Posted on 01/12/2020 4:32:33 AM PST by EyesOfTX
The corrupt news media and biased polls tell us this guy is leading the race. – The photo below shows the turnout for a rally for the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator, Quid Pro Joe Biden, on Saturday:
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Note the loudspeaker atop an 8-foot stand on the right side of the photo, meaning that the crack Biden campaign staff thought their hero would need a microphone while speaking to this crowd of …1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9,10,…11 people. Talk about overkill.
Like everything else in the corrupt news media today, it’s likely we are being lied to about the real status of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination, and that, once the voting begins, the results will bear only passing relationship to the polls we have been seeing. Stay tuned for some surprises starting in a few weeks.
Matt Gaetz, you got some ‘splainin’ to do. – Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz made a terrible error in judgment this week when he became one of just three Republicans to vote in favor of Nancy Pelosi’s resolution that pretends to somehow “limit” President Trump’s ability to conduct a full-scale war, whether with Iran or any other country.
Gaetz, appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, attempted to explain his vote as follows:
“I spoke to the president today,” Gaetz revealed on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “The president told me he is more antiwar than I am, and I love the president for that. The thing is, I think a few of the advisers of the president are trying to slow-walk the administration into war. When the president relies on his instincts and we have the Trump doctrine, we kill the terrorist and we come home.”
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“I think this War Powers Resolution was worthy of support because it did not criticize the president,” he said. “It did not say he was wrong in killing [Quds Force Gen.] Soleimani. But…it did say that if any president wants to drag our nation into another forever Middle East war that they require the approval of the United States Congress.”
“That’s something I deeply believe. And I think it’s something the president deeply believes,” he said.
Ok, that’s all well and good, and taken as a pure philosophical analysis, it is something that the vast majority of Trump supporting Republican voters – including me – would agree with. The problem is that philosophy was not all that was at play here. Pelosi’s resolution – which is utterly meaningless as a matter of law or actual impact on any president’s constitutional powers – was a political stunt. More to the point, it was a political stunt intended as a rebuke to this particular President, a symbolic vote condemning his decision to take out Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike 9 days ago.
There was zero justifiable reason for any real Republican to lend Pelosi support with this cynical political stunt.
It is one thing for a couple of noted libertarian cranks like Rand Paul and Mike Lee to vote for this resolution, which they certainly will do when it comes to a vote in the Senate this coming week. That, after all, is why they threw their dishonest hissy fits following the administration’s confidential briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. They were just setting up their backstories for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, Pelosi.
But it’s quite another thing for Gaetz, who wants to be one of 3 or 4 House Managers who will argue the GOP’s side of the impeachment case in the upcoming senate trail, to do so. The people who want this particular assignment need to be sober and serious GOP members, not someone prone to grandstanding vanity plays, which is what Gaetz’s vote actually was.
What Gaetz actually achieved with this vote was to give Pelosi and her fellow Democrats in the House a propaganda victory. Gaetz has become one of the most high-profile Republican members in the House, and his vote gives Pelosi a poster child she can point to and say, “See? We had bi-partisan support.” Philosophy is important, but political sense and strategy is also vitally important in today’s D.C. Swamp, and Gaetz miserably failed that political test.
Gaetz’s constituents know that, and let him hear about it at an event in Florida Friday evening:
Matt Gaetz ✔ @mattgaetz · Jan 10, 2020 (1) Still proudly the Trumpiest. I enjoy the President’s support and he enjoys mine.
(2) I was “very shocked” when @GOPLeader voted against @realDonaldTrump on the Turkey/Kurds/Syria Resolution where history has clearly shown @potus to be right and McCarthy & Dems wrong. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1215615957642764288 …
The Washington Post ✔ @washingtonpost Matt Gaetz, the "Trumpiest Congressman," cites principles for bucking president on war powers. Kevin McCarthy is "very shocked." https://wapo.st/2t4DYEW
𝕞𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕒 🙈🙉🙊 @my3monkees Here’s the “trumpiest” at his best
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Embedded video 78 2:41 PM - Jan 10, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 176 people are talking about this President Trump has basically zero intention of “drag[ging] our nation into a nother forever Middle East war,” and Pelosi knows it. This meaningless resolution is all about supporting the Democrat/Media narrative that attempts to convince the public otherwise. That’s something Gaetz should have known – but apparently did not – before he cast his stupid vote.
It’s a vote that’s impossible to really justify, and one that he will pay for politically for a long, long time.
That is all.
So Massey only has 95 percent? Clearly there’s a vote he went against conservatives with. I think Matt survives this. He cav be Florida’s Governor in 2027 after DeSantis’ two terms. I’d vote for him even with this flawed vote.
Dumb!
Yeah, it’s bad when even a Democrat who voted for impeachment calls out this Stalinist show vote. Shame on Gaetz for standing with Pelosi on this one.
He works for the people of Pensacola. They are the only ones who matter at this time. I believe he had their ok since it’s a huge military area.
Gaetz is just trying to firm up his conservative maverick bonafides. I’m starting to see a lot of all hat no cattle Gowdy in Geatz. Very disappointing.
Yours is the most important -- and relevant -- post on this thread.
In this age of internet media coverage of politics it's easy to make the mistake of assuming that every member of Congress represents a national constituency. That's 100% wrong. Each member of Congress represents a district or a state -- and that's it.
Kudos to someone like Thomas Massie for the consistency of his political philosophy. There are few things I find more repulsive than a politician who votes in completely opposite ways on measures that are effectively identical, depending on which party occupies the office that stands to gain or lose from it.
Nobody needs that sh!t in government, period.
as did mine, Jamila Paypal.
It was an incredible misstep. He gave Pelosi a victory and he is going to have a hard time living it down.
Matt Gaetz was 100% correct to vote the way he did and stand up for what he believes in.
Congress need to reassert its authority on sending troops to war and if Trump were smart he’d assist Congress in that effort.
I generally like Massie but then his libertarian side shows up. Same deal with Rand Paul.
Yep - tweeted that he spits on the military that realizes the importance of fighting evil to protect Americans.
Flake has relatives...
Massie is an odd bird. He lives in a more rural Kentucky County than I (adjacent) and his home is off the grid, MIT masters, more pro 2nd amendment than any politician I know of. 98% of the time he’s as good as it gets, then this. Crazy.
Congress? Oh my....you must really hate our military
https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1216409358554353670?s=21
Like you say, generally right on the money.
And to think that after his performance re the “impeachment” I was considering him as the next Trump in 2024. Is this guy a maroon or what?
Matt Gaetz’s Florida panhandle district is strongly conservative and loaded with both active and retired military. My guess is that there is considerable sentiment in the district against another Mid East war and that it is the reason for Gaetz’s vote.
“Gaetz, appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson”
Was this within the last couple of days, or early in the week when the vote was taken. As far as I know, Gaetz hasn’t appeared on Fox since the vote. I could be wrong as I don’t watch everything, but before this he was EVERYWHERE sucking up face time, glorying in his celebrity.
As a Florida state representative in 2015, Gaetz sponsored an amendment with Democratic representative David Richardson to repeal Florida’s ban on adoptions by same-sex couples.
He also persuaded his father, in the Florida State Senate, to support the repeal.
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