(Editor’s note: Another perspective on the Speaker’s ouster.)
Kevin McCarthy was just ousted as speaker of the House of Representatives. Many see this as petty politics, but I see this as part of a process that started a couple of decades ago with the TEA Party. Here is my take on what has happened.
Many Republican politicians, when asked about their political ideology, say that they are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. You will seldom hear fiscally conservative and socially conservative as if being socially conservative is somehow distasteful. (A social conservative is a constitutionalist who believes in keeping the government out of the affairs of We the People. A social liberal is a busybody socialist who tries to intrude into the affairs of We the People.)
The TEA Party rose to prominence because of discontent with a Republican leadership grown stale and without much fighting spirit – go along to get along seems to characterize them. The term RINO is a descriptor of Republican leadership that finds its roots in social liberalism. (Note that neither McCain or Romney actually drew a conservative crowd. It was George HW Bush that advocated for the New World Order.)
At first, the socially liberal wing of the Republican Party dismissed the TEA Party as an annoyance to be squashed. However, as time went on, the rising discontent within the Republican Party led to election of Donald Trump as President. The RINOs did not like Trump and made it quite obvious when the 2020 and 2022 elections occurred. (Trump was not defended against legitimate claims of election fraud and conservative Republican candidates were stonewalled by socially liberal Republican leaders.)
When McCarthy, McConnell and McDaniel remained in places of power after the 2022 election, the stage was set for McCarthy’s eventual ouster. These particular Republican leaders participated in what is arguably a debacle in what should have been a runaway election favoring Republicans across the board. (The American economy was destroyed by the Biden administration and the major cities had become dens of welfare and homeless inequity., – yet the Republicans only won the House of Representative and by a small margin.)
What is truly troubling today is how so many elected Republican representatives don’t seem to get it. Maybe 10 to 15 GOP Representatives are trying to govern conservatively and the rest run on, but don’t govern on, conservative principles. This is disgusting and has created a situation where America has been allowed to rapidly decline because nobody actually fights against socially liberal, or socialist, ideas. (Where do we think a runaway debt and the disaster of the welfare state come from if not from the decisions of our political class?)
Kevin McCarthy alone isn’t the problem. He is a symbol of a Republican Party that simply doesn’t fight. (However, speaking of fighting, Speaker Pro Tempore, Patrick McHenry, just kicked Nancy Pelosi out of her special hideaway office. This isn’t much, but maybe it is the start needed to reclaim the foundation of the Republican Party.)
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Well, Donald Trump has basically destroyed the Republican Party, and he isn’t even a Republican. He refused to transfer power as required in the Constitution.
You forgot to tell the people that.
The Republican Party is not Donald Trump nor is it the GOP elite who are more democrat than Republican. The middle class hard working people are the Republican Party. The welfare suckers are the democrat party. The RINOs think they can game this but every year they end up in situation where they can’t explain their socialist tendencies anymore.
Then why do these hard-working, middle-class people, who you say are the Republican party, want a person like Donald Trump to be their leader?
I doubt anyone can get further from hard working, middle class people, than either Trump or Pelosi.
As far as I am concerned, neither has every worked a day in their life.
Am guessing you never read Trump’s book.
Yes, I read a book, maybe two, that Trump had or gave permission for someone to write about him back around 1990. As far as I know, Trump has never written a book. Why would anyone believe anything that either Trump or Biden says about anything? Trump tried to overthrow our Republic. How’s that work? Fake electors ring a bell? Both Trump and Biden had boxes of classified documents. Stored at various places like a country club or in a garage or at a Chinese funded think tank just down the street from the White House. Why are you not asking if they were selling that info to whoever was willing to pay? If they were not selling it, why did they steal it? Other than monetary gain, what good was it to them after they left office?
I am guessing that you have never read this;
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 7:15-20
Your recitation of the facts, analysis, discussion and conclusions are exactly right. We need representatives who fight, but we won’t get them until we, the people, fight for that representation.
Ironically, because we have failed to fight, we have in fact gotten the gutless liars who actually do represent us quite well.
“Dr.” Warren: You are falling down on the job. You failed to alert us to the dangers of today’s so-called “nationwide alert system test.”
Social media users are raising dire warnings about upcoming tests of the national emergency warning system. Many are imploring their followers to shut off their cellphones on the day of the test because they believe it’s part of a broader conspiracy to exert control over the population.
One popular video shows a woman claiming the test will somehow switch on technology that has been introduced into people’s bodies.
“The emergency broadcasting system under FEMA is going to be activated,” the woman explains, speaking directly into the camera. “It’s not a test. It’s going to be sending these high frequency signals into cell phones, radios, TVs. The intention of activating nanoparticles, including graphene oxide.”
