voters. The video titled "the MAGA church," which comes on the heels of the Trump campaign investing big in evangelical outreach, features a string of unflattering clips of the president along with the message: "If this is the best American Christians can do, then [...]." Nashville man wanted in connection with murder of brother of 49ers QB had just been released from jail. Tennessee's allegedly Republican governor, Bill Lee, has promised to "empty our jails." He claimed, "We have to be creative and innovative and disruptive and challenge the way we've been doing things forever." Well, if the man Nashville police are seeking in connection to the murders of Clayton Beathard, 22, and Paul Trapeni III, 21, indeed committed those murders, it will be precisely because he was let out of jail so "innovatively." These 15 GOP governors are asking for more refugee resettlement in their red states. Is there a single red state left in America? While Republicans in Washington spent the month betraying conservatives on the budget and border fight, GOP governors who are even more liberal have been quietly undermining Trump's promise to shut down the refugee resettlement racket. If conservative media is going to continue to put 100 percent of its focus on impeachment, the Left will succeed in getting every single governor and most county officials in the reddest states and counties to promote the broken refugee resettlement scam. George Conway, Republicans Launch Effort Aimed To Take Down Trump. A group of Republicans, including George Conway, announced the launch of a project aimed at defeating President Donald Trump in an op-ed Tuesday [12/17/2019]. The New York Times op-ed, written by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson, is titled "We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated." All four authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns and launched the "Lincoln Project" to take down Trump, according to The NYT. "Over these next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line," the op-ed reads. Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection. A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his "enablers." Bias alert! CNN's Ana Navarro refuses to believe 2 polls showing 34% of blacks approve of President Trump. Yesterday's [11/25/2019] news that two different respected polls are showing 34% of African-Americans approving of President Trump is such bad news for Trump-haters that some refuse to believe it. Among those who presume to speak for African Americans is "proud Nicaraguan-AMERICAN" Ana Navarro, a CNN contributor who is nominally a Republican (she supported Jeb! in 2016), but who announced that she voted for Democrats for president and governor of Florida because of her hatred for President Trump. Never-Trumper Mark Sanford Ends Long Shot Campaign for President. Sanford entered the race in September, claiming that the GOP had "lost" its compass under President Trump and pledging to make national deficit solutions his primary campaign focus. His departure still leaves former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld as Republican primary candidates. Trump Primary Challenger Says He'd Vote For Joe Biden 'In A Heartbeat'. Trump primary challenger Bill Weld said Thursday [10/24/2019] that he would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump "in a heartbeat." The former Massachusetts Republican governor shared a stage at the CITIZEN by CNN conference with two fellow primary candidates — former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh — and told the crowd that he could easily pull the lever for Biden. Bill Weld [Says he] Could Vote for a Democrat, [and would] Prefer Warren to Trump. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, one of President Donald Trump's longshot Republican primary challengers, said that he could support a Democrat in the general election — even Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)[.] [...] Weld, flanked by fellow Republican primary challengers Joe Walsh and Mark Sandford, proclaimed he would never support President Trump "under any circumstances," but could "very well" support a third-party presidential candidate. What You Need To Know About The Texas House Speaker's Scandal. An influential conservative political activist who spent the summer accusing the powerful Republican speaker of the Texas House of an illegal quid pro quo offer finally "brought receipts" Tuesday morning. Michael Quinn Sullivan publicly released a previously secret recording of his June meeting with Speaker Dennis Bonnen. Bonnen's lawyer attempted to minimize the effects before the recording's release by proclaiming that his client had neither violated Texas law nor any House rule. After the release, Bonnen was even more defiant through a spokesman, claiming the recording provided "clear evidence now disproving allegations of criminal wrongdoing." We Will Remember The 129 Republicans Who Refused to Stand With President Trump. [Scroll down] Why is this important? Well, today [10/16/2019] 129 Republican House members spat upon our President as he works tirelessly to defend out interests and put America First. 129 Republican House representatives voted against the one Republican who is doing everything he possibly can to fulfill the expectations of those who elected him to office. 129 back-stabbing cowards, voted to condemn President Trump for withdrawing the U.S. military from Syria; the same military engagement those same spineless cowards in the House would not vote to authorize. Those 129 Republicans should be shamed. Mark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person showed up. The bell in the Independence Hall tower rang at 9 a.m., and Mark Sanford took a deep breath. He grabbed a giant check for "one trillion dollars," stood next to a tiny wooden lectern, and asked me if I was ready for him to kick off a news conference announcing his bid to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. It didn't really feel like a news conference. I was the only reporter there. GOP/Democrat
Senators Beg Trump: Import 'As Many Refugees as Possible'. In a letter dated August 5 — before
[President] Trump announced he would lower the refugee resettlement cap to a maximum of 18,000 admissions for Fiscal Year
2020 — Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Coons (D-DE) led a group of lawmakers to ask that the president increase the
number of refugees resettled in the U.S. every year beyond the current year's 30,000 admissions ceiling. The lawmakers include:
Jeff Flake says 'at least 35' Republican senators would privately vote to impeach Trump. Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made a bold claim on Thursday when he said "at least 35" GOP senators would privately vote for President Trump's impeachment. Appearing at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Flake, a frequent critic of the president, offered his own reaction and predicted that close to three dozen Republican senators would back impeachment. "I heard someone say if there were a private vote there would be 30 Republican votes. That's not true," Flake said during a Q&A. "There would be at least 35." Eleven GOP Senators Vote Against National Emergency, Border Wall. Eleven GOP senators voted to cancel President Donald Trump's declaration of a national border emergency and his subsequent transfer of agency funding to build the border wall. This 54 to 41 vote was not about the border wall, but whether "the Congress of the United States of America should yield its constitutionally prescribed power of the purse to the President," said Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins. The Editor says... Vermont Conservatives Have Had Enough of Their RINO Governor. The schism in Vermont was evident in the 2018 midterms, when large swaths of conservatives abandoned the Vermont polls in disgust with Phil Scott's outspoken support for sweeping gun law restrictions that he had specifically promised he would oppose. Yet Phil Scott won handily, as many centrist Vermonters were not quite ready for his progressive transgender opponent. Donald Trump: RINO Republicans 'Gasping for Air' in My Presidency. President Donald Trump boasted Monday that he was continuing to drain the swamp in Washington, DC, particularly among "RINO" Republicans. "I hate to say this, but we have some Republicans, they are not good. You call them a RINO, they are RINOs, they're RINOs or worse," Trump said, referring to Republicans derided as "Republicans In Name Only" because of their political alliances in Washington. The president spoke about moderate Republicans during a campaign rally in New Mexico, noting that the RINOs were worse than many of the Democrats. Dobbs grills RNC chair over 'spineless RINOs' who 'roll over like puppies'. Lou Dobbs confronted the chair of the Republican National Committee on the Party's plans for 2020 and its weak "establishment candidates." The Fox Business host had plenty to tell Ronna McDaniel during her appearance on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" Wednesday [9/4/2019], pressing her on the expectations for the upcoming election and what would be done with spineless "RINOs" who "roll over like puppies." Here are the 4 Republicans and Amash Who Voted to Condemn Trump. Rep. Amash is no longer being listed as a Republican. Otherwise it would be 5. Exposing
the RINO Underground By Smoking Out the 'Never Trumpers' One-by-One. Honestly — really,
honestly — who ever heard of Ana Navarro before she became a CNN "expert Republican" on what is wrong with
Trump and with the entire Republican political agenda? [...] Between those rare glimpses of Navarro, and occasional snippets
of that Thing that get aired on Hannity or Laura when that vile object is shown obnoxiously filing her nails during a
"debate," I have figured this out: Weld could face scrutiny on party loyalty, lobbying, more amid Trump primary challenge. Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor making a longshot challenge for the 2020 Republican presidential nod, has aggressively gone after President Trump since his campaign launch — calling him a "one-man crime wave" and even suggesting Attorney General Bill Barr "erred" by not indicting the commander-in-chief. Trump — known for punching back at even the slightest slights — has thus far ignored his GOP opponent, as his campaign says they're not concerned about the primary. Three Republicans join House Democrats to rebuke Trump on Paris climate agreement. House Democrats rebuked President Trump for rejecting the Paris Agreement Thursday, passing a bill that would bar him from taking the U.S. out of the landmark international climate change accord. Democrats provided almost all of the votes for the bill, with none of them opposing it. Only three House Republicans backed it: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Elise Stefanik of New York, and Vern Buchanan of Florida. Democrats said the legislation, which passed by a 231-190 margin, is the first major climate change bill approved by the House in a decade. Alexander's Energy Plan: The Dollars Are In The Details. If you've never heard of Senator Lamar Alexander's (R-Tenn) "New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy," you're hardly alone. Even as the "Green New Deal" keeps generating buzz, this recently revived 2008 proposal has been largely ignored, except by a handful of fellow senators mostly on the other side of the aisle. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry expressed initial support for the plan in hearings. His fiscal 2020 budget, however, would cut funding for energy research by 70 percent. 14 House Republicans Stab America In The Back. Yesterday [3/26/2019], 14 house Republicans voted with the Democrats in a failed attempt to override President trump's veto of the Democrat resolution disapproving the President's declaration of an emergency on the southern border. Rick Perry has surrendered. Rick Perry, Secretary for Energy, gave a speech last week in Houston. [...] So he has revealed himself to be absolutely clueless with respect to carbon dioxide, increasing levels of which in the atmosphere are wholly beneficial. He is a useful fool in wanting to help the Marxist plotter Occasional Cortex. And wanting to help China reduce its emissions is Children's Crusade-level wishful thinking. The reason Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 was because the rest of the field were spineless invertebrates. One of the most spineless was Rick Perry, who was among the first to drop out. Border Security Vote — McConnell Unleashes Two-Thirds of Decepticon Caucus to Keep Borders Open. Delivering a targeted message from U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Dohonue, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unleashed twelve members of his Decepticon caucus to rebuke the border security efforts of President Donald Trump. Doing what he does best, Leader McConnell held back (protected): John Thune, John Cornyn, John Barasso, Mike Crapo, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis & Cory Gardner. However, the remaining dozen were permitted to vote against the President for Joint Resolution (H.J. Res. 46 ). The Worst People Ever (This Week). [Scroll down] Bill Kristol. Few people have fallen further than the man who seems to exist solely by convincing wealthy people to give him money to scream his opinions into a void. Kristol has survived on his father's name and milking every last drop from having serving as Chief of Staff to former Vice-President Dan Quayle. That's his greatest accomplishment, aside from the wars he helped start. When Trump won the nomination, the hamster running in the wheel generating the power in Bill's head committed suicide and the lights dimmed. Even when issues he'd advocated for his whole adult life were accomplished, Kristol couldn't get past the fact that the man accomplishing them didn't need his help to get them done. Discovering he's not only irrelevant but unnecessary was too much to handle, and he tumbled down the rabbit hole. He now roams the halls of CNN and MSNBC mumbling affirmations to himself until he gets the call preen on camera. GOP rep says Trump 'violating our constitutional system' with wall order. A Republican congressman who opposes President Donald Trump's emergency border wall declaration said Sunday he believes Trump "is violating our constitutional system" with the declaration. The comments from Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, came as he discussed the declaration, which Trump made last month to unlock additional funding to construct his proposed wall along the southern border. GOP Rep. Amash: Trump 'Is Violating Our Constitutional System'. Sunday [3/3/2019] on CNN's "State of the Union," Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) said President Donald Trump's emergency declaration was a violation of the American constitutional system. More GOP Senators Plan to Vote Against Trump's Border-Wall Emergency. Sen. Rand Paul has joined the list of GOP Senators who are abandoning Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's pledge to support the border emergency declaration by President Donald Trump. "I can't vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress," Paul told a home-state audience at Western Kentucky University's Augenstein Alumni Center on May 2. "We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn't authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it's a dangerous thing," he said, according to the Bowling Green Daily News. Rand Paul Says He'll Vote Against Trump's Border Emergency, Likely Forcing A Veto. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky says he'll vote in favor of a resolution to terminate President Trump's national emergency declaration with regards to the U.S.-Mexico border. Paul's support means the resolution will likely pass the Senate with bipartisan support and could force the president to issue his first veto. Paul's announcement, coming from an-otherwise close ally of the president, lays bare the discomfort many Republicans have had with the emergency declaration. Thirteen Republicans Voted for Ending Trump's National Emergency to Build the Wall. Thirteen House Republicans joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democrats to pass a resolution that would terminate President Donald J. Trump's national emergency to build a wall along the southern border. The House passed a resolution Tuesday to end President Donald Trump's national emergency to build a wall along the southern border. The bill passed; however, it did not receive enough votes to potentially override a presidential veto. Plan B for rebel Republicans: Wound Trump so he'll lose to a Democrat in general election. President Trump's antagonists inside the Republican Party now have a fallback plan to scuttle his re-election: using the 2020 primary fight as a bludgeon to inflict irreparable political damage on him in the November general election. The "Never Trump" movement's preferred strategy is to recruit a formidable Republican who might block the president's renomination, or at least mount an aggressive challenge that presses him all the way to the convention in Charlotte set for late summer next year. Efforts are underway to woo Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and other top Republicans uneasy with Trump. Short of that, key renegade Republicans are preparing to settle for Plan B: mortally wound him. The Two Republicans Who Voted to Keep Late-Term Abortions Legal. While Sen. Orrin Hatch expressed his 'shock' Monday that most of his Democratic colleagues could vote against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, it wasn't just Democrats who opposed the measure. Two Republican senators joined Democrats in voting against the 20-week abortion ban: Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. Tolerating Republican Betrayals on Guns Only Encourages More Turncoats. "[T]here is a push to pass an 'assault weapons' ban via a ballot initiative to amend the State Constitution," a Monday Florida Shooters Network report warns. "This is being spearheaded by Ban Assault Weapons NOW (BAWN), a bipartisan group of gun-grabbers made up of Republican and Democrat authoritarians that want to see Floridians disarmed." "BAWN has partnered with the prominent Republican donor Al Hoffman and his gun-control-advocacy organization, Americans for Gun Safety Now!, which is made up almost entirely of Republicans who support an assault-weapons ban," a cited advocacy puff piece masked as political reporting from The Atlantic notes. Neo-conservative Bill Kristol Donated $200 to Pro-Abortion Ralph Northam Campaign. Neo-conservative Bill Kristol, a staunch NeverTrumper and founder of the now-defunct The Weekly Standard, donated to the Virginia gubernatorial campaign of Ralph Northam in August 2017, according to the Daily Caller. Northam is in the news lately because of his apparent racism and his support for abortion at the moment of birth, infanticide. Many Democrats and not a few Republicans nationwide are calling on Northam to resign. As the Daily Caller reported, Kristol revealed last year that he had donated to the Northam campaign in 2017 because he was "infuriated" with President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Inside the secret Republican plot to take down Trump in 2020. Renegade Republicans determined to eject President Trump from the White House in 2020 share a commitment to the cause but are split on strategy and realistic about their long-shot prospects. Former John McCain aides, members of Evan McMullin's independent 2016 presidential campaign, disgruntled neocons, and establishment GOPers — the only thing they agree on is a loathing of Trump. 