Posted on 04/02/2024 4:05:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If Democrats get control of the House, all hell will break loose.
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.
Her latest whine is, “I’m very independent-minded,” adding, “I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.” Funny how those words are rarely uttered from Democrats about Joe Biden.
Post Ronald Reagan, the GOP tried morphing from the “Party of Reagan” to the party of Bushes, Dole, McCain, Romney and in return got bupkis. The Bush 41 gave us a tax hike and a lousy campaign against Bill Clinton.
Bush 43 provided a 20-year war in the Middle East under false pretenses, the current domestic surveillance state, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (almost Harriet Meyers).
McCain was afraid to utter Barack Obama’s middle name and Romney couldn’t defend himself from accusations of being mean to his dog, killing his employees, not paying taxes for 10 years, and letting Candy Crowley slap him around at the debates...
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Washington is full of duplicitous people who only care about looting the treasury.
Washington tried to warn us.
Folks should read/reread his Farewell Address.
How will Democrat House control potentially derail Trump’s campaign?
From the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision of March 4, 2024, overturning the Colorado Supreme Court’s attempt to keep Trump off the ballot due to “insurrection”:
The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass “appropriate legislation” to “enforce” the Fourteenth Amendment.
SCOTUS teed up the solution to getting rid of Trump to Congress. In other words, states can’t keep Trump off the ballot, but Congress can offer legislation that Trump is an insurrectionist and should be kept off the ballot.
This would occur on day one of Democrat control of the House, and with Democrat control of the Senate and White House, would be signed into law immediately. What about “judicial review”? Judging from the SCOTUS decision, such review would not favor Trump.
How convenient. Reps. Buck, Gallagher, and others can maintain innocence, like Pilate, “washing their hands” of this scheme to end Trump’s quest for a second term, by simply resigning “over principles” or “to spend more time with the family.”
*Senator Lisa Murkowski, a squishy Republican at best.*
Blame Alaska republicans. Red state.
That was predicted to happen if Biden won in 2020. And Clinton. And Obama. The goal posts keep moving.
These rinos are closet Marxists.
Do Gallagher and Buck get their full Congressional retirement?????
“A handful of RINO members of Congress have either resigned or announced their intentions to do so in the coming weeks to months.”
Meanwhile, 28 democrats in the house have resigned or plan to resign.
They all have to go sometime. In the immortal words of Thomas Paine “ if not now, when?”
My theory is that they are being blackmailed - given an offer they can't refuse.
Wasn’t it Franklin who said we are not safe when congress is in session, pretty bad if even back then that was thought
I can't stand the woman, but I recall that she had to leave Washington before the vote, and voted present, which allowed Kavanaugh's confirmation to go through.
“American Thinker” is a bastion of blogger idiocy these days. At least they are conservative bloggers, so that’s good.
Murkowski has not threatened to “resign” and, more importantly, is NOT A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE. What she HAS threatened to do is bolt the party (as I predicted 2 years ago) and become “independent” and she likely won’t even bother unless doing so would deprive the GOP of Senate control a la Judas Jim Jeffords.
As a Senator, if she were to RESIGN, then the Governor of Alaska — a Republican — would get to appoint her replacement.
So yes, dear Lisa, please do resign. As soon as possible. But, blogger idiocy aside, she has unfortunately threatened no such thing.
Some people complain if they don’t resign and also if they do resign.
The Kavanaugh vote was 50-48. Murkowski “paired” with Sen. Daines (R-MT) — that way her opposition vote was cancelled by Daines’ affirmative vote, though neither one actually cast a vote.
If Murkowski had been there she would have voted No, Daines would have voted Yes and the final score would have been 51-49 instead of 50-48, i.e. no difference in the outcome.
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