In another widely shared video, a man issues a similar warning, adding that graphene oxide and other nanoparticles have been inserted into billions of human beings around the world “through obvious mediums.”
“Dr.” Warren must be part of the conspiracy — he did not warn us.
No EC Doleman… the emergency warning was because your stupid grifting POS President’s administration full of neocons running the show have pushed the world closer to a major world war since the Cold War. Didn’t you liberal morons used to be anti war? One line after another gets pushed in Ukraine. Next up long range missiles that can target territory in Russia… Do you have children or granchiildren EC Dumbass? World wars are not fought with volunteer armies… Estimated US casualities in a war over Ukraine are 3600 per day..
“Estimated US casualities in a war over Ukraine are 3600 per day..” (sic) ??????? You are making it up out of thin air.
US aid to Ukraine is 5.6% of the entire DoD budget . . . that’s about what the Pentagon spends annually on toilet paper and paper towels for latrines in the Pentagon building. For that pittance, we have:
— destroyed the myth of Russian military might;
— shown Russian military equipment to be shoddy and not at all up to the rigors of the modern battlefield;
— proven that Russian military leadership; at strategic, operational, and tactical levels is incompetent.
Meanwhile, NATO is more united than ever before and the other NATO members are spending a greater percentage of their defense budgets on aid to Ukraine.
NATO is soundly beating Russia in WW III and we are doing it on the cheap.
I forget… are you a Democrat or one of the mainstream Repubs? Who think Iraq… er Ukraine is of vital interest to the USA… I believe the former. Was 4.5 trillion dollars well spent on Afghanistan… Iraq… Yemen… Libya… Syria… etc? Sure spending money on arms for Ukraine ends up in defense contractor pockets and provides some jobs here. But it is a non ending pit. So you want to fight the Russkies do you? Those areas that they now control completely with no chance of taking them back are ethnically Russian. Do you understand that? Since 2014 with the encouragement of the neocons who you now love Democrat… the Ukranians were shelling those regions regularly. They wanted to break away. See fool… Ukraine is not really a country but a region… Poland wants the Western areas. Russia the East and in the middle you have Ukranians. You would be better to negotiate with the Russians… almost had a deal and Zelensky should have taken it.
The 3600 casualties is from the Army War college and they did it to support restarting the draft. If you are going to go toe to toe with the Russkies, you aren’t doing so with a volunteer. army. I hope you are draftable age or your children are… you should go fight for your principals
And there you have it, not only is ol’ D’M a communist sympathizer but by the same logic he wants to give the United States back to its proper historic ethnic ownership. People seeking their own way be damned. Conservative?, lmao. Next up, George Washington was a traitor? Let us know when you start the line to give up your property. Good on ya I guess.
Your other stupid point that is repeated by GOP types is that Ukraine aid is only x percent of the Pentagon budget. You do realize how HUGE that budget is right? You could spend 113 billion and rising here couldn’t you? Seems like a lot of money not to give to the idiots in DC… are you a DC idiot boy? Work for some Democrap uni party douchebag?
Stay on topic comrade, your topic and your words to be exact. Put away your typical red herring redirect. Since you’re so worried about what is “ethnically” correct and obviously too cowardly to fight for anything or anyone, when do you leave?
1. Russia has taken everything NATO has throw at them.
2. Russia has destroyed Ukraine.
3. Stop believing our government controlled mainstream propaganda media.
4. To gain its independence from Russia, Ukraine agreed to not seek membership in an alliance (NATO, European Union) in its version of a Constitution. They changed that in 2014. And it cost them Crimea. Ukraine changed the deal, So Putin did likewise.
5. To facilitate the unification of East and West Germany over 30 years ago, the USA assured Russia there would be NO further eastward expansion of NATO. Zero. None. What a lie. 😂
6. Biden started this war with the US/Ukraine Strategic Partnership Charter agreement in the first year of his administration.
7. Biden is supporting Ukraine because of the loot his family received via the Hunter/Ukraine/ Barisma fiasco. Don’t be stupid, Joe Biden is the only one with a knowledge of how things work to have of engineered, and set up, the Barisma deal, the Chinese deal, and the Romanian deal. All the loot headed to the Biden’s.
8. You should be asking yourself if former elected members of government, such as Biden and Trump, are actually selling classified secrets to our adversaries. Why else would they have need for boxes of top-secret or classified material in their living quarters?
I don’t know about Warren, but I did hear and then feel a strange vibration from the message.
The gop elite are screaming in frustration and anger over this revolt while the gop base appears elated. If nothing else positive happens, McHenry has kicked both Pelosi and Hoyer out of their hideaways. Now how about releasing the promised and Un redacted video of the j6 setup. This is a come to Jesus moment for the Republican Party leadership.
The Gop elites are there to hold the gains of the socialist left until they can regain power! They all need to be removed!