5 Reasons to Stop Watching 'The Five' on Fox News. [#2] Establishment Republican Dana Perino is still in the building. Former G.W. Bush spokesperson Dana Perino, who some detractors have nicknamed Dana PeRINO, continues on the panel. Over the years since the show launched in July 2011, her goody-two-shoes act has come across as increasingly disingenuous. Moreover, the "in fairness to the Democrats" mantra is cloying. This apparent effort to curry favor with the Murdoch bros has evidently paid off, however, because Fox gave the her an anchor slot in the afternoon. Establishment Republicans Want the Pro-Life Movement Dead. Is any political constituency as regularly swindled and abused as are pro-lifers? From their promises to defund Planned Parenthood to their assurances that Roe v. Wade is very soon to be on the chopping block, establishment Republicans are masters at talking a big game but doing nothing at all to advance the right to life of the unborn. Too many Republican politicians either are cynical grifters or outright liars who don't care a whit about the 14th Amendment's promise of "equal protection of the laws" to all persons or the Declaration's teaching that "all men are created equal" and "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" — chief among them being the right to life. RINO Droppings: The Legacy of California's Girlyman Gov. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, is giving up her Republican Party registration. The cause, she explained, was the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But Cantil-Sakauye was not disturbed by the sleazy charges Democrats unleashed against the Trump nominee, which evidently she believed. Instead, California's chief justice wondered why Republicans would bring in a female prosecutor to question Christine Blasey Ford. Perhaps to find out if her story that a drunken Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her was true or false? Though that is hardly all this jurist doesn't get. Another RINO bites the dust. So Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of California, has left the Republican Party, in part, because of the backlash from all the sexual allegations that swirled about Brett Kavanaugh, newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court justice. Well, goodbye and good riddance. Republicans Working with Democrats to Ban Counting U.S. Citizens in Census. Republican lawmakers are working with Democrats to ban the 2020 Census from asking United States residents whether or not they are American citizens. In March, President Donald Trump's administration announced they would put the citizenship question back on the census. It has not been included since 1950. For seven decades, all residents living in the United States have been counted on the census but have not been asked whether or not they are American citizens, making it impossible for the federal government to know the size of the citizen population versus the immigrant population. Bill Kristol's 'Republican' group reportedly has no GOP donors, but DOES have massive backing from left-wing billionaire. So-called "conservative" commentator Bill Kristol reportedly has his never-ending campaign to take down President Donald Trump receive funding from a left-wing billionaire. Kristol, the editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, seems to have taken his never-Trump activities to another level, actively opposing Republican candidates and conservative causes through the group he founded, "Republicans for the Rule of Law." Arizona Illustrates the RINO Revenge. Arizona's Senate race was perhaps the most surprising, and disturbing, midterm result for Republicans and Trump fans. Many struggle to understand how Barry Goldwater's home state will send a former pink tutu-wearing antiwar activist to Washington. The answer is instructive regarding what Trump Republicanism must do to build a majority. The biggest reason Martha McSally lost is the same reason Republicans lost control of the House: RINOs. Across the nation, moderate college-educated independents who had frequently backed Republicans in prior elections switched sides. We can see this trend both in the Arizona exit polls and the results reported to date. Sen. Doug Jones represents conservative Alabama, votes like New England liberal. While other senators' votes got more attention, perhaps the most curious "No" vote on Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh came from Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama, a Democrat who represents one of the reddest states in the country but has been voting, at times, like a New England liberal. After his surprise win in a special election in late 2017 some analysts had predicted Mr. Jones would join Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, as the chamber's middle, backing Mr. Trump on some key disputes. But those occasions have been few, and more often Mr. Jones has sided with his party's leadership on spending cuts, immigration, abortion and those critical presidential nominations such as Justice Kavanaugh. A savage, frothing Left has united Republicans around Trump. Just in time for the last lap of the 2018 midterm elections, the Kavanaugh fiasco has united the post-Trump Republican Party like nothing before it. Suddenly, President Trump and former President George W. Bush were pulling for the same candidate. Suddenly, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, and Jeff Flake of Arizona are conservative heroes, having proven themselves friends in need. Suddenly, long-term "Never Trumpers," to their surprise and astonishment, have a strange new respect for their commander in chief. The Only Subject Ben Sasse Won't Talk About: Spygate. A former college president, [Ben] Sasse likes to pontificate and opine as though voters had possibly signed up for one of his classes. [...] But one subject the quick-talking Sasse will not openly discuss is the unfolding scandal now roiling Washington and enraging Republicans across the country: How President Obama's Justice Department spied on the Trump campaign, and how top law enforcement and intelligence officials weaponized their powers to try to destroy his candidacy and his presidency. For a guy so concerned with abuse of power and democratic norms and a crisis of public trust, Sasse's silence on the biggest political scandal in U.S. history is conspicuous. While other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have been outspoken about this fiasco, demanding documents and testimony, Sasse is missing in action. In fact, his dramatic Senate floor condemnation of Trump's warning that he might fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggests Sasse either is completely unaware of or willfully ignoring the scandal. She's No Ted Kennedy. Republican presidents know any Supreme Court nominee will be savaged no matter how sound a jurist or decent a person. But now a Republican nominee has armies of groups ready, willing and able to make the public case for him. And not only do Democrats not have a majority in the Senate; they have squandered the power they might have had as a minority when they all but invited Republicans to scrap the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, their last line of defense. Immediately after Judge Kavanaugh's nomination was announced, the press speculated about Republicans who might sink him: Sens. Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, etc. The Weekly Standard's Ties to Fusion GPS. In his online appeal for money after being fired this week, disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok credited an unlikely source to vouch for his victim status: The Weekly Standard. At one time a leading conservative magazine, the Standard declared last month that Strzok's plight was merely an "overwrought tale of bias" and the case against him is "just sound and fury." [...] Strzok is following only 32 people on his newly-verified Twitter account. Bill Kristol, the editor-at-large of the Standard, is one of them. So, what's with the fanboying between the Standard — an allegedly serious publication dedicated to advancing conservative principles — and a corrupt government bureaucrat who embodies everything the conservative movement fought against for decades? No Borders, No Nation. [Scroll down] Although this article has focused almost exclusively on the fact that the Democratic Party has been the main proponent of open borders, it should be said that their radical agenda would never have gotten as far as it has without the constant betrayal by Republican Party leaders. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Mitch McConnell, Representative Paul Ryan, and other GOP leaders have repeatedly squished out or sold out on virtually every important immigration issue over the past half century. While ever playing to the Republican base with border security overtures, they have reliably caved in at the critical moments. The Unmasking of The Weekly Standard. In a flawed, dishonest, and truly contemptible cover article by April Doss, The Weekly Standard crossed the line from Trump foe to Obama defender; in the process, the allegedly "conservative" publication gave voice to a hyperpartisan Democrat who briefly worked for a disgraced Senate committee so she could smear a man who has been a real hero these past 18 months: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). The article, "What We Can Learn About Carter Page, the FBI, and Devin Nunes' Conspiracy Theory," reflects the kind of willful ignorance and deceitfulness employed by pundits on the Left and the NeverTrump Right to make Nunes — and not the dozens of unelected bureaucrats who orchestrated this travesty — the real villain. It is straight-up, Adam Schiff-style propaganda. Conservatives Dreading a Martha McSally Senate Win in Arizona. After Arizona Senator Jeff Flake announced he was not running for reelection to the U.S. Senate, three prominent candidates entered the race. One is conservative Kelli Ward, a former state legislator who ran unsuccessfully for Senate against John McCain. A second candidate is former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who many do not believe is a serious candidate at age 86. The third well-known candidate in the race is Rep. Martha McSally, a liberal Republican who represents a Democratic leaning district in Arizona. The Arizona Daily Independent reports that John McCain is pushing her candidacy. Trump critics [are] among the least popular senators in the country. The five least popular senators, according to a Morning Consult poll, have all clashed with President Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leads the list with a 30 percent approval rating while a staggering 56 percent disapprove. Frequent Trump foil Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., comes next at 30 percent approval and 51 percent disapproval. Perhaps more surprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has a 42 percent approval rating while 46 percent of Arizonans disapprove of his job performance. Former GOP Gov Calls for Trump's Resignation: 'Unfit to Remain in Office'. Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman said President Donald Trump is "clearly unfit to remain in office" and called for him to step down Sunday [7/22/2018], in a lengthy Los Angeles Times op-ed. Todd Whitman, who also led the EPA during President George W. Bush's first term, said Trump's "disgraceful performance" before Russian leader Vladimir Putin during their controversial summit last week in Finland helped her come to such a conclusion. The 'conservative' resistance continues against Trump, the man delivering all the conservative results. We didn't have a crystal ball, or any kind of political record to predict what President Trump would do. But we had his word and a list of potential Supreme Court nominees he said he would pick from. Many of us took a chance that Trump wasn't selling us down the river — and he didn't disappoint. As one of his first acts as president, he gave us Neil Gorsuch. Yet now there are still professed conservatives opposing a Trump presidency, even to the point where they're openly hoping for Democrats to win control of Congress in the November midterm elections. The irony is that these self-proclaimed "principled conservatives" can relate more to the far-left liberal crowd with their "resist movement" than to the conservative base they claim to want to protect. The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back. With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated. The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and John McCain, is history. It's not coming back. [...] The GOP's policies of recent decades — the New World Order of George H.W. Bush, the crusades for democracy of Bush II — failed, and are seen as having failed. With Trump's capture of the party they were repudiated. There will be no turning back. Why some conservatives are now pushing Democrats. The conservative commentators who absolutely despise President Trump are in a box. During the campaign, many loudly proclaimed that they could never vote for Trump. But they said they didn't want Hillary Clinton to win either. So some opted for fringe candidates or third-party candidates or write-in candidates or told people to make up their own minds. This was something of a charade. Either Trump or Clinton was going to be the next president. So by refusing to back Trump, they were increasing the chances that Hillary would win. Now, with the midterms approaching, some of those on the right are taking the step that they refused to take in 2016: They are openly rooting for the Democrats. Here Are The 41 Republicans Who Voted Against Securing The U.S. Border. Forty-one House Republicans voted against a bill Friday that would have secured funding for President Donald Trump's border wall, addressed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and included E-verify, among other conservative provisions. Members voted on an amended version of GOP Reps. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Michael McCaul of Texas's bill that provided more border security funding, only granted DACA recipients a temporary protected three-year legal status with no pathway for citizenship — which moderate Republicans are fervently asking leadership to provide — and included other features. [...] Some of the members who voted against the bill did so because leadership altered the bill before the final vote, adding on amendments and provisions they deemed "amnesty." Watchdog Group: Idaho PAC 'Masquerading' as Republicans to Elect Brad Little as Governor. An Idaho government watchdog group says left-wing labor union bosses and environmentalists have been "masquerading" as conservative Republicans to convince the state's citizens to vote for liberal Republican gubernatorial candidate Brad Little. "In a recent mailing, the Independent Republicans for Idaho PAC tells voters that Little is 'safeguarding conservative Idaho values,'" writes Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation, adding that the PAC further states, "Brad is the proven conservative leader who will stand up for the things we hold dear: family, freedom and a future worth fighting for." "The question: Who are the "Independent Republicans for Idaho?" Hoffman asks, observing that the PAC shares the same address as the Idaho Education Association (IEA), a state teachers' union that has been battling school choice and promoting a statewide pre-kindergarten program, the latter of which Little also supports. According to Hoffman, the nation's largest teachers union — the National Education Association (NEA) — has contributed $75,000 to the "Republican" PAC. GOP lawmakers defy party leaders to push for Dreamers. A handful of moderate Republican lawmakers defied party leaders and took steps Wednesday toward forcing campaign-season House votes on immigration — and one maverick predicted they had the votes to succeed. "We feel very importantly that this has got to happen now, and we' re willing to drive that vote," said Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.). Their effort meant that a drive to help young Dreamers that seemed to have stalled earlier this year could be restarted in the run-up to November's midterm elections for House and Senate control. That could spell fresh headaches for GOP leaders, whose party is divided between backers of President Trump's hard-line views and more pragmatic members. Here are the Republican Senators Who Voted For the Mueller Coup Bill. This isn't just an attack on Trump. It's an attack on the Constitution. [Four] Republican senators voted to protect the Clinton-Mueller coup effort. The bill would prevent Mueller or a special prosecutor from being fired without, effectively, the approval, passive or active, of a Federal judge. Carbon Tax: A Bad Idea Whose Time Should Never Come. The temptation of a carbon tax these days seems great, even to some Republicans. But it's a bad idea. Now two GOP lawmakers want to put people on the record opposing it, in the hopes of keeping it from becoming a reality. George W. Bush Praises Cheap Labor Immigration: 'We Ought to Say Thank You and Welcome Them'. Former President George W. Bush praised the inflow of illegal and legal immigrants to the United States, saying Americans should "say 'Thank you'" to migrants and "welcome them." Addressing a summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Bush criticized President Trump's decision to end the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gave temporary amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens. "America's their home," Bush said, according to the Associated Press. "They've got to get it fixed." The Editor says... RINO Republicans Help Democrats To Keep Memo Locked Up. While the Establishment Media continues its fabricated government shutdown hysteria through the weekend, some Republicans continue to demand the public be allowed to see a memo which apparently shows a shocking abuse of power during the Obama administration that, among other things, attempted to unduly influence the 2016 Election outcome. It is a litany of abuses some have suggested would rock the nation to its core, exposing Deep State corruption at the highest levels and providing proof of corruption that is at this very moment, impacting millions of private citizens. Lindsey Graham boasts 'growing momentum' after four more GOP senators back bipartisan immigration deal. