LIKE WHEN HE VOTED WITH THE DEMS TO BAIL OUT BIDEN AND THE CHINESE.
Yeah, always a good reason to Vote for China over Americans.
Posted on 10/26/2023 12:46:42 AM PDT by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
I condemn the barbaric attack on Israel and I affirm Israel’s right to defend itself.
However, I will not be voting for House Resolution 771 today because:
1) It calls for sanctions on a sovereign country. Sanctions are a prelude to war and hurt the citizens of the country more than the government of the country that’s being sanctioned. And ultimately, sanctions create laws that will be used to prosecute American citizens (who engage in trade), not citizens of the sanctioned country. In short, sanctions do not achieve their stated purposes but do breed resentment of our country abroad.
2) It asserts the necessity of foreign aid commitments which I have voted against. Our country is going bankrupt and we can’t afford to borrow money to send overseas, yet this resolution states that we should.
3) It contains an open-ended promise of military support that is so broad that it could be interpreted to commit US soldiers to the conflict. US troops should not be engaged in this conflict.
4) It tends to broaden the conflict to other countries when it would be better to keep the war contained geographically.
Here’s a link to the text of the resolution, which contains some statements I do support and some statements I cannot support.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
There is usually a reason.....
Yes that’s the problem we have some who are very passionate and eloquent about doing the wrong thing.
They tend to put a lot of garbage in these Resolutions which as a principled member he can’t support so he ends up voting “Nay” a lot of the time
The (short) resolution in .pdf format...
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20231023/HRes%20771%20as%20introduced.pdf
What “sovereign country” is he referring to as being sanctioned? And why didn’t he just name it?
Surely, he doesn’t mean that Gaza is a country, right?
Jeeze...
Oh, yes, of course, the country he is not wanting to risk confrontation with is Iran, which has a very powerful lobby in Washington which, along with palestinian-Americans and immigrants , has a growing demographic of voters and political donors.
And this is why he is much loved by Iran’s lobby in the US, NIAC.
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He’s a Con Artist. He wears a National Debt pin and says the Debts going to ruin the country - and then it all came down to his Vote - and he voted for the Entire Debt Limit Biden wanted, even though the Senate didn’t pass a bill and Joe went to the Beach and let it ride.
He also said he wouldn’t Vote to fine Schiff because Fines are Unconstitutional - and I showed where he previously Voted to fine members specifically - and generically in future cases.
If you live to hear talk about his great principled bravado, he’s going to let you down big time when the rubber meets the road. He’s dependent upon people not taking the time to check on his BS.
I’m not sure he’s an con artist.
You highlight the one vote where he supported leadership and let down his supporters
That’s 1 vote since 2010
He probably did it because he’s a member of the rules committee now
Just my opinion.. I respect yours though
2012 sorry *
I understand. Thanks. Same here.
I just posted another one of his Votes (Chinese Solar).
He has a penchant for coming thru for Joe Burden, who’s burdening future generations with unprecedented Debt.
And he says sanctions hurt us more than them? Frigging Gaza?
If he wants to be so principled that he reads every word and wants to parse it all, then he should not issue a standard statement that doesn’t apply to this situation.
He probably had a weird reason for that vote
The one on the debt I absolutely hated but like I said he’s climbing the greasy poll now.
He’s on the Rules committee.
He’s going to have to make some poor votes with leadership
Is that selling out? I don’t like it one bit
You do a great job exposing these members
I remember your posts on his debt vote. I didn’t like it.
Keep following him and posting it’s interesting. I bet he makes a few more poor ones.
I’d say he’s still one of the most solid there.
No one is going to be 100%
In wartime, nuance goes down the terlet. I respect his concern for principle, but sometimes you know what needs to be done, and you do it, and pray you don’t lose all your principles in the meantime.
The Hamas attack was genocide.
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