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday [1/17/2018] boasted of "growing momentum" among GOP senators for a bipartisan immigration deal on Capitol Hill, despite pushback from the White House. A press release from the South Carolina Republican's office announced Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., have all indicated support for the proposal that would offer a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. They join Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Corey Gardner, R-Colo., who already support the deal. "I'm very pleased that our bipartisan proposal continues to gain support among my Republican colleagues," Graham said. Trump's Wildly Successful First Year Again Exposes #NeverTrump as Amoral Saboteurs. Remember these names: Jonah Goldberg, David Frum, Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, Max Boot, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Joe Scarborough, Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse, Jennifer Rubin, George Will, Josh Jordan, Tom Nichols, Charles Cooke, Stephen Hayes, Tim Miller, John Podhoretz, Nicole Wallace, Steven Schmidt, Bret Stephens, Ross Douthat, Leon Wolf, David Brooks, Rick Wilson, Evan McMullin, Stuart Stevens, Red State, National Review, the Weekly Standard. These are the so-called conservative men, women, and institutions who (among others) fought the hardest to sabotage Donald Trump's presidential campaign, all in the unforgivable hope that Hillary Clinton would become president. These are so-called conservatives who have, for nearly two years now, been promoting themselves and fundraising by smearing Trump as incompetent and "not a real conservative," as a "Democrat in sheep's clothing" — when, in fact, all of that best describes #NeverTrump. Here Are The 12 Republicans Who Voted Against Tax Reform. Twelve Republican House members voted against their party's bill to reform the tax code Tuesday [12/19/2017]. The House passed The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 227-203 Tuesday. Twelve Republicans and all Democrats voted against the bill. Two members did not vote. The bill lowers the income tax rates for individuals and small businesses, permanently lowers the corporate tax rate, and includes a number of other features Republicans can get behind, like repealing Obamacare's individual mandate. Here are the 12 Republican representatives who voted against giving tax breaks to Americans and businesses: [...] GOP senator: Moore's defeat was 'a great night for America'. Republican Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), a frequent critic of President Trump, on Wednesday reportedly celebrated the defeat of GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in the state's special election. NBC News's Frank Thorp reported that Corker called Moore's election night defeat "a great night for America" after being asked about the race by reporters. Evan McMullin Group Targeting Roy Moore Wants Constant Flow of Middle East Migration to U.S. The Republican establishment group fronted by failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin — which has spent $500,000 against populist conservative Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race — supports a constant flow of Middle East migration to the United States. McMullin's "Stand Up Republic" has spent half a million dollars attempting to help elect Moore's opponent in the Alabama Senate race, pro-open borders Democrat candidate Doug Jones, as Breitbart News reported. The GOP establishment organization, though, is vastly at odds with Alabama voters, opposing President Trump's travel ban, which blocks foreign nationals from a handful of countries that export terrorism, thus supporting a constant flow of Middle East migration to the U.S. Here Are The GOP Reps Who Voted Against Tax Reform. House Republicans managed to pass the first comprehensive tax reform bill in over three decades Thursday without the support of 13 GOP defectors. The bill, which passed 227-205, eliminates the state and local tax deduction, a measure designed to compensate residents of high tax states by reducing their federal tax bill. This revenue saving measure sparked opposition from Republican delegations from New Jersey, New York and California, who believe the bill will result in a higher net tax for their constituents. Here are the 13 GOP members who voted "no" on the bill: [...] 2 RINOs Down - Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out! Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who sports a solid 'F' Liberty Score, announced on September 26 that he is packing it in. For those unfamiliar, the Conservative Review "Liberty Score" is a letter grade, ranging from A to F, signifying a legislators' conservative voting record. A is a Constitutionalist, a la Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and F is a RINO, a la too many Republicans to name. Despite what Corker said when he first won his Senate seat — that he couldn't imagine serving more than two terms — I believe he wouldn't have considered retirement should Hillary have won. As we witnessed over the last several years, it's much easier to fake being a real Republican when a Democrat is in the White House. How many ObamaCare repeal bills were passed through both Houses? It's virtually effortless to look conservative when you know Obama will just veto every measure. [...] So now Flake and Corker are on a tag team scorched Earth campaign against Trump. Establishment Republicans Fall Like Dominoes: Luther Strange, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake Gone. Establishment Republicans standing in the way of President Donald Trump's agenda are falling like dominoes heading into the midterm elections in 2018, as Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon ramps up his "season of war" on the political class. The latest failed Republican to tap out is Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who announced on Tuesday [10/24/2017] he will not seek re-election after originally planning to. Four GOP Senators Standing in the Way of Progress. Four Republican senators hold and have held our country in their hands for most of this year by themselves. They obstruct progress by wielding far too much power than their positions and number merit. They are Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and John McCain of Arizona. These four prevented healthcare reform and they now stand in the way of tax reform. These Nine 'Republicans' Co-Sponsor More Gun Control Bill. So far, nine so called Republicans have signed on to the Marxist Democrat gun control, gun grab bill. The so called Republicans are the usual collection of North Eastern liberal Republicans who are as corrupt as Harvey Weinstein's breast milk. You also have three other liberal Republicans like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who is retiring, Erik Paulsen of loony Minnesota and Ed Royce of California. White House: Bob Corker 'Rolled Out The Red Carpet for the Iran Deal'. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders criticized Sen. Bob Corker during the White House press briefing on Tuesday, accusing him of helping the Obama administration pass the Iran deal. "Senator Corker worked with Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration to pave the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the Iran deal," Sanders said in response to questions about Corker. "Those are pretty factual." When asked by a reporter later if she stood by that statement she replied, "I do, I just made it about ten minutes ago." GOP Establishment's Steve Schmidt Calls for 'Breitbart News' to Be 'Put Out of Business'. MSNBC 's Steve Schmidt, the GOP ace who ran the 2008 McCain campaign, the Einstein unable to defeat the most leftwing senator in America — a Chicago machine politician guilty of palling around with domestic terrorists and worshiping for 20 years in a racist church — now wants to reward millions of illegal aliens with amnesty and put Americans out of work — specifically those of us who work for Breitbart News. Bruce Rauner, betrayer of the Illinois GOP. There used to be a time when Republicans stood for certain non-negotiables — free markets, lower taxes, limited governments and yes, law and order at the borders. Then came Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. CNN's Republican Pundit Gave Thousands of Dollars to Dems, Including the Chairwoman of the DNC. It turns out CNN's spokeswoman for Republicans is not as Republican as you might think. Ana Navarro, who has been the perpetual presence as the "Republican" on many panels across the news spectrum, has donated thousands of dollars over the past two decades to some of the most controversial and partisan leaders of the Democratic Party, a new report finds. Anti-Trumpers Need To Fire On The Real Enemy Instead Of On Conservatives. The GOP didn't abandon its most deeply held beliefs in 2016. That's been going on for decades. Where was [Senator Jeff] Flake's scorching pen during the reign of Barack Obama? Did any Republican senator or congressman write a manifesto about how Obama is ruining the country? No, of course not. Far be it from them to offend a Democrat. Instead, they — like Flake himself — propped up Obama's leftist agenda by voting for policies and personnel that defy our deeply held beliefs. Flake refused to join conservatives in their fight to defund Obamacare. He signed on to the Gang of Eight amnesty debacle. He confirmed one of the most dangerous attorney generals we've ever had — Loretta Lynch, justifying it in the name of "giving the president what he wants." He has expanded centralized power by failing to cut spending while raising the debt ceiling. And he's no friend to the Constitution with his support of gun control legislation. Seven Ways Trump Is Taking Back America's Culture. [#4] The president signed a resolution in April that overturned Obama's rule — enacted during his last days as president — that forced states to provide family planning grants under Title X to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. The House approved H.J. Res. 43, introduced by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), in February. The resolution used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to rescind the Obama administration rule, enacted during the last days of the former president's term. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) sponsored the measure in the Senate. Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote at the end of March to enable approval in that chamber after Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against it. Pro-Life Group Slams Republican Opposing Senate Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood. Senator Shelly Moore Capito is one of three Republicans in the Senate who opposes the Senate bill to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare. She has flip-flopped from suporting the bill to opposing it — but her political calculations are not playing well at home. The junior senator from West Virginia previously voted to repeal the failing ObamaCare legislation but did so expecting a certain veto from then President Obama. Now, it appears that Capito may be the deciding vote determining if the funding stays. Trump suggests Republicans will let ACA market collapse, then rewrite health law. As divisions between the two main ideological camps within the GOP widened Tuesday, Republicans were scrambling to contain the political fallout from the collapse of a months-long effort to rewrite former President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment. President Trump predicted Tuesday [7/18/2017] that Republicans would wait for the federal insurance market to collapse and then work to broker a deal to rewrite the nation's landmark health-care law, while Senate leaders pressed ahead with a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no immediate replacement. But it became quickly apparent that GOP leaders, who were caught off guard by defections of their members Monday night, lacked the votes to abolish parts of the 2010 law outright. Three centrist Republican senators — Susan Collins (Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — all said they would oppose any vote to proceed with an immediate repeal of the law. The Editor says... Moderates extracting 'payoffs' for vote on health bill. Even with the Senate health care bill on hold pending the return of a key lawmaker, moderate Republicans already have extracted what critics call "payoffs" from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in exchange for their support. Those familiar with the process, even from the other side of the aisle, told Fox News "this is how things get done." But the sweeteners are reminiscent of the wheeling and dealing then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., did to pass ObamaCare, which Republicans criticized at the time. Why are most of the Republicans in Congress so spineless? Susan Collins, for example, should admit she is a give-it-all-away Democrat. She does not advocate for personal responsibility or reducing government spending. Not one bit. Every word out of her mouth is a statist, big-government mantra. Republican Senator Floats Back-Door Amnesty Proposal. A bill introduced this month by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) would increase foreign guest workers by up to 500,000 a year and offer a back-door amnesty for illegal immigrants. The legislation, the State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2017, has attracted support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. Moderate GOP Rep: I Have No Interest In Meeting With House Freedom Caucus. While leadership said they are encouraging party unity, a number of members of the moderate Tuesday Group are pointing fingers at the House Freedom Caucus for the derailment of the leadership-backed Obamacare repeal bill Friday [5/5/2017]. House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said he's been having discussions with Tuesday Group Co-Chairman Tom MacArthur, and is open to a meeting between the two groups. But Tuesday Group member Rep, Chris Collins of New York said Thursday it's not in the cards. "I am not speaking for the White House; I'm not speaking for the Speaker; but I will speak for the Tuesday Group," Collins told reporters. Collins: Senate 'Starting From Scratch' on Health Bill; Urges Funding of Planned Parenthood. The health care bill passed by the House will not be considered by the Senate, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday: "The Senate is starting from scratch. We're going to draft our own bill. And I'm convinced that we're going to take the time to do it right." List of Republicans who voted against health bill. The following House Republicans voted against the GOP health care bill that passed the chamber on Thursday: [...] Meet the Republicans Who Voted 'No' on the Health Care Bill. Twenty Republicans bucked their party and voted against the health care overhaul on Thursday [5/4/2017]. More than half of the members who voted "no" are part of the Tuesday Group, a collection of moderate House Republicans. Nine of the lawmakers represent districts that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton carried in November. Who Are The Turncoat Republicans Protecting ObamaCare? Republicans in the House voted nine times to fully repeal ObamaCare when they knew President Obama would veto it. Now that they actually can repeal ObamaCare, dozens of "moderate" Republicans are blocking even a partial repeal. Does Judge Orrick Think President Obama 'Fundamentally Transformed' Executive Orders? William H. Orrick III is a Democrat campaign bundler and left-wing political activist. He has been known as "Judge Orrick" since 2013, when President Obama managed to get him on the federal bench — with the assistance of Republicans Senators Jeff Flake (Arizona), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Susan Collins (Maine). All other Republicans opposed Orrick's nomination, except Bob Corker (Tennessee) who failed to vote. Conservative Groups Back Freedom Caucus Over RINOs. A group of conservative leaders defended the House Freedom Caucus for sticking to its principles in the debate over the House health care bill on Friday. "I urge the president to rethink these attacks on the Freedom Caucus," said L. Brent Bozell III, a Republican advocacy leader, during a conference call filled with top conservatives defending the Freedom Caucus against President Donald Trump's recent attacks directed toward the group. "Not only is [Trump] going to need the Freedom Caucus in virtually every single fight to come, but, the irony is, the Freedom Caucus is going to be his strongest supporters in the battle ahead, so [Trump's attacks need] to be reconsidered," Bozell added. GOP Senate cuts it close on initial vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Anything to get more time on C-SPAN. That's what happened Thursday [3/30/2017] when the Senate was voting whether it could vote on a provision that would, in effect, allow funds to healthcare providers to be cut off for reasons other than providing poor healthcare. Think Planned Parenthood and its abortion program. Carrying on an emerging congressional tradition of 2017, two Republican squish suspects — Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski — abandoned their party. That would have left the tie-breaking vote up to its president, Vice President Mike Pence, a long-time PP foe. So, Mitch McConnell's minions fetched Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson out of back-surgery rehab. Big-government RINOs: GOP Rep. Thomas Garrett Intros Bill To End Federal Pot Prohibition. Rep. Thomas Garrett is a freshman Republican congressman who represents Virginia's 5th district. But being a newbie from a socially conservative area isn't stopping him from going big and bold right out of the chute: He has just introduced a bill called the "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017." Uniparty Embed Jason Chaffetz: "We Won't Investigate Voter Fraud". We would be failing in our due diligence if we did not point out a history of UniParty affiliations and the subsequent willful blindness. [...] Remember the IRS hearings that went no-where? Remember the House Committee hearings on Clinton's email use that went no-where? [A]nd more importantly: Remember the 2010 Tea Party led surge against the usurping GOPe agents and the push to have Jason Chaffetz challenge Senator Orrin Hatch? Oh yes, there's a history here to track the exact moment when Chaffetz joined the UniParty. That moment when he retracted his challenge to Senator Hatch and took the payoff from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in combination with the McConnell constructed promise of a major House Committee chairmanship if he removed himself from the equation. Four Senate Republicans Want To Make Taxpayers Pay For Abortions. In the same week as the March for Life and the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, congressional Republicans are presenting strikingly different messages on the issue. While the House of Representatives on Tuesday [1/24/2017] approved legislation (H.R. 7) that would prohibit federal funding of abortions, with all House Republicans present voting for the bill, on Monday [1/23/2017] four Republican senators introduced a bill that would allow direct taxpayer funding of abortions. Two Republican senators demand states should be allowed to keep Obamacare. Trump and congressional Republicans campaigned on a promise to dismantle Obamacare, and they are working on carrying out that pledge as an early product of united Republican control of the White House and Congress. But the legislative proposal by Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would let states choose to keep Obamacare or move to a replacement program, for which states would also receive some federal funding. Here We Go! Republicans In Congress Turn On Trump — Make Move To Stop Border Wall. And here come the charging RINOs! Intent on stopping President-elect Donald Trump from building a wall on the border. You'll recognize the names... it's the same [people] every single time: Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Lisa Murkowski. They join Turban Durbin on drafting a measure that would allow illegal alien children to stay in the US. Uh, no. In this particular instance, the sins of the father and mother are the sins of the child. You cannot justify breaking the law because they are children. They should stay with their family in their country of origin until they come here legally... the right way... through the front door, not the back. Democrat Tammy Duckworth beats Sen. Mark Kirk. Wounded Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth unseated Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in Tuesday's [11/8/2016] election and will become only the second woman to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate. Mark Levin: President Trump Needs to Avoid Associating with Losers Like Bob Corker. Mark Levin has a special message regarding speculation that Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. is being considered for secretary of state in the administration of President-elect Trump: [Expletive] No. Sen. Corker, you will recall, single-handedly enabled the Obama administration to enact the Iran Nuclear Deal by surrendering the treaty clause of the U.S. Constitution to Obama. President-elect Trump must not nominate Corker for secretary of state: "We will go to war over this!" Levin exclaimed. CNN's 'Republican' Ana Navarro: I'm Voting for Hillary Clinton. CNN's "Republican strategist" contributor Ana Navarro explains in an op-ed why she chose to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Jeb Bush's son says Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush may vote for Clinton. George P. Bush says he's the only member of his powerful political family who will be voting straight-ticket Republican and says his grandfather and uncle, both former presidents, could "potentially" cast ballots for Hillary Clinton. Bush for Clinton? Eight-and-a-half months after his brother and former Florida Governor John Ellis "Jeb" Bush dropped out of the Republican primaries, former President George W. Bush is reportedly considering voting for the Democratic ticket this year — and the woman whose husband defeated his father 24 years ago. In September, the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, declared in an informal statement to some 40 people at a private gathering in Kennebunkport, Maine, that he intended to vote for Hillary Clinton, whose husband Bill Clinton unseated Bush, then the incumbent president, in his 1992 reelection attempt. GOP senators: We could work with Hillary Clinton. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is predicting that congressional Republicans will be more willing to work with Hillary Clinton than they have been with President Obama, should she be elected president. "Barack Obama was somewhat of an unknown — he was a senator, but only for a year-and-a-half before he was elected president. She is a known commodity, and I think there'll be more camaraderie in terms of working together, than there might have been in the early days of Obama," Isakson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Eight Republican Senators Propose to Expand Obamacare. While waiting for a chance to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a conservative alternative, there are right ways and wrong ways to address its 2,400 pages of shortcomings. The right way was recently demonstrated by a group of five Republican senators, who proposed a bill to offer millions of Americans an escape from Obamacare's unprecedented and unconstitutional (despite the opinions of five justices) individual mandate. The wrong way was recently demonstrated by a group of eight Republican senators, who proposed a bill to expand the reach of Obamacare's direct outlays to insurance companies. Here are the Republicans who've endorsed Hillary Clinton. A member of the George W. Bush administration endorsed Hillary Clinton for president this week, adding the growing list of Republicans who've come out in support of the Democratic candidate. GOP Rep. Steve King Calls Hillary Clinton 'Somebody I Can Work With'. Considering the rhetoric being deployed on the campaign trail this year, this is a pretty remarkable statement from an elected Republican. Congressman Steve King, who was strongly behind Ted Cruz before jumping on the Trump Train, made it clear today that he and Hillary Clinton see eye to eye on very little and if he's reelected, he'll "break out of my shell if I have to do battle with an agenda that Iowans reject." Only GOP Congressman Supporting Hillary Took Thousands From Planned Parenthood. Republican New York Rep. Richard Hanna, who announced Tuesday he would be breaking ranks this November and voting for Hillary Clinton, has a lengthy history of siding against his party and standing with with one of Clinton's staunchest allies — Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood donated thousands of dollars to Hanna's campaigns in 2012 — when he was one of three Republicans in Congress to accept money from the organization — and in 2014, when he was the only Republican in Congress funded by Planned Parenthood. Fake Republicans For Hillary. The media is gleefully touting the defection of Republicans to the Hillary camp. In reality, the Republicans who are defecting were never Republicans at all. Take Congressman Richard Hanna. Please. Hanna has announced that he'll be backing Hillary Clinton. This isn't so much a change as an admission. Hanna is a retiring lame duck whose Republican credentials are up there with those of fellow Hillary endorsee Michael Bloomberg. Both men are New York politicians who ran as Republicans because of pure political opportunism. No one seriously believed that Bloomberg was a Republican. Hanna's Republican credentials are an even bigger joke. First GOP congressman: 'I will vote for Mrs. Clinton'. Retiring GOP Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) said he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November, making him the first Republican member of Congress to openly announce his support for the Democratic presidential nominee. In an op-ed for Syracuse.com, Hanna writes that Trump is "deeply flawed in endless ways" and "unrepentant in all things" before declaring: "While I disagree with her on many issues, I will vote for Mrs. Clinton." You can thank these 20 Republicans for Loretta Lynch. Lynch's private meeting at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport with former President Bill Clinton combined with the mounting evidence against Hillary that is continually being swept under the rug only affirms the special treatment and consideration Hillary has received. But how did Loretta Lynch become America's top cop, albeit a corrupt one, with a GOP controlled Senate? Republicans had to vote for her, of course. Vulnerable GOP Senators Split on Gun Bills. Republican senators in difficult re-election fights split their support Thursday between two differing measures to prevent suspected terrorists from obtaining guns, showing the difficult politics of a gun debate in an election year. Three of the senators in the most competitive campaigns this year — Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — supported a bipartisan compromise sponsored by moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Her proposal would prevent people on the no-fly and selectee lists from obtaining guns. (The latter designation applies to people singled out for extra security screening before being allowed to board an airplane.) Taking Away Constitutional Rights at the Discretion of the Government. If the news reports are correct, the latest "gun control" proposal being put forward by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is a "measure that would block people on the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list from buying firearms," according to ABC News. There is one major problem with that proposal: It is potentially unconstitutional since it would take away a constitutional right — your Second Amendment right to bear arms — at the discretion of a government official in a secret, nontransparent process that has no adequate due process protections. Let's be clear — we don't want terrorists buying guns in this country. Nor do we think that they have a Second Amendment right to do so. But this blunt instrument is not the right solution. Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and GWB Daughter Barbara Bush Celebrate Lots in Common At Lunch. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards and CEO of Global Health Corps Barbara Bush had lunch together in New York City, where they talked about how much they have in common despite the fact their parents have been political opponents. Richards, 58, is the daughter of the late Gov. Ann Richards (D) of Texas who eventually lost to Bush's father, Republican President George W. Bush, when he ran for governor of Texas in 1994. "But there was no trace of animosity when the women met for lunch at Gotham Bar and Grill," writes Philip Galanes of the New York Times who interviewed the two women as they ate black cod and branzino. "They are enthusiastic supporters of each other's work." Armitage to back Clinton over Trump. Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party's presumptive nominee. Armitage, a retired Navy officer who also served as an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is thought by Clinton aides to be the highest-ranking former GOP national security official to openly support Clinton over Trump. 43 Republicans Join Democrats to Support Obama's Transgender Agenda. On Wednesday night [5/25/2016], 43 Republican members of Congress joined the Democrats to vote for President Barack Obama's transgender agenda. Whereas last week Congress voted to reject this proposal — known as the Maloney amendment — last night they voted to ratify Obama's 2014 executive order barring federal contractors from what it describes as "discrimination" on the basis of "sexual orientation and gender identity" in their private employment policies. And, of course, "discrimination" on the basis of "gender identity" can be something as simple as having a bathroom policy based on biological sex, not gender identity, as we learned last week from Obama's transgender directives. Liberal Mary Fallin Appointed Co-Chair of RNC Platform Committee. As soon as Obama promulgated his transgender mandate earlier this month, the Oklahoma legislature jumped into action to block the illegal edict. The bathroom safety bill, SB 1619, was originally sponsored by the Senate pro temp and the House speaker. Suddenly, the Chamber of (Crony) Commerce came out against the bill, and Speaker Jeffrey Hickman took his name off it. According to local grassroots activists, Gov. Mary Fallin, who has not uttered a word in defense of state's rights against Obama's absurd and immoral decree, has ensured that state party leaders backed off the bill. With just three days left until the end of the session, the bill is now stalled. Congressional GOPers talk up their support for Trump. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump may not have had much support among establishment Republicans during the primary, but a panel of three GOP members of Congress said Sunday that they're backing Trump and are confident he'll do what needs to be done to unify the party. Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), one of Trump's first congressional endorsers, said he's backing the candidate because of his executive experience. GOP Congressman: I'll poison myself if Cruz wins. If Texas Sen. Ted Cruz becomes the Republican nominee, Rep. Peter King, a fellow Republican, might take the route of ancient armies when faced with defeat: poison. "Well, first of all, in case anybody gets confused, I'm not endorsing Ted Cruz. I hate Ted Cruz," King said on MSNBC. And not to put too fine a point on this — King is a Republican. "And I think I'll take cyanide if he got the nomination," King finished. List of 11 Republican Senators Who Will Not Oppose Obama's Executive Amnesty. A coalition of 26 states, led by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, sued the federal government over its unfunded mandate to provide health insurance and other benefits to illegal aliens. Its case will be heard by the Supreme Court on April 18, 2016. Adding to their effort, 43 U.S. Senators filed an Amicus Brief with the Court, requesting that the justices affirm the U.S. District Court's ruling. On the eve of implementing Obama's illegal executive order on immigration and amnesty, the District Court placed an injunction on the program, halting his actions. Eleven Republicans chose not to sign. Obama's Supreme Court pick meets with first GOP senator. Sen. Mark Kirk on Tuesday [3/30/2016] became the first Republican senator to meet with Merrick Garland, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. The senator from Illinois, who is facing a competitive re-election this fall, slammed his GOP colleagues, some of whom have flatly refused to meet with Garland or even consider holding confirmation hearings. GOP senators break with party over Supreme Court nomination fight. A pair of moderate Republican senators broke rank with their party leaders Monday [2/22/2016] and said President Barack Obama's potential Supreme Court should receive a hearing, though another powerful GOP senator made the case against it. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, told CNN that the Senate should take the process "one step at a time," but also welcomed a nominee from Obama. The Desperate Bleatings of Orrin Hack. Seven-term incumbent Hatch embodies everything that's wrong with the GOP brand. He's a mascot for the Big Government Republican parade and masquerade of career politicians who stand for nothing and roll over for everything. D.C.'s GOP establishment can't stand the idea of a conservative presidential candidate who would actually pay more than election-year lip service to conservative principles. That's why so many entrenched GOP Senators are pulling out all the stops to trash their colleague. Sen. Cruz is a stiff antidote to the Beltway-itis that has metastasized in the GOP halls of power. Let me remind you of the alternative "points of view" Sen. Hatch has adopted to keep himself in office. [...] GOP Massachusetts Governor Orders Nation's First Statewide LGBT Affirmative Action Program For Contractors. Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker (R) is the first state leader to issue an executive order that mandates the commonwealth alter its Supplier Diversity Program (SDP) to include LGBT-owned businesses along with those owned by other minority groups. The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) said Baker's order is a "precedent-setting opportunity for tens of thousands of LGBT business owners" — one that will allow LGBT-owned businesses to be added to the state's SDP alongside women and minority-owned businesses. Democrats and GOP Senator Mark Kirk team up to block 'sanctuary cities' law. This is what having a GOP majority and gutless, go-along-to-get-along leadership in the Senate gets you. [...] The idea that cities can create no-go zones for the enforcement of US immigration laws, our own equivalent of Parisian suburbs where the national law does not run, is bizarre. It is doubly bizarre as the Supreme Court has ruled that states and municipalities have to defer to the federal government on this subject. Kevin McCarthy Makes John Boehner Look Like Ronald Reagan. I saw House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's attempt to "clarify" his comments about how the Benghazi Select Committee affected Hillary Clinton's poll numbers to Brett Baier earlier this evening and I must say he does not inspire confidence. McCarthy makes John Boehner look like Ronald Reagan. Three Republicans Opposed House Vote To Defund Planned Parenthood. The House voted to defund Planned Parenthood Friday [9/18/2015] with the support of two Democrats and all but three Republicans. The (241-187) vote is an effectively symbolic response to a series of videos released by the Center for Medical Progress in which top Planned Parenthood doctors and officials discuss how and at what cost some of their clinics harvest and distribute aborted fetuses. Republican Reps. Robert Dold, Charlie Dent and Richard Hanna sided with Democrats against the bill, which would defund Planned Parenthood for a year. Every other Republican representative present, along with Democratic Reps. Dan Lipinski and Collin Peterson voted in favor of the defunding bill. Who voted for TPP fast track in the Senate? It's time to get serious about busting these Republican sellouts, once and for all. Five Republicans buck GOP chairman on O-Care investigation. The Senate's Small Business Committee on Thursday [4/23/2015] denied its chairman's request to subpoena documents from the D.C. insurance marketplace, which he said would prove that some in Congress evaded ObamaCare rules. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the head of the committee, was demanding unredacted copies of health insurance applications used by members of Congress to enroll in the small-business exchange. Vitter has claimed that congressional staff falsified documents in order to allow members of Congress and their staff to receive subsidized insurance. In Spanish Interview, Marco Rubio Says It's 'Important Not To Cancel' Obama's Executive Amnesty. Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio offered a measure of support for President Obama's first executive amnesty program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, during a recent interview he conducted in Spanish this week with Univision's Jorge Ramos. Rubio's comments mark a reversal of sorts from criticism he offered of DACA last year, and they also put him at odds with the conservative Republican base, which he will need in his corner if he hopes to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Gun rights groups in fierce opposition to Loretta Lynch as next A.G. Calling Lynch, "Eric Holder 2.0," a number of pro-gun groups are lobbying the Senate to oppose President Obama's attorney general nominee in an upcoming close vote that could see the vice president as a tiebreaker. On Nov. 8, 2014, the president nominated her to succeed Eric Holder as attorney general of the United States. Facing a historic Republican majority in the Senate, Lynch managed to negotiate her way past the Senate Judiciary Committee last month in a grudging 12-8 bipartisan vote. With the chamber population currently at 46 Democrats and four Republican lawmakers publicly supporting Lynch — Susan Collins, Maine; Jeff Flake, Arizona; Lindsey Graham, South Carolina and Orrin Hatch, South Carolina — an upcoming floor vote could see a deadlocked 50-50 Senate in which Vice President Joe Biden would be called upon to cast his rarely used tie-breaking vote. More Than 300 Republicans Call on Supreme Court to Recognize Gay Marriage Nationally. More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants have filed a friend of the court brief at the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage late Thursday [3/5/2015]. The amicus brief, organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, was filed for the four same-sex marriage cases the Court will hear on April 28 that could legalize the unions nationwide. In 2013, Mehlman marshaled a similar effort for the case that overturned California's Proposition 8, which had banned same-sex marriage in the state. Republican floats compromise on immigration. Sen. Susan Collins has proposed compromise legislation she hopes could serve as the basis for a deal between congressional Republicans and the White House on President Obama's executive actions on immigration. The Maine centrist Republican filed an amendment Wednesday [2/4/2015] that would allow Obama's 2012 executive action to stand. Pro-Amnesty House Republican To Deliver Spanish Language Response. Based on House Republican documents reviewed by Breitbart News, pro-amnesty Republican freshman Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida will be delivering the Republican's Spanish-language address in response to Obama's State of the Union speech. Curbelo recently made waves with a January 18 interview in The Hill, which focused on his strong dissent from the basic Republican position on immigration and all but stated his support for Obama's executive amnesty. Sen. Cory Gardner to House GOP: Don't Say 'No' to Obama's Amnesty. Bloomberg.com conveniently labels freshman Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado a conservative, while pointing out that his position on illegal immigration amounts to little more than giving Barack Obama a free hand to do what he wants, irrespective of what the American people or even the House might prefer. House votes 218-209 to freeze Obama's delayed deportation program. The House adopted an amendment Wednesday to freeze a 2012 program allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to apply for work permits. Passage fell largely along party lines by a vote of 218-209. But 26 Republicans, many of whom represent districts with large minority populations, voted against the amendment. Adoption of the amendment onto a $40 billion base funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security makes it unlikely to pass in the Senate, where it will need 60 votes to advance. Centrist Republicans break with party on deportation vote. More than two dozen House Republicans broke with their party on Wednesday [1/14/2015] to oppose defunding a program that lets those who entered the U.S. illegally as children to stay in the country, a sign of tension within the party on immigration. A total of 26 GOP lawmakers bucked leadership and voted with Democrats against an amendment to defund Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Mark Kirk Abandons NRA, Second Amendment: Joins Dems to Confirm Anti-Gun Surgeon General. On December 15, Obama's anti-gun Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy needed 51 votes to be confirmed. He reached 51 because one Republican — Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) — joined Democrats to confirm him. Breitbart News previously reported that Murthy's "political activism" was even too much for some gun control lawmakers, like Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). And on the day of the vote, Manchin made clear he would not support Murthy. But Kirk stepped up and voted "yea" in Manchin's place. Ernst Says Open To Tax Increases, Wouldn't Repeal DACA. Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst declared two surprising stances in a Saturday [10/11/2014] debate with Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), saying separately that she would consider increasing taxes to shore up Social Security and that she does not support repealing President Obama's executive amnesty for so-called "DREAMers." Asked if she would support increasing payroll taxes to pay for Social Security, which Braley had proposed, Ernst said, "That is an option and we need to sit down and discuss that — absolutely — in a bipartisan manner." Lamar Alexander Skips Senate Vote against Obama's Executive Amnesty. On Thursday evening [7/31/2014], Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) had a chance to stand with American workers and against amnesty by voting with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to kill the Senate's border funding bill, which would not prevent President Barack Obama from unilaterally granting temporary amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants. While Alexander has been claiming to be against amnesty, he was nowhere to be found on the Senate floor just a week before his August 7th primary against Joe Carr for a decisive vote against a bill that threatened America's sovereignty. This is exactly the kind of
tantrum one would expect from a Democrat. GOP Sen. Hatch: Gay Marriage Will Be 'Law of the Land'. During an appearance on Salt Lake City's Doug Wright Show, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said gay marriage was "going to be the law of the land," and that anybody who thought otherwise wasn't paying attention. A district judge recently invalidated Utah's prohibition on gay marriage. "Lets face it," Hatch said. "Anybody that does not believe that gay marriage is going to be the law of the land just hasn't been observing what's going on... The trend right now in the courts is to permit gay marriage and anybody who doesn't admit that just isn't living in the real world." Lessons from a former RINO: Thad Cochran runs in Mississippi as king of corporate welfare. When the Republican Party deviates from its limited-government talk, it's almost always at the bidding of Big Business. And in these cases Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran almost always sides with Big Business. Cochran, the six-term Mississippi senator, has suddenly become the underdog in his re-election. The Republican primary has gone to a runoff after Cochran and conservative challenger Chris McDaniel both finished with 49 percent of the vote. Cochran Lists DC Address As His Primary Residence. Newly revealed documents cast a doubtful glare on where exactly Republican Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran calls home. The documents, as first reported by Breitbart, show that since 2003, Cochran repeatedly lists an address owned by an aide as his primary residence. His campaign claimed that his primary residence was instead a self-described "cabin" in Oxford, MS, but on formal documents, Cochran identified that residence in 2006 and 2010 as a second home. Shenanigans of this sort would be greatly reduced by term limits. Conservative Critics of Government Are 'Freaks' Who 'Will Need Kevlar'. Conservative critics of government are "freaks," are "in for a pretty rough ride," and "will need their Kevlar," i.e., bullet-proof vests. These statements didn't come from the Obama administration or some radical leftwing organization. They are Facebook posts of a Republican elected official in Virginia's Fauquier County. Fauquier drew national attention in 2012 for charging farmer Martha Boneta with violating the law by having a birthday party for eight little girls without a permit and zoning site plan. Reince Priebus Claims 'Consensus' Within GOP for 'Serious Immigration Reform'. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said there was a consensus in the GOP for "serious immigration reform" in an interview with Politico about the one-year anniversary of the RNC's controversial 2012 "autopsy" report that said the party "must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform." Condoleezza Rice urges Republican party to be more inclusive. "We have a responsibility to those who do not yet have the liberties and the rights that we enjoy," Rice told a cheering crowd at the annual gathering of California Republicans in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame. "We cannot abandon them ... We were once them." The Editor says... It's All About Vote Buying. The vote to continue debate about extending unemployment benefits was expected for the Democrat-controlled senate. But six Republicans sided with Democrats and voted against limiting debate, thus keeping the issue alive. The vote was 60-37. The six Republicans who joined the Democrats were: [...] GOP senator ousted by Tea Party challenger donates to Democratic Senate hopeful in Georgia. Former Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican, has given the maximum amount of money allowed under federal campaign finance laws to a candidate who hopes to help Democrats retain the Senate in the 2014 election. Alexander Lashes Out at Tea Party. [Scroll down] Where has Alexander's "compromise" and "problem-solving" approach taken us? [Senator Lamar] Alexander has often abetted the Democrats in the Senate, supporting their legislative agenda and providing support for Obama nominees. When has he been able to persuade Democrats to support a conservative issue? Alexander's record suggests compromise is a one-way street, i.e. Republicans support Democrats. When do Democrats in the Senate ever repay the favor Alexander extends them? Exclusive: Snowe Tells Obama, Republicans 'I Told You So'. In the wake of the Obama administration's announcement to delay financial penalties for companies that do not offer employees health insurance, former Sen. Olympia Snowe says both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for the mess created by the comprehensive health care law known as Obamacare. The moderate Maine Republican played a key role in helping to write some of the law and was the only Republican to give a committee version of it a vote of approval. 15 "Republicans" Who Voted For Amnesty Bill. These fifteen need to be primaried and thrown out of office. 27 GOP Senators Embrace Internet Taxes: Find Out Who. If this many Republicans will vote for this in the Senate, how many will vote for it in the House? Pat Toomey, RINO? Politico has an interesting story out Thursday [4/11/2013] about Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., headlined, "NRA Ally Pat Toomey Pivots on Gun Control Efforts" in the print edition and "NRA Ally Pat Toomey's Gun Control Moment" online. The story details how the senator, who is up for re-election in 2016, is co-sponsoring compromise gun control legislation with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. He is trying to ensure that he has a moderate image in his purplish battleground state. House approves Ryan budget. [Scroll down] The Republicans who voted against the Ryan budget were Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Rick Crawford (Ark.), Randy Forbes (Va.), Chris Gibson (N.Y.), Phil Gingrey (Ga.), Joe Heck (Nev.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Tom Massie (Ky.) and David McKinley (W.Va.). Ryan's budget calls for cutting taxes, repealing the 2010 healthcare law and slowing the rate of growth in government spending to achieve a balanced budget in 10 years. Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman reveals son is gay, flips to support gay marriage. A top GOP senator's announcement that he now backs same-sex marriage after learning his son is gay has again stirred the political pot on a contentious issue bedeviling Republicans as they try to reach a younger generation of voters. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who was a finalist to be Mitt Romney's running mate last year, said he wants "all of my children" to benefit from marriage like he has. The Editor says... Social Conservatives to RNC: Don't Be 'Pandering Idiots'. The Republican National Committee's support of Senator Rob Portman's flip on gay marriage has infuriated social conservatives. [...] "I think [the RNC] should pretty much ignore him," says Phyllis Schlafly, a longtime conservative activist, in an interview with National Review Online. "I think he has made a mistake, and he probably won't get reelected." Obama's GOP Dinner Companions Defend Sit-Down with President. Republicans who enjoyed a three-hour private dinner with President Obama at the Jefferson Hotel last night — with POTUS picking up the tab — defended the meeting, even with the optics of leaving their colleague Sen. Ran Paul (R-Ky.) to filibuster while acquiescing to the president. Abby Huntsman: Reverend Al's Kind Of Republican. Turns out today is the 159th anniversary of the founding of the Republican party. So who did Al Sharpton have on his MSNBC this evening to discuss it supposedly from the GOP point of view? "Republican" Abby Huntsman, daughter of Jon. After somehow divining that if Abe Lincoln were around today he would want a "conversation" on immigration and gay marriage, Abby described today's Republican party as populated by people who want "absolutely no government." GOP congressman who donated to Obama gets trip on Air Force One. Virginia Rep. Scott Rigell became one of the rare members of the Republican Party to join President Barack Obama on Air Force One on Tuesday [2/26/2013]. According to FEC records, Rigell donated $1,000 to President Obama during his first run for the White House, and has been vocally supportive of Obama's calls for increased tax revenue as a part of a sequester deal. The Editor says... Obama's quiet [gun control] ally. As President Obama pushes for gun control in Chicago Friday, an unexpected ally from his home state, Sen. Mark Kirk (R) of Illinois, is crossing party lines to propose legislation that could have a greater impact than higher-profile proposals to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, experts say. As candidate, Hagel supported de-funding Radio Free Europe. Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel sought to eradicate U.S. funding for pro-democracy broadcasts across the globe during his tenure in the Senate, according to a candidate questionnaire from his 1996 race against then-Nebraska Gov. Ben Nelson (D). Asked if the U.S. should "continue funding for Radio Free Europe [RFE] and Radio Liberty [RL]," the pro-democracy networks that helped reshape the world, Hagel replied, "No." Asked if the U.S. should "continue funding for Radio Marti and TV Marti," the U.S.'s voice of freedom in Cuba, Hagel replied, "No." Hagel Pick Shows Where Obama Wants To Take The Country. The puzzle of the Chuck Hagel nomination for defense secretary is that you normally choose someone of the other party for your Cabinet to indicate a move to the center, but Hagel's foreign policy views are to the left of Barack Obama's, let alone the GOP's. Indeed, they are at the fringe of the entire Senate. Incoming Republican congressman signals openness to gun control. An NRA-backed incoming congressman from Utah said Friday [12/28/2012] he would be open to a discussion of some gun-control measures in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting. Transparent Political Ruses Sanctioned By Liberal Republicans. If Conservative America has any real intention of ever making an effective stand against the onslaught of liberalism, now is the time to take note of the Republicans who remain firmly committed to principle, as opposed to those who will completely sell out the moment they believe the political winds to be shifting. And of the latter group, no belated apologies or election season reawakenings to conservative ideology should ever be accepted. Eight Traitor RINOs Cuddle Up to Treasonous LibDems But Fail to Approve U.N. Treaty. Nine Republicans made their very best efforts to cause Americans to lose their sovereignty in a vote in the United States Senate on Wednesday, December 5, 2012. [...] Thankfully, thirty eight true conservatives, honest and loyal to their constituents, opposed the provisions of the proposed United Nations Treaty and for the moment, saved our sovereignty. GOP Genius Of The Day: Senator Bob Corker. The biggest problem Republicans in Congress have (other than being jackasses who couldn't negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag) is they are acting as if Obama really wants a deal and to get the deficit and debt under control. Hint: he DOESN'T. Huntsman: GOP should avoid social, 'fringe' issues. Huntsman, who was the former U.S. Ambassador to China under President Obama, also urged Republicans to cool their rhetoric surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Huntsman Defends Susan Rice, Obama Admin on Benghazi. Leave it to former Utah governor and presidential reject Jon Huntsman to defend lying diplomat UN Ambassador Susan Rice. Today [11/27/2012], Huntsman interviewed with the Huffington Post, where he told Sam Stein that criticism of the Obama administration over the murder of a US ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi was overblown. Political Predictions: Obama's Second Term. What are we to expect from a second Obama term? Simply put, more of the same, but with tax hikes. In his first term in office, President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have shown themselves to be shrewd pragmatists, continuing all of the important planks in the bipartisan program that has propelled America toward receivership and post-constitutional rule for several generations. And these planks were espoused with equal enthusiasm by candidate Mitt Romney, as they have been by every Republican candidate and president from Thomas Dewey onward. GOP Doomed if Establishment Prevails. Why would establishment Republicans want to move left (to the center, in their vernacular) precisely at the time when the America created by Woodrow Wilson and FDR is faltering — groaning under its own enormous weight and falsity? Illinois works on driver's licenses for
illegals. Illinois' top leaders said Tuesday that they will push to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants — testing federal
strictures and becoming the latest sign that the pendulum has swung away from Arizona-style crackdowns and toward those pursuing a softer line on immigration.
Surrounded by Republicans and Democrats at a news conference, state Senate President John Cullerton said he will try to pass legislation in the coming weeks,
and Gov. Pat Quinn said he will sign it if it reaches his desk. Upton is wrong choice for Energy and Commerce. If nothing else, Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton has a lot of nerve to campaign to succeed California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton is wholly unsuitable for the job, as a stroll down Memory Lane quickly reminds us. Another Snowe Job? If the people of Maine want a dysfunctional health care system, that's their business. But why must their senator insist that the rest of us have the same? Now that Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee is gone and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter has defected, Maine's senior senator, Olympia Snowe, may be the least reliable Republican in the U.S. Senate. She may have been all along. An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing. [Dede] Scozzafava is an abortion rights advocate who favors gay marriage. It would be one thing if Scozzafava balanced that social liberalism with fiscal conservatism. But as a state assemblywoman, she voted for massive tax increases, Democratic budgets and a $180 million state bank bailout. She also supported the trillion-dollar federal stimulus package — which every House Republican voted against. Enough. Newt really needs to re-think his support for Dede Scozzafava. This isn't RINO but DIABLO — Democrat In All But Label Only. ... If he's ever Speaker, [John] Boehner won't be till January 2011, and it's 12 months premature for Newt to be telling voters they need to suck it up and accept that a handful of Jim-Jeffords-in-embryo-form are necessary for the Republican tide. A New GOP. On Oct. 1, [Dede] Scozzafava was leading. Today, she trails Democrat Bill Owens and is only a few points ahead of Hoffman, as Empire State conservatives defect to vote their principles, not their party. Newt Gingrich stayed on the reservation, endorsing Scozzafava, who is pro-choice and pro-gay rights, and hauls water for the unions. RINO Hunting in Upstate NY. [Scroll down] Republicans in the 23rd district ended up with Dede Scozzafava, someone with high name recognition but very few conservative credentials. Republicans in McGuire's region are "libertarian, secular, Milton Friendman, Ronald Reagan, get-the-government-off-my-back type of Republicans... We would've much preferred a real conservative." 2010: Not The Time For "Faux Conservatism". Democrats are on the ropes. So once again, those vaunted Republican "moderates" are attempting to come to their rescue. Whether motivated by stupidity, cowardice, or an underhanded intention to ensure that liberalism ultimately prevails in America, the usual suspects, while identifying themselves as Republicans, are giving aid and comfort to the Left, at the ultimate expense of their supposed colleagues on the Right. Obama's Favorite
Republican? House Republicans are united in their opposition to the health care bill, but
when the vote comes this evening, there is one House Republican to watch: Rep. Joseph Cao of
Louisiana. ABC News has learned that the White House is making an 11th-hour push to convince
Cao to be the sole Republican to vote "yes" on the Democratic health care bill. Cao has been
promising presidential support for additional financial aid for his New Orleans district. The GOP vote: Why Cao said 'yes'.
As soon as the House started the final vote for the day, Cao voted and dashed out the side of the chamber, plugging his ears in jest
when reporters approached to find out what happened. According to a written statement released later that night, Cao explained
that Obama had promised to help out the lawmaker's district still devastated from Hurricane Katrina. Anh 'Joseph' Cao jolts House. Once a year, Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao gives the Washington establishment a little jolt. In November 2008, the nationally unknown Vietnamese community activist captured a seat for Republicans in majority-black New Orleans, becoming an instant — albeit short-lived — celebrity for the GOP. This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2024 by Andrew K. Dart The Republican establishment vs Tea Party Candidates Mitch Miscalculated Bigly. [Scroll down] McConnell's goal is to separate President Trump from his supporters as a repeat performance of his somewhat successful efforts to destroy and marginalize the Tea Party (who have never really gone away). An organized Tea Party was a direct threat to the political class and McConnell's key backers at the US Chamber of Commerce. He was happy to reach across the aisle to undermine upstart Tea Partiers who dared to question their "betters" in Congress during the disaster for the country that was the Obama regime. And those "betters" included Establishment Republicans like McConnell, who were ready, willing, and able to make deals with Barack Obama to the detriment of Main Street Americans. McConnell capitalized on Democrat-media attacks on the Tea Party. After beating down his own Tea Party-backed challenger in 2014, he was happy to work behind the scenes to undercut Tea Party people at every opportunity and elect "his kind of candidates" — those he could control through campaign contributions and other perks — as opposed to the limited government conservatives whom the Tea Party supported. The Paid DC Shills Continue — Erick Erickson Now Attacks Paul Ryan Primary Opponent. [Erick] Erickson formerly of Red State launched Resurgent to provide a new mode of attack against any political insurgent who doesn't fit the Washington DC approved definitions of "conservatism". A principle highlighted within his own establishment bona-fides as Erickson proclaimed: "Governor Jeb Bush is the most conservative governor I know". Where people get lost is in accurately attributing the financial motivations behind such ridiculous proclamations. These endorsements, opinions and espousals carry a rather indulgent financial benefit. McConnell Angers Conservatives By Blocking Defunding Planned Parenthood, Kate's Law. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has never been a favorite of conservatives. Those who see him as a "squishy" compromiser more interested in placating President Barack Obama and K Street lobbyists than the Republican base had more fuel tossed on that fire when he blocked amendments to the Highway Bill Tea Party members wholeheartedly support. One amendment would defund Planned Parenthood, the nationwide abortion provider which receives more than a half billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies annually. McConnell has previously said he supports defunding Planned Parenthood, [...] But the leader blocked an amendment to the Highway Bill that would have defunded the organization. The Editor says... Treasonous Sellout #828 by the Establishment Republicans. The Republican Party is becoming more and more detached from their conservative base. They seem to vote against anything the conservatives want and do all they can to enable our Marxist president. As Andrew McCarthy put it, "Voting to confirm an attorney general who won't uphold the Constitution isn't a way to inspire confidence among conservatives." Let Obamacare's Subsidy Victims Suffer. The GOP seems determined to reinforce its reputation as "the stupid party." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans plan to co-sponsor a piece of legislation introduced by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson that, as he recently admitted in the Wall Street Journal, would allow Obamacare subsidies issued through federal exchanges to continue for two more years — even if the Supreme Court declares them illegal. This will not only mask the negative consequences of the sloppily written law, it will antagonize the voters who reinstated the GOP congressional majority last November and provide yet more time for Obamacare to metastasize. Tea Party Caucus Chairman: GOP Leaders Need To Stop Attacking Conservatives And Start Listening. Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp is one of the most energetic and principled of the 63 Republican freshman elected in 2010, a class that gave the GOP the majority in the House. In this exclusive video interview, Huelskamp offers encouragement to citizens who are feeling America is on the wrong track with weak congressional leadership. "We are in a town that continues to move down the progressive route of bigger government every day. If we sit by, the president will continue to take over more and more of our economy, more and more of our lives and take away more of our liberties," he said. There's a Soviet-style Purge of Conservatives in Arizona. Political purges may work in totalitarian states, but in a democracy they can be self-defeating. The senator who called the Tea Party "wacko birds" should realize the GOP's real enemies are called Democrats. It's been said that all politics is local, and normally a state party's internal squabbles would not be national news. But when they involve a former presidential candidate on an issue that will affect the selection of the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee and chances, we sit up and take notice. GOP Establishment Ready to Wage War on Ted Cruz. Having failed to co-opt Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Republican permanent political class in Washington, D.C. may wage war on him after the midterm elections. Wall Street donors may stop giving money to him and groups that support him. Party leaders may take committee assignments away from the Texas senator who is revered by the conservative grassroots that put GOP leaders back in power. GOP Establishment Gears up for Civil War Against Tea Party. Despite Republicans' ascension to Senate control and an expanded House majority, many conservatives from the party's activist wing fear that congressional leaders are already being too timid with President Obama. They do not want to hear that government shutdowns are off the table or that repealing the Affordable Care Act is impossible — two things Republican leaders have said in recent days. Mississippi Supreme Court sides with Sen. Thad Cochran in GOP primary challenge. The Mississippi Supreme Court said Friday that it won't revive an election challenge by a candidate who lost a Republican primary to Sen. Thad Cochran. Mississippi high court rejects McDaniel appeal. Mississippi's highest court dismissed a challenge to Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) victory in a June runoff. The challenge was brought by Chris McDaniel, his opponent in the race. The state's supreme court ruled with the lower panel, saying that McDaniel waited to long to file the challenge. Fed up with the GOP Establishment? That's no reason to stay home on Election Day. With the mid-term elections weeks away, many conservatives are confronting a difficult choice. Assuming there are no solid conservatives on the ballot, do we vote for establishment candidates? Or not vote at all? The reasons why some conservatives are on the fence or planning not to vote are well known. Did Chris McDaniel win by losing Senate race? It's been nearly three months since Chris McDaniel lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, and he still hasn't conceded. Meet Perhaps the Worst GOP Establishment Consultant Ever. For years I've written many columns — and a book — that laid bare the cognitive dissonance and record of embarrassing losses of such wizards as Karl Rove, Haley (and Henry) Barbour, Rick Tyler, Andrea Saul, Charlie Black, Steve Schmidt, Matt Rhodes, Nicole Wallace and others. I've even established a pretty good record of demonstrating the fallacy of using the Frank Luntz type focus group as a means for testing campaign messaging. Somehow, though, the worst of them all had escaped my notice until a couple months ago. Laura Ingraham Blasts RNC For Supporting Obama's Planned Executive Amnesty. "The RNC sure seems crestfallen that President Obama didn't sign an executive amnesty for millions of illegal workers in the U.S.," Ingraham said in an email. "I, for one, am glad that now we all know where the GOP Establishment's allegiance really lies — and it's not with the American working class that is desperately looking for its champion." Judge dismisses challenge to Sen. Thad Cochran's runoff victory. On Friday [8/29/2014], Judge Hollis McGehee dismissed the lawsuit from McDaniel, who lost to Cochran, saying that he had failed to file his challenge on time. Still, McDaniel could appeal the ruling to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Did McDaniel wait too late to file? Chris McDaniel's first hurdle in his lawsuit to overturn his loss to Thad Cochran is a doozy: He may have waited too late to file it. As he worked for weeks building a case and campaigning that the election was stolen from him, McDaniel's team said a 20-day deadline applies only to challenges of county and local elections, not a statewide U.S. Senate primary. Others, including the secretary of state, agreed with him. "Justice has no timetable," McDaniel said numerous times when questioned why it was taking so long to file his challenge of the June 24 GOP runoff for U.S. Senate. Chris McDaniel Files Legal ChallengeAfter GOP Refuses to Review Evidence. Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel has filed his official challenge of the June 24 GOP primary runoff results against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in state court, he and his lead attorney Mitch Tyner announced Thursday [8/14/2014]. "Republicans did not elect the nominee on June 24," McDaniel said in a statement, adding that "we are excited for the opportunity for Republicans to reclaim their primary process." "This challenge is not about the candidates," McDaniel said. "It is about the integrity of Mississippi's election process, and we are committed to ensuring that process is accurate and fair for future Republican candidates." Tell the @RNC That We #RememberMississippi. The actions in Mississippi cannot be ignored by the RNC. Doing so would make them complicit in the despicable acts that occurred. McDaniel lists own lawyer as irregular vote. As Chris McDaniel's team continues to scour voting records to add to an expected legal challenge of his loss to Thad Cochran, it has listed McDaniel's lead lawyer in the challenge, and his wife, as irregular votes that should be tossed out. [...] Cochran's campaign and lawyers, and some election officials, have refuted McDaniel's claim that there were thousands of illegal or irregular votes in the June 24 runoff. They say McDaniel volunteers have found "irregularities" where none exist and that the election, which Cochran won by 7,667 votes, was fair and had no more problems than the human error involved in all elections. No, the Racist Mississippi Primary Ads Weren't Just a Cabal of Elderly Democrat Women. Nearly everyone with any interest in the Mississippi GOP Senate Primary and Runoff has seen or heard the racist radio ads, mailers which portrayed Sen. Thad Cochran's primary opponent, Chris McDaniel as the second coming of Byron De La Beckwith. Unfortunately for Team Thad, those ads were traced back to the circle of influencers who helped drag him across the finish line with votes which more than likely were bought. In the latest chapter of this story Cochran ally, Henry Barbour, has shopped a unbelievable story of a few elderly women pooling the change from their sofas to launch one of the most offensive and racist group of political ads in the 2014 election cycle. RNC Refuses to Censure Henry Barbour. Yesterday [8/6/2014] the Republican National Committee, meeting in Chicago for its summer gathering, refused even to hear two resolutions dealing with the censure of Mississippi Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour. Barbour has admitted to playing a role (as reported [...] by NRO's Eliana Johnson) in funding a controversial ad that has been widely criticized for its racial content. Johnson reported that Barbour was "not distancing himself from the inflammatory ads." The resolutions were being pushed by Missouri Republican State Chairman Ed Martin. Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Publishes Evidence Henry Barbour at Center of Race-Baiting in MS, Calls on Reince Priebus to Censure. A new white paper from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund puts a target on GOP operative Henry Barbour for his role in incendiary racial appeals in the Mississippi GOP Senate primary. "Henry Barbour was the field general in an unprecedented campaign to smear a fellow Republican, so desperate was his family to cling to power," Jenny Beth Martin, the chair of TPPCF, said in the statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. "We're used to these tactics from Democrats: desperate appeals to emotion, fear-mongering, even playing the 'Klan' card. Who would have thought the Barbour machine would finance such despicable race-baiting?" Angry Republican leaders ready to shut door on open primaries. Any party that allows its opponents to help pick its candidates in "open" primaries is a PPINO — a "political party in name only" — say many Republican officials at their annual summer meeting. Republican National Committee members and activists are still seething about reports that longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, enlisted Democrats to help him win his tough primary contest this summer against state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who was backed by the tea party. Chris McDaniel: I Beat Thad Cochran by 25,000 Votes. Six weeks after the primary runoff election, Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel is launching his formal legal challenge of the election results, saying the evidence is so conclusive that he will be calling for courts to recognize him as the true victor of the race rather than calling for a new election. "Chris McDaniel clearly, clearly won the Republican vote in the runoff," McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner said at a Monday [8/4/2014]press conference. RNC to Discuss Mississippi Radio Ads. The Republican National Committee will take up the explosive subject of the race-card playing radio ads in the Mississippi Senate GOP run-off election between Senator Thad Cochran and Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel. The RNC is scheduled to hold its summer meeting in Chicago August 6-9 at the Westin Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Democratic activists were behind controversial Klan ads in Mississippi. A Democratic activist has claimed responsibility for controversial radio ads that attempted to tie Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel to the Ku Klux Klan. Ruth Harris, 65, of Jackson, Miss., said she and five other like-minded Democratic women pooled their resources to fund three radio spots urging voters to support Sen. Thad Cochran over McDaniel, a state senator, in Mississippi's contentious June 24 GOP primary runoff. Harris' claim counters charges leveled by the McDaniel campaign that the Republican Establishment and GOP operative Henry Barbour were responsible for the ads. Headless Elephants. It isn't just an inability to stay on message or fundraise without irritating party supporters that has the GOP struggling to take advantage of its current opportunities. The party's deafening silence surrounding the mess in Mississippi has depressed allegiances as well. Last week conservative activist and Iowa primary power-broker Steve Deace took to the pages of the Washington Times to beg RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to do something about what very well might be a stolen Republican primary election by incumbent Republican Thad Cochran with the help of RNC member Henry Barbour. Border Bill Emerging as Major Tea Party Verses Establishment Bout. A flurry of legislative activity to address the border crisis is emerging as a major showdown between Tea Partiers and establishment politicians. Conservatives want to take the fight directly to President Barack Obama, whose executive amnesty policies they say is the primary cause of the problem. The Barbour Machine's Mississippi Ad War. The political-action committee that aired the ads raised eyebrows from the outset. For one thing, it had the same address, phone number, e-mail domain, and leader — the bishop Ronnie Crudup — as the Jackson-based New Horizon Church International. Crudup told Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger earlier this month that he founded the PAC and raised $200,000: "Some money from the Republicans," some from African Americans. "I raised money from a number of sources," he said. As it turns out, Crudup raised all of the $144,685 his PAC took in from exactly one source: Haley Barbour's political machine. McDaniel's Lawyer: We Have Enough Evidence To Launch Official Election Challenge. We found a lot," Mitch Tyner, of Tyner Law Firm, said after he and McDaniel supporter state Sen. Michael Watson walked the press and McDaniel supporters at the press conference through how they have serious concerns with the election review process in Mississippi. "We've heard it our entire lives in Mississippi," Tyner said. "Votes are being bought. Ballot boxes are being stuffed. There are false affidavit ballots. There are invalid affidavit ballots. There are invalid absentee ballots — we've heard it all our lives. I'm 51 years old and it's the first time I saw it up close and personal. It exists. We are committed to finding it and rooting it out and stopping it." McDaniel expected to file election challenge within 10 days. Representatives for Chris McDaniel's U.S. Senate campaign said Wednesday that they continue to examine election materials, but have not yet filed an official election challenge. McDaniel lost to six-term U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran by more than 7,600 votes in the June 24 Republican runoff election. Judge gives Chris McDaniel camp favorable ruling for access to Jackson County poll books. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Robert Krebs ordered Jackson County Circuit Clerk Joe Martin to allow Chris McDaniel campaign supporters access to poll books from the June 3 and June 24 Republican U.S. Senate elections during an writ of mandamus emergency hearing this morning [7/15/2014]. Senate Republicans paid for Mississippi attack ads painting tea partiers as racist: report. Mississippi attack ads that painted conservative Republicans and tea partyers as racists were funded by Senate Republicans, RedState Editor-in-Chief Erick Erickson has confirmed. Advertisements by All Citizens for Mississippi, which attacked state Sen. Chris McDaniel and painted conservatives as racists, were partly funded by Sens. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Bob Corker and Roy Blunt, RedState reported. According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, All Citizens for Mississippi received funding from a Haley Barbour-backed group called Mississippi Conservatives. Rove American Crossroads in Mississippi Controversy. According to the FEC, on June 20 — that would be four days before the June 24 runoff — the controversial Cochran-supporting group Mississippi Conservatives received a $50,000 donation from... American Crossroads. Something, as they say, seems amiss. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Poll Worker: Mississippi Election Documents Thrown Away. Phil Harding, a 30-year Air Force veteran and Chris McDaniel supporter who helped run the June 24 primary runoff election in Harrison County, Mississippi, said he witnessed key documents being discarded and that a large volume of absentee ballot envelopes and applications are missing, making them unavailable for review by McDaniel's campaign. However, another poll worker involved, a member of a local Harrison County GOP Executive Committee and Cochran supporter Frank Bordeaux, provided a significantly different account of the episode, saying the documents weren't discarded. McDaniel to Discuss Possible Election Challenge. State Sen. Chris McDaniel has scheduled a Wednesday [7/16/2014] news conference to describe what his campaign says is evidence of voting irregularities surrounding the June 24 GOP runoff and to discuss his next steps. McDaniel led voting in the June 3 primary but lost in a June 24 runoff with U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran for the Republican nomination. The matter could end up in court. McDaniel alleges 8,300 questionable ballots. State Sen. Chris McDaniel, still refusing to give up his challenge to incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, said Friday via e-mail his campaign had found 8,300 questionable ballots across the state from the June 24 Republican primary runoff. He said many of those "were unquestionably cast by voters ineligible to participate in the June 24th runoff election" that McDaniel lost to Cochran The Establishment Removes Its Mask. [W]ith the events of the disputed Thad Cochran Republican runoff victory in Mississippi we see that the Republicans and Democrats are not above working together to preserve their positions of power, influence and moneyed status. This, combined with the failure of the old guard Republicans to confront the present, corrupt, Democrat dominated administration, shows that what the campus revolutionaries and their fellow travelers in the 1960's and 1970's were so willing to fight is, in fact, the combination of big government and big money; particularly Wall Street and entrenched organizations such as General Electric and the United Auto Workers. True the Vote Alleges "Stunning Evidence of Election Subversion," Restraining Order Filed! Chris McDaniel has already found thousands of irregularities in the Mississippi Republican Senate runoff voting process. According to Mississippi state law, Democrats who voted in the Democratic primary cannot vote in the Republican runoff, and that is exactly what happened. Now True The Vote, the nation's leading voters' rights and election integrity organization, has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, alleging that the state GOP may be engaged in the destruction of evidence of alleged voter fraud from the June 24 GOP primary runoff. Mississippi GOP Chairman: We're Coming For True The Vote, MS Voter Plaintiff Over Pro-Cochran Voter Fraud Allegations. Mississippi GOP chairman Joe Nosef issued a statement Thursday [7/10/2014] in response to the latest legal actions from True The Vote, saying he plans to target the election integrity organization and its lawsuit's various Mississippi voter plaintiffs with legal action. Nosef said the Republican Party in Mississippi plans to seek "sanctions against" the various Mississippi voters who have signed on as plaintiffs to True The Vote's lawsuit against the party and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, labeling the accusations the election integrity group made as "frivolous litigation." The NRSC-Mississippi Thing Smells Fishier And Fishier. Last night [7/7/2014] we had a post about Ted Cruz' appearance on Mark Levin's show last night in which he called for an investigation into the tactics used by Thad Cochran to win the Mississippi GOP senate primary runoff last month. Since then, we've done some digging, including talking with a contact at the National Republican Senatorial Committee and getting answers we didn't understand. Here's where things stand. It is the NRSC's position that they paid one of their vendors, National Media Research, Planning and Placement, $175,000 for work on Cochran's behalf. Some $82,000 went toward production ($13,000) and placement ($69,000) of an ad campaign containing this web ad... [Video clip] Meridian man dials back vote-buying claim. A Meridian man has recanted — sort of — his story that he helped U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign buy votes for $15 each in Lauderdale County. Stevie Fielder now says he was asked to buy votes — by someone he won't identify — but that he refused because "I would be in jail because that's illegal." He says he has talked with the state attorney general's office. "I haven't done anything illegal," said Fielder, who made national news after a lengthy interview with GotNews.com. In that audio-recorded interview, Fielder said he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from Cochran campaign staffer Saleem Baird and paid hundreds of people in the African-American community around Meridian $15 each for their votes. True the Vote Alleges Pro-Cochran Officials Destroying Mississippi Election Evidence, Files Restraining Order. National conservative election integrity organization True The Vote has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, alleging that the state GOP may be engaged in the destruction of evidence of alleged voter fraud from the June 24 GOP primary runoff. "Defendant county commissioners have continued to violate federal law by preventing access to election records. Now, we think we know why," True The Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement. "If the affidavits we now have regarding the destruction of election documents and other similarly stunning findings are true, then no Mississippian, no American, can trust the results of this election." The Call of the RINO in Virginia and Mississippi. This year[,] in a new low for even bottom feeders, the RINOs in the Cochran campaign used race — baiting to scare blacks into voting against Cochran's conservative white opponent. In the process smearing State Sen. Chris McDaniel with all the mainstream media and leftist TEA Party slanders. None of it was true, but accuracy was beside the point when crony capitalists, lobbyists and an entitled Senate staff were working to keep their access to the government trough. The sleazy campaign hired sleazy consultants and then denied involvement with the product. The Trumpets Have Sounded. The Establishment — both sides thereof — has determined that nothing shall be permitted to deny it the outcome it demands. To that end, it will flout the election laws to the extent required, including keeping all election-related documentation secret until it's too late for the McDaniel crew to do anything about it. Nationwide, Boards of Elections are top-heavy with Democrat partisans. That should come as no surprise. Remember Stalin's observation: "It doesn't matter who votes; it only matters who counts the votes." FEC Probes Pro-Cochran Barbour-Run Super PAC. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has asked a pro-Thad Cochran Super PAC, called Mississippi Conservatives, to provide additional information about what the newspaper Roll Call said "appears to be campaign finance violations." At issue are last-minute expenditures made by the PAC in the days before the initial June 3 primary. The FEC "Request for Additional Information" says the PAC does not appear to have disclosed some of its spending in a timely manner. Is the Republican establishment using race-baiting and voter fraud? Cochran (50.9%, 189,355) "won" the run-off election over McDaniel (49.1%, 182,756) by a slim margin of 6,599 votes, where there may have been, according to McDaniel, up to 40,000 Democrats voting. The McDaniel campaign now asserts that at least 3,300 voters, who casted ballots in the June 3rd Democratic primary, then crossed over, allegedly illegally, to vote in the June 24 GOP primary runoff. This election oozes signs of corruption. If allowed to stand without investigation and authentication, Thad Cochran will not be a Senator from the state of Mississippi, but will be representing only the Republican establishment, elected by the Democratic Party. FNC Report: Haley Barbour Tied To Race-Baiting, Anti-Tea Party Radio Ads In MS. On Tuesday's [7/1/2014] broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Hannity," network correspondent Ainsley Earhardt unveiled one of the attack radio spots that aired on stations around the state including WMGO 1370 AM in Canton, MS. The spot urges listeners to participate in the vote and warns if voters fail to do so, it will result in the loss of entitlement benefits and funding for black universities. Election Drama Continues 1 Week After Republican Runoff. The runoff in the U.S. Senate primary between Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel may be over, but the drama is reaching a fever pitch one week after ballots were cast across Mississippi. Deputies from the Hinds County Sheriff's Department are outside of GOP headquarters in Jackson today [7/1/2014], while Republican leaders meet to talk about voting irregularities as claimed by the McDaniel campaign. Media Silent on Allegations that Cochran Campaign Engaged in Cash-For-Votes Scheme. Reverend Steve Fielder, a pastor at the First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi, is accusing Senator Thad Cochran's campaign of violating election laws by giving black Democratic voters cash in exchange for votes in the recent GOP runoff. But mainstream media seem uninterested in the story. The only outlet outside of conservative media covering the story is Forbes magazine. New Tea Party group's voting integrity lawsuit threatens Mississippi establishment Democrats and Republicans. If things were bad between Tea Party activists and the Mississippi Republican establishment before last Tuesday's Senate primary runoff, it's about to get a lot uglier. State Senator Chris McDaniel defeated Sen. Thad Cochran in the first round of the Senate GOP primary but then the aging incumbent staged an unexpected surge to win the run-off. Cochran's surge was fueled by cross-over Democrats voting in the GOP run-off and before the votes were all counted, rumors were rife about walk-around money and other voting irregularities. FEC Looks Into PAC That Backed Thad Cochran. The Federal Election Commission is looking into whether Mississippi Conservatives PAC violated campaign finance law in its bid to help re-elect Mississippi U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. The inquiry, sent as a Request for Additional Information, or RFAI, provides another bit of drama in a heated primary battle in which Cochran narrowly defeated state senator Chris McDaniel. The FEC, which monitors spending in federal elections, notified the political action committee that it may have failed to file one or more "24 hour reports," which track "last minute" independent expenditures. The Day the Establishment Died. The strategy used in the Mississippi Senate runoff revealed just how desperate and out of ideas the GOP establishment really is. Facing a candidate who pulled more votes in the primary, and was propelled by a massive network of grassroots enthusiasm, the Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) camp had no choice but to fire the last arrow in its quiver. They did what no self-respecting conservative would ever do: they went running to the Democrats for help. True The Vote Sues Mississippi GOP — and by Extension, the GOP Establishment — Over Vote Fraud. The lawsuit asks the court to grant immediate access to voting records to inspect for possible illegal voting. It asserts that "defendants failed to properly abide by federal election record maintenance and open records provisions codified in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). Records made partially available to the plaintiffs indicated 'double-voting' from Democratic to Republican primaries — potentially diluting votes in violation of the Equal Protection Clause." The complaint explains that the National Voter Registration Act supersedes Mississippi law. True The Vote Sues MS Secretary of State, GOP over Cochran's Alleged Voter Fraud. Conservative election integrity organization True The Vote filed suit in federal court Tuesday [7/1/2014] against Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and the Mississippi Republican Party, asking a judge for an immediate injunction against them so that the election material from the state's June 24 GOP primary runoff can be inspected. Allegations Of Vote Buying In Mississippi. If the allegations are true, it's reprehensible. But the problem is that they're coming from a less than reputable source. The African-American pastor alleging that he was offered money to buy votes for Thad Cochran was also paid by the reporter for the story. This is both ironic and problematic: If you're the kind of person who is willing to participate in a vote-buying scheme, isn't it possible you'd also be the kind of person who is willing to make up a wild story in order to get paid by a reporter? Baptist Pastor Charges Thad Cochran Campaign With Illegally Paying For Black Votes In His Mississippi Primary Win. Reverend Steve Fielder, a pastor at the First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi, has accused Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran's campaign of engaging in an illegal and criminal campaign scheme to purchase the votes of black community members. The suspect votes were cast during Cochran's successful effort to defeat Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Republican primary run-off held last week. Democrat Pastor Accuses Thad Cochran Campaign of Vote-for-Pay Scheme. A black Mississippi pastor has emerged to claim Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) campaign paid "thousands" of Democrats $15 each to vote in the June 24 GOP runoff — and that he was part of the scheme. Rev. Stevie Fielder, an associate pastor at First Union Missionary Baptist Church in Meridan, Mississippi, says Cochran's campaign "told me to offer blacks $15 each and to vote for Thad." Cochran campaign denies vote-buying reports. The U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran campaign is denying reports from a conservative blogger that it was trying to buy votes in Lauderdale County. Blogger Charles C. Johnson of GotNews.com is reporting that Stevie Fielder says the Cochran campaign told him to offer black voters in the Meridian area $15 each to vote for Cochran in the June 24 GOP primary runoff against Chris McDaniel. Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell called the accusations of illegal vote buying "baseless and false." Tea Party Anger Over Mississippi Loss Ripples Across States. Sen. Thad Cochran may have won Mississippi's GOP Senate run-off last week, but his tactics of courting normally Democratic voters, including high numbers of African Americans, has enraged tea party activists in Mississippi and that anger has rippled across the Republican landscape. The outrage among tea party supporters has spread to other states where conservatives are challenging establishment Republican candidates. Tea party activists perceive Cochran's wooing as promising Democrats favors, as well as willing to do anything — even break with party principals — to win. NRSC wants my money so they can support "proud conservative candidates". In case you're wondering, the answer is yes: The NRSC is indeed the same establishment group that spent $800,000 turning out Democrats to pick the Republican nominee in Mississippi earlier this week by, among other things, labeling the actual conservative candidate and his supporters as racists. Black Democrats Tell Thad Cochran: We Own You Now. Nothing in life is free. And now that Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) was able to narrowly beat his Tea Party rival, due to thousands of black Democrats who crossed party lines to vote in the GOP primary runoff, his new constituency is looking to cash in on their influence. Blacks to Thad Cochran: You owe us. Thad Cochran won a primary runoff by turning out the black vote. Now they are asking — what are you going to do for us? Already the members of the Congressional Black Caucus are talking about what they want Cochran to do. The Editor says... McDaniel Unveils Another Strategy Against Thad Cochran. Volunteers working for tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in Mississippi say they have already found 20 percent of the invalid double-votes they need to cancel Sen. Thad Cochran's business-funded runoff victory. "We're finished with Hinds County, and we're up to 1,500" invalid votes, said Noel Fritsch, Daniel's press aide. That's critical because McDaniel can force another runoff if he can find more invalid votes than Cochran's roughly 7,000-vote margin-of-victory on June 24. Votes are invalidated if voters cast ballots in both the Democrats' June 3 primary and the GOP's run-off on June 24. However, McDaniel can also force another election even if he can't find 7,000 invalid ballots, said Fritsch. GOP bosses bamboozle Tea Party patriots. The Tea Party is not being done in by Democrats; it is being done in by the party of big business, crony capitalism, big money from insider Wall Street and big banks, the Chamber of Commerce and the corporate lobbying wing of the Tea Party's real nemesis: the big bosses of the GOP! The
Mississippi GOP primary in The Magnolia State Stinks. By now, the deeply questionable practices of the Thad Cochran campaign and his apparatchiks in Mississippi are known to all. Mysterious robo-calls, unaccounted for mailings, street money, all designed to not just to defeat but ruin Chris McDaniel, because he had the temerity to take on the Establishment. The anti-conservative forces inside the GOP even engaged and paid Democratic consultants to help destroy the campaign of a fellow Republican. Jenny Beth Martin: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Should Intervene In Mississippi. Jenny Beth Martin, chair of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, is calling on Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus to intervene in the Mississippi Senate race over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran's reliance on Democratic voters to prevail in the GOP runoff and amid emerging claims of illegitimate ballots. MS Radio Ad: Tea Party Will 'Take Away' Food Stamps, Black University Funding. A Mississippi radio station aired an ad warning voters that the Tea Party would "take away" food stamps and other welfare benefits before the run-off between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and his challenger, Chris McDaniel. [...] "By not voting, you're saying, 'Take away all of my government programs, such as food stamps, early breakfast and lunch programs, millions of dollars to our black universities," the ad said, voiced by an African American woman. How to Fight Back Against the GOP Establishment's Worst Treachery Yet. What transpired in the Mississippi Senate run-off is a red line for many conservatives across the country, because the Republican Party establishment essentially took a civil war and escalated it to a war for independence. It's one thing to oppose your base in a primary. It's entirely another to despicably play the race card against your base, and bolster the legitimacy of the propaganda of our race-baiting opponents on the Left. But that's exactly what the Kamikaze pilots running the GOP did. Tea Party vs. Establishment Round 2: Primary Runoff for Open House Seat in Georgia. With Mississippi's Thad Cochran-Chris McDaniel showdown in the rearview mirror, the Peach State is set to play host to the next big battle between the establishment and tea-party wings of the Republican Party. Unlike in Mississippi, however, this split is not manifesting itself in Georgia's Senate runoff election, where Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue are duking it out. Rather, it's coming in the much lower-profile race to succeed Kingston in his conservative Savannah-based district. Chris McDaniel Rushes To Review Ballots From Tuesday's Election. Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel is projecting confidence about his campaign's review of ballots cast in a runoff election he narrowly lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran Tuesday ahead of a planned legal challenge to the election results. The campaign is focusing on any ballots cast by individuals who voted in the Democratic primary on June 3, who under Mississippi's election rules, were not allowed to vote in the Republican primary runoff three weeks later. "Several" Republican senators reportedly uneasy with GOP's tactics in Mississippi runoff. [T]ell me what you're willing to do to punish the party for kitchen-sinking a guy who not only received the most votes in the first round of the primary but who, by wide consensus, won more Republican votes in the runoff too? Withholding donations is fine, but don't kid yourselves: Money's the one thing that GOP incumbents and the NRSC don't want for. If they lose $10 million from the base in boycotted contributions, Sheldon Adelson can make it up for them in one check to the right Super PAC. Starting to Look Like Thad Cochran's Vote Tally Was Cheated. Cochran allegedly won by a few thousand votes. As many as 35,000 votes were Democrats who Cochran convinced to vote in the GOP primary. Mississippi law demands that anyone who votes in a primary cannot vote in a second primary. In other words, if you voted in the Democrat primary you cannot then also vote in the Republican primary. But one group has found as many as 800 crossover voters in one county alone! There May Be Enough Invalidated Votes to Overturn Cochran Victory. Thad Cochran, the incumbent who lost to Chris McDaniel in the primary, but got enough votes to force a run-off, used some of the most despicable tactics ever seen from a so-called "Republican" in history. Cochran, who has been in the Senate for four decades, took all of the tricks straight out of the democrat party playbook, including hiring democrat activists to round up democrat voters to vote in the GOP election. Many of them voting illegally. Cochran ran ads accusing the Tea Party and McDaniel of racism. Cochran ads claimed the Tea Party would prevent blacks from voting in the election. Preserving Power at Any Cost. Last Tuesday in Mississippi, incumbent Republican Sen. Thad Cochran beat his challenger, State Sen. Chris McDaniel, in a Republican runoff. There is no dispute that Cochran won by bringing thousands of Democrats into the Republican runoff to support him. Cochran's victory, if left unaddressed by conservatives, will set a dangerous precedent within Republican primaries. Republican PACs, national Republican political operatives and the Republican establishment collaborated to accuse conservative and tea party activists of racism. These Republicans painted their very base as the second coming on the KKK and Hitler. Chris McDaniel: We've Found 1,000 Examples of Ineligible Voters in One County. On Thursday's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Hannity," State Sen. Chris McDaniel, the Republican candidate in last Tuesday's GOP primary that fell just shy of defeating long-time incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), reacted to the outcome. McDaniel laid out his Republican credentials and questioned why some within his state's Republican Party had gone to such lengths to for Cochran. Here's why McDaniel can't mount a November challenge. With Chris McDaniel losing an extremely tight Republican primary for U.S. Senate, questions about his options for a general election shot are being batted around. So, can McDaniel make a run for the Senate seat in November as a third-party candidate or through a write-in campaign? Nope, and here's why. [...] Remember Mississippi!. How far did the establishment GOP forces backing Senator Thad Cochran go in Mississippi this week? Too far, and their tactics are likely to leave permanent scars in a civil war with Tea Party forces that are out of all proportion to the importance the establishment placed on saving one 76-year-old senator's ability to please Washington's K Street lobbying interests.
McDaniel Has A Legal Path To Victory, Says Consultant. Sen. Thad Cochran's second-round primary victory may be nullified if Chris McDaniel's team can show the margin of victory was less than the number of people who wrongly voted in both Democratic and GOP primaries. "It's tedious, but it is a simple task [to check and] Mississippi state law is very clear on this," said Bill Pascoe, a political consultant for Independent Women's Voice, which backed McDaniel. Last July, the mayoral election for the state's fourth largest city, Hattiesburg, was nullified after the losing candidate showed that the 37-vote margin of victory was smaller than the pool of suspect absentee ballots. Those absentee ballots included 36 that were delivered to the Democratic mayor's wife, and were later filled out by jail inmates, including a felon who was disbarred from voting. Who Paid for Race-Baiting Flier in Mississippi? Who paid for it? Who will investigate it? Who will apologize for it? "It" being the flier distributed in the Mississippi Senate GOP primary, [...] whose headline reads: "The Tea Party intends to prevent blacks from voting on Tuesday." The flier says that the Tea Party uses the word "Democrats" as "code" for blacks. GOP Establishment Turns Out Democrat Voters to Defeat Conservative Candidate. Remember that headline, bookmark this page and circle June 24 on your calendar, because the result of Tuesday's primary runoff in Mississippi was an ill omen that portends Republican defeat in November. Check back here on Wednesday, Nov. 5, to see if my helpless sense of dark foreboding doom is correct, but today it seems obvious: If the Republican Party spends money to turn out Democrat voters against a conservative in a GOP primary — the paid professional party apparatus doing this as a deliberate strategy — what message does that send to conservatives, whose votes are crucial to whatever hope Republicans have of winning an electoral majority? GOP Establishment has "no regrets about going all-in against flawed primary candidates". Suffice it to say that when Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour and the rest of the Beltway hacks want to leak information to the outside world, they prefer the Democrat press release service called Politico. Scorched Earth: Eric Cantor's Staff, Supporters Drain Cash From Virginia GOP, Dave Brat. After the skin-crawling exploitation of black voters in Mississippi, the GOP's current leadership wing gives a second demonstration, this time in Virginia, of just how committed they are to "a big tent," or to the GOP's vitality in general. The Senate majority matters, the House majority matters. But this party's leadership is infested with the same disregard for Washington's intended purpose as any Clintonian. Third parties fail. But what cost does remaining aligned with this generation of GOP leadership take from the cause of liberty and transparency? GOP consultant: Tea party complaints 'racist and stupid'. "There is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual, about a Republican primary that's decided by liberal Democrats," McDaniel said to a roar from supporters on election night in Hattiesburg. The GOP Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is blatantly illegal for Mississippi voters intending to vote for Democrats in a general election, to participate in a Republican Party primary election. GOP control freaks ignored Mississippi state election laws and spat in the faces of all conservative voters, in a naked effort to pervert a Senate election to preserve GOP power and control in Washington, D.C. Their efforts prove, once and for all, there is no difference between Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, the GOP, Organizing for Action or the DNC. All these groups have adopted Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" playbook, including the "rules" for which Alinsky gives formal credit to Satan for creating. The grotesque GOP corruption on public display in the Thad Cochran vs. Chris McDaniel Senate primary has confirmed the GOP has officially adopted Obama's "ends justify the means" philosophy. Outside groups spent $23 million to crush the tea party in GOP primaries this year. To be clear, the $23 million here is on top of the cash spent by each GOP incumbent's own campaign. It doesn't include a dime of what, say, Mitch McConnell's operation dropped to defend his seat. This is crony money, showered on establishment candidates to make sure the gravy train keeps running. This Is Treachery. In light of last night's [6/24/2014] election results in Mississippi, there is one question every conservative should be asking: how much longer can a party survive when its leadership is inexorably against the ethos of its base? [...] Now, after actively campaigning for Democrat votes in order to win against conservative Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, the GOP establishment has reached a new low in their treachery against those who embody the heart and soul of the party. The staggering price of crushing the tea party. National Republican leaders are toasting primary season as a smashing success over activist conservatives that has put the hard right on the ropes and given the Washington GOP the slate of candidates it wanted for 2014. Those victories, however, have come at a staggering cost — and Republicans are painfully aware of the price of putting down an intraparty insurrection. Conservative Groups Angry After Thad Cochran Wins With Help From Democrats. National conservative groups are angry after incumbent Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran pulled off a victory in the state's GOP run-off — likely because of his campaign's outreach to Democratic voters. "It's disgraceful that self-described GOP leaders like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, the Chamber of Commerce and the NRSC would champion a campaign platform of pork barrel spending and insider deal-making, while recruiting Democrats to show up at the polls," Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks said after the results came in. GOP Establishment Uses Democratic smear tactics to win Mississippi runoff. It's one thing to disagree with your base. It's entirely another thing to use the most slanderous assaults on their character from their opponents for your own benefit. But that's just what the Whig... er... Republican Party establishment did in a power play that could very well alter the history of the Grand Old Party once and for all. If the instant reactions of several conservative leaders are any indication, June 24, 2014, is likely to be a day which will live in infamy in the GOP civil war — the day the establishment pushed the conservative base to the point of no return